From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Feb 1 23:04:28 2015 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 07:04:28 +0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #184 - Larry gave his talk at FOSDEM Message-ID: <20150202070428.0B0B9C34E@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/184.html Hi, There was lots of buzz around FOSDEM this last week, but not many videos or blog posts to share with you yet. Get blogging, those of you who went! More than 200 people have received their second assignment in the CPAN Pull Request Challenge, and plenty are still working on January's. Some people have dropped out, but others have signed up to start in February. As well as pull requests, lots of blogging going on around it. Editor #3, Neil CPAN News NICEPERL's lists http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/vii-cpan-great-modules-released-last.html Miguel Prz (NICEPERL ("https://metacpan.org/author/NICEPERL"))'s regular lists: Great modules released last week ("http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/xiii-cpan-great-modules-released -last.html"); MetaCPAN weekly report ("http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/cxlv-metacpan-weekly-report-ffip latypus.html"); StackOverflow Perl report ("http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/clxx-stackoverflow-perl-report.h tml"). -------------- CPAN Testers monthly report for December http://blog.cpantesters.org/diary/194 Barbie's monthly round-up of news related to CPAN Testers, which includes plans for the QA hackathon and beyond. -------------- Nestoria's module of the month for January: Test::Deep http://devblog.nestoria.com/post/109293093633/module-of-the-month-january-2015-test-deep This month Nestoria tip their hat, and their wallet, to RJBS ("https://metacpan.org/author/RJBS") for Test::Deep ("https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Deep"). -------------- ============= Perl blogging Shock and Terror - Perl IS a readable language http://programming.tudorconstantin.com/2015/01/shock-and-terror-perl-is-readable.html Another love-letter to Perl from Tudor, following his previous Perl Already Won ("http://programming.tudorconstantin.com/2015/01/perl-already-won.html"). -------------- My Perly January http://martian.org/karen/2015/01/31/my-perly-janauary/ Various people are restarting their Ironman blogging this year; Karen has set herself a goal of blogging about Perl at least once a month, and this is her first. TL;DR: she's busy, and gets a lot of email to deal with! -------------- ============= Hacking and blogging Command Line Project Manager (clpm) http://blogs.perl.org/users/tinypig/2015/01/command-line-project-manager-clpm-v101-released.html David (aka tinypig) announced script for managing files. Old-timers are probably reading clpm as comp.lang.perl.modules or misc. -------------- Cookieless Sessions - Automatically Login Your Users http://openbedrock.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/cookieless-sessions-automatically-login.html Rob shows how you can create one-time user session tokens in Bedrock ("http://twiki.openbedrock.net/twiki/bin/view/Bedrock"), for example when someone has forgotten their password. -------------- What's wrong with Getopt::Long? https://perlancar.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/pericmd-003-whats-wrong-with-getoptlong/ Perlancar has started blogging on his own site, and has startd with a series handling command-line arguments. Read part 2 ("https://perlancar.wordpress.com/2015/02/02/pericmd-004-whats-wrong-with -getoptlong-2/") after this first part on Getopt::Long ("https://metacpan.org/pod/Getopt::Long"). -------------- ============= Misc A survey of table rendering packages http://blogs.perl.org/users/ron_savage/2015/01/a-survey-of-table-rendering-packages.html Ron is trying to build up a list of all 'table rendering packages'. Please let him know if he's missed any. He needs them for the SEE ALSO section of his new Text::Table::Manifold ("https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::Table::Manifold") module. -------------- ============= Perl 6 a perl5 to perl6 translator - update http://blogs.perl.org/users/flavio_s_glock/2015/01/a-perl5-to-perl6-translator---update.html An update from Fl?vio on perlito, a perl5 to perl6 compiler. -------------- Fosdem 2015: It's Christmas! http://blogs.perl.org/users/shadowcat_mdk/2015/02/fosdem-2015-its-christmas.html Mark's notes after attending Larry Wall's talk at FOSDEM. Apparently the videos of talks will go online soon, presumably at video.fosdem.org ("http://video.fosdem.org"). -------------- Gotanda lands https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/2015-04-gotanda-lands/ The latest news from Perl 6 (apart from, you know, that talk). MoraVM got 20% faster, -------------- Perl 6 for mere mortals http://www.slideshare.net/Ovid/perl-6-for-mere-mortals Ovid shared the slides for his FOSDEM talk ahead of time. -------------- ============= Pull Quest Challenge Choroba's report for January http://blogs.perl.org/users/e_choroba/2015/02/pull-request-challenge-january.html Choroba describes his efforts with Net::HTTP::Spore ("https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::HTTP::Spore"). Not everyone who got a dzil-based dist was happy, but Choroba didn't have any problem. -------------- My CPAN Pull Request Challenge for January: Fuse http://onionstand.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/my-cpan-pull-request-challenge-for.html Garu describes his thoughts and process approaching Fuse ("https://metacpan.org/pod/Fuse"), his assignment for January, resulting in 4 pull requests. -------------- MVUET's notes on SOAP-Lite http://cpanpr.tumblr.com/post/109326154178/january-soap-lite Maxim gives a primer on SOAP and SOAP-Lite ("https://metacpan.org/release/SOAP-Lite" class="distribution"), the distribution he got for January. -------------- Lance Brown's notes on String::Random http://perl.bearcircle.net/2015/01/january-cpan-pull-request-challenge.html Lance shares his work on String::Random ("https://metacpan.org/pod/String::Random"): cleaning up the output of perlcritic -1 and extending the module so users can provide their own random number generator. -------------- CPAN Pull Requests in January http://neilb.org/2015/02/02/monthly-cpan-pr-graph.html A first quick analysis on the impact of the Pull Request challenge. In short, a the most CPAN-related pull requests ever, by a comfortable margin. -------------- The meaning of MetaCPAN favorites http://neilb.org/2015/01/29/metacpan-favorites.html Some ruminating on what MetaCPAN's favorites mean, some statistics on how they've been bestowed to date, and how they're being factoring into the scoring of dists for the Pull Request Challenge. -------------- ============= Tools Moving CPAN RT tickets to Github, now improved http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/2397/moving-cpan-rt-tickets-to-github-now-improved/ A while back David presented a way to migrate tickets from RT to github issues. Here he describes a more complete solution, which is available on github ("https://github.com/dagolden/zzz-rt-to-github"). -------------- Docker: first impressions https://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com/posts/docker-first-impressions/ Frew shares his experiences and thoughts using Docker for deployment, having used it for testing for nearly a year. I've no experience with Docker, so he could be full of shit: you'll just have to decide for yourself. -------------- Critical hit http://blog.twoshortplanks.com/2015/01/27/critical-hit/ Jeff Thalhammer gave a talk on Perl::Critic ("https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Critic") to Albany Perl Mongers. Here Mark shares what he took away from the talk, the biggest win of which was learning about using the only option in a .perlcriticrc file. -------------- ============= Language Comparing booleans in Perl http://blog.geekuni.com/2015/02/comparing-booleans-in-perl.html Andrew shows two of the ways you might compare the boolean true-or-false'ness of two scalars in Perl. Hopefully most of the time readability would win out :-) -------------- ============= Grants Perl::Lint Bug Fixes and New Policies http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/02/perllint-bug-fixes-and-new-pol.html An update on the Perl::Lint ("https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Lint") project, which was funded in early 2014 ("http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/02/perllint-bug-fixes-and-new-pol.h tml"). -------------- The Ado web framework wasn't funded http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/01/january-2015-grant-votes.html Two weeks ago we linked to the proposal for the Ado web framework. It wasn't funded, primarily because there's already a lot of choice in Perl web frameworks, so it wasn't clear this was the best use of the funds ($4500 was requested). -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials Reading from a file in scalar and list context http://perlmaven.com/reading-from-a-file-in-scalar-and-list-context -------------- ============= Conferences and Meetups Sydney.PM February meetup http://blogs.perl.org/users/dean/2015/01/sydney-pm-february-2015.html Sydney.PM are having a tech talk session on Tuesday 10th February, from 6 to 9:30pm. -------------- The Swiss Perl workshop 2015 http://blogs.perl.org/users/swiss_perl_workshop/2015/01/swiss-perl-workshop-2015.html The Swiss Perl Workshop will be held in Olten on Friday 28th and Saturday 29th August 2015. -------------- Other Perl events http://perlweekly.com/events.html Lots of other Perl workshops and coneference are now listed -------------- ============= You joined the Perl Weekly to get weekly e-mails about the Perl programming language and related topics. 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