From gabor at szabgab.com Thu May 8 07:33:53 2014 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 14:33:53 +0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #145 - MetaCPAN changes (resend) Message-ID: <20140508143353.DA09AC40A@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/145.html Hello there! (This is a resend of the original #145. I broke the server that is used to send the newsletter and many people have not received it. I appologize either if this is a duplicate for you, or if this is the first time you receive it. ~ Gabor) 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. -------------- ============= 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"). -------------- New release of Perl DBD::ODBC with support for MS SQL Server Query Notification http://bit.ly/1jtIgHv -------------- Deprecating experience level and preset value in Config::Model http://bit.ly/1jtIgHw -------------- ============= 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"). -------------- 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?' -------------- ============= Testing The next Test::More might break fragile test modules http://bit.ly/1jtIgHz -------------- ============= 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. -------------- 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? -------------- ============= Web Major Dancer 2 release: 0.140000 http://bit.ly/1jtIfnd Mostly the results of the recent Dancer 2 hackathon. -------------- All about Dancer - interview of Sawyer X part 2 http://bit.ly/1jtIgHD -------------- ============= 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. -------------- 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. -------------- What's new on CPAN - April 2014 http://bit.ly/1jtIgHI The monthly report about new stuff on CPAN. -------------- ============= 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. -------------- ============= 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"). -------------- Call for Grant Proposals (May round) http://bit.ly/1jtIgY3 The new, bi-monthly opening for grant requests by The Perl Foundation. -------------- Outreach Program for Women Internship Begins in May http://bit.ly/1jtIiiE -------------- ============= Perl 6 Supplies talk and sundry http://bit.ly/1jtIgYa The Perl 6 weekly update. -------------- ============= Other Programming Languages and RailsGirls.tw http://bit.ly/QOfyqt The English transcript(?) of the talk Audrey Tang gave at TEDxTaipei. -------------- 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. -------------- ============= Training Training in London http://bit.ly/1jtIgYh This year Dave Cross will run his regular courses in November. -------------- ============= Weekly collections Stackoverflow Perl report http://bit.ly/1jtIgYi -------------- MetaCPAN weekly report - List::MoreUtils http://bit.ly/1jtIiiF -------------- ============= 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 ? -------------- String operators: concatenation (.), repetition (x) http://bit.ly/1jtIheA -------------- 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. -------------- ============= Events Open West http://bit.ly/1jce3N8 8-10 May, 2014, Orem, UT, USA and it has a Perl Track ("http://bit.ly/1jtIiiN") -------------- 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), 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? 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