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 Message-ID: <20171016052142.B96C0C3CE@s8.hostlocal.com> 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 ). -------------- 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. -------------- 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. -------------- ============= 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. -------------- 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! -------------- ============= 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. -------------- ============= Rakudo Rakudo Weekly https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2017/10/09/2017-41-the-case-for-empathy/ The weekly roundup of Rakudo, or 6lang, news. -------------- 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. -------------- 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. -------------- ============= 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. -------------- ============= 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. -------------- ============= 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. -------------- 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?". -------------- ============= 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 -------------- Fixing test failure on Windows - Properly quoting regexes - Accepting GitHub pull request https://perlmaven.com/fixing-test-failure-on-windows -------------- ============= 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. -------------- 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. -------------- 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. 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