Brett Estrade

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• Posted 2024 TPRC Submission Date Extended thru April 20th to Oodler 577

  The deadline for talk and paper submissions to the 2024 TPRC has been Officially extended through April 20th for both the regular Perl and Raku tracks; and also the Science Track.

  • Main conference site
  • ="https://science.perl…
• Posted TPRC/Science Track Submission Dates and Deadlines Coming Fast! to Oodler 577

  Talk submissions are still open, and we are seeking proposals on a wide variety of subjects. This includes language features, personal projects, applications like Koha, and anything that may be of general interest to Perl and Raku programmers.

  To submit an abstract, please see the

• Posted CFP: Science Track Papers Needed at The Perl & Raku Conference to Oodler 577

  CALL FOR PAPERS NOW OPEN!

  • Science Track at The Perl & Raku Conference
  • June 25 - 27, 2024 (talk dates)
  • Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

  click here to submit your

• Commented on Using peppers with Crypt::Passphrase
  Friendly suggestion, the term "recalling" makes it sound like the article is about to tell us to not use the module (as in to "recall" a product). Maybe just call it, "Peppers in Crypt::Passphrase". Idk, but that's what the title...
• Posted (repost) TPRC 2024 Call For Papers is now open! to Oodler 577

  If you have been following along with the efforts to add a Science Track to the TPRC, now is the time to seriously consider submitting a peer reviewed paper. The TPRC Call for Papers has opened with information on submitting to any of the 3 tracks. Note that the science papers are submitted to…

• Posted February 08, 2024 @ 6pm CT ~ Houston Perl Mongers Zoom Meeting to Oodler 577

  February 08, 6pm CT ~ Houston Perl Mongers Zoom Meeting 🔗 Thu Jan 25 2024
  
  When: Thur February 8th at 6:00-8:00 PM CT (+6 UTC)
  
  Where: (virtual, see below):
  
  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/920069702
  Meeting ID: 920 069 702

• Commented on The Hidden Power of Prototypes
  I am not good at coming up with contrived examples as evidenced in this Perl Advent article, https://perladvent.org/2023/2023-12-13.html But a set of cascading "if" blocks is not the most exciting example. However, any code could go in there to compute...
• Commented on The Hidden Power of Prototypes
  > I don't see much advantage to Dispatch::Fu. While it adds a little syntactic sugar, it's really just an indirect way to do... That's the point, but it's more than sugar! The computational complexity of determining the dispatch "key" is...
• Posted Perl & Raku Conference 2024 to Host a Science Track! to Oodler 577

  I am very pleased to announce that the 2024 Perl & Raku Conference Planning Committee (TPRC) is moving forward with the addition of a new track that targets academic, governmental, and industrial STEM applications. It will strive to be organized as…

• Posted An Option for Syntax Highlighting on blogs.perl.org to Oodler 577

  I've struggled with the syntax highlighting here on this blog. I really want to use this site and I will continue to do so.

  After trying in vain to get some "auto" syntax highlighting here via the editor, I reached for an old trick I've used in the past. Generating HTML using some external…

• Posted Final Call - 2024 TPRC Science Track Survey to Oodler 577

  We have had a good number of responses, but would like more. And time is running out! Please take this survey and share with your Perl contacts.

  Survey URL: https://forms.gle/DDPWsNqEsZW8AyWX7

  The track would target academic and ind…

• Posted 2024 Perl Conference - Science Track Interest Survey to Oodler 577

  Greetings Perl People!

  There is a strong official consideration by The Perl and Raku Foundation of including a new kind of track to the 2024 Perl and Raku Conference in Las Vegas.

• Commented on Config::Tiny V 2.30 supports keys with arrays as values
  Nice. I'll have to check this with Util::H2O's recipe git a Config::Tiny's instance accessors. Util::H2O::More has a wrapper to do this....
• Commented on Announcing Dancer Core Team Changes
  Hi, sure I'd be happy to share what I have. It's a slightly modified version of something TEODESIAN gave me a while back. He is the one who originally told me about uwgsi....
• Commented on The Hidden Power of Prototypes
  That is definitely the cornerstone one, I am looking at combinations of prototypes to find interesting structures. That said, you may be right that there is nothing really interesting to find....
• Posted CGI::Tiny & Dispatch::Fu - nearly a perfect match to Oodler 577

  CGI::Tiny is a very nice, Perlish way to construct CGI scripts these days. It is perfectly suited as a replacement to CGI.pm and is quite at home in a shared hosting environment.

  Here's the example from the POD [1] on metacpan:

  ="color:#000000;backgroun…

• Commented on Announcing Dancer Core Team Changes
  Congrats! Dancer2+uwsgi behind nginx is my stack of choice....
• Posted I just discovered Dev.to to Oodler 577

  I don't really keep up with online resources, and I blogs.perl.org to be (like perl) a nice and stable home. I've watched resources come and go - I've lost untold content in the process (geocities, myspace, LtU, hello??).

  I recently discovered dev.to because of a nice benchmarking article …

• Posted The Hidden Power of Prototypes to Oodler 577

  Introduction

  I have been leaning very heavily on Perl's prototype feature for creating new modules. The imptetus for this can traced back to the day I looked at the source code for Try::Tiny, and realized that it was implemented using prototy…

• Posted More prototype play: Dispatch::Fu to Oodler 577

  I was seeing this so much talk about smartmatch or given/when, I decided to experiment with a prototype powered pseudo structure I'd been thinking about. The results were pleasing to me, and I plan on releasing this soon. I could…

• Commented on Matching simply
  I agree. Looks like it builds on your Sub::Infix, which I think is a great module. I encourage everyone to study its implementation....
• Commented on When Saif Met Sarah
  Great to meet you at the TPRC, Saif!...
• Commented on The Perl Toolchain Summit 2023 has a COVID Policy
  Sounds like a real blast....
• Commented on Util::H2O and More, during Ordinary Times
  Thanks, Hauke! I have updated Util::H2O::More's POD to be sure to recommend `-arrays` over `d2o` if this is the only reason one may be looking at Util::H2O::More. Cheers!...
• Posted Util::H2O and More, during Ordinary Times to Oodler 577

  Background

  During the 2022 Perl Advent, in particular the entry for December 06; Perl Advent fans were introduced to a little module called Util::…

• Commented on Marketing Committee Achievements in 2022
  thank you!...
• Commented on Automatic Art
  NKS ftw! Awesome work....
• Commented on Done before, Done better, Done again differently.
  I came here to say this xD .. nice article. Cheers....
• Commented on Looking for a new owner for my modules
  How do I request to be come a member of https://github.com/PerlRedis? I like redis, though I don't use it as often as I probably should. I'd be happy to help tackle prioritized bugs as time permits. My GH is oodler577...
• Commented on Addressing CPAN vulnerabilities related to checksums
  Not sure if it's still the case but at one point cpan (or "perl -MCPAN -e shell") presented all known mirrors in alphanumeric sort ordering, making it trivial to get an untrusted mirror ranked "high" and likely to be selected...

Comment Threads

• Ruth Holloway commented on Announcing Dancer Core Team Changes

  Thanks, Brett! I'm honored and humbled that the team has asked me to work with them. And I'm with Jason--wanna contribute to the docs a tiny bit? :)

• Jason A. Crome commented on Announcing Dancer Core Team Changes

  Thank you, that's great. Looking forward to seeing the PR!

• James commented on The Hidden Power of Prototypes

  another interesting/useful prototype is `*`,
  

  sub foo (*) {
  my $fh = qualify_to_ref(shift, caller);
  ...
  …

• Aristotle commented on The Hidden Power of Prototypes

  That seems interesting in the sense of “may you live in interesting times” 😛

  Another possibly useful prototype is the underscore (“_”), which allows functions to default to $_ when given no argument, like e.g. chr and hex do.

• RonW commented on The Hidden Power of Prototypes

  I agree that prototypes are a very useful tool. Try::ALRM is genuinely useful and interesting.

  I see the main limitation on prototypes being that & only coerces on the first parameter. I don't see a downside to & coercion on subsequent parameters. If the prototype says it should be a code ref, then if it looks like a block, treat it like a block, same as if the "sub" were there.

  I don't see much advantage to Dispatch::Fu. While it adds a little syntactic sugar, it's really just an indirect way to do:

  if ($cgi->param("action") eq q{foo} and $cgi->param("userid") !=…