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Issue #379 - 2018-10-29 - Barcelona - London - Pittsburgh - Riga
latest | archive | edited by Gabor Szabo
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Hello there! We still have two Perl events this year in Barcelona and in London, but we can already look ahead and see the events of next year in Pittsburgh and Riga. Have you already made preparations for the Workshop, conference, or hackathon you wish to run? Let us know and enjoy the rest of your week! Gabor Szabo |
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Articles
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by brian d foy (BDFOY) A real-world example of using Term::ANSIColor to make it easy to notice the really important information printed on the terminal. | 
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by Nicolas R. (ATOOMIC) I think I never had to mock the -X operators, but apparently it is not as simple as one would hope. | 
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by Johnathan Swan I am a great fan of Perl::Critic and I think it is an excellent tool to help you make your code better and improve your programming standards. Jonathan shares his experience at Adzuna. |
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by Johan Lindstrom How to turn on stack-trace for your warnings without making it permanent in the code? |
Testing
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by Nicolas R. (ATOOMIC) Reduce the Travis build time for a single Perl version from more than 4 minutes to about 30 seconds! |
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Web
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Fun
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Grants
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by André Walker Andre shares his update. I hope by the time the newsletter goes out there will be a link to the repository of the project. |
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) Moritz Lenz is testing the waters to see if there is room for a crowd-sourced Perl 6 Coding Contest, and he’s inviting comments / suggestions / participations. | 
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by Elizabeth Mattijsen (ELIZABETH) The BEGIN, END, CHECK, INIT blocks are called phasers that also exist in Perl 5. The ENTER, LEAVE, PRE, POST, KEEP, UNDO are different. |
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Weekly collections
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