[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #192 - The YAPC::NA schedule is out!

Sun Mar 29 22:44:01 PDT 2015

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Hi,

The schedule for YAPC::NA is out and there are tons for good-looking talks!

Talking of talks, today's your last chance to submit something for the
German Perl workshop.

Editor #3, Neil

There are also going to be additional training classes at YAPC::NA
("http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/masters.html"). See more info below.
~szabgab

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CPAN News

  File::Which, pwhich and App::pwhich
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/graham_ollis/2015/03/filewhich-pwhich-and-apppwhich.html

  Graham has recently adopted File::Which
  ("https://metacpan.org/pod/File::Which") and posted about his plans for
  the module, in particular splitting out the <code>pwhich</code> script
  into a separate distribution, to minimise the dependencies for the main
  module.
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  Nestoria's module of the month: Web::Query
  http://devblog.nestoria.com/post/114483837118/module-of-the-month-march-2015-web-query

  This month Nestoria tip their hat to Web::Query
  ("https://metacpan.org/pod/Web::Query"), a module for processing a web
  page in a jQuery ("https://jquery.org") stylee. Originally written by
  TOKUHIROM ("https://metacpan.org/author/TOKUHIROM"), but currently
  maintained by YANICK ("https://metacpan.org/author/YANICK").
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  NICEPERL's lists
  http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/xxi-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/2015/03/xxi-cpan-great-modules-released-
  last.html"); MetaCPAN weekly report
  ("http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/cliii-metacpan-weekly-report-tic
  kit.html"); StackOverflow Perl report
  ("http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/clxxviii-stackoverflow-perl-repo
  rt.html").
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  Calculate Fortune's Formula with Perl
  http://perltricks.com/article/161/2015/3/23/Calculate-Fortune-s-Formula-with-Perl

  David introduces the Kelly criterion
  ("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion"), a formula used to
  calculate what percentage of your bank you should stake. He's released
  Algorithm::Kelly ("https://metacpan.org/pod/Algorithm::Kelly") to Kelly,
  if you're interested. The Kelly criterion is widely used by betting types
  (my missus and I used the Kelly criterion in the horse-betting system we
  ran a few years back. Not that we're betting types. Any more).
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  New stable and development Catalyst releases
  http://jjnapiorkowski.typepad.com/modern-perl/2015/03/new-stable-and-development-releases-of-perl-catalyst-on-cpan.html#.VRh2TEKXFgI

  John describes what's in the latest Catalyst
  ("https://metacpan.org/pod/Catalyst") releases. The dev release is
  codenamed Australorp ("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australorp"), named
  after an Australian chicken breed!
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Hacking and blogging

  CA SSL HTTPs heck
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/byterock/2015/03/ca-ssl-https-heck.html

  Getting to the bottom of a problem with Amazon AWS. TL;DR: make sure
  Mozilla::CA ("https://metacpan.org/pod/Mozilla::CA") is up to date.
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  Three articles on Modern Perl web apps
  http://perlhacks.com/2015/03/modern-perl-articles/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PerlHacks+%28Perl+Hacks%29

  Dave has shared three articles that he wrote in 2011, about writing a
  Modern Perl web app using DBIx::Class
  ("https://metacpan.org/pod/DBIx::Class") and Dancer
  ("https://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer").
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  Faster DBIC Schemata
  https://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com/posts/faster-dbic-schemata/

  Frew shares some tips on how to get DBIC schema to load faster.
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  Gzipping data directly from Perl
  http://perltricks.com/article/162/2015/3/27/Gzipping-data-directly-from-Perl

  brian shares some of the ways you can work with gzip'd data in Perl, for
  example via the recently updated PerlIO::gzip
  ("https://metacpan.org/pod/PerlIO::gzip"), or using pipes.
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  Interacting with PAUSE using CLI
  https://perlancar.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/interacting-with-pause-using-cli/

  Perlancar demonstrates his WWW::PAUSE::Simple
  ("https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::PAUSE::Simple") module and associated
  <code>pause</code> script, which can be used to manage your PAUSE account
  from the command-line.
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Testing

  Howto: XS Coverage Reports on coveralls.io
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/nick_wellnhofer/2015/03/howto-xs-coverage-reports-on-coveralls.html

  Nick shows how authors of XS modules can get Devel::Cover
  ("https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::Cover") and coveralls.io
  ("https://coveralls.io") to play together nicely with Travis.
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Training

  YAPC::NA Master classes
  http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/masters.html

  There are going to be several 'Master classes' on the day before YAPC::NA,
  and the 2 days after. 4 of the classes have been already published, 2 are
  still somewhere in the pipe, but if you attend YAPC::NA and want to
  attend any of the courses, you might want to plan your travel
  accordingly. ~szabgab (one of the trainers)
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Community

  Rebuilding Cleveland Perl Mongers
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/styluseater/2015/03/rebuilding-cleveland-perl-mongers.html

  The Cleveland Perl mongers have risen from the ashes like a Phoenix;
  StylusEater shared some of their journey.
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Events

  YAPC::NA schedule
  http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/schedule

  GENEHACK ("https://metacpan.org/author/GENEHACK") tweeted to announce that
  the schedule for YAPC::NA 2015 ("http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/") has been
  posted.
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  German Perl Workshop 2015: CFP extended until March 30th 2015
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/max_maischein/2015/03/german-perl-workshop-2015-call-for-papers-extended-until-march-30th-2015.html

  The German Perl workshop runs from the 6th to the 8th of May. If you're
  quick, you can still submit a talk proposal.
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  Sydney.PM April meeting
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/dean/2015/03/sydney-pm-april-2015.html

  The Sydney mongers are meeting 14th April, and looking for speakers.
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  Promoting your Perl workshop or conference?
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/gabor_szabo/2015/03/promoting-your-perl-workshop-or-conference.html

  Gabor has put together a page with some tips for promoting your Perl event.
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Perl 6

  Perl 6 weekly happenings
  https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/2015-12-a-release-also-lazy-deserialization-makes-a-comeback/

  Lazy deserialization of objects has been re-enabled in MoarVM, which should
  give "much better memory usage and speed when starting up a program that
  doesn't use every class there is". Also a rakudo release, some
  documentation improvements, and a bunch of other things too!
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Not Perl, but may be of interest

  A public service announcement about contracts 
  http://blog.plover.com/law/contracts.html

  Some excellent advice from Mark, about the right response when someone asks
  you to sign a contract with a clause that's only there because the
  lawyers wanted it. He followed it up with some examples
  ("http://blog.plover.com/law/contracts-2.html").
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  Ruby survey results
  http://www.askr.me/ruby

  A survey of Ruby developers, which has been running since 2008. I like that
  for many questions it shows how the answers have changed over the years.
  TL;DR: vim is the most popular way to edit Ruby.
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  The social coding contract
  http://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2014-12-02-the-social-coding-contract.html

  A talk from RubyConf last year, with lots of interesting observations of
  open source. I feel like I need to watch it again before I can distil it
  down any!
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Perl Maven Tutorials

  Sending Tweets from a Perl script
  http://perlmaven.com/sending-tweets-from-a-perl-script

  In this article full of screenshots you'll see how to write a Perl script
  to send messages via Twitter.
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  Getting started - Create skeleton for the SCO clone application
  http://perlmaven.com/create-skeleton-for-sco

  A screencast in which Gabor shows the first step in creating a clone of the
  search.cpan.org web site using PSGI and MetaCPAN as the back-end.
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  Counter Examples
  http://perlmaven.com/counter

  The beginning of a series of articles showing how to write a counter with
  various front-ends (e.g. command line, web) and various back-ends (plain
  text file, MongoDB, etc.)
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  qw - quote word
  http://perlmaven.com/qw-quote-word

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