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Issue #579 - 2022-08-29 - Looking for that motivation
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Hi there! Last time I mentioned the numbers I collect with the number of visitors to CPAN and I was wondering about the increased activity starting in August 2011. I got a few comments in email and some on Reddit. Probably the best explanation is what I received from Neil Bowers: Have a look at the CPAN report I did in February. If you look at the new user signups, you'll see a jump in 2012, and also looking at that chart you'll see that 2012, 2013, and 2014 seem to buck a trend. In 2012 Intermediate Perl was released, which told the reader to sign up for a PAUSE account and release a test module. If I remember right, brian d foy ran a tutorial at YAPC::NA the previous year, where he also got people to sign up (not sure if the tutorial was 2011 or 2012). We had the first CPAN Day in 2014, which also resulted in a big bump in CPAN releases. That may have helped 2014 stay up above the trend. The question now, what could be a new motivation to increase activity and if there could be one that is sustainable? Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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by Al Newkirk (AWNCORP) "Introducing Venus, an attempt at establishing an opinionated idiomatic non-core object-oriented standard library for Perl 5, without years of navel-gazing, committee legislation, infighting, or stalling." as quoted from the article. Check out the the comments on Reddit. | 
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by Nicholas Hubbard "I personally like to build my own IDE by bringing together unrelated packages, which is in contrast to full blown IDE packages, such as Devel::PerlySense or Perl::LanguageServer. These packages just aren't for me." |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) As they say ... "This is the best-known attack on modern block-cipher cryptography." |
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by Jennifer Meneghin A Perl script that calculates GC content for all the sequences in a fasta file. | 
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The Weekly Challenge
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "First Unique Character" and "Trim List". 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 "Ordinal Number Spelling" and "Unicode Sparkline" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Arne Sommer Arne style of building up solution is really cool. Keep it up great work. |
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by Colin Crain Colin made the difficult task looks simple as always. Plenty of interesting information. Thanks for sharing. |
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by James Smith Cool use of regex for Ordinal number spelling task. Full credit goes to James for thorough solution. Well done and keep it up. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Building up Raku solution ground up is worth checking. Great attempt. Keep it up cool work. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Smart sparkline solutions in Perl and Raku. So easy to follow, well done. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Good use of library to solve the task. Special credit for the Sparkline solutions. Thanks for sharing. |
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by W Luis Mochan Great example of PDL to solve sparkline task. Highly recommended. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) JavaScript sparkline solution is the highlight of the week for me. Highly recommended. |
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by Simon Green Thank you Simon for the extra effort to get the Ordinal Number Spelling solution. Well done. |
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by Stephen G Lynn Short and concise blog sharing the internals for the weekly solutions. Thanks for sharing. |
Weekly collections
The corner of Gabor
A couple of entries sneaked in by Gabor.
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The client is interested in anyone with experience building web apps in Perl, using one of the major Perl frameworks. If you’re a crack-hand with Catalyst, a Mojolicious master, or a distinguished Dancer, they want you. You’ll be deploying apps your work to AWS, so experience would be handy, and the company’s big on testing, so they’d like you to know your way around Test::More. |
