From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Feb 21 23:49:41 2016 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 07:49:41 +0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #239 - Of Tabletop and Desktop Games Message-ID: <20160222074941.B47C9C193@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/239.html This week, we see the emergence of a new convention/conference platform mostly geared toward boardgame conventions, from the fine folks who already brought us the GameCrafter. Plus a few articles dealing with testing. Plus the usual smattering of Perl6 and module releases. Enjoy! ~ `/anick Announcements GitPrep 1.12 released - Catch up latest GitHub design http://blogs.perl.org/users/yuki_kimoto/2016/02/gitprep-112-released---catch-up-latest-github-design.html A new version of the locally-installable GitHub lookalike is out! -------------- Tabletop.Events Built On Perl http://blogs.perl.org/users/jt_smith/2016/02/tabletopevents-built-on-perl.html Tabletop.Events is a new convention management platform built using Perl and AngularJS. As its name suggest, it's mostly geared toward board game conventions, but its set of features also makes it quite capable of managing other kind of conventions and conferences. -------------- ============= Articles Technology for automating deployments: the agony of choice http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/automating-deployments/2016-011-alternatives.html When there are no alternatives, you know exactly where you stand (in a canoe, floating in the middle of that well-known creek) and what need to be done (find a paddle, stat). But when the options are legions, they trigger decision paralysis. Moritz reviews a few of the many, many tools out there having to do with automated deployment (and shares which ones he's typically reaching for). -------------- ============= Discussion Am I reinventing a wheel? http://blogs.perl.org/users/melezhik/2016/02/am-i-reinventing-a-wheel.html melezhik has written a plugin for his outthentic tool that reports and monitors disk usage. He is, however, wondering if he might not be reinventing the wheel. If so, he's also wondering if somebody could point him to any perl-based radial prior art. -------------- ============= Testing Herding Camels http://iinteractive.com/notebook/2016/02/12/herding-camels.html Yanick showcases how Git, Git::CPAN::Patch, App::GitGot and a small roll of script-fu can be used together to macgyver a testing infrastructure for inter-related code repositories. -------------- 3Party - cpan modules third party testing http://blogs.perl.org/users/melezhik/2016/02/3part---cpan-modules-third-party-testing.html melezhik is musing aloud about a potential new service that would provide black box-type integration testing for modules (as opposed to the unit testing that CPANtesters provides). Interested? Let him know! -------------- ============= Code Introducing Git::Version::Compare http://blogs.perl.org/users/book/2016/02/introducing-gitversioncompare.html Thought Perl was the only software out there with funky versioning? Ah! But that's okay: Git's own versioning maze now sport nice padded walls, thanks to BooK and Git::Version::Compare. -------------- Please test Path-Tiny-0.081-TRIAL http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/2624/please-test-path-tiny-0-081-trial/ The trial version of the upcoming Path::Tiny release is available. If you are using Path::Tiny, you should give it a whirl, as there are incompatible changes coming down the pipe. And if you are not using Path::Tiny. You should. 'cause it's awesome. -------------- lcpan tips 008: Finding related modules https://perlancar.wordpress.com/2016/02/21/lcpan-tips-008-finding-related-modules/ perlancar shares a cool thing the new mirror tool lcpan can do: it can peruses the documentation of all mirrored modules, and figure out which modules relate to each other based on their conjointed mentions in the same PODs. -------------- Rewriting Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack http://jhthorsen.github.com/perl/2016/02/21/rewriting-assetpack-plugin.html A rewrite of the asset-building Mojolicious plugin is in the wings. Come and see what changes Jan has in mind. -------------- ============= Perl 6 From Regular Expressions to Grammars, Pt. 3 http://theperlfisher.blogspot.com/2016/02/from-regular-expressions-to-grammars-pt_20.html Parsing JavaScript with Perl6 grammar. Fun! -------------- ============= CPAN News NICEPERL's lists http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/02/lxviii-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.com/2016/02/lxviii-cpan-great-modules-released-l ast.html ); MetaCPAN weekly report ( http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/02/cc-metacpan-weekly-report-datepregna ncy.html ); StackOverflow Perl report ( http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/02/ccxxv-stackoverflow-perl-report.html ). -------------- ============= Perl Maven Articles An extra space can ruin your day http://perlmaven.com/space-matters Space matters in Perl too -------------- Becoming a co-maintainer of a CPAN-module http://perlmaven.com/becoming-a-co-maintainer Three new episodes in the series were re-published: Move packages to their own files ( http://perlmaven.com/move-packages-to-their-own-files ), Finish Perl::Critic cleanup, set up Test::Perl::Critic ( http://perlmaven.com/enable-test-perl-critic ), Eliminating indirect method calls ( http://perlmaven.com/eliminating-indirect-method-calls ). 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