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Issue #574 - 2022-07-25 - Perl Community
latest | archive | edited by Mohammad Sajid Anwar
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Hi there, The community spirit among Perl fans is always the highlight of any event. I am sure you have experience it too. Little while ago, there was discussion to give new life to Perl Advent Calendar. Many volunteers came forward to help the project, like, Adam Russell. As we are getting close to the next edition, Olaf Alders and Julien Fiegehenn came together and kickstarted the project with a big push. I noticed in the recent weeks, lots of activities on GitHub repository, thanks to all the volunteers. Olaf Alders made an official call for papers in the blog post. I request all Perl fans to submit proposal. If you need any help submitting an article, then please do checkout the page for guidance. I would encourage first timer to come forward and share their experience with CPAN distributions. I am sure, everyone has few favourite distributions or their own creations that they want to talk about and share with the community. There are plenty of help available, if you need, so just give us a shout. Talking about revival, recently I spoke about CPAN Weekly, creation of Neil Bowers. I shared my intention of getting it back up. In no time, I got plenty of offer. One of them was Cheok-Yin Fung. She even shared the initial draft that I am currently reviewing. Thank you, Cheok-Yin for the help. The plan is to launch it on the birthday of Perl i.e. 18th Dec. I will share more about it soon. Wish me luck. Maintaining CPAN distribution is a big responsibility. I have seen regular release of WWW::Mechanize, thanks to Julien Fiegehenn for all the care and love. You can find the details in the Twitter thread. I know it takes a lot of efforts to keep the distribution live and active as I too have the responsibilities of handful of distributions. Having said, credit must be given to all the contributors who provide patches. Enjoy the rest of the newsletter. Mohammad Sajid Anwar |
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by Saif Uddin Ahmed (SAIFTYNET) Welcome back to blogging, a very thoughful discussion, not to be missed. | 
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by Dean Hamstead (DJZORT) Nice discussion about the need of generalised interface to Bug/Task/Issue trackers. | 
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Nice use of pack and unpack for cryptopaks. Thanks for sharing the knowledge. | 
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Clever hack using Perl latest feature, always fun. Keep it up great work. |
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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 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: "Last Sunday" and "Perfect Totient Numbers". If you are new to the weekly challenge, 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 "Disarium Numbers" and "Permutation Ranking" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Arne Sommer I always find something new about Raku every week, thanks to the contributions by Arne. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) The caching and parallelisation are key factors when dealing with such tasks. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Translation of Python to Perl, not a bad chocce. Good decision. Keep it up great work. |
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by Jaldhar H. Vyas Cool use of Raku magic to solve the weekly challenge. Keep it up great work. |
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by James Smith James classic one-liner is the highlight. I am a big fan of his compact solution. Well done. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Once again, we got cool collection of guest solutions. Keep it up great work. |
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by W Luis Mochan Concise and compact solution with the help of PDL. Nice demo. Keep it up great work. |
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by Peter Campbell Smith Disarium disaster? I loved the term. Smart decision to avert the disaster. Well done. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Clever hack to solve the Permutation Ranking task. Plenty to learn every week. Thanks for your contributions. |
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by Simon Green Python and Perl find the space together in the blog. Well done and keep it up. |
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by Stephen G Lynn Use of faster algorithm with the help of PDL::PP. Thanks for your contributions. |
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Weekly collections
The corner of Gabor
A couple of entries sneaked in by Gabor.
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Our client is looking for junior or intermediate Perl developers, Node engineers, and those with stellar Python and SQL skills. They embrace flexibility, and their ideal candidate will, too. Perl may be your core competency, but if you’re invested in cross-training to Node, you may be the full package that this client wants on their team. |
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Our client's mission is to connect folks in the UK and US seeking flatmates or homes to share. If you’re a Software Developer (Backend), these flatmate matchmakers want you to increase the delivery capacity of their team. With a core platform that is mostly written in Perl, you’ll work with developers to create admin tools and implement and test new site features. |
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Our client has developed an online system that tracks, monitors, and manages a whole host of safety issues, including team member competency, asset management, and compliance checks.They’re keeping their clients safe one click at a time, and they want to add a Senior Fullstack Perl Developer to their team to help them do it. |
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We’re looking for a Chief Software Architect. In an ideal world, you’ll be on-site in Malaysia. Malta or Dubai would do in a pinch as this global company has offices there, too. However, if you’re reading this from Cairo or Buenos Aires and think you’re the star candidate they’re looking for, you’re not out of the running. Our client knows the value of a strong leader. Is it you? |
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Our client is the worldwide leader in machine intelligence for matching people with jobs, which is to say that when it comes to hiring, they know what they’re doing. Applicants, bring your “A” game: they’re looking for a Natural Language Processing (NLP) Engineer who is passionate about Machine Intelligence and can evaluate NLP systems. |
