Perl Weekly #595 - Happy Hanukkah - Merry Christmas
Tags: perl, news, programming
Published: 2022-12-18 07:15:00

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Originally published at [Perl Weekly 595](https://perlweekly.com/archive/595.html)


Hi there!

Yesterday was the 35th birthday of Perl. Congratulation to Larry Wall!

Today is the 1st day of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah">Hanukkah</a>, commemorating the Maccabean revolt agains the Seleucid (Greek) Empire when the Jews recovered Jerusalem roughly 2200 years ago. When I go for my daily stroll, I often pass by some archeological digging from that era. We lit the first candle yesterday night.

In a few days the Christian world will celebrate Christmas, the birth of Yeshua (commonly known as Jesus) roughtly 164 years later. Both events are celebrated by lights and way too much food.

Two weeks ago I wrote extensively about <a href="https://dev.to/">DEV</a> inviting you to post there and even if you don't feel like writing, at least to support the few of us who post about Perl. A few people followed my call. It is still mostly only Yuki Kimoto posting there, but there were a few posts by others, there were some comments and a few "likes". As for me, I publish about a lot of things, not only Perl and I put most of them in series. I have a steady number or readers and the number of followers is also growing nicely. There are more than 400 already. If you too are interested about the subjects I write about <a href="https://dev.to/szabgab/">follow me on DEV</a>.

Enjoy your week!

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  Your editor: Gabor Szabo.


## Announcements

  
### [FOSDEM](https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/fosdemstand)

FOSDEM 2023 is in person on February 4th and 5th and TPRF is seeking volunteers to help run the The Perl/Raku Foundation stand. I am quite happy that the tradition of having a stand at FOSDEM continues. It is a fun opportunity to talk about your favorite programming language with strangers.

  

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## Articles

  
### [Strawberry Perl vs ActivePerl ](https://dev.to/midas/strawberry-perl-vs-activeperl-1fb6)

Which Perl distribution to use on Windows?

  
### [The Delivery Map - using GraphViz](https://perladvent.org/2022/2022-12-12.html)

Santa has started to get more absent-minded lately. Year after year he tends to forget a few more things. Just little things like where he left the keys to the sled, or to put his red Santa hat on before he leaves the house.<p>To give you an idea, in 2021, Santa completely forgot to deliver presents to the Johnson family in Birmingham. He had to come back later to fix it, and nearly got caught by the children!

  
### [Santa's Helper Embrace the Shell](https://perladvent.org/2022/2022-12-13.html)

jp is a tool to analyze JSON files.

  
### [Let the Elves Import Your Packages](https://perladvent.org/2022/2022-12-14.html)

Load all the modules in a namespace.

  
### [Create Professional Slideshows with Mojolicious::Plugin::RevealJS](https://perladvent.org/2022/2022-12-15.html)

Santa's elf had a problem. He had to write a presentation very fast and show it to a bunch of new elves. The email assigning this to him was sent by Santa himself. The elf started to look on MetaCPAN and found this module: Mojolicious::Plugin::RevealJS

  
### [Day 16: Moving from Travis-CI to GitHub Actions for Marpa::R2](https://dev.to/szabgab/day-16-moving-from-travis-ci-to-github-actions-for-marpar2-21cj)

Do you think tests should <b>always</b> pass or are you in the school that's ok to go for some time while tests are failing. I think it is much better to make sure the test always pass and when they fail to make some intelligent decision. Those who let tests start to fail will most likely start expecting and accepting them to fail and slowly, but surely the tests will loose their value. Jeffrey Kegler, author of Marpa, thinks about this differently.

  
### [Relocatable Perl](https://perladvent.org/2022/2022-12-16.html)

That is, releases of perl that you can install anywhere on your disk.

  
### [Naughty or Nice Networks](https://perladvent.org/2022/2022-12-17.html)

IPv4 and IPv6 address mapping during the winter

  
### [TWVycnkgQ2hyaXN0bWFzIDop](https://perladvent.org/2022/2022-12-18.html)

Perl birthday party

  
### [PerlayStation Games Console (Part 1)](https://blogs.perl.org/users/saif/2022/12/perlaystation-games-console.html)

Game building in Perl using SDL and OpenGL

  
### [The Weekly Challenge Advent Calendar 2022](https://dev.to/manwar/the-weekly-challenge-advent-calendar-2022-6ad)



  

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## Testing

  
### [Github Actions for Perl Modules 2022-12-12 version](https://dev.to/yukikimoto/github-actions-for-perl-modules-2022-12-12-version-5f7k)

Several examples for GitHub Workflows.

  
### [Day 14: CI for the Log::Any Perl module 🐪](https://dev.to/szabgab/ci-for-the-logany-perl-module-5bl2)

Simple is good for work. Less exciting for the blog. Check out the previous entries of this series if you'd like to find more exciting cases.

  

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## Grants

  
### [Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): November 2022](https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/maintaining_perl_dave_mitchell_nov_2022)



  
### [Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) November 2022 ](https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/maintaining_perl_tonyc_november_2022)



  

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## Perl

  
### [Suggestion: cpanm is added to Perl core](https://dev.to/yukikimoto/suggestion-cpanm-is-added-to-perl-core-2c5l)

This definitely sounds like a good idea. I really don't understand why it has not happened yet.

  
### [This Week in PSC (091)](https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2022/12/this-week-in-psc-091.html)

The weekly report of the <a href="https://psc.perlhacks.com/">Perl Steering Council</a>

  

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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 - 196](https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-196)

Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Pattern 132" and "Range List". 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 - 195](https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/recap-challenge-195)

Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Special Integers" and "Most Frequent Even" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy.

  
### [Especially Frequent Even](http://www.rabbitfarm.com/cgi-bin/blosxom/perl/2022/12/18)

Cool use of Perl's map and grep. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.

  
### [Especially Even](https://raku-musings.com/especially-even.html)

Lost of cool features of Raku shared with us, thanks as always for your contributions.

  
### [Special Speedy Frequency](https://blogs.perl.org/users/bruce_gray/2022/12/twc-195-special-speedy-frequency.html)

Loved the use of inline-C, thanks for sharing the power of Perl.

  
### [Well Ain’t That Special](https://colincrain.com/2022/12/19/well-aint-that-special/)

Colin can engage you on any topic with his quality writings. Get to know more about Numbers in general this week.

  
### [PWC195 - Special Integers](https://github.polettix.it/ETOOBUSY/2022/12/15/pwc195-special-integers/)

Getting to the end result can be enjoyable and fun journey. Flavio definitely makes it like one. Keep it up great work.

  
### [PWC195 - Most Frequent Even](https://github.polettix.it/ETOOBUSY/2022/12/16/pwc195-most-frequent-even/)

Getting Perl and Raku solutions side-by-side makes it easy to follow. Nice one, thanks.

  
### [The Weekly Challenge 195](https://github.com/drbaggy/perlweeklychallenge-club/tree/master/challenge-195/james-smith#readme)

As always the case every week, we got different ways to deal with task in Perl. Well done and keep it up.

  
### [Special Integers and Most Frequent Even](https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2022/12/perl-weekly-challenge-195-special-integers-and-most-frequent-even.html)

I liked the compact solutions in Perl and Raku. Great demo of language power. Thanks for sharing.

  
### [Bags to the rescue!](https://fluca1978.github.io/2022/12/12/PerlWeeklyChallenge195.html)

Nice demo of Raku Bag. It makes it easy to understand the underlying context. Thanks.

  
### [Perl Weekly Challenge 195](https://wlmb.github.io/2022/12/12/PWC195/)

Do you want to master Perl one-liner? This blog is good starter. Thanks.

  
### [Some numbers are special and others are frequent and even](https://pjcs-pwc.blogspot.com/2022/12/some-numbers-are-special-and-others-are.html)

Plenty to learn how to speed up your solutions. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.

  
### [Frequently Special](https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2022/12/The_Weekly_Challenge_195__Frequently_Special.html)

You will fall in love with the PostScript solution by Roger. Keep it up great work.

  
### [PWC 195](https://thiujiac.blogspot.com/2022/12/pwc-195.html)

Raku one-liner is always the winner. Nice presentation as always. Thanks for your contributions.

  

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## Weekly collections

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

<a href="https://niceperl.blogspot.com/2022/12/cdxxiii-10-great-cpan-modules-released.html">Great CPAN modules released last week</a>;<br><a href="https://niceperl.blogspot.com/2022/12/dxxxvi-metacpan-weekly-report.html">MetaCPAN weekly report</a>;<br><a href="https://niceperl.blogspot.com/2022/12/dlxiv-stackoverflow-perl-report.html">StackOverflow Perl report</a>.

  

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## <a href="https://perl.careers/?utm_source=perlweekly&utm_campaign=perlweekly&utm_medium=perlweekly">Perl Jobs by Perl Careers</a>

  
### [Adventure! Senior Perl roles in Malaysia, Dubai and Malta](https://job.perl.careers/khj)

Clever folks know that if you’re lucky, you can earn a living and have an adventure at the same time. Enter our international client: online trading is their game, and they’re looking for Perl folks with passion, drive, and an appreciation for new experiences.

  
### [Senior Perl Developer with Cross-Trained Chops. UK Remote Perl Role](https://job.perl.careers/00j)

Sure, you’ve got Perl chops for days, but that’s not all you can do — and that’s why our client wants to meet you. They’re looking for senior Perl developers, Node engineers, and those with mighty Python and SQL skills to lead their team. Cross-trained team members are their sweet spot, and whether you’re cross-trained yourself or are open to the possibility, this may be your perfect role.

  
### [C, C++, and Perl Software Engineers, Let’s Keep the Internet Safe. Remote UK Perl Role](https://job.perl.careers/5lm)

A leading digital safeguarding solutions provider is looking for a software engineer experienced in C, C++, or Perl. You’ll have strong Linux knowledge and a methodical approach to problem solving that you use to investigate, replicate, and address customer issues. Your keen understanding of firewalls, proxies, Iptables, Squid, VPNs/IPSec and HTTP(S) will be key to your success at this company.

  
### [Perl Developer and Business Owner? Remote Perl role in UK & EU](https://job.perl.careers/l32)

Our clients run a job search engine that has grown from two friends with an idea to a site that receives more than 10 million visits per month. They're looking for a Perl pro with at least three years of experience with high-volume and high-traffic apps and sites, a solid understanding of Object-Oriented Perl (perks if that knowledge includes Moose), SQL/MySQL and DBIx::Class.

 
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