Perl News http://perlnews.org The Perl news site Sun, 05 May 2013 19:08:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 2013Q2 Grant Proposals – have your say http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PerlNews/~3/tHItKqKhGXg/ http://perlnews.org/2013/05/2013q2-grant-proposals-have-your-say/#comments Sun, 05 May 2013 19:08:48 +0000 Leo Lapworth http://perlnews.org/?p=6686 [...]]]> The Perlfoundation has announced the 2013Q2 Grant Proposals.

For this quarter, TPF Grants Committee have four different proposals. They invite the Perl Community to comment on the proposals and their relevance to the community. Comments on each grant on their specific page…

To submit your own proposal for the next round of grants see the guidelines and the current rules of operation. Then send your proposal to tpf-proposals@perl-foundation.org.

]]> http://perlnews.org/2013/05/2013q2-grant-proposals-have-your-say/feed/ 0 http://perlnews.org/2013/05/2013q2-grant-proposals-have-your-say/ Infinity Interactive tilts Perl crowdfunding drive http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PerlNews/~3/7LleQbVnPmE/ http://perlnews.org/2013/05/infinity-interactive-tilts-perl-crowdfunding-drive/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 18:51:33 +0000 brian d foy http://perlnews.org/?p=6682 [...]]]> Infinity Interactive, the people who brought you Moose, contributed $313 USD to Specify module version ranges in Pinto to send the Crowdtilt campaign over it’s minimum amount, $USD4096, so money is now collected from the 112 contributors so far. It took three weeks to reach this amount, and there are still six days left to contribute, if you want to help it reach its secondary goals of $5000 USD and 200 contributors. As far as we know, this is the first Perl open source work to be crowd-funded through direct contributions, mostly from individuals.

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Crowdtilt, which uses Perl’s Dancer web framework, created a special deal for the campaign in which they waived their usual cut of the money raised, and offer that same deal to other Perl projects run through them with the offer code “perl-love”. Not only that, they contributed real money to the campaign.

Jeff Thalhammer, the guy who brought you Perl::Critic, will receive all of the money for his work on Pinto, the framework he’s set up to manage private CPANs where you get to choose the modules and distributions to include, even if they are not the most recent. The title feature, version ranges, is something many people have wanted for a long time since the public CPAN clients and build systems work with a minimum or latest version only. However, giving Jeff the flexibility to work on this full time will have other benefits to Pinto. Even if you didn’t contribute, you still get the feature since Pinto is on CPAN and all of this work will show up soon in later versions.

]]> http://perlnews.org/2013/05/infinity-interactive-tilts-perl-crowdfunding-drive/feed/ 0 http://perlnews.org/2013/05/infinity-interactive-tilts-perl-crowdfunding-drive/ ack 2.0 released http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PerlNews/~3/j3prqVbBQlI/ http://perlnews.org/2013/04/ack-2-0-released/#comments Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:51:12 +0000 Leo Lapworth http://perlnews.org/?p=6678 [...]]]> Andy Lester has announced the release of ack 2.0. ack is designed to help programmers who need to search large amounts source code – fast.

ack was originally developed to be better than the unix grep (file pattern searcher) command, and as pointed out in the announcement is now trying to focus on going beyond even that.

ack is cross-platform and pure Perl – so will run on all platforms, including Windows, and is very easy to install.

For more information visit the ack website.

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https://rt.cpan.org/ is the issue tracking system available for every one of the 27,000+ open source distributions released through CPAN.

New features include:

  • Mobile support (also accessible from https://rt.cpan.org/m)
  • Preferred bug tracker information displayed prominently – if the module author wants to use a different tracker it is clearly displayed and linked to

See the announcement for the full list of improvements.

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The company is now expanding internationally to cover data for four new countries.

The site currently copes with 1.5 million visitors a month, all being served pages using the well-known templating module, Template Toolkit. The searches, aggregation and page rendering are all using Perl.

The tech team is a fan of open source and uses other tools as appropriate.

Adzuna has been mentioned in the Financial Times, BBC, Sky News and seems to be going for the industry disruption. I would keep an eye on them!

It’s great to hear about yet another growing company that uses Perl and doing so well.

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A few weeks ago Felipe Leprevost started to translate the articles of the Perl tutorial on the Perl Maven site to Portuguese.
There are already 8 articles in the Perl tutorial in Portuguese.

Today, thanks to Tudor Constantin, I posted the first article in the Romanian Perl tutorial.

I am looking for more volunteers to help these translations, and to start the translations to other languages as well. If you are interested, please get in touch with me: szabgab at gmail.com.

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Pinto is a powerful tool for creating custom CPAN-like repositories of Perl modules. You can fill your repository with any combination of private and public modules, and then build/test/install them using the standard tools. Since you control the repository, you’ll get exactly the same modules every time. Pinto also has some novel tools for tracking and managing changes, so you can upgrade modules with confidence and control.

]]> http://perlnews.org/2013/03/pinto-on-floss-weekly-this-wednesday/feed/ 0 http://perlnews.org/2013/03/pinto-on-floss-weekly-this-wednesday/ TPF to participate in the Outreach Program for Women http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PerlNews/~3/-7EG95pkRNE/ http://perlnews.org/2013/03/tpf-to-participate-in-the-outreach-program-for-women/#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:00:51 +0000 Dave Cross http://perlnews.org/?p=5387 [...]]]> For the first time The Perl Foundation is going to participate in the Free and Open Source Outreach Program for Women. We are thrilled to be able to take part in this program that encourages women to participate in FOSS projects.

We are looking for mentors and project ideas for the interns and also help with the coordination of this project. If you are interested in helping out in any way please contact karen [at] perlfoundation.org

At present we have the funding for one intern. If you or your company would be interested in sponsoring this project so that more interns could be funded please contact karen [at] perlfoundation.org

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This year it will be in Keio University Hiyoshi Campus, on Sep 19 through 21. We’re expecting 900~1000 attendees this year. Book your flights now!

More details to follow. Stay tuned!

Should you have any questions, pelase contact @lestrrat

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More details..

You can submit your talks at: http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/newtalk.

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