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Issue #45 - June 4, 2012 - Read Perl-Module-Documentation secretly in your bed at night latest | archiveHi, I am way too busy nowadays. Taking my car to a garage once a week is a bit too much, and looking for a new car isn't easy either. Sometimes it's fun but when I have plenty of other things going on then I'd rather just have a working car and that's it. I am also moving my sites to new servers which takes me way more time than it should. The Perl Weekly is still on the old one, szabgab.com is on a new one and perlide.org is in between. Probably a bug at my DNS provider. Anyway, this means I did not have enough time to write clever comments to all the posts. I think you will manage without them :). The next two issues of the Perl Weekly will be sent from Madison, WI, USA which means it will arrive to your inbox a bit later than usual. Let's see the posts then: Announcements
Lese::Tipp - PerlyBook - CPAN Modul Dokumentation als E-Book
That would be Reading::Suggestions? Renee Baecker has announced PerlyBook that let's you 'Read Perl-Module-Documentation secretly in your bed at night.' The blog is in German but I am sure you'll find the link to the PerlyBook site. If you cannot make it to YAPC::NA that starts in 9 days, you can still watch the talks live via the streaming. See the links for the channels.
NoCOUG contest: the Perl dark horse entry
I think Yanick Champoux (yanick) wants you to participate in this contest. Judging from the example he shows, there is some serious golfing involved. It will take place between October 11-12, 2012 in Bologna, Italy. Articles
Buddy Burden describes how he ported old Perl code, running on 5.8.9, to use 5.14.2. The easy parts and the pitfalls. Another upgrade story. This time an almost flawless upgrade from perl 5.14 to the recently released 5.16. chromatic uses hundreds of CPAN modules and all but 3 installed correctly on the new version of perl. Even those 3 were easily fixable issues. So why are companies afraid of upgrade? Because they don't know how to easily test if their system still works after the upgrade.
Moving modules across perlbrew installations
If that was not enouh about upgrading then look here. David Austin complained that it is hard to ensure you install all the CPAN modules in the new perl after upgrading. Breno G. de Oliveira (garu) had a quick solution. - I'd say this problem only means you don't have proper configuration management, but I would not say it too loud because I don't have either :(
When You Can't Misuse the Immutable
by chromatic
Normalizing function arguments for memoization
by Jonathan Swartz
Why full closure support makes Perl great for science
by Joel Berger Discussion
by David E. Wheeler (theory) by David E. Wheeler (theory) Karl Williamson asked for feedback from Perl developers. Alberto Simoes brings up some language constructs and built-in subroutines from Python that he would like to see in Perl. Testing
Paul Johnson has started work on his Devel::Cover grant from TPF which includes a new home for the CPANCover web site. I did not even know about that site. Yay! by Thomas Klausner sounds cool. You can collect coverage reports and even see the changes between the previous and the current report. Code
Introducing JavaScript::Dependency::Manager
by fREW Schmidt
Perl Power - Remove files fast
by the Perl Squirrel by Maros Kollar Events
I usually list the next 3-4 events here. The list of all the events can be found on on the web site. If your Perl event is not in the list, let me know. June 13-15, 2012, Madison, Wisconsin, USA June 29-30, 2012, Strasbourg August 20-22, 2012, Frankfurt, Germany September 27-29, 2012, Tokyo, Japan |
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