Perl Weekly Issue #369 - 2018-08-20 - Twiki - LCplot - Perl Conf reports latest | archive | by Gabor Szabo Don't miss the next issue! Tweet

Hi there, This week we have an interesting mix of new releases, articles, and even a few reports about the Perl Conference in Glasgow. You can also watch the presentations given at the conference Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo

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Announcements

Articles

LCplot - a program to plot light curves of variable stars

A simple script that takes the name of a variable star, some number of days and, optionally, the code for some observer whose observations the user wants to highlight. The script then requests data from AAVSO (the American Asociation of Variable Stars) database and generates a plot using gnuplot.

Perl v5.28 can delete key-value slices

BDFOY) by brian d foy Perl v5.20 introduced key-value slices that worked on hashes and arrays. You could extract values by their keys or indices as well as assigning to those. The key-value slice delete is a way to extract the keys and values you want and delete them at the same time.

Discussion

The Future of Perl 5

A discussion on Perl Monks and also on Reddit, regarding the future of Perl 5 and the presentation Ovid gave.

Web

Vue.js for Perl hackers

DOMM) by Thomas Klausner senph is a disqus clone. This are the slides of the presentation domm gave at the European Perl Conference.

Grants

Perl Tutorial A section for newbies and for people who need some refreshing of their Perl knowledge. If you have questions or suggestions about the articles, let me know and I'll try to make the necessary changes. The included articles are from the Perl Maven Tutorial and are part of the Perl Maven eBook.

Perl 6

Garbage collection in Perl 6

byElizabeth Mattijsen ( ELIZABETH In the second article in this series comparing Perl 5 to Perl 6, learn how to handle object destruction in Perl 6.

Weekly collections

Event reports

My First Perl Conference

A much more personal take on the event by Sam, an enthusiastic first timer.

DevOps

Events

Nordic Perl Workshop and MojoConf 2018

September 6-7, 2018, Oslo.

Swiss Perl Workshop

September 7-8, 2018 Bern.

London Perl Workshop 2018

Saturday 3rd November 2018 London

Work with Perl, Go and Python for one of London's strongest brands

Some of us are so curious by nature that we can't stop learning things, you might have started with Perl and gotten really good at it but that wasn't enough, not when there's fun new things emerging every day!

Perl mentor needed for large and growing team - train the next generation of Perl developers in London

Do you have some great Perl war stories? Can you help guide and grow the experience of junior Perl developers?