From neil at bowers.com Mon Oct 27 00:53:05 2014 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! Message-ID: <20141027075305.5C79AC560@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/170.html 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 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. -------------- ============= 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. -------------- 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. -------------- ============= 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. -------------- 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. -------------- ============= 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. -------------- 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. -------------- 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. -------------- ============= 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. -------------- 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. -------------- ============= 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! -------------- 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! -------------- Perl's versatile split function http://bit.ly/1wAKew6 David Farrell looks at some of the ways you can use the split() built-in. -------------- 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;. -------------- 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. -------------- 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. -------------- 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. -------------- ============= 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. -------------- 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"). -------------- 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. -------------- 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"). -------------- 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. -------------- ============= Weekly collections Stackoverflow perl report http://bit.ly/1wAKfQH The ten most rated Perl questions on stackoverflow last week. -------------- MetaCPAN favourites http://bit.ly/1wAKfQJ Newly favourited and most favourited distributions on MetaCPAN. -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials search.cpan.org: Authors, Recent, FAQ, Feedback http://bit.ly/1wAKeMz A screencast from Gabor which demonstrates search.cpan.org -------------- 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. -------------- ============= Events The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop http://bit.ly/1wAKfQM The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is at the Doubletree Hotel, 8th & 9th of November. -------------- 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! -------------- Perl-related events http://bit.ly/1bkDys0 In the following cities: Barcelona (Spain), London (UK), Pittsburgh (PA/USA), Helsinki (Finland), Paris (France) -------------- ============= 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. -------------- 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. -------------- ============= 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. 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