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Issue #149 - 2014-06-02 - Perl 5.20 released
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This week had way too much happening in Perl. Perl 5.20 has been released. It is available from CPAN in source code format. MS Windows users can already download Strawberry Perl 5.20.0.1 Mojolicious Five Point Oh has been released. The 2014 edition of the Modern Perl book has been published New developer tool: perlmodules.net Oh, and Parrot had a new release too. YAPC::NA finally has a preliminary version of its schedule. It also has a list of courses available before and after the conference. The first Perl Workshop in Granada, Spain, and the next YAPC::Asia in Tokyo have also been announced. Gabor Szabo |
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GitTip profile of the week
GitTip allows you to give a regular weekly monetary gift to people in order to encourage them to do more of the awesome stuff they have been doing. The gifts can be as low as 1 cent a week. In this section every week you will see a different Perl developer we recommend you support. Oh, and the Perl Weekly itself also has a GitTip account.
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by Barbie (BARBIE) Barbie got control over the Twitter account called @cpantesters, and now he has set up a Gittip account as well. By supporting the team you help with the maintenance of the servers and infrastructure of the CPAN Testers. | 
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Announcements
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by David Farrell (DFARRELL) Many improvements, including experimental Subroutine signatures. Go ahead compile it from source and start using it. Soon after the announcement David Farrell posted a short overview of what you need to know about perl 5.20. | 
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by Sebastian Riedel (SRI) Right on the heels of the first Mojolicious conference (Mojoconf) Sebastian Riedel announced the new version. |
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by Alexander Karelas (KARJALA) Use this if you'd like to get alerted when one of the dependencies of your application has a new version. | 
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Articles
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by Thomas Klausner (DOMM) While refactoring a large code-base, domm has encountered this error. It turns out it was a bug in DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader clobbering $_. Besides that, I'd say: Using $_ explicitly is usually not a good idea. |
Code
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Eric Johnson is converting variable names among CamelCase, snake_case, and kebab-case. |
Web
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Parrot
Videos
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TAP is one of the awesome things born out of the Perl ecosystem that turned out to be nifty enough to sneak out and colonize other projects. Su-Shee talks here of its use with databases, Postgres, more specifically. ~yanick |
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by Yanick Champoux (YANICK) A 50 min introduction to Perl Dancer, by Yanick Champoux, the other editor of the Perl Weekly. | 
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Perl 6
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The regular Perl 6 weekly by Timo Paulssen. |
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OOP
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by Toby Inkster (TOBYINK) The monthly report about Moose, Mouse, Moo, p5-mop, and a few other OOP related things by Toby Inkster. |
Training
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by Dave Rolsky (DROLSKY) Dave Rolsky is going to give an introduction to Moose at YAPC::NA. I strongly recommend his course! | 
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Weekly collections
Perl Maven Tutorials
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A simple example creating an application that can echo a string. |
Events
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