[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #179 - Getting ready for New Year's resolution

Mon Dec 29 01:01:56 PST 2014

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Hi,

It is really strange. Now that both Yanick Champoux and  Neil Bowers edit
the Perl Weekly my appearances here got quite rare. I guess for the better.
So let's thank them for this great year! Please, flood their inboxes with
good wishes!

I am really looking for the start of the next year. I have a lot of plans
with my web sites and with my open source applications. Actually I could
not wait and have already started to publish on the Perl 6 Maven site. (See
below.)

Now I don't know what about you, but if you are looking for something that
will put you in some kind of a rhythm, you could join the CPAN Challenge
Neil announced. It is both a great way to contribute back to the open
source code pool of Perl and a great way to improve yourself. (see below).

See you on the other side of New Year's Eve!

Articles

  Regexp::Debugger
  http://blog.twoshortplanks.com/2014/12/29/regexpdebugger/

  An article that was left out from the Perl Advent calendar telling you to
  use Regexp::Debugger because it is awesome!
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Testing

  CPAN Testers Summary - November 2014 - Who Do We Think We Are
  http://blog.cpantesters.org/diary/193

  Links to talks about CPAN Testers at the LPW. Another Metabase overflow. An
  Admin-site bug.
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Web

  Working with Jolly Santa's Outstanding Notes
  http://techblog.babyl.ca/entry/merry-xmas

  This is an Advent Calendar overflow about handling the favorite web-scale
  data structure during the XMas Holidays and after them. The think is,
  that tools like this and articles like this should reach people outside
  the Perl echo chamber.
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  Perl Catalyst 5.90079 Development 004 'Holland' On CPAN
  http://jjnapiorkowski.typepad.com/modern-perl/2014/12/perl-catalyst-590079-development-004-holland-on-cpan.html

  After quite a long silence, finally there is a newly announced version of
  Catalyst. I wonder if one could combine helping Catalyst move forward
  with the Pull-request challenge of Neil Bowers?
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  You have nothing to lose but your chains!
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2014/12/you-have-nothing-to-lose-but-your-chains.html

  Joel explains that there are two different method chaining styles. In one
  case methods return the objects they acted upon allowing the user to call
  another method of the same class. The other one is when a method returns
  an object of some different type so that you can chain a method of that
  object after the first call. I don't see a huge difference, but he gives
  an example for the latter in the Mojolicious world.
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CPAN

  Take the 2015 CPAN Pull Request Challenge
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2014/12/take-the-2015-cpan-pull-request-challenge.html

  It is still not too late to get to the starting line. In order to encourage
  cooperation with other CPAN authors, Neil is organizing a little
  competition: Will you be able to handle it?
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  Speaker for the dead
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/aristotle/2014/12/speaker-for-the-dead.html

  In contrast to the Challenge above, Aristotle shows how he wrapped up and
  deleted a CPAN module that is probably not going to be useful for anyone
  anymore. But maybe...
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  The camel replicates!
  http://g14n.info/2014/12/the-camel-replicates/

  What do you do if the server you need to install CPAN modules to does not
  have Internet access? You create a Mini-CPAN on another machine and then
  somehow transfer it to the server without Internet access.
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Fun

  Newwwwwww QuadCopter!
  http://www.wumpus-cave.net/2014/12/24/newwwwwww-quadcopter/

  No Perl code here, but now that the Wumpus Cave received a new QuadCopter,
  I am expecting lots of new Perl code and articles flying above our heads.
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Grants

  Inline Grant Weekly Report #9
  http://inline.ouistreet.com/node/u2gc.html

  They promised it by Christmas and they have delivered it by Christmas. This
  is the new way to write Perl XS modules. See also their previous progress
  report
  ("http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/12/grant-report-inlinecpp---decem.h
  tml").
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Perl 6

  Rakudo Star Release 2014.12
  http://rakudo.org/2014/12/26/announce-rakudo-star-release-2014-12/

  New release of Rakudo Start - the package that contains the most recent
  version of the Perl 6 compiler, documentation and some extra modules. And
  then a quick update
  ("http://rakudo.org/2014/12/27/update-to-rakudo-star-release-2014-12/")
  with 2014.12.1
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  Installing Rakudo Perl 6
  http://perl6maven.com/tutorial/perl6-installing-rakudo

  After another long break, I have updated the code behind the Perl 6 Maven
  site and started to update the tutorial as well. This is the first page
  showing how to install the newly release Rakudo Star on OSX and Linux.
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Other

  UTF-8 output in cmd.exe: perl 5 vs perl 6
  http://blog.nu42.com/2014/12/utf-8-output-in-cmdexe-perl-5-vs-perl-6.html

  Does Perl 6 think that everything is Unix? Or is it just the current
  version of the implementation?
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Advent Calendars

  The Perl 6 Advent Calendar
  http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/

  The Cool subset of MAIN.
  ("http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/22/the-cool-subset-of-main/"),
  Webscale sorting of the sleepy kind
  ("http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/23/webscale-sorting-of-the-sle
  epy-kind/"), Seeing Wrong Right
  ("http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/24/day-24-seeing-wrong-right/"
  )
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  Perl Advent Calendar 2014 Stats
  http://blog.twoshortplanks.com/2014/12/23/perl-advent-calendar-2014-stats/

  This is a meta article about the Perl Advent Calendar. Most importantly,
  the Elves beat Santa by 44:38.
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  The Perl 5 Advent Calendar
  http://perladvent.org/2014/

  A Holiday PAPR-ation ("http://perladvent.org/2014/2014-12-22.html"), CLDR
  TL;DR ("http://perladvent.org/2014/2014-12-23.html"), Out of Order Perl
  ("http://perladvent.org/2014/2014-12-24.html")
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  Dancer Advent Calendar
  http://advent.perldancer.org/2014

  The Dancer community policy ("http://advent.perldancer.org/2014/22"),
  Dynamic routing in Dancer is dynamic
  ("http://advent.perldancer.org/2014/23"), Past and future
  ("http://advent.perldancer.org/2014/24")
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  Perlancar's advent calendar
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/perlancar/2014/12/perlancars-2014-advent-calendar.html

  Safer system() alternative (Sys::Run::Safer)
  ("http://blogs.perl.org/users/perlancar/2014/12/day-22-safer-system-alter
  native-sysrunsafer.html"), App::chart and Text::chart
  ("http://blogs.perl.org/users/perlancar/2014/12/day-23-appchart-and-textc
  hart.html"), Games!
  ("http://blogs.perl.org/users/perlancar/2014/12/day-24-games.html")
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Weekly collections

  The collections of 
  http://niceperl.blogspot.com/

  CPAN great modules released last week
  ("http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2014/12/viii-cpan-great-modules-released-l
  ast.html"); Metacpan weekly report - Struct::Dumb & Statistics::NiceR
  ("http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2014/12/cxl-metacpan-weekly-report-structd
  umb.html"); Stackoverflow perl report
  ("http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2014/12/clxv-stackoverflow-perl-report.htm
  l") 
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Perl Maven Tutorials

  How to grep a file using Perl
  http://perlmaven.com/how-to-grep-a-file-using-perl

  Writing a Perl replacement of the Unix grep command does not have much
  value, unless you do something much better, or if you want to reimplement
  the Unix commands in Perl. Nevertheless it can be a good exercise, and it
  can be a learning or teaching aid.
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Events

  YAPC::NA::2015 Call for Papers - New Deadline!
  http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/12/yapcna2015-call-for-papers---n.html

  The new deadline is March 1st so you have 2 more month to have a
  last-minute rush of submitting your talk proposal.
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