[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #165 - Perl 5.20.1 released

Mon Sep 22 00:59:09 PDT 2014

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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.
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  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.
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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?
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  Test diagnostic messages using diag, note, and explain
  http://bit.ly/1uvMO3o

  Explaining diag(), note() and explain() that come with Test::More
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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.
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  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.
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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.
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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.
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  Template Toolkit's DEFAULT directive does not short-circuit
  http://bit.ly/1qZ9paC

  A pitfall in how Template::Toolkit works.
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  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().
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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?
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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.
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  Server move - phase 1
  http://bit.ly/1qZ9paI

  Some of the MetaCPAN servers have moved.
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  "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"). 
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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?
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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.
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  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.
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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.
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Weekly collections

  (cli) stackoverflow perl report
  http://bit.ly/1qZ9s6j

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  (cxxvi) metacpan weekly report - Object::Util
  http://bit.ly/1qZ9s6k

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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.
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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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  First Perl::Dancer conference soon
  http://bit.ly/1qZ9s6q

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