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Issue #581 - 2022-09-12 - What to write about?
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Hi there! People often tell me that they don't know what to write about or that they are too new to Perl to blog about anything. Let's see. Last week I posted this article about ANSI command line colors with Perl. It hardly has anything to do with Perl, but I needed it and it can be a useful to others as well. Actually it originated from a discussion I had with my son who is using Python. So first I wrote the article ANSI colors using Python and only after that I converted it to Perl. It did not require any deep knowledge, definitely not that of Python or Perl. So if you would like to try writing articles, there are plenty of such small subjects one can cover. After including the link in the previous edition of the Perl Weekly, Thomas Köhler contacted me saying that he would do it differently and then he posted a short article showing how would he use ANSI colors in Perl including a link back to the original article. This is excellent. So here is a suggestion: If you don't have an idea for an article, pick one of the Perl Maven posts and write a different solution or extend the subject and send a link to us, the editors of the Perl Weekly. Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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by Jonas Brømsø Nielsen Ebirah is an experimental Docker project for Dist::Zilla. This release contains a minor improvement from Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior. |
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by Nicholas Hubbard A daemon is a program that runs in the background for an indefinite period of time. An important daemon on Unix-like operating systems is the cron scheduler that can be configured to perform tasks periodically. |
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) I was doing a lot of cleanup work on my files and on the Perl Maven site and look what I found. Some nice memories! |
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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 "Max Index" and "Common Path". 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 "Sentence Order" and "Hot Day" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Arne Sommer Raku powerfull file operations in action and make the end result so compact. Cool work as always. |
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by Colin Crain Colin is back with magical regex once again. I just love it. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY) Welcome back to blogging, we missed you. Nice hack of using DATA block, very smart. Well done. | 
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by Jaldhar H. Vyas A well structured solutions both in Perl and Raku, specially the regex one. Thanks for sharing the knowledge with us. |
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by James Smith Compact and elegant solutions as you would expect from James. Incredible. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Clever use of split, map, sort and grep. Very brave attempt. Keep it up great work. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Once again, we got the glimpse of guest languages, not as many as we used to. Thanks for your contributions. |
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by Peter Campbell Smith Short and sweet, logical reasoning. Nice attempt. |
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by W Luis Mochan Luis should be declare the master of Perl one-liner. Every week we see cool one-liner. Keep it up great work. |
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