miguel prz (niceperl): (xi) MetaCPAN favourites weekly report

on cpan, perl

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 58
Build date: 2012/07/04 21:42:18 GMT

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Posted on Wed, 04 Jul 2012 21:43:00 +0000 permalink

YAPC::EU 2012: Ternary Logic and Digital Computing

on talk, logic, martin becker, talk, ternary

Martin Becker will give a talk at YAPC::Europe 2012 described as Ternary or three-valued logic is a logic in which there are three truth values indicating true, false and some third value, often used to denote uncertainty or indefiniteness. A...

Posted on Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:09:20 +0000 permalink

Sinan Unur (Sinan): What is "-f>@+?*<.-&'_:$#/%!" in Perl?

on maintainable, readable, gibberish, perl sucks, perl

Back in 2009, someone posted a question on Stackoverflow asking How do you google for "-f>@+?*<.-&'_:$#/%!"? The poster was actually trying to figure out what -f>@+?*<.-&'_:$#/%! did in Perl, but before I knew it, the question had been migrated to Su [...]

Posted on Wed, 04 Jul 2012 16:22:00 +0000 permalink @+?*<.-&'_:$#/%!" in Perl?')" onmouseout="addthis_close()" onclick="return addthis_sendto()">

Damien Krotkine (dams): MooseX::Singleton is slow

MooseX::Singleton is slow

Just a quick note : if you plan to use MooseX::Singleton, beware ! It is easy to use and it implements properly what it claims, however it is quite slow.

If my profilings are corrects, each call to ->instance() calls meta(), g [...]

Posted on Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:30:39 +0000 permalink

YAPC::EU 2012: CPAN Dependency Heaven

on talk, cpan, dependencies, jon allen, talk

Jon Allen will give a talk at YAPC::Europe 2012 described as Installing CPAN modules and managing their dependencies has got much easier over recent years thanks to tools like cpanm. But what about the DarkPAN, i.e. all the code that...

Posted on Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:07:48 +0000 permalink

Legal Highs / High Pills: The Good and The Bad of legal highs

on Legal High Pills

The Good: Like the name tells you, legal highs are very much legal and you are not breaking any law when you try them out. Not even selling them is a crime, and they can be pretty much anything, from interesting herbal mixes you can buy at your local [...]

Posted on Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:17:15 +0000 permalink

Moritz Lenz: doc.perl6.org and p6doc

Background

Earlier this year I tried to assess the readiness of the Perl 6 language, compilers, modules, documentation and so on. While I never got around to publish my findings, one thing was painfully obvious: there is a huge gap in the area of docu [...]

Posted on Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:16:33 +0000 permalink

Pills to prevent high blood sugar: Legal highs over the last few years

on Legal High Pils

Drug fighting agencies have been getting more and more aggressive over the past few years, but the ingenuity of a person who is itching to get high knows no bounds and we’ve seen tons and tons of so called “legal highs” in both US and the UK, and the [...]

Posted on Wed, 04 Jul 2012 09:41:27 +0000 permalink

Pills to prevent high blood sugar: Some herbs to help you out with legal highs

on Legal High Pils

While the most popular recreational and all natural drug for getting high, Marijuana, is banned in pretty much most of the world, that doesn’t mean that you can’t party hard when you want to. All it takes is a bit of research, some patience and you c [...]

Posted on Wed, 04 Jul 2012 09:40:33 +0000 permalink

fREW Schmidt (fREW): awesomewm

on Uncategorized, awesome, tiling-window-manager, window-manager, xmonad

I’ve had a long, sordid relationship with window managers. When I really started with my first computer it was Windows 98 and I somehow decided to put Litestep on it. I remember switching workspaces was often crashy and I pined for something less hac [...]

Posted on Wed, 04 Jul 2012 08:00:33 +0000 permalink

fREW Schmidt (fREW): awesomewm

on Uncategorized, awesome, tiling-window-manager, window-manager, xmonad

I’ve had a long, sordid relationship with window managers. When I really started with my first computer it was Windows 98 and I somehow decided to put Litestep on it. I remember switching workspaces was often crashy and I pined for something less hac [...]

Posted on Wed, 04 Jul 2012 08:00:33 +0000 permalink

Leonard: another beach day

on florida

First off, last night we saw a loggerhead turtle on the beach. She was huge. We kinda scared her back into the ocean, but that's ok, she will come back, as we didn't get anywhere close to her.Anna has been...

Posted on Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:46:57 +0000 permalink

Tokuhiro Matsuno: [perl][config]設定ファイルは relaxed JSON でいいんじゃないかとおもった話

on perl, config

JSON.pm の relaxed モードについて

Perl5 の JSON.pm/JSON::XS では relaxed JSON というものがサポートされている。これは JSON 仕様をゆるくしたもので、 shell style のコメント(# 以後がコメントとなる)のサポートと、ケツコンマのサポートが含まれている。 JSON が設定ファイルとしてつかいづらいといわれる所以はたいがいコメントがつかえないことなので、まあこれなら許容範囲かな、と。mobirc の設定ファイルもこれにしてみました [...]

Posted on Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:13:48 +0000 permalink

vti: Perl and friends books publications statistics

on Perl, Ruby, Python, PHP, books

When I tried to learn another scripting language I was looking for the books (eh, the first thing that comes to my mind). I was searching and searching and then got curious on how many books were published during the last 10 years in the languages th [...]

Posted on Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 permalink