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Issue #80 - 2013-02-04 - YAPC::NA opened registration. Perl Workshops in Israel, Germany, and Switzeland
latest | archive | edited by Yanick Champoux
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Hi, this edition was mostly put together by Yanick, I just added a few entries. YAPC::NA has finally opened its web site for registration. See the link at the bottom of this edition along with the links to three Perl workshops. Enjoy your week! Yanick Champoux |
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Announcements
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Not a coding ninja, but want to help the Perl ecosystem? The Perl NOC needs volunteers to be mailing list helping fairies and gnomes. |
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Documentation, lovely documention... The RT crew has been working at beefing up its documentation. Here's the fruit of their labor |
Articles
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A picture is worth a thousand words. Or, in this case, roughly a thousand new uploads to CPAN per month. |
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) Gabor Szabo offers a refresher on how to access Perl documentation (both for core stuff and modules). | 
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Franck Cuny is using Graphite @{$work}, and is giving us a peek at how it fits in its surrounding environment. |
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Ovid gives us a idea of the TODO list for the upcoming QA Hackaton. Prepare to drool. |
Discussion
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v1.1_1, is it considered to be higher than v1.1, or lower because a trial version? Chisel wasn't sure either, and found out. |
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by Ricardo Signes (RJBS) Ricardo Signes follows up on his file finding modules performance tests of last week. | 
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Testing
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID) A new contender in the JUnit-type testing arena. This one is from Ovid, and throws Moose goodness in the mix. | 
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Code
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by Sinan Unur (NANIS) So, you have those massive gzipped log files: how to plow through them in less than geological times? Sinan Unur tries to find out. | 
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Yanick presents a little script that magically turns all the TODOs in your code in GitHub issues (but, alas, don't fix them for you). |
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) So, you left your blog entry directories 'grow organically', and now you want to tame the resulting unholy mess. Gabor Szabo shows us how he fought entropy with perl, grep, cut, and a good vacuum cleaner. |
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by David Golden (DAGOLDEN) Path::Class is awesome, but not the fastest horse in the stabble. Consequently, here comes David Golden's Path::Tiny, with 90% of its cousin's features and a lot more speed in its hooves. | 
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New perl installed. Fire up the debugger. Ah, yes, which modules do we need to get command history in there again? Chisel found out, and wrote a small puppet update to make sure everything needed is always there. |
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by Mike Doherty (DOHERTY) Mike Doherty cares about security. He has a look at the Content Security Policy proposed by Mozilla, and shows how to write a simple CSP violation tracker using Dancer. | 
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Mark Dootson provides fruitful information how to get Citrus Perl running on Raspberry Pi. |
Grants
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by Joel Berger (JBERGER) Joel Berger continues to toil on Alien::Base, and needs some help from CPANtesters. | 
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Perl 6
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by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN) If you want your head to spin, read the about the dessign work of Jonathan Worthington. In a related note and much more down to earth, Nicholas Clark reported that 'NQP JVM prototype faster than Perl 5'. (Search for his e-mail, if interested.) | 
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Other Event
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The one year anniversary meeting of Cluj.pm is planned to be in March. |
Weekly collections
The self promotion section
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) I've updated and released the edition of the Advanced Perl book. People who already purchased (or who attended my advanced course) can download it free. |
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Events
I usually list the next 3-4 events here. The list of all the events can be found on the web site. If your Perl event is not listed there, please let me know.
