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Issue #369 - 2018-08-20 - Twiki - LCplot - Perl Conf reports
latest | archive | edited by Gabor Szabo
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Hi there, This week we have an interesting mix of new releases, articles, and even a few reports about the Perl Conference in Glasgow. You can also watch the presentations given at the conference Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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Announcements
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Articles
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A simple script that takes the name of a variable star, some number of days and, optionally, the code for some observer whose observations the user wants to highlight. The script then requests data from AAVSO (the American Asociation of Variable Stars) database and generates a plot using gnuplot. |
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by brian d foy (BDFOY) Perl v5.20 introduced key-value slices that worked on hashes and arrays. You could extract values by their keys or indices as well as assigning to those. The key-value slice delete is a way to extract the keys and values you want and delete them at the same time. | 
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by David Farrell (DFARRELL) This is part 2 of the series showing the technical part of writing an article. | 
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Discussion
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A discussion on Perl Monks and also on Reddit, regarding the future of Perl 5 and the presentation Ovid gave. |
Web
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by Thomas Klausner (DOMM) senph is a disqus clone. This are the slides of the presentation domm gave at the European Perl Conference. |
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Grants
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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Perl 6
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by Elizabeth Mattijsen (ELIZABETH) In the second article in this series comparing Perl 5 to Perl 6, learn how to handle object destruction in Perl 6. |
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Weekly collections
Event reports
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A much more personal take on the event by Sam, an enthusiastic first timer. |
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DevOps
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Events
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Some of us are so curious by nature that we can't stop learning things, you might have started with Perl and gotten really good at it but that wasn't enough, not when there's fun new things emerging every day! |
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Do you have some great Perl war stories? Can you help guide and grow the experience of junior Perl developers? |
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Nice working environment, modern Perl not a requirement if you're used to dealing with big systems. Good fit for someone moving out of banking, or stepping up to their first contract role. |
