[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #168 - Some Berry Good News For Windows Users

Sun Oct 12 23:05:48 PDT 2014

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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.
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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).
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Articles

  10 ways of implementing Polymorphism
  http://bit.ly/ZWbE3D

  Caleb Cushing reviews the -- fittingly -- many ways that can be used to
  implement polymorphism.
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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.
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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:

  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?
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  Implementing 'is_any' to test multiple expected values
  http://bit.ly/1xIO2KE

  Refactoring the test script, creating a test function.
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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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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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.
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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.
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  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).
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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.
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Weekly collections

  StackOverflow Perl report
  http://bit.ly/ZWbCsk

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  MetaCPAN Weekly Report - Mojo::Pg
  http://bit.ly/ZWbEk5

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Perl Maven Tutorials

  Which Perl modules are loaded in memory?
  http://bit.ly/ZWbEk6

  Explaining %INC.
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  MetaCPAN Task::Kensho
  http://bit.ly/ZWbCsl

  Screencast about Task::Kensho, the list of recommended modules.
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Events

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

  In the following cities: Barcelona (Spain), London (UK), Pittsburgh
  (PA/USA), Helsinki (Finland), Paris (France)
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