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From: neil at bowers.com (Neil Bowers)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 07:53:05 +0000
Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #170 - Last day for LPW submissions!
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Hi,
Lots of videos for you to watch this week, particularly those from the
Austrian Perl Workshop, held recently.
You might have noticed that MetaCPAN had a bumpy week, the result of a move
to new hardware in a different data centre, hopefully settled now. Olaf
tells me they're always looking for volunteers, want to help out?
Think carefully before giving feedback to Gabor on the Perl Weekly —
you might find yourself an editor!
Editor #3, Neil
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Tools
Uni - find or display Unicode characters
http://bit.ly/ZSyZ5b
Rik Signes has (re)written a handy little tool for finding unicode
characters, called uni. Fork it on github ("http://bit.ly/ZSyYOT") or get
App::Uni ("http://bit.ly/ZSyZ57") from CPAN. It was a rewrite of a tool
of the same name written by Audrey Tang.
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A clone of search.cpan.org
http://bit.ly/1wAKefF
Gabor Szabo has started an open source clone of search.cpan.org,
sco.perlmaven.com ("http://bit.ly/1wAKefE"), which is built on MetaCPAN's
API.
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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:
Organizing a test script with subtests
http://bit.ly/ZSMulq
When the number of your tests grow beyond 10 it might be a good time to
split them up into subtests.
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Getting started - Create skeleton for the SCO clone application
http://bit.ly/ZSMuSx
This is the first episode explainig how to build the search.cpan.org clone.
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Videos
Austrian Perl workshop videos
http://bit.ly/1wAKfjJ
Videos from the recent Austrian Perl workshop are now on youtube. See Marko
Jozic talking about Bootstrap and Dancer 2 for newbies; Tim Bunce on
Devel::NYTProf; Stefan Seifert on Inline::Perl5; Paul Johnson on Docker;
Lars Dieckow on HTTP tricks, and some guy called Larry.
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Asynchronous Programming with Futures
http://bit.ly/1wAKfjL
Watch Paul Evans's talk from YAPC::EU, about his Future
("http://bit.ly/1wAKfjK") module on CPAN.
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What Do Managerless Companies Look Like?
http://bit.ly/1wAKfjN
Ovid posted a link to the video of his opening keynote from YAPC::EU this
year, also on YouTube.
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Awards (of fame and fortune)
White camel awards 2014
http://bit.ly/1wAKfA0
brian d foy has called for nominations for this year's White Camel Awards,
which are given for non-technical achievement in Perl and the Perl
community. Add comments to the blog post, email brian, or tweet under
#whitecamelaward.
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Inline::C(PP) grant first weekly report
http://bit.ly/1wAKew0
Ingy and David have started a blog about their work on Inline::C and
Inline::CPP which was awarded a grant. This week is mainly about
bootstrapping themselves.
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Language
Perl 5.21.5
http://bit.ly/1wAKfA1
Abigail did October's development release of Perl 5, which includes: the
new 'double diamond' operator <<>>; aliasing of subroutines
and variables; and more!
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Stop using indirect object notation
http://bit.ly/1wAKfA4
Ovid had a mini rant on twitter, begging people to stop using indirect
object notation ($object = new Class;). Paul Johnson directed
people to a summary of problems with indirect object notation
("http://bit.ly/1wAKfA2") from tchrist, 16 years ago!
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Perl's versatile split function
http://bit.ly/1wAKew6
David Farrell looks at some of the ways you can use the split()
built-in.
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Computed labels with next, last and redo
http://bit.ly/1wAKfA6
brian d foy shows how you can use computed labels with Perl 5.18+,
letting you write next $label;.
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Perl 6 weekly news
http://bit.ly/1wAKfA9
Timo's list of happenings in Perl 6 also includes a mini report on the
Austrian Perl Workshop.
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Perl5 vs Perl6 vs JS vs PHP
http://bit.ly/1wAKew8
@koorchik compared performance of 4 languages for computing Excel style
formulae: code and results are on github ("http://bit.ly/1wAKew7").
NodeJS solution by far the fastest, PHP and Perl5 similar but an order of
magnitude slower, Perl 6 two orders of magnitude slower again.
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Good looking addresses - solving the "Berlin, Berlin" bug
http://bit.ly/1tYdGxi
Ed Freyfogle explans the problem solved by the new Geo::Address::Formatter
("http://bit.ly/ZSMuSA") module.
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CPAN News
The Bio-Community Perl toolkit for microbial ecology
http://bit.ly/1wAKfAe
Bio-Community ("http://bit.ly/1wAKfAc") is a toolkit that extends BioPerl
to make life easier microbial ecologists. This is based on work by
Florent Angly, Christopher Fields and Gene(!) Tyson.
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Nestoria module of the month: Role::Tiny
http://bit.ly/1wAKfQx
This month the Nestoria team tip their hat to, and tip
("http://bit.ly/1wAKewa") Matt Trout ("http://bit.ly/1wAKfAg") for,
Role::Tiny ("http://bit.ly/1wAKfAi").
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Devel::DidYouMean
http://bit.ly/1wAKewe
David Farrell created Devel::DidYouMean ("http://bit.ly/1wAKewe")
(currently tagged experimental), which “intercepts failed function
and method calls, suggesting the nearest matching available subroutines
in the context in which the erroneous function call was made”. It
was inspired by the did_you_mean ("http://bit.ly/1wAKfQB") ruby gem.
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File::Slurper
http://bit.ly/1wAKfQC
Leon Timmermans released File::Slurper ("http://bit.ly/1wAKfQC"),
previously known as File::Slurp::Sane. It's intended as a replacement for
File::Slurp ("http://bit.ly/1wAKfQF"), which has a number of problems
("http://bit.ly/1wAKeMu").
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Paging Brent B Powers
http://bit.ly/1wAKeMy
Alex is looking for Brent B. Powers, the author of (amongst others)
Tk::FileDialog and Tk::Waitbox. When an author is unresponsive, if you
want to help out by taking over a module, you need to go to appropriate
lengths to track down the author. This is a good time to remind you: when
your email address changes, don't forget to update PAUSE, so people can
keep in touch with you.
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Weekly collections
Stackoverflow perl report
http://bit.ly/1wAKfQH
The ten most rated Perl questions on stackoverflow last week.
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MetaCPAN favourites
http://bit.ly/1wAKfQJ
Newly favourited and most favourited distributions on MetaCPAN.
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Perl Maven Tutorials
search.cpan.org: Authors, Recent, FAQ, Feedback
http://bit.ly/1wAKeMz
A screencast from Gabor which demonstrates search.cpan.org
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MetaCPAN URLs and Issues
http://bit.ly/1wAKfQL
Gabor explains some of MetaCPAN's URL schemes, for getting the latest page
for a module and distribution.
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Events
The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop
http://bit.ly/1wAKfQM
The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is at the Doubletree Hotel, 8th & 9th of
November.
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London Perl Workshop
http://bit.ly/1o0ctvT
The London Perl Worshop is at Westminster University on Saturday 8th
November. The deadline for submissions has been extended to 23:59 on
Monday 27th October. Why not submit a lightning talk!
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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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Not Perl, but may be of interest
The npm registry roadmap
http://bit.ly/1wAKeMD
npm is the equivalent of CPAN for node.js. This blog post gives some usage
stats and plans for the future.
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Pro Git book 2nd edition
http://bit.ly/1wAKeME
The second edition of the Pro Git book, by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub, is
now availble online, in PDF, mobi, or ePub format for free. You can buy a
printed copy from your usual place.
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