From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Dec 6 21:23:59 2015 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 05:23:59 +0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #228 - Advent Season Message-ID: <20151207052359.4FAE5C00F@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/228.html With December comes back a beloved Perl tradition: the Advent calendars. In other seasonal news, Christmas is getting ever closer for Perl 6. And on a slightly more "bah humbug"ish note, the various Perl-related Kickstarters aren't doing so well right now. But hey, this season is known for its miracles, so... we never know. In the meantime, enjoy! ~ `/anick Sponsors Senior Applications Engineer https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/101754/senior-applications-engineer-uniregistry Uniregistry is looking for a talented and passionate engineer to build and maintain a world-class registry and registrar. This position requires the ability to analyze and implement elegant solutions to complex problems while contributing to the development of reusable components -------------- Supporting the Perl Weekly? http://perlweekly.com/sponsors.html Would you like to support the Perl Weekly? A Perl Job ad in the Perl Weekly, like the one above, will reach almost 6000 Perl developers. People like you, who are enthusiastic about Perl and not just use it as an ad-on tool. -------------- ============= Announcements Help us sponsor the Dancer book! http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2015/12/help-us-sponsor-the-dancer-book.html The Dancer book kickstarter has 6 days and 8 thousand euros to do. -------------- Suspending efforts on my #riba2016 crowdfunding campaign, looking forward to my own Xmas http://blogs.perl.org/users/peter_rabbitson/2015/12/suspending-efforts-on-my-riba2016-crowdfunding-campaign-looking-forward-to-my-own-xmas.html An update on Peter's Kickstarter to be able to focus on Open Source/CPAN development for 2016. -------------- ============= Articles Browserling was product of the day on Product Hunt! http://www.catonmat.net/blog/browserling-product-hunt/ Peteris's Browserling (a cross-browser testing solution) was featured by ProductHunt.com, a site featuring and ranking different software. Good to know Browersling is doing good; interesting to learn about that ProductHunt site thingie. -------------- Making the Larry Wall shirt http://perltricks.com/article/201/2015/12/3/Making-the-Larry-Wall-shirt David made a cool "Larry Wall, hero of the revolution" t-shirt (if you want one, the Kickstarter is still ongoing, hurry!). He shares here the how he uses Gimp and Inkscape to create the t-shirt's picture. -------------- The Veure MMORPG Saga Continues http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/12/the-veure-mmorpg-saga-continues.html Ovid teases us with can be described as a tantalizing textual trailer to his upcoming space MMORPG, Veure. -------------- London Perl Workshop 2015 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PerlHacks/~3/R--oyTfwkJ0/ The London Perl Workshop is going to happen in a few days, and it looks like it's going to be awesome. -------------- ============= Code Getting ready for MongoDB 3.2: new features, new Perl driver beta http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/2567/getting-ready-for-mongodb-3-2-new-features-new-perl-driver-beta/ A new release of MongoDB is coming up. And a new trial version of its driver is already accessible on CPAN. MongoDB peeps you know what that means. -------------- Interactive shells http://shadow.cat/blog/matt-s-trout/mstpan-17/ Either for abyss-level bug hunting, or interactive toying with the language, REPLs are invaluable. Matt reviews some of the proeminent Perl REPL out there for us. -------------- Free go faster stripes for your Perl programs http://www.nu42.com/2015/12/go-faster-stripes-for-perl-programs.html There is an an optimization coming for Perl 5.24 that might boost some benchmarks by 25% to 40%. Sinan gives the nitty gritty details of this upcoming nitro injection to the Perl engine. -------------- Say 'Hello' to JSON::Schema::AsType http://techblog.babyl.ca/entry/json-schema-astype A new module that turns JSON schemas into Type::Tiny types. -------------- ============= Grants November 2015 Grant Votes http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/12/november-2015-grant-votes.html A grant to merge stabilize and merge Test::Stream and Test::Simple into perl-blead has been approved. -------------- ============= Perl 6 Arrays Shape Up, Curli Lands and Supply Splits https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/2015-4849-arrays-shape-up-curli-lands-and-supply-splits/ Quite a lot of stuff happening in Perl6-land this week: a new Rakudo version, a new tutorial, a new Advent calendar, and lots of small stuff falling into place. -------------- Getting closer to Christmas https://6guts.wordpress.com/2015/12/05/getting-closer-to-christmas/ Last time, John was counting 40 tickets standing between us and Christmas. Now the number is down to 20. -------------- ============= Advent Calendars Perl Advent Calendar http://perladvent.org/2015/ -------------- Perl 6 Advent Calendar https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/ -------------- ============= Weekly collections NICEPERL's lists http://niceperl.blogspot.com/ Great modules released last week ( http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/12/lvii-cpan-great-modules-released-las t.html ); MetaCPAN weekly report ( http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/12/clxxxix-metacpan-weekly-report-paws. html ); StackOverflow Perl report ( http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/12/ccxiv-stackoverflow-perl-report.html ). -------------- ============= Perl Maven Articles Perl::Critic example - lint for Perl http://perlmaven.com/perl-critic-example -------------- Monitoring the most recent uploads to CPAN http://perlmaven.com/recent Are you looking for a place to contribute. 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