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WebSockets are the latest way to provide bi-directional data transfer for HTTP applications. They replace outdated workarounds like AJAX, repeated polling, Comet, etc. WebSockets are a special protocol atop HTTP (which in itself runs over TCP/IP)…
The Perl ShopGreg Kennedy wanted 'to know what’s really going on' with the WebSockets protocol, and admits he was 'reinventing the wheel' by creating his own client in Perl, rather than using one of the existing solutions on CPAN, for the educational value.
Welcome to our March update of the conference preparation. We have a lot of things and updates to tell you about! Within the last month, we have more than 30 talks submitted to the conference! The topics vary from Perl internals through Perl…
The Perl ShopThe Perl Shop has joined on as a media partner for PerlCon 2019, and the first item to share with you is PerlCon's March update, which lists the 30 talks so far, 4 workshops, and a reminder that early-bird prices expire at the end of this month.
Gibberish is defined as - Spoken or written words that have no meaning -. In this article I'll present a Gibberish Generator, but before doing so I'll discuss some programming features that makes it relatively easy to make such a generator in Perl…
The Perl ShopArne Sommer presents a Gibberish Generator (real looking sentences that don't mean anything) written in Perl 6 while explaining why the language has features to make this easy
Mar 5, 2019 by Mohammad S Anwar Recently, someone I met online (and a respected name in Perl community), asked me if I could share my tips for how to get a Pull Request accepted. I have been submitting PRs for over 4 years, over the course of which…
The Perl ShopIf you're going to contribute to an open source project, you want to insure that your work will be accepted. Mohammad Anwar shares his tips for how to get a pull request accepted, and with his impressive record of PRs he speaks from experience.
Welcome to “What's new on CPAN”, a curated look at last month's new CPAN uploads for your reading and programming pleasure. Enjoy! App::termpub is an epub reader for the terminal WebService::TaxJar provides a simple client to TaxJar's…
The Perl ShopDavid Farrell selects some interesting module updates from CPAN last month, such as Kian Meng, Ang's WebService::GeoIPify to geo-locate IP addresses, and Steve Dondley's Spreadsheet::Read::Ingester which adds a caching layer over Spreadsheet::Read.
Latest releases New distributions Recent Favorites Popular Distributions Weekly Yearly All Time Recent Uploads River gauge Release Test-DependentModules-0.27 Test all modules which depend on your module 19 Jan 2019 22:15:21 GMT…
The Perl ShopImportant updates at CPAN last week include Encode-3.01, Storable-3.12_04, ExtUtils-Manifest-1.72, YAML-LibYAML-0.76_001, Net-SSLeay-1.86_09, Sub-Quote-2.006003, strictures-2.000006.
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