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Issue #114 - 2013-09-30 - Perl Monger Meetings Are Going Full Streaming Ahead
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More and more Perl Monger meetings are bursting out of their geographical niches by offering a live stream of their talks. Thanks to this new movement, one can now attend to the Perl Monger meetings in San Francisco, New York and Toronto without the hassle of renting a private plane. Nifty, eh? - `/anick Yanick Champoux |
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Miyagawa presents here his latest offering: a tool that creates a shell script and cpanm bundle to install modules on a remote machine without cpanm installed and no network connection. |
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Articles
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by Ricardo Signes (RJBS) It is only poetic justice that the creator of Dist::Zilla got to go to Tokyo for YAPC::Asia . Ricardo Signes narrates for us here his YAPC::Asia 2013 experience. | 
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Lestrrat offers us a recap of the awesome YAPC:Asia 2013, which saw an impressive 1,131 attendees. |
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Oylenshpeegul offers us a pretty comprehensive overview of all the different ways roles are implemented in Perl. So, I guess that we can say that, in a way, he's basically rickroling us (hey, *he* started with the puns). ## Discussion |
Testing
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Martin J. Evans had his first experience with Travis. He thinks he liked it. |
Code
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by Ricardo Signes (RJBS) Lexical subroutines is a new feature introduced in Perl 5.18.0. Ricardo Signes tells us what they are, and what use they have. |
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID) Moose by itself is already scrumptious, but most of us top it with MooseX:: extras to make it even better. In this article, Ovid shows how to shave on the boilerplate that the import of all those extra modules require. | 
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Hashes. They are darn versatile. Here, Vincent Veselosky proves the point and shows us a few tricks to juggle with them most effectively. |
Fun
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by Reini Urban (RURBAN) Schokidoki (aka. Alex) has resurrected Petris, a Tetris clone written in Perl/Tk. He even made a YouTube video and inspired Reini Urban to post his game. |
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Videos
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The New York Perl mongers are using Google Hangout to livestream their talks. Want to emulate them? Samuel Kaufman gathers here all the steps and tricks |
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by Olaf Alders (OALDERS) The Toronto.pm Perl Monger meetings are also boldly shattering geographical limitations. Olaf Alders announces how the group is now broadcasting live via Google Hangout, and urges us to join the fun. | 
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