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Issue #78 - 2013-01-21 - Heads in the Cloud
latest | archive | edited by Yanick Champoux
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Howdie, Yanick speaking here. Gabor is out on a well-deserved vacation, and left me the keys of the PerlWeekly. The fool. Yanick Champoux |
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Announcements
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joris joris presents us a small utility script mashing the functionality of the venerable 'head' and 'grep' tools together. |
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by Joel Berger (JBERGER) A new CMS system hits the shelves, Joel Berger announces. Galileo is very simple, and very pretty. But don't take my word for it, give it a whirl! | 
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by Vyacheslav Matyukhin A new file locking module enters the CPAN fray: Vyacheslav Matyukhin's Lock::File. |
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by Toby Inkster (TOBYINK) Toby Inkster introduces 'Ask', a new module that does its darnedest to interact with the user. No interactive prompt? I'll try to use Tk, Wx, Gtk2 or even zenity widgets to get its questions across. And it's meant to be easily extended, so that if everything else fails, you can still write your own ESP plugin. |
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Here comes some serious competition for Acme::Magic::Pony. Nicholas Perez introduces CloudPAN, which makes installing (pure perl) modules on local machines a thing of the past. |
Discussion
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by John Napiorkowski (JJNAPIORK) The aftermaths of Stevan Little's talk at the Orlando Perl Workshop continue to be felt. Here, it's John Napiorkowski's turn to muse on what was said, and what it means for the future. | 
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With the "Perl's a Dead-End" wails still ringing in our ears, Adam Taylor muses what we have to offer to attract new blood, beside echo chambers filled with zombies. And raptors. |
Code
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If you want to do it, Rob Hammond provides instructions how to make it happen. |
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Yanick re-heats some Perl Advent leftovers and revisits the Dancer megasplat operator. |
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I tell you HTTP requests and you immediatly think GET and POST, and perhaps PUT, DELETE and all the rest of the REST gang. But what about poor HEAD? Sebastian reminds us about these oft-forgotten requests. |
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Anonymous functions are a handy way to wrap code, but hardly the only one. chromatic shows us one of the alternatives. |
Grants
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by Dan Wright (DWRIGHT) Interested in the financial details of the Perl Foundation? Dan Wright has the numbers for you. |
Perl 6
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Wherein a NQP frontend is plugged into a QAST to JVM backend. Which is a good thing. ... I think. |
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