From yanick at babyl.ca Sun Oct 12 23:05:48 2014 From: yanick at babyl.ca (Yanick Champoux) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 06:05:48 +0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #168 - Some Berry Good News For Windows Users Message-ID: <20141013060548.9AAEEC725@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/168.html This week we have something that is bound to make our Windows-using brethren happy: berrybrew, a perlbrew/plenv equivalent for Strawberry Perl, by David Farrell. We also have a few nice grant reports. And, in the everlasting fun department, Sinan's playing with quines lead to dark archaeological discoveries about 'open' and 'autodie'. Enjoy! Oh, and if you are based in Canada, happy Thanksgiving! ~ `/anick Sponsors We are Hiring a Senior Perl Software Developer - Grant Street Group http://bit.ly/1rM04mw We are a growing software company using open source software/modern Perl practices to build innovative e-payment, auction, and tax collection web applications. We are looking for talented, motivated professionals committed to flawless work and customer service. -------------- ============= Announcements Hello berrybrew, the Strawberry Perl version manager http://bit.ly/ZWbE3C Windows users, prepare to squeal in glee. David Farrell introduces his berrybrew, a Strawberry Perl version manager (think perlbrew/plenv, but for the Windows platform). -------------- ============= Articles 10 ways of implementing Polymorphism http://bit.ly/ZWbE3D Caleb Cushing reviews the -- fittingly -- many ways that can be used to implement polymorphism. -------------- ============= Testing Travis-CI Helpers for Perl http://bit.ly/ZWbCbW Want to harness the full power of Travis-CI for your Perl projects? Graham Knop has a few helper tools that will assist you on your quest for the Continuous Integration Grail. -------------- ============= 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: Multiple expected values - testing dice http://bit.ly/1xIO2uk How can you test a function such as dice() that is expected to return a whole number between 1 and 6? How not to test it? -------------- Implementing 'is_any' to test multiple expected values http://bit.ly/1xIO2KE Refactoring the test script, creating a test function. -------------- ============= Code Building Ansible Modules with Perl and Mojolicious http://bit.ly/1xIO2KG Ansible is one of those snazzy tools that automate the installation and management of software/configuration/all the things on armies of machines. It's written in Python, but works well with components written in anything else. Marcus Ramberg shows us how his Perl scripts interfaces with it using Mojolicious. -------------- Elasticsearch Custom Scoring http://bit.ly/1xIO2KI Elasticsearch default scoring doesn't quite do it for your special case? Despair not, for Mateu shows us here how to tweak the scoring algorithm in any way we want. -------------- Why was documentation for open FILEHANDLE removed from perlfunc? http://bit.ly/ZWbCbZ Mistake, or sinister conspiracy to mask Perl's terrible secrets? Sinan Unur unearthed hidden lore about the 'open' function from Perl's git history. -------------- A bug in Perl's autodie http://bit.ly/ZWbE3J While crafting a Perl quine, Sinan Unur came across a very peculiar corner case bug of autodie. -------------- The Hacker News API http://bit.ly/ZWbEjX Neil Bowers released a Perl interface to the Hacker News API. It's new, it's basic but, and that's the important part, it's there and working; patches will eventually take care of the rest. -------------- Synchronizing Opera bookmarks with Perl, Org, and git http://bit.ly/ZWbEjY A little bit of glue can do wonders to tie systems together. Here, perlancar shows us a script he's using to turn his browser's bookmarks in a git-monitored syncable Org document. -------------- ============= Fun How does open 0; print <0>; turn every Perl program into a quine? http://bit.ly/ZWbCc3 In the scientific world "now that's funny..." usually announces a major breakthrough. In the Perl world, as Sinan Unur illustrates, it's typically a harbinger of golfing fun. -------------- ============= Grants Tony Cook's Grant Extended http://bit.ly/ZWbEjZ Tony Cook will be able to dedicate 400 more hours on the noble task of maintaining Perl 5, Karen Pauley reports. -------------- Final TPF Devel::Cover grant report http://bit.ly/ZWbEk2 Paul Johnson reports on his awesome Devel::Cover work (tl;dr? just go to cpancover.com ("http://bit.ly/1jtIgHM") and stare at the covered beauty of it all). -------------- ============= Perl 6 2014.40: Weekly changes in and around Perl 6 http://bit.ly/ZWbEk3 timotimo reviews what happened in the world of Perl6 this week. -------------- ============= Weekly collections StackOverflow Perl report http://bit.ly/ZWbCsk -------------- MetaCPAN Weekly Report - Mojo::Pg http://bit.ly/ZWbEk5 -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials Which Perl modules are loaded in memory? http://bit.ly/ZWbEk6 Explaining %INC. -------------- MetaCPAN Task::Kensho http://bit.ly/ZWbCsl Screencast about Task::Kensho, the list of recommended modules. -------------- ============= Events Perl-related events http://bit.ly/1bkDys0 In the following cities: Barcelona (Spain), London (UK), Pittsburgh (PA/USA), Helsinki (Finland), Paris (France) -------------- ============= You joined the Perl Weekly to get weekly e-mails about the Perl programming language and related topics. 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