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Issue #82 - 2013-02-18 - Valentine Day's Gone, The Love Remains.
latest | archive | edited by Yanick Champoux
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Hi there, I was about to prepare this issue when I noticed that Yanick has done all the work already. So I only added a few entries and the sponsors. Actually there were others who asked being a sponsor, but I think for now I'll stay with two. While they are quite relevant to you, dear readers, but this newsletter the content must be the primary focus. ~ Gabor Enjoy! Yanick Champoux |
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Announcements
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Have ideas or wishes for talks and events at YAPC::NA? Here's an interface where any suggestion can be dropped in and voted on. |
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by Peter Rabbitson (RIBASUSHI) Peter Rabbitson pushed out new version of DBIC 'which *should not* eat your data'. Go, try it! | 
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Articles
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So you've been writing scripts, and feel you are now ready to graduate to modules and CPAN? Good. Gabor is there to show you the ropes. |
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j0e is working on a web site based on Catalyst. He's also a self-proclaimed newbie, and shares with us notes his notes on his learning journey. In this episode, he tackles DBIx::Class. |
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Interpreter error messages, they can be cryptic at times. But despair not, for Gabor will gently walk you through common perl error messages and their typical causes. |
Discussion
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Sammy Esmail has been using Perl since 1999, and doesn't plan on stop using it anytime soon. |
Testing
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by brian d foy (BDFOY) brian d foy is on a benchmarking mission. Showcasing his new Surveyor::App, he confirms that for the task of html encoding, HTML::Escape really lets HTML::Entities eat its dust. | 
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Benchmarking is a tricky business. brian d foy illustrates the point very well, building on observations of David Golden where the performance of the very same code can be seen to vary wildly in function of its execution order. |
Code
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Web scraping pdf files and aggregating them in a single document? Yanick shows how to leverage CPAN modules to do it in 11 lazy lines of code. |
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Using the web service IDoneThis? Well, Paul Fenwick does, and his new WebService::Idonethis opens the gates to new, nice cli shortcuts for it. |
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Social sites and widgets go together like boyscouts and badges. Yanick plays around and hacks together a quick and dirty server-side widget for Play Perl. |
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by brian d foy (BDFOY) If you love something, set it free. That also applies to modules, brian d foy reminds us, and shows us how to put your old modules to adoption. |
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by Joel Berger (JBERGER) In a spin-off of the Galileo CMS project, Joel Berger introduces GalileoSend, a new protocol for sending files over websockets. | 
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Ivan Bessarabov, as many, doesn't like useless whitespaces littering his code. So he created a new test module thatcan only be described as the new natural enemy of Acme::Bleach. |
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Remember those cool scripts from Eric Johnson? They are now on CPAN! |
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Sometimes, straight LWP::Simple web scraping won't do. In those cases, Selenium with a browser was usually the way to go. But now Rob Hammond brings our attention to a new contender, PhantomJS, which bypass the need of a browser altogether. |
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by Joel Berger (JBERGER) Want to discuss Galileo, the new shiny Perl-based CMS? Or poke its author, Joel Berger, directly? Well, rejoice, for it now has its very own IRC channel to do exactly that. |
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So, your codebase is using Moo and structured around plugins. Sounds like a scenario where the power of roles could be leveraged, doesn't it? Diab Jerius thought so too. |
Fun
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by Vyacheslav Matyukhin Somewhere, the ghost of John Lennon is facepalming and muttering "shouldn't have said that, mate". But Vyacheslav Matyukhin has every reason to preen. Play-Perl first week has been a fantastic one, and the service sure caught the eye of many. Flash in the pan, or the birth of the next big thing? History will tell. But in the meantime, no-one can argue against the fact that, yeah, we could all use a little bit of play. |
Grants
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by Alberto Simões (AMBS) Alberto Simões reports that, and wonders why, there has been no grant proposal submited to the Perl Foundation in the last six months. | 
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Videos
Perl 6
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No, not that kind of pattern matching. Moritz Lentz shows us method signatures in the context of Perl 6. |
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID) Ovid took the solution from Rosetta Code and first explained what Red-Black Trees are and how they can be implemented in Perl 6. | 
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A surprising post by Wendy van Dijk on the JosetteOrama describing Perl 6 to a lot of people who usually don't hear about Perl. |
Training
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by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS) Dave Cross summarizing his latest experience running the almost free 'Perl School'. | 
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