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[Perlweekly] The current Perl Weekly News - Issue #20
Perl Weekly Issue #20 - December 12, 2011 http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/20.html Hi, Two weeks ago I published the Beginner Perl Maven online video course. This week it was followed by the Advanced course and an a discount for a few days. See details below. In other news, Best Practical, the company of Jesse Vincent, is looking for a Perl Hacker. See further in this issue. And now to the links on by one... Headlines Advanced Perl Maven online video course http://bit.ly/uDvEQu When I announced the course I offered a 81% discount for 3 days. I'd like to offer this discount to you, the reader of the Perl Weekly as well: Until the 15th December 2011 you'll be able to buy the advanced course for $9 instead of $49 using the 'advanced_intro_9' coupon. The two parts of the Beginner course also have discount codes: 'beginner_15' and 'beginner2_15' respectively for $15 instead of $39 each. -------------- The Triumphant Return of Zoidberg -- A Modular Perl Shell http://bit.ly/skgjMG Joel Berger announces a new version of the Perl shell. Cleaned and washed and ready to party. -------------- Perl Rocks Latin America http://bit.ly/uyISK5 Mark Keating (MDK) writes about the W3C competition and about the only Perl team that participated. And won. Leaving 46 other teams wishing they had better tools. -------------- ============= Articles use B::Stats to check for less bloat http://bit.ly/vb6unX Reini Urban gives us a couple of examples where little, innocent looking modules eat up a lot of memory. He also points to tools to check memory footprint. Memory optimization might be an important field we have been neglecting in the Perl/CPAN community. Or maybe it's just me. -------------- Create your own dualvars http://bit.ly/tiDMHH In Perl, every scalar variable has both a string value and a numerical value. Usually they are related. brian d foy shows how to create such variables using Scalar::Util. -------------- rjbs versus Encode http://bit.ly/rwcY41 It's always fascinating to see a fight between man and machine. This time it is Ricardo Signes (RJBS) who had to deal with Encode, folding and Tibetian e-mail messages. -------------- Track App Progress with Writable $0 http://bit.ly/rX0J5W chromatic explains how to change the name of your process as seen by 'ps' or 'top' on Linux. -------------- How to parse HTML, part 2 http://bit.ly/tWoWkE If you have been following the posts of Jeffrey Kegler - and I saw many people clicked on those links - then you might be interested in the second part of this article. -------------- ============= Discussion The Ten Minute Thinking Rule http://bit.ly/tDfGpg I love the way Chisel explains how to get people to start thinking about a problem they face. It isn't always possible but I think it can work very well. Much better than saying RTFM or by giving them the solution. -------------- ============= Code Announcing MooseX::Types::NumUnit for scientific simulations http://bit.ly/vN0PHA Joel Berger is doing scientific simulations so he needed complex types that understand things like ft/s (or m/s for those in the metric system). -------------- Using system or exec safely on Windows http://bit.ly/sFGn5y Graham Knop, who almost never uses Perl on Windows, invested his time creating a way to escape all the characters that need to be escaped on Windows. This sounds a lot simpler than it is. I wish someone packaged this solution and put it on CPAN. -------------- ============= Other YAPC::NA has a suggestion box that you can vote on http://bit.ly/vO9oJj Usually I don't link to the small blog entries regarding next years YAPC::NA but this one I liked very much. 'Mob Rater' lets you suggest ideas for YAPC::NA and vote on the other ideas already listed. I think this is a nice idea and the results could be used by any YAPC or Perl workshop. So go ahead, put in your suggestions and vote on the other ones. -------------- (vi) stackoverflow perl report http://bit.ly/vKTqQ0 This weeks 'top 10 Perl on Stack Overflow' got some very interesting links. Thanks to Miguel Prz (niceperl) for collecting them week after week. -------------- Best Practical is looking for a Perl Hacker http://bit.ly/tf9pET This is the company of Jesse Vincent, the former Perl 5 Pumpkin -------------- ============= 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 -------------- German Perl workshop http://conferences.yapceurope.org/gpw2012/ 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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