Perl Weekly Issue #363 - 2018-07-09 - Professional programmers and the whole RnD latest | archive | by Gabor Szabo Don't miss the next issue! Tweet

Hi there! Back when I was in high-school my literature teacher totally screwed up my career as a theater critic by ridiculing the associations I had between two totally unrelated literature pieces. That's how I ended up being a programmer. This time I am totally confident that the 'Professional programmers' workshop of Dave Cross and my RnD articles have something in common. I just don't know what. Anyway, I hope you enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo

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Articles

GraalVM/Truffle backend update

PMURIAS) by Paweł Murias GraalVM is a universal virtual machine for running applications written in JavaScript, Python, Ruby, R, JVM-based languages like Java, Scala, Kotlin, and LLVM-based languages such as C and C++. With the help of Truffle it will also run Perl 6.

Training

Professional Programmer is Professional

DAVECROSS) by Dave Cross Dave is going to run a half-day workshop on being a professional programmer. In this article he covers the questions he will want to be answered. Many of these topics are on my agenda as well recently. I'd love to hear or read what Dave and others have to say about these topics. So if you attend the workshop, please take notes and publish them or at least send them to me privately.

Web

Wallflower improvements and issues

BOOK) by Philippe Bruhat Wallflower can generate a static version of any Plack application. Some changes were implemented, but help is needed!

Amusewiki 2.222

byMarco Pessotto "Amusewiki was created to manage and edit large amounts of texts (books and articles) with a special focus on quality, printing and first rate reading experience."

CPAN

New Software::LicenseMoreUtils Perl module

by Dominique Dumont Debian project has rather strict requirements regarding package license and this module helps overcome two of the shortcomings of the Software::License. Question from the outsider: can the code of this module merged into Software::License?

Fun

A widespread and broken Perl idiom

BOOK) by Philippe Bruhat I admit, I think I've never used this idiom, nor do I remember seeing it. In any case I'd love to see the correct version of the code.

Grants

Perl Tutorial A section for newbies and for people who need some refreshing of their Perl knowledge. If you have questions or suggestions about the articles, let me know and I'll try to make the necessary changes. The included articles are from the Perl Maven Tutorial and are part of the Perl Maven eBook.

Perl 6

The Missing Contributors of Perl 6

ZOFFIX) by Zoffix Znet How the Perl 6 release managers have omitted more than 30 contributors and why only one complained about it on Reddit?

Other

RnD at WeWork

SZABGAB) by Gabor Szabo The first entry of a new series on the Code Maven web site trying to understand how RnD works in various hi-tech companies. The first entry is about WeWork.

Weekly collections

Event reports

Events

Nordic Perl Workshop and MojoConf 2018

September 6-7, 2018, Oslo.

Swiss Perl Workshop

September 7-8, 2018 Bern.

London Perl Workshop 2018

Saturday 3rd November 2018 London

£400/day contract, Central London, Senior Perl Developer

Nice working environment, modern Perl not a requirement if you’re used to dealing with big systems.

Perl Mongers of Wimbledon Common Are We - Perl Developer wanted in Wimbledon

Our client is looking for an experienced Perl developer to join their ambitious team