From gabor at szabgab.com Mon Mar 24 03:06:19 2014 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 03:06:19 -0700 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #139 - QA Hackathon is over - lots of reports Message-ID: <20140324100619.06E0976E314@s6.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/139.html Hi, just enjoy the links and remember to share the articles you found interesting! QA Hackathon The Perl QA Hackathon 2014 in Lyon is over http://bit.ly/1m1NSbD This is the summary of the summaries with quotes from all the other posts and links to them. I am impressed both by what they accomplished at the QA Hackathon and maybe even more, by the amount of reporting they provided. -------------- My 2014 QA Hackathon (by Barbie) http://bit.ly/1m1NSrU -------------- Perl::QA Hackathon in Lyon - Summary (by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe) http://bit.ly/1m1NREq -------------- QA Hackathon 2014 (by Neil Bowers) http://bit.ly/1m1NSrV -------------- The 2014 Perl QA Hackathon in Lyon: the work (by Ricardo Signes) http://bit.ly/1m1NSrX -------------- MetaCPAN 2014 QA Hackathon Retrospective (by Olaf Alders) http://bit.ly/1m1NREt -------------- Perl QA Hackathon 2014 Report (by David Golden) http://bit.ly/1m1NREu -------------- QA Hackathon 2014 (by Paul Johnson) http://bit.ly/1m1NSs5 -------------- QA Hackathon 2014 and CPANTS (by Kenichi Ishigaki) http://bit.ly/1m1NREx -------------- Damage control is not quality assurance (by Philippe Bruhat aka. BooK) http://bit.ly/1m1NSs2 The side of the organizers. -------------- ============= Code File::Sip a perl module to read huge text files with limited memory http://bit.ly/1m1NREy -------------- ============= Web Added experimental cookie_jar support in Furl http://bit.ly/1m1NSIo -------------- Foswiki 1.1.9 Virtual Machine now available http://bit.ly/1m1NRED -------------- ============= Security Perl Encryption Primer: One Time Pads Are Too Awesome To Use http://bit.ly/1m1NRUT Timm Murray, a resident of the Wumpus Cave, explains what is a One Time Pad (OTP), how it is the perfect encryption system, and why we should never use it. -------------- Perl Encryption Primer: Block Ciphers http://bit.ly/1m1NRUV Timm Murray writes about DES, the old standard for encryption, 3DES and Rijndael, also known as Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). The new standard that cannot be brute-forced. -------------- Linux Takeover Artists Fling 35M Spam Messages Daily http://ubm.io/1m1NRUY So Perl is used in the industry... (shared by Tony D) -------------- ============= Grants Maintaining the Perl 5 Core: Report for Month 5 (Feb 2014) http://bit.ly/1m1NRV4 The grant report of Dave Mitchell. -------------- TPF Grant Progress Report: March 2014 http://bit.ly/1m1NRV7 This is the Pinto grant of Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer. -------------- TPF is now participating on Amazon Smile http://bit.ly/1m1NSbC If you enroll your Amazon account to Amazon Smile and select The Perl Foundation as the charitable organization, they will receive a donation of 0.5% of all qualifying purchases you make at smile.amazon.com. - I don't know what kind of items are qualifying but remember, the official name of TPF is "Yet Another Society". That's what you need to select if you'd like to get the donations to TPF. -------------- ============= Parrot Parrot 6.2.0 "Imperial Amazon" Released! http://bit.ly/1m1NSIB -------------- ============= Perl 6 Week 11 of 2014 http://bit.ly/1m1NRV8 The Perl 6 weekly blog -------------- Perl 6 on steroids: Through The Window http://bit.ly/1m1NUQw Tadeusz Sosnierz (tadzik) is writing about game development using Perl 6. -------------- Parsing indented text http://bit.ly/1m1NUQz Carl M?sak shows how to parse Python using Perl 6. -------------- ============= Other PerlTricks.com is a year old http://bit.ly/1m1NUQB David Farrell shares some stats of his (their?) website. 17,000 visitors in February 2014, and pages per visit is 1.5. He wants to grow the visitor count to 70,000 in the next year. -------------- Which modules do you use? http://bit.ly/1m1NSIG As explained in the article, I'd like to build a list of CPAN modules which people and companies use in their applications. I am interested both in open source and closed source applications. Both in 'commonly use' modules and the ones that only you might be using. -------------- Vim::X - VimL is Eldritch, Let's Write Perl! http://bit.ly/1m1NSYV Yanick Champoux is interfacing Vim with Perl. -------------- ============= Training Le sexe et la violence en Suisse http://bit.ly/1m1NUQC Google tells me it is about Sex and violence in Switzerland. And it is categorized as a training event. -------------- Another event in Oslo http://bit.ly/1m1NSYW by Damian Conway -------------- ============= Weekly collections MetaCPAN weekly report - Sort::ByExample http://bit.ly/1m1NSYX -------------- StackOverflow Perl report http://bit.ly/1m1NSZ1 -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials Lvalue substr - replace part of a string http://bit.ly/1m1NSZ3 Using substr as an Lvalue isn't really a recommended practice, but sometimes people use it, so it might be interesting to see an example. -------------- Install Perl modules without root rights on Linux Ubuntu 13.10 x64 http://bit.ly/1m1NSZ7 -------------- EduMaven - course slides in Perl, Python, PHP, Dart and more http://bit.ly/1m1NUQL The site has almost 400 pages already, Perl has 60. It is still at the beginning, but you can probably already learn quite a few new things there. -------------- ============= Events Mojoconf 2014 ? Call for Papers / Call for speakers ? extended deadline: April 5th http://bit.ly/1m1NUQM -------------- 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), Fl?rli Olten (CH) -------------- ============= You joined the Perl Weekly to get weekly e-mails about the Perl programming language and related topics. Want to see more? See the archives ( http://perlweekly.com/archive/ ) of all the issues. Reading this as a non-subscriber? Join us free of charge. http://perlweekly.com/ (C) Copyright Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/ The articles are copyright the respective authors. You can freely redistribute this message if you keep the whole message intact, including the Copyright notice and this text. 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