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Issue #293 - 2017-03-06 - Release of DBD::mysql coming
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There's a new release of DBD::mysql coming. If you use it, Michiel would appreciate the developer release being tested. Neil 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 Michiel Beijen (MICHIELB) Michiel announces a new developer release of DBD::mysql, with improved handling of UTF-8, and lots of other improvements. He's looking for more testing, and if that doesn't turn up anything bad, then a non-developer release will come this week. | 
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by Shoichi Kaji (SKAJI)
Kaji-san explains how you can make your CPAN distributions support static installation. This means a client doesn't have to run | 
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Perl 5
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by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX) Sawyer's weekly update from the P5P mailing list, the headline of which is that Perl 5.25.10 is now available. | 
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by Sinan Unur (NANIS) Sinan has been grubbing around in Perl's internals, as part of his ongoing quest for something-or-other related to Unicode, Perl, and Windows. | 
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) Gabor goes through some of the tools you can use to package your code, for CPAN, or not. | 
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) Gabor has a look at some of the core modules that are shipped with Perl itself. |
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Perl 6
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by Elizabeth Mattijsen (ELIZABETH) The regular weekly roundup of Perl 6 news: some bugs have been fixed, some things have been made faster, and some other stuff. | 
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by Moritz Lenz (MORITZ)
Moritz takes us through the creation of a command-line tool for looking up Unicode characters, inspired by the | 
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Hacking with Perl
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Telegram is a messaging service, one of the best-known features of which is end-to-end encryption of your messages. In the client you can define custom buttons, and Flavio has used Perl to abuse this feature. | 
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by Mark Dominus (MJD) Back in July of last year, Mark blogged about a type of puzzle that his kids were having fun with. Here he talks through the design of his solution, and links to his Perl code. | 
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by Dimitar Mitov Dimitar announces the first release of Camel Doctor, a web-based interface to the Perl debugger. | 
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Perl Foundation
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by Jim Brandt Makoto Nozaki, who is the chair of the Perl Foundation grants committee, has joined TPF board as secretary. |
Not Perl
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by Nolan Lawson Nolan shares what it can feel like, maintaining open source projects that are popular. TL;DR: "I've already told my partner that, if and when we decide to start having kids, I will probably quit open source for good". |
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by Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt (FREW) Frew shares his thoughts on interviewing developers, based on his experience interviewing candidates for ZipRecruiter. As he says, ultimately interviewing is really hard. | 
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