Perl Weekly
Issue #141 - 2014-04-07 - Modern Perl Now Moderner
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This week is exceptionally good for the beginners amongst us. Not only the new edition of Modern Perl is out, but we also have quite a few tutorials. Not that the more experience reader won't have their fill; new version of GitHub-like GitPrep being released, Moose article aggregation, survey of the new modules for March... there should be enough to keep everybody happy. Enjoy! ~ `/anick
Yanick Champoux
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Announcements
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No rest for the wicked, nor staleness for the modernists. The 2014 edition of chromatic's 'Modern Perl' is out.
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by Yuki Kimoto (KIMOTO)
A new version of GitPrep is out, announces Yuki Kimoto, and it had some nice features and, as the screenshots shows, looks darn good.
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Articles
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by Toby Inkster (TOBYINK)
What's up in the extended world of Moose in March? Nothing major, but a lot of little things. Toby Inkster has the details, and the links.
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)
Gabor Szabo reminds us that Perl can explain itself in more details, if we ask nicely.
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Don't already know the Perl debugger? Shame on you... But today's your lucky day: Chisel presents here a primer on this fundamental tool.
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by David Farrell (DFARRELL)
David Farrell gives us here a curated list of the interesting new modules that appeared on CPAN in March. Lots of nifty treasures in there.
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Debugging is often a foray on the very brim of the cliffs of sanity. Lech Baczynksi tells us of his adventures when he had to lean over and peek at the chasm below...
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)
When answering a question on Stack Overflow, one can link to Perl modules in a way that will break once the module gets updated in the future (which makes us all sad), or in a way that will let all future generations enjoy the bestest and latest version of the module forever. Gabor shows us the difference.
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minicpan is a wonderful tool to have your own local copy of CPAN's latest releases. fishy shows how he uses it to always have his CPAN on a thumbdrive with him.
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Discussion
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by Reini Urban (RURBAN)
"To each his own" folk wisdom tells us. Reini Urban would beg to differ, and warn us of the pitfalls of the 'each' iterator.
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Code
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by David Farrell (DFARRELL)
Security can be hard. But sometimes, it can be as easy as adding a wee little line to your HTTP header. David Farrell demonstrates.
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Programming in Perl, but missing Python's decorators? Fear not, Piotr Roszatycki has something for you!
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When writing web services, asynchronous programming is almost certainly bound to come into the picture. Usually, it's nicely abstracted by a web framework. But, as dakkar shows here, rolling your own is not as painful as one would think.
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by Timm Murray (TMURRAY)
From the Wumpus Cave, Timm Murray walks us to the crypt(), and then through the various better encryption solutions out there.
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)
DBIx::Class's resultset classes are often slim, logic-less affairs. But Ovid shows us here how they can also be used to create a much smarter interaction with the database.
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by Breno de Oliveira (GARU)
Want to get your Dancer application running on a Media Temple's grid service? You're in luck: garu has a walk-through for you.
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Weekly collections
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