Perl Weekly Issue #413 - 2019-06-24 - 2 events done, 2 to go latest | archive | by Gabor Szabo Don't miss the next issue! Tweet

Hi there! There were two Perl events in the last week and there are two more in August Have you attended any of the events? Let us know how was the event you attended! Share pictures. Share ideas! Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo

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Announcements

Stuart Mackintosh Nominated for TPF President

by Jim Brandt I probably met Stuart at one of the Perl conferences, though unfortunately I am really bad recalling names so I don't remember. (Sorry, Stuart.) Worse than that I don't have his name in my e-mail archive nor is he in my LinkedIn contact list that could remind me. I could not find any of his blog posts mentioned in the Perl Weekly, not even the whyperl.info he links to. I am surprised we have not bumped into it nor has anyone asked the editors of the Perl Weekly to include that site. If you know him, please comment on the TPF nomination page so we can also get to know him. If you have any questions to him, ask that so we can know about his thoughts more before he becomes the president of The Perl Foundation.

Articles

Better Shell Completion for Your Tools

TINITA) by Tina Müller Tina continued to work on her App::Spec module and also created a collection of generated completion scripts for bash and zsh.

Quoting the Shell

BDFOY) by brian d foy It isn't easy. First you encounter spaces. Then other special characters. Then quotes. Is there an end to this?

R&D at The Black List

I have this series of interviews with tech leader in which I ask about the R and D practicesi in their organization. The most recent episode wat with Dino Simone the co-founder of The Black List, a Perl-based company. BTW if you'd like to get your company featured on the series, let me know.

The Business He Started At His Kitchen Table Is Now Worth Over $1 Billion

A Perl success story (without mentioning Perl).

Testing

How to display NA in CPAN Testers

KIMOTO) by Yuki Kimoto CPAN Testers can display PASS or FAIL according to the test results and they can also display NA in case the test was not relevant. For example a Windows-specific test-case when executed on a Linux box. Yuki got some exmplanation how to tell the CPAN testers that this is the case.

Grants

Perl 5

Searching Perldocs

DBOOK) by Dan Book I always felt that the extensive use of special characters in Perl makes it hard to search for good answers in a generic search engine. It is interesting to read how Dan implemented search for the perldoc.pl site. It would be even more interesting to if you can come up with queries that don't get a good response or non at all. I am sure Dan will be happy to get reports and the opportunity to further improve the search engine.

Perl Weekly Challenge The Perl Weekly Challenge by Mohammad Anwar will help you step out from your comfort-zone.

Perl Weekly Challenge - 014

MANWAR) by Mohammad S. Anwar Don't miss the fun and try new challenges every week. Every week, we pick one random member from the list of participated members. You can increase your chance to win the prize money of $50 Amazon voucher by submitting solutions to all the challenges as well as blog about it. The Weekly prize money is kindly sponsored by Peter Sergeant of PerlCareers. For more information, please read FAQ page.

Perl Weekly Challenge 013

by Adam Russell Adam is also very active member of the team. His blog introduced me to few interesting links. Check it out yourself.

Hofstadter, Friday and Perl 6

byArne Sommer Arne is one of my favourite team member and I always make sure to read his blog for one reason and that is to learn Perl6.

Perl Weekly Challenge #013

byAthanasius For the first, Athanasius blogged about his solutions to the Perl Weekly Challenge. Congratulations.

Yeah, about Challenge 13

JACOBY) by Dave Jacoby Dave literaly wrote this blog while attending the keynote by Sawyer X at TPCiP. You can't afford to miss his blog.

Perl Weekly Challenge: Week 13

byJaldhar H. Vyas Jaldhar has been participating regularly to the challenge every week but this is the first time he blogged about it. Checkout his blog.

Perl Weekly Challenge # 13: Fridays and Mutually Recursive Subroutines

byLaurent Rosenfeld Laurent's blog is always special and very informative. He not just talks about the challenge solution but also takes you to the edge case and shows how to deal with it.

Perl Weekly Challenge 13

bySimon Proctor Simon has been contributing to the Perl Weekly Challenge since the first week. However recently he is only focussing in #Perl6 solutions. After a long gap, he blogged about his soluions.

Perl Weekly Challenge Week 013

bySteven Wilson Steven has been one of the consistent contributors of the Perl Weekly Challenge. However this is the first time, he blogged about his solutions. I must say, he has impressed me with his writing as well now.

Perl Weekly Challenge 13: Last Friday of the month / Mutually recursive methods

byYozen Hernandez Yozen, is one of the few members, I always look forward to. His solutions are always clear and precise. The narrative in his blog is easy to follow.

Videos

TPC 2019 in Pittsburgh videos on YouTube

I have not seen an announcement, but the videos from TPC 2019 in Pittsburgh started to pop-up on Reddit so I checked it out and you can find the videos on the YouTube channel of TPC.

Perl 6

Other

Randy Shoup: Moving Fast at Scale

byRandy Shoup The Tech Talks is (going to be) a collection of conference videos recommended to tech leaders. The first episode is out.

Weekly collections

Event reports

Day 5 - 7: Strasbourg

DOMM) by Thomas Klausner Domm biked to the French workshop and blogged about with pictures. I wish I was brave and strong enought to do a trip like this. As an alternative I read his post and look at the pictures.

Events

European PerlCon 2019

August 7-9, 2019 Riga, Latvia

Swiss Perl Workshop 2019

August 16-17, 2019 Flörli Olten, Switzerland

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