[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #138 - Would you like to have a Perl conference in your European city?

Mon Mar 17 10:42:49 PDT 2014

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Hi,

sorry for the delayed posting, I had an unplanned 2-days vacation with my
daughter. It was great.

I hope you also enjoyed your weekend, and you are ready for a new set of
articles:

Announcements

  Call for Venue for YAPC::Europe::2015
  http://bit.ly/1iVCn7Z

  Would you like to have a Perl conference in your (European) city? This is
  your chance to put your city on the world map! The dead-line for sending
  letter of intent is Friday, 25 April, and then you'll still have 2 months
  to actually prepare your proposal or hide under a stone.
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  German Perl Workshop 2014 - Just 20 tickets left - T-14 days
  http://bit.ly/1iVCn84

  That was on March 11. I am not sure if they still have any more tickets
  left.
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  Czech Perl Workshop
  http://bit.ly/1iVCkJu

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Articles

  Evolvable languages
  http://bit.ly/1iVCkZP

  Jeffrey Kegler shows some Perl code that is obviously incorrect, to the
  eyes of a long time Perl developer, but that seems natural. He then shows
  how, with the help of a Marpa preprocessor this syntax could be allowed.
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  Perl Encryption Primer: The Importance of Randomness
  http://bit.ly/1iVCkZQ

  Timm Murray from the Wumpus Cave explains how rand() works and why it is
  not a good tool when security is important. He then goes on to suggest
  adding extra hardware if randomness is really important, or at least to
  use Crypt::Random.
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  How did PHP and Python take over such a huge market-share of Perl?
  http://bit.ly/1iVCkZT

  In a nutshell: the 'ease of getting started' and 'batteries included' are
  two keys in those stories and while there are other issues, without
  solving these two Perl has no chance in getting in the ring again.
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  A Faster Perl Runtime in Tiny Steps
  http://bit.ly/1iVCn8b

  Apparently now Booking.com is sponsoring Dave Mitchell directly to improve
  the performance of perl. Steffen Muller explains the changes Dave made in
  a human readable way.
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Testing

  Precision Testing for Modern Perl
  http://bit.ly/1iVCnoo

  Toby Inkster argues that Test::Most is old, has some outdated dependencies
  and cannot be changed because modules depend on it. Hence he released
  Test::Modern with a set of dependencies that are good now. I applaud the
  recommendations, but I think this is not a good path. IMHO it would be
  better to find a way to update Test::Most.
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  Test::More - New Maintainer, Also stop version checking!
  http://bit.ly/1iVCnop

  Chad 'Exodist' Granum is the new maintainer of Test::More. If you have been
  experimenting with the 1.5 branch, you might need to update your code!
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  How soon do CPAN Testers start testing your releases?
  http://bit.ly/1iVCnou

  It is only based on data from a single CPAN distribution, but so far it
  shows that the bulk of the test reports arrive in the first 8 days after
  the release reaches PAUSE with some reports arriving within the first
  hour!
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  Perl::QA Hackathon in Lyon - Day 1
  http://bit.ly/1iVClgm

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  Perl::QA Hackathon in Lyon - Day 2
  http://bit.ly/1iVCnox

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  Perl::QA Hackathon in Lyon - Day 3
  http://bit.ly/1iVCnoF

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  Perl::QA Hackathon in Lyon - Day 4
  http://bit.ly/1iVCnEW

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Code

  Perl RegEx /s /m Magic
  http://bit.ly/1iVCnEZ

  Sebastian Willing explains the 3 modifiers: /s, /m, and   .
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Web

  pjam on rails - build server for perl applications
  http://bit.ly/1iVCnF6

  This looks like some strange animal. A build-server for Perl applications,
  but running on Ruby on Rails? You might want to check it out and let
  everyone know what's it about?
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CPAN

  What happens when you upload to CPAN?
  http://bit.ly/1iVClwO

  This is the first part of a series in which Neil Bowers tries to explain to
  himself and to you how the whole CPAN ecosystem works. Do you know what
  is PAUSE and what BackPAN?
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  You Can Help MetaCPAN by Helping the QA Hackathon
  http://bit.ly/1iVClwP

  In general MetaCPAN does not accept monetary contributions, but being able
  to participate at the annual QA Hackathon helps Olaf Alders to allocate
  time to work on MetaCPAN and get others to be involved. So if you'd like
  to help MetaCPAN with money, the best way is to donate to the QA
  Hackathon. (See reports about this years QA Hackathon in the Testing
  section above.)
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  Sometimes, all it takes is a simple change to make your Perl code run on Windows
  http://bit.ly/1iVClwR

  The difference between directory separator characters between Windows and
  Linux has tripped me many times. Especially in test. Now Sinan Unur shows
  how we could improve our tests script be be less platform dependent.
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Fun

  perldoc -l for modules without pod
  http://bit.ly/1iVCnFb

  Did you know that 'perldoc -lm Module::Name will print the path to a module
  even if it does not have POD?  You can open it in vim by typing 'vim
  $(perldoc -lm Module::Name)'
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Grants

  Maintaining Perl 5: Grant Report for Month 7
  http://bit.ly/1iVCnVq

  The report by Tony Cook.
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  March 2014 Grant Proposals
  http://bit.ly/1iVCnVt

  After many months without any grant requests, and after raising the grant
  limit from 3,000 to 10,000, the last call for grant proposals brought you
  4 grant proposals. The Perl Foundation is looking forward to read your
  comments and thoughts.
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Perl 6

  Changes for week 10 of 2014 Mar 10
  http://bit.ly/1iVCnVu

  This is the Perl 6 weekly
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Training

  What goes around, comes around
  http://bit.ly/1iVCnVz

  Vikings being attacked by an Aussie! More specifically, Damian Conway is
  visiting Oslo and teaching his Perl Masterclass on Monday, 24 March.
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Weekly collections

  MetaCPAN weekly report - Test::Modern
  http://bit.ly/1iVClx3

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

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Perl Maven Tutorials

  Installing a Perl Module from CPAN on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX
  http://bit.ly/1iVCobW

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Events

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

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