From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Dec 3 21:21:43 2017
From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo)
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 05:21:43 -0000
Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #332 - The holiday season is upon us!
Message-ID: <20171204052112.C9640C5D9@s8.hostlocal.com>
Perl Weekly
http://perlweekly.com/
You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer.
http://perlweekly.com/archive/332.html
'Tis the season...for Advent calendars, apparently. Take a look at special
coverage of those in this week's issue, along with more LPW reports and
other goodies!
--
Your editor: D Ruth Holloway.
Advent Calendars
Perl Advent Calendar
http://perladvent.org/2017/index.html
A holiday tradition since 2000!
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Perl 6 Advent Calendar
https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/
Every year since 2009--no fancy calendar, just great blog entries every
year in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
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Mojolicious Advent Calendar
https://mojolicious.io/blog/
Joel has started a new blog for Mojolicious, and is kicking it off in grand
style, with an Advent calendar.
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Dancer Advent Calendar
http://advent.perldancer.org/2017
They are a couple of days behind as I write this, but the Dancer team has
produced an Advent calendar since 2010.
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London Perl Workshop reports
My first tech conference: London Perl Workshop 2017
http://eligo.co.uk/london-perl-workshop-2017-my-first-tech-conference/
Thomas attends his first LPW, and writes about it for Eligo's blog.
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London Perl Workshop Report
https://culturedperl.com/london-perl-workshop-report-c267b69f909a
Dave had a great day at the LPW, and tells us all about it.
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LPW Time
https://shadow.cat/blog/mark-keating/2017/017-LPW-Time/
MDK couldn't be satisified with one post (listed in last week's issue of
the Perl Weekly), he had to post on the company blog, too. 'Cuz he's like
that.
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London Perl Workshop 2017
https://salva.github.io/LPW2017/
Salvador also attended LPW, gave a talk, and had a great time!
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Other Events
4 Days in Amsterdam with Porters
http://blogs.perl.org/users/todd_rinaldo/2017/11/4-days-in-amsterdam-with-porters.html
P5P held a Hackathon October 12-15. Todd reports on some of the key work,
and teases us with more blog posts to come.
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CPAN Testers at meta::hack v2
http://blogs.perl.org/users/preaction/2017/11/cpan-testers-at-metahack-v2.html
Doug continues improving integration of CPAN Testers with MetaCPAN. He
attended the second annual MetaCPAN hackathon, and here reports on his
work at the event, along with a list of upcoming work.
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Non-Code
What's In a Name, (or How I Picked my Name-space, and Lived)
http://blogs.perl.org/users/byterock/2017/11/whats-in-a-name-or-how-i-picked-my-name-space-and-lived.html
Choosing a namespace for a new CPAN module is non-trivial. John gives us
some of his though processes for the work he's on.
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Perl 5
OpenCage Data, Geocoding in Perl
http://blog.builtinperl.com/post/opencage-data-geocoding-in-perl
The builtinperl.com folks interview Ed Freyfogle, co-founder of OpenCage
Data about the work they're doing in geocoding with Perl.
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Perl 5's List-Flattening and Reference-Taking Design Choices
http://blogs.perl.org/users/aristotle/2017/11/perl5-refs-flattening.html
Aristotle tells us a bit about some of the design considerations in Perl 5.
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graphql-perl - Plugin to Make GraphQL 'just work' with OpenAPI
http://blogs.perl.org/users/ed_j/2017/11/graphql-perl---plugin-to-make-graphql-just-work-with-openapi.html
This new plugin provides conversion from a given OpenAPI specification to a
GraphQL schema.
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Perl 6
2017.48 Community First
https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2017/11/27/2017-48-community-first/
The weekly roundup of Rakudo news.
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I've Written a Small BBC News Scraper in Perl 6
https://www.reddit.com/r/perl6/comments/7ezrz7/ive_written_a_small_bbc_news_scraper_in_perl_6/
After learning a lot about Grammars, st33znson has written up a small
scraper, and shares it with us in this Reddit thread.
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Grants
YAML::PP Grant Report
http://blogs.perl.org/users/tinita/2017/12/yamlpp-grant-report-november-2017.html
Tina has been working hard on YAML-related work including presenting at the
LPW. She reports on a number of improvements, and other grant-related
activity.
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Weekly collections
NICEPERL's lists
http://niceperl.blogspot.com/
Great modules released last week (
https://niceperl.blogspot.com/2017/12/clxi-cpan-great-modules-released-la
st.html );
MetaCPAN weekly report (
https://niceperl.blogspot.com/2017/12/ccxciii-metacpan-weekly-report-refu
til.html );
StackOverflow Perl report (
https://niceperl.blogspot.com/2017/12/cccxvii-stackoverflow-perl-report.h
tml ).
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The corner of Gabor
A couple of entries sneaked in by Gabor.
Removal of the current directory (".") from @INC in Perl 5.26 and Travis-CI
https://perlmaven.com/removal-of-the-current-directory-from-inc-and-travis
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Virtualenv in Perl 5 - install 2 different versions of the same module
https://perlmaven.com/virtualenv-in-perl
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50% discount on the Bailador Book
http://leanpub.com/bailador/c/pw-201712
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Perl Jobs by Perl Careers
Front-end focus for a full stack Perl developer
https://perl.careers/jobs/front-end-focus-for-a-full-stack-perl-developer/?utm_source=perlweekly&utm_campaign=perlweekly&utm_medium=perlweekly
Perl developers are generally a multi-talented bunch who can segue smoothly
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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Independent thinkers required! Mid/Senior-level Developer for an innovative London company
https://perl.careers/jobs/independent-thinkers-required-midsenior-level-developer-for-an-innovative-london-company/?utm_source=perlweekly&utm_campaign=perlweekly&utm_medium=perlweekly
Have you ever worked for a company with a micromanagement style, where a
boss was constantly breathing down your neck? Do you hate spending more
time in meetings about product requirements than actually getting on with
building the product?
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Do some good in the world ? Perl developers required for a charity and giving-focused team in Kent, UK
https://perl.careers/jobs/do-some-good-in-the-world--per-developers-required-for-a-charity-and-giving-focused-team-in-kent-uk/?utm_source=perlweekly&utm_campaign=perlweekly&utm_medium=perlweekly
Want to do something good for once? Join the Kickstarter of the charity
world, supporting activists and causes around the world. You?ll be
working in Perl to support a range of their highly successful charity and
giving-focused projects.
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