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It is C round up day today in the Dist-Pen.

In my last post I had a look at [Contributors] section plug-in and today I am going to look at not one but three plug-ins

• CommentString
• CollectWithAutoDoc and
• CollectWithIntro

CommentString
This simple plug-in lets you do your own 'Comment' sections like we have seen with [Name] and [Contributors]. It works in much the same way as the [Collect] plug-in, you supply the 'name' for the section and then a 'key' to match on.

Jonathan Leffler has sent me a very slightly updated set of SQL BNF files for SQL-92, SQL-99 and SQL-2003. I've put them on-line.

I recently ran across an article (http://neilb.org/2016/08/08/quoted-words-arrayref.html) by neilb, advocating for a qa() operator that returns an arrayref instead of a plain array:
  our $cars_ref = qa(sedan hatchback coupe);
I love this idea, and I would use it a lot.

I’d like to add onto this proposal another qw()-style operator to quote the keys of a membership hash. I suggest qk() for “quote keys.” So
  our %is_color = qk(red blue green);
is the same as
  our %is_color = map { $_ => 1 } qw(red blue green);
or
  our @colors = qw(red blue green);
  our %is_color = map { $_ => 1 } @colors;

Unlike my previous entry (symbolic “xor”), I wrote this line of code ALL THE TIME. Taking a cue from neilb, I looked on CPAN to see how often other people do this. It turns out the answer is “a really, really lot”: http://grep.cpan.me/?q=map%5Cs*%7B%5Cs*%5C%28%3F%5Cs*%5C%24_%5Cs*%3D%3E%5Cs*1%5Cs*%5C%29%3F%5Cs*%5C%7D%5Cs*qw

Hi! Sparrowdo is a modern configuration management tool written on Perl6. If you wonder how sparrowdo makes a difference you may read this article - Sparrow plugins evolution - an informal introduction to core part of sparrowdo - sparrow plugins.

Still stuck in Section mode here at the Dist-Pen

Carrying from my last post today I am going to look at the [Contributors] section plug-in. This particular plug-in is of little value so for to my 'Database::Accessor' project as I have no other people working on it with me but one can always dream big that I may have some helpers as time goes on. So it is is work a look.

I wanted to see if anyone else is using this plug-in so I did a Reverse Dependency look up and found that there are thirty-six other distributions that use this so I have few places where I can go an peek and see how it is being used.

A Perl BoF (Birds of a feather) meeting has been officially organized for this years linux.conf.au Conference in Tasmania Australia.

Further details can be found at: https://linux.conf.au/wiki/conference/birds_of_a_feather_sessions/perl_bof/

Or drop in to #australia on irc.perl.org

Hey everyone,

Following is the p5p (Perl 5 Porters) mailing list summary for the past week.

Enjoy!

Why doesn’t Perl have a symbolic logical xor operator (spelled “^^”)? As far as I can tell, the only reason is that C doesn’t have one...

At a minimum, it would remove the need for parentheses in expressions like
  $flag = ($subflag1 xor $subflag2);
instead allowing
  $flag = $subflag1 ^^ $subflag2;
…like you can now do with and and or, as long as you spell them “&&” and “||”.

Would I use this a lot? No. (I would have for maybe the 2nd time yesterday, which is what made me think of it.) But as someone who loves completeness, the absence of a symbolic xor absences from Perl has always bothered me.

It boy scout day here in the Dist-Pen.

In may last post I had final look the various [Bug] section plug-ins so today I am going to look at Merit-badges. I am really talking about that great feeling you had when you earned your first badge in Cubs, Brownies or Young Pioneers. You know the ones I mean the ones for learning to build a fire, sew on a badges, help an old man across the street or showing true will in conforming with the collective.

You can get the same feeling all over again in the programming world as well. All joking aside the [Badge] section plug-in is a quick way to get visual display information to potential users of your software such as this;

So at a glace you know it is passing its testing and you need at least perl 5.10 to use it.

Finally got the full setting to compile and load and 'say "Hello World"' works.
I'll write a bigger update once everything is cleaned up and commited.

Hey everyone,

Following is the p5p (Perl 5 Porters) mailing list summary for the past week.

Enjoy!

Hi ! Sparrowdo is lightweight and very flexible configuration management system written on Perl6. I have started a blog site where going to drop technical notes and others news related sparrowdo project, welcome to https://sparrowdo.wordpress.com !

It is the big bug round up day here at the Dist-Pen

In my last post I had a look at the [Bugs] section plug-in for Pod::Weaver, following along that line I am going to look at a three similar ones;

• BugsAndLimitations
• BugsRT and
• Bugs::DefaultRT

All are just a variation on the [Bugs] plug-in and none of them have the 'header' attribute. I will give you the .25$ trour;

BugsAndLimitations

I'm super excited to be helping organize this year's largest north-american perl conference! Myself and the other DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop organizers are pitching in big time, and it's all starting to come together. Here is our CFP (which we'll keep posting all over the place) :)

The Perl Conference 2017 in DC (known in a parallel universe as YAPC::NA 2017) will be held at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), in a historic suburb of DC, from June 18-23!

We are happy to open up submissions for talks and tutorials, you can see all the details and submit at www.perlconference.us/tpc-2017-dc/cfp/. We are looking for talks about anything interesting to Perl Developers of all experience levels -- from specific techniques and libraries to good ways to organize an agile team or Getting Things Done ... related technologies like your favorite data storage engine or how you automated your home. If in doubt -- submit!

Follow our twitter feed @perlconferences for news and updates. If you have any questions or comments about the CFP please email talks@perlconference.us or for more general inquiries admin@perlconference.us.

I hope to see you all there!!

I am happy to announce the release of version 0.6.0 of camel-harness (former CamelHarness.js) - a small Node.js - Electron - NW.js library for asynchronous handling of Perl 5 scripts.

The library is already an NPM package with a clear, object-based API. Now camel-harness can start long-running, event-driven Perl scripts and communicate continuously with them writing on their STDIN.

As usual, any comments and suggestions are quite welcome!

A sort of de-inflexion module, so to speak.

Knocking off another Section here at the Dist-Pen today.

The last few posts I was dealing with the trials and tribulation of the [Availability] section plug-in, today I am going to look at another section plug-in [Bugs].

As the name implies add a 'Bug' blurb to your POD. Like the plug-in from my last posts this one is closely entwined with Dist::Zilla and we are luck this time as the POD for this one is quite extensive and does a good job on explaining how to use it. Hopefully, I will not find another bug.

The gem I found in the POD was you can use this Dist::Zilla plug-in [MetaResources] to add name key-value pairs into the 'repository' key of the meta data. At the present time I have all that the key-values I think I need because I use the [GithubMeta] plug-in to gather that data.

Quoting Oliver G.

Hi all,

First, a very happy [Gregorian calendar] new year to you, and thanks for
continuing to use our software!

Following agreement in the dev team, the new home for Netdisco and
SNMP-Info is: https://github.com/netdisco

Please update your git repository URLs as in the example below:

$ git remote -v
origin ssh://USERNAME@git.code.sf.net/p/snmp-info/code (fetch)
origin ssh://USERNAME@git.code.sf.net/p/snmp-info/code (push)
$ git remote set-url origin git@github.com:netdisco/snmp-info.git

The full list of from/to URL changes (pay close attention!):

ssh://USERNAME@git.code.sf.net/p/snmp-info/code
git@github.com:netdisco/snmp-info.git

ssh://USERNAME@git.code.sf.net/p/netdisco/mibs
git@github.com:netdisco/netdisco-mibs.git

ssh://USERNAME@git.code.sf.net/p/netdisco/misc
git@github.com:netdisco/netdisco-misc.git

ssh://USERNAME@git.code.sf.net/p/netdisco/code
git@github.com:netdisco/netdisco-legacy.git

I release Object::Simple 3.19

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Object-Simple/lib/Object/Simple.pm

Changes

I removed DEPRECATED class_attr and dual_attr methods and clean up tests.

And I create the official IRC channel #object-simple on irc.perl.org

News

Happy new year!

This year I try to talk on irc.perl.org.

I also created some irc channels.

#validator-custom

#gitprep

#dbix-custom

It is my pleasure and honor to announce that the Perl Toolchain Summit will be held in Lyon, France from Thursday 11th May 2017 through Sunday 14th May 2017. This is the event previously known as the Perl QA Hackathon, where we bring together as many of the key people working on the Perl toolchain as we can.