Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a few days from now (on December 3, 2023 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.
Task 1: Sort Language
You are given two arrays of languages and its popularity.
Write a script to sort the language based on popularity.
Paul’s TPRF grant was accepted, he plans to spend some of that time to work on some PPCs first (qt strings, overload)
FOSDEM Perl Devroom CfP: none of us are planning to attend in person, but if someone else wanted to present on our behalf we could coördinate with them and work out a subject to talk about
Discussed coming up with a Perl roadmap that we could present to the world (and entice sponsorship for TPRF’s Perl Development Fund and Grants program)
We discussed opening up our meetings to the occasional guest, so they could see what we’re actually doing (boring!) and give us an outside perspective
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,
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.
Task 2: Group Hero
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.
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.
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!
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.
Time for an Update
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 friend variable, 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.
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.
Setting up the Oracle VM
Oracle provides instructions for setting up a VM with their latest 23c Database.
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.
After a long time of work, the videos are finally available on Youtube. 20 presentations with a total of 14 hours of airtime review the three days of the workshop and you can watch the things you missed on site.
We would especially like to thank Lee Johnson, who made the recordings, and
the presenters, of course, without whom the workshop would not have taken place.
The support from our sponsors helps us make the workshop take place.
We are planning the German Perl Workshop 2024 again and are already in the final negotiations. As soon as we have a place and date fixed, we will update this post and also make a separate announcement.
Yes, it's true. Config::Tiny now allows you to assign an array of values to a key.
The docs have been updated to include a new section, ARRAY SYNTAX.
Various examples are documented there and in test files. Sample usage:
Hello everybody! Welcome back to the Weekly Challenge series, where today we're working on dates again. I like these challenges in particular, for some reason. In this case, we have a rather simple challenge except that it gives us less common date formats than usual.
The challenge gives us a year, month, week(day) of the month, and day of week. Now DateTime provides us with get operations to find WoM and DoW info, but it doesn't provide set operations. For that we need to do a little math. Here's the code below:
On behalf of the Dancer Core Team, I am beyond excited to present you with Dancer2 1.0.0.
So how did we get here? Why now? I'll cover the specifics in a future blog post, but suffice it to say for now, we're stable, and we've been stable for a long time, but this was never reflected in our versioning. It's beyond time to commemorate that milestone.
If you're expecting big changes, you'll be disappointed that there aren't many on the technical side. Much of what's in this release involves adding some polish in spots, and smoothing out some jagged edges in others. Some important highlights include:
A plenv plugin to add additional include directories to Perl.
This plugin sets the contents of file .perl-libdirs.
It hooks into plenv-exec command and every time you run perl
or any other command under plenv, plenv-libdirs uses the
.perl-libdirs files to set the PERL5LIB environment variable.
plenv-libdirs makes use of .perl-libdirs files
in the current working directory and every directory
between it and root.
Environment variable PERL5LIB has a list of paths separated (like in PATH)
by a colon on Unixish platforms and by a semicolon on Windows
(the proper path separator being given by the command perl -V:path_sep).
When plenv-libdirs collects the paths from .perl-libdirs files,
the order of the paths follows the order of the directories.
The longer the path to .perl-libdirs file, the higher precedence in PERL5LIB.
Sometimes one has to make compromises between speed of execution and memory, other times one may not have to be. While working towards a fairly (at least in my mind) complete solution to map Nanopore Sequencing files, I ran against the need to create and access fairly large hash of arrays (think of 1M - 100Mof keys), with each array itself consisting of a a fixed number of elements.
The hash of arrays is a fairly straightforward and fast data structure to create in Perl, the memory overhead can be substantial as the number of keys and values scale upwards. While in my application (at least as envisioned now!) the hash will be created, aggregated over (group by for those into python-pandas or r-data.table vernacular) and then discarded, there are use cases in which the data should be preserved to avoid the computational expensive part of generating them via approximate string matching in biological databases.
Welcome back to another round of the weekly challenge, with just one solution this week. I'm setting up a lemonade stand and need to deal with change. Interestingly, I can only sell one juice per person, so I hope you're not super thirsty!
We can take $5, $10, and $20 bills, and we don't start with any change, so we need our previous customers to provide us with change for future customers. Let's find out if we can make change for a set of customers.