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Perl Advent Calendar 2024
1 direct reply — Read more / Contribute 		by hippo
on Nov 30, 2024 at 19:16

    It's December, so that means that the Perl Advent Calendar is up and running once again.

    Enjoy your 24 days of insightful Perl-related articles.

    🦛

German Perl/Raku Workshop 2025 in Munich - 12.05.2025-14.05.2025
No replies — Read more | Post response 		by Corion
on Nov 29, 2024 at 01:45

    Hello everybody,

    we cordially invite you to the German Perl/Raku Workshop 2025.

    The workshop will take place next year from Monday 12 May to Wednesday 14 May at the Kolpinghaus in Munich..

    The website and the call for papers are already online. We are looking forward to many interesting presentations!

    We are always happy to receive support from sponsors. If you or your company would like to support the workshop, please contact us. We will find a way together!

    If you have any questions for the organisers, please contact us directly at orga2025@german-perl-workshop.de .

    We are still working on hotel recommendations and will publish them on the website.

    We look forward to your participation,

    Corion for the organizers
Toronto Perl Mongers present Dave Cross: Still Data Munging with Perl
1 direct reply — Read more / Contribute 		by talexb
on Nov 18, 2024 at 12:25

    Well-known Perl author Dave Cross will be giving a talk titled Still Data Munging with Perl at 4pm Toronto time (8pm London time), on March 27, 2025. The lu.ma event page is here; please register!

    Like the Randall Schwartz event, this will be a virtual event. A link will be posted to the page once we have that organized.

    PS There are currently 134 people signed up for Randall's talk. I figured we'd be doing well if we got 25 people. The Perl community is so cool.

    Alex / talexb / Toronto

    Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.
Toronto Perl Mongers present Randal Schwartz: Half My Life with Perl
3 direct replies — Read more / Contribute 		by talexb
on Oct 30, 2024 at 13:18

    As part of year 25 of The Perl Advent Calendar, Perl luminary and co-author of O’Reilly’s “Learning Perl” Randal Schwartz will be giving a presentation entitled "Half My Life with Perl".

    ​This event will be a live stream via Zoom. The stream URL will be provided as we get closer to the date. Please register now if you’re interested in the event, so that we know how many Zoom attendees to plan for.

    Updated October 31, 2024: Sounds interesting, Alex. When is the event? Oh, you forgot that part?

    This will be a virtual event (so don't worry if you can't find your passport), to be held Saturday, December 14, 2024 at 5pm ET -- Google Calendar reliably tells me that's 10pm UTC. A link to the event will be posted when it's available. So far, we have 60 people signed up -- and it's six weeks away. I don't know what the limits are for a Zoom session, but Olaf is working on arranging that.

    Updated December 3, 2024: We now have an even 200 folks signed up, and I've put an arbitrary limit of 300 on this event. Thanks to TPRF for providing access to their Zoom account for this event -- it should be intriguing.

    Alex / talexb / Toronto

    Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.
The Science Perl Journal, Issue #1 (Vol. 1, No. 1): Summer 2024 is finally here!
3 direct replies — Read more / Contribute 		by oodler
on Oct 17, 2024 at 12:51
    update: fixed purchase link
    TLDR; After hundreds of hours of work and support from lots of people, the long promised Journal is here.

    The rest is more of a rant.
    Read more... (4 kB)
New on-line page for Toronto Perl Mongers
1 direct reply — Read more / Contribute 		by talexb
on Oct 09, 2024 at 11:10

    The new on-line location for Perl Mongering in Toronto is here on lu.ma. I've made the decision to move away from meetup.com because it went from cheap and cheerful, to really expensive. We have a Special Event happening in December (produced by Olaf A), and our usual and customary December social on December 19 at C'Est What? in downtown Toronto. Everyone is welcome!

    Alex / talexb / Toronto

    Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.
Perl Community Conference Winter 2024
No replies — Read more | Post response 		by oodler
on Oct 05, 2024 at 23:55
PDL website updated including "demos" section
No replies — Read more | Post response 		by etj
on Sep 19, 2024 at 21:03
    Esteemed monks, the PDL website at https://pdl.perl.org/ was updated today:
    • the "News" section was updated with releases from this year for various PDL-related modules
    • the "demos" section (https://pdl.perl.org/?page=demos/index, or the "Demos" link in the sidebar) was updated to have the text and output (including images, including animations) of not two but now eight PDL demos - a couple of them might be considered quite neat
    • the front page had some text added with something of a "why use PDL" pitch
    It would be very helpful if those who have time could take a look at any of those, and comment if there are any mistakes or possible improvements (or even if they think it's good).
PDL 2.092 released
No replies — Read more | Post response 		by etj
on Sep 19, 2024 at 16:59
    PDL 2.092 has just been released. Notable changes since 2.087:
    • fix badvalue propagation
    • core support for PDL::Parallel::threads
    • change dataflow to work one-shot each time like "inplace"
    • add demos of PDL::GSL::RNG, PDL::GSL::CDF, PDL::Func
    • fix MatrixOps::eigens for asymmetric case inc complex eigenvectors
    • wfits fixed to handle multi-line HISTORY
    • fix handling large Perl scalar values
    • add spline-handling functions in PDL::Slatec
    • PP dim sizes can be =CALC(...) instead of explicit RedoDimsCode
    The IRC channel (#pdl on irc.perl.org) is a great virtual place to come and ask questions, or just watch the GitHub messages flow by.

    As usual, please give the new release a try and report problems.
PDL stuff other than PDL
No replies — Read more | Post response 		by etj
on Sep 19, 2024 at 16:07
Perl Community Conference, Winter 2024 - CALL FOR PAPERS NOW OPEN! (Deadline 9/30)
1 direct reply — Read more / Contribute 		by oodler
on Sep 13, 2024 at 14:01
A cordial invitation to participate in growing the list of Perl modules and clients created for the web services listed at FreePublicAPIs
2 direct replies — Read more / Contribute 		by oodler
on Aug 31, 2024 at 14:04

    As I say in the Le'Reddit announcement on r/perl, I want this to be the way people have fun or prove that their "way" is better, or at least SUWYM - Show Us What You Mean! :-) .. but I envision this being an easy target for leveraging new Perl features. What does an API look like using class? Is it faster or more idiomatic than ones built with Util::H2O? Pick your API spec and poison, and take some time get it on CPAN. It's not supposed to be a lot of work.

    I have 3 so far, and plan to do more! The last one took less than an hour - fun and good practice!


    You may "sign up" by claiming the API you want to create a Perl client for, here.

    As I type, here are 246 left to claim! See what they have listed at FreePublicAPIs. Update - thanks to soonix's probing questions, there is also now an API call to list all the APIs! Also, FreePublicAPIs listed this as a projected. Have fun!

    Update: As each module is uploaded to CPAN, anyone can add the module as a "project using the API" - thus, I will handle adding this to their pages to show your module and Perl! For example,this link lists: 
    Showcase

The following Projects were built with this API:
Perl CPAN Module - Acme::Free::API::Ye
DBI revived
6 direct replies — Read more / Contribute 		by Tux
on Aug 23, 2024 at 14:03

    DBI 1.644 released

    This is more news than just a new version.

    On 2024-08-11 I asked Tim Bunce if he would be able to do a new release, as the last one was over 4 years ago, and there have been several fixes since, amongst which a CVE fix and a followup CVE fix. Those were the reason I asked.

    What happened then was unexpected and more than I bargained for: he said it was extrememly unlikely he'd be involved anymore. He said he trusted me and handen me the ownership of DBI.

    I then asked for help and got it. There is more to do, so lets join knowledge and not wait another 4 years.

    PLEASE test and test and test and test, with all the database drivers you are able to use on all Operating systems you can work on with as many weird combinations as possible.

    I tested on every released perl since 5.8.0 threaded and non-threaded on Linux, and followed the dev-releases on the cpantesters (which surfaced a Windows bug).

    As this module is the basis for every DBD in the perl toolchain, it is quite important we keep it going strong.

    It feels like an honor to be in this position, and I sincerely hope I can hold the fortress.

    irc.perl.org:6667/#dbi is our main communication channel


    Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn
Domains for sale
2 direct replies — Read more / Contribute 		by liz
on Aug 04, 2024 at 08:32
First Batch of LPW 2024 Talks Accepted
1 direct reply — Read more / Contribute 		by leej
on Jul 27, 2024 at 08:04
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