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Issue #678 - 2024-07-22 - Perl Steering Council
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Hi there, The release of latest version of Perl kicked the process to elect new Perl Steering Council. I am happy to see the return of Philippe Bruhat and Graham Knop to the fold alongwith the new member Aristotle Pagaltzis. I would like to take this opportunity to thank, Paul Evans for the quality contributions. Thanks to the PSC, we get regular updates about the work being carried out. If you are interested to know more about it then there is handy website, https://psc.perlhacks.com, created by Dave Cross. As you all know we had big release Perl v5.40 last month and here in one month we have two more relases Perl v5.41.0 and Perl v5.41.1. If you checkout the changes in the last two releases, you will find mostly updates to Modules and Pragmata. For me, the most significant change is the addition of chdir as a subroutine to the CORE:: namespace. There is another big change proposed by Curtis Poe about allowing can() to take a list of methods. Having checked the discussion, it seems to have closed without merge unfortunately. Have you played with Bitcoin? Well I haven't yet but will do soon when I find spare time. For now, if you are interested to learn more about it from the Perl perlspective, we got 2-part series, part one and part two, by Bartosz Jarzyna shared for Perl Advent Calendar 2023. Once you have finished reading them we have an update on development of Bitcoin libraries.
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Last but not least we have another big release Dancer2 1.1.1 announced in the blog post by Jason Crome. I am very excited about the update and to know that it is being looked after. Thanks to the entire Enjoy the summer holiday break and rest of the newsletter. Mohammad Sajid Anwar |
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Announcements
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by Jason A. Crome (CROMEDOME) The Dancer Core Team is happy to announce that Dancer2 1.1.1 is on its way to CPAN. | 
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Virtual presentations for Perl developers
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) This events was postponed to August 4. In this virtual event you will learn why and how to use GitHub Actions as a CI system for your Perl projects. The meeting is free of charge thanks to my supporters via Patreon and GitHub. Besides this event I am running many more, so make sure you check the Code Mavens meetup group and also register to it. | 
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Articles
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by Buddy Burden (BAREFOOT) YAPC event report by another attendee Buddy Burden. Thanks for sharing your experience with us. |
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by Christos Argyropoulos Sometimes one needs an extra ounce of performance. Why not combine the high level semantics of Perl with the punch of assembly? |
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The Weekly Challenge by Mohammad Sajid Anwar will help you step out of your comfort-zone. You can even win prize money of $50 by participating in the weekly challenge. We pick one champion at the end of the month from among all of the contributors during the month, thanks to the sponsor Lance Wicks.
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Sort Letters" and "Split String". 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 "Sort String" and "Reverse Word" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Ali Moradi Another display of Perl's cool features and great solutions. Thanks for sharing the knowledge with us. |
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by Andrew Schneider Don't you love the brave heart? I liked taking the difficult path and getting job done with ease. Keep it up great work. |
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by Arne Sommer Raku one-liner is showing off method chaining once again. Raku Rocks. |
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by Jaldhar H. Vyas Coming from Raku master, the Perl one-liner is one of my favourite. Great work, keep it up. |
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by Jorg Sommrey Bullet points converted into working code in Perl. You really don't want to miss the gem. Well done. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Pure regex solution in Perl and Raku. Please do checkout the workings. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Simple yet elegant approach to get the job done. You get the bonus indepth discussion. Well done and keep it up. |
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by Luca Ferrari Consistent contributor of PostgreSQL solutions. Highly recommended as you get bonus too. |
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by W Luis Mochan Classic one-liner in Perl as always that takes care of every given example. Keep it up great work. |
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by Packy Anderson (PACKY) I love the musical introduction to a tech blog and then follows the pure tech discussion. Great work, thanks for sharing. |
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by Peter Campbell Smith DIY web interface with detailed analysis. Cool quality solutions every week. |
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by Reinier Maliepaard Pure Perl solution without any dependency this week covering every examples. Great work. |
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by Robbie Hatley Breaking down big task into smaller tasks makes it easy to implement. Take a look and see it yourself. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Playing with regex can be a tough task for beginners but once you get there it becomes piece of cake. Highly recommended. |
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