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After hearing that there was a dearth of Perl talks this year at OSCON from @VMBrasseur among others, some of us online decided to submit proposals for Perl talks and tutorials. While the announcement for talks isn't expected until December 25th, I'm pleased to let you know that OSCON will be hosting a 3-hour tutorial "Introduction to Perl 6" presented by yours truly.
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I am surprised that Moritz or some other monk did not bring it up earlier on this site, but since no one did, let me report that the Rakudo Star November 2015 Release (release 2015.11) is now the official Perl 6 beta version, as officially announced on November 28: http://rakudo.org/2015/11/28/announce-rakudo-star-release-2015-11-now-in-beta/.
In addition, and perhaps more importantly, the 1.0 production version is still planned for the Christmas 2015 period: "The Rakudo Perl 6 compiler is now officially in beta for the upcoming production release around Christmas 2015.".
Great news, and a very nice Xmas present from the Perl 6 / Rakudo development teams. Thanks and congratulations to them!
Sparrow is a console client to run test suites for various web applications. Sparrow consumes plugins written on swat DSL , here is the list, but you can easily create your own ones.
The project is still under active development. In case you are interested in web application test automation and monitoring, welcome for contribution!
The idea is to have a community list of reusable perl plugins to test, monitor applications of any kinds. Like cpan for web testing / monitoring. Take a chance to be a part of making the future.
Hi! I have just written an informal introduction into swat - simple web application testing framework, trying to highlights some benefits one could gain using swat in web test development. Feedback is appreciated. Thanks.
PS the post is also available at http://blogs.perl.org/users/melezhik/2015/11/doing-testing-in-a-swat-way.html , you may live your comments here as well.
I just got around to watching last week's episode of Blindspot on the dvr over the weekend, and two of the characters on the show were arguing whether perl or python was a better language for hacking a smartphone webapp... You don't see that on network tv everyday! The FBI tech guru said perl, but the 17 year old hacker preferred python...