Issue #303 - 2017-05-15 - Perl Toolchain Summit 2017

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Hi there,

this week we have loads of posts about the Perl Toolchain Summit that took place in Lyon. Paul Johnson provided daily reporting of the event and several other people have reported specific accomplishments. It sounds it was a good effort thanks to the organizers and the sponsors.

There is an Instagram Feed of the Perl events now!

Enjoy the week!

Gabor Szabo


Announcements

perl.org has a new look!

Check out the new www.perl.org and thank babsveloso for the beautiful new design!

Looking for Perl 6, Rakudo, and MoarVM development funding

by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN)

Do you want Perl 6 to further improve? Jonathan is one of the key people who can make that happen, but he also needs to eat. So this is your opportunity to chip in or to get your company to use their bank account to support the work on Perl 6.


Articles

Virtual Spring Cleaning - in which wild modules ambush me

by Max Maischein (CORION)

Corion started to work again on WWW::Mechanize::Chrome this time using the headless Chrome. He also updated Test-HTTP-LocalServer.

count is not uniq...

by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY)

In which Dave explains that 'uniq' only works for values that are next to each other and one needs to use 'sort | uniq' in order to get real unique values. Or use a Perl snippet.

TPF at OSCON 2017 and summary of TPF in 2016

by Jim Brandt

The article is mostly covering the grants TPF handed out in 2016. To both Perl 5 and Perl 6 development.


Cloud

AWS IAM at ZipRecruiter

by Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt (FREW)

Frew describes the way they are now using Amazon Web Services Identity and Access Management with Net::Amazon::Signature::V4 and Paws.


Web

Serving static site using Plack and PSGI

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

A simple example using Plack::App::File and Plack::Middleware::DirIndex


CPAN

Specifying dependencies for your CPAN distribution

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

The 4th part of the series explaining how to declare the dependencies using ExtUtils::MakeMaker, Module::Build, App::ModuleBuildTiny, Dist::Zilla, Minilla, cpanfile, and Module::Install.

Viewing Your Module Permissions on MetaCPAN

by Olaf Alders (OALDERS)

Impressive way to see who has rights to release a module.

Turning Hooks off in App::GitHooks

by E. Choroba (CHOROBA)

App::GitHooks is an extensible plugins system for git hooks. Now you can turn it off using an environment variable.


Fun

Perl Panel, an amazing lightweight utility

A desktop environment in Perl?


Grants

Perl 5

Code

Converting glob patterns to efficient regexes in Perl and JavaScript

by Lukas Mai (MAUKE)

Recently there was a big and enthusiastic discussion when Russ Cox benchmarked several glob implementations and now Lukas shows us the fast version using regexes. It's a nice article and one can learn some regex power tools, but I still don't understand when does this have any practical impact? Have you ever used glob with more than 2 stars (*) in it?

Ref::Util updates: Pure-Perl now available!

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

Ref::Util provides utility functions for checking references. e.g. is_ref($foo) and is_arrayref($foo). The work done at the Perl Toolchain Summit culminated in a Pure-Perl version making it more accessible to the general public.


Perl 6

Weekly collections

Fun

Event reports

The Toolchain Summit is only possible with support from our sponsors

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

The full list of sponsors and information about them.


Perl Jobs by Perl Careers

Distraction-free Workplace - Escape Standups and Scrum - Perl Developer West London

Personally, I love Agile and Scrum so much I wrote a set of blog articles detailing why I love them so much. But it’s not everyone's cup of tea. Some people yearn for being given a two-week task, going away, and getting it done well by themselves, or in consultation with highly technical and well-read colleagues.

London's Trendiest Office Space - Lead and Mid-Level Perl Developer roles

I love working in a vibrant, modern space. If you’re going to spend all day at work, it might as well be somewhere you enjoy being, rather than a cubicle farm. This client has a workspace I’m actively jealous of!

Perl Developer who wants to learn Scala and NodeJS - West London

Love Perl but want to skill-up on another stack at your employer’s expense? Client is a major and dynamics UK company with a large (and pretty Modern) Perl codebase who have started extended their technical stack to include Scala and NodeJS.



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