Perl Weekly Issue #300 - 2017-04-24 - 300th issue of Perl Weekly latest | archive | by Neil Bowers Don't miss the next issue! Tweet

This is the 300th issue of Perl Weekly! Nearly six years ago, Gabor put out issue number 1, and hasn't missed a week since. Various editors have come, and gone, and returned, but Gabor is still the driving force behind it. Thank you, Gabor. If you're a CPAN author, please have a read of Ryan's article about one of the changes coming soon in Perl 5.26.0. Neil Neil Bowers

CPAN News

Alternatives to rand()

DANAJ) by Dana Jacobsen Dana reviewed CPAN modules you can use for random number generation, in place of the rand built-in.

Perl 5

Trials and troubles with changing @INC

byRyan Voots ( SIMCOP Up to now, the @INC variable (used to search for modules when your program uses them), has had '.' (the current directory) in it. But this is a security risk, so in Perl 5.26 @INC will no longer contain '.'. Ryan goes through what that might mean for your CPAN distributions, and has assembled a list of distributions that appear to break with this change. If you're an author, check for your distribution(s) please!

Perl 6

The root of all eval

by Carl Mäsak Carl ruminates on Perl 6's EVAL built-in, which is a bit different from Perl 5's eval.

Toolchain

The Perl Toolchain Summit Project List

NEILB) by Neil Bowers Before the Toolchain Summit starts, the attendees are asked to add their work list to the wiki. Everyone is invited to have a look at the project list, and let us know if there are additional things you want to suggest for inclusion (bug fixes, new features, etc).

Conferences

The Perl Conference USA 2017

byDawn S. Wallis The organisers of The Perl Conference (YAPC::NA as was) have started sharing parts of the schedule, and encourage interested parties to sign up now!

The Pull Request Challenge

Collisions in Block Names in Jemplate

CHOROBA) by E. Choroba E Choroba got Jemplate in the pull request challenge, and in fixing a bug in that, he ended up fixing the same bug in the Template Toolkit (Jemplate is an implementation of the Template Toolkit in Javascript).

Perl Foundation

Grant extension request by Tony Cook

by Makoto Nozaki Tony Cook has asked for an extension to his Perl 5 maintenance grant: $20k for another 400 hours of work.

The blogs.perl.org update grant has been cancelled

byMark A Jensen ( MAJENSEN In 2015 a grant was awarded to switch blogs.perl.org to a new blog engine. The grant has stalled, and so the grants committee has decided to cancel the grant. They would still welcome someone replacing the current engine behind blogs.perl.org.

Perl Maven

Not Perl

No Silver Bullet podcast

SZABGAB) by Gabor Szabo The first episode of the new podcast by Gabor: How do other companies create high-quality sotware?

Perl for High Performance; Senior Developer, West London

Do you know how to solve problems in terms of queues and caches? Does the idea of truly scaling your architecture on AWS excite you? Not fazed by designing your workloads to be distributed?

Perhaps the most enlightened Perl team in London

It’s no secret that I used to run a Perl team myself in Central London, and was competing for talent with the other teams. By far the hardest team to compete with was the one whose technical leader was making sure his team were always using the best tools, was always taking a personal interest in his team’s technical output — adding his considerable technical knowledge and experience to the team, and was always talking about these things at various London Perl events.