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Issue #354 - 2018-05-07 - PDL - Perl Data Language
latest | archive | edited by Gabor Szabo
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Hi there, I am heading to Budapest today to visit the Craft Conf. A fun event with lots of great presentations and tons of food. I hope to see some of you there! Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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Sponsors
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) Besides editing the Perl Weekly newsletter and writing articles on the Perl Maven site, I also offer services to companies helping them improve their development practices. Primarily I help introducing Test Automation systems (Unit ~, Integration ~, Acceptance tests.) Setting up CI/CD systems. Virtualization. Cloudification. Almost all of my clients came through referrals by people like you. Members of the Perl community. So if your team or company is interested in such a move, you know where to find me. |
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Announcements
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by Thomas Klausner (DOMM) Would you like to host a Perl Conference in your town? This is you opportunity to organize one! |
Articles
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by John Scoles (BYTEROCK) John has another set of articles, now about Moose. I wonder how can he keep up the daily posts and how does he find all the cute images that come with the posts. I was hoping he'd have a post about his posts. Every one of us could learn from him and generate more interesting content. |
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by David Farrell (DFARRELL) XS is the language that can glue Perl and C together. David covers some useful routines for common cases you'll encounter when programming in XS. The areas he covers are: Scheduling XS code to run at startup. Handling tied variables. Unicode tools. | 
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by Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt (FREW) An excellent look into what fork() and exec() do, What are STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR. Some exploitation ideas and some bizarre bugs. | 
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The original swish-e.org site is no more, but the source code is available on GitHub. and the documentation is available to browse here on dezi.org.. Swish-e is Simple Web Indexing System for Humans. |
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) What really happens if your process tries to use more memory than is available in the computer? An experiment. |
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Discussion
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PDL is the Perl Data Language for Scientific computing with Perl. numpy is the Python library for matrix calculations. |
Perl and Hardware
Grants
Perl 5
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Perl Tutorial
A section for newbies and for people who need some refreshing of their Perl knowledge. If you have questions or suggestions about the articles, let me know and I'll try to make the necessary changes. The included articles are from the Perl Maven Tutorial and are part of the Perl Maven eBook.
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) Queues are one of the fundamental data structures in the programming world. Here is an example using Perl. |
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Perl 6
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Books
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by Miki Tebeka An excellent book for Python developers with tons of recommendations that are not language specific. Besides, this is the only Python book I read that had positive comments about Perl, Larry Wall and Audrey Tang. |
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by Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi (VTI) The beginning of a new book by Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi and Gregor Goldbach. Only 5% is ready and only 4 readers so far, but the subject is important - I was thinking about writing about it myself - so give it a try. There is a 45-day money-back guarantee for every book on LeanPub. | 
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Weekly collections
Event reports
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by Tina Müller (TINITA) Sometimes, sitting together and talking about things can get things done much more efficiently. | 
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Events
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I attend a lot of Perl conferences and it’s always interesting to see which employers are well-represented with a lot of delegates and which employers have little or no presence. This company is up there among the most prominently represented at a number of the European conferences, and shows a real commitment to staying at the cutting edge of Perl. In-house, the focus on training and development continues with a strong mentorship programme – a large number of their Senior Developers started there in Junior roles. |
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We recently started to advertise a developer role at a financial services company that’s growing in a bamboo-like fashion. We can now confirm that they’re also looking for some top talent to help lead this expansion. If you’re currently a senior full stack developer looking to take on your next role as an architect then this is a great opportunity to do so in a company that is both ambitious and supportive. Increased job satisfaction is another perk, as their codebase is notably new and clean and the team are committed to using modern practices. |
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I love working in a vibrant, modern space. If you’re going to spend all day at work, it might as well be somewhere you enjoy being, rather than a cubicle farm. This client has a workspace I’m actively jealous of! |
