You know, you could get the Perl Weekly right in your mailbox. Every Week.
Free of charge!
Just ONE e-mail each Monday. Easy to unsubscribe. No spam. Your e-mail address is safe.
Issue #360 - 2018-06-18 - Revitalizing blogs.perl.org
latest | archive | edited by Mohammad Sajid Anwar
This edition was made possible by the supporters of our cause.
Don't miss the next issue!
|
Hi there, About year ago, Andrew Walker, submitted a grant proposal to TPF to revitalize blogs.perl.org. Recently he blogged about its progress. A very interesting beta release of the book The GraphQL Guide by John Resig. Last but not the least I came across a CPAN distribution App::GitHubPullRequest which would be quite handy if you love doing PR. Enjoy reading this week newsletter! Mohammad Sajid Anwar |
|
Announcements
|
by Zoffix Znet (ZOFFIX) There are several things you can help with, depending on your skillset. And before anyone protests, don't worry, there's one thing everyone is able to do. |
|
by Mark Overmeer (markov) Still time to submit talk. If you are planning to attend then please register your interest here. |
Articles
|
by Jeffrey Kegler (JKEGL) Pingali and Bilardi, explains how using their new framework, they go on to show that all LL-based and LR-based algorithms are simplifications of their Earley parser. | 
|
|
by Dimitrie Hoekstra GitLab aiming for a real integrated development experience, accessible for everyone right within the GitLab UI, without anything to install. The idea grew from the "Repo editor" into that of the "Web IDE". |
|
by John Scoles (BYTEROCK) In this blog, John explains the ability to have static data as part of the elements array. This is accomplished by using the 'Param' class in place of the 'Element' class. |
|
by John Scoles (BYTEROCK) Here John experiments if Driver::DBI can handle a function call in an SQL select. |
|
by John Scoles (BYTEROCK) Following on from previous blog, where adding function call ability in an SQL select, here he is testing if 'Function' element will handle a function with more than one option. |
Testing
|
by Konstantin Uvarin Konstantin explains why refute? As he claims successful prove run actually proves nothing. It's only the failures that are meaningful! This is similar to falsifiability concept in modern science: we don't prove a theory in experiment; instead, we try hard to refute it. Same goes for runtime assertions. |
Sponsors
|
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. | 
|
CPAN
|
by Nigel Horne Added "intuitive" searches for Geo::Coder::Free. For example, when looking for a local favourite watering hole of mine, that I wouldn't be likely to search for "Rock Bottom Restaurant, Norfolk Ave, Bethesda, MD, USA". Instead, I'd be much more likely to search for "Rock Bottom, Bethesda, MD, USA". |
|
by David Farrell (DFARRELL) David Farrell explains how he wrote his first tool to extend the features of Test2. | 
|
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.
|
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. |
|
Perl 6
|
Weekly collections
Events
|
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? |
|
Come and work at one of London’s tech giants, with Perl Careers |
|
Love Perl but want to skill-up on another stack at your employer’s expense? |
