Perl Weekly Issue #323 - 2017-10-02 - Web or DevOps? What is the real field of Perl? latest | archive | by Gabor Szabo Don't miss the next issue! Tweet

Hi there at first I thought we will have a thin edition, but several web-related articles came in. For example a very detailed one about Mojolicious. There is also a survey about Dancer. In other news, the Dancer crowdfunding ends in a few days. We have already reached $5,000 (some used PayPal and do not show up on the Indiegogo page) with the sponsorships received from The Perl Shop. I hope a few more companies will decide to sponsor and we can further extend the book! Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo

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Articles

Discussion

Semantic diff for Perl code

PerlMonks discussion to compare modules where functions blocks where moved.

Testing

Caching and the travis-perl Helpers

DROLSKY) by Dave Rolsky Travis-perl helpers will allow you to test your code with a much wider range of Perl versions than what Travis offers.

Code

What's your favorite Perl tip?

or how to get lots of comments on Reddit without FUD.

A template for structuring single-file solutions in Perl

A suggestion on how to start writing Perl scripts or programs. I'd prefer without the 'do' prefixes and without the CamelCase functions, but having a main functions is good idea. If Perl had a standard library for logging that would eliminate even more duplication.

Web

Concurrency, Perl and Web Services, Oh My!

A mix of AnyEvent, Mojolicious, Plack, Feersum, and some more.

CPAN

Help CPAN with Hacktoberfest 2017

NEILB) by Neil Bowers Hacktoberfest is an annual event where if you do four pull requests in the month of October you'll get a free t-shirt. Get started now!

DevOps

Grants

Perl 5

Perl 6

6lang: The Naming Discussion Update

ZOFFIX) by Zoffix Znet Interesting further thoughts on how Perl 6 is going to be called. Even more comments on Redit. I really like the 'slang' in it! I think it provides the appropriate amount of confusion to start a conversation.

6lang - Creating a background service

by Patrick 'tyil' Spek How to fork a multi-threaded VM without loosing most of your memory? A step on the way to a centralized logging system in Perl 6.

Other

Career Advice for Programmers

SARGIE) by Peter Sergeant Peter Sergeant, who runs the Perl Careers that provides the jobs at the bottom of every Perl Weekly issue started a new blog called Career Advice for Programmers. It already has quite a few entries.

Weekly collections

Do some good in the world – Perl developers required for a charity and giving-focused team in Kent, UK

Want to do something good for once? Join the Kickstarter of the charity world, supporting activists and causes around the world. You’ll be working in Perl to support a range of their highly successful charity and giving-focused projects.

Bring more Modern Perl to a properly agile team in Manchester (and learn NodeJS)

Successful and established team about to undergo an large expansion looking for Perl developers at every level of experience, from school leaver to Larry Wall.