Hi there Last week belonged to German Perl/Raku Workshop - 2020. Luckily there were regular updates on Twitter. Did you notice the change in name? Raku has been added to make it explicit that Perl and Raku both get equal exposure. I am confident we would see flood of event reports by regulars soon. How can I forget to mention that Curtis Poe who gave keynote presentation through video conferencing about Cor. Well if you don't know what is Cor, then please checkout earlier editiion of PerlWeekly newsletter Last but not the least, COVID-19, these days everybody is talking about it. Curtis Poe wrote an interesting blog about Coronavirus Fake News. Stay safe and enjoy reading the newsletter Mohammad S. Anwar

Announcements

Introducing the TPF Community Affairs Team

byStuart Mackintosh The Perl Foundation is supporting the creation of a Community Affairs Team known as the CAT.

Articles

Perl Intro Curriculum

DOMM) by Thomas Klausner If we want to attract new people to Perl conferences (and thus Perl), we must make conferences more beginner-friendly.

k-Means k-Means-er

by Enkidu As we take another lap around the k-Means race trace, the Porsche 914-2 and Volvo 142E are still neck and neck. This time we'll try a straight-forward normalisation that linearly scales all values to the range [0,1] and see if they still end up in the same cluster.

Fun

Let's talk about Linux

byPaula What do you love the most about Linux and freedom of the software?

Slides

Perl Weekly Challenge The Perl Weekly Challenge by Mohammad Anwar will help you step out from your comfort-zone. You can even win the prize money of $50 Amazon voucher by participating in the weekly challenge. We pick one winner at the end of the month among all the contributors of the month. The monthly prize is kindly sponsored by Peter Sergeant of PerlCareers.

Nobly Merged Raku

byArne Sommer Arne shared how to deal with a very large intervals. You will be surprised by the power of Raku.

Perl Weekly Challenge: Week 50

byJaldhar H. Vyas Jaldhar shared the power of Range class of Raku.

PERL WEEKLY CHALLENGE – 050

byJavier Luque Javier didn't use brute force to solve Merge Intervals task. A very clean solution.

Perl Weekly Challenge: Merge Inrervals and Noble Numbers

byLaurent Rosenfeld Laurent shared the power of Raku when solving Noble number task.

Rakudo

Weekly collections

The corner of Gabor A couple of entries sneaked in by Gabor.

Test Automaton Engineer

SZABGAB) by Gabor Szabo Many companies are looking for 'Test Automation Engineers' or 'QA Automation engineers' or just 'Automation engineers'. In this post I tried to give you some insight to what you need in order to become one.

Events

DC-Baltimore Perlyglot Workshop (DCBPW) 2020

April 18-19 2020 Baltimore, MD

The Perl Conference 2020

June 23-27 2020 Houston, TX

Perl and Raku Conference in Amsterdam 2020

August 10-14 2020, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Garden of Eden? A Perl job in Eden (well, London)!

33 acres of landscaped gardens. 45,000 square feet of on-park retail space. More than 10,000 fun, engaging, like-minded people. It is Utopia? The Garden of Eden? No???it???s where your new office is located, but only if you read on!

One is the Loneliest Number

For nearly 16 years, our client has been helping people in the UK and the US find their perfect flatmate. Think of all the things that are better with two: seesaws, the tango, splitting the bills???need we go on? If you???re a Perl developer who has experience with other languages like Gearman, Memcached, Sphinx, and MySQL, and agree that two heads are better than one, then this might be for you!

Paging Dr. Perl! Perl job in Cambridge, UK

This organization is one of the world???s leading developers of medical diagnostic technologies and clinical software. They believe in security, wellness, and the importance of driving innovation to deliver patient benefit. You won???t be in a white coat, but it???s better than that???your work will be used by the NHS, research labs, and healthcare providers worldwide.

Wanted: Junior Perl Developer Ready to Move Up from the Bunny Hill - Kent, UK

Junior developers???are you eager to leave the bunny hill behind but not quite ready for a double black diamond? Then slip on your ski boots and prepare to slalom, because we have an exciting opportunity for you!