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Issue #552 - 2022-02-21 - Outreachy and TPF
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Hi there Welcome to my personal 98th and overall 552nd edition of the Perl Weekly newsletter. I can't wait for the day when I reach the 3-digits number. Today, I would like to talk about the Outreachy program and its association with TPF. Few days ago, I came across a Facebook post by a friend of mine sharing the news TPF (The Perl Foundation) is looking mentor and project for the year 2022. Please check out the official announcement. I have been following the work done as part of the Outreachy program. In the past, it has supported Open Food Facts, a very popular Perl based project. To be honest, I find the application process to submit project idea is not smooth. It would be a big help if The Weekly Challenge (Perl & Raku) get the support too. As some of you associated with the project knows it is currently built using Hugo and hosted on Github. I have been planning to get it over to pure Perl template web based solution e.g. Dancer2 and hosted by real hosting service e.g Digital Ocean. As we grow bigger with times, I find it hard to manage the contributions on GitHub. It takes longer now to process comparatively. If it ever get approved, I can offer to be a mentor to the selected candidate. There was a good news shared last week about Perl warning i.e. "signatures are experimental" is going to disappear for ever with the next major release. I always wanted to have this feature in my Perl. I can't wait for the next release to use it. Do you want to know more about it? Please checkout here for more information. Do you need help with Perl related queries? I highly recommend, the two Facebook groups (members only), The Perl Community (run and managed by Curtis Poe) and Perl Programmers (run and managed by Will Braswell). For parents of school going kids in England, welcome to the daily routine after a week long break. I know it is tough, specially if you have to cover two different schools in the morning rush. Enjoy the rest of the newsletter Mohammad Sajid Anwar |
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Articles
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Only Flavio can do it, he has shown it time and again. I love his story telling quality. | 
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Nice introduction to Gitolite. I must confess, I didn't knew about it before. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Leon Timmermans (LEONT) XS is notorious of being the bad boy. Leon presenting XS and showing the other side of it. Great effort Leon. | 
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by Samir Parikh Interesting take on grep and map. Detailed discussion of the game of Hangman from the lens of Perl. |
Discussion
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by David Farrell (DFARRELL) Interesting blog talking about shared memory, resident memory and virtual memory. Lots of fun facts. | 
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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 voucher by participating in the weekly challenge. We pick one winner at the end of the month from among all of the contributors during the 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 "Left Factorials" and "Factorions". 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 by Team PWC dealing with the "Triangle Sum Path" and "Rectangle Area" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Alexander Pankoff Short and precise blog by Alexander. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Alexander Pankoff Loved the blog title, very creative. Keep it up. |
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by Arne Sommer Kudos to Arne for taking the pain to represent the task analysis using diagram. Keep it up great work. |
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by Colin Crain Thank you Colin for bonus blog every week. Every blog of him brings fun topic. You don't want to miss it. |
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by Colin Crain Personally I enjoy the blog for its literature value. However you can't underestimate it's technical aspect. Highly recommended. |
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY) Dave is very clever and I enjoy his interpretation of the week 152. Cool. Thanks for sharing the knowledge. | 
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY) Dave always come up with unique and creative blog title every week. I appreciate the effort put in the blog creation. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Flavio show off his Raku skill with one liner, I am impressed. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Lots of calculation with the power of Raku is the right mix. Keep it up great work. |
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by James Smith James ability to make task appears simple and then solve it accordingly. Keep it up great work. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Two compact solutions this week, specially triangle sum path. Thank you for sharing the knowledge. |
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by Luca Ferrari Cool demo of Raku class. Nice example to show the power of Raku. Keep it up great work. |
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by W Luis Mochan Luis one liner in Perl fun but the solution to the rectangle area is even cooler. Great work as ever. |
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by Peter Campbell Smith For me, the highlight of Peter's blog is his task analysis skill. Simply love it. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Roger shared the power of JavaScript and I must admit it looks elegant. Keep it up great work. |
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by Simon Green Nice packaged solution in Perl and bonus Python too. Blog is usual short and compact. Thanks for sharing. |
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