[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #148 - Conference Season is On
Gabor Szabo
gabor at szabgab.com
Mon May 26 00:51:19 PDT 2014
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This week has a lot of conference-related material: videos from the
Nederlandse Perl Workshop, report from the Czech Perl workshop, the happy
news that the Mojolicious conference is, in all likeliness, going to have a
2015 edition, and some noise about the upcoming YAPC::NA. Hopefully, those
echoes will tempt some of you to come and join the fun! ~ `/anick
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Chris Williams
http://bit.ly/1lMmcFD
Chris Williams (aka BINGOS) is another of those elder members of the Perl
community. He maintains an impressive number of modules deadling with the
testing toolchain, the Windows environment, Dist-Zilla and the
asynchronous POE framework. He's also one of the most, if not THE most,
active CPAN tester. Neil Bowers points out in an article this month that
Chris reported his twentieth million smoke test, an accomplishment that
is quite awe-inspiring.
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Announcements
CPAN Testers on Twitter
http://bit.ly/1lMmcFF
All the cool kids are doing it. And now, at least one cool tookit is doing
it as well. CPAN Testers now has an official Twitter account.
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CPANdeps and cpXXXan scheduled downtime
http://bit.ly/1lMmf4g
Usually, we announce new things. This time, however, David Cantrell warns
us that CPANdeps and cpXXXan are going down (but only on the 28th, just
long enough for a data center move)
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YAPC::NA Wiki - Who Is Staying Where
http://bit.ly/1lMmcFJ
If you are going to YAPC::NA, consider adding your arrival/departure times
to this wiki, to facilitate meet-ups and cab sharings.
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Mojoconf 2014 is done; What about 2015?
http://bit.ly/1lMmf4h
Mojolicious had its own conference in 2014, and Salve J. Nilsen brings us
tidings that it'll happen again next year.
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Articles
Automatic variable highlighting in vim: the easy way
http://bit.ly/1lMmf4i
Remember the Vim function that Ovid brought to our attention last week?
confuseAcat revisits it, and proposes some improvements.
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Prototypes and the call checker
http://bit.ly/1lMmcVX
Peter Martini has a look at this old two-edged sword that is Perl's sub
prototypes.
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Thank you, Chris Williams (aka BINGOS)
http://bit.ly/1lMmf4m
The CPAN testing network could be argue to be the awesome marrow that is
one of the prime factors that makes the CPAN skeleton so strong. But, of
course, this testing network is not run magically by elves. Neil Bowers
takes time to tip his hat to Chris Williams, who reported this month his
20th million test report. Yes, that's two-zero-zero-zero-zero-zero-zero
and zero.
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Mastering Perl 2nd Ed
http://bit.ly/1lMmcVY
Nikos Vaggalis reviews brian d foy's Master Perl's book.
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How to contribute to the exercism.io Perl 5 repo
http://bit.ly/1lMmcVZ
Exercism.io is an awesome site giving small tasks to learn a vast array of
languages, and providing a nice feedback system. David Farrell shows how
easily one can contribute to and expand the list of Perl exercises.
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Spelunking: why 'while(){ }' is my new favorite perl-ism
http://bit.ly/1lMmf4n
Here is a feature that you probably didn'y know about. Not content to
merely having unearthed this gem, Peter Martini also sleuthes around and
finds out exactly since when, and why, this feature has been lurking in
the depths of Perl's guts.
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Foswiki update May 2014
http://bit.ly/1lMmfkA
Foswiki is revving up for its 1.2 release.
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GPW2014 & NLPW2014 Survey results
http://bit.ly/1lMmfkB
Ooooh, statistics! Barbie shares the survey results of both the Deutscher
and the Nederlandse Perl workshops.
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First Czech Perl Workshop
http://bit.ly/1lMmfkE
Lichtkind reports on the first Czech Perl workshop.
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Discussion
YAPC::NA or not?
http://bit.ly/1lMmcW2
YAPC::NA is almost upon us (only one more month to go), but the
communication channels of the conferences have been rather quiet. To the
point that Laufeyjarson muses aloud if he should go. For once, the
comments shouldn't be skipped as Chris Prather, one of the organizers,
explains the silence, and issues reassurances that the conference is
still happening.
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Code
One package perl pm file
http://bit.ly/1lMmfkH
While you can put more than one package in one .pm file, Gabor Szabo
reminds us that we don't necessary want to do that.
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A new BackPAN index (generator)
http://bit.ly/1lMmfkI
Good news for module repository wranglers everywhere: Neil Bowers and
Barbie joined forces, and a new index generator for the BackPAN, or a
mirror following its structure.
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Licenses and the repository links on CPAN (May 2014)
http://bit.ly/1lMmcWa
Gabor plays the number game and sees how many of the new distributions
advertise their licenses and repository urls.
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App::TimeTracker::Command::Trello
http://bit.ly/1lMmdcs
Like App::TimeTracker? The Trello organizer web service as well? You're in
luck: domm just extended the former to work with the latter.
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Fun
Help me name Veure!
http://bit.ly/1lMmdcu
Ovid is working on his sci-fi, mmorpg browser-based game, and he needs your
help for the hardest task of them all: find the right name for the thing.
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Videos
TIM-fu*%ing-TOWDI
http://bit.ly/1lMmdcA
Sawyer X at NLPW::2014::Utretcht, being his awesome, profane, wonderful
self. (20 min)
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More Awesome Things You've Missed in Perl
http://bit.ly/1lMmfkO
Paul Fenwick gave this talk in 2012 at the Perth Linux User Group. (80 min)
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Weekly collections
StackOverflow Perl report
http://bit.ly/1lMmdcF
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MetaCPAN Weekly Report - Mojolicious & Moose
http://bit.ly/1lMmdcH
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Perl Maven Tutorials
Matching numbers using Perl regex
http://bit.ly/1lMmdcJ
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Events
Perl-related events
http://bit.ly/1bkDys0
In the following cities: Paris (FR), Kiev (UA), Orlando (FL/USA), Sofia
(BG), Flörli Olten (CH)
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