Perl Weekly
Issue #228 - 2015-12-07 - Advent Season
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With December comes back a beloved Perl tradition: the Advent calendars. In other seasonal news, Christmas is getting ever closer for Perl 6. And on a slightly more "bah humbug"ish note, the various Perl-related Kickstarters aren't doing so well right now. But hey, this season is known for its miracles, so... we never know. In the meantime, enjoy! ~ `/anick
Yanick Champoux
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Sponsors
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Announcements
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by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)
The Dancer book kickstarter has 6 days and 8 thousand euros to do.
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by Peter Rabbitson (RIBASUSHI)
An update on Peter's Kickstarter to be able to focus on Open Source/CPAN development for 2016.
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Articles
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by Peter Krumins (PKRUMINS)
Peteris's Browserling (a cross-browser testing solution) was featured by ProductHunt.com, a site featuring and ranking different software. Good to know Browersling is doing good; interesting to learn about that ProductHunt site thingie.
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by David Farrell (DFARRELL)
David made a cool "Larry Wall, hero of the revolution" t-shirt (if you want one, the Kickstarter is still ongoing, hurry!). He shares here the how he uses Gimp and Inkscape to create the t-shirt's picture.
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)
Ovid teases us with can be described as a tantalizing textual trailer to his upcoming space MMORPG, Veure.
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by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS)
The London Perl Workshop is going to happen in a few days, and it looks like it's going to be awesome.
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Code
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by David Golden (DAGOLDEN)
A new release of MongoDB is coming up. And a new trial version of its driver is already accessible on CPAN. MongoDB peeps you know what that means.
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by Matt S. Trout (MSTROUT)
Either for abyss-level bug hunting, or interactive toying with the language, REPLs are invaluable. Matt reviews some of the proeminent Perl REPL out there for us.
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by Sinan Unur (NANIS)
There is an an optimization coming for Perl 5.24 that might boost some benchmarks by 25% to 40%. Sinan gives the nitty gritty details of this upcoming nitro injection to the Perl engine.
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Grants
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by Makoto Nozaki
A grant to merge stabilize and merge Test::Stream and Test::Simple into perl-blead has been approved.
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Perl 6
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by Timo Paulssen
Quite a lot of stuff happening in Perl6-land this week: a new Rakudo version, a new tutorial, a new Advent calendar, and lots of small stuff falling into place.
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Advent Calendars
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Weekly collections
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Perl Maven Articles
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Are you looking for a place to contribute. Here is the 100 most recently uploaded modules that are either missing the link to their repository, have no Travis-CI enabled, or have no license in the META files.
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