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Issue #510 - 2021-05-03 - The Perl Community?
latest | archive | edited by Mohammad Sajid Anwar
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Hi there I am not sure if you have read the recent blog post by Neil Bowers. I have read it multiple times to understand the subject of the post. I must admit, I had never read such an in depth analysis of the term "Community". As my vocabulary is rather limited, I found it very interesting to read such a long blog post. To me, community is group of like-minded people. When I attended my first London Perl Workshop, I immediately felt part of the community. The organiser and everybody was so accommodating and friendly. It made me come again the following year and I became addicted to it afterwards. I always looked up to the big names of the community everytime I needed some inspiration. Take a look at the past recipients of the White Camel Award, you can get some idea of who's who in the community. Unfortunately it hasn't been awarded since 2018 for some reason that I am not aware of. I miss the community spirit of attending Perl Conferences. You can never experience that feeling unless you attend one. I hope and wish we get back to attending conferences. Although there has been virtual events in recent times, it can't replace real events in my humble opinion. I must give credit to everyone who is keeping the community spirit alive. Today is a bank holiday in the UK, so all the British readers of the newsletter, enjoy your break with the newsletter. Rest of the world, start your week with weekly doses of Perl news. Stay safe and healthy. Mohammad Sajid Anwar |
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Announcements
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by Nic Evans The CAT would like to make some corrections, as well as address some of the comments and questions we received on the initial transparency report. |
Articles
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by Mark Gardner Mark continued his blogging series and presented the basics of installing Perl on various platforms. | 
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Flavio continued with his daily blogging series and presents how to stringify CSS as JSON. | 
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Discussion
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB) Neil's take on what actually is community. He took pains to explain the term in great detail. | 
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Web
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by Charlie Gonzalez (ITCHARLIE) Charlie's attempt to solve a practical problem using Perl. A very cool attempt. |
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by Gaurav Rai Gaurav has been blogging regularly to create a REST API using Mojolicious and OpenAPI. Always fun to read his blog posts. |
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CPAN
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by David Cantrell (DCANTRELL) David released a complete new distribution to figure out what type a scalar is. | 
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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 among all the contributors during 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 a couple of fun tasks "Search Matrix" and "Ordered Letters". If you are new to the weekly challenge then why not join us and have fun every week. For more information, please read the FAQ. |
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions from Team PWC dealing with the "Valid Phone Numbers" and "Transpose File" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Abigail I have learnt something new today - chained regexes in Perl. Thanks Abigail for sharing. |
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by Abigail Abigail's blog post is full of magical code. I loved the one-liner solution in Perl. |
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by Adam Russell Adam never hesitates to try a unique tool. This week he used Parse::Yapp grammar. Thanks for sharing. | 
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by Andinus Thanks for introducing Raku grammars and welcome back after the short break. |
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by Arne Sommer Arne used a special trick to deal with the Valid Phone Numbers task by only looking at the first 4 characters. |
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by Cheok-Yin Fung I loved his frank admission the checking other contributions and building a different solution is not an easy job. Kudo to your efforts. |
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by Colin Crain Cool use of regex, something I never used before. Thanks Colin. |
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY) Dave presented us some information background about Phone Numbers. Also shared s special use of Text::CSV. Thanks for sharing. | 
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Flavio never misses the opportunity to surprise us. Thanks for the short and sweet discussion on the subject. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Flavio shared a special use of open(). Thanks for sharing the knowledge. |
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by Jaldhar H. Vyas Jaldhar shared a mix of Perl and Raku magics. Cool use. Thanks. |
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by James Smith I loved the discussion about memory usage for the Transpose File task. It is always a pleasure to read code showing the memory utilisation. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Laurent has been consistently sharing solutions in more than just Perl and Raku. Thanks for sharing. |
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by W Luis Mochan Luis shared multiple solutions to the Transpose File task. Simply loved it. Thanks. |
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by Luca Ferrari Luca shared some cool Raku magic dealing with regex. Thanks for sharing the knowledge. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) I noticed Roger not using \d in the regex, instead using [0-9]. I remember reading somewhere it is the preferred choice. |
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by Simon Green Cool use of map and logical-defined-or; thanks for sharing the magic. |
Live sessions
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 Mark Gardner The 5th part in which we set up redirection, refactored the tests, and started to test the upload file phase. |
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by Ferenc Erki (FERKI) Another episode of the 'Automation with Rex' series in which we follow the Ansible playbook to set up Elasticsearch and Nginx on CentOS. | 
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Lior Mizrahi, the author of the package introduces it and then we fix a bug. |
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