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Issue #393 - 2019-02-04 - Google Summer of Code 2019 - deadline is today!
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Hi there! Before you do anything else this week, check out the announcement of TPF about the Google Summer of code. It says the dead-line is February 4, 2019. which is today. The GSOC site mentions February 6, 2019., but TPF might need to have some time to put everything together. So go ahead, check it out now! Then come back, go on reading the newsletter and enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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Announcements
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by Thomas Klausner (DOMM) What can I say. While many other Perl Monger groups have shut down, the Viennese plan their meeting a year ahead. Including the one when they have grilled camel. I am impressed. |
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by Makoto Nozaki The Perl Foundation is participating in Google Summer of Code again this year. Deadline is today! | 
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Articles
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by Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt (FREW) Frew took all of his eBooks, converted them to plain text files using Calibre, then loaded the text into an SQLite database in just 7 seconds and voila. He has a full-text search of all of his books. | 
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Once, a long time ago I also wrote similar activity reports, but I think I only did 2 or maybe 3 of them. Seeing how Mohammed stick to these, I wonder if I should start them again. Would this publication help me doing things better or would it just make me nerveous that I have to report to the open Internet that I have failed in some of my plans? Have you tried to follow the footsteps of Mohammad? | 
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Testing
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by Jonas Brømsø Nielsen A few weeks ago Dave Cross wrote about a subtle bug. Now Jonas adds a Perl::Critic policy that together with a CI tool will be able to help you keep the bug out of your code. |
Web
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Grants
Perl 5
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by brian d foy (BDFOY) Because of the flexibility of Perl and the automatic type conversion the range operator has some edge-cases that are probabaly unintended and might go away. brian d foy shows them to us. | 
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Perl Tutorial
A section for newbies and for people who need some refreshing of their Perl knowledge. If you have questions or suggestions about the articles, let me know and I'll try to make the necessary changes. The included articles are from the Perl Maven Tutorial and are part of the Perl Maven eBook.
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Perl 6
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DevOps
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by Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt (FREW) Describing a bunch of tools created at ZR and the process for getting an app deployed. There is nothing Perl-specific in this, but it can be very much relevant to anyone doing DevOps related tasks. |
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) Pipelines is the name of the CI SASS solution Bitbucket provides. Here are some configuration tips. |
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Weekly collections
Event reports
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by Wendy Van Dijk It is a bit late to report this now, but this is how the scheduling happened. In any case, thanks for maintaining the Perl presence at FOSDEM every year! |
Events
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What if you had a job you loved, and that job helped other people find jobs they loved? |
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Can you help guide and grow the experience of junior Perl developers? |
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Get on the road to career growth while making a positive impact for the world |
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Drive forward independent music with Perl in London |
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Sometimes when young companies reach a certain level of success, complacency sets in. The culture (subtly) shifts from entrepreneurial to bureaucratic. That’s not this client. |
