Perl Weekly
Issue #243 - 2016-03-21 - The FOSDEM videos are out!
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You can see gorge yourself on FOSEM videos this week.
I've listed just a couple of them below.
Steve Bertrand made Sawyer X happy this week, and all he had to do was
submit an unexpected pull request on a module that had been gathering dust.
Make someone happy today — submit a pull request!
Neil
Neil Bowers
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CPAN News
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Perl 5
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by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)
I think this was the first time that Perl 5.28 was mentioned in one of these summaries!
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by David Farrell (DFARRELL)
David explains about core modules, and points out some Linux distributions that don't ship with all the expected core modules.
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Perl 6
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)
A video of Curtis's talk at FOSDEM earlier this year. The audio for the first 3 minutes is sadly borked, but stick with it.
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A video of Bart's talk from FOSDEM, where he talks about using Assembly from within Perl 6 programs. No, really!
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Heacking
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by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS)
Twitter is celebrating its first 10 years, and to celebrate Dave did some data munging on the first 100,000 twitter users, less than 13k of whom are still active.
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by Tom Wyant (WYANT)
Tom shows how you can use perldoc-search to look for documentation, while excluding the current directory, so it doesn't pull in random stuff.
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On Pull Requests
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by Alberto Simões (AMBS)
A very personal report from Alberto, about the first three months of 2016, with respect to the Pull Request Challenge, but also life.
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by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)
Sawyer's experience with a drive-by contributor to his Test::Ping module, that was nothing to do with the Pull Request Challenge.
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by E. Choroba (CHOROBA)
It always gives me a warm fuzzy feeling when a participant in the Pull Request Challenge fixes CPAN Testers failures. This involved changing a regular expression so it wouldn't tickle a bug in an old version of Perl.
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Opinion
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)
Curtis keeps beating on his "battle-tested" drum, that he introduced at least year's YAPC::EU. Perl may not be hip, but it's doing just fine, thankyouverymuch.
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Events
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Not Perl
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Safia Abdalla gives plenty of good suggestions for writing contributor guidelines for open source projects.
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Like a spell checker, but this is a linter for prose, which they say is based on advice from "the world's greatest writers and editors". I haven't tried it, but I plan on running it over the documentation for my modules, to see what it says!
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50k developers filled in the Stack Overflow developer survey; this is a summary of what they said.
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