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Issue #112 - 2013-09-16 - Portuguese and Austria Perl Workshops
latest | archive | edited by Gabor Szabo
This edition was made possible by the supporters of our cause.
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Hi, The Portuguese Perl Workshop in October and the Austrian Perl Workshop in November were just added to the list of events. If you are in the neighborhood, make sure you attend them. Other than that, just enjoy the articles! Gabor Szabo |
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Sponsors
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We are a growing software company using open source software/modern Perl practices to build innovative e-payment, auction, and tax collection web applications. |
Announcements
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The web site of the APW 2013 went live. It will take place November 2-3, 2013, Salzburg, Austria |
Articles
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by Buddy Burden (BAREFOOT) I seem to always like the articles of Buddy Burden, even when he writes about a questionable feature of Perl. In recent versions of perl you don't always need to manually de-reference references to hashes and arrays that can either make your code cleaner (no @{ } or %{ } around some snippets) but it might be ambiguous. It is certainly good to be aware of these features and decide if you will accept, encourage or ban their use in your code-base. |
Perl 5 core
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by Reini Urban (RURBAN) The p2 (also known as Perl 5+6=11) project of Reini Urban is trying to create a bridge between Perl 5 and Perl 6. Compiling Perl 5 code to run on the Perl 6 run-time. | 
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Fun
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by Timm Murray (TMURRAY) While probably you won't get a lot of daily usage out of this module it is certainly fascinating how Timm Murray from the Wumpus Cave explains the problems with associative arrays, (also known as hashes) and how Tree::Trie could solve all the problems. If we actually noticed that there are problems. | 
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Apparently playing games can make you smarter! There is research proving this, and now there are games you can play free of charge. And the nice thing is that they were built using Perl. |
CPAN
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by David Golden (DAGOLDEN) Especially interesting for CPAN authors who would like to read their POD in a web browser, before they upload the module to PAUSE. David Golden create a short script that would turn POD into HTML and then open your default browser to that file. Even if you don't need this service, the script is a nice example of using Path::Tiny, Pod::Simple::XHTML, and Browser::Open. | 
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB) If you want to research CPAN, you'll soon need to go over all the distributions available there. Neil Bowers has been working on the tool to show the CPAN modules that are good candidates for adoption. Now he shows us how he iterate over all the CPAN distributions using PAUSE::Packages. | 
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Weekly collections
Perl Maven Tutorial
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Traversing a directory structure is not a very complex thing, but writing it again and again is boring. So why not use a module with a great interface? |
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Do you know how to create constants in Perl? Hint: it is probably not the constant pragma. |
Events
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