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Issue #119 - 2013-11-04 - No Unicode in the subject line
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Hi, Last week I had this little experience with various interesting Unicode characters in the Perl Weekly. On the web site it worked out well, but in the e-mail there were a few glitches. Most likely due to Mailman that I still use to handle the newsletter. (And it is a rather old version of Mailman, so I can't really blame it.) The subject line was missing the [Perlweekly] tag that Mailman should have included (and I hope it does this time again) and several people mentioned that they have not seen the heart in the subject line. I think the body of the message went through just fine. Gabor Szabo |
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Autoderef was added to perl in version 5.14 and now it seems to be on the way out. chromatic asked your opinion if you will miss it. I think very few people have really used it. Have you? |
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by Steven Haryanto (SHARYANTO) While CPAN has lots of modules solving many problems (multiple times), there are many problems that are not, or not well solved. Steven Haryanto started to put together a list of tools (libraries) available in other languages but not in Perl. In case you are looking for an problem to work on. |
Code
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by Toby Inkster (TOBYINK) Toby Inkster continues his quest to unify the way we can use Moose, Moo and Mouse. One of his suggestion is to write for Moo. Code written using Moo works well with Moose as well, and the syntactic sugar alll three provide is quite similar. So if you use that, your code will likely work with all 3. |
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This is the regular write-up of Toby Inkster on the world of Moose and friends. This episode includes an interview with Upasana Shukla who implemented the Moose exception objects as part of her OPW internship. |
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by Philippe Bruhat (BOOK) Do you have a Gti wrapper? Does it work? Philippe Bruhat (BooK) has created a GtiHub repository with lots of weird commits to test against. | 
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Grants
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by Tony Cook (TONYC) Tony Cook has requested an extension of $13,000 for his Maintaining Perl 5 grant. |
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Torsten Raudssus reports about the one week he worked on the grant since he started it in July. |
Databases
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Apparently there is a serious unicode bug in DBD::ODBC which affects inserts into char/varchar columns. |
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This is the presentation of Bill Humphries at YAPC::NA about web frameworks for the client such as Backbone, Knockout, and Angular and how they work together with a Perl-based back-end. |
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Doran Barton gave this introductory talk at the monthly meeting of the Salt Lake Perl Mongers. |
Web
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by John Napiorkowski (JJNAPIORK) This is expected to turn into the stable Catalyst 5.90050 release. Go test it. | 
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by Dominique Dumont Apparently LWP::UserAgent (and thus most Perl web clients that rely on it) cannot handle https requests via proxy. This bug was reported 10 years ago. Patches were submitted but the problem has not been fixed. Now Dominique Dumont explains the background of https and show how he proposed to fix the problem. |
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