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Issue #261 - 2016-07-25 - Gotta catch 'em all!
latest | archive | edited by Neil Bowers
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A lot of things got released this last week: a new major release of Mojolicious, Dancer 2, Perl 5.25.3, and release candidates for two stable versions of Perl 5! Everywhere I went I saw people playing Pokémon Go this last week. It may be "just a game", but it's getting lots of people out and about, and getting lots of people talking to each other, both of which are a Good Thing. Neil (Team Instinct) Neil Bowers |
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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. |
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by Sebastian Riedel (SRI) A new major release of the "real-time web framework". It's smaller, has better test coverage, and can handle higher request rates. |
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by Jason A. Crome (CROMEDOME) A new version of Dancer2 has been released, David Golden has stepped down from the core team, and Peter Mottram has joined the core team. | 
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Perl 5
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by Navrup Johal A summary of some of the points made in a recent ActiveState webinar about the state of Perl, by Tom Radcliffe and Jason McIntosh. |
Perl 6
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by Timo Paulssen A roundup of Perl 6 news, the headline of which was that Zoffix has been made a core member of the Rakudo project. |
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by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN) He describes it as a shorter post, but but the time he's walked us through the 10 bugs he fixed (in one day!), it's not so short. | 
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Testing
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)
How to compare complex data structures in your test cases, using the | 
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by Peter Sergeant (SARGIE) Pete looks at basic test assertions in Perl, Ruby, and Python. This is the first in a series of articles. | 
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Conferences
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Misc
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by Gianluca Casati (FIBO) A short post on how to look-up the ISP for an IP address, using data from MaxMind. | 
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Not Perl
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You may have heard of Smalltalk, but like me maybe you don't know a lot more than that. This short post summarises some of the things that we take for granted, which came to us from Smalltalk and its culture. |
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One-to-one meetings are a key tool in the manager's toolbox. This is a good short post on how to kick those off with a new direct report. |
