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Issue #166 - 2014-09-29 - A Mild Case of Shellshock
latest | archive | edited by Yanick Champoux
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The main tech news of the week has to be the Shellshock exploit. Does it affect Perl? Fortunately, not that much (David Farrell has the details). In other news, a new version of DBD::SQLite will soon be released, a new Perl book is in the making, and Perl will be participating in the next iteration of the OPW -- all providing us with delightful reasons for looking forward to the months ahead. Enjoy! ~ `/anick Yanick Champoux |
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Announcements
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by Karen Pauley A new edition of the Outreach Program for Women is rolling in, and Perl is happily involved, Karen Pauley reports. | 
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by Kenichi Ishigaki (ISHIGAKI) A new release of DBD::SQLite is coming this October, warns Kenichi Ishigaki. If you maintain a program using SQLite, it might be a good idea indeed to test your codebase against the current trial release. Just sayin'. |
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by Stefan Hornburg (HORNBURG) There will be food! And social events! And live music! Announces Stefan Hornburg, regarding the upcoming Dancer conference. | 
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DWIM Perl is a binary Perl distributions with 'batteries inside'. It is core Perl + a few hundred of the most commonly used modules. |
Perl Maven Pro
The Perl Maven Pro subscribers receive two new articles and screencasts every week. The last week these were the two screencasts:
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An introduction to the 'like' function provided by Test::More |
Articles
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by David Farrell (DFARRELL) By now everybody knows what the shellshock exploit is (or wonders why herds of sysadmins all over the world have been running around, arms flapping in abject panic, for the last few days). But what does it means for Perl? David Farrell has the answer. | 
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by Toby Inkster (TOBYINK) Toby Inkster is working on a Perl book, targered at intermediate-level programmers. The book-crafting is still in its early stage, but it looks very promising. |
Discussion
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB) This month's meeting of the Thames Valley perl mongers counted one presence in their midst. A young neophyte going by the name of Neil Bowers... | 
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by Herbert Breunung (LICHTKIND) lichtkind gives his personal answer to the question that is currently making the rounds. |
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by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS) There is no light without darkness. No feast without heartburn. No language without, ah, irritating parts. Dave Cross muses on what he thinks are Perl's own hercules's heels. | 
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Testing
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by brian d foy (BDFOY) The new maintainers of Test::More have released some new trial version of the ubiquitous testing module. brian d foy asks: should cpan testers be testing, and reporting failures, of modules using these versions? A fair question, and it turns out that there are pretty good arguments for and against reporting against the bleeding edge. | 
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by brian d foy (BDFOY) "Reporting test failures of alpha releases: good or bad?" The discussion sparked by brian d foy continues here. |
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Code
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by Robert Rothenberg (RRWO) Potentially interesting for CPAN authors: Robert Rothenberg's POD-to-README generator now has a pre-release available on CPAN. |
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by Krasimir Berov (BEROV) Thanks to Krasimir Berov, the Perl ctag support in GitHub's Atom editor just got a little bit moderner. | 
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Weekly collections
Perl Maven Tutorials
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How to use the API of Digital Ocean to start a new Droplet, do something and then shut it down again. |
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A 2 min long screencast on searching for Perl modules on Google and how to arrive to the respective page on MetaCPAN. |
Events
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In the following cities: Hancock (NY/USA), Itapema (SC/Brasil), Salzburg (Austria), Barcelona (Spain), London (UK) |
