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Issue #95 - 2013-05-20 - Spring is here, Perl 5.18.0 is out!
latest | archive | edited by Yanick Champoux
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Hi On 5.18 Perl 5.18 was released. (If this goes on, I wonder when will 5.32 be released ??) You can download the source code and build it yourself or, if you use Windows, you can grab Strawberry Perl! In either case, let's use this opportunity to thank all the people who were involved in the development and release of Perl 5.18! Last week I got notified that I missed the French Perl Workshop from the list. Now it is corrected. Please note it is less than a month from now. If you don't want to wait till then, the Polish Perl Workshop is this week! That's it for now by Gabor. Now let me pass the keyboard to `/anick, who put together most of this issue: Yanick Champoux |
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Headlines
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by Sebastian Riedel (SRI) Sebastian Riedel announces the release of Mojolicious 4.0, and with it a list of equally delicious new features. |
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by David Golden (DAGOLDEN) David Golden owns the domain name 'vanillaperl.com', but don't really have a use for it. Have a good idea for it? Chime in, and the domain could be yours! | 
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Take a moment to read the changelog, fire up perlbrew and, if applicable, point and laugh at any poor schmuck close by still stuck on 5.6. |
Obituary
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Hojung Yoon (AMORETTE), 24, of Seoul, South Korea, went to his long rest on May 8, 2013 with llama figurine and autographed TIMTOADY card. He was a brilliant young Perl 5 & 6 hacker and a devoted member of Seoul.pm. He programmed Perl, talked Perl, ate Perl, and loved Perl. We believe that he is still programming in Perl with his broken IBM laptop somewhere. He will be missed. |
Articles
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by brian d foy (BDFOY) Perl and Windows? Is it long-term skills? How to carve a niche for yourself? A new Perl user has questions, brian d foy answers them, Dear Abby-style. | 
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Testing
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID) A new version of Test::Class::Moose is out. Ovid walks us through the new, cleaner class-to-test-file interface it provides. | 
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Code
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You're probably aware of the token '__PACKAGE__'. But do you know you can also access the current file, and line of code? What about the embedded data stream? |
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Yanick announces the appearance of a new fast web escaping module on the scene. |
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by Michiel Beijen (MICHIELB) Mike B points out that Net::SSLGlue now support POP3 with TLS security. | 
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Yanick touts a new release of GitStore, which provides a nice interface to MooseX::Storage, and thus makes storing Moose objects into a Git repository a breeze. |
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by Alexey Melezhik (MELEZHIK) How easy is it to install psgi-based applications using Chef? Pretty darn easy, according to melezhik's examples. | 
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Slides & Videos
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by Joel Berger (JBERGER) Grasping the opportunity for serendipisism, Joel Berger has updated his Mojolicious introduction slide-deck for Mojolicious 4.0. | 
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Perl 6
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by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN) Jonathan Worthington keeps us up-to-date with what is happening in the world of Rakudo. | 
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The Haskell community prides itself in being able to implement the quicksort algorithm in a succint yet elegant way. Dominic Humphries shows that Perl ain't too shabby for it either. |
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by Rohan Almeida (ROHAN) Rohan Almeida tackles this classic coding exercise, and by the same token provides us with a nifty example of Perl 6 programming. | 
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Grants
Weekly Collections
Perl Maven Tutorial
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Do you know how what is the difference between single-quote and double-quote in Perl? Do you know how to use q and qq? |
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