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Issue #184 -
2015-02-02 - Larry gave his talk at FOSDEM
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Hi,
There was lots of buzz
around FOSDEM this last week, but not many
videos or blog posts to share with you yet. Get
blogging, those of you who went!
More than 200 people
have received their second assignment in the
CPAN Pull Request Challenge, and plenty are
still working on January's. Some people have
dropped out, but others have signed up to start
in February. As well as pull requests, lots of
blogging going on around it.
Editor #3, Neil
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CPAN News
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style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">NICEPERL's lists
by Miguel Prz ( moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://metacpan.org/author/NICEPERL">NICEPERL)
Miguel Prz ( moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://metacpan.org/author/NICEPERL">NICEPERL)'s
regular lists: href="http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/xiii-cpan-great-modules-released-last.html">Great
modules released last week; moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/cxlv-metacpan-weekly-report-ffiplatypus.html">MetaCPAN
weekly report; moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/clxx-stackoverflow-perl-report.html">StackOverflow
Perl report.
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href="http://blog.cpantesters.org/diary/194"
style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">CPAN Testers monthly report for December
by Barbie ( moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://metacpan.org/author/BARBIE">BARBIE)
Barbie's monthly
round-up of news related to CPAN Testers,
which includes plans for the QA hackathon and
beyond.
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href="http://devblog.nestoria.com/post/109293093633/module-of-the-month-january-2015-test-deep"
style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">Nestoria's module of the month for
January: Test::Deep
This month Nestoria
tip their hat, and their wallet, to moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://metacpan.org/author/RJBS">RJBS
for href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Deep">Test::Deep.
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Perl
blogging
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href="http://programming.tudorconstantin.com/2015/01/shock-and-terror-perl-is-readable.html"
style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">Shock and Terror - Perl IS a readable
language
by Tudor
Constantin ( href="https://metacpan.org/author/TCONST">TCONST)
Another love-letter
to Perl from Tudor, following his previous moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://programming.tudorconstantin.com/2015/01/perl-already-won.html">Perl
Already Won.
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href="http://martian.org/karen/2015/01/31/my-perly-janauary/"
style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">My Perly January
by Karen Pauley
Various people are
restarting their Ironman blogging this year;
Karen has set herself a goal of blogging about
Perl at least once a month, and this is her
first. TL;DR: she's busy, and gets a lot of
email to deal with!
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Hacking
and blogging
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href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/tinypig/2015/01/command-line-project-manager-clpm-v101-released.html"
style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">Command Line Project Manager (clpm)
by David
Bradford ( href="https://metacpan.org/author/DBRADFORD">DBRADFORD)
David (aka tinypig)
announced script for managing files.
Old-timers are probably reading clpm as comp.lang.perl.modules
or misc.
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href="http://openbedrock.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/cookieless-sessions-automatically-login.html"
style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">Cookieless Sessions - Automatically Login
Your Users
by Rob Lauer
Rob shows how you
can create one-time user session tokens in moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://twiki.openbedrock.net/twiki/bin/view/Bedrock">Bedrock,
for example when someone has forgotten their
password.
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Misc
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Perl 6
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href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/flavio_s_glock/2015/01/a-perl5-to-perl6-translator---update.html"
style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">a perl5 to perl6 translator - update
by Flávio Glock
( href="https://metacpan.org/author/FGLOCK">FGLOCK)
An update from
Flávio on perlito, a perl5 to perl6 compiler.
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href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/shadowcat_mdk/2015/02/fosdem-2015-its-christmas.html"
style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">Fosdem 2015: It's Christmas!
Mark's notes after
attending Larry Wall's talk at FOSDEM.
Apparently the videos of talks will go online
soon, presumably at href="http://video.fosdem.org">video.fosdem.org.
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href="https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/2015-04-gotanda-lands/"
style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">Gotanda lands
The latest news from
Perl 6 (apart from, you know, that talk).
MoraVM got 20% faster,
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href="http://www.slideshare.net/Ovid/perl-6-for-mere-mortals"
style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">Perl 6 for mere mortals
by Curtis
'Ovid' Poe ( href="https://metacpan.org/author/OVID">OVID)
Ovid shared the
slides for his FOSDEM talk ahead of time.
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Poe" width="80"> |
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Pull
Quest Challenge
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href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/e_choroba/2015/02/pull-request-challenge-january.html"
style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">Choroba's report for January
by E. Choroba ( moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://metacpan.org/author/CHOROBA">CHOROBA)
Choroba describes
his efforts with href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::HTTP::Spore">Net::HTTP::Spore.
Not everyone who got a dzil-based dist was
happy, but Choroba didn't have any problem.
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href="http://onionstand.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/my-cpan-pull-request-challenge-for.html"
style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">My CPAN Pull Request Challenge for
January: Fuse
by Breno de
Oliveira ( href="https://metacpan.org/author/GARU">GARU)
Garu describes his
thoughts and process approaching moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Fuse">Fuse,
his assignment for January, resulting in 4
pull requests.
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Oliveira" width="80"> |
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title="Maxim Vuets" width="80"> |
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href="http://neilb.org/2015/02/02/monthly-cpan-pr-graph.html"
style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">CPAN Pull Requests in January
by moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://neilb.org/">Neil Bowers ( moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://metacpan.org/author/NEILB">NEILB)
A first quick
analysis on the impact of the Pull Request
challenge. In short, a the most CPAN-related
pull requests ever, by a comfortable margin.
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title="Neil Bowers" width="80"> |
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href="http://neilb.org/2015/01/29/metacpan-favorites.html"
style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">The meaning of MetaCPAN favorites
by moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://neilb.org/">Neil Bowers ( moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://metacpan.org/author/NEILB">NEILB)
Some ruminating on
what MetaCPAN's favorites mean, some
statistics on how they've been bestowed to
date, and how they're being factoring into the
scoring of dists for the Pull Request
Challenge.
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Tools
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href="http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/2397/moving-cpan-rt-tickets-to-github-now-improved/"
style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">Moving CPAN RT tickets to Github, now
improved
by moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.dagolden.com/">David
Golden ( href="https://metacpan.org/author/DAGOLDEN">DAGOLDEN)
A while back David
presented a way to migrate tickets from RT to
github issues. Here he describes a more
complete solution, which is moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/dagolden/zzz-rt-to-github">available
on github.
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title="David Golden" width="80"> |
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href="https://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com/posts/docker-first-impressions/"
style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">Docker: first impressions
by moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com/">Arthur
Axel "fREW" Schmidt ( moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://metacpan.org/author/FREW">FREW)
Frew shares his
experiences and thoughts using Docker for
deployment, having used it for testing for
nearly a year. I've no experience with Docker,
so he could be full of shit: you'll just have
to decide for yourself.
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title="Arthur Axel " frew"="" schmidt"=""
width="80"> |
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href="http://blog.twoshortplanks.com/2015/01/27/critical-hit/"
style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">Critical hit
by moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://twoshortplanks.com/">Mark
Fowler ( href="https://metacpan.org/author/MARKF">MARKF)
Jeff Thalhammer gave
a talk on href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Critic">Perl::Critic
to Albany Perl Mongers. Here Mark shares what
he took away from the talk, the biggest win of
which was learning about using the only
option in a .perlcriticrc file.
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Language
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href="http://blog.geekuni.com/2015/02/comparing-booleans-in-perl.html"
style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">Comparing booleans in Perl
by Andrew
Solomon ( href="https://metacpan.org/author/ILLY">ILLY)
Andrew shows two of
the ways you might compare the boolean
true-or-false'ness of two scalars in Perl.
Hopefully most of the time readability would
win out :-)
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Grants
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href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/02/perllint-bug-fixes-and-new-pol.html"
style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">Perl::Lint Bug Fixes and New Policies
An update on the moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Lint">Perl::Lint
project, which was funded in moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/02/perllint-bug-fixes-and-new-pol.html">early
2014.
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href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/01/january-2015-grant-votes.html"
style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">The Ado web framework wasn't funded
by Makoto
Nozaki Two weeks ago we
linked to the proposal for the Ado web
framework. It wasn't funded, primarily because
there's already a lot of choice in Perl web
frameworks, so it wasn't clear this was the
best use of the funds ($4500 was requested).
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Perl
Maven Tutorials
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href="http://perlmaven.com/reading-from-a-file-in-scalar-and-list-context"
style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">Reading from a file in scalar and list
context
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Conferences
and Meetups
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href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/dean/2015/01/sydney-pm-february-2015.html"
style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">Sydney.PM February meetup
Sydney.PM are having
a tech talk session on Tuesday 10th February,
from 6 to 9:30pm.
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href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/swiss_perl_workshop/2015/01/swiss-perl-workshop-2015.html"
style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">The Swiss Perl workshop 2015
The Swiss Perl
Workshop will be held in Olten on Friday 28th
and Saturday 29th August 2015.
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style=" font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;
">Other Perl events
Lots of other Perl
workshops and coneference are now listed
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