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>
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Interviews
Perl creator Larry Wall: Rethought version 6 due this year
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2882300/perl/perl-creator-larry-wall-rethought-version-6-due-this-year.html
Paul Krill from InfoWorld interviewed Larry Wall via e-mail. Followed by
extensive Reddit
("http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/duplicates/2vkdfi/larry_wall_on_perl_60/")
discussions.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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."
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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.)
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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?
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Weekly collections
(xv) CPAN great modules released last week
http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/02/xv-cpan-great-modules-released-last-week.html
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(cxlvii) MetaCPAN weekly report - Moo
http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/02/cxlvii-metacpan-weekly-report-moo.html
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(clxxii) StackOverflow Perl report
http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/02/clxxii-stackoverflow-perl-report.html
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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.
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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.
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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").
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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")
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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.)
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