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Issue #88 - 2013-04-01 - Bunnies, Fishies and Camels, oh My!
latest | archive | edited by Yanick Champoux
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Hi there, This issue was prepared by Yanick again, but he left me with an empty preface here. So I am happy to announce about 3 new Perl-related events I just found about: YAPC::Hawai, YAPC::ME (Middle East) and OSDC Taiwan. You can find details about them in the 'Events' section at the end of the newsletter. Enjoy! Yanick Champoux |
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Announcements
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How better to celebrate Easters than with a little Exodus? The centralized Perl svn repository site served us well for many years, but now it is time for it to bow down and vanishes into a well-deserved retirement. CPAN authors, take heed: April 27th is when the lights will go out. |
Articles
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Giel Goudsmit reminisces about the last 10 years of Bookings.com, and how he saw it grow from its modest origins to the behemoth it is today. |
Testing
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by Sinan Unur (NANIS) Sinan Unur amuses himself and comes up with an elegant way of solving that problem. | 
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miyagawa gleefully announces a toolchain milestone: the segregation of build and test dependencies is now truly grokked by all major players. |
Code
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by Joel Berger (JBERGER) Sometimes, your proudest achievement is the module that oozes out pizzazz like red dwarves pour out radiation. Sometimes, it's the little humble module that is just does the job with no fuss. Joel Berger professes his love for Tie::Array::CSV, which definitively belongs to the second category. | 
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I once compared Dist::Zilla to the bat-mobile: very powerful, but a little daunting for the casual driver. miyagawa tries to address that with 'Milla', which tries to take care of most of the dzillish complexity for you. |
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by David Golden (DAGOLDEN) David Golden shares with us some of the scripts and tricks he uses to facilitate the ebbs of pull requests. | 
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Dominic Humphries narrates the birth of his first module, and shows us all how easily one can slip into CPAN authorhood (getting out, now, that's a totally different kettle of fish). |
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by Thomas Klausner (DOMM) Gabor walks us through how one can set up a nice static blog using domm's Blio blogging engine. |
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SSL tends to make things... a trifle more complicated. David Precious explains how to make LWP::UserAgent play well with secure urls. |
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Ever got a mysterious error when calling Mojolicious's 'render_later' method? Max explains what it means. |
Fun
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HabitRPG is a todo / habit tracker application with a twist: it turns mundane activities into a fantasy RPG. Paul Fenwick, with his usual flare for the ubernifty, wrote a Perl module -- and a command-line interface -- to interact with the system. Killing orcs, merging pull requests, it can all be part of your typical working days, now. |
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by Thomas Klausner (DOMM) Perl packages have to end with a true value. Typically, that's '1'. But some authors get more... creative. domm sends his module hunting for those peculiar true values, and aggregates them for our viewing pleasure. |
Grants
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by Alberto Simões (AMBS) Alberto Simoes called for a the new round of grant proposals. In case you have ideas for projects, but don't have time to do them, you can add them in the comment section allowing people with time, but without projects to submit grant proposals. | 
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by Karen Pauley Karen Pauley announced the cooperation with the GNOME Foundation. There is money for one intern to participate. | 
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Broadcasts
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In this first broadcast of GitMinutes, Randal L. Schwartz talks about Git, Perl and, oh..., his favorite editor. |
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Jeff Thalhammer talks about Pinto on FLOSS Weekly. 'nuff said. |
Perl 6
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Training
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) There are going to be 7 courses before and after YAPC::NA in Austin, TX. Check out the schedule and buy your tickets. | 
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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.
