[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #332 - The holiday season is upon us!

Sun Dec 3 21:21:43 PST 2017

Perl Weekly 

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'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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