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Not to be outdone (much), the PDL community has made a PDL Advent calendar: https://pdl.perl.org/advent/index.html. Big up to Ea for the idea and impetus behind it.
There are a couple of episodes beyond today's (the 1st) up already, so you can binge it if you like. Or, you can keep your cool and just read one per day. I won't tell you how to best enjoy it!
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!
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.
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.
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
