Hi there Finally the London Perl Workshop 2019 is officially announced. Please come along and enjoy FREE one day technical conference on Saturday 19th October 2019. If you are planning to attend the workshop then please note that the venue has changed this time. The new address is David Game College, 31 Jewry St, London - EC3N 2ET. They are now accepting talk proposals. So don't delay any further and submit your proposal asap. Or if you just want to attend the workshop then I would recommend you register your intention. It would help the organisers to know in advance how many attendees are coming, so that they can plan accordingly. Have a great week ahead and enjoy reading the newsletter. Mohammad S. Anwar

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Announcements

London Perl Workshop - 2019

The LPW is as usual FREE for all and happening on Saturday 19th October 2019.

Swiss Perl Workshop 2019 - Less Than One Month

See you all in Olten on the 16th August 2019.

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The Perl Language Family

Explore the family of The Perl Language.

Grants

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. The weekly prize is kindly sponsored by Peter Sergeant of PerlCareers.

Perl Weekly Challenge 018

by Adam Russell Adam use of Class::Struct brought back good old memories. This is the beauty of weekly challenge that you are free to experiment with different ideas. You must read the blog.

Substrings and Queues with Perl 6

byArne Sommer Arne's blog make the learning of Perl6 feature simple and easy to follow. Highly recommended.

Perl Weekly Challenge # 18: Longest Common Substrings, Priority Queues, and a Functional Object System

byLaurent Rosenfeld Laurent starting with simple solution and then moving on sharing String::LCSS solution. The best part of the blog is how he wrote Perl5 solution mimicking Perl6.

Perl Weekly Challenge # 18: Priority Queues and Binary Heaps In Perl 6

byLaurent Rosenfeld In this blog, Laurent discussing how Binary Heap can help to solve the Priority Queues task. This itself can be passed the best guide for Binary Heap. Great writing skill, I must admit.

Perl Weekly Challenge 18

FIREDRAKE) by Roger Bell West Roger writings has also impressed me, specially the way he explains the feature in block. This makes very it easy to follow what he is doing. Great work.

Perl 6

Six slices of pie

DCONWAY) by Damian Conway Damian revealing the secret who gets the biggest slice. Find out how he did it in style.

Weekly collections

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

Talking with Tech Leads

by Patrick Kua Transitioning from developer to tech lead is not simple at all. Many pitfalls, many surprises. This presentation of Patrick along with all the references he mentioned is an excellent source of help.

Events

European PerlCon 2019

August 7-9, 2019 Riga, Latvia

Swiss Perl Workshop 2019

August 16-17, 2019 Flörli Olten, Switzerland

London Perl Workshop 2019

David Game College, 31 Jewry St, London EC3N 2ET

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