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Issue #38 - April 16, 2012 - Over 3000 subscribers! latest | archiveHi and welcome to the new subscribers! It seems this was a very busy week. Lots of posts. Way too many to include all of them here. We have also passed the 3,000 subscribers. I wrote about this and the post was submitted to Hacker News. This brought quite a number of new subscribers. For more details check the 'self promotion' section below. Now to the interesting stuff: Announcements
A pastebin with almost no user interface
Mike Doherty wrote WWW::Hashbang::Pastebin, a simple pastebin written in Dancer. I guess it could be nice to set it up within a company and start using it for showing code examples via the network. Michael Daum announced the new release of the Perl based wiki. This includes both security fixes and other improvements.
Perlito version 9; Perl5 and Perl6 compilers
Flavio S. Glock released a new version of his awesome Perl compiler.
Nordic Perl Workshop 2012 - June 4-5 in Stockholm, Sweden
Claes Jakobsson finally announced the dates of the Nordic Perl Workshop!
EPO launch new membership and donations site
EPO = Enlightened Perl Organisation Articles
Defending Against Its Dynamic Scope
chromatic writes about a nasty trap that one can fall in when using $_ in a construct that calls some other code that might change $_. It is especially a problem in map and grep where you have to use $_.
Breaking problems down and defaults
Zbigniew Lukasiak is trying to simplify the API of a module by adding wrappers and setting defaults.
Mojolicious Boilerplate Evolution
Tudor Constantin tells us the story behind the evolution of the Mojolicious Boilerplate. Some features that were added and lots of plans he has for the project. Discussion
Explaining Web Programming via Plack
Should Ovid introduce only PSGI in his book or should it also include Dancer and Catalyst? Testing
Verifying MySQL behaviour with automated test suites and mytap
Cosimo Streppone did not write about Perl in this article but he is using mytap, the MySQL version of TAP, the Test Anything Protocol. It is very nice to see how Perl helps the quality of the Opera browser through testing MySQL. Instead of Test Driven Development, Nitish Bezzala suggests Test Driven Learning. I think this can be a good idea though one needs to think how to introduce it and how to make sure the test framework does not hide problems or introduces new ones.
Mock Objects Despoil Your Tests
While I agree with chromatic that too much mocking in tests is not healthy I am really not sure where does he get the idea that mocking is overused. The companies I visit never do mocking. OK, they usually don't do any testing and that's why they invite me and the only way to get some test up there is to mock half the universe. Or at least the external APIs. In any case, it would be interesting to check the level of mocking within CPAN. A late memoire from the Brazilian player called Breno G. de Oliveira (garu). Code
Can Parallel::ForkManager speed up a seemingly IO bound task?
An interesting exercise in benchmarking by Sinan Ünür.
Throwing and catching exceptions in Perl
Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi (vti) is a street performer juggling fire. He throws and catches exceptions without gloves. And without CPAN. Geistteufel sets up his environment to be able to work offline. Including having access to CPAN while on the road using Mini CPAN. Jason A. Crome provides a quick and dirty solution. Anyone there to make it more robust? Fun
Learning Perl Challenge: tripwire
This week brian d foy asks you to monitor a directory to find any file changes.
use Perl; Poetry: Method to my $madness
In case you want to read a poem. In Perl. By Steve Bertrand. Perl 6
Perl 6 Hackathon in Oslo: Be Prepared!
It is going to take place between 20-22 April 2012!
Plans for the Perl 6 Hackathon in Oslo
Tadeusz Sosnierz (tadzik) also has plans. Training
In addition to London, Oslo, and Zurich, Damian Conway will visit Lisbon too. Be prepared! The self promotion section
Perl Weekly reaches 3,000 subscribers - two days later
This is a follow-up post Events
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