Perl Weekly Issue #275 - 2016-10-31

Issue #275 - 2016-10-31 - Helló Wien!

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Hi,

probably only few of you know, that on October 31, 1477, the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus has captured Vienna (called Wien by the locals). This is the source of the popular tradition to celebrate Helló Wien on this day.

Enjoy!

Gabor Szabo

Articles

sparrow remote tasks - way to package your scripts and configurations.

by Alexey Melezhik (MELEZHIK)

Tau Station Updates

by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)

Trick or treat with funny Perl modules

by D Ruth Holloway

Featuring Acme::LookOfDisapproval, Acme::DiceAcme::Crap>, and Acme::Damn. Indeed, strange modules.

Testing

Moose: Testing the constructor

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

Screencast

Code

Using the Symbol Table: "Help"?

by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY)

Swift and Perl Interoperability

The primary goal of swiftperl is to write XS modules for Perl entirely in Swift. GitHub

Web

Web development with Perl 5

by Ken Youens-Clark (KCLARK)

It is rare that you can look into the thought process of building an application. The comment on Reddit has more words.

Net::Twitter Cookbook: Favorites and Followers

by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY)

Impressive work in writing tutorials. I wonder if he also Tweets about them.

CPAN

Recovery Report and Project Roadmap

by Doug Bell (PREACTION)

CPAN Testers was down for two weeks starting October 16, 2016. This is the report about the downtime and what has changed during that period of time.

Grants

Grant Report : RPerl User Documentation #2 - Sept/Oct 2016

by Will Braswell (WBRASWELL)

Tony Cook's Grant Extended

by Karen Pauley

Update on JavaScript Backend For Rakudo Grant

by Paweł Murias (PMURIAS)

Perl 6

Avoid User Namespace Pollution with Perl 6 Modules

by Tom Browder

How to selectively export functions from your Perl 6 module.

2016.43 Shining Star

by Elizabeth Mattijsen (ELIZABETH)

Other

Parsing JSON is a Minefield

How well each library (Perl or not) implements the JSON specification?

Weekly collections

NICEPERL's lists

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

Great modules released last week;
MetaCPAN weekly report;
StackOverflow Perl report.

Events

How do you prepare a talk?

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

The 3rd part of the series that started with selecting the length of the talk, continued with the topic of the talk and now preparing for the talk.

Open Source Conferences

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

A list of upcoming Open Source related conferences. Many of them still with open call for papers. The source is in GitHub.

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