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Issue #14 - 2011-10-31 - GCI dead-line in less than 24 hours
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Hi there, First of all let me thank you for recommending the Perl Weekly. There are more than 300 new subscribers since last week. Google Code-in and TPF: The deadline for GCI submission is in less than 24 hours. Please read the post by Paul Johnson and submit a project idea. Now to the posts: Gabor Szabo |
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Headlines
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by Paul Johnson (PJCJ) Google is trying to get students between the age 13-17 involved in Open Source. The Perl Foundation wants to take part in it and Paul Johnson has extensively written about it. You have less than 24 hour before the deadline. | 
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Are you planning to upload a new module to CPAN? Would you like to get feedback before you upload the module or even before you write it? That's what PrePAN is for. See the announcement of Kentaro Kuribayashi. |
Articles
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by Thomas Klausner (DOMM) Thomas Klausner (domm) reports that he created a web site for the App::TimeTracker command line time tracker. I have to say they have a very cool demo on the front page and a very nice looking site. I find it very funny that the king of command line is building a nice web site for his command line product but I also find it very encouraging! |
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chromatic is working on a new edition of the Modern Perl book and he is thinking about publishing it in HTML format as well. You can get the draft version now and you can comment on it. This is another chance to get your name among the contributors of this book! |
Training
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by Alex Muntada (ALEXM) Members of Barcelona.pm are organizing a Perl training course. As I can see the web site is in Catalan but as I understood from Francesc Guasch the course will be given in Spanish. | 
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Discussion
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by Christian Walde (MITHALDU) Christian Walde (Mithaldu) first asked 'How do newbies find Perl learning materials online?' which led to a number of comments and blogs about the subject and then back to Mithaldu who wrote a POD-like article about the state of the Perl tutorials and the state of the search results when looking for 'perl tutorial'. This generated lots of discussions both on the blog and on Reddit. |
Perl Tutorials
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) Partially in response to the discussions about the sad state of the Perl Tutorials I restarted posting my own tutorials. This is the beginning of a simple and stupid game I wrote a long time ago in another country and in another language. |
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Code
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John SJ Anderson is describing his progress with Jacquard, a web application to provide a single interface to read an write on several social networks. In this article he sets up the basics using Dist::Zilla and Test::Class. |
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Tim Heaney (oylenshpeegul) - is wondering, if in Perl 6 it is trivial, how can we catch several matches in Perl 5? |
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Adam Kennedy (Alias) describes the changes that will go into the next release of DBD::SQLite. If you are depending on it, you should probably test the release candidate. |
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Martin Evans (mjevans) also announced a development release of DBD::ODBC. |
Perl 6
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Tadeusz SoĊnierz (tadzik) has announced MuEvent which is an event loop in Perl 6. It is like a younger brother of AnyEvent. |
Other
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Damien (Learns Perl) encourages us to participate in the AI Challenge to see Perl solutions with better rankings. |
Events reports
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by Daisuke Maki (DMAKI) Daisuke Maki (lestrrat) wrote a nice report about YAPC::Asia including the videos of all the presentations. That's another thing both the EU and the NA YAPCs could learn. All the videos were uploaded 4 days after the conference ended. | 
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by Karen Pauley Karen Pauley also wrote a blog post about her experience at this year's YAPC::Asia. In a nutshell, it was great. She says so in more details. | 
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