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Issue #346 - 2018-03-12 - Conferences, Workshops, Training classes
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Hi there! there seem to be a small wave of event announcements. If you have not been to any Perl event, I'd recommend you pick one of these. There are 4 days left from the Perl Maven Tutorial crowdfunding campaign. If we don't reach the goal I will have to extend it and then you will keep hearing about it in every issue for another 6 weeks. You would not want that, would you? For the sake of your and your fellow Perl Weekly readers well being, help me reach the goal! Go and support the campaign now! Then go and enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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Announcements
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The German Perl Workshop will take place in Gummersbach between 4-6 April 2018. |
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by Damian Conway (DCONWAY) Wow, these classes are practically free. With Damian. In Switzerland. What else could I want. If I did not have a previous commitment on those days I'd surely go. The low prices will totally offset the extra chocolate I'd eat there. | 
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Round 1 and Round 2 Speakers Announced! Last Call to Submit a Talk! Register today to attend The Perl Conference; Conference Hotel Rooms and Rates; Sponsor The Perl Conference! Stay up to date! - Published on 3/11/18. These Americans will never learn how to write a date properly :) |
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I have not seen any announcement from them outside of their own web site, but nevertheless they deserve to be mentioned: In Glasgow between 15th-17th August. The CFP is still open. |
Articles
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by John Scoles (BYTEROCK) John's frenzied pace of postings about Moose and DistZilla continues. Check out his blogs for the newest! |
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) Markua is a Markdown-inspired language for writing books created and used by LeanPub. The Markua parser in Perl 5 was started by yours truly to make it easier to use Markua for writing the articles on the Perl Maven site and then to convert them to eBooks. This article shows how to set up Continuous Integration on Travis-CI. The whole project was started to aid the work once the Perl Tutorial Campaign is successful. |
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Discussion
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by Timm Murray (TMURRAY) Lots of comments on the web site and on Reddit as well. Do you have a Raspberry Pi at home? They are fun little computers. | 
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Testing
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by Mark Leighton Fisher An excellent way to make sure your code can be installed on a clean (or almost clean) Linux box with vanilla Perl. It could also be used to smoke test your module on multiple systems. |
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) Another step in the Markua parser project to help the Perl Tutorial crowdfunding. |
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by Thomas Klausner (DOMM) How can you make sure that your code, in this case CtrlO::Crypt::XkcdPassword works even if the process forks? For example in a web application. There were two main issues: Initializing the randomness in the parent meant that they generate the same password in all the processes. TAP does not like to be confused. Also, Windows does not like fork. |
CPAN
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by Mark Leighton Fisher Set::Jaccard::SimilarityCoefficient can calculate the Jaccard Similarity Coefficient of 2 sets. It is used for comparing the similarity and diversity of sample sets. Can be used to measure how much two images overlap. |
Grants
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by Will Coleda (COKE) The 'Curating and improving Perl6 documentation' JJ Merelo was approved. All the others rejected. (I am quite surprised that TPF seemed to have taken the proposal seriously. Given the timeline in the proposal was for last year and there was no reply to the comment about this.) |
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by Timo Paulssen Bits and pieces: Non-crashy multi-threaded profiles; Faster Heap Snapshots; Web Frontend; Faster Profile File Writing |
Perl 5
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Perl 6
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by Elizabeth Mattijsen (ELIZABETH) The Week in Perl 6. - All the Russian Pragmatic Perl interviews now available in English. - Tons of blog posts! | 
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Training
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) You can help the Perl Maven Tutorial and through that many beginner Perl developer either with the content or with the crowdfunding. |
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Weekly collections
Events
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Back in the day, the Wombles of Wimbledon collected rubbish. Nowadays, since the advent of motorised road sweepers, they’d be in need of a new profession. Perl Developer, perhaps? Our client is based in the heart of Wimbledon, under a mile away from the Common where the Wombles famously made their home. |
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Have you ever worked for a company with a micromanagement style, where a boss was constantly breathing down your neck? Do you hate spending more time in meetings about product requirements than actually getting on with building the product? |
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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? |
