From gabor at szabgab.com Mon Mar 23 03:34:43 2015 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:34:43 -0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #191 - Hackathon after Hackathon Message-ID: <20150323103352.BB32FC528@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/191.html Hi, There are two Hackathons going to take place in close proximity in time, but quite far away. One in Berlin and the other one in New York. The former is the traditional annual QA Hackathon with a number of people flying in from various other places of the globe, therefore they still need help with some funding. I am happy to tell you that thanks to the growing number of advertisers in the Perl Weekly, and thanks to the people who contribute to the Perl Weekly via Gratipay ("https://gratipay.com/PerlWeekly/") I could use some of that money to sponsor the QA Hackathon! 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Hires will receive a sizable signing bonus. -------------- Work for Uniregistry, building and maintaining Internet new Top Level Domains http://uniregistry.link/careers Use Moose, DBIx::Class, Catalyst, AnyEvent and work in an dream office in Newport Beach office in California to ?build and maintain our registry platform and services for Internet new Top Level Domains (nTLDs). Send your CV to jobs at uniregistry.link -------------- ============= Announcements New York City Perl Hackathon 2015 http://blogs.perl.org/users/itcharlie/2015/03/new-york-city-perl-hackathon-2015.html I wish I could participate... (May 2, 2015, New York) -------------- ============= Articles Accelerating Perl http://perltricks.com/article/159/2015/3/16/Accelerating-Perl With the Raspberry Pi and other SoC (System on a Chip) devices it is time for Perl to start using accelometers. There aren't a lot of CPAN modules doing this, but Device::LSM303DLHC handling the LSM303DLHC chip can provide access to the readings. Let's see what can you do with it? -------------- DBIx::Class::Report - generate ad-hoc dbic classes from SQL http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/03/dbixclassreport---generate-ad-hoc-dbic-classes-from-sql.html Wouldn't it be nice if we could just take a chunk of arbitrary SQL and get a resultset from it? - Ovid asks and responds to himself with the release of DBIx::Class::Report. But when would you need it? -------------- How you average numbers matters http://www.nu42.com/2015/03/how-you-average-numbers.html We all know (or should know) that computations in a computer are not exact, but when Sinan puts it in front of us it is still very disturbing. -------------- ============= Testing Test::More in serious need of review, be afraid! http://blogs.perl.org/users/chad_exodist_granum/2015/03/testmore-in-serious-need-of-review-be-afraid.html Exodist is planning to release a new version of Test::More to CPAN. If that version breaks some a CPAN module, that CPAN module will become uninstallable. (Well, sort of.). Not only that. If the new version starts to report success when something failed then your code might be full of bugs while everything looks fine. In case you want to neither of this will happen, you can put some energy into looking at the changes and testing the new version. -------------- The Perl QA Hackathon is still looking for Sponsors http://blogs.perl.org/users/olaf_alders/2015/03/the-perl-qa-hackathon-is-still-looking-for-sponsors.html The QA Hackathon is an excellent event and dispite its name it is not only about Quality Assurnce. It became a more generice event when some of the people maintaining the core infrastructure needed for the Perl world get together for some much needed face-to-face conversation. I had the luck participating in two of such events, and now I had the privilage to even provide some funds to run the event. If you, or your company relies on Perl, this is a very good place to ensure the continous improvement of the whole ecosystem around Perl. -------------- Dancer + Jasmine http://techblog.babyl.ca/entry/dancer-jasmine Absolutely awesome! Yanick had to test his Angular.js based code. So what did he do? He wrote a plugin for Perl Dancer. Jasmine is a behavior-driven development framework for testing JavaScript code. The new Dancer::Plugin::Test::Jasmine allows you to integrate the tests written in Jasmin with the test you write for your Perl-based back-end. -------------- CPAN Testers Summary - January 2015 - Permanent Vacation http://blog.cpantesters.org/diary/195 -------------- ============= Code Loading module conditionally (and other options) https://perlancar.wordpress.com/2015/03/20/loading-module-conditionally-and-other-options/ 'use MyModule if $cond;' won't do what you might expect. So what can you do? (... and what < href="http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/2zojah/loading_modules_condit ionally_and_other_options/">Redditors think about this.) -------------- Twitter Mass Unfollower in Perl https://phl4nk.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/twitter-mass-unfollower-in-perl/ Sometimes automated tests can cause you to add many unwanted twitter accounts following many other people. This simple Perl script helps you stop following everyone. -------------- ============= Web How to Push K&L Wine Tastings http://www.prolificprogrammer.com/2015/03/how-to-push-k-wine-tastings.html How to Generate an ATOM feed for a Lazy Webmaster -------------- ============= CPAN A Year of CPAN Uploads http://blogs.perl.org/users/barbie/2015/03/a-year-of-cpan-uploads.html There are some really crazy people out there. For example Barbie, who has been uploading modules to CPAN every day for more than a year now. That's real persistence. -------------- ============= Fun All other languages tired of Python's shit https://thescienceweb.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/all-other-languages-tired-of-pythons-shit/ New Zealand. A recent survey of software languages has revealed that... -------------- ============= Perl 5 Porters My perl 5.21.9 http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2015/03/my-perl-5219.html The short story behind another development release of Perl 5. -------------- ============= Perl 6 Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2015.03 http://rakudo.org/2015/03/21/announce-rakudo-star-release-2015-03/ -------------- Tiny Games with Perl 6 http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/03/tiny-games-with-perl-6.html Rolling unicode dice with Perl 6. -------------- ============= Other Comparing Audio files with Sense http://npointsolutions.blogspot.com/2015/03/comparing-audio-files-with-sense.html Running a radio station is not easy task. How can you make sure the listeners hear the music in acceptable quality? Do you sit an listen to every song, or can you automate it? -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials Sending HTML e-mail using Email::Stuffer http://perlmaven.com/sending-html-email-using-email-stuffer A screencast and article explaining and showing how to send e-mail with Perl. -------------- Moo attribute predicate and clearer http://perlmaven.com/moo-attribute-predicate-and-clearer This and the article about Moo attributes with default values ("http://perlmaven.com/moo-attributes-with-default-values") were recently made available to the general public. -------------- Count elements using XML::XPath http://perlmaven.com/count-elements-using-xml-xpath -------------- Testing sessions by mocking time http://perlmaven.com/testing-session-mocking-time How can you test a system that is supposed to time-our after 100 days? Your can't wait a 100 days for that. What about 1 minute? 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