From gabor at szabgab.com  Mon Mar  7 01:19:30 2016
From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo)
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 09:19:30 +0000
Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #241 - All Software is Legacy
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A good mixture of all sorts of topics this week,
and my favourite of them is Lee Johnson's <em>All Software is Legacy</em>.


Oh, and if you appreciate Tony Cook's work on Perl 5,
why not add a supportive comment to the post about
his grant request.


Neil




CPAN News

  
  NICEPERL's lists
  http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/lxx-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/2016/03/lxx-cpan-great-modules-released-la
  st.html ); MetaCPAN weekly report (
  http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/ccii-metacpan-weekly-report.html
  ); StackOverflow Perl report (
  http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/ccxxvii-stackoverflow-perl-report.
  html ).
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  What's new on CPAN - February 2015
  http://perltricks.com/article/what-s-new-on-cpan---february-2016/
 
  David's selection of new modules released to CPAN in February. I don't have
  a use for it, but I love the name of Regexp::Parsertron (
  https://metacpan.org/pod/Regexp::Parsertron ).
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  Not so new shiny things: LWP::Protocol::PSGI
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/kd/2016/03/not-so-new-shiny-things-lwpprotocolpsgi.html
 
  Kieren describes how testing web applications got much easier for him when
  he discovered LWP::Protocol::PSGI (
  https://metacpan.org/pod/LWP::Protocol::PSGI ). Aristotle pointed out
  Plack::Middleware::MockProxyFrontend (
  https://metacpan.org/pod/Plack::Middleware::MockProxyFrontend ) in the
  comments.
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  On YAML and YAML::XS inconsistencies
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/rurban/2016/03/on-yaml-and-yamlxs-inconsistencies.html
 
  Reini points out some problems with YAML ( http://yaml.org ) modules for
  Perl 5. In a follow-up post (
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/rurban/2016/03/more-on-yaml-syck-looks-much-b
  etter.html ) he describes his thoughts so far on what to do about it.
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  Alien::Base and Module::Build
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/graham_ollis/2016/03/alienbase-and-modulebuild.html
 
  If you've a module based on Alien::Base (
  https://metacpan.org/pod/Alien::Base ), then you should read this,
  including the comments.
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  Fixing prereqs in dist.ini automatically
  https://perlancar.wordpress.com/2016/03/04/fixing-prereqs-in-dist-ini-automatically/
 
  Perlancar's lint-prereqs ( https://metacpan.org/pod/lint-prereqs ) script
  can be used to check whether your distribution has (the right versions
  of) all the right prereqs, and if you're using Dist::Zilla (
  https://metacpan.org/pod/Dist::Zilla ) it can even fix up your
  <code>dist.ini</code>. I've never had any problems using
  <code>[AutoPrereqs]</code>, but I know that not everyone does.
  --------------

  

=============

Perl 5

  
  P5P Mailing List Summary: February 15th-29th
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2016/03/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-february-15th-29th.html
 
  Two for the price of one! Two weeks worth of P5P in a single summary, so
  <em>lots</em> of bug fixes and lots of new bugs reported.
  --------------

  
  Perl curio: Dereferencing blocks
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/mauke/2016/03/perl-curio-dereferencing-blocks.html
 
  Lukas points that that the dereferencing curlies in <code>@{$foo}</code>
  are introducing a code block, so you can do whatever you like in there,
  as long as it results in an appropriate reference.
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  Perl::Critic exclude some policies - fix others
  http://perlmaven.com/perl-critic-exclude-policies-fix-others
 
  Gabor walks through running Perl::Critic (
  https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Critic ) at a certain level, while
  excluding some policies that you might not agree with, or be ready to
  deal with yet.
  --------------

  
  The flip-flop - chic for geeks
  http://blog.geekuni.com/2016/03/perl-flip-flop.html
 
  Andrew shows how to use the flip-flop operator in Perl, and links to
  further reading from other Perl bloggers.
  --------------

  
  MacPorts openssl versus Perl
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/tom_wyant/2016/03/macports-openssl-versus-perl.html
 
  Tom found that a failure with LWP::Protocol::https (
  https://metacpan.org/pod/LWP::Protocol::https ) was due to an upgrade
  from 1.0.2f to 1.0.2g of OpenSSL. He shows how you can downgrade a
  MacPort. You should be aware of the security issues (
  https://openssl.org/news/secadv/20160301.txt ) announced this week (the
  most widely reported being the DROWN attack ( https://drownattack.com )),
  which affected older versions of OpenSSL ( https://openssl.org ).
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=============

Perl 6

  
  Digging into the performance/reliability work
  https://6guts.wordpress.com/2016/03/06/digging-into-the-performancereliability-work/
 
  An update on Jonathan's latest grant work on performance and reliability of
  Perl 6. The bulk of it was making object accessors a lot faster.
  --------------

  
  Finding the most common n-grams in Russian using Perl 6 and HabrHabr
  http://hoelz.ro/blog/finding-most-common-russian-ngrams
 
  Rob builds n-gram frequency data for Russian, based on text from a Russian
  tech blog site, in Perl 6.
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=============

Hacking

  
  The Taskwarrior's Kusarigama
  http://techblog.babyl.ca/entry/taskwarrior
 
  Yenzie has started using Taskwarrior ( http://taskwarrior.org ) to manage
  his todo list, and already he's written a plugin system for managing
  Taskwarrior hooks.
  --------------

  
  A tar anomaly
  https://www.nu42.com/2016/03/tar-anomaly.html
 
  Sinan noticed that a certain distribution fails to install on Cygwin, and
  tracked it down to this: if a tar file has <code>foo</code>
  <strong>and</strong> <code>foo.exe</code>, then when you extract from the
  tar file you'll get <code>foo</code> but not <code>foo.exe</code>. See
  here ( https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-08/msg00293.html ) for example
  discussion.
  --------------

  
  lickcreator ? my new project
  http://rohan.almeida.in/2016/02/lickcreator-my-new-project/
 
  Rohan has started working on project called lickcreator, a music notation
  tool for guitarists. He'll be writing about it on his blog.
  --------------

  
  Shadowcat Commercial Products
  http://shadow.cat/blog/mark-keating/2016/06-Shadowcat-10-06/
 
  One of a series of posts by Mark, celebrating 10 years of Shadowcat. This
  one describes some key systems they've developed, some of them which are
  only used internally.
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=============

Opinion

  
  Perl - The Secret Workhorse
  http://www.activestate.com/blog/2016/03/perl-secret-workhorse
 
  Jeff, who works for ActiveState, thinks Perl is a bit of a dark horse, used
  by lots of companies, and under-scored on various programming language
  charts. Plenty of people are just getting on and doing things with Perl.
  --------------

  
  All Software is Legacy
  https://leejo.github.io/2016/02/22/all_software_is_legacy/
 
  A great article from the current maintainer of the CGI (
  https://metacpan.org/pod/CGI ) module, where he takes us through history
  of CGI, and uses it to illustrate some points about the definition of
  <em>legacy</em>.
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=============

Grants

  
  Maintaining Perl 5 - Grant Extension Request
  http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/maintaining-perl-5---grant-ext-1.html
 
  Tony Cook has requested an extension of his grant for working on Perl 5.
  --------------

  
  Migrating blogs.perl.org: Third Progress Report
  http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/03/migrating-blogsperlorg-third-p.html
 
  An update on the project to convert <code>blogs.perl.org</code> to a new
  blogging system from Evozon.
  --------------

  

=============

Not Perl

  
  Automating Deployments: New Website, Community
  http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/automating-deployments/2016-012-website-community.html
 
  Moritz is writing a book about deployment ( https://deploybook.com ), and
  has created a place ( http://community.deploybook.com ) for discussing
  the topic as well.
  --------------

  
  What it means to be an open source leader
  https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/3/what-it-means-be-open-source-leader
 
  Jim Whitehurst is the CEO of RedHat, which isn't your typical open source
  organisation. Here is presents what he thinks makes an good open source
  leader, a key element of which he believes is seeing yourself as a
  catalyst and not a commander.
  --------------

  

=============

Perl Maven Articles

  
  Enforce same version numbers of Perl all the modules in a distribution
  http://perlmaven.com/consistent-version-numbers-of-modules
 
  
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