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Issue #124 - 2013-12-09 - On the nth Day of Chrismas, My Newsletter Brought to Me...
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Here we are, on the last stretch of the year. While the blog front might be on the quiet side, the different advent calendars are abuzz with activity. Some elves are also keeping themselves quite busy if the first reports of the 'patch -p1' hackaton are to be trusted. So go fill your hot cocoa mug, and prepare to enjoy this small, but oh-so-cozy, edition of the PerlWeekly. ~ `/anick Yanick Champoux |
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The patch -p1 hackaton took place a few days ago in Paris. For the impatient, here's the wiki page providing the raw firehose of what was achieved there. |
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by Jeffrey Thalhammer (THALJEF) How's Stratopan doing? Which editor is Jeffrey using? Does the mastermind of Perl::Critic always use it? Jeffrey Thalhammer reveals all in this shocking interview. ... Okay, perhaps not that shocking. Just, y'know, darn interesting. | 
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by Sinan Unur (NANIS) Sinan Unur asks, and answers, the tough question. (spoiler alert: the article begins with a thundering 'YES') | 
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by brian d foy (BDFOY) Most people are looking for Waldo. brian d foy, however, prefers to be on the look-out for appearances of those books with the funny animals on the covers... | 
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by Sebastian Willing (SEWI) Sebastian Willing is experimenting with Data::ObjectDriver, and finds that the way it deals with foreign table joins is pretty darn good. |
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by brian d foy (BDFOY) Aaah, those devious webs of dependencies we spin... Well, now we can have a visual idea of how tangled they are, thanks to brian d foy'd work at the patch -p1 Perl hackaton. |
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