[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #136 - YAPC::NA - Early Bird Registration Payments extended!

Mon Mar 3 02:27:41 PST 2014

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Hi,

there are 14 Perl related events listed for the coming months. Two in the
US; the rest in Europe. Have you heard about them? Have they made any
announcements? Are you going to attend? Can you help them reach more
people?

Announcements

  Mojoconf 2014 - Call for Papers / Call for Speakers
  http://bit.ly/1fBn6H9

  Another call for speakers for the Mojolicious conference that will take
  place between May 23-25, 2014 in Oslo, Norway. The deadline is in less
  than 2 weeks.
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  Early Bird Registration Payments extended!
  http://bit.ly/1fBn4PE

  Of YAPC::NA till March 7th 2014. Hurry up!
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  GitPrep 1.5 is released - Improve HTTP repository access, and display README in subdirectory
  http://bit.ly/1fBn4PJ

  GitPrep, written by Yuki Kimoto, is an open-source GitHub clone written in
  Perl. It needs both your testing - just use it! - and your contribution.
  (code, docs, UI, etc.)
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Articles

  Perl levels up with native subroutine signatures
  http://bit.ly/1fBn6Hd

  v5.19.9 the latest development release of Perl edging toward 5.20 already
  has an experimental feature called 'signatures'. It will let you declare
  sub f($name, $email) {} eliminating the need to deal with @_. It is still
  far away from what Method::Signatures provides, but at least it will be
  part of the language.
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  In Praise of Perl 5
  http://bit.ly/1fBn6Hg

   Chris Travers show 3 examples from code where HTML is embedded in Perl to
  using Moose, and explains how malleable Perl is. To quote him: "Perl
  isn't just a programming language, but a toolkit for building programming
  languages inside it."
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Testing

  Announcing Test::mongod
  http://bit.ly/1fBn6Hh

  As explained by the author, Jesse Shy, this will launch a throw away
  instance of MongoDB in the /tmp directory to make it seamless to write
  tests.
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  Easier Database Fixtures
  http://bit.ly/1fBn6Hi

  Ovid improved DBIx::Class::EasyFixture eliminating half the lines you had
  to write for setting up some data in a database for testing.
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  My Favourite Test::* Modules
  http://bit.ly/1fBn6Xz

  Toby Inkster recommends the following: Test::More 0.96, Test::Fatal,
  Test::Warnings, Test::Requires, Test::Deep, Test::LongString, and a few
  more.
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Code

  Towards Type::Tiny 1.000000
  http://bit.ly/1fBn560

  The original intention of Type::Tiny written by Toby Inkster was to provide
  a framework for attribution to Moose-style class builders, but can also
  be used for sub parameter validation, switch-like statements, tied
  arrays, and probably more. Now that it is getting closer to its major
  release, Toby is looking for more use-cases that might bring in more
  test-cases to the unit tests of Type::Tiny. That will help in ensuring
  stability of the API after the 1.0 release.
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  Significant newlines? Or semicolons?
  http://bit.ly/1fBn6XA

  Jeffrey Kegler explains that the DSL of Marpa, which is written in itself,
  can be understood without requiring significant white-spaces, and without
  an end-of-statement mark.
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  Finding my computer
  http://bit.ly/1fBn563

  Salvador Fandino is finding his computer by ssh-ing to all the 512 IP
  addresses in the network of his employer. Will he be terminated for
  attempted break-in? Or will he be able to find his own computer?
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CPAN

  The CPAN new dist a month contest
  http://bit.ly/1fBn6XE

  Several ways to encourage yourself to upload new releases to CPAN. By Neil
  Bowers.
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  Changes and CPAN, CPAN::Changes and my Changes
  http://bit.ly/1fBn6XJ

  By Jonas B. Nielsen.
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  What's new on CPAN - February 2014
  http://bit.ly/1fBn564

  Just as last month, now again David Farrell provides a list of interesting
  changes on CPAN.
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Grants

  New Rules of Operation - Grants Committee
  http://bit.ly/1fBn567

  Makoto Nozaki, the new head of The Perl Foundation Grants Committee has
  announced the new rules. 1) Calls for grants will be every 2 months. 2)
  Grant limit is up to 10,000 USD. 3) Some other, minor issues.
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  Call for Grant Proposals
  http://bit.ly/1fBn56a

  The application deadline is March 14th. Acceptance by March 31st.
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Videos

  Building Scalable, Distributed Job Queues with Redis and Redis::Client
  http://bit.ly/1fBn56b

  Mike Friedman at YAPC::NA 2012 - 32 min talk.
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Perl 6

  Changes since release 2014.02
  http://bit.ly/1fBn6XO

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Weekly collections

  MetaCPAN weekly report - DBIx::Class::EasyFixture
  http://bit.ly/1fBn56e

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  StackOverflow Perl report
  http://bit.ly/1fBn81E

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Perl Maven Tutorials
As a side note, the Perl Maven site passed daily 6,000 visits for the first
  time on May 25.

  How to get Help for Perl?
  http://bit.ly/1fBn81H

  Just a list of channels where people can ask for Perl. My hope is that
  there will be localized versions of this page, pointing out resources, in
  the respective languages. So if you are a native speaker of some language
  other than English, please help.
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  Bug in the for-loop of Perl? - B::Deparse to the rescue
  http://bit.ly/1fBn7e7

  Have you ever had disagreement with Perl? How have you settled it? This
  article show a use-case of B::Deparse that can tell you what Perl thought
  about the code you wrote.
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Events

  Perl-related events
  http://bit.ly/1bkDys0

  In the following cities: Lyon (FR), Hannover (DE), Cluj (RO), Swindon (UK),
  Utrecht (NL), Silver Spring, (MD/USA), Poznan (PL), Prague (CZ), Oslo
  (NO), Paris (FR), Kiev (UA), Orlando (FL/US), Sofia (BG), Flörli Olten
  (CH)
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