This week, we discussed:
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 the Perl Community's Science Perl website, which is linked in the TPRC's announcement.
Repost from, https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/cfp2024
You can submit your talk Ideas at https://tprc.us/talks Talk submission deadline is April 5th, Midnight UTC. Talks must be given live and in-person. If you are looking for any talk ideas, try out the conference wiki.
New this year, we are accepting submissions for a peer reviewed Science track. Those talks should be submitted at https://science.perlcommunity.org/
Visit the TPRC 2024 website at https://tprc.us/ Follow us on Twitter: @PerlConferences Like us on Facebook: The Perl Foundation (@tpf.perl) Subscribe to the mailing list: https://tprc.us/subscribe
Any questions about the Science Track should be directed to "science at perlcommunity.org" or visit us at #science on irc.perl.org.
Looking forward to seeing all the submissions!
Cheers,
Brett Estrade (OODLER)
Chairman, Science Perl Committee
Hey everyone,
Happy Holidays! Dancer2 1.1.0 has been released and is on its way to CPAN. It has one really awesome new feature: named routes.
With this update, you can name each route in your Dancer2 application, then refer to that route by name with a new keyword, uri_for_route. You have a lot of control over how this route is constructed, and can use it anywhere you were previously using uri_for. This helps you to avoid the need for lengthy URL references in your code, and makes it easier for you to build applications that are easier to grow, maintain, and later refactor.
You can read more about it in the Dancer2 manual, or check out the pull request that introduced the change. As a bonus, the Twelve Days of Dancer (our mini-advent calendar) launches this week, and Sawyer has written a great article that covers this new feature and keyword in-depth.
Happy Dancing! Jason/CromeDome
These are some answers to the Week 262, Task 1, of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar.
Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a few days from now (on March 31, 2024 at 23:59). This blog post provides some solutions to this challenge. Please don’t read on if you intend to complete the challenge on your own.
You are given an array of integers, @ints.
Write a script to return the maximum number of either positive or negative integers in the given array.
Example 1
Input: @ints = (-3, 1, 2, -1, 3, -2, 4)
Output: 4
Count of positive integers: 4
Count of negative integers: 3
Maximum of count of positive and negative integers: 4
Example 2
Just Paul and Philippe this week:
In absence of many other pressing issues, we spent some time thinking ahead to large-scale development work that might take place in the 5.41 series. We talked about “hooks” as a potential long-term thought to making a more powerful Magic-like structure, for implementing new features, attributes, etc..
See Perl.html
It's an example of the fabulous TiddlyWiki (tiddlywiki.com), so it's about 230,000 bytes.
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 service. After a quick Google search, I found https://tohtml.com/perl/. Given a block of Perl code, it'll generate HTML based syntax highlighting that one may add to their post. For example,
These are some answers to the Week 244, Task 2, of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar.
Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a few days from now (on November 26, 2023 at 23:59). This blog post offers some solutions to this challenge. Please don’t read on if you intend to complete the challenge on your own.
You are given an array of integers representing the strength.
Write a script to return the sum of the powers of all possible combinations; power is defined as the square of the largest number in a sequence, multiplied by the smallest.
Example 1
Back to the usual three of us
Further chats on allowing a subsequent use VERSION of the same value as is already prevailing
We continued going through the bug list to tag release blockers
(English below)
Der nächste Deutsche Perl/Raku-Workshop wird vom 15. bis 17. April 2024 in Frankfurt stattfinden. Damit wir interessante drei Tage mit Perl und Raku verbringen können, brauchen wir Vorträge und Teilnehmer... Vortragsvorschläge könnt ihr bereits einreichen und auch anmelden könnt ihr euch schon hier...
The German Perl/Raku workshop will take place
on the 15th to 17th April 2024 again in Frankfurt am Main.
We will spend three interesting days with Perl and Raku, so you are invited
to participate and also to give presentations.
You can submit your presentations here
I released Juliagraph an interactive fractal painter for Julia and Mandelbrot types of fractal.
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 industrial STEM applications, and emulate in some way traditional science conference tracks; meaning the talks would be based on paper and poster submissions. If this came to pass, the Science Perl Committee would also follow up with the publishing of the papers in an official proceedings of this track.
Survey officially closes on Thursday, November 23, 2023. But we would love your feedback!
Sincerely,
Brett Estrade
oodler@cpan.org
Chairman, Science Perl Committee
Paul was away this week.
These are some answers to the Week 243, Task 1, of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar.
Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a few days from now (on November 19, 2023 at 23:59). This blog post offers some solutions to this challenge. Please don’t read on if you intend to complete the challenge on your own.
You are given an array of integers.
Write a script to return the number of reverse pairs in the given array.
A reverse pair is a pair (i, j) where: a)
0 <= i < j < nums.lengthand b)nums[i] > 2 * nums[j].
Example 1
Input: @nums = (1, 3, 2, 3, 1)
Output: 2
(1, 4) => nums[1] = 3, nums[4] = 1, 3 > 2 * 1
(3, 4) => nums[3] = 3, nums[4] = 1, 3 > 2 * 1
Example 2
The Perl and Raku Foundation is thrilled to announce that the FOSDEM organising team has accepted our proposal to set up a DevRoom on Saturday, February 3rd 2024. It has been quite a few years since the last Perl DevRoom at FOSDEM. Historically, they have always been well attended and packed.
Since last time, a lot has happened, and TPRF is excited to help create this venue for sharing news with developers from Europe and across the globe. Many FOSDEM visitors have a background using Perl, but may have missed out on recent developments. Larry Wall himself was a guest speaker at FOSDEM in 2015 to announce Perl 6, which was later renamed to Raku. Much has happened since then, and there is lots to share!
And now we’re trapped. There’s only one
friendvariable, constantly changing as we go through the loop, with the most likely result one of our friends will get half a dozen messages, while the other five receive nothing, to the annoyance of both groups.
Funny that Perl got this one right when not only many before didn’t but many since also haven’t.
In Go, as Ted says, they may even change the language to fix it
; in Javascript, they already have.
February 08, 6pm CT ~ Houston Perl Mongers Zoom Meeting 🔗 Thu Jan 25 2024
Title: Using Perl Prototypes
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
Password can be found by running this statement.
perl -e 'print +(0b1000100).((3<<2)*10).(010)."\n"' # 681208
Original post:
https://houstonperlmongers.org/posts/3a99ac5b-f9f9-4409-a38c-e9ef91d972c8
I recently added Oracle Database support to SQL::Inserter (check it out if you'd like simple to use, high-performance inserting to SQL databases). I had not used an Oracle Database since my uni days 20 years ago, so I had to set one up to test it.
Even though Oracle provides a free development DB, the process is not as simple as Postgres/MySQL etc., so I thought I'd document it for future reference.
There are basically two ways you can go, with Oracle providing instructions either for a VirtualBox VM, or Docker. For the purposes of this article, we'll use VirtualBox. If you prefer Docker, you can follow Oracle's instructions and skip the next section.
Oracle provides instructions for setting up a VM with their latest 23c Database.
To sum up, you download and install VirtualBox, as well as the 23c VM image (.ova).
Launch VirtualBox, go to File->Import Appliance and select the .ova file that you just downloaded. You can leave the defaults for the import.
Hey Dancers! We’re doing an advent calendar this year, and we’d love for you to contribute. Tell us your Dancer success story! Write about a project you worked on that used Dancer, a plugin you wrote, a plugin you love, anything.
December is coming fast, so get your ideas in now. Please reply to this post if you’d be interesting in helping with this year’s advent calendar.
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