[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #145 - MetaCPAN changes

Mon May 5 01:45:24 PDT 2014

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Hello there!

I hope you spent both the International Workers' Day and Star Wars Day
well, and you are ready for the challenges of the new week!

Last week I included a call to support Yanick via GitTip
("https://www.gittip.com/yanick/") that resulted a few people giving him
money, and then Yanick and myself (Gabor), continued to discuss it. PJF
("https://www.gittip.com/pjf/") suggested we set up a team-account in
GitTip so people can give tips to the Perl Weekly team, and then the
members of the team can divide the money. So I set up a GitTip account for
the Perl Weekly ("https://www.gittip.com/PerlWeekly/") and it already
received some gifts. Thanks! We don't expect to be super-rich from this (at
least not in the next few weeks ;), but it would be awesome to get presents
from hundreds, or even thousands of our readers. Actually I'd prefer
receiving 1 cent from a 100 people than $1 from a single person. So if you
have a spare cent a week...

The other idea that was suggested by Yanick was to include a new section
called 'GitTip Profile of the week'. I find this a good idea as it will
give us an opportunity to introduce an open source Perl contributor a week
without running lengthy interviews :). It will also gives you an
opportunity to give a small weekly present to these people. I am going to
look at the people listed in the Perl community at GitTip
("https://www.gittip.com/for/perl/"), and the mashup created by Neil Bowers
called CPAN Tip ("http://neilb.org/cpan-tip/").

Enjoy!

GitTip profile of the week

  Neil Bowers
  http://bit.ly/1jtIgrd

  Neil ("http://bit.ly/1jtIfmU") has been working tirelessly to make CPAN a
  better place. He advocates the adoption of CPAN modules
  ("http://bit.ly/1jtIgrb"), he created the CPAN Tip mashup
  ("http://bit.ly/1jtIgrc"), and he is working on the CPAN authors'
  dashboard. Coincidentally I have interviewed him
  ("http://bit.ly/14ZoZIr") a while ago.
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Articles

  Simple JSON and Mongo speed test between Perl, Ruby and Python
  http://bit.ly/1jtIfn3

  The result: Perl is much faster. Reactions on Reddit
  ("http://bit.ly/1jtIfn0").
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  New release of Perl DBD::ODBC with support for MS SQL Server Query Notification
  http://bit.ly/1jtIgHv

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  Deprecating experience level and preset value in Config::Model
  http://bit.ly/1jtIgHw

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XS

  UTF-8 output from Perl and C programs in cmd.exe on Windows 8
  http://bit.ly/1jtIgHy

  With a follow-up UTF-8 output from Perl in cmd.exe: Layers of goodness
  ("http://bit.ly/1jtIgHx").
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  Segfault Fixing for Dummies
  http://bit.ly/1jtIfnb

  Answering a couple of questions such as 'How to print debug messages in
  XS?'	and 'How to validate memory accesses of a C program on Windows?'
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Testing

  The next Test::More might break fragile test modules
  http://bit.ly/1jtIgHz

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Code

  Learning the Perl Debugger - lesson 5
  http://bit.ly/1jtIgHA

  Setting breakpoints using (b). Listing the breakpoints using (L). Clearing
  them using (B). Setting conditional breakpoints.
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  Detecting JSON/YAML/Perl/CSV/TSV/LTSV
  http://bit.ly/1jtIfnc

  Steven Haryanto brings up an interesting problem. Give a short string, how
  can you cheaply(!) detect if it is any of the 'standard' or 'approved'
  formats?
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Web

  Major Dancer 2 release: 0.140000
  http://bit.ly/1jtIfnd

  Mostly the results of the recent Dancer 2 hackathon.
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  All about Dancer - interview of Sawyer X part 2
  http://bit.ly/1jtIgHD

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CPAN

  Introducing CPAN::Releases::Latest
  http://bit.ly/1jtIgHG

  As Neil Bowers is working on the CPAN author's dashboard he is putting the
  pieces together. This module allows you to iterate over all the recent
  releases limited by age.
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  News from the MetaCPAN developers
  http://bit.ly/1jtIgHH

  If you'd like to follow the changes in MetaCPAN, now there is a page for
  this with an RSS feed.
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  What's new on CPAN - April 2014
  http://bit.ly/1jtIgHI

  The monthly report about new stuff on CPAN.
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Fun

  European Perl Tour 2014, getting real
  http://bit.ly/1jtIgHJ

  brian d foy and Sawyer X are planning to take the train around Europe,
  stop-by interesting places and talk to the local Perl Mongers. If you are
  interested to having them in your city, check out the article and get in
  touch with them.
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Grants

  Devel::Cover grant report March 2014
  http://bit.ly/1jtIgHN

  After several months of break, Paul Johnson is back in the saddle, and
  started to work on Devel::Cover again. Including some plans to update
  cpancover.com ("http://bit.ly/1jtIgHM").
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  Call for Grant Proposals (May round)
  http://bit.ly/1jtIgY3

  The new, bi-monthly opening for grant requests by The Perl Foundation.
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  Outreach Program for Women Internship Begins in May
  http://bit.ly/1jtIiiE

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Perl 6

  Supplies talk and sundry
  http://bit.ly/1jtIgYa

  The Perl 6 weekly update.
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Other

  Programming Languages and RailsGirls.tw
  http://bit.ly/QOfyqt

  The English transcript(?) of the talk Audrey Tang gave at TEDxTaipei.
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  GitTip and the Perl Community
  http://bit.ly/1jtIgYe

  In a nutshell, I think if all the people who benefit from Perl contributed
  back to the community, the Perl ecosystem could do a lot more. So if you
  cannot contribute time, maybe you can contribute some money. GitTip is an
  easy way to do so.
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Training

  Training in London
  http://bit.ly/1jtIgYh

  This year Dave Cross will run his regular courses in November.
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Weekly collections

  Stackoverflow Perl report
  http://bit.ly/1jtIgYi

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  MetaCPAN weekly report - List::MoreUtils
  http://bit.ly/1jtIiiF

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Perl Maven Tutorials

  The Hash-bang line, or how to make a Perl scripts executable on Linux
  http://bit.ly/1jtIhew

  Do you know what is the #!/usr/bin/perl at the beginning of Perl scripts?
  What about #!/usr/bin/env perl ?
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  String operators: concatenation (.), repetition (x)
  http://bit.ly/1jtIheA

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  Adding a news feed to MetaCPAN
  http://bit.ly/1jtIiiJ

  In this article you'll find a small introduction to how to contribute to
  MetaCPAN via the naive way the news feed was added.
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Events

  Open West
  http://bit.ly/1jce3N8

  8-10 May, 2014, Orem, UT, USA and it has a Perl Track
  ("http://bit.ly/1jtIiiN")
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  Perl-related events
  http://bit.ly/1bkDys0

  In the following cities: Silver Spring, (MD/USA), Orem (UT/USA), Poznan
  (PL), Prague (CZ), Oslo (NO), Paris (FR), Kiev (UA), Orlando (FL/USA),
  Sofia (BG), Flörli Olten (CH)
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