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Issue #3 - 2011-08-15 - The future of Perl 5
latest | archive | edited by Gabor Szabo
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Hi, I have been in Riga for the past 4 days already meeting lots of fellow Perl programmers. Both people I already know and new contacts. YAPC::EU officially starts today and I am looking forward to the talks and the further social interaction. To those who could not attend, you can at least read some news from the past week... Gabor Szabo |
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Headlines
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by Andy Lester (PETDANCE) A very good summary of what's going on at the Perl 5 porters and what are the plans of Jesse Vincent for Perl 5. - I missed this one last week but it is important enought to include it now. | 
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After lots of really small posts about next years YAPC::NA finally one that has substantial content. If you wonder what is YAPC about (or what is the next YAPC::NA is going to be about) then this might give you some ideas. |
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Mark Gardner introduces his first module: Data::Compare::Plugins::Set::Object |
Screencasts
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by Glen Hinkle (TEMPIRE) This is the second episode of the terrific screencasts by Glen Hinkle showing features of the Mojolicious web framework. | 
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Explaining botht the technical background and the style needed to create the screencasts. |
Articles
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I am glad Dan provides some insight to the finances of TPF. This is light years better than what we had earlier but I am still at odds with the fact that this, the TPF part, does not appear on the official TPF website. |
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Two explanations about dependency injection. When and why to use it. See this post and the following one by chromatic. |
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Phillip Smith describing |
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID) As usual Ovid makes and excellent post with an excellent code example. He is comparing binary search of sorted data vs creating a lookup table and using it. The numbers speak for themself. Or do they? | 
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by Sebastian Willing (SEWI) Sebastian Willing explains binary searching through SVN revisions in order to find a bug which is known as bisect in the git world. |
Perl 6
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Finally Synopsis 26 of the Perl 6 specification was also converted to HTML using the brand new Perl 6 pod parser. |
Discussions
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Randal Schwartz wanted to discuss what 'killer application' could be built usign Perl 6 that would make it interesting for more people to learn Perl 6. Unfortunatelly the discussion drifted to the naming question again. |
Testing
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A simple wrapper around 'ab' the command line tool to load test web sites. |
Code
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by David Cantrell (DCANTRELL) David Cantrel just announced the creation of an extension to Params::Validate. I have not looked at the features so I wonder if it wasn't a better idea to include this within Params::Validate itself? | 
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by David Golden (DAGOLDEN) David Golden shows us some examples to make it easy to install CPAN modules - almost - manually. Do you have other ways to improve or extend his suggestions? | 
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Games and Code
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