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Issue #123 - 2013-12-02 - Advent started
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Hi, The week started with very few articles but in the last 2-3 days, people started to write tons of interesting stuff. In addition, Advent started and with that the advent calendars. You'll have plenty of material to read or watch. Enjoy! Gabor Szabo |
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Sponsors
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Announcements
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by Will Braswell (WBRASWELL) Will Braswell (Will_the_Chill) is running a fund-raiser for the RPerl project. As I understand, it is a very optimized Perl 5 compiler implementing part of the language. What Will calls the low magic commands. It was also discussed on Reddit. | 
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by Peter Krumins (PKRUMINS) This is the announcement of Peteris Krumins himself. AFAIK the Perl Weekly discount code is still valid. (It is PERLWEEKLY) | 
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This is a Perl distribution for Linux. The first release of the new series of releases that come with C libraries as well. This version comes with XML::LibXML (and thus libxml2). Just download, unzip and you can use it. List of extra CPAN modules on the site of DWIM Perl for Linux |
Articles
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by David Golden (DAGOLDEN) Look, new toys! David Golden worked on quite a few CPAN modules lately without blogging about them. Now he collected the list: Class::Tiny, Path::Tiny, MooseX::Role::MongoDB,CPAN::Common::Index just to mention some of them. | 
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by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS) Is Perl a secret weapon in Banks? Do any of them admit it? Can you find people who work at some of the largest money-making institutions that heavily rely on Perl. Dave Cross reposted a request for some 'proof that Perl is indeed used in the finance industry' and he got quite some. Now how can you turn this into money? | 
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Testing
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID) Great story by Ovid about the BBC, and why reducing the test run-time can increase the productivity of your team. | 
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB) The CPAN adoption list ranks modules how important it would be for you to step-up and volunteer to maintain them. It takes into account several factors, and starting from now, it also includes the test reports collected by the CPAN Testers. | 
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Code
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In the last few weeks there seem to be a lot of action around Perl::Critic people creating new policies. This time Jonas Nielsen has written a policy for checking for the use of Params::Validate. |
Fun
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by Ron Savage (RSAVAGE) Ron Savage pointed out that there was a discussion on Slashdot about a bus service in Helsinki, Finland that broadcasts the data for the tram stop display system. Oona Räisänen took the lead and reverse engineered the data. Using some Perl code. | 
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Plotly offers a graphing library for scientific Perl/PDL. I don't see a dead-line, but they plan to announce the winner on 29 December 2013, so you better send your graphs in the next 2-3 weeks. |
Slides
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John Napiorkowski, the current leader of Catalyst recommends us to go over the slides of Jonathan Worthington on the concurrency model of Perl 6. |
Moose
Videos
Advent
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Oylenshpeegul collected the list of Advent calendars: Go, Perl 5, Perl 6, Dancer, Futures, Sys, Java, Garage Rock. |
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In Perl 6 land, 2013 will be remembered as the year that brought proper concurrency support.... |
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Weekly collections
Perl Maven Tutorial
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It is especially for beginners, but even long time Perl users might find a few suggestions here. Certainly you could use this page to recommend your co-workers some basic things how to improve their Perl code. |
Events
I usually list the next 3-4 events here. The list of all the events can be found on the web site. If your Perl event is not listed there, please let me know.
