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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!
I am pleased to announce we have a full slate of great, new talks for Perl Community's Winter Conference (and Science Perl Journal, Winter Issue!) - some details for the conference ...
When: December 18th (on the day of the 37th Birthday of Perl)
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).
A roundup of PDL-using modules that aren't main PDL, but have been released in recent times (from my recent update to the news section at https://pdl.perl.org/):
I've updated the News section of the website, and will be updating (and announcing here!) the "demos" parts soon. I'll also make another post here for main-PDL since PDL 2.087 released and a summary of a ~year of PDL.
The Conference will be virtual, FREE to attend over Google Meet, and result in a Science Perl Journal Winter 2024 Issue. We're finalizing the Summer Issue as I type.
Please note that we are accepting 3 types of publications, the newest one is a 1 page extended abstract that translates to a lightning talk.
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!
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
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
Yep, that's right - the first dozen talks have been accepted for this year's London Perl and Raku Workshop. This puts our schedule at approximately 50% full, so if you are thinking about talking at the workshop then submit your proposal now!
If you aren't thinking about talking then have a think about what you've been doing in the Perl and/or Raku space the last five years, or even just the general IT and development space. Perhaps there's something interesting you can talk about? If you don't feel it's a full fat talk then submit a lightning talk instead.
The London Perl and Raku Workshop will take place on 26th Oct 2024. Thanks to this year's sponsors, without whom LPW would not happen:
I will update this post when the other talks are posted. Over the next week we'll be putting together a full summary that includes updates for everything Science Perl, lessons learned, including plans for next year (abstracts for 2025 are being accepted now, information on purchasing a dead tree 2024 Science Perl Journal, etc).
Special thanks again to the TPRC Planning Committee for giving us this opportunity, and especially here to videographer, j.e. turcotte for getting all these videos online!
Sorry I didn't get this out here earlier, but Perl Community (parent org of the Science Perl Committee that is initiated the Science Track) is giving out a "peoples choice" award at the end of Conference Lightning Talks. It's sincere gesture from us and allows anyone to vote for anyone in the Perl community at large, as a "thank you" from us.
The Science Track talks have been great, some are even starting to come online. Thanks to everyone who made this happen, especially the TPRC Planning Committee.
The new version is currently available on my github repo only, as the author is not responding.
Does anybody have information about "Eric Strom" aka "ASG"?
Otherwise I might try to get an indexing permission on CPAN as a co-maintainer, though I'm clueless regarding this process.
The organizing committee for the Perl and Raku Conference 2024 is looking for a few more conference sponsors. If your organization uses Perl, now would be a great time to support the language. For more information, please visit this article on perl.com.
The conference is only a little more than a month away! Get more information about the conference here.
