From gabor at szabgab.com Mon May 12 00:06:13 2014 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 07:06:13 +0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #146 - Space Invaders in Perl 6 Message-ID: <20140512070613.4E73DC639@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/146.html Hi, First of all, let me apologize for the late and duplicate e-mails last week. I upgraded the server just before sending out the edition and I managed to break the mail-server. At first it did not send out the e-mail. After fixing part of the server I tried to send it again, that did not work either and then, when I finally managed to fix the server, all the messages that were in the queue went out at once. The Polish Perl Workshop ("http://act.yapc.eu/plpw2014/") is this weekend in Poznan!. In case you cannot attend, enjoy the articles! Sponsors GitTip the Perl Weekly editors http://bit.ly/SRXrBl -------------- ============= GitTip profile of the week Stevan Little http://bit.ly/SRXtc8 Stevan has been instrumental to a lot of modules on CPAN, some are even released by him ("http://bit.ly/SRXsFj"), but probably he is best known as the creator of Moose and the person who adds MOP to the core Perl. Sometimes he even blogs ("http://bit.ly/SRXsFp") about his progress. It would be great if you could say him thanks and encourage him to further work on the p5 MOP. In 2013 I conducted an interview with him ("http://bit.ly/13TatP2"). -------------- ============= Articles Planet Moose - April 2014 http://bit.ly/SRXuNe The monthly review of Toby Inkster about everything Object Oriented in Perl. New Moose and Moo releases. -------------- ============= Discussion Concerned about Perl (un)popularity http://bit.ly/SRXtcq A Reddit user wonders why Perl is slowly losing its popularity. Many people offer their opinion. Some of them even tell what others should do about it... It is an interesting read, but I wonder what will people actually do about it? -------------- Thunderclap and the buzz for Perl http://bit.ly/SRXtsI Thunderclap allow you to commit to send a specific tweet (or Facebook share) at a certain time in the future. I started a little experiment with it. If you like it, please join the action. -------------- ============= Testing CPAN Testers Report Retrieval http://bit.ly/SRXv3P -------------- Test::Pretty - Because TAP Is Unattractive http://bit.ly/SRXtJb Screenshots with colored output are always much more convincing than a wall of text explaining the advantages of something. -------------- ============= Code Examining the book 'Perl Best Practices' http://bit.ly/SRXvkj Laufeyjarson has started a series of articles examining 'The Book' that many people hold as the Holy Bible of Perl programming. He does not seem to agree with every point... -------------- MongoDB REST Interface http://bit.ly/SRXvkm -------------- ============= Web Using Perl on Red Hat's OpenShift Cloud http://bit.ly/SRXtJm Ovid explains how to use this Platform as a Service (PaaS) system to avoid the need to handle sysadmin tasks while building a web application. -------------- Covert Redirect Vulnerability with OAuth 2 http://bit.ly/SRXtJn Not Perl specific, but if you write a web application using OAuth 2 and 'Implicit Grant Flow' you might want to check this out. -------------- ============= CPAN Adopting DateTime::Calendar::Pataphysical http://bit.ly/SRXtJq A short explanation by Philippe Bruhat abut how he adopted this module. It is quite simple. You can do it too. -------------- I broke Perl::MinimumVersion, sorry http://bit.ly/SRXtZG There are more than 8000 CPAN modules that depend indirectly on this module. Neil Bowers, the new maintainer released a new version of Perl::MinimumVersion, that broke some of the dependent modules. I think he is way to hard on himself, but the really interesting part is the list of ways he proposes to reduce the chance breaking the chain for other people. If you are a CPAN author, or if you are going to be a CPAN author, then these points can help reducing anxiety. -------------- ============= Perl 6 Rakudo Star Release 2014.04 http://bit.ly/SRXtZI This is the first Rakudo Star release with support for the MoarVM backend (all module tests pass on supported platforms) along with experimental support for the JVM backend (some module tests fail). -------------- 2014.18: More supply ops, loop labels, more async I/O on jvm http://bit.ly/SRXvB0 The Perl 6 weekly. -------------- Rakudobrew http://bit.ly/SRXtZO To make it easy to install Rakudo Perl 6 -------------- New game: Space Invaders http://bit.ly/SRXtZW After seeing this article, I spent 3 hours playing Space Invaders on some stupid clone, and thus I did not have the time to try the Perl 6 version yet, but I am really happy that Tadeusz Sosnierz (tadzik) created this. -------------- ============= Other When a Space Is Not Just a Space http://shutr.bz/SRXugf Nick Patch, Perl developer and resident Unicode expert of Shutterstock explains the space. -------------- Interview with Christian Walde http://bit.ly/SRXugl Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi (vti) conducted a written interview with Mithaldu. It is available at the Pragmatic Perl web site, both in English and in Russian. -------------- ============= Weekly collections StackOverflow Perl report http://bit.ly/SRXwoo -------------- MetaCPAN weekly report - Devel::Trepan http://bit.ly/SRXwos -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials Split CSV file into multiple small CSV files http://bit.ly/SRXuwO Separate solution for both horizontal and vertical splitting. -------------- Getting started with PSGI http://bit.ly/SRXuwZ -------------- ============= Events Perl-related events http://bit.ly/1bkDys0 In the following cities: 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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