[This is a post in my latest, probably long-ass, series.  You may want to begin at the beginning.  I do not promise that the next post in the series will be next week.  Just that I will eventually finish it, someday.  Unless I get hit by a bus.

IMPORTANT NOTE!  When I provide you links to code on GitHub, I’m giving you links to particular commits.  This allows me to show you the code as it was at the time the blog post was written and insures that the code references will make sense in the context of this post.  Just be aware that the latest version of the code may be very different.]

Last time I babbled on for a while about my general plans, and finally came up with a name other than “my perfect date module.” This time we stop screwing around and finally write some code.

I decided to start out with the date class.  In retrospect, I sort of wished I’d started with the datetime class, as that would’ve been a lot simpler.  But the date class was more interesting, and more immediately useful, so that’s where I started, so that’s where we’ll start as well.

The OSCON Call for Papers closes this Tuesday, 24th November, at Midnight (US EST) and at this moment there are no papers submitted on Perl.

OSCON has become increasing less language-specific over the years and now doesn’t have language tracks or rooms, however Perl has a long association with this conference including the fact that it evolved from the original Perl Conference and for many years hosted the State of the Onion.

As we approach 2016 with a major new version of Perl in the shape of Perl6 and an ever-vibrant and yearly releases of Perl5 the idea of not having a presence at OSCON is quite strange.

So I am asking all of you to consider if you can submit a talk to this event. We have a very good chance of getting a main room spot if we talk about Perl6 especially since O’Reilly have been pushing known Perl authors on the idea of a Perl6 book. This could be a turning point where we get new Perl5 books as well.

This week at work I overheard some coworkers talking about a programming problem. The type that you might get in an interview. The idea was that if you had a string of words smushed together without spaces, how would you go about parsing the string into words again?

I thought about it for a bit and pretty quickly decided to load all of /usr/share/dict/words into some kind of regexp. The main difficultly is that you can't just be greedy or be nongreedy because either could fail. Imagine the inputs:

yougotmail          => you got mail
yougotmailed        => you got mailed
yougotmailman       => you got mailman (or: you got mail man)
yougotmailmanners   => you got mail manners

As you can see, regardless of greedy or nongreedy, you need backtracking. Hmm. Regular expressions have backtracking. Problem solved!

You may recall me writing about DB::Color a few years ago. That module let you do this with the debugger:

It has some issues, including the fact that syntax highlighting Perl code is, um, not always perfect, but it does the job. The main drawback, however, is that it runs about as fast as a sloth with a spinal injury. It was so bad that even I stopped using it, and I love the damned thing. Today, I may have fixed that.

Click me!

Install swat mojo command

You need a swat mojo command to generate swat tests scaffolding for mojo application.

cpanm Mojolicious::Command::swat

Bootstrap mojo application

Then you need to bootstrap mojo application or choose existed one.

mkdir myapp
cd myapp
mojo generate lite_app myapp.pl

Define http resources ( mojo routes )

As well as define your routes.

In “Cede Your Soul”, an episode of a tv show called “Blindspot” one hacker disses another hacker for using Perl instead of Python. You can see it around the 18:20 mark. 

The diss is that you can develop code faster in Python than Perl. The two languages are pretty similar in terseness. And any hacker worth their salt is going to build libraries in their language of choice. So would language even matter at that point? I think not, but what do you think? When seconds matter, what language would you reach for?

[From my blog.]

So far 487 people have signed up for the 2015 CPAN Pull Request Challenge. Each month participants (who have just joined or completed the previous month) get a semi-randomly assigned distribution, and have one month to submit a pull request.

A lot of those 487 never did a PR, or did one and then dropped out. But plenty have stuck with it, and 56 perl hackers have had a November assignment so far. There are stragglers spread through the year as well, determined to submit a damn PR for the distribution they were assigned.

We're hoping to end on a bang: so far more than 30 past participants (who had submitted at least one PR) have rejoined just for December. Back in January I told RJBS that I hoped 100 people would do a PR in December. He said that'll never happen. Help me prove him wrong!

It's not too late to join, and just do one last PR in December: send email to me (neil at bowers dot com) with your github username and your PAUSE id if you have one. I'm giving a talk on the PRC at the London Perl Workshop, and it would be great if we could pass 500 sign-ups by then...

Hey everyone,

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

Recently I published an initial release of CMS for a blog creation based on Mojolicious - http://mojoblog.net/en/

I want to ease the installation of this product by users who are not perl programmers. It makes sense to pack all Perl modules, including all dependencies, in the CMS distributive (in the 'lib' directory) to do this. I would like to ask the experienced Perl programmers how risky is this strategy?

Is it possible and which way is the best to do it?

I found the technology for identification of all dependencies for Perl modules here -
http://perlmaven.com/how-to-fetch-the-cpan-dependency-tree-of-a-perl-module

With the help of a pull request from Patrice Clement (as part of the CPAN Request Challenge) I've released GraphViz V 2.19.

• running a single page app in a browser (using react.js/jquery or just vanilla js).
• running on top of node.js
• running on top of react.native on a mobile phone
• exploring Perl 6 in your browser (having a awesome REPL, being able to execute snippets etc.)

hello and this is one of my first scripts, which are not executable at present.
one year ago, there was no problem to use this script as shell-script (not yet in perl) like here :

#!/bin/bash
awk '{
for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++)
if ($i ~ /^SRC=/)
print substr($i, 5)
}' /var/log/syslog | sort -u | while read ip;
do
printf ' INVALID STATE ' && printf ' === %s ===\n' "$ip"
whois "$ip" >> log-002.txt;
done

I have used this script to filter syslog output after connections who are knocking on
the phone-lines ...

Now this script seems always to be stopped by the firewall of my provider. One year ago or 6 months ago this script was not stopped by third person (or program).

the output of today is the same like as one week ago:

INVALID STATE === fe80:0000:0000:0000:0a95:2aff:fe7a:bca7 ===

Is this the firewall of the provider stopping my script ?!

Thanks to the 14 people who attended and our three speakers, John, Peter and Mandy. Hopefully their slide decks will be available shortly.

In the "Good news everyone!" category, there are a couple of Perl shops in Sydney who are hiring right now (afaik, local not remote workers). People should feel free to ask after them via the Sydney.PM on Facebook page or the Email list

By popular demand, we will be convening again in December - speakers and a venue are all up for grabs. Use the above two links to volunteer.

Hey everyone,

Following is the p5p (Perl 5 Porters) mailing list summary for the past week, including Monday the 9th. Enjoy!

It's that time again folks! Time to start planning for the DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop. I'm pretty sure we are now on year 5, and psyched to see everyone, old and new.

On behalf of myself and all of the workshop organizers, you are cordially invited to submit talks for the 2016 DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop, which will be held on Saturday, April 16, 2016, in Baltimore, MD!

Submit via the Google Form (a new experiment this year).

As in previous years, by default talks are 25 minutes, which we've found is a sweet spot for most topics. We get a great variety -- enough to get a dose of newness and not overwhelm. We also welcome proposals for more tutorial-style talks of around 50 minutes. We'll take the talks and build out a two-track schedule.

I release Mojolicious::Plugin::AutoRoute. This is plugin which create route automatically. You can create web application with only writing template. It is understandable if you think This is plugin which embbed PHP featre to Mojolicious.

Mojolicious::Plugin::AutoRoute

In 0.18 release, Performance is improved.

It's Tomorrow!

Date: Tuesday, 10th November 2015
Time: 6-9pm
Place: Broadbean, Suite 8.03, 9 Hunter Street Sydney

Best train station: Probably Townhall?

Lighting Talks:

John Horner, "extracting poetry from the Twitter firehose".

Speakers:

Peter Harrison, who is also our host!

An as yet to be determined volunteer - could this be you?

Please join and share on Facebook.

Naturally you can tell your friends and colleagues the old fashion way too.

Dean

Hi! I am very glad to announce of outthentic stuff latest releases:

• Outthentic::DSL - a core component for all outthentic test clients
• Outthentic client - a general purposes test tool ( based on Outthentic::DSL )
• Swat client - a web application test tool ( based on Outthentic::DSL )

So. Follow metacpan/github docs, find your proper tool and enjoy your testing with Outthentic!