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Issue #230 - 2015-12-21 - Little Christmas is already here!
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Hello there! Today is the darkest day on the year for our northern-biased view. From here things can only improve. Or so we hope. Anyway, even if Perl 6 has not yet been released at least you can see Star Wars, the force awakens or install a newer version of Perl 5. Enjoy! Gabor Szabo |
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by brian d foy (BDFOY) Congratulations to Chris Prather, Sawyer X, and Steffen Müller for taming the snowcamel. | 
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by Damien Krotkine (DAMS) An exceptionally detailed article on how to throw and capture exceptions in an environment where you have a lot of legacy code that throws regular sting-based exceptions, but for the new code you'd like to use object-based exceptions. | 
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by Michiel Beijen (MICHIELB) The Perl DBI driver for MySQL and MariaDB is going to have a new release. If it is important to you, test it! | 
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by Alexey Melezhik (MELEZHIK) swat and sparrow are two parts of a tool-chain for rapid web test automation development. SparrowHub is their 'CPAN'. And apparently Alexey is on a quest to anger some spelling enthusiasts. | 
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Web
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by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS) Apparently Red Hat beat P5P in breaking backward compatibility of the perl distribution. Red Hat has removed CGI.pm from their 'standard distribution of perl' 5 years ago with the release of RHEL 6. Here is what the Redditters say. | 
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CPAN
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB) It is quite easy and useful to do it and yet only 32.8% of CPAN distributions have the minimum Perl version specified. | 
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