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Issue #305 - 2017-05-29 - I thought summer was a slower time, when I was a kid...
latest | archive | edited by D Ruth Holloway
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So, you missed the Toolchain Summit, eh? I didn't get to go, either, but there are still a bunch of conferences ahead! Plan now to go! We're still getting in some reports from the Toolchain Summit, too, plus a few other goodies of news from around the net this week. My world's been a little busy, and it looks like some of the usual posters have been busy with other things, too! D Ruth Holloway |
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Code
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by Ed Jordan Ed is porting GraphQL from JavaScript to Perl. He's got some initial findings on this daunting task! |
Perl Toolchain Summit Reports
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by Joel Berger (JBERGER) Joel attends his second Summit, and worked on the CPAN Test Reporter, along with a few other CPAN issues | 
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Perl 5
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Perl 6
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by Laurent Rosenfeld
The Think Perl 6 book is now officially out (see oreilly.com). O'Reilly received it from the printer this week and started shipping it out to retailers. |
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) Gabor continues his crowdfunding campaign to write a book on Web Application Development in Perl 6. He has posted an article on launching the campaign and the first week of the campaign. Bailador now has a web site. | 
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Events
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Formerly YAPC::EU, the conference's theme this year is 'High-end Perl'. Call for Presentations remains open until June 15! |
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Register now for the US Perl Conference (formerly YAPC::NA), June 18-23, near Washington, DC. |
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The German Perl Workshop is in Hamburg, at the Bürgerhaus Wilhelmsburg, on June 26-28! Registration is open! |
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The Swiss Perl Workshop will be held in Villars-sur-Ollon on August 25-26. CFP is open until July 31, and registration is now open. |
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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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Many (many) years ago I used to work for a large British broadcasting corporation in West London, on an interminable Perl project later rewritten entirely in Flash. One of the few highlights of my days was interacting with Mäike [name changed to protect the innocent], a Senior Developer on a downstream part of the project. |
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Not everyone’s like me. Perhaps nobody’s like me. But when it comes to enjoying programming jobs, and particularly when it comes to enjoying Perl programming jobs, there are two things that are needed to make me happy that I suspect resonate with most other career developers. |
