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[Perlweekly] The current Perl Weekly News - Issue #18 - Beginner Perl Maven
Perl Weekly Issue #18 - November 28, 2011 http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/18.html Hi, I have started a big thing. Well, it is still small but it is growing. I have started to record a full, beginner level, Perl training course. It is called 'Beginner Perl Maven'. See below, together with the discount coupon: Headlines Saint Pierre and Miquelon http://bit.ly/v5PJ6o Dave Cross writes about the island that has the .pm domain name extension. They are starting to allow registration by anyone in the EU. Go, grab your own PM domain. -------------- Beginner Perl Maven http://bit.ly/w2ddEa Announcing the first online video course I started to record. This is for people learning Perl. There is a special discount coupon for those visiting this page in the next day or so. Feel free to invite your friends to use this discount. It expires in less than 3 days. -------------- ============= Articles 3 quick Dist::Zilla tips http://bit.ly/tvm6ax Oliver Gorwits gave a very short list of 3 Dist::Zilla tips. -------------- Which Marpa distribution to use? http://bit.ly/teVAKF Jeffrey Kegler continous his regular Marpa this time explaining about Marpa broadcast. This time he writes about the different use cases of Marpa::XS, Marpa::PP and 'Bare name' Marpa. -------------- Finding a lost dog's owner with Perl and WWW::Mechanize http://bit.ly/ve67s1 Andy Lester posted an article by Adam Gotch who was trying to access a web site - to help a dog - and wanted to automate the task to save time. A good reason to learn Perl. -------------- ============= Discussion 6 ways to minimize script startup overhead http://bit.ly/rJlQly Steven Haryanto lists 6 ideas. Some are really good, though I don't agree with all the strategies. I liked the idea of checking the cost of a module using Devel::EndStats (in his pmcost script). Using require for modules that are not used on every run is a clear win. What do you think? -------------- ============= Testing Parallelism and Test Suites http://bit.ly/vwFr2O Test::Harness allows you to run tests in parallel which can save a lot of time both during module installation and during testing your own application. chromatic shows a few examples where these parallel tests might break and how to fix them easily. -------------- ============= Code Know split's special cases http://bit.ly/sgVqyl brian d foy explains 3 special cases of split: the empty pattern, the single space and splitting lines. You can always learn new things and become a more effective Perl programmer. -------------- Dancing the Haka or How to build a LAN radio station in 3 hours http://bit.ly/te4yNh Yanick Champoux takes us on a scenic tour with his Maori friends pulling together a streaming server and a web application to have their own radio station. -------------- Mojito Simply Does MojoMojo http://bit.ly/vx7Gzu Mateu introduces Mojito, the document engine he wrote. -------------- ============= Events Saint Perl 2011 Conference http://event.perlrussia.org/saintperl3/ December 18, 2011, Saint-Petersburg, Russia -------------- The Perl Oasis http://www.perloasis.info/opw2012/ January 13-15, 2012, Orlando, Florida, USA -------------- Perl Workshop in Israel http://act.perl.org.il/ilpw2012/ February 28, 2012, Ramat Gan, Israel -------------- ============= 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? Join us free of charge. http://perlweekly.com/ (C) Copyright Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/ The articles are copyright the respective authors. If you don't want to receive mails any more you can unsubscribe here: http://perlweekly.com/unsubscribe.html _______________________________________________ Perlweekly mailing list Perlweekly@perlweekly.com http://mail.perlweekly.com/mailman/listinfo/perlweekly (Log in to post comments)
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