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Issue #122 - 2013-11-25 - Over 5_000!
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Hi, first, let me just thank you for all the support. There are now more than 5_000 e-mail subscribers reading this newsletter. It is awesome! By chance, Peteris Krumins has published a book about Perl one-liners and there is a 30% discount code for the Perl Weekly subscribers. (See below.) Finally, if you'd like to show your monetary support to the Perl Weekly, you can do so by subscribing to the Perl Maven Pro. Besides the good feeling of supporting the Perl Weekly, you will also get 31 advanced Perl-related articles. Available only to the Perl Maven Pro subscribers. Gabor Szabo |
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Announcements
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by Peter Krumins (PKRUMINS) Perl one-liners written by Peteris Krumins has just been published by No Starch Press. Read my review and if you would like to buy it, you can use the discount code PERLWEEKLY. It's 30% off and is valid for the next 10 days. | 
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Articles
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Do you have special feelings when you see code that has 'use strict' in it? What if you notice that it does NOT have 'use strict'? How does that change your expectation from the code? How do you see your future with that code? |
Discussion
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Chris Marshall, the maintainer of PDL (Perl Data Language) distribution, is lookinf for input for the future direction of PDL. Please read the questions on the announcement, and send an e-mail to him to: devel.chm.01 at gmail.com |
CPAN
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) Are you a CPAN author? Do you think that your module is useful? Even to people who use Google as their search engine? Here is a way you can help Google show your module in a more personal way. |
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Testing
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Code
Fun
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by Yanick Champoux (YANICK) Command-line perldoc, dzil and got completion from your favorite Yanick. Screenshows. | 
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Survey
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by Andrew Solomon (ILLY) Andrew Solomon is running a small, one-page survey on Perl and web. Please fill it out in the next 48 hours and if you don't forget, please mention that you read about the survey in the Perl weekly. (I think the 5th question can have this information). | 
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Business
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by Tudor Constantin (TCONST) Tudor Constantin has announced a new web site built by Evozon featuring start-up companies that rely on Perl. Do you work for one? Do you own one? Do you want to get featured? | 
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Database
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Videos
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by Casey West (CWEST) (48:55) - Casey West gives a quick overview of Twitter Bootstrap, HTML5 Boilerplate, Modernizr, Shims, Respond.js, Mimosa, Stylus, and a lot of other front-end tools and libraries. |
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(52:18) Dave Rolsy, author of the DateTime module explains about Daylight Saving Time, Leap seconds and the difficulty to make sane computation with dates and times. |
Perl 6
Weekly collections
Perl Maven Tutorials
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Counting how many times a given (sub)string appears in a given text is a very common task where Perl is a perfect fit. |
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Do you use MetaCPAN or search.cpan.org? Do you know you easily make changes to MetaCPAN to provide you better information? In this article I show the first few steps and a small change that was already accepted and deployed. |
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