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Issue #583 - 2022-09-26 - Sponsoring Perl and other Open Source work
latest | archive | edited by Gabor Szabo
This edition was made possible by the supporters of our cause.
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Hi there! Happy New Year - Shana Tova - to all the Jews around the world! A couple of days ago Ed Freyfogle wrote us pointig to their post on sponsoring MetaCPAN. I love this on so many levels. First of all, of course the fact that they sponsor some Perl-related activity. They also blog about it. They also send us a heads up to be included here in the Perl Weekly. I hope many more small and large companies, and also individuals will follow them. Dean Hamstead also sent us an email linking to the new Perl Store, that was also announced on The Perl Foundation blog. Buying a T-shirt or some other swag will both help you with clothing and help TPF financially. Nice initiative! Finally, I managed to set up my GitHub sponsors profile. So now, if you'd like to support my Perl and in more general Open Source work (articles, code, and videos) you can do so via GitHub as well. It would be awesome to get a few of you start supporting me via GitHub in the next couple of days. That will help things get rolling there and I would be able to see how the system really works. Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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by Al Newkirk (AWNCORP) This article introduces Venus::Assert, a simple data type assertion class that could serve as the foundation for a future object-oriented type assertion and coercion system for Perl 5. | 
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by Nicholas Hubbard Naming your subroutine arguments has benefits around increasing the readability of your code. |
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Sponsors
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) Finally I managed to set up my GitHub sponsors page. If you like the stuff that I have been doing, then this is now a good way to support it. |
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Grants
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 "Sequence Number" and "Split Array". 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 "Unique Array" and "Date Difference" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Arne Sommer Nice to know how to deal with arrayrefs in Raku. Thanks for sharing the knowledge with us every week. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Special use of JSON::PP is really new to me. Thanks for sharing the knowledge. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Thanks for doing it for me. I will try to keep you engage in future. Keep it up great work. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Raku powerful core features, making the weekly task so easy. Thanks for sharing the knowledge. |
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by Luca Ferrari Raku clearly leaving every other language behind. You must check out, the power of Raku. Keep it up great work. |
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by W Luis Mochan Another cool use of PDL. What a great show of PDL power. Thanks for your contributions. |
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by Peter Campbell Smith I love the blog style, simple and straight to the point. Thanks for your contributions. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Nice use of Storable. It is always fun to see the real use case. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Simon Green Welcome back, we always miss you. Thanks for your contributions as always. Keep it up great work. |
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by Stephen G Lynn I am a big fan of PDL. Thanks for sharing code using PDL. Always fun reading your blog. |
Marketing and Fundraising
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by Nic Evans The Japan Perl Association (JPA) decided to contribute money to TPF based on the number of blog posts and mentions of their conference. A really nice idea that helps both JPA and TPF and in general the Perl community. |
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