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Issue #242 - 2016-03-14 - Thirty Score Subscribers, WOOHOO!
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This week, we're celebrating our 6,000th subscriber! And in 8 weeks we'll be hitting our 250th edition. And 10 weeks after that, it's the 5th anniversary (really?) milestone that we'll reach. I don't know about you, but I'd say that all those occasions call for a momentous celebratory camel cake. Enjoy! (this edition of the PerlWeekly, that is, not the yet-to-be-baked cake) ~ `/anick Yanick Champoux |
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Announcements
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by Makoto Nozaki The Perl Foundation is launching its round of grant proposals for March. Deadline: March 23rd. | 
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Articles
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by Moritz Lenz (MORITZ) While the blo entry itself is more of a blurb, it contains links to the presentation Moritz gave on the topic at the German Perl Workshop and to his book-in-progress. | 
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Discussion
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by Peter Krumins (PKRUMINS) Reading this piece, the expression "Go Big, or Go Home" comes to mind. Peteris argues that frameworks are bad. What framework? _All_ of them. | 
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Testing
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One of the oft-forgotten things about the t/ directory and 'prove' is that tests don't necessarily need to be Perl code. Here Pawel shows how one can painlessly mix and match Perl 5 and Perl 6 tests in a testsuite. |
Code
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by Steven Haryanto (SHARYANTO) Even if you don't use lcpan, this is a nice entry also showcasing cli tools to manipulate and report JSON-like data. |
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by David Golden (DAGOLDEN) Perhaps you are the type of conservative soul who prefers consistency over sheer performance? Rejoice, for MongoDB has a new knob to adjust its behavior in that regard. | 
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by Philippe Bruhat (BOOK) Some bugs are easy to spot. Others can be sneaky. Blending with their surrounding, waiting patiently for years before the right circumstances present themselves. The present tale is about a bug of the latter category, which stayed dormant for over five years before resurfacing... | 
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by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS) Last summer, WWW::Shorten was put up for adoption. And now, happy news, somebody answered the call. New releases are already trickling in. | 
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Perl 6
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by Timo Paulssen In the new things this week in Perl 6-land: one of the good introduction tutorials to Perl 6 is now available in French and German. |
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. |
Perl Maven Articles
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) Not Perl, but it was originally published on the Perl Maven site and if you are interested in the full course, it will be given at YAPC::NA. | 
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