[Perlweekly] The current Perl Weekly News - Issue #19 - Advent calendars all over the place

Perl Weekly Issue #19 - December 5, 2011

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Hi,


The season of the Advent calendars started. I thought to collect a list of
them but Andrew Grangaard beat me to it, so I am going to link to his blog
post instead.


Even without the Advent calendars, there were so many interesting posts
this week I had a hard time to choose. I had to leave out a number of good
ones, in order to keep the list at a manageable size.


Last week my son attended his first Taekwondo competition. It is awesome
but also frightening. The whole 'game' is about kicking the other one.
Preferably in the head...


Anyway, enjoy the writing...




Headlines
  
  Perl Advent Calendars, 2011 edition.
  http://www.lowlevelmanager.com/2011/12/perl-advent-calend...
 
  Andrew Grangaard (low level manager) collected links to a number of Perl
  related Advent calendars. His blog can be a good starting point to
  explore Dancer, Catalyst, Perl 6 or a number of other topics in English.
  For the more adventures, and for the natives of the respective countries,
  there is a long list of Japanese and even a Korean Advent calendar.
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Articles
  
  Augmenting the Perl debugger for fun and profit

http://blogs.perl.org/users/mithaldu/2011/12/augmenting-t...
 
  Mithaldu, who is also known as as Christian Walde, explains why it is good
  to let your debugger skip on internal calls and how to do that using his
  brand new DB::Skip.
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  Goodbye // I'll miss you
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/john_mcnamara/2011/12/goodbye...
 
  John McNamara, the author and maintainer of various Excel related modules
  explains why did he revert his decision, and started to support perl
  5.8.2 as well. I think all the corporate users owe him big thanks. Me
  included.
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  Google Code-in - Fit the Second
  http://mdk.per.ly/2011/12/04/google-code-in-fit-the-second/
 
  Mark Keating (MDK) reports on the progress of TPF in the Google Code-in
  after two weeks of work. In a nutshell: things are looking good but more
  students, mentors and tasks are needed.
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  How to Parse HTML
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/jeffrey_kegler/2011/11/how-to...
 
  I am very impressed by the persistence of Jeffrey Kegler in explaining what
  is Marpa and showing how it can be used. This time he picks up a piece of
  real world HTML code and shows how to parse it and how to deal with
  missing tags.
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  Visualization of the Mojo class tree
  http://marcus.nordaaker.com/2011/12/visualization-of-the-...
 
  A nice picture by Marcus Ramberg showing the class hierarchy of Mojo and
  Mojolicious.
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Discussion
  
  How do I get a unique Perl Interpreter ID?
  http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=940997
 
  Sebastian Willing pointed me to this discussion on Perl Monks
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Testing
  
  Controlling Test Parallelism with prove
  http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2011/12/controlling-tes...
 
  If you like taking a nap while your tests are running don't read this!
  chromatic shows two very interesting features of the prove command that
  might allow you to save as much as 80% of the time spend running tests.
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  Temporary Directory Handling in Tests
  http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2011/11/temporary-direc...
 
  For parallel testing, you need to make sure two tests won't try to access
  the same part of the file system. File::Tempdir is a good solution but
  chromatic needed some more features.
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  Test::NoWarnings 1.04 - Immediate warnings with :early pragma

http://blogs.perl.org/users/adam_kennedy/2011/12/testnowa...
 
  Adam Kennedy, who is now maintaining Test::NoWarnings, allows us to see the
  warnings as they happen, instead of at the end of the test script. This
  can be an improvement for debugging.
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Code
  
  exec's portability
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/shlomi_fish/2011/12/execs-por...
 
  A very interesting question by Shlomi Fish regarding the different behavior
  of exec and command line parameters on Windows and Linux, and a very nice
  explanation by  Aristotle Pagaltzis.
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  New 1.33 release of Perl DBD::ODBC
  http://www.martin-evans.me.uk/node/124
 
  Martin Evans details what's new in DBD::ODBC.
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  DBD::SQLite 1.35 released
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/adam_kennedy/2011/11/dbdsqlit...
 
  Adam Kennedy details the content of this new release.
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Podcasts
  
  DC Perl Monks Podcast
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/japharl/2011/12/dc-perl-monks...
 
  Zachary Zebrowski  (japharl) writes that the DC Perl Mongers have started
  to publish a podcast of their monthly meetings. An idea some other PM
  groups might want to follow. Maybe even making videos? Am I now greedy?
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Perl 6
  
  Perl 6 Advent Calendar
  http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/
 
  Instead of linking to the individual posts, let me point you directly to
  the top of the Perl 6 Advent calendar.
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Other
  
  Memcached statistics (stats command)
  http://www.pal-blog.de/entwicklung/memcached/2011/memcach...
 
  Sebastian Willing collected some information on how to get statistics from
  memcached using Cache::Memcached.
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  London Perl Workshop
  http://www.josetteorama.com/perl/london-perl-workshop/
 
  Unfortunately O'Reilly's Josette Garcia couldn't be at the London Perl
  Workshop so Dave Cross posted his report on her blog.
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Events
  
  Saint Perl 2011 Conference
  http://event.perlrussia.org/saintperl3/
 
  December 18, 2011, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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  The Perl Oasis
  http://www.perloasis.info/opw2012/
 
  January 13-15, 2012, Orlando, Florida, USA
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  Perl Workshop in Israel
  http://act.perl.org.il/ilpw2012/
 
  February 28, 2012, Ramat Gan, Israel
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  German Perl workshop
  http://conferences.yapceurope.org/gpw2012/
 
  March 5-7, 2012, Erlangen, Germany
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