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Issue #56 - 2012-08-20 - community and language
latest | archive | edited by Gabor Szabo
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Hi, I am writing this while still in Perl. This beautiful German village is near Schengen, where the 'Schengen Agreement' was signed. In the last 3 days several members of the Perl community meeting for the Perl Reunification Summit or PRS, organized by Liz Mattijsen and Wendy G.A. van Dijk. There is already one report by Moritz Lenz (see below) and I am sure many more will follow. YAPC::EU in Frankfurt is starting today. More than 300 people are expected in the middle of the heat wave. On an unrelated note, we have more than 3800 subscribers now! Thank you all! Enjoy the articles: Gabor Szabo |
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Articles
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Awesome graphs created by John Wang to allow us to see the change in number of post and number of posters on the Perl, Python and other mailing lists. If you look at the main graphs, they will seem to be more or less staying at the same level in recent years. If you take in account that some of the lists that are growing are the automatically generated e-mails (e.g. build reports) then you will see the human participation is dropping. Both on the Perl and Python mailing list. More work is needed on this, and on other analyzis, but I think this is beautiful. |
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I thin $ is way overused by newbies in Perl, probably due to lack of understanding of when it should be used. In this Perl Maven article I tried to explain it. |
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While CGI is not 'cool' any more it is still very useful and it is still used by lots of companies. In this article I tried to help one of the readers of the Perl Maven site who asked me how to send an e-mail containing data submitted on a web page. |
Discussion
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by brian d foy (BDFOY) The smart match ~~ opeartor has been changed already once, but it is still broken. What should happen? This is a discussion that started in the Perl 5 Porters list and spilled over to blogs.perl.org. It is certainly important that people who don't follow the development of perl itself, but are using the smart match operator would read this and voice their opinion. | 
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Testing
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Code
Fun
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by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS) Kirk Kimmel build a small custom search using Google that will try to improve your perl related searches. Check also the comments where Dave Cross linked to his solution. | 
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Tech Tips
Perl 6
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Helping people with Perl 5 experience to learn what's new and different in Perl 6. |
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Raiph Mellor started to create a weekly report on what's going on on the #perl6 IRC channel. I think this is a very important step towards showing the world that Perl 6 makes progress. |
Weekly collections
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One note: send love letters to individual Perl 5 porters (or CPAN authors). |
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Raiph Mellor started to create a weekly report on what's going on on the #perl6 IRC channel. I think this is a very important step towards showing the world that Perl 6 makes progress. |
Perl Reunification Summit (PRS)
This was a 3-day even between 16-19 August 2012 in Perl, Germany (near Schengen). The reports will be included here.
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YAPC::EU
Events
I usually list the next 3-4 events here. The list of all the events can be found on the web site. If your Perl event is not listed there, please let me know.
