From gabor at szabgab.com Mon Jun 16 01:21:51 2014 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 08:21:51 -0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #151 - A slow week Message-ID: <20140616082106.6E7F5C406@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/151.html Hi, after the tons of articles we have seen in the previous few weeks, this week was a bit quiet. Nevertheless you'll find a few interesting articles and a couple of videos. Enjoy! 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 Tadzik (Tadeusz So?nierz) http://bit.ly/1qjtyaA Tadzik is a Perl 6 developer. A couple of weeks ago we mentioned the Space Invaders ("http://bit.ly/SRXtZW") clone he wrote in Perl 6. It would be great to encourage him to further work on that game, or to build more games in Perl 6. BTW Yours truly interviewed ("http://bit.ly/10BhjUy") him about a year ago. -------------- ============= Articles Perl 5.20 uses its own random number generator http://bit.ly/1qjsjrU -------------- Perl 5.20 optimizes return at the end of a subroutine http://bit.ly/1qjsjrX -------------- ============= Testing Sick of being mocked by unit tests http://bit.ly/1qjsljx Ovid has used to much mocking and it hurt. The bottom line: don't overdo it. He also embedded an excellent video, a conversation between Martin Fowler, Kent Beck and David Heinemeier Hansson. -------------- ============= Code Migrating Knotes data the hard way http://bit.ly/1qjsljy When upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04 Yanick found out that KDE's Knotes has changed the format it was using to save notes and it could not upgrade the files itself. No problem. Perl with the help of Yanick could solve the problem. Code included. -------------- When a failure is not a failure http://bit.ly/1qjsljB Now that I see it I know what I have been missing lately. Barefeet articles! A simple issue in Perl that can bite you too if you don't read the article. And if you don't have warnings on. -------------- ============= Web Catalyst Development and Stable Releases: Current Summary http://bit.ly/1qjsljC -------------- Instant REST API For Any Databases http://bit.ly/1qjsljF waack is a mashup of DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader, SQL::Translator, Dancer providing a web a RESTish web interface to any database with any schema. -------------- ============= CPAN Automating Stratopan Releases with Perl's Dist::Zilla http://bit.ly/1qjslzS Mike Friedman introduces his new module Dist::Zilla::Plugin::UploadToStratopan that allows you to automatically upload new private releases to Stratopan, the cloud-based private CPAN. -------------- Perl distributions, modules, packages explained http://bit.ly/1qjslzT David Farrell explains what kind of file are in a perl distribution. -------------- ============= Personnel Newest French Perl Mongers board member introduces herself http://bit.ly/1qjslzU I wonder what will the French Perl Mongers say if their new board member will blog in English! - Go Perlgerl! -------------- ============= Videos Note, on the PerlTV site you can now show/hide the date of each video, and you can sort the listing of videos. Reactive Programming in Perl 6 http://bit.ly/1qjslzX Bored by the same old programming stuff? How about taking a walk on the reactive programming side, in Perl 6, with Jonathan Worthington? -------------- Stylesheet Compression http://bit.ly/1qjsjIt In this 17 min talk Simon Bertrang talks about CSS::Compressor and how Perl beat Java in speed. -------------- Refactoring tools for Perl code http://bit.ly/1qjsjIw 20 min talk by Dagfinn Reiers?l. -------------- How to Code Like Larry Wall http://bit.ly/1qjsjIx A 6 min part of a longer interview from 2011. -------------- ============= Weekly collections Beginning of inlining, some GSoC work materializes, DSON encoder/decoder http://bit.ly/1qjsjYM Perl 6 weekly -------------- StackOverflow Perl report http://bit.ly/1qjslA4 -------------- MetaCPAN weekly report - Pod::Usage http://bit.ly/1qjslA6 -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials The year of 19100 http://bit.ly/1qjslA8 This is one of the parts of the Beginner Perl Maven video cours ("http://bit.ly/1qjsjYO") that was made available. -------------- ============= Events Perl-related events http://bit.ly/1bkDys0 In the following cities: 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. 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