From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Feb 15 23:45:34 2015 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 07:45:34 +0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #186 - Which language will be popular 5 years from now? Message-ID: <20150216074534.62122C178@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/186.html Hi, before getting to the content, let me just insert this selfie here: Is your company looking for a Perl developer? The Perl Weekly can get your sponsored announcement ("http://perlweekly.com/sponsors.html") to more than 5,000 readers every week. If that's not enough, your ad can also appear on the Perl Maven ("http://perlmaven.com/") site visited by more that 10,000 Perl developers every day. Contact me (Gabor) for details. And now let's go back the regular listing of articles! 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Followed by extensive Reddit ("http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/duplicates/2vkdfi/larry_wall_on_perl_60/") discussions. -------------- ============= Articles Parachuting Whatever http://blog.polettix.it/parachuting-whatever/ "deployable" is a handful of tools to help you with remote management of multiple servers. It was born when there was no Puppet or Chef in town. -------------- ============= Survey Predict language popularity in 5 years https://geekuni.com/survey.html In this survey that you can complete within 1 minute, Andrew is trying to predict which languages will be popular 5 years from now. -------------- ============= Testing Infinity Interactive is sponsoring the QA Hackathon http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2015/02/infinity-interactive-is-sponsoring-the-qa-hackathon.html Infinity is a small IT consultancy with HQ in New York and remote employees based all over the US and Canada. -------------- STRATO is sponsoring the QA Hackathon http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2015/02/strato-is-sponsoring-the-qa-hackathon.html STRATO is an ISO 27001-certified hosting provider with its headquarters in Germany. -------------- GFU Cyrus AG is sponsoring the QA Hackathon http://blogs.perl.org/users/tinita/2015/02/gfu-cyrus-ag-is-sponsoring-the-qa-hackathon.html Cyrus AG is now one of the best-known IT training companies in Germany. -------------- ============= Code Build a Reddit bot with Perl http://perltricks.com/article/151/2015/2/9/Build-a-Reddit-bot-with-Perl Reddit is link-sharing and discussing site running on some open source Python code. It has so called 'subredits' that are categories for sharing links related to a specific topic. Posting an article on Reddit can get hundreds or thousands of additional visitors to an article, and via their aggregation it can expose the Perl-related activity to other communities as well. -------------- NAP::Messaging - Glue and policies for interacting with ActiveMQ http://techblog.net-a-porter.com/2015/02/napmessaging-glue-and-policies-for-interacting-with-activemq/ Some secret sauce from Net-A-Porter giving us a peek behind the curtain of the fashion design. Who said you cannot combine beauty with Perl? -------------- Perl and the ElasticSearch percolator http://techblog.net-a-porter.com/2015/02/perl-and-the-elasticsearch-percolator/ "Percolation is search inverted: instead of finding docs which match a particular query, it finds queries which match a particular document." -------------- Perl: Sourcing a profile or bashrc or other shell script SOLVED http://froebe.net/blog/2015/02/12/perl-sourcing-a-profile-or-bashrc-or-other-shell-script-solved/ In the real world of Perl programmers you often need to work in strange environments. For some reason, unlike with Java programmers, they expect that you work around all the obstacles they put in front of you. And you do, because you are a Perl programmer who can work around strange issues. (Which of course reinforces their unreasonable expectations, but that's a different story.) -------------- ============= Web Mojolicious Triumphs Over Legacy Code http://blogs.perl.org/users/preaction/2015/02/mojolicious-triumphs-over-legacy-code.html What do you do if your old web application that was designed to accept a few hits an hour, suddenly gets hundreds of hits every minute from unfriendly Python scripts? -------------- ============= CPAN Short survey of modules for combinations and permutations http://blogs.perl.org/users/dana_jacobsen/2015/02/short-survey-of-modules-for-combinations-and-permutations.html -------------- ============= Fun A Perl Review of the ODROID-C1 http://perltricks.com/article/152/2015/2/11/A-Perl-Review-of-the-ODROID-C1 The ODROID-C1 is a competitor of the Raspberry Pi, a cheap "System on a Chip device". Timm Murray temporarily out of the Wumpus cave took a look at it from the perspective of a Perl developer. -------------- Fun with overload http://blogs.perl.org/users/camspi/2015/02/fun-with-overload.html Pivot a multi-row/multi-column table, 4X4 in size for example, containing name-value pairs. Code should account for larger table sizes with any number of name-value pairs. Numbering the pairs is optional but encouraged for readability. -------------- ============= Grants GSoC: I need your ideas http://blogs.perl.org/users/shadowcat_mdk/2015/02/gsoc-i-need-your-ideas.html Paul Johnson and Mark Keating are preparing the Perl team for the Google Summer of Code. They are looking for projects that want to participate. -------------- ============= Perl 6 You're in a space of twisty little mazes, all alike http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/youre-in-a-space-of-twisty-little-mazes-all-alike A 4x4 grid has 24 internal walls. In the power set of these, some of the members are "mazes", by definition grids with a unique path between every two squares. how many mazes exist? -------------- ============= Weekly collections (xv) CPAN great modules released last week http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/02/xv-cpan-great-modules-released-last-week.html -------------- (cxlvii) MetaCPAN weekly report - Moo http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/02/cxlvii-metacpan-weekly-report-moo.html -------------- (clxxii) StackOverflow Perl report http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/02/clxxii-stackoverflow-perl-report.html -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials Using the built-in debugger of Perl as REPL http://perlmaven.com/using-the-built-in-debugger-of-perl-as-repl An earlier screencast re-posted on the Perl Maven site. -------------- Select random elements from a weighted list http://perlmaven.com/select-random-elements-from-a-weigthed-list Given N objects and N weights, select an element with its weighted probability. -------------- SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics with Perl http://perlmaven.com/scalable-vector-graphics-with-perl Some simple examples showing how to use the SVG Perl module to create Vector Graphics. Then, a related article was published on the Code Maven site using JavaScript to create SVG images, and there is even the beginning of an SVG tutorial with exercises ("http://code-maven.com/svg"). -------------- ============= Videos Beginner Perl Maven video course http://perlmaven.com/beginner-perl-maven-video-course The first chapter of the Beginner Perl Maven video course has been freed. It is available from the Perl Maven site and also on YouTube ("https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw7UYp3N0eUYiICZUFR3p299TvjXZ4zF j") -------------- ============= Events YAPC::NA - Hotel information - Master classes http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/ The organizers of YAPC::NA have put out a call for master classes ("http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/news/1298") and they sent out an e-mail with information about hotel reservation ("http://mail.yapcna.org/pipermail/announce_yapcna.org/2015-February/0000 02.html") with a call for talks. I don't recall any announcement, announcing the announcement list, but if you managed to follow this sentence so far, and if you are interested in YAPC::NA related news,then you migh sign up here ("http://mail.yapcna.org/mailman/listinfo/announce_yapcna.org"). The hotel information page mentions that there is an early-bird discount for the hotel rooms. (Unfortunately the talks won't be announced by that.) -------------- ============= 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. Reading this as a non-subscriber? Join us free of charge. http://perlweekly.com/ (C) Copyright Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/ The articles are copyright the respective authors. You can freely redistribute this message if you keep the whole message intact, including the Copyright notice and this text. 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