From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Jun 29 22:37:34 2014 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 05:37:34 +0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #153 - How to get a medal from the Army for writing Perl? Message-ID: <20140630053734.75B3DCDD4@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/153.html Hi while probably due to YAPC there are not so many articles from the usual suspects, there are two from outside the echo-chamber (Rex automation and medal from the Army). The recorded videos from YAPC::NA are also available and there is a fund-raiser going on to release the next version of WebGUI, a CMS in Perl. Oh, and there is going to be a Dancer conference too. 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. -------------- ============= Articles Why Learn Perl? Interview 2 - Andy Beverley, Serial Entrepreneur http://bit.ly/Vz84dz Andrew Solomon keeps interviewing his students at Geekuni. -------------- First steps in IT automation by Rex Automation Tool http://bit.ly/Vz84dA Unfortunately only the beginning of the article is available free of charge, but I am glad to see Rex, a Perl-based alternative of Puppet and Chef, making into the Admin Magazine. -------------- How I got a medal from the Army for writing code http://bit.ly/Vz84dF Deployed in Iraq. What can you do with Perl? The same story also told by The Register ("http://bit.ly/Vz84dC"). -------------- ============= Discussion Perl smartmatch : what now ? http://bit.ly/Vz84tU Laurent Dami raised the frustrating question. You know, the smartmatch operator and the given/when pair that were introduced in perl 5.10 have been marked as experimental in 5.18 and it is not clear how they might change in the future. A few suggestions how to deal with the problem. -------------- ============= Testing How to Run a Single Test via Dist::Zilla http://bit.ly/Vz84tW Olaf Alders shares a one-liner he saw on #dzil. -------------- ============= Code perlsloc - Count Perl Source Lines with Perl::Tidy http://bit.ly/Vz84tX A small shell script using ack, perltidy, xargs, and wc to count the source lines of code in any number of directories. -------------- ============= Web Catalyst 'Ancona' : Application Tracing feature http://bit.ly/Vz8654 A Quest and a branch -------------- ============= CPAN 100 days of CPAN releases http://bit.ly/Vz84tY Neil Bowers had this crazy idea of releasing a CPAN module every day. I am really happy that this mostly involved releasing fixes for existing modules. Apparently he now needs help getting his hand on more modules. So if you are a CPAN author who wants to get rid of a module, this might be a good time to contact Neil! -------------- ============= Fundraising Liberate a powerful, popular CMS written in Perl to compete with WordPress and create demand for Perl skills. http://kck.st/Vz8659 Scott Walters is looking to fund further development of WebGUI, the Perl-based Content Management System. -------------- ============= Grants Grants Committee 2014 first half http://bit.ly/Vz865a A few notes of Makoto Nozaki, the head of the Grants Committee -------------- Grants Cancellation http://bit.ly/Vz84u1 Both the YACT and, to my great surprise the Pinto grants were canceled. Unfortunately without any explanation. -------------- Unofficial information about The Perl Foundation Grants http://bit.ly/Vz84u2 Collected data about the Grants TPF gave between 2010 and 2014. Including all forms of grants, 'General TPF Grant', 'Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund', and 'Hague Grants'. -------------- ============= Slides YAPC::NA 2014 Talk Slides http://bit.ly/Vz84u7 Dave Rolsky has posted his slides, including the ones he used for his Intro to Moose class, a lightning talk titled 'Stepford, a Thing Sort of Like Make', and the his Date with Perl ("http://bit.ly/Vz84u5"). -------------- ============= Videos YAPC::NA videos http://bit.ly/Vz84u8 Last week I had to send a second edition just to let you know about the live feed of the YAPC::NA. It was great to watch some of the talks live but, you probably did not have time to watch all of them. Luckily the videos are already on YouTube and by now they have been added to PerlTV site as well. You can watch them here. -------------- Computer science for the self taught hacker http://bit.ly/Vz84ub 21 min video overing subject such as 'complexity', big-O notation, sorting algorithms, and more. -------------- Perl Platform as a Service Shootout http://bit.ly/Vz84Kr 22 min video: How easy is it to publish a Perl-based application on Heroku and on dotCloud? -------------- TPF Year in Review - 2014 http://bit.ly/Vz84Ku 11 min with Dan Wright, the treasurer of The Perl Foundation. -------------- ============= Perl 6 What I've been working on, and what's coming up http://bit.ly/Vz84KB Jonathan Worthington, one of the key core developers of Perl 6 who also gives great presentations ("http://bit.ly/Vz86lB"), gives us some insite into his plans: Asynchronous Bits, MoarVM's dynamic optimizer, JIT Compilation for MoarVM, and various Rakudo fixes an optimizations. -------------- ============= Weekly collections 2014.25: optimizations, more CPAN, more GSoC, YAPC::NA, and a release. http://bit.ly/Vz84KC The Perl 6 weekly -------------- MetaCPAN weekly report - RapidApp & Test::RequiresInternet http://bit.ly/Vz84KF -------------- StackOverflow Perl report http://bit.ly/Vz850V -------------- ============= Events Perl::Dancer Conference 2014 http://bit.ly/Vz86lK October 8-9, 2014 in Hancock, NY with two training days before the conference. -------------- Remnants of a Deeper YAPC http://bit.ly/Vz86lN Buddy Burden nicely tells his story attending YAPC::NA 2014. If you could not attend, but would like to get the feeling a bit, this might be a good starting point. -------------- Perl-related events http://bit.ly/1bkDys0 In the following cities: Granada (ES), Sofia (BG), Tokyo (JP), Fl?rli Olten (CH), Hancock (NY/USA), 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. You can freely redistribute this message if you keep the whole message intact, including the Copyright notice and this text. If you don't want to receive mails any more you can unsubscribe here: http://perlweekly.com/unsubscribe.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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