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Issue #516 - 2021-06-14 - Conference in the Cloud
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Hi there The highlight of last week was the Conference in the Cloud. It gave us the opportunity to meet and greet Perl and Raku fans from across the globe. On top of that, we got loads of quality talks by experts. Before I talk about anything else, let me thank and congratulate all the organisers and volunteers for such a successful event. I am personally impressed with the video quality of the live and recorded talks. For me, I find the timing little bit odd as I am in the UK. The day started at 6:30pm British Summer Time, which is not ideal. At the end of a full day at $work, there is hardly any energy left to attend the talks live. But the best part wasthat the recorded talks were available on YouTube immediately. I find it convenient, as I can watch at my own time. Also I can fast-forward if I want to. Please find below my personal favourites in no particular order. 1. perlimports or "Where did that symbol come from?" by Olaf Alders 2. Local dev setup for a complex app using docker-compose by Thomas Klausner 3. Introduction to Perl Data Types by William N. Braswell, Jr. 4. Rummaging in the clOOset by Curtis Poe 5. Life after Perl (and Raku) by Peter Sergeant 6. What's new in Perl? by Ricardo Signes 7. Perl's Amazing Time Machine by Paul Evans 8. Valiant - Heroic validations for Moo and DBIC classes by John Napiorkowski 9. Our shared vision of Perl by Andrew Solomon 10. Cross-platform native GUIs: {trade,pay}offs, {integra,distribu}tion by Zaki Mughal There are plenty more to watch later. You can find the complete list here. Enjoy the rest of the newsletter and please stay safe. Mohammad Sajid Anwar |
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Announcements
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID) Curtis' proposal for creating an RFC for Corinna. What do you think? Please share your suggestions. | 
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Articles
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) A practical use case showing the power of Mojolicious::Plugin::Authentication. | 
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by Kang-min Liu Kang-min shared a 10-year review of perl5.git. |
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Perl 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 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 "Missing Row" and "Find Possible Paths". 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 "Number Sequence" and "Sum of Squares" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Aaron Smith Aaron's use of Raku's power makes the task look so simple. Incredible. |
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by Abigail Abigail's solution was hard to follow initially, but after the second read it become obvious. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Abigail For this task, Abigail split the task to make it more easy to understand. Cool attempt. |
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by Adam Russell I love the use of genetics to solve the task. My favourite this week. I will revisit it later. | 
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by Arne Sommer Arne's bonus solution is really nice and his workaround hack used in Perl solution is cool. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Colin Crain Colin 'sblog is always full of interesting ideas. I loved his task analysis. Keep it going. |
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY) Dave's use of a substr hack recursively to solve the task is fun to read. Please do check it out. | 
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) I enjoyed Raku solution more as it reminds me how I started using Raku. Brilliant job. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Flavio's commentary on Raku features in interesting. Once again, the Raku solution wins the race for me. Thanks for sharing. |
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by James Smith James found the second task easier than than the first and he proved it with his solutions. Oops. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Laurent's blog is always very special as there are plenty of ideas to explore. Please check out the Raku tricks. |
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by W Luis Mochan Luis' one-liner is the winner for me this week. Well done. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Roger figured out an interesting output from one of the given example. Good catch. |
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by Simon Green Simon shared an interesting story about numbers. Thanks for sharing the story and solutions. |
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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Videos
Rakudo
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Weekly collections
The corner of Gabor
A couple of entries sneaked in by Gabor.
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Events
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