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Issue #83 - 2013-02-25 - Did you know that 'Love' is true in Perl?
latest | archive | edited by Gabor Szabo
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Hi, Today is the Israeli Perl Workshop organized by Sawyer and myself. It is a strange thing as today is still Purim, so some of the participants might come in costume. We'll see. There is also a huge list of Perl events for the next few months. I included the four closest, (actually that's 5), but they are all less than 2 month from now. I wonder if we should have a section listing the upcoming Perl Monger events as well, or if I should collect those and put them in some format on the web site. If for nothing else to provide some link-value to these sites. Anyhow, here is the current edition. Don't forget to share the entries you liked! The authors live off those shares and likes and +1s. Enjoy Gabor Szabo |
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Products
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I love how David E. Wheeler thinks about the users of Squitch, who probably don't care it was written in Perl and who probably don't want to deal with CPAN. He even set up a web site dedicated for this product. I'd assume any Perl developer who would want to see more people use Perl would start playing with this tool and start promoting it... |
Announcements
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by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS) So part of Texinfo was ported from C to Perl that got some attention on Slashdot. Dave Cross checked the code and gave his opinion on how 'modern' that code is. I find both his comments and the reaction by the author of the code very interesting. | 
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Articles
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID) Do you like to upset your boss? Neither do I. Apparently Ovid wants avoid that too. So how do you compare undef with a number in a way that it won't mean 0? | 
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by David Golden (DAGOLDEN) The perils of case insensitive file systems. Or maybe Perl should have a mode to automatically recognize such problems? | 
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chromatic writes about the difficulty handling Unicode passwords properly. |
Testing
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Fun
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Ruslan Zakirov wants to contribute to the Perl 5 porters improving the core language, but he does not have much time and even when he has some it is not in one block. So he is trying to use Play Perl to get his ideas out. Maybe you would have the time to implement them. |
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB) Do you know that the 'Love' is true in Perl? (So is 'False', but let's be positive here, can we?). Neil Bowers found out about the funny people in Perl community. You can too. | 
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Grants
Perl 6
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by Carl Mäsak Carl Masak started to go over the solution for the Perl 6 Coding Competition. (and I still have two half-written solution on my hard disk...) | 
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Weekly collections
Perl Tutorial
Some entries from Gabor. This time not exactly tutorials.
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You might be overwhelmed by the lots of violations it reports on a code that has never been checked. Here is one strategy to avoid fatigue and desperation. |
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A question on a strange small Perl group on Facebook triggered this. I need to write a lot more about this subject. |
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.
