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[Perlweekly] The current Perl Weekly News - Issue #16
Perl Weekly Issue #16 - November 14, 2011 http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/16.html Hi, I am sending this from London where I attended the UK Perl Workshop. It was great. There were lots of interesting talks that I missed because I was giving a 4 hour training. There was also a social event after, that I enjoyed very much. There were some 220-250 people who came to the event. GCI - TPF needs your help to locate teenagers who would like to participate in the Google Code-in and do Perl related projects. Now to the articles: Headlines Perl Accepted For GCI - Now We Just Need Students http://bit.ly/viCCgH The Perl Foundation was accepted to participate in the Google Code-in. Now it is time to find students between the ages 13-17 years who are interested to participate. That's where The Perl Foundation needs your help. See the post of Paul Johnson (pjcj) with details. -------------- ============= Articles Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part VII: Handy Regular Expressions http://bit.ly/uxndQQ Peteris Krumins continues his series about Perl one-liners. This time looking at regular expressions. Some of them are useful, for others there are CPAN modules that serve the purpose better than a regex. -------------- Graphing time-based data in Perl http://bit.ly/szqSDZ David Precious (bigpersh) wanted to produce some graphs for a Dancer based application. After looking around on CPAN he settled with Chart::Strip. There is a small example code and the resulting graph in the blog. -------------- Intelligent caching for all time statistics http://bit.ly/vaTvqX Sebastian Willing show how to use Memcached to keep already computed data in memory in a way that survives even a restart to the web-server. -------------- ============= Discussion Confident Code Using Systematic, Automated Input Validation http://bit.ly/vctk10 John Wang takes some ideas from Ruby and shows how to implement 'confident code' in Moose. It's up for discussion to figure out if this is a good or a bad way to show the power of Moose. -------------- Technical Quality is an Insurance Policy http://bit.ly/vjIuMk When you copy-paste some code, do you create 'technical debt', 'friction' or are you driving up the premium you pay for your 'technical insurance'? It's only a question of metaphor but explaining the problem in a way that is easier to understand for business people is important. Hence the article of Jeff Thalhammer on the Moder Perl Books web site. -------------- Marpa v. Perl regexes: some numbers http://bit.ly/uCjJ7i Jeffrey Kegler pitches his Marpa engine against the regex engine of Perl. He says that in some cases Marpa is much faster than any regex could be. Then a discussion with Tom Christiansen makes the whole article even more interesting. -------------- ============= Slides London Perl Workshop - Learning Perl Together http://bit.ly/tn4z5w Ian Norton (idn) has published his slides from the 'Learning Perl Together' workshop he gave at the London Perl Workshop -------------- Modern Core Perl Slides http://bit.ly/swRydd Dave Cross gave a very good 90 minute long talk about what is new in Perl 5.10, 5.12, 5.14 and even in the not-yet-released 5.16. He is sharing his slides here. -------------- ============= Code Caching pages - Beyond Firebug to NYTProf http://bit.ly/ug9WFU Dave Jacoby shows an example how NYTProf lead him to caching result pages reducing the response time by more than 50%. It was interesting to see now as I am planning to do the same with my simple blog engine. -------------- ============= Perl Tutorial Perl Tutorial: Scalar and List context in Perl, the size of an array http://bit.ly/u5nvm4 -------------- ============= Perl 6 Slides from the Optimizing Rakudo Perl 6 talk http://bit.ly/rZ76XX Jonathan Worthington published his slides. -------------- ============= Other Fun with Perl http://bit.ly/uXDqko A couple of days ago Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes mentioned to me that the 'Fun with Perl' mailing list suddenly woke up. Judging from the archive it isn't a busy list but a very rewarding one. Assuming you like that kind of fun. -------------- What I learned from YAPC::Brasil http://bit.ly/vEh97N brian d foy describes his experience at a conference where most of the talks are in a language he does not understand and also finds time to introduce Data::Printer. Nice pictures too. -------------- LPW2011 : my thoughts overall http://bit.ly/vkWNYq David Precious (bigpersh) reports about the London Perl Workshop. -------------- ============= Perl Training Public Perl training in London http://bit.ly/vxEzmy Dave Cross is running an 'Intermediate Perl' and an 'Advanced Perl' course in February 2012 in central London. -------------- ============= Events Saint Perl 2011 Conference http://bit.ly/rRwocn December 18, 2011, Saint-Petersburg, Russia -------------- The Perl Oasis http://bit.ly/pWbUmU January 13-15, 2012, Orlando, Florida, USA -------------- German Perl workshop http://bit.ly/uAkkog March 5-7, 2012, Erlangen, Germany -------------- ============= You joined the Perl Weekly to get weekly e-mails about the Perl programming language and related topics. Want to see more? See the archives ( http://perlweekly.com/archive/ ) of all the issues. Reading this as a non-subscriber? 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