From gabor at szabgab.com Mon Apr 14 01:11:23 2014 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 08:11:23 +0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #142 - Heartbleed and Perl sites Message-ID: <20140414081123.8F9EA114F7@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/142.html Hi, enjoy the articles! Sponsors We're Hiring Perl Software Developers - Grant Street Group http://bit.ly/14ZjcSG We are a growing software company using open source software/modern Perl practices to build innovative e-payment, auction, and tax collection web applications. We're looking for talented, motivated professionals committed to flawless work and customer service.
Please apply online ("http://bit.ly/1kWEG7t") -------------- ============= Articles Perl language's popularity hits all-time low http://bit.ly/1kWEG7A Infoworld trying to make another populistic assertion based on the biased, and incorrect TIOBE index, ran by the well known Perl-hater Paul Jansen. Unfortunately, other stats seem to show similar trends. The question: do you mind? And if you do: What do you do in order to change the trend? -------------- Why Companies Turn Me Down For Contracts http://bit.ly/1kWEGnO The story telling capabilities of Ovid are clearly good. In this article, he explains how searching for the next contract takes away time he could spend on writing open source code, and how you could help by getting your employer to hire him. -------------- Vim::X Update http://bit.ly/1kWEGnS Yanick Champoux explains how preparing the Perl Weekly was made easier for him by adding special keys to Vim that will run a Perl script to fetch information from a web site and update the currently edited file. -------------- Dada Mail Seven Released! Rejoice! http://bit.ly/1kWEGnU Dada Mail is a web-based mailing list manager, written in Perl. -------------- ============= Discussion Questioning the Role of API Design in Perl http://bit.ly/1kWEGo2 -------------- ============= Testing The Hidden Benefit of Data-Driven Programming http://bit.ly/1kWEIwc -------------- CPAN Testers Summary - March 2014 - Prescence http://bit.ly/1kWEGEo -------------- ============= Code Learning the Perl Debugger: Lesson 2 http://bit.ly/1kWEIMu Chisel continues to show the built-in debugger of Perl. This time, it is about inspecting variables using p and x. -------------- Reading Code - Plack http://bit.ly/1kWEIMx Eric Johnson started a series of articles explaining the implementation of Plack, the implementation of PSGI. -------------- ============= CPAN Why did Extutils::ParseXS fail tests after building perl on Windows 8.1? http://bit.ly/1kWEGEt Sinan Unur is fighting with the compilation of Perl on his brand new Windows machine. The solution is in linking with the 64-bit libraries ("http://bit.ly/1kWEIMy"). -------------- ============= Heartbleed I guess you've already heard about the serius security bug found in OpenSSL. This is just a reminder and a few articles related to Perl sites Recovering from Heartbleed http://bit.ly/1kWEGUQ Mike Doherty (doherty) explains the recovery process and includes a link to the perl script ("http://bit.ly/1kWEGEz") of Steffen Ullrich for checking for the SSL Heartbleed vulnerability. -------------- Abandon Ship! It's Time to Ditch OpenSSL http://bit.ly/1kWEIMD Timm Murray from the Wumpus Cave has a suggestion for you. Use NSS instead of OpenSSL. -------------- Heartbleed updates for rt.perl.org and rt.cpan.org http://bit.ly/1kWEGUX -------------- Security: Heartbleed Vulnerability http://bit.ly/1kWEGV0 Stratopan was updated. -------------- ============= Fun Thinking out Loud: Managing Video and Nav Display Together in UAV::Pilot http://bit.ly/1kWEJ2Z -------------- ============= Grants Maintaining the Perl 5 Core: Report for Month 6 (March 2014) http://bit.ly/1kWEJ33 The report of Dave Mitchell. -------------- ============= Tutorials For each http://bit.ly/1kWEGV4 Learn Perl with Emma Howson. -------------- ============= Videos Perl Encryption Primer http://bit.ly/1kWEGV8 One hour presentation given by Timm Murray at the monthly meetings of the MadMongers in Madison, WI. -------------- ============= Perl 6 Speshial things http://bit.ly/1kWEHbp The Perl 6 weekly reports a bunch of performance improvements in Rakudo. -------------- Optimization, concurrency, and Moar http://bit.ly/1kWEHbr Jonathan Worthington provides more details on the recent developments in Rakudo. -------------- ============= Weekly collections MetaCPAN weekly report - Games::2048 http://bit.ly/1kWEHbv -------------- StackOverflow Perl report http://bit.ly/1kWEJ37 -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials Can't locate inc/Module/Install.pm http://bit.ly/1kWEJ3b A special case of missing module error when you might try to install a module straight from its version control system. -------------- Sorting mixed strings http://bit.ly/1kWEHbD How would you sort the following strings: foo_11, bar_2_abc, moo_3 based on the numbers in it? -------------- How to check if a child process is still running in Perl? http://bit.ly/1kWEHbE -------------- Reverse an array, a string or a number http://bit.ly/1kWEHrT -------------- ============= Events Perl-related events http://bit.ly/1bkDys0 In the following cities: 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. 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