[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #235 - YAPC::NA::2016 announced

Sun Jan 24 21:29:11 PST 2016

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Wherever you are, enjoy the weather!

Announcements

  YAPC::NA::2016 Update #2 -- It's Orlando!
  http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/01/yapcna2016-update-2----its-orl.html

  Finally the date and location of YAPC::NA 2016 has been announced. It is
  June 19-24, at the Downtown Doubletree Hotel in Orlando, Florida. If
  you'd like to get their announcements in your mailbox, sign up to the
  YAPC::NA announcement list (
  http://yapcna.org/mailman/listinfo/announce_yapcna.org ).
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  Perl Dev KIt 9.5 Released
  http://www.activestate.com/blog/2016/01/perl-dev-kit-95-released

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Articles

  Why Learn Perl?
  http://perlhacks.com/2016/01/why-learn-perl/

  Dave is answering two questions: Do people still use Perl?  and  Are there
  people who use Perl but aren't as expert in it as they would like to be
  (or as their managers would like them to be)?
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  A Date with CPAN, Part 6: Time Won't Give Me Time
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/buddy_burden/2016/01/a-date-with-cpan-part-6-time-wont-give-me-time.html

  The newest episode of the long series by Buddy dealing with Date and Time.
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  The problem with Exporters (Meet Importer)
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/chad_exodist_granum/2016/01/the-problem-with-exporters-meet-importer.html

  Why does the import() function need to be part of the module that is
  exporting functions? Shouldn't it be part of the language or at least an
  tool that can import?
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  Deprecation is citizenship
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/camspi/2016/01/deprecation-is-citizenship.html

  Dancer2::Plugin::ParamKeywords (
  https://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer2::Plugin::ParamKeywords ) is now
  deprecated and the documentation says so!
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Discussion

  Why isn't Perl more popular? 
  https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/427kq8/why_isnt_perl_more_popular/

  This subject seems to be one of the most popular in the Perl subredit. With
  29 upvotes and 53 comments a mere 13 hours after it was posted has a very
  good chance to be on the home page of Reddit. Aside from the usual 'but
  they are both Turing complete' style comments there are a few that
  describe the situation quite well.
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Code

  Operations on value-pairs in Perl
  http://perlmaven.com/operation-on-value-pairs-in-perl

  List::Util has a couple of nice, and slightly surprising functions. For
  example: pairs, unpairs, pairkeys, pairvalues, pairgrep, pairfirst, and
  pairmap. Most of them act on pairs of values found in a list or array.
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  A Naïve SQL Shell
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2016/01/a-naive-sql-shell.html

  Indeed. A very limited reimplementation of DBI::Shell.
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  Pure-Perl XML
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/polettix/2016/01/pure-perl-xml.html

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  Understanding regular expressions
  http://perlmaven.com/understanding-regular-expressions

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Web

  Validation logic is more complex than you expect
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/yuki_kimoto/2016/01/validation-logic-is-more-complex-than-you-expect.html

  About the 4 cases how parameters in GET requests can arrive.
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CPAN

  CPAN distribution kwalitee for River stages
  http://neilb.org/2016/01/20/river-and-kwalitee.html

  Why do the most commonly reused modules have the highest number of CPANTS
  failures? Is it their age? Is that the age of their authors? Maybe lack
  of willingness to change? Is there a specific metric that is a common
  source of failure or a specific author?
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Grants

  Grant Report : RPerl User Documentation - Final (Jan 2016)
  http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/01/grant-report-rperl-user-docume-3.html

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Perl 6

  Further Perl 6 Adventures
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/mike_friedman/2016/01/further-perl-6-adventures.html

  A recap on the 5 Perl 6 articles written by Mike.
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  Getting End-of-Document POD and Declarative POD to Play Nice in Perl 6
  http://hoelz.ro/blog/getting-eod-pod-and-declarative-pod-to-play-nice

  In Perl 6 you can have access to the documentation during run-time. (Does
  this mean we could write a module that would just read its own
  documentation and then execute it?
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  Perl 6 is written in... Perl 6
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/zoffix_znet/2016/01/perl-6-is-written-in-perl-6.html

  Have you every been afraid of touching the Perl 5 core because you did not
  want to touch C? That's over with Perl 6 where, at least in the case of
  Rakudo, most of it is written in Perl 6. discuss on Reddit (
  https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/4254yf/perl_6_is_written_in_perl_6
  / )
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Weekly collections

  NICEPERL's lists
  http://niceperl.blogspot.com/

  Great modules released last week (
  http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/01/lxiv-cpan-great-modules-released-las
  t.html );
  MetaCPAN weekly report (
  http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/01/cxcvi-metacpan-weekly-report-perl.ht
  ml );
  StackOverflow Perl report (
  http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/01/ccxxi-stackoverflow-perl-report.html
  ).
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Event reports

  On London PM Hack Days, and a Recap for Saturday 23-Jan-16
  http://virtualsue.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/on-london-pm-hack-days-and-recap-for_24.html

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