From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Nov 26 23:04:02 2017
From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo)
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 07:04:02 -0000
Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #331 - The London Perl Workshop
Message-ID: <20171127070304.7BF76C143@s8.hostlocal.com>
Perl Weekly
http://perlweekly.com/
You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer.
http://perlweekly.com/archive/331.html
The London Perl Workshop was on Saturday, and we've already had four blog
posts about it.
You'll pick up on a theme: it was a great community event.
There are a lot more TPCiA videos online now,
and the Perl 6 weekly news has links to those about Perl 6.
Neil
--
Your editor: Neil Bowers.
CPAN News
NICEPERL's lists
http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2017/11/clx-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/2017/11/clx-cpan-great-modules-released-last
.html ); MetaCPAN weekly report (
http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2017/11/ccxcii-metacpan-weekly-report-pegex.
html ); StackOverflow Perl report (
http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2017/11/cccxvi-stackoverflow-perl-report.htm
l ).
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Happy Taskgiving
http://techblog.babyl.ca/entry/happy-taskgiving
Yanick has released some new commands for his tool for TaskWarrior (
https://taskwarrior.org ).
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Perl 5
P5P Mailing List Summary: November 13th to 20th
http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2017/11/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-november-13th-20th.html
The weekly round-up of P5P notes, which includes links to a lot of grant
updates from Dave and Zefram.
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Perl5 as a first-class script engine in Java
http://blogs.perl.org/users/flavio_s_glock/2017/11/perl5-as-a-first-class-script-engine-in-java.html
An update from Fl?vio on Perlito ( https://github.com/fglock/Perlito ), an
implementation of Perl 5 that runs in the JVM. You can now run Perl
scripts from inside a Java application.
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Rakudo
Test All The Things
http://theperlfisher.blogspot.com/2017/11/test-all-things.html
Jeff takes us through testing in Perl 6.
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2017.47 More TPCiA Videos
https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2017/11/20/2017-47-more-tpcia-videos/
The weekly roundup of Rakudo news, with links to a videos for Perl 6 talks
from TPCiA.
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A unified and improved Supply concurrency model
https://6guts.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/a-unified-and-improved-supply-concurrency-model/
Jonathan describes his recent work to improve the concurrency features
provided by Supply
.
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London Perl Workshop
London Perl Workshop is Amazing
http://www.markkeating.me.uk/2017/11/26/london-perl-workshop-is-amazing-i-didnt-organise-that-shit/
It was great seeing Mark at LPW, throughly enjoying being an
attendee, and that shines through in this post as well.
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Lance Wicks's report on LPW
http://lancewicks.com/2017/11/26/london-perl-workshop-2017-lpw2017/
Lance gave a tutorial on the Bailador web framework for Perl 6, and shares
this thoughts on how that went, along with the rest of the day. I loved
this line: "It was just so darn friendly, and the whole darn Perl
community is so darn friendly".
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The Lion and the Butterfly and the Camel
https://dev.to/jj/the-lion-and-the-butterfly-and-the-camel-a8b
JJ's thoughts on the day, during which he gave a talk on using Perl 6 for
teaching programming to complete novices.
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Mohammad's report on LPW
http://blogs.perl.org/users/mohammad_s_anwar/2017/11/london-perl-workshop-2017---report.html
Mohammad gave his first-ever Perl talk last year at LPW, and he came back
to talk about Map::Tube ( https://metacpan.org/pod/Map::Tube ) this year.
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The Perl Foundation
Test2 Documentation Grant Progress Report
http://news.perlfoundation.org/2017/11/test2-documentation-grant-prog-3.html
Alberto passes on an update from Chad, for his work on Test2 (
https://metacpan.org/pod/Test2" class="distribution ), being done under a
TPD grant.
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Community
PullRequest - Personal Milestone
http://blogs.perl.org/users/mohammad_s_anwar/2017/11/pullrequest---personal-milestone.html
Mohammad has got addicted to help others, via pull requests. He gives us
some statistics on his journey so far.
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The corner of Gabor
A couple of entries sneaked in by Gabor.
Have exceeded the maximum number of attempts (1000) to open temp file/dir
https://perlmaven.com/have-exceeded-the-maximum-number-of-attempts
A not too common, but rather annoying error.
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The Perl 6 Recipes book Kickstarter campaign
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/596128605/perl-6-cookbook
Get all 4 of his books with one donation!
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Show number of files in several directory trees using Shell
https://code-maven.com/number-of-files-in-several-directory-trees
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between the nuts and bolts of back-end work and the immediately rewarding
aesthetics of front-end work. If pushed, though, most could identify
where their real passion lies along the spectrum from front-end to
back-end.
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boss was constantly breathing down your neck? Do you hate spending more
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