Perl Weekly #625 - Mohammad Sajid Anwar the new White Camel
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Published: 2023-07-17 07:04:13

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Originally published at [Perl Weekly 625](https://perlweekly.com/archive/625.html)


Hi there

Let me start by congratulating Mohammad Sajid Anwar, my fellow editor of the newsletters, for receiving the <a href="https://whitecamel.org/">White Camel Award</a>.

Mohammad, you certainly deserved it!

As it turns out the <a href="https://whitecamel.org/">White Camel web site</a> is still served from my GitHub Account. I updated it now adding the most recent recipients. I also updated the README in the <a href="https://github.com/szabgab/whitecamel.org">repository</a>. There are several TODO items. It would be really awesome if you could help me with the site. If you don't know how, then join me in the <a href="https://osdc.zulipchat.com/">OSDC chat</a> and we can discuss it there.

You might remember I used to teach a lot of Perl courses, but then unfortunately that market dried up. I did run a remote training course in 2020 about testing in Perl, but not much else. The pandemic also did not help much with training. Oh yeah, at the beginning of the year I ran an instance of the <a href="https://osdc.code-maven.com/">Open Source Development course</a> with focus on Perl. The video recordings are <a href="https://osdc.code-maven.com/osdc-2023-01-perl/">here</a>. However, I am starting to offer my <a href="https://szabgab.com/">corporate training courses</a> again. It would be great to teach Perl again, but even if it is 'only', Git or GitHub it will be still fun.

Lastly for today: The <a href="https://perlkohacon.fi/">Perl and Koha conference</a> is going to place August 14-18, 2023, Helsinki, Finland. You still have a month to get there!

Enjoy the week!

  --
  Your editor: Gabor Szabo.


## Announcements

  
### [Announcing the 2022 White Camel Award recipient](https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/white-camel-2022-manwar)



  
### [The Perl and Raku Conference for 2024](https://tprc.us/tprc-2024-las/)

TPRC 2024, Las Vegas, Nevada

  
### [Perl Advent Calendar 2023 CFP](https://cfp.perladvent.org/)

You are cordially invited to write an article for the 2023 Perl Advent Calendar.

  

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## Articles

  
### [Whither Perl?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=areXIy7UKyA)

40 min presentation: A language is dead is not really a good way of talking about the topic; We need some money;

  
### [What's New In Perl v5.38](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkKuA0UMdEw)

50 min presentation

  
### [When Saif Met Sarah](https://blogs.perl.org/users/saif/2023/07/when-saif-met-sarah.html)



  
### [Using Modern Perl Features in your Projects](https://dev.to/jjn1056/using-modern-perl-features-in-your-projects-4e7m)



  
### [Building a Perl Module for Posting to Bluesky Social](https://betterprogramming.pub/building-a-perl-module-for-posting-to-bluesky-social-92fc732fc297)



  
### [What do we need for Perl 8?](https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/1515tkj/what_do_we_need_for_perl_8/)



  
### [Matching simply](https://blogs.perl.org/users/toby_inkster/2023/07/matching-simply.html)



  
### ["Next Action" - Improving Perl Catalyst Chained Actions](https://dev.to/jjn1056/next-action-improving-catalyst-chained-actions-f79)



  
### [Perl is still a great choice](https://foo.zone/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.html)



  

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## CPAN

  
### [CPAN Report 2022](https://neilb.org/2023/07/13/cpan-report-2023.html)



  

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## The Weekly Challenge
<a href="https://theweeklychallenge.org">The Weekly Challenge</a> by <a href="http://www.manwar.org">Mohammad Anwar</a> will help you step out of your comfort-zone. You can even win prize money of $50 Amazon voucher by participating in the weekly challenge. We pick one winner at the end of the month from among all of the contributors during the month. The monthly prize is kindly sponsored by Peter Sergeant of <a href="https://perl.careers/">PerlCareers</a>.
  
### [The Weekly Challenge - 226](https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-226)

Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Shuffle String" and "Zero Array". If you are new to the weekly challenge then why not join us and have fun every week. For more information, please read the <a href="https://theweeklychallenge.org/faq">FAQ</a>.

  
### [RECAP - The Weekly Challenge - 225](https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/recap-challenge-225)

Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Max Words" and "Left Right Sum Diff" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy.

  
### [Meet The Champion - Avery Adams](https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/meet-the-champion-2023-06/)

A thorough and open conversation with Avery Adams.

  
### [Sentenced To Compute Differences](http://rabbitfarm.com/cgi-bin/blosxom/perl/2023/07/13)

Welcome back after the break. We got nice regex magic from Adam. Thanks for sharing.

  
### [Arithmetically Good](https://raku-musings.com/arithmetically-good.html)

Raku one-liner in play and few more Raku magic show. Great work, keep it up.

  
### [Words to the Max and Diff Sum](https://dev.to/oldtechaa/perl-weekly-challenge-225-words-to-the-max-and-diff-sum-357p)

Got two solutions this week, pretty simple and easy to follow. Well done and thanks for sharing.

  
### [Perl Weekly Challenge: Week 225](https://www.braincells.com/perl/2023/07/perl_weekly_challenge_week_225.html)

Smart and clever one-liner in Perl and Raku, almost identical. Highly recommended.

  
### [PWC225 - Max Words](https://github.polettix.it/ETOOBUSY/2023/07/13/pwc225-max-words/)

Regex magic in play both for Perl and Raku. Highly recommended.

  
### [PWC225 - Left Right Sum Diff](https://github.polettix.it/ETOOBUSY/2023/07/14/pwc225-left-right-sum-diff/)

Straight translation of the given formula in Perl and Raku. Cool attempt, well done.

  
### [Perl Weekly Challenge 225: Max Words](https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2023/07/perl-weekly-challenge-225-max-words.html)

Nice and easy without any gimmicks. Great work, keep it up.

  
### [Perl Weekly Challenge 225: Left Right Sum Diff](https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2023/07/perl-weekly-challenge-225-left-right-sum-diff.html)

Well documented solutions both in Perl and Raku. Enjoy !!!

  
### [Perl Weekly Challenge 225: I m back](https://fluca1978.github.io/2023/07/12/PerlWeeklyChallenge225.html)

Welcome back and congratulation on your new job. I hope to see you regular now. Thanks for your contribution as always.

  
### [Perl Weekly Challenge 225](https://wlmb.github.io/2023/07/09/PWC225/)

Playing on hime turf is so fun. Our in-house one-liner expert came up with another magical solution. Well done.

  
### [Reduce to the max](https://github.com/manwar/perlweeklychallenge-club/tree/master/challenge-225/matthias-muth#readme)

Use of CPAN is very handy to get the clean and elegant solutions. Keep it up great work.

  
### [Counting words and subtracting numbers](http://ccgi.campbellsmiths.force9.co.uk/challenge/225)

Use of clever regex is in play. Perl is unbeatable when it comes to regex. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.

  
### [The Weekly Challenge #225](https://hatley-software.blogspot.com/2023/07/robbie-hatleys-solutions-to-weekly_9.html)

Here comes CPAN and we have a clean readable solution in Perl. Great work, keep it up.

  
### [Diffs on the Right, Words on the Left](https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2023/07/The_Weekly_Challenge_225__Diffs_on_the_Right__Words_on_the_Left.html)

After a long time, I saw one-liner in Javascript. Highly recommended.

  
### [Weekly Challenge 225](https://dev.to/simongreennet/weekly-challenge-225-2785)

You always get the bonus Python alongwith Perl. Enjoy the hack. Thanks for sharing.

  

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## Weekly collections

  
### [NICEPERL's lists](http://niceperl.blogspot.com/)

<a href="https://niceperl.blogspot.com/2023/07/cdlii-9-great-cpan-modules-released.html">Great CPAN modules released last week</a>;

  

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## Events

  
### [Perl and Koha](https://perlkohacon.fi/)

August 14-18, 2023, Helsinki, Finland

  
### [Boston PM : Async graphics, really? peek preview](https://boston-pm.github.io/#schedule)

Tuesday July 11th, 2023 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

  

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