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Issue #359 - 2018-06-11 - CPANRatings going read-only
latest | archive | edited by Gabor Szabo
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Hi there, In 2 weeks search.cpan.org will shut down. All the links will redirect to the appropriate pages on MetaCPAN. Soon after that Google will take the pages of s.c.o. out of their index and MetaCPAN will become the leading result on Google and elsewhere in a few weeks. Or so I hope. In addition, as we just learned, CPANRatings is going to become read-only and MetaCPAN will soon have a replacement service. Exiting times as MetaCPAN will suddenly have 3 times its current traffic. This would be a great time to start contributing to MetaCPAN to improve its search results and whatever you think could work better. You could even build an alternative UI in plain JavaScript. If you'd like to know how, send me and email! In any case, enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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by Toby Inkster (TOBYINK) Perl will treat any value either as 'true' or 'false', so what does the keyword 'Bool' really mean in Moose? Mostly 0 and 1, but it also allows overloading boolification for false. |
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by Nigel Horne Mapping places to coordinates including a sample web application. |
Testing
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by Tim King I think the key is 'Test inheritance should only be used to meet the needs of the tests, not the needs of the code under test.' |
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) Introduce testing. Set up Continuous Integration. Refactor your code. Gabor, the editor of the Perl Weekly, can help you with any of these in Perl, Python, and other languages. Even remotely. |
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by Grant McLean (GRANTM) The XPath Sandbox tool allows you to try out different XPath expressions directly in your browser. Some new additions arrived now. | 
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CPAN
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It is hardly used and MetaCPAN is expected to add a similar feature, so it is time to retire CPAN Ratings. |
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by Kieren Diment (ZARQUON) It is still marked as 'unauthorized', but if you use Oracle with Perl, you'd better test it now, before it becomes official. |
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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) A simple example in Perl using an in-memory version of SQLite for when you'd like to use SQL statements, but don't need to store the data on the disk. |
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Perl 6
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by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN) Part of the Performance and Reliability grant is to speed up private method calls in roles, as well as assignments in to Scalar containers. It turns out they need the same mechanism in MoarVM to work. | 
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