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Issue #102 - 2013-07-08 - Patch in Paris
latest | archive | edited by Gabor Szabo
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Hi, I am not sure what happened, but this week we are full on both web-related and database related articles. There is also this French hackathon we missed earlier, but it is less than 3 weeks from now. So if you don't know how to spend your vacation time, I can recommend visiting Paris and sitting in a dark room with a lot of other Perl hackers. Or maybe using that as an excuse to visit Paris. Either way, enjoy! Oh and let me thank Dean Hamstead who recommended the Perl Weekly for the Syndey.pm members. He brought in 20 new, and hopefully happy, subscribers. Gabor Szabo |
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Announcements
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by Philippe Bruhat (BOOK) Do you know how to say patch in French? You have a chance now to learn it. The French Perl Mongers are organizing the 0th patch event in Paris. | 
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Articles
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by Jeffrey Kegler (JKEGL) Jeffrey Kegler helps us understand Victorian English using Perl and Marpa. | 
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Discussion
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by David Farrell (DFARRELL) David Farrell (sillymoose) asked the readers to help him with the list for an upcoming article. |
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Testing
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Use environment variables to tell your test to bail out on the first sign of distress. A very good way to save time while fixing a test failure. |
Database
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After reading the instructions, it does not seem as difficult as I thought. Of course one needs to read the instructions for that. |
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MySQL support, starting from v5.6.4 and an SQLite backwards-incompatible change. |
Fun
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After encountering the Regex engine of the Go programming engine, Tim Heaney tried to see how can you use the same engine in Perl, Python in Ruby. This engine can improve the speed of some of your regexes. |
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So now you can use Perl and your drone to spy on the neighbor. I am glad some people do real work with Perl! |
OOP design
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID) Ovid explains how Object Oriented programming can hide complexities. If you follow the pattern he outlines, you will see the number of parameters you need to pass shrinking. Which is always a good thing. | 
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Web
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by Sebastian Willing (SEWI) Would you like to have a Perl-based blog engine? Sebastian Willing shares his experience setting up MovableType on a shared hosting account. |
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by John Napiorkowski (JJNAPIORK) Questhub is what used to be Play-Perl. It is a cooperative self-encouragement site written in Perl. | 
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Including a big Makefile cleanup that might break your installation. Please test! |
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by Yanick Champoux (YANICK) It is not straight-forward how you could distribute a Dancer based Perl application as a CPAN module. Yanick show us the way with his buzzword-compliant Markdown-based presentation app, | 
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Perl 6
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Rakudo on JVM is now passing 92% of the tests that Rakudo on Parrot does! (...and that was written a week ago.) Soon we can say that Perl is running on 3 billion devices. On top of the JVM. Are we in game then? |
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by Nikos Vaggalis A text only interview conducted by Nikos Vaggalis. Jonathan is comparing C# with Perl, Parrot with the JVM and with MoarVM |
Other
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Recently Olivier Valuet pointed me at this article. I don't remember seeing it before. Certainly interesting. Especially as I am doing some Perl vs. Python vs. Ruby comparisons myself lately. |
Weekly collections
Perl Maven Tutorial
YAPC
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by Ricardo Signes (RJBS) Better late than never. Ricardo Signes posted his experience at YAPC::NA that was held in Austin, TX a month ago. | 
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Events
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