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Issue #26 - January 23, 2012 - Why does your site not link to perl.org?! latest | archiveHi, I am currently in Austria skiing with my family. I thought we won't have Internet access here but it turns out the 'Zimmer' (B&B) where we stay every year has installed wifi. Which in itself is funny. This house stands on the hill-side, and the only building within 200m is the where the cows live. Yet the wifi needs password and the password looks like this: oGPmC0PEkTKwWa80sqWRtTnjfY Yes really. I have no idea how someone comes up with the idea of creating such a password nor is it clear what are they afraid of? That the cows will hook up to the net and illegally use it? Anyway, now that I can use the Internet I can also prepare the Perl Weekly and send it out. Enjoy.... Headlines
Why does your site not link to perl.org?!
Christian Walde (Mithaldu) published another article that calls on all the web sites, small and big, that use Perl, to indicate this and to link to perl.org. I am totally in favor! Announcements
Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi (vti) decoupled PocketIO from Plack. Chris 'BinGOs' Williams announced the new development release of Perl. If you have lots of code and plan to upgrade to 5.16, please make sure you test your code with this release. Articles
Visualizing Perl 5 release cycles
David Golden (xdg dagolden) has published a nice graph nicely showing the release dates of various stable Perl versions. It's also interesting to see the first comment immediately raising the potential problem of the shorter release cycles for end-users. Jeffrey Kegler writes about code reuse and the Marpa module and algorithm. Testing
Code
Mark Fowler is talking about converting some patterns of ASCII and turning them into HTML entities or Unicode characters. Reini Urban describes some crazy code. For debugging purposes it is very useful to print out complex data structures. Tim Heaney (oylenshpeegul) show a couple of was to accomplish this. The self promotion section
Global symbol requires explicit package name
This error message is one of the most confusing ones to beginners. In this article I try to explain what should a beginner understand from it. Parrot
Parrot tickets now converted to GitHub
Andy Lester posted on Perl Buzz about the work on Parrot. Events
February 28, 2012, Ramat Gan, Israel March 5-7, 2012, Erlangen, Germany April 14, 2012, Catonsville, MD, USA June 13-15, 2012, Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
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