From gabor at szabgab.com Mon Sep 22 00:59:09 2014 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 07:59:09 +0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #165 - Perl 5.20.1 released Message-ID: <20140922075909.48F2AD08F@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/165.html Hi, for some of you this might be old news, but the 5.20 series of perl got its first bug-fix release. It is available in source code format and for Windows users the Strawberry Perl release is recommended. Enjoy your week with your new version of Perl! ~szabgab Announcements Perl 5.20.1 is now available! http://bit.ly/1qZ9oU9 As usual, without any announcement outside of the Perl 5 Porters mailing list, the newest stable version of Perl has been released. -------------- Strawberry Perl for Windows 5.20.1.1 released http://bit.ly/1qZ9oUa Soon after the official release by the Perl 5 Porters, kmx has released Strawberry Perl for Windows which core Perl + a bunch of interesting modules. -------------- ============= Perl Maven Pro The Perl Maven Pro ("http://perlmaven.com/pro") subscribers receive two new articles and screencasts every week. The last week these were the two screencasts: TODO - testing a bug or a future feature http://bit.ly/1qZ9pYe Have you ever implemented a test for a bug just to find out the bug won't be fixed in the current release? What do you do with the failing test then? -------------- Test diagnostic messages using diag, note, and explain http://bit.ly/1uvMO3o Explaining diag(), note() and explain() that come with Test::More -------------- ============= Articles Revitalizing the Perl Power Tools http://bit.ly/1uvMLo7 The Perl Power Tools that is also known as the Unix Reconstruction Project has not been maintained for quite some time. Now brian d foy takes it into his hands. -------------- Easily check your IP address with Perl http://bit.ly/1uvMOjJ David Farrell uses HTTP::Tiny and WWW::curlmyip to fetch the IP address as seen by the curlmyip.com site and then uses Geo::IP to map it to a city. -------------- ============= Testing Understanding Behavior Driven Development http://bit.ly/1qZ9pYk Ovid, who knows quite a bit about testing and Agile software development has just started to like BDD and Cucumber. He shows what is a good and a bad 'story' and how the good 'story' can be easily expressed in Test::Cukes, the Perl implementation of Cucumber. -------------- ============= Code Releasing NAP::Policy to the world http://bit.ly/1qZ9oUn The various bits and pieces Net-A-Porter is using to standardize their Perl code. A pragma module, a set of Perl::Critic policies etc. -------------- Template Toolkit's DEFAULT directive does not short-circuit http://bit.ly/1qZ9paC A pitfall in how Template::Toolkit works. -------------- Object::Util http://bit.ly/1qZ9qeG A set of handy methods for working with classes and objects in Perl created by Toby Inkster. These are weird methods, all starting with a $-sign such as $class->$_new(%args) and $object->$_clone(). -------------- ============= Web New Perl Catalyst Development Branch "Holland" Now Open http://bit.ly/1qZ9paG For the new release John Napiorkowski has moved the issues from Questhub to Github. You can also get an explanation why is this release called after a chicken? -------------- ============= CPAN Encourage user participation via a single-line patch to your dist metadata http://bit.ly/1qZ9paH Are you a module authors? MetaCPAN can now drive visitors directly to the IRC channel where you provide support. Ribasushi explains what do you need to add to your META files in order to enable this feature. -------------- Server move - phase 1 http://bit.ly/1qZ9paI Some of the MetaCPAN servers have moved. -------------- "I Do Not Want To Use Any Modules" http://bit.ly/1qZ9paM Every day Dave Cross encounters someone who want to solve some problem without installing any module from CPAN. Here he tries to explain why is that a broken idea. IMHO the problem is that many people 'in the Perl community' (see elsewhere) are busy showing why the others are wrong, instead of trying to understand the real reasons behind not wanting to deal with third-party modules. See also the Reddit discussion ("http://bit.ly/1qZ9paJ"). -------------- ============= Fun What is "the Perl community"? http://bit.ly/1qZ9qvd Neil Bowers tries to answer the above question, with drawings of layered onions and radiating suns, but I think there is another question: Why does it matter? -------------- ============= Act Hackathon patch -p2 http://bit.ly/1qZ9paR The next edition of the French Perl Hackathon will be held in Lyon, from November 27 to November 30, 2014. The focus of this Hackathon is Act, the web application running most of the YAPCs and Perl Workshops. -------------- Support the "Fund for Act development" http://bit.ly/1qZ9qvg Some of the people who would like to attend the Act Hackathon in Lyon will need help in financing their trip. This is your chance to help. -------------- ============= Other Code::Maven http://bit.ly/1qZ9qvh This is a new project by yours truly (szabgab), to statically analyze source code, to display in interesting ways, to collect 'common practices', to build an index of code expressions etc. It is at a very early stage, but if you are interested, you can follow the blog. -------------- ============= Weekly collections (cli) stackoverflow perl report http://bit.ly/1qZ9s6j -------------- (cxxvi) metacpan weekly report - Object::Util http://bit.ly/1qZ9s6k -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials Using Travis-CI and installing Geo::IP on Linux and OSX Travis-CI Geo::IP http://bit.ly/1qZ9s6n Installing Geo::IP always involved several failed attempts for me, but that should not be the case any more. This article describes the steps to install Geo::IP. It also provides the rules you can add to your .travis.yml if your GitHub repository depends on Geo::IP. -------------- ============= Events Perl-related events http://bit.ly/1bkDys0 In the following cities: Hancock (NY/USA), Itapema (SC/Brasil), Salzburg (Austria), Barcelona (Spain), London (UK) -------------- First Perl::Dancer conference soon http://bit.ly/1qZ9s6q -------------- ============= 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. 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