From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Oct 15 22:22:36 2017
From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo)
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 05:22:36 -0000
Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #325 - 30 years of Perl
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Perl Weekly
http://perlweekly.com/
You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer.
http://perlweekly.com/archive/325.html
This year marks 30 years of Perl, so Ruth's article is probably not going
to be the last one to mark that milestone.
The MetaCPAN project is having another hackathon, and they're looking for
sponsors.
Neil
--
Your editor: Neil Bowers.
CPAN News
NICEPERL's lists
http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2017/09/cli-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/2017/10/cliv-cpan-great-modules-released-las
t.html ); MetaCPAN weekly report (
http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2017/10/cclxxxvi-metacpan-weekly-report.html
); StackOverflow Perl report (
http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2017/10/cccx-stackoverflow-perl-report.html
).
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An early start on October's pull request challenge
http://tech-blog.cv-library.co.uk/2017/10/13/early-start-prc/
The CV-Library team are taking part in the pull-request challenge, and
normally they get together one night in the month, and have a big team
session where they do it all. This month they were assigned Test2-Suite (
https://metacpan.org/release/Test2-Suite" class="distribution ), so Colin
decided to get a head-start.
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Tracing Perl memory leaks with Devel::MAT, part 1
https://tech.binary.com/tracing-perl-memory-leaks-with-devel-mat/
An introduction to using Devel::MAT ( https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::MAT )
to find memory leaks in your Perl code.
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Perl 5
Creating Perl5 Objects with Moxie
https://which-dwarf-are-you.blogspot.com/2017/10/creating-perl5-objects-with-moxie.html
Tom shows how he created a class for playing cards, using Moxie (
https://metacpan.org/pod/Moxie ), which is Stevan Little's latest OO
framework for Perl 5. This article follows another (
https://which-dwarf-are-you.blogspot.com/2017/10/perl5-moxie-and-enumurat
ed-data-types.html ), where he introduces Moxie.
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P5P Mailing List Summary: October 2nd to 9th
http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2017/10/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-october-2nd-9th.html
They say that Winter is Coming, but not if P5P have anything to do with it!
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MetaCPAN
Announcing meta::hack v2
http://www.olafalders.com/2017/10/12/announcing-metahack-v2/
Last year the MetaCPAN team held meta::hack, a hackathon where they worked
on MetaCPAN. You can read about it in Olaf's summary (
http://www.olafalders.com/2016/12/01/metahack-wrap-up-report/ ). That was
so successful that they've decided to have another one this year. The
core MetaCPAN team will be meeting up in Chicago for four days of
intensive work on MetaCPAN and friends. They're still looking for
sponsorship; this would be a great way for companies to support the Perl
community.
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Rakudo
Rakudo Weekly
https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2017/10/09/2017-41-the-case-for-empathy/
The weekly roundup of Rakudo, or 6lang, news.
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Perl 6 at the London Perl Workshop
http://blogs.perl.org/users/lpw/2017/10/perl-6-at-the-london-perl-workshop---25-nov-2017.html
The London Perl Workshop is on Saturday 25th November in central London,
and is free to attend. This post gives a taster of some of the Rakudo
talks that will be there.
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6lang Naming Proposal is Good
http://blogs.perl.org/users/yuki_kimoto/2017/10/6lang-naming-proposal-is-good.html
This month's name for Perl 6 is 6lang. Kimoto-san explains why he likes
this, which really comes down to the fact that including "Perl" in the
name of "Perl 6" continues to damage both Perl 5 and Perl 6.
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Dancer
Dancer 2017 Survey: Update
http://blogs.perl.org/users/jason_a_crome/2017/10/dancer-2017-survey-update.html
Jason gives an update on the Dancer 2017 Survey, and encourages you to
contribute, if you haven't already.
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Community
Perl turns 30 and its community continues to thrive
https://opensource.com/article/17/10/perl-turns-30
To mark 30 years of Perl, Ruth wrote a brief history of Perl, and an
introduction to some of the Perl communities.
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Not Perl
The Absurdly Underestimated Dangers of CSV Injection
http://georgemauer.net/2017/10/07/csv-injection.html
You might have come across this already, but if you haven't, then you
should read it. If a CSV has a cell starting with =, then when you open
the CSV in Excel, the formula will be evaluated. And depending what's in
the formula, that could be bad.
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History of the browser user-agent string
https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
The "User-Agent string" is how browsers identify themselves to web sites.
If you've ever written a parser for these, you'll get why I included it.
If you haven't, you'll probably just think "huh, so what?".
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The corner of Gabor
A couple of entries sneaked in by Gabor.
Marpa for building parsers - a first look
https://perlmaven.com/marpa-for-building-parsers
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Fixing test failure on Windows - Properly quoting regexes - Accepting GitHub pull request
https://perlmaven.com/fixing-test-failure-on-windows
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Perl Jobs by Perl Careers
Perl Mongers of Wimbledon Common Are We - Perl Developer wanted in Wimbledon
https://perl.careers/jobs/perl-mongers-of-wimbledon-common-are-we/?utm_source=perlweekly&utm_campaign=perlweekly&utm_medium=perlweekly
Back in the day, the Wombles of Wimbledon collected rubbish. Nowadays,
since the advent of motorised road sweepers, they?d be in need of a new
profession. Perl Developer, perhaps? Our client is based in the heart of
Wimbledon, under a mile away from the Common where the Wombles famously
made their home.
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Dreaming of Perl? Mid/Senior-level developer role in The City of Dreaming Spires
https://perl.careers/jobs/dreaming-of-perl-mid-level-developer-role-in-the-city-of-dreaming-spires/?utm_source=perlweekly&utm_campaign=perlweekly&utm_medium=perlweekly
The Victorian poet Matthew Arnold called Oxford ?the city of dreaming
spires?, and even the most unromantic among us would surely agree there
is something magical about Oxford on a misty autumnal morning.
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Interview Advice: Being interesting can be more important than just being right
https://codeformore.com/technical-interviews-interesting-is-normally-more-important-than-right/?utm_source=perlweekly&utm_campaign=perlweekly&utm_medium=perlweekly
When you?re being asked technical questions, the point is not seeing
whether or not you know the right answer ? the point is to get you to
show off your technical skills. There?s overlap there, but those are not
the same thing.
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