Hi there, There are two Perl events scheduled for August, but no Perl event has been announced beyond that date. At least no event we know about. So are there Perl events in the making that you'd like to publicize? Enjoy your week Gabor Szabo

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Articles

The Perl Conference in Riga

OVID) by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe Short version: He'll be there. Long version: life was not very easy for Ovid and his family for the past year or so. Details in blog post.

The Time::Local Trap

DBOOK) by Dan Book Oh I did not know Time::Local uses heuristics (aka. guess) to determine what is the year. Nor that it can handle 2-digit years further perpetuating the Y2K (Year 2000) problem. You always learn something strange.

Perl Foundation

Backup

BackupPC 4.3.1 release

DJZORT) by Dean Hamstead BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux, WinXX, and MacOS PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.

Movie recommendation

Super 30 - Anand Kumar

MANWAR) by Mohammad S. Anwar If you have not read the story of Mohammad S. Anwar, I'd recommend you read that page. Then follow on with what he wrote about Anand Kumar, an Indian educationalist and a mathematician who helps underprivileged students to prepare for the entrance examination for the Indian Institutes of Technology.

Perl Weekly Challenge The Perl Weekly Challenge by Mohammad Anwar will help you step out from your comfort-zone. You can even win the prize money of $50 Amazon voucher by participating in the weekly challenge. The weekly prize is kindly sponsored by Peter Sergeant of PerlCareers.

Perl Weekly Challenge 017

by Adam Russell Adam literaly converted the task spec into perl subroutine. It can't be any simpler. Great use of Parse::Yapp, I must confess it took me long to get my head around.

Ackerman, URL and Perl 6

byArne Sommer Arne used multisubs to solve the Ackermann function. He then used Perl6 Grammar to solve URL parser task. Great blog to read.

Multitudinal Uniform Resource Parsing – Perl weekly challenge, week 17

by Francis Whittle Francis showed how to caching can be used with Perl6 to solve the Ackermann function. Perl6 lover would find the Grammar based solution to URL parser task very informative.

Perl Weekly Challenge: Week 17

byJaldhar H. Vyas Jaldhar blog is ever so informative. You must check out.

Perl Weekly Challenge # 17: Ackermann Function and Parsing URLs

byLaurent Rosenfeld You must checkout Perl6 solution of Ackermann function task. Even if you don't know Perl6, you can still enjoy it.

Up, up and Away!

byVeesh Goldman Veesh use of Mojo::URL for URL parser task looks so simple yet elegant. He also show how bigint can help in the Ackermann function task.

Perl Weekly Challenge 17: The Ackermann function

byYozen Hernandez Yozen dedicates a blog for each task and I am loving it. You get to learn so much about each task.

Perl 6

Vigenère vs Vigenère

DCONWAY) by Damian Conway Get two and pay for none. The secrets of the Vigenère Ciphers.

2019.28 Perl 6 文档之 – 语言

byElizabeth Mattijsen ( ELIZABETH Huh, I wonder what the title could be and if that will go through the mailing system intact.

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Events

European PerlCon 2019

August 7-9, 2019 Riga, Latvia

Swiss Perl Workshop 2019

August 16-17, 2019 Flörli Olten, Switzerland

Largest Perl team in London with beautiful Docklands offices

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Sick of jobs lacking purpose? This Perl job literally cures the world’s ills

The company is looking for modern Perl developers with a strong interest in Python. You won’t just be showing off your skills, you’ll be able to expand and build upon them too. Fancy putting your good genes to use in one of England’s smartest, most beautiful cities? Want a role that has a tremendously positive impact on society? Get in touch, and let’s get you making a difference.

Remote Modern Perl, 2-3 month project, $50/hr

Do you have Modern Perl experience? Not afraid of Plack, DBIx::Class, and writing unit tests? Want to work from home, anywhere in the world, but don’t mind targeting US working hours? We need a few stand-out developers to help a client with a one-off project.