From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Jun 1 22:27:25 2014 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 05:27:25 +0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #149 - Perl 5.20 released Message-ID: <20140602052725.DBC1ACDC3@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/149.html This week had way too much happening in Perl. Perl 5.20 has been released. It is available from CPAN in source code format. MS Windows users can already download Strawberry Perl 5.20.0.1 Mojolicious Five Point Oh has been released. The 2014 edition of the Modern Perl book has been published New developer tool: perlmodules.net Oh, and Parrot had a new release too. YAPC::NA finally has a preliminary version of its schedule. It also has a list of courses available before and after the conference. The first Perl Workshop in Granada, Spain, and the next YAPC::Asia in Tokyo have also been announced. 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Oh, and the Perl Weekly itself also has a GitTip account ("https://www.gittip.com/PerlWeekly/"). CPAN Testers on Gittip http://bit.ly/1hOS5fM Barbie got control over the Twitter account called @cpantesters ("http://bit.ly/1hOS3Ep"), and now he has set up a Gittip account ("http://bit.ly/1hOS5fJ") as well. By supporting the team you help with the maintenance of the servers and infrastructure of the CPAN Testers. -------------- ============= Announcements perl 5.20 released http://bit.ly/1hOS3EH Many improvements, including experimental Subroutine signatures. Go ahead compile it from source and start using it. Soon after the announcement David Farrell posted a short overview of what you need to know ("http://bit.ly/1hOS5wa") about perl 5.20. -------------- Strawberry Perl 5.20.0.1 released http://bit.ly/1hOS5wf -------------- Mojolicious 5.0 released: Perl real-time web framework http://bit.ly/1hOS5wh Right on the heels of the first Mojolicious conference (Mojoconf) Sebastian Riedel announced the new version. -------------- Modern Perl: 2014 Electronic Editions Released http://bit.ly/1hOS5Mx -------------- New developer tool: perlmodules.net http://bit.ly/1hOS3V4 Use this if you'd like to get alerted when one of the dependencies of your application has a new version. -------------- ============= Articles Modification of a read-only value attempted http://bit.ly/1hOS5MD While refactoring a large code-base, domm has encountered this error. It turns out it was a bug in DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader clobbering $_. Besides that, I'd say: Using $_ explicitly is usually not a good idea. -------------- ============= Code Introspection in Devel::Trepan http://bit.ly/1hOS5ME Listing names of functions while debugging by Rocky Bernstein. -------------- Reading Code - Camel-Snake-Kebab http://bit.ly/1hOS5ML Eric Johnson is converting variable names among CamelCase, snake_case, and kebab-case. -------------- ============= Web Perl Catalyst - Concepts, Components and (use) Cases. http://bit.ly/1hOS4bz -------------- MojoConf 2014 Recap http://bit.ly/1hOS634 Joel Berger attended the first Mojoconf. -------------- ============= Parrot Parrot 6.4.0 "Double-eyed Fig Parrot" released! http://bit.ly/1hOS4bF -------------- ============= Videos Database Unit-Testing with PGTAP http://bit.ly/1hOS637 TAP is one of the awesome things born out of the Perl ecosystem that turned out to be nifty enough to sneak out and colonize other projects. Su-Shee talks here of its use with databases, Postgres, more specifically. ~yanick -------------- Writing Webapps with Perl Dancer http://bit.ly/1hOS639 A 50 min introduction to Perl Dancer, by Yanick Champoux, the other editor of the Perl Weekly. -------------- Perl Data Language (PDL) http://bit.ly/1hOS4s0 20 minute talk by Jan Hoogenraad for scientists. -------------- Dancer Status 2014 http://bit.ly/1hOS4s4 Sawyer X, on the state of the dance floor these days. 20 min talk -------------- ============= Perl 6 2014.21: NLPW2014 recordings, release, optimization, GTK and Cairo http://bit.ly/1hOS63h The regular Perl 6 weekly by Timo Paulssen. -------------- Perl 6 meets JSON-RPC http://bit.ly/1hOS63k -------------- t4: Rain in a world of cubes http://bit.ly/1hOS6jC Carl M?sak is back in the ring for more blogging. -------------- ============= OOP Planet Moose - May 2014 http://bit.ly/1hOS7nD The monthly report about Moose, Mouse, Moo, p5-mop, and a few other OOP related things by Toby Inkster. -------------- ============= Training Introduction to Moose Class at YAPC::NA 2014 http://bit.ly/1hOS7nE Dave Rolsky is going to give an introduction to Moose at YAPC::NA. I strongly recommend his course! -------------- ============= Weekly collections StackOverflow Perl report http://bit.ly/1hOS6jN -------------- MetaCPAN weekly report - perl http://bit.ly/1hOS7nL -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials How to build a dynamic web application using PSGI http://bit.ly/1hOS6A6 A simple example creating an application that can echo a string. -------------- ============= Events Granada Perl Workshop 2014 http://bit.ly/SgXcPl 27 June, 2013, Granada, Spain -------------- YAPC::Asia Tokyo 2014 http://bit.ly/Sh4m6a 28-30 August, 2014, Tokyo, Japan -------------- YAPC::NA Schedule and courses http://bit.ly/H6ndeD Finally there is a preliminary schedule ("http://bit.ly/1hOS6A8") and a list of courses ("http://bit.ly/1hOS7nO"). -------------- Perl-related events http://bit.ly/1bkDys0 In the following cities: Paris (FR), St. Petersburg (Ru), Orlando (FL/USA), Granada (ES), Sofia (BG), Tokyo (JP), 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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