[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #184 - Larry gave his talk at FOSDEM

Sun Feb 1 23:04:28 PST 2015

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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").
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  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.
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  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").
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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").
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  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!
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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 <code>comp.lang.perl.modules</code> or
  <code>misc</code>.
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  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.
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  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").
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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 <code>SEE
  ALSO</code> section of his new Text::Table::Manifold
  ("https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::Table::Manifold") module.
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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 Flávio on perlito, a perl5 to perl6 compiler.
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  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").
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  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,
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  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.
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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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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
  <code>perlcritic -1</code> and extending the module so users can provide
  their own random number generator.
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  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.
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  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.
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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").
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  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.
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  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 <code>only</code> option in a
  <code>.perlcriticrc</code> file.
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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 :-)
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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").
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  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).
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Perl Maven Tutorials

  Reading from a file in scalar and list context
  http://perlmaven.com/reading-from-a-file-in-scalar-and-list-context

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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.
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  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.
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  Other Perl events
  http://perlweekly.com/events.html

  Lots of other Perl workshops and coneference are now listed
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