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Issue #90 - 2013-04-15 - Raising money for a Perl project
latest | archive | edited by Yanick Champoux
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Hi, brian d foy is running an fund-raiser on behalf of Jeffrey Thalhammer (author of Perl::Critic and Pinto) to improve Pinto. I believe that the greater Perl community - including all the readers of the Perl Weekly and a lot of other people who don't (yet) read it can start putting some money together for such project. Even if each person only gave $5 or $10, that will quickly tilt the project. My question: do you think that allowing certain people to work on open source projects (in this case Jeff), can help you? - Check out the link below to see the explanation of brian d foy and let's see how quickly we can raise the remaining amount? On the Crowdtilt page you can see that both Yanick (who put together a large chunk of this edition), and myself have already contributed a bit. Now it's your turn! In other news there are going to be 3 Perl Workshops this weekend. See if one of them is near to you! Enjoy Yanick Champoux |
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Announcements
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rt.cpan.org has been upgraded! Here's a list of what's new and shiny. |
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by brian d foy (BDFOY) brian d foy launched a Crowdtilt campaign to fund the development of Pinto (and by ricochet Stratopan). We could probably wax poetically about the usefulness of Pinto, the shininess of Stratopan and the awesomeness of Jeff Thalhammer but, really, I think it could all be summarized by "shut up and take my money!". | 
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by John Napiorkowski (JJNAPIORK) A new version of Catalyst is on CPAN, with improvements both touching the code and the project itself. John Napiorkowski walks us through them. | 
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Discussion
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Adzuna is a London startup running on Perl. And, as we can see, they are doing quite well. Quite well indeed. |
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID) For a developer, it's all bugs. Well, it ain't, Ovid points out: there is bugs, and then there is unforeseen behaviors. And while the first group is almost always bad news, the second group can be... surprising. | 
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Testing
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This monthly report was written before the QA Hackathon that took place over the week-end. The number of reports is approaching 30 million! |
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This part 1 of the series in which Wendy van Dijk reports about the QA Hackathon that too place last week-end. It provides some insight to what went on during the Hackathon. |
Code
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Inspired by the Pinto Crowdtilt initiative, Yanick plays around with a way to aggregate all CPAN authors part of a machine's stack, and feed the result to the micro-donation web service Flattr. |
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How do they deal with configuration file management at Booking.com? This is how. |
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How hard is it to extract all the regular expressions within a Perl project? Thanks to PPI and Peter Makholm's skills, much less than you would think. |
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by Peter Krumins (PKRUMINS) Peteris Krumins pushed a bunch of utility scripts to GitHub. We bet some of them could also be useful to you. | 
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by Tina Müller (TINITA) tinita shows us how to monitor and graph the request durations of a web application via munin and a crafty little perl script (natch). | 
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by Thomas Klausner (DOMM) For once, the title is not a rhetorical question. domm walks us through the problem he has, and tries to figure out if Bread::Board is the solution he is looking for. |
Email
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by Ricardo Signes (RJBS) DKIM is one of the tools available for legitimate e-mail senders to fight being falsely marked as spammer. Hence it is important to to know how to use it. | 
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Databases
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AS you might remember Squich is an SQL change manager tool written in Perl. It supports PostgreSQL, and MySQL, and now it also supports SQLite. |
Web
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Nolan Joseph Axford (j0e) is unstoppable. He keeps working on his Catalyst based application and he keeps writing about it! |
Videos
Perl 6
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by Reini Urban (RURBAN) Reini Urban gives us an update on p2, the new perl11 VM. ... wait, did I just said "Perl 11"? | 
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Training
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Now that the schedule is available it might be a good opportunity to mention the 7 'Master classes' before and after YAPC. Two of them taught by myself (Gabor). |
Weekly collections
Perl Tutorial
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Context sensitivity is one of the strange features of Perl 5. This part of the Perl Maven Tutorial tries to explain it a bit. |
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Removing leading and trailing white spaces is one of the big bike-shedding issues. |
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The first steps towards better structured application and code-reuse is creating functions. Here are the basics. |
Events
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