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Issue #108 - 2013-08-19 - Another YAPC, another release of Perl
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Summer is almost (but not quite) over. This year's edition of YAPC::EU came and went and, if the Twitter feeds are to be believed, a good time was had by all. As it is typical, it left a heap of slidedecks and videos in its wake that should keep us entertained for a few weeks still. A new maintenance release of Perl also made its appearance. Beside that, it was a fairly mundane week in the Perl world; Reini Urban smoking the whole of CPAN via a one-liner, miyagawa fatpacking fatpacked fatpackers, y'know, the usual suspects doing the usual things... ~ Yanick Summer might be almost over for Yanick in Canada, but for me, we have 2 more months of hot weather... ~ Gabor Enjoy... Gabor Szabo |
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Headlines
Testing
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This one is already mentioned in the Barbie testing overview, but it deserves an entry of its own. Reini Urban shows how he smoke tests the whole of CPAN. From a single line of code. Amazing feat or terrifying bend of what the human mind can withstand. I'll let history decide... |
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Code
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Naoki Tomita shares a script that favorites CPAN modules via the command line. |
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Of course, we all know the classic "die 'uurgh'". dakkar reminds us that there are ways to have more... articulated last words, via objects. |
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by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (MIYAGAWA) If last week's post made you wonder what is plenv, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa explains it now. | 
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Fun
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For us, it's the movie Inception, but with Leonardo's role played by Fat Bastard from the Austin Powers movies. For miyagawa, it was last Sunday. |
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID) Remember those good ol' text games of yore? Ovid does too, and he wrote a Perl engine to run those vintage adventures. | 
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by Mike Doherty (DOHERTY) If you enjoyed the hacking series of Mike Doherty, now you can follow his footsteps using his new module on CPAN. | 
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Slides & Videos
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Jon Jensen's slides on the joys of packaging perl modules (in this case, via RPMs). |
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Jan Gehring's lightning talk on Rex. Because if it's worth doing more than once, it's worth automating. |
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Stanislaw Pusep's slides on LWP::Protocol::Net::Curl, a module mashing the goodness of LWP and libcurl together. |
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by Kerstin Puschke Kerstin Puschke's slides on oEmbed, an open-web standard for 3rd party media embedding. | 
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All of YAPC::EU's slides, conveniently aggregated together, for your viewing pleasure. |
Web
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by Jan Henning Thorsen (JHTHORSEN) Jan Henning Thorsen mentions hypnotoad, the Mojolicious web server that can do hot deployment and introduces Toadfarm that can handle post-receive hooks of Git and Github to pull and deploy your latest and greatest version of your web application. | 
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YAPC::EU reports
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CPAN
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB) It turns out 70% of CPAN distributions aren't used by any other distribution... See more details in the report of Neil Bowers. | 
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Weekly Collections
Perl Maven articles
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by Philippe Bruhat (BOOK) Are you fed up using the same names in every example script? Philippe Bruhat (BooK) came to your rescue 8 years ago. Now his module is also available as a web service. | 
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Events
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