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Issue #478 - 2020-09-21 - Blogging for Perl?
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Hi there If you are active on social platform then you must have seen the recent blog by Dave Cross titled, Blogging for Perl. Do you agree with him? Personally I agree with him. I followed the initial work sponsored by TPF to improve the official Perl blogging site. I agree with Dave about blogging in places where you have visitors from other languages and share the power of the Perl language. Having said that I would say, why not have our own dedicated blogging hub. They both can co-exists, imho. I want it to become the source of Perl wisdoms. I would be sad if blogs.perl.org is no longer loved by the community. Dave Cross, followed up with another blog, Down the rabbit hole talking about his proposed aggregator for Perl blogs, Planet Perl. Please check it out and share your views. I know many members of Perl community who have taken the difficult path of blogging about Perl power on a daily basis. For example, John Scoles, did a series on PAWS. Currently, Flavio Poletti, has been doing daily round up, here The Team PWC is not behind either, they have been sharing the power of Perl every week. last but not the least, you take care of yourself and your family. Enjoy the rest of the newsletter. Mohammad Sajid Anwar |
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Statistics
This is a new section of some data we collect with scripts. Let's figure out what numbers could be interesting. The script(s) are in the Git repository of the Perl Weekly. See stats from the previous weeks.
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Last week there were a total of 209 uploads to CPAN of 132 distinct distributions by 80 different authors. Number of distributions with link to VCS: 110. Number of distros with CI: 61. |
Announcements
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by Stuart Mackintosh Stuart shared official final Board Findings with regard to 2019 SOC incident. |
Articles
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by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS) Dave shared his blog aggregator for Perl. It is always nice to see him taking the lead. | 
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Discussion
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by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS) Dave started very interesting discussion whether we need dedicated blogging site for Perl. Please do share your views. |
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Perl Weekly Challenge
The Weekly Challenge by Mohammad Anwar will help you step out from your comfort-zone. You can even win the prize money of $50 Amazon voucher by participating in the weekly challenge. We pick one winner at the end of the month among all the contributors of the month. The monthly prize is kindly sponsored by Peter Sergeant of PerlCareers.
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome new week with couple of fun tasks "Count Set Bit" and "Trapped Rain Water". If you are new to the weekly challenge then why not join us and have fun every week. For more information, please read FAQ page. |
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Enjoy quick recap of last week contributions by the Team PWC dealing with the "Leader Element" and "Left Rotation" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Andrew Shitov (ANDY) Andrew blog is always full of new Raku magic. This time we also got C++ as bonus. |
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by Arne Sommer Arne used Raku solution to create Perl solution. I loved the reverse engineer. |
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by Colin Crain Here is another thought provoking blog by Perl Reviewer, Colin. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) I loved the discussion of task. It is fun to see how others look at a particular problem. There is plenty to learn from it. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Flavio discussed various aspects of task. It is worth reading the discussion. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Laurent as always made the task looks like school boy task. Perl and Raku solutions are equally cool. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Roger started with Raku and then converting into Perl for a change this week. It is inspirational. |
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by Simon Green Simon dicussing left and right approach for the Leader element task. I loved it. |
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by Shahed Nooshmand As always, Shahed shared another gem from Raku i.e. 'after'. Please check out. |
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by Walt Mankowski I am impressed by Walt solutions to both task. They are quality code and should be taught to every beginners. |
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) I am mostly using Linux as my desktop, but I got a project to improve some Perl code that currently only runs on Windows. So I had to install Windows in a VirtualBox and then Perl. Here is how beginners could get started with that environment. ~szabgab | 
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