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Issue #493 - 2021-01-04 - Happy 2021!
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Hi and welcome to 2021! I just got the first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine this morning. My New Year's request is to support the work of Manwar. You know him. He gives the Perl community enormous value via his Perl Weekly Challenge and by being the co-editor of the Perl Weekly. He is now at $105 from 16 people. Let's double both numbers! I am running a poll: In which subject in Perl do you feel you'd need better knowledge? and The Perl Foundations is running a survey: Coding in Perl? What support do you need?. They will take less than five minutes of your time. Please fill them both in. Enjoy the next year! Gabor Szabo |
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Sponsors
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Annual collections
Articles
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) Recently a number of people have contacted me with various Perl-based projects. I had the opportunity to have an email exchange with them to try to understand what they need and if I can provide the help. A few question came up and for my future reference I wrote them down. |
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by Lee Johnson (LEEJO) You read the news that rt.cpan.org is going to be shut down, right?, Lee Johnson created a static archive of it. | 
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by Pritesh Ugrankar I don't think I've ever seen a post by Pritesh, but I do have an e-mail exchange with him a few years ago when he asked for my opinion about learning more Perl or learning Python. 7 years have passed and suddenly he goes out and he writes a terrific post on LinkedIn. See also the discussion on reddit. |
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Discussion
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Some really interesting and fun comments. Let's read yours as well! |
Polls and Surveys
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The Perl Foundation would like to know if they can offer some support for Perl that might help you. There was quite some discussion on Reddit in response to this link. Especially read the comments by brian d foy. |
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) OOP? Functional programming? Testing? Web development? I am running a poll asking just that question. |
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Web
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by Thomas Klausner (DOMM) A two step download process. 1) Prepare the list of URLs to be downloaded. 2) Download. All that in 10 lines of Perl. |
Manwar
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My New Year's request is to support the work of Manwar. You know him. He gives the Perl community enormous value via his Perl Weekly Challenge and by being the co-editor of the Perl Weekly. Even if the connection is indirect, the time and energy he spends on Perl helps us stay employable with Perl. It would be really nice if you, who enjoy the fruits of his work, showed your gratitude via his Patreon account. It can be as low as $1/month or you can beat the average which is slightly above $6/month. |
CPAN
The Weekly Challenge
The Weekly Challenge by Mohammad Anwar will help you step out of your comfort zone. You can even win prize money of $50 Amazon vouchers by participating in the weekly challenge. We pick one winner at the end of the month from all the contributors in that month. The monthly prize is kindly sponsored by Peter Sergeant of PerlCareers.
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome to a new week with couple of fun tasks "Group Anagrams" and "Binary Tree to Linked List". 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 a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Max Points" and "Sum Path" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Adam Russell Reading the notes at the end of the blog is the best thing. You don't want to miss out. | 
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by Aaron Smith Aaron showing the power of unit tests. I can completely relate to him. Must Read. |
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by Arne Sommer Missing Perl solutions this week. However the Raku solutions will definitely keep you engaged. |
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by Colin Crain Thanks Colin for sharing the Mathematics side of the task 'Max Points'. Highly Recommended. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) As expected, Flavio took us to the another planet with great story line. Highly Recommended. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Flavio dealt with 'Sum Path' task in a unique way. Interesting take, must read. |
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by Kang-min Liu Revisit geometry lessons if you are a maths lover. Loved the 'Max Points' solutions. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Laurent is never short of choices. Every task has multiple choices for you to see the differences. Must Read. |
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by W Luis Mochan Luis' solutions with tests made it a complete package, specially, the 'Max Points' task. |
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by Joan Mimosinnet Nice attempt to organise code using Raku classes. Well done, keep it up. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) The main attraction of Roger's blog posts is always the choice of multiple languages. You don't want to miss it. |
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by Simon Green Simon broke the task into subtasks and made it look like a walk in the park. Incredible. |
Reports
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Mohammad is funny, he starts his annual report by saying how much he fell behind his plans for 2020 and then goes on to list accomplishments that most of the people I know don't do in a decade. I can only congratulate him and wish more people in the Perl community would follow his footsteps out of their own comfort zone and into making great things. |
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) My personal monthly report with my monthly plans neither of which are probably interesting to you, but it is fun to collect my thoughts. Part of my strategy is to have a New Year's Resolution every month |
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Courses
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) On the last day of 2020 I opened my new 'school' on Teachable and posted my first three courses. The 'Perl Dancer course', the 'Python Programming Bootcamp', and the new, 'Functional Programming in Python course'. To celebrate the opening and the new year I am offering them at 50% discount. USe the code END-2020 too enjoy it. |
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Weekly collections
The corner of Gabor
A couple of entries sneaked in by Gabor.
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) You might not know about the Perl Maven LinkedIn page, but it has just surpassed the #perl hashtag. |
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