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Issue #57 - 2012-08-27 - New design for the Perl Mongers
latest | archive | edited by Gabor Szabo
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Hi there! YAPC::EU is over. You will find several reports from participants of the event. There are also a few more articles about the Perl Reunification Summit that took place the weekend before YAPC. According to my calendar, there are going to be two Perl events in September and two in October. See if you can attend either of those! The school-year is starting in the northern hemisphere. Please be careful when driving near schools! Gabor Szabo |
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Headlines
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The central web site of the Perl Mongers got updated with a new design of Leo Lapworth (Ranguard). Nice work! I hope this will also help to encourage the local Perl Monger groups to update their own web site. |
Announcements
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Apparently it is not entirely new, but I have not seen it announced earlier. The idea is to have a single interface and single configuration file to tidy perl, pod, html, JavaScript, CSS, etc... |
Articles
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by Alberto Simões (AMBS) I am not sure why the harsh words - people can make mistakes - but the linked article is useful. | 
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by Jeffrey Kegler (JKEGL) Jeffrey Kegler explains how Marpa parses arbitrary BNF which was not the case with traditional parsers. | 
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB) While working on his review of modules for getting dependency information, Neil Bowers could not find any that was working the way he wanted. So he uploaded a new one. Now he has a lot more modules to review... | 
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Releases
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This is the newest release of the WebGUI Runtime Environment that contains Apache, MySQL, perl, ImageMagick and a bunch of CPAN modules. There was also a separate release announcement of WebGUI 7.10.26 |
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v0.90 and subsequently v0.902 was released handling cross-project dependencies. |
Code
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A nice example how adding code without understanding what the original did, and without proper testing can lead to lots of wasted hours (read loss of money) and probably loss of information too. |
Slides
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This talk was given at YAPC::EU by Shawn M. Moore (sartak). I attended it along with a lot more people than could fit in the room. The slides include some explanation at the bottom. |
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID) From Ovid who wants you to understand what Agile means. Also known as POP: People - Organization - Process. | 
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Discussion
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by Andrew Shitov (ANDY) Andrew Shitov is discussing some of the plans for next years YAPC::EU in Kiev. | 
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Code
Perl 6
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This is a short article introducing the module system of Perl 6 and installation with Panda. |
Other
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The main thing is that they organized Perl training classes with Damian and part of the income went to the Oslo.pm group. They could use that money to organize hackathons and even to donate to TPF. I can just recommend to follow the idea and organize training classes. - For example if you are interested in running a 'test automation using Perl' training class, you know where to find me :) |
Training
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Do you feel that Perl is a bit complex for you? Maybe some constructs don't make a lot of sense? As the example of Lesley shows, a little human explanation can go a long way in understanding the details. I personally see this over and over again in my classes too. People with many years of Perl experience, but lack of deep understanding, come in the class and then leave already understanding a lot more of the language. |
Weekly collections
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A quote quoted: >>One day we shall be able to boast that 'Perl 5 has *dropped* support for more platforms than your language has ever *had*'<< |
YAPC::EU and Perl Reunification Summit reports
A collection of reports from the European YAPC. Some people write daily reports, I think I'll include only one for each author.
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Perl Reunification Summit (PRS)
This was a 3-day even between 16-19 August 2012 in Perl, Germany (near Schengen). The reports will be included here.
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Events
I usually list the next 3-4 events here. The list of all the events can be found on the web site. If your Perl event is not listed there, please let me know.
