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Issue #594 - 2022-12-12 - Advent Calendar
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Hi there, The Advent Calendar celebration begins with the start of December. For all Perl fans, we have Perl Advent Calendar 2022, thanks to the hard work of Olaf Alders and his team. I am sure you have checked out the amazing daily source of fun. As of today, we have got through 12 days. Do you have any favourite so far? Well I do have mine. To me the best part is the festive flavour in every article. I find it amusing and fun to read the story. I have contributed in the past but never got around to add the spice. I would blame the lack of background knowledge. This year's calendar started with Toby Inkster creation Silent Mite. What a cool way to start the calendar. If you look at closely all the contributions so far, you would notice a fresh air with lots of positive energy. One name stands out very prominently this year is Thibault DUPONCHELLE. His first contribution, Santa is on GitHub was a nice way to begin the journey. Then found a gem from a very dear friend of mine, Julien Fiegehenn talking about good old friend CGI. In fact, I have seen him presenting the subject northpole.cgi at the Perl Conference. I found another piece of work by Thibault DUPONCHELLE about MongoDB. I found the Day 5 contribution Catching dreams is worth checking, if you want to explore MongoDB. If I am not mistaken then few years ago, Dave Cross shared his creation SVG::ChristmasTree in Perl Advent Calendar. I was happy to see it part of this year calendar too, not directly though. Day 8 started with A Perlmas Tree by Maximilian Lika. I found Day 11 contribution very technical dealing with signal ALRM. Not an easy subject to discuss in the Advent Calendar in my humble opinion. Thanks OODLER for the fine contribution, Wake up! Time to open presents!. If you are still looking for more Advent Calendar theme fun then I would highly recommend, The Weekly Challenge Advent Calendar. Like in the past, this year also, it has contributions from Team PWC hand picked by me. I am sure you would find it interesting. I am working on something that I would love to be part of this year Perl Advent Calendar. Hopefully it would be ready soon. Well I am also working on something similar for Raku Advent Calendar. It would be an achievement if I can get both done on time. Please wish me luck. Enjoy rest of the newsletter. Mohammad Sajid Anwar |
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by Aristotle Pagaltzis (ARISTOTLE) What a shame we lost PrePAN. It is too late to do anything, unfortunately. |
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by Herbert Breunung (LICHTKIND) A very interesting topic about goto and very engaging article worth checking. |
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID) Yves Orton wanted to see a complex class implemented in Corinna, so I mocked up a red-black tree. | 
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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: "Special Integers" and "Most Frequent Even". 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 "Digital Clock" and "Frequency Equalizer" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Arne Sommer Lots of Raku magic shared as every week. Plenty to keep you busy. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Bruce Gray I noticed sharp observations about the task. Good catch. Well done and keep it up great work. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) The frank and open discussion is the highlight. Plenty to keep up busy every week. |
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by James Smith James introduced new term to me, IIFE. Thanks for your contributions every week. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Great demo of Perl and Raku with such an ease. Thanks for sharing knowledge with us. |
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by W Luis Mochan Once again we got the demo of PDL this week. Thanks for sharing the knowledge with us. |
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by Peter Campbell Smith Compact collection of various test cases. This makes the logic easy to follow. Keep it up great work. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Advise and suggestions in the blog post is worth checking. Thanks for sharing knowledge with us. |
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by Stephen G Lynn Blog post showing the porting of Perl solution to Raku and Julia. Plenty to learn every week. |
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Weekly collections
The corner of Gabor
A couple of entries sneaked in by Gabor.
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) While looking for Open source projects I bumped into an interesting listing of government-related GitHub organizations. | 
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by Yuki Kimoto (KIMOTO) I am not sure it is really needed as Strawberry Perl for Windows, the only place where you don't have built in curl already comes with cpanm preinstalled. But nevertheless an interesting possibility. |
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) Since I posted this, I added a lot more corporations. Thanks to contribution of Dean Hamstead as well. |
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