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Issue #245 - 2016-04-04 - 2 Perl events in April, 2 in June
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Hi there, I've just updated the list of Perl events in our calendar. The Baltimore Perl Workshop and the QA Hackathon are in this month. The Perl Conference, which is also called YAPC::NA, and the French Perl Workshop are in June. YAPC::EU is in August, but it does not have a web site yet. The list of tutorials at YAPC::NA is already available including the one I am giving on hooking up AngularJS and Bootstrap to a Perl backend. Although the schedule of YAPC::NA is not available yet, based on the talks from previous years you can be sure it will be a blast. Don't miss it! Enjoy! Gabor Szabo |
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Articles
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by Alexey Melezhik (MELEZHIK) I like that Alex has so many ideas and so much energy. Minion is a job queue for the Mojolicious real-time web framework. Sparrow is the testing/monitoring framework written by Alexey. | 
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) Memoization, which is basically a fancy name for caching, is not a new idea, but one that can be used in certain situations to speed up function calls. |
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Discussion
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by Paul Johnson (PJCJ) Paul has difficulty testing Devel::Cover on older versions of Perl and thus he is raising the minimum required version of his module. He just wonders if anyone finds that problematic. I think there is a general issue of how much open source developers want to spend their time supporting code free of charge. What do you think? | 
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Testing
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) A screencast and article showing how, once you have a stable test, you can move the test data to an external file and make it accessible to people who are 'domain experts' but not necessarily Perl programmers. |
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Code
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) If I am not mistaken it is a templating engine using tags that resemble the tags of Template::Toolkit and input data in PSKV format. That might stand for Pipe Separated Keys and Values. | 
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Web
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by Joel Berger (JBERGER) Apparently there was a big amount of mud-throwing in and near the Mojolicious community over a number of people forking the Mojolicious code. See the results. | 
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CPAN
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by Alexey Melezhik (MELEZHIK) It is really hard to shut down a service you built and invested in, but if the expected users don't come to the party... then it is probably better to step back, regroup and do something else. |
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB) Neil has a new series of articles explaining how CPAN works and thanking the sponsors of the QA Hackathon (QAH) at the same time. In this edition he writes about the infrastructure of CPAN and mentions FastMail, the gold sponsor of QAH. | 
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Grants
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Perl 5 core
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Weekly collections
Perl Maven Articles
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) The Perl Best Practices recommends to call return without any parameter instead of returning undef explictly. That's not always good though. |
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Not (just) Perl
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by Sinan Unur (NANIS) DIJA - Dow Jones Industrial Average is what many consider as the main indicator of the how the world economy is doing. So if you show that it behaves similarly to what happened before the 1933 crash everyone will go nuts. So what can an Economist Perl programmer do? | 
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