Perl Weekly
Issue #299 - 2017-04-17 - She's back!
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Happy Monday!
After some time off to get married, I'm back at it this week, and trying to get back into the swing of things. I could carry on at some length about my amazing husband (those of you who know me on Facebook have no-doubt gotten sick of it by now), but I sha'nt. Instead, on to the week's news!
D Ruth Holloway
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Perl 5
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by Doug Bell (PREACTION)
Doug hacks a bit to prevent hung tests by implementing a timeout on the ForkManager.
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by Diab Jerius
Benchmarking the Try::* modules
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Perl 6
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by Jeff Goff (JGOFF)
Jeff clickbaits us, then shows a quick hack that speeds things up in the Perl6::Parser test suite.
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by brian d foy (BDFOY)
Perl 6 has a wealth of comparison operators! brian d foy gives us a rundown, and an admonishment about making rash assumptions.
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by Elizabeth Mattijsen (ELIZABETH)
The Perl 6 Weekly
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)
As Crypt::Bcrypt is still not installable, making the SHA-512 slow is the best alternative we have.
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Weekly collections
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Perl Maven
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Events
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On June 3, 2017 in Madrid, Spain
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The French Perl Workshop will be held in Paris Jun 9-10.
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Formerly known as the Perl QA Hackathon, this year's Toolchain Summit will be held May 11-14 in Lyon, France.
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Formerly YAPC::EU, the conference's theme this year is 'High-end Perl'. Call for Presentations remains open until June 15!
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Registration is now open for the US Perl Conference (formerly YAPC::NA)!
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Since the New Year, the majority of Perl employers in London decided they were voraciously hiring. At the same time, apparently, most Perl developers decided to scuttle — hermit-crab-like — away from the active job market.
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Ever find yourself wishing you could see meaningful impact on users from your work? Trapped in a company with long release cycles and dubious release dates? Wish your ideas for product improvement didn't keep disappearing in to the Project Manager's backlog?
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Let's start off talking about the robots. They live in cages, they travel at 60mph, and they're controlled via AMQ messages from a Perl-based Warehouse Management System. Simultaneously awesome and terrifying, they work tirelessly to move expensive dresses around such exotic locations as Charlton, and Mahwah, New Jersey
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