[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #325 - 30 years of Perl

Sun Oct 15 22:22:36 PDT 2017

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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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  the same thing.
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