Perl Weekly Issue #303 - 2017-05-15 - Perl Toolchain Summit 2017 latest | archive | by Gabor Szabo Don't miss the next issue! Tweet

Hi there, this week we have loads of posts about the Perl Toolchain Summit that took place in Lyon. Paul Johnson provided daily reporting of the event and several other people have reported specific accomplishments. It sounds it was a good effort thanks to the organizers and the sponsors. There is an Instagram Feed of the Perl events now! Enjoy the week! Gabor Szabo

Announcements

Looking for Perl 6, Rakudo, and MoarVM development funding

JONATHAN) by Jonathan Worthington Do you want Perl 6 to further improve? Jonathan is one of the key people who can make that happen, but he also needs to eat. So this is your opportunity to chip in or to get your company to use their bank account to support the work on Perl 6.

Articles

count is not uniq...

JACOBY) by Dave Jacoby In which Dave explains that 'uniq' only works for values that are next to each other and one needs to use 'sort | uniq' in order to get real unique values. Or use a Perl snippet.

Cloud

Web

CPAN

Fun

Perl Panel, an amazing lightweight utility

A desktop environment in Perl?

Grants

Maintaining the Perl 5 Core: April 2017 report

byDave Mitchell

Perl 5

Code

Converting glob patterns to efficient regexes in Perl and JavaScript

MAUKE) by Lukas Mai Recently there was a big and enthusiastic discussion when Russ Cox benchmarked several glob implementations and now Lukas shows us the fast version using regexes. It's a nice article and one can learn some regex power tools, but I still don't understand when does this have any practical impact? Have you ever used glob with more than 2 stars (*) in it?

Ref::Util updates: Pure-Perl now available!

XSAWYERX) by Sawyer X Ref::Util provides utility functions for checking references. e.g. is_ref($foo) and is_arrayref($foo). The work done at the Perl Toolchain Summit culminated in a Pure-Perl version making it more accessible to the general public.

Perl 6

Weekly collections

Fun

Event reports

Distraction-free Workplace - Escape Standups and Scrum - Perl Developer West London

Personally, I love Agile and Scrum so much I wrote a set of blog articles detailing why I love them so much. But it’s not everyone's cup of tea. Some people yearn for being given a two-week task, going away, and getting it done well by themselves, or in consultation with highly technical and well-read colleagues.

London's Trendiest Office Space - Lead and Mid-Level Perl Developer roles

I love working in a vibrant, modern space. If you’re going to spend all day at work, it might as well be somewhere you enjoy being, rather than a cubicle farm. This client has a workspace I’m actively jealous of!