Perl Weekly Issue #168 - 2014-10-13 - Some Berry Good News For Windows Users latest | archive | by Yanick Champoux Don't miss the next issue! Tweet

This week we have something that is bound to make our Windows-using brethren happy: berrybrew, a perlbrew/plenv equivalent for Strawberry Perl, by David Farrell. We also have a few nice grant reports. And, in the everlasting fun department, Sinan's playing with quines lead to dark archaeological discoveries about 'open' and 'autodie'. Enjoy! Oh, and if you are based in Canada, happy Thanksgiving! ~ `/anick Yanick Champoux

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Testing

Travis-CI Helpers for Perl

HAARG) by Graham Knop Want to harness the full power of Travis-CI for your Perl projects? Graham Knop has a few helper tools that will assist you on your quest for the Continuous Integration Grail.

Perl Maven Pro The Perl Maven Pro subscribers receive two new articles and screencasts every week. The last week these were the two screencasts:

Multiple expected values - testing dice

How can you test a function such as dice() that is expected to return a whole number between 1 and 6? How not to test it?

Implementing 'is_any' to test multiple expected values

Refactoring the test script, creating a test function.

Code

Building Ansible Modules with Perl and Mojolicious

MRAMBERG) by Marcus Ramberg Ansible is one of those snazzy tools that automate the installation and management of software/configuration/all the things on armies of machines. It's written in Python, but works well with components written in anything else. Marcus Ramberg shows us how his Perl scripts interfaces with it using Mojolicious.

Elasticsearch Custom Scoring

Elasticsearch default scoring doesn't quite do it for your special case? Despair not, for Mateu shows us here how to tweak the scoring algorithm in any way we want.

The Hacker News API

NEILB) by Neil Bowers Neil Bowers released a Perl interface to the Hacker News API. It's new, it's basic but, and that's the important part, it's there and working; patches will eventually take care of the rest.

Synchronizing Opera bookmarks with Perl, Org, and git

A little bit of glue can do wonders to tie systems together. Here, perlancar shows us a script he's using to turn his browser's bookmarks in a git-monitored syncable Org document.

Fun

Grants

Tony Cook's Grant Extended

Tony Cook will be able to dedicate 400 more hours on the noble task of maintaining Perl 5, Karen Pauley reports.

Perl 6

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Perl Maven Tutorials

MetaCPAN Task::Kensho

Screencast about Task::Kensho, the list of recommended modules.

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