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Issue #4 - 2011-08-22 - The 2011 White Camel Awards
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Most of the past week I spent at YAPC::EU in Riga. I tried to collect the reports (see below) but I am sure I missed a few. I also tried to include only one of the entries from each author. If you like their post, read the other ones as well. In a recent blog post I asked my readers to add more comments to articles and to Tweet them or share them on Facebook. I'd like to ask the same from you. Make a point that every week you comment at least on one post and share at least 5 via your social networks. You could even forward this newsletter to your co-workers. Now to the articles... Gabor Szabo |
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Headlines
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This year the White Camel awards went to Leo Lapworth, Daisuke Maki and Andrew Shitov. Please congratulate them! - If you look at the WhiteCamel.org website, please note, we are looking for help to create a nice design. |
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The Parrot Virtual Machine provides the run-time for Rakudo, the most advanced Perl 6 implementation. |
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by John Napiorkowski (JJNAPIORK) This release of Catalyst totally embraces Plack. Removes a lot of code and relies on Plack to provide the benefits. John Napiorkowski explains the importance of this release. | 
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Recently several companies and Perl Monger groups have donated to The Perl Foundation to help funding the further development of Perl. |
Articles
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by Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi (VTI) Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi (vti) built a simple application in Perl and deployed it on 3 cloud services. (dotCloud, Stackato and Fluxflex) | 
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Padre 0.90 was release and with that came the new binary package for OSX. More people needed to test drive it and to provide feedback to both Tom Eliaz, the packager and the developers. |
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Leo Lapworth (Ranguard), one of the new White Camels gave a very good talk about the basics of Plack at YAPC::EU. He already published the slides. |
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chromatic shows a little example using Template Toolkit explaining a bit on separation of concerns. Separating logic from content even within the templates. |
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by brian d foy (BDFOY) brian d foy writes: A Task distribution is like a normal Perl distribution in structure, but it doesn't actually provide any code. It lists as pre-requisites all of the modules or distributions that you want to install... | 
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Discussions
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In response to my blog post asking for more comments, more Tweets and more Facebook sharing, Kiran suggested that allowing anonymous comments would be an improvement. I don't agree with that but I recommend you add your opinion. |
Code
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Ahmad M. Zawawi writes about his adventure bringing the latest version of Scintilla directly to the WxPerl world. Bringing the modern age to Padre. The Perl IDE. |
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Code example on how to use the bind_columns method of DBI when accessing databases. I never used it myself and have not benchmarked it now so I don't know it is really faster. It certainly can make the code more readable in certain situations. |
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by Laurent Dami (DAMI) Laurent Dami (dami) introduces MsOffice::Word::HTML::Writer that is used at the Geneva courts of law to create Microsoft Word documents from HTML files. It only needs Perl so it can run on Linux machines as well. | 
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Perl 6
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by Carl Mäsak Earlier Ahmad M. Zawawi contributed a lot to the development of Perl 6 but in the past year he was busy with other things. Now he rediscovers Perl 6 with the help of core Rakudo developer and overall nice guy Carl Masak. | 
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YAPC::EU reports
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by Renee Baecker (RENEEB) This is the opening of the YAPC::EU report series by Renee Baecker in German. You can find the rest of the articles linked on his blog. |
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by Laurent Dami (DAMI) Laurent Dami (dami) writes mostly about the city where YAPC::EU took place and not so much about the conference itself. |
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Patrick Michaud the lead developer of Rakudo thanking to Andrew Shitov and his crew for organizing this event. |
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The first entry of a series of blog posts with detailed information on what happened at YAPC::EU 2011. |
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by Mark Keating Mark Keating (MDK) - also known as the marketing director of The Perl Foundation describes his first day at YAPC::EU in Riga including some pictures. I hope he will also write reports on the other days as well. | 
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Events
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This was announced a while ago but due to the other, closer events was left out from previous issues. |
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During YAPC::EU 2011 in Riga, the Frankfurt Perl Mongers were announced as the winning team for the next conference. We heard a wonderful presentation about Frankfurt during the closing of event in Riga. This is the announcement from the organizers. |
