Perl Weekly
Issue #206 - 2015-07-06 - Just take our money!
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Hi there!
Lots of announcements and many Perl 6 related entries this week. Keep on the heat!
Enjoy your week! ~szabgab
Gabor Szabo
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Announcements
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by Rocky Bernstein (ROCKY)
A Challenge for you, though I am not sure if this is about implementing BASIC in Perl, compiling BASIC to Perl, or Compiling C++ to Perl.
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It is ready for your testing!
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Articles
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by Justin Simoni (JJSIMONI)
Dada Mail, one of the oldest and still actively maintained open source Perl projects got a new release and in it some new capabilities for branding to an existing site. How did Justin implement this so the user won't need to learn 3 new pieces of technology?
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Code
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY)
An interesting mix of old-school CGI script with 0 padding if IDs and JSON response.
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by David Farrell (DFARRELL)
Tow of the scripts from 'Penetration Testing With Perl' refactored: 'Livehost Detection' and 'Fingerprinting'.
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by Thomas Klausner (DOMM)
How do you partition the users in your database to 14, more-or-less equal sized groups? How to you map every 14th work-day to the same partition?
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Web
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)
PSGI is the superglue connecting Perl to web servers. It is rather low level, but there are cases when you need to use that instead of one of the higher level frameworks.
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CPAN
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB)
Just as you need to pay attention to the date on the bottled water you drink, so you won't drink expired water by mistake; you need to pay attention to the version number of the things floating on the water in the river above the place where you let your folks drink from the river.
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Grants
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by Makoto Nozaki
The Perl Foundation keeps offering you money. Why don't you take some?
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Perl 6
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by David Mertens (DCMERTENS)
PDL, the Perl Data Language is the basis of many of the scientific computations available in Perl 5. If you are into that sort of computtion (or if you use NumPy and want something better) then read this.
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Just going forward like a clock.
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Perl 6 became one of the community supported languages on Travis-CI.
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Weekly collections
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Perl Maven Articles
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)
Over 100 episodes have been uploaded to YouTube and are also available for free download.
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