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Issue #75 - 2012-12-31 - Happy New Year!
latest | archive | edited by Yanick Champoux
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Hi, Let me thank you for all your support in 2012 and let me wish you a year of prosperity and lots of fun with Perl and otherwise! Special thanks to Shlomi Fish who corrected some of the typos I made in the Perl Weekly. BTW, part of this issue was put together by Yanick Champoux. I hope in the next year we'll be able to work more closely together in the preparation of the Perl Weekly See you next year! Yanick Champoux |
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Announcements
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by Olaf Alders (OALDERS) In case you notice problems with Meta CPAN today, or in the coming days, please be patient, and read the note by Olaf Alders. | 
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Web
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by Nitish Bezzala Exactly what it says on the tin. Nitish Bezzala shows the command line parameters for Starman and the VirtualHost entry of the Apache configuration file. |
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David Schmidt (davewood) goes in the other direction leaving Apache in favor of Nginx. See the configuration files and script needed to use this set up. |
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by Glen Hinkle (TEMPIRE) A new version of Mojolicious::Plugin::ConsoleLogger is out, providing new helpful debugging features like an easy access to the config, session and stash information of the application. | 
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Job
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by brian d foy (BDFOY) People who read my stuff know that I think having a profile on LinkedIN (and building up your connections, and joining relevant groups), is a very good way to prepare for the day when - maybe a year or two from now - you will look for a new job. Or, just sit back and wait for a recruiter to find you. | 
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Testing
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Coding and testing. Opposite, yet fundamentally inter-related. Like the Yin and the Yang. Like a pain in the neck and a pain in the-- err, yes, you get the idea. chromatic discusses the healthy equilibrium between those two sides of development. |
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID) What happens when your co-worker left the code in a broken state and he is gone for 2 weeks during the holidays? how do you avoid the constant nagging of the failing tests, and how do you make sure you don't get used to them saying 'Oh we expect those to fail...'. As usual Ovid comes with an interesting solution, though I think I'd stick to TODO block + big red sticker on co-workers screen. | 
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Releases
Fun
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by Steven Haryanto (SHARYANTO) Steven Haryanto create a short script using the Meta CPAN API, to fetch the number of distribution of give CPAN developers and then put that on a graph. He is using bare metal API calls getting back JSON structures and then uses Chart::Lines to draw the graph. |
Licenses
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On the CPAN web sites some modules are marked having 'Unknown' license. Here is how each CPAN author could indicate the license in the META files. If you are a CPAN user and encounter a module that has 'Unknown' license, please ask the author to make this little change. |
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Using the Meta CPAN API, I checked the 1000 most recent CPAN uploads to see how many of them have a license. |
Web
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by Joel Berger (JBERGER) One of things that always surprise me is how many people develop in an environment that is substantially different from the deployment environment and the distribution package. There are of course many cases when the directory structures are different in those situation. In a good development environment you should not notice this. Mojolicious::Plugin::InstallablePaths aims to provide that configuration. | 
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Perl 6
Weekly collections
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Perl 5.17.7 is now available and more to read there... |
Events
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