[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #161 - Yet Another YAPC Properly Concluded
Gabor Szabo
gabor at szabgab.com
Sun Aug 24 23:31:32 PDT 2014
Perl Weekly
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As we speak, the 2014 edition of YAPC::EU came and went. Already we have
some blog entries reporting on the event, as well as the announcement that
Granada, Spain will be where the 2015 edition will be held. Also this week,
Toby Inkster goes all out in a series of blog entries revealing all the
awesome secrets of Type::Tiny. Enjoy! ~ `/anick
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Announcements
Dancer2 0.150000 has been released
http://bit.ly/1t5BNbY
Dancer2 has a new release out, codenamed "LoonyPandora" in honor of
contributor and friend James Aitken who recently passed away. This
release comes with some pretty substantial changes dealing with the main
context object and the way Dancer and PSGI apps relate to each other.
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New Grant Manager
http://bit.ly/1t5BOwq
Makoto Nozaki announces that Mark Jensen has joined the Perl Foundation
Grants Committee has a grant manager.
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Swiss Perl Workshop -2 Weeks
http://bit.ly/1t5BOwt
Sad that YAPC::EU is over? Don't be! The Swiss Perl Workshop is happening
in two weeks.
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Articles
Who has the best package manager? Part one
http://bit.ly/1t5BOwu
We all know: the language is only half of the story. The other half is the
vast ecosystem of add-ons, modules, plugins or packages. David Farrell
explores how the package managers of Perl, PHP, Python, Node.js and Ruby
fare against each other.
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Discussion
The last few GSoC commits (Pencils down)
http://bit.ly/1t5BNc1
The Google Summer of Code is winding down. Talina Shrotriya gives us her
last thoughts as she enters the last week of the program.
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OPW Ending for Beginning
http://bit.ly/1t5BOwA
The 2014 edition of the Outreach Program for Women is now over. Pattawan
gives us here her last report for it, as well as what the near future has
in stock for her.
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YAPC::Europe Day 1
http://bit.ly/1t5BOwB
Léon Brocard reports on the first day of YAPC::EU.
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YAPC::Europe 2014, day 1
http://bit.ly/1t5BOwD
Perl blogger Tobez reports from the YAPC::EU front-line.
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YAPC::Europe 2014, day 2
http://bit.ly/1t5BNsn
Tobez reports on day 2 of YAPC::EU.
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YAPC::Europe Day 2
http://bit.ly/1t5BNso
Leon Brocard narrates his second YAPC::EU day.
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Please don't use ::Tiny unless it meets the ::Tiny criteria, thanks!
http://bit.ly/1t5BOMU
Dan Muey would like not to see the ::Tiny namespace get out of hand.
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Testing
CPAN Testers: CPAN Testers Summary - July 2014 - Imaginos
http://bit.ly/1t5BOMX
Barbie summarizes what happened in the world of Perl testing in July.
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Mock Testing Net::Gnats
http://bit.ly/1t5BOMY
Offline testing of modules interfacing with external services is always
tricky. Richard Elberger shares his adventures in mocking the external
components of Net::Gnats.
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Testing Dancer Applications
http://bit.ly/1t5BOMZ
Yanick compares a few of the modules available to test Dancer/Dancer2
applications.
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Code
Language design: Exploiting ambiguity
http://bit.ly/1t5BON2
Jeffrey Kegler talks about Marpa, and how it can deals with ambiguous
grammar definitions.
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File::Which comes with its own 'multiwhich'
http://bit.ly/1t5BNss
Sinan Unur released App::multiswitch last week-end, as part of CPAN Day.
Later on, he realized he might have reinvented a wheel already included
in File::Which's trunk. Oops.
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Type::Tiny Tricks #2: Types Are Objects
http://bit.ly/1t5BONb
Toby Inkster points out that Type::Tiny types are objects by themselves,
and can be used outside of attribute definitions for, e.g., validate any
value you might care for.
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Type::Tiny Tricks #3: One-off Coercions
http://bit.ly/1t5BP3t
So you have a generic type, and one attribute is kinda of that type, but
also could be coerced from a value in a special, snowflaky unique way?
Toby Inkster shows you how Type::Tiny deals with those one-off special
cases.
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Let's talk about Time::Moment and round-trip of strings
http://bit.ly/1t5BNsy
Christian Hansen takes a moment (haw, haw, ... okay, I'm sorry) to discuss
the round-trip parsing speed of this new time module. And it's pretty
darn fast.
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Perfect Hashes and faster than memcmp
http://bit.ly/1t5BNsA
A simple hash won't do? Don't worry: Reini Urban has *perfect* hashes for
you.
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Type::Tiny Tricks #4: Inlined Type Constraints
http://bit.ly/1t5BNIQ
Toby Inkster
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Type::Tiny Tricks #5: Wrapping Moose/Mouse Type Constraints
http://bit.ly/1t5BNIT
Toby Inkster demonstrates how to have a peek on the validation of any
defined type is done.
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Type::Tiny Tricks #6: Tricks with Tuples
http://bit.ly/1t5BNIU
For types that are arrays of specific sizes, Type::Tiny has the concept of
'Tuples'. Toby Inkster shows how to use them.
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Type::Tiny Tricks #7: Tricks with Dicts
http://bit.ly/1t5BNIV
Type::Tiny, this small fountain of marvels, refines the definition of hash
into two types: maps and dictionaries. Toby Inkster shows here when and
how they apply.
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Perl Maven Tutorials
How to break lines with max width? (wrap)
http://bit.ly/1t5BNIY
Splitting a string into pieces with a max length but without breaking up
words. Manually and using Text::Wrap. (article + screencast)
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Weekly collections
StackOverflow Perl report
http://bit.ly/1t5BP3G
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MetaCPAN Weekly Report - Type::Tiny
http://bit.ly/1t5BNIZ
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Events
Perl-related events
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In the following cities: Tokyo (Japan), Flörli Olten (Switzerland), Hancock
(NY/USA), Itapema (SC/Brasil), Salzburg (Austria), Barcelona (Spain),
London (UK)
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