[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #163 - Roadmap/plan for Perl 5?
Gabor Szabo
gabor at szabgab.com
Sun Sep 7 23:19:02 PDT 2014
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Hi there,
there was a very interesting thread on the Perl 5 Porters mailing list
about the future of Perl. Worth looking at it.
There were also a surprisingly big number of reports about the Swiss Perl
Workshop. (see at the bottom.) I am really glad about it even though I
could not go :-(
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Articles
Marpa has a new web site
http://bit.ly/1oWTMKa
.. on the web site of Ron Savage.
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The art of interviewing programmers, the fizzbuzz test, the white board and other thoughts
http://bit.ly/1oWTMKd
Not exactly Perl specific, but Alexis Sukrieh has some good point for the
interviewers. Of course if you are looking to be employed by a good firm,
you might also want to read this to see the reasoning behind some of the
interview questions and processes. For example: Who the hell needs to be
able to program at a whiteboard?
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Discussion
Roadmap/plan for Perl 5?
http://bit.ly/1oWTMKj
Recently there was a thread on the p5p mailing list discussing the topic.
I'd suggest reading the whole thread, but if you don't have time, this
("http://bit.ly/1oWTOBO") might explain how p5p, the Perl 5 Porters
currently work. IMHO it would be great to have a centralized place where
people who actively work on perl core could list their TODO items, break
them down into smaller steps, and let others, who might have time, to
join in implementing specific steps needed to accomplish that TODO item.
A roadmap of many individual roads. Maybe an enhanced (I am not sure in
what way though) version of the current TODO list
("http://bit.ly/1oWTMKh"). Maybe including the names of the people who
consider each item as their personal goal with links to RT tickets and
branches where the work already happens.
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Code
I hate unpacking sub calls with shift
http://bit.ly/1oWTMKo
Vytas Dauksa rants about certain ways of parameter unpacking. He hates code
that uses 'shift' there. Why not use 'pop' too then he argues. The reply
is not waiting long. Toby Inkster mentions he would use pop if it was
necessary.
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Web
Mojolicious: Do It For The Candy!
http://bit.ly/1oWTMKp
Joel Berger is extracting 'Ooooh's and 'Aaaah's from onlookers by showing
off some of the capabilities of Mojolicious: WebSocket, UserAgent, eval,
testing.
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CPAN
What's new on CPAN August 2014
http://bit.ly/1oWTOBY
The, already traditional monthly round-up of David Farrell listing a number
of new CPAN modules.
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What you need to know about CPAN
http://bit.ly/1oWTN0G
A skeleton of an article explaining CPAN to users, contributors, and (would
be) module authors.
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Planet Moose - August 2014
http://bit.ly/1oWTN0J
The monthly collection of Object Oriented news by Toby Inkster.
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Urging users with good test suites to test-drive latest DBIx::Class trial
http://bit.ly/1oWTN0S
This is that time of the year again when Peter Rabbitson (Ribasushi) is
getting ready for a new release of DBIx::Class and he wants to be sure it
will work for you! So if you use DBIx::Class in an application, and
especially if you have good test suite, then this is a very good time to
test it with the upcoming release candidate.
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Some MetaCPAN advanced search tricks using prefixes
http://bit.ly/1oWTOSr
Do you know how to search for modules with 'Middleware' in their name? How
to find all the modules that are version 0.01 ? Maybe combine the two?
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Fun
Instant podcasts, in 50 lines of perl
http://bit.ly/1oWTOSs
David Cantrell implements in 50 lines of clean(!) perl what the other
application does in 1,300 lines of PHP. True, he uses a few CPAN modules,
but hey, loading them also adds to the line count!
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Grants
Call for Grant Proposals (September round)
http://bit.ly/1oWTN0X
The Perl Foundation is waiting for your grant proposals till 14th
September.
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Slides
The Whitespace in the Perl Community
http://bit.ly/1oWTOSt
As I understand from other sources, the 'whitespaces' meant by brian d foy
in his talk are the places where the Perl community has some kind of a
hole to be filled. For example a module implementing the API of a public
service. Though I am not sure. I wish I also heard the talk, not just
seen the slides.
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Windows
Enlightened Perl Organization sponsors Strawberry Perl
http://bit.ly/1oWTP8P
The Strawberry Perl on Windows project requires a build server. It had one
sponsored in the past 12 months by Auditsquare ("http://bit.ly/1oWTNhc"),
but for the coming year kmx, the project maintainer has published a call
to support Strawberry Perl ("http://bit.ly/1oWTP8O"). Mark Keating
quickly jumped on the call and paid for the server for the next year.
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Weekly collections
(cxlix) stackoverflow perl report
http://bit.ly/1oWTNhg
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(cxxiv) metacpan weekly report - Pry
http://bit.ly/1oWTP8Q
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Perl Maven Tutorials
Check several regexes on many strings
http://bit.ly/1oWTP8R
What if you a bunch of regexes and you would like to filter the lines of a
file that match all of there regexes? (article + screencast.)
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Event reports
My first YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference)
http://bit.ly/1oWTNhk
Upasana Shukla went to her first YAPC in Bulgaria. She managed to list the
names of a lot of people. I wonder what would have happened if she had
better memory?
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YAPC::EU 2014
http://bit.ly/1oWTP92
Xing was at YAPC EU in Bulgaria Kerstin Puschke reports.
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Day One At the Swiss Perl Workshop
http://bit.ly/1oWTNhn
Report written by byterock.
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Day Two At the Swiss Perl Workshop
http://bit.ly/1oWTP93
Report written by byterock.
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back from Swiss Perl Workshop 2014
http://bit.ly/1oWTNhr
Laurent Dami was skeptical about the Swiss Perl Workshop.
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Second Swiss Perl Workshop - Perfect Location
http://bit.ly/1oWTP95
Tobi Oetiker even took a picture to proove it was fun!
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A Newbie is Sent in YAPC::ASIA
http://bit.ly/1oWTPpi
Pattawan Kaewduangdee went to Tokyo in the Send-A-Newbie program. Here is
what she saw.
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Events
Perl-related events
http://bit.ly/1bkDys0
In the following cities: Hancock (NY/USA), Itapema (SC/Brasil), Salzburg
(Austria), Barcelona (Spain), London (UK)
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YAPC::EU 2015 from 2nd to 4th September
http://bit.ly/1oWTPpl
It's almost a year from now, but if you are interested, mark it in your
calendar now! (Remember, it is in Granada, Spain. Even if you don't care
about Perl, it's a good excuse.)
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