[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #162 - Back to School!

Sun Aug 31 23:18:34 PDT 2014

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Hi,

this is the first day of school in many countries and kids roam the streets
determined to improve their knowledge. Or at least to meet some friends
they have not seen for a while.

It's a bit like a New Year. You can have all kinds of 'resolutions'. I hope
we'll see tons of new and exciting articles about Perl, and how it is used
to solve various 'real-world' problems.

Oh and the Swiss Perl Workshop ("http://act.perl-workshop.ch/") is this
week-end!

Enjoy! ~szabgab

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Articles

  The 11 Most useful Perl sites
  http://bit.ly/1zZxGNn

  It started out as a reminder of rarely used, but important sites, but
  turned into a list much longer than the title suggests.
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  Data::Dumper Debugging
  http://bit.ly/1zZxFJs

  Pry, the new tool from Toby Inkster, allows you to stop execution of a
  script and drop in a REPL at the 'point of interest' of your choice.
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Discussion

  Replacing hash keys with values does not a translation make
  http://bit.ly/1zZxGNq

  Sinan Unur (Sinan) thinks the Turkish translation of the Perl Maven pages
  actually harm would-be programmers. Naturally I disagree, but he has a
  point: Bad translations can indeed harm people. The only thing I can do
  is to suggest to collaborate with other translators to improve the text.
  It is available in GitHub ("http://bit.ly/1zZxFJt") 
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  Context dependence in Turkish
  http://bit.ly/1zZxFZJ

  As a follow-up to the previous post, and after patching the Turkish
  translation, Sinan goes on discussing context sensitivity in the Turkish
  language.
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Testing

  Continous Integration with Travis CI and Github for Distzillians
  http://bit.ly/1zZxGNr

  You can configure your GitHub repositories to run your test automatically
  every time you push out code or even if someone sends a pull-request. By
  this you can have our module tested on various versions of perl long
  before you release a new version. Very useful!
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Code

  I learn something about tell(), then abuse it.
  http://bit.ly/1zZxGNs

  brian d foy answer the question "How do I add the elements of a file to a
  second one as columns using Perl?"
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  Facing the music with Perl
  http://bit.ly/1zZxGNt

  Collecting meta-data from music files after making sure they are unique.
  Code with explanation by brian d foy.
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CPAN

  Yearly boards and fallen authors
  http://bit.ly/1zZxFZN

  Philippe Bruhat (BooK) likes games and now with his new site, cpan.io, he
  has a lot of new ground to create competitions. This one is showing how
  long each person will release a CPAN module every week within a year. A
  major limitation that I can see is that this board only handles years
  according to the Gregorian calendar. In any case this is for the CPAN
  heavy-weights. If you have ideas for other competitions to encourage more
  ad-hoc contributions, or if you have any other idea, please open a ticket
  ("http://bit.ly/1zZxGNw")!
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  Link to public version control system (GitHub or otherwise)
  http://bit.ly/1zZxFZP

  Having the META files include a link to your public VCS will let MetaCPAN
  to link to it and will make it easier for others to send patches.
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  Finding all Plack Middleware or Perl::Critic Policies
  http://bit.ly/1zZxH3K

  It is probably just me being too slow to learn this, but apparently you can
  list all the modules in a given name-space by preceding it with
  'module:'. So it is quite easy to list all the Plack::Middleware, all the
  Perl::Critic::Policy modules, or all the plugins for Dancer, Mojolicious,
  or Catalyst.
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Grants

  Outreach Program for Women: Mentor's Summary
  http://bit.ly/1zZxH3R

  Randy Stauner describes his mentoring of Pattawan Kaewduangdee under the
  join The Perl Foundation-GNOME Foundation program for women. She was
  working on MetaCPAN and wrote about it ("http://bit.ly/1zZxFZS")
  regularly.
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Perl 6

  2014.34: chugging along, GSoC is over, YAPC::EU, ...
  http://bit.ly/1zZxFZX

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  Try rakudobrew and play with concurrency
  http://bit.ly/1zZxH3S

  Apparently, Ovid got excited by recent improvement in Rakudo, tried it and
  even wrote about it. Moore's law is coming to an end. Easy-ish threading
  is the solution.
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  Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2014.08
  http://bit.ly/1zZxH3T

  This release comes with support for the MoarVM backend along with
  experimental support for the JVM backend.
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Training

  Announcing our Q4 Request Tracker Training: Los Angeles, California
  http://bit.ly/1zZxH3V

  In Los Angeles, CA on November 4-5, 2014
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Weekly collections

  (cxxiii) metacpan weekly report - Type::Tiny
  http://bit.ly/1zZxIVm

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  (cxlviii) stackoverflow perl report
  http://bit.ly/1zZxIVn

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Events

  Things I learned at YAPC::Europe 2014 in Sofia
  http://bit.ly/1zZxH3Y

  Thomas Klausner (domm) is back from his visit to Bulgaria and he apparently
  learned quite a few things there.
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  YAPC::EU videos start appearing online
  http://bit.ly/1zZxIVo

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  Perl-related events
  http://bit.ly/1bkDys0

  In the following cities: Flörli Olten (Switzerland), Hancock (NY/USA),
  Itapema (SC/Brasil), Salzburg (Austria), Barcelona (Spain), London (UK)
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