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Liveblog of the Professional IT Community Conference session Mentoring: It’s for everyone

Ways to learn:
Audio
Visual
Kinetic (doing it)

Everyone learns differently, but most people learn with some combination of all these three.
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I am moderating and liveblogging the Professional IT Community Conference panel called Tech Women Rule! Creative Solutions for being a (or working with a) female technologist.

One point to keep in mind: The goal is not equality for equality’s sake. The goal is to have a diverse range of experience to make your company/project/whatever the best it could be.

That being said, these issues are not just around women; they are about anyone who is “different”, whether it’s race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, cultural.

So what are some of the solutions?
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[yanick@enkidu shuck]$ echo "original json_pretty taken from hanekomu's tweet"
[yanick@enkidu shuck]$ cat news.json | perl -0007 -MJSON -nE"say for @{from_json(\$_)->{interesting}}"

Want to help Perl 6, and collect some booty in the process? Moritz Lenz has issued the first of a series of Perl 6 challenges. Fulfill the challenge, and get a chance to win mind-bogglingly fabulous prizes (well, okay, t-shirts for now). This week’s challenge doesn’t even require Perl 6 knowledge — it’s all about creating a website for proto.

Talking of Perl 6, masak announced the release of Yapsi, a Perl 6 compiler written in Perl 6.

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[yanick@enkidu shuck]$ tail -f news | perl -nE'say if /interesting/'

Huzzah! It’s official, Perl 5.12 is out! If you haven’t already, check out the changelog! As one might expect, this little piece of news made its way on several blogs, both internal and external to the Perl community.

Module authors, there are some other changes at the horizon for your modules’ META files as well. David Golden announced the release of version 2 of the CPAN META Spec. One of the biggest changes is the adoption of JSON (over YAML) as the preferred serialization format.

Plabo Marin-Garcias wrote about how to manage multiple local perl installations using perlbrew. If, for whatever reason, you have to juggle with more than one perl installation on the same machine App::perlbrew, written by Gugod, this might be a (gu)godsend that will make you sing hosannas for months to come…

In a nice little success story, chromatic tells us how Dist::Zilla, Github and Gitpan are helping to alleviate the complexity of distribution maintenance, turning what many consider a chore into… well, okay, still a chore, but at least a well-oiled, smoother one.

It’s a web framework smackdown! Adam Kennedy writes a series of articles in which he gets his feet wet with two modern Perl web frameworks:Mojolicious and Dancer.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy? No more! Kartik announced that the beloved game Frozen Bubble is now directly available on CPAN.

Sawyer X got fed-up of manually hunting for module versionsand created Module::Version to take care of the deed. Turned out he wasn’t the first to have that itch — in the comments people also recommended Module::Which and V.

On the microscopic side of things, garu shared a few shell aliases that will make your one-liner even tinier.

Tags. Everything taste better with tags. In consequence, Ovid presented a way to add tags to Test::Classtests.

Moose has a new website, Stevan Little reports. Because it’s not fun till it turns meta, the code producing the site is itself available via a git repository.

Finally, it looks like miyagawa went on a hacking frenzy. The result is Subana a cloud service that can run any Plack application.

^D
[yanick@enkidu shuck]$ perl -E'sleep 2 * 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 # see ya in 2 weeks!'

Welcome to the first issue of Shuck & Awe: Hunting for Perl. Inspired by Blogrotate and Log Buffer, I’ve decided to try jump-starting a bi-weekly review of everything and anything that caught our attention in the Perl world. Okay, that’s enough introduction. Let’s cut down to the meat already, and see what I’ve collected for the last two weeks.

First and foremost, Adam Trickett (ajt) trumpeted on, fittingly enough, Perl is Alive, that RC1 of Perl 5.12.0 is out. If you haven’t already, it’s time to read what shiny new toys 5.12 is bringing along. I don’t know about you, but I have the feeling I’ll be compiling myself a new perl this week-end…

In the same “still kicking strong” frame of mind, Ovid has posted a follow-up on his Perl 5 is Dying. If nothing else, the programming job trend graph he quotes is heart-warming for us Perl hackers.

It’s Spring! In a most seasonal spirit, brian d foy is calling upon CPAN authors to harken the call of Spring cleaning and tidy up their CPAN directory in an effort to boost the Schwartz ratio a wee bit.

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I had an interesting conversation with Sheeri yesterday. She had pointed out that today was Ada Lovelace Day, a day devoted to highlight and thank the many women in the Information Technology industry for their contributions. She suggested that if I wanted to blog about it she would find that appropriate, given what we’ve achieved here at Pythian.

First, I consider that a huge compliment. And then, a distant second, I told Sheeri – no I don’t think I’ll blog about it, that’s not my thing.

This is the IM conversation that came out of that email exchange when Sheeri and I connected about an hour later. You may or may not find it interesting, but ultimately I thought it was interesting enough to share.
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If you do not know what International Women’s Day is: http://www.internationalwomensday.com/

Start planning your blog posts for Ada Lovelace day now (March 24th, http://findingada.com/ Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging (videologging, podcasting, comic drawing etc.!) to draw attention to the achievements of women in technology and science.)

To that end, I would like to point out all the women currently in science and tech fields that I admire and think are doing great things. I think it would be great if everyone, male or female, made a list like this:
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I was asked to send this information along, so I am…Now’s your chance to skim High Performance MySQL, among other high quality books!

I regret to say, there is no Log Buffer this week, as we’ve all been busy preparing for the Big New Thing coming in a few days. The good news is, we have a Big New Thing coming in a few days. Stay tuned for that, you won’t want to miss it.

LB will be back in a week, with Gerry Narvaja at the helm. In the meantime, I invite you to leave a comment with your favourite DB blogs from this week — MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, Postgres, Ingres, or other relational/NoSQL databases.

Recently, hanekomu was contemplating how to make subsequent installs of a Task::BeLike module upgrade its dependencies to their latest version.

The idea is intriguing. It’s not something you want to do for a typical module, but it makes sense in the context of Task::BeLike. If you care enough about a module to put it in your Task::BeLike, you probably care enough to want to upgrade when there’s a new version out there.

Alas, I think hanekomu’s proposed way of doing it is flawed (mind you, the debate is still going on as of the writing of this entry, and I can very well still be proven wrong). But after some pondeferous chin scratching, I might have come with a cunning alternative to it.

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