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Issue #68 - 2012-11-12 - Austrian Perl Workshop: 16-17 November in Vienna
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Hi, It seem this week was especially low on articles, or maybe just my collector broke down? Anyway, I did find a few interesting articles and even published one of my own. As you can see I also started to experiment with more contextual titles. Do you like them? If you are near Vienna, check out the link at the bottom of this newsletter and visit the Austrian Perl Workshop. Gabor Szabo |
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GUI
Testing
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Learning from other languages
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chromatic compared the way the object constructors are called in Perl and in Python and suggested a way to have it Perl as well. I am not sure if patching Perl in all kinds of strange ways is the right thing to do, but it might be worth thinking about it. |
The popularity of Perl?
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Last week there was a post about the number of Perl-related questions on Stack Overflow and how that grew in the last 12 months. In response to that I asked how were the numbers of the Perl Monastery. There were some interesting responses in the thread. |
Business Applications
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by Caleb Cushing (XENO) While personally I'd need more detailed explanation, it is still interesting to read some of the notes Caleb Cushing (xenoterracide) made, explaining the API changes. This module can potentially become a very important piece of software to make it easier to build business ready web sites with Perl. |
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Some beautiful screenshots of an Excel file. Who would have thought? |
Configuration Management
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by Mike Doherty (DOHERTY) While every company I've seen has its own special way of handling components of applications, I think they are also very similar. That's why I think the explanation of Mike Doherty (Hashbang) who works at Pythian, can be interesting for others as well. Hopefully reading this will save you some time down the road. | 
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by Tokuhiro Matsuno Tokuhiro Matsuno was surprised to see, that calls the Makefile.PL recursively in subdirectories as well, but found the solution to stop it from doing so. |
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Tutorial
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This is a simple explanation of sort and the sorting functions one can use to sort a list of numbers. (disclaimer: this my article on the Perl 5 Maven site.) |
Google Code-In
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by Paul Johnson (PJCJ) It is unclear to me if the dead-line is already over or not, but even if it is over, I am sure listing further ideas for small (few hours long) projects could help once The Perl Foundation is accepted in GCI. | 
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Perl 6
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by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN) Jonathan Worthington explained a few of the changes in Rakudo. The one I most liked was the lexically scoped operators. Basically you can change the grammar of the language within a block. Shall we say DSL? | 
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Other
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by Laurent Dami (DAMI) Data::Domain is an input verification module, especially for web applications, while Test::InDomain is a wrapper around the former allowing writing specialized tests of deep data structures. | 
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by Yanick Champoux (YANICK) Yanick Champoux has two topic in this blog entry. The other one is about GitStore that allows you to use Git as a versioned data store. Right from your Perl script. | 
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