[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #186 - Which language will be popular 5 years from now?

Sun Feb 15 23:45:34 PST 2015

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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 <a href"http://code-maven.com/svg-with-javascript">JavaScript
  to create SVG images</a>, 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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