From gabor at szabgab.com Mon Jun 9 00:07:16 2014 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 07:07:16 -0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #150 - Hot? Cold? Exotic? Urban? Don't Worry: We Have a Conference For You Message-ID: <20140609070625.19A86C028@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/150.html If you are looking for conferences to attend, this week's edition of the Perl Weekly will make you very happy indeed. In addition of reports of conferences that just ended (and will be back next year), we have announcements for quite a few conferences and workshops happening this summer and fall: Florida, Switzerland, Grenada, Austria, the buffet is as varied as it is appetizing. ~ Yanick Sponsors We are Hiring a Senior Perl Software Developer - Grant Street Group http://bit.ly/1kWEG7t We are a growing software company using open source software/modern Perl practices to build innovative e-payment, auction, and tax collection web applications. We are looking for talented, motivated professionals committed to flawless work and customer service. -------------- ============= GitTip profile of the week GitTip allows you to give a regular weekly monetary gift to people in order to encourage them to do more of the awesome stuff they have been doing. The gifts can be as low as 1 cent a week. In this section every week you will see a different Perl developer we recommend you support. Oh, and the Perl Weekly itself also has a GitTip account ("https://www.gittip.com/PerlWeekly/"). chromatic, author of Modern Perl http://bit.ly/1kZ7YAi chromatic is the author of Modern Perl ('http://modernperlbooks.com/mt/index.html'), a book that for the last few years fills the niche of presenting Perl via the lense of its modern best practices. The electronic versions of the book (pdf, ePub, mobi) are available for free, and the raw source of the book ('https://github.com/chromatic/modern_perl_book') itself is available on GitHub. -------------- ============= Announcements Modern Perl: 2014 Electronic Editions Released http://bit.ly/1hOS5Mx It's modern, and now available as a ePub and mobi eBooks. -------------- Announcing the Austrian Perl Workshop 2014 http://bit.ly/1kZ80YS Not anything planned for this October? How about visiting the beautiful city of Salzburg, and attend the Austrian Perl Workshop? -------------- Swiss Perl Workshop has ROOM http://bit.ly/1kZ81ff Hunting for conferences that are not in exotic, incredibly warm places? The Swiss Perl Workshop now has rented its locale. -------------- II Does Training http://bit.ly/1kZ81fk Infinity Interactive's list of YAPC::NA courses. Yes, there is still time to register for these! -------------- GitPrep 1.8 is released - Public key authentication support http://bit.ly/1kZ7Z73 Yuki Kimoto releases a new version of GitPrep, the Perl-based GitHub-like repository service. -------------- Granada Perl Workshop http://bit.ly/1kZ81vI Hankering for conferences in exotic locations? The Granada Perl Workshop is going to take place on Friday, June the 27th, Salvador Fandino reminds us. -------------- ============= Articles YAPC::NA - Getting Ready to Travel http://bit.ly/1kZ81vN Only a handful of weeks until YAPC::NA, and Khaos is slowly preparing herself to take the road for the event. -------------- What I learned in college because I had to use mainframes http://bit.ly/1kZ81vQ As a follow-up to Andy Lester's article of last week, Joe McMahon reminesces about the days where computers's weight (in tons) and storage capacity (in megs) were roughly equivalent, and how that wildly different paradigm shaped his skills. -------------- One year of Perl Maven Pro http://bit.ly/1kZ81vW Gabor has reasons to celebrate: Maven Pro is now one year old! -------------- Perl in a Developing Country http://bit.ly/1kZ81Md This entry is the first of a series, where Kasek Galgal plans to explore the role and potential of Perl in developing countries. -------------- The Often Overlooked Perl Module Pod::Usage http://bit.ly/1kZaPZQ by Michael Gerb. -------------- ============= Code Removing Perl Boilerplate with Import::Into http://bit.ly/1kZ7ZnB Perl 5.20 gives us a few more shiny tools to play with, but enabling them usually requires a line or two more of boilerplate code at the top of your files. Mike Friedman wants the former very much, but isn't too keen on the latter. -------------- List::Util additions in Perl 5.20 http://bit.ly/1kZ7ZnG List::Util and List::MoreUtils are a cornucopia of useful functions. LeoNerd tells us about the latest changes that come to them for, and in the wake of, the 5.20.0 release. -------------- Cleaning up your DarkPAN http://bit.ly/1kZ7ZnK Steven Haryanto shares a few more tools useful for the scrubbing and clean-up the old releases of one's CPAN account. -------------- Etsy's skyline port to perl http://bit.ly/1kZ822I The original skyline uses Python's numpy and scipy. Here we have a port of its algorithms in Perl's own PDL. -------------- Logging Apple Battery Data with Perl http://bit.ly/1kZ7ZnQ Owner of an Apple laptop and want to query and graph your battery usage? mikegrb has a script for you. -------------- ============= Fun playing with Cairo http://bit.ly/1kZ7ZE7 Dmitry Karasik is porting a First-Person engine in Perl using Cairo. Good news, the coding was smooth sailing. Bad news, performance is not quite the zippiest. -------------- ============= Video Dancer & DBIx::Class http://bit.ly/1kZap5F Stefan Hornburg (Racke) talks about Dancer and DBIx::Class. (35 min) -------------- CSV Less complicated http://bit.ly/1kZap5G In direct from NLPW::2014, Merijin Band (Tux) presents "CSV Less complicated". (40 min) -------------- Clashes of slashes or the division of dividers http://bit.ly/1kZardO Theo van Hoesel talks about math and how he extended Number::Fraction. (20 min) -------------- How the Camel is de-cocooning http://bit.ly/1kZardP Elizabeth Mattijsen (liz) comparing Perl 5 and Perl 6 syntax. (40 min) -------------- ============= Weekly collections StackOverflow Perl report http://bit.ly/1kZ822X -------------- MetaCPAN weekly report - Path::Tiny http://bit.ly/1kZ7ZEg -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials Parsing NaN in JSON - JavaScript and Perl http://bit.ly/1kZardR Why Perl could not parse the JSON file created by a Python script? -------------- ============= Events 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), Salzburg (AT) -------------- ============= 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? Join us free of charge. http://perlweekly.com/ (C) Copyright Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/ The articles are copyright the respective authors. 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