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Issue #204 - 2015-06-22 - Randal Schwartz is getting old
latest | archive | edited by Neil Bowers
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Some weeks there are clear themes in the Perl-related blog posts, such as just after a YAPC or major release. And then other weeks are all over the place. That's a good thing, I think. WebAssembly is probably of interest to many readers, as a possible new compilation format for the web. But my favourite entry this week is about Daniel Stenberg's dedication to the cURL project: 17 years and still going strong! Neil Neil Bowers |
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CPAN News
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by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL) Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)'s regular lists: Great modules released last week; MetaCPAN weekly report; StackOverflow Perl report. |
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by Mark Allen (MALLEN) Mark has uploaded a developer release of Net::Amazon::EC2 to CPAN with support for AWS4 signatures. He's keen to get feedback from AWS users. | 
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Perl hacking
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY) Dave compares Mojo::DOM and Web::Query for web scraping, and finds that the code he has to write is almost identical. Apparently Mojo::DOM was slightly faster. | 
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by brian d foy (BDFOY) brian shows the benefits of creating data-driven tests, and talks through some of the ways you might do this. | 
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by Yanick Champoux (YANICK) Yanick uses digiKam to manage his digital photos, and his wife has a digital photo frame. He takes us through the code he uses to get tagged photos from one to the other. | 
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by Tom Legrady (TDL) This is just one in a series of blog posts looking at Perl's performance math(s) operations. |
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by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS) Dave gave a talk about the TwittElection site, which he created for the recent UK general election. He's posted his slides and notes from the talk. | 
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by Andreas Hüttel (AKHUETTEL) The Gentoo linux distribution is looking for volunteers to help test their Perl 5.22 package. |
Misc
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by brian d foy (BDFOY) An overview of hexadecimal floating point literals, which were introduced in 5.22, and some of the gotchas you need to be aware of. |
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Randal Schwartz is getting old (I know, this probably isn't news for most of us, but let's humour him, ok?); Ovid posted a tip for git stashers; Yanick has hacked on his script for creating cheatsheets. |
Events
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by Larry Wall The Swiss Perl Workshop runs from Thursday 27th August to Saturday 29th August. A Perl 6 hackathon will run throughout, keynotes and talks are on the Friday, and Larry Wall will be there. |
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Today is the last day to buy your YAPC::EU pass at the discounted price. |
Not Perl
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Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Mozilla have started working on a compiled code format for web browsers. Where languages currently compile down to Javascript, in the future they could compile down to WebAssembly. See also this post by Abel Avram |
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by Nik Silver Nik explains how you can track progress against stories in Google sheets, and produce a burn-up chart. |
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Not Perl, and not even in the last week, but I came across this today. What struck me is the line that Daniel "has spent at least 2 hours every day for the past 17 years working on and maintaining curl (~13k hours)". Read more about Daniel and cURL on his blog. Now that is dedication to an open-source project! |
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