ν42 - nu42.com Table of Contents for 2015

December

• Rakudo Perl 6 was released on Christmas
• Perl6’s newline translation behavior has been fixed
• Perl6’s newline conversion behavior seems to be by design
• Newline translation in Perl6 is broken
• Building Rakudo Star Perl6 distribution on Windows 10 with Microsoft Visual Studio tools
• Free go faster stripes for your Perl programs

• November

• What happens to tests that are never run?

• Dive into the Global Historical Climatology Network data using Perl and SQL

• Download all the pieces of the full text of TPP, and combine them into a single PDF document

October

• A couple of long-lived bugs: Unchecked assumptions
• Mobile internet access in Turkey for your computer and other devices
• Recovering from a laptop disaster using a consciousness transplant

September

August

• Slashing one’s feet with tests, or, how to fix 2,950 test failures in one fell swoop
• Playing with the TrueRNG 2 hardware random number generator
• Test failures and directory separators: Take N

July

June

• No more CPU upgrades for you!
• Linode makes it hard to maintain uptime (in a good way :-)
• Can the creators of Quorum write programs in Quorum?
• Then they came for your Java and Ruby
• Upgrading my laptop’s wireless card to an Intel 7260
• Multiple cohabitating versions of Perl on Windows

May

• C++: Walking the filesystem with Boost
• C++: Parsing command line arguments with Boost
• Golfing a word count program
• Can C++ become your new scripting language?

April

• Sending faxes using Perl on Windows
• Windows does have symlinks

March

• Highlight Perl source code using PPI::HTML
• How you average numbers matters
• It all boils down to stat vs fstat from MSVCRT on Windows
• Time zone insanity on Windows
• Fixing an oversight in Math::Int64
• Do you uuencode? pack ‘u’ does!
• Include image data in the data section of your Perl script or module
• Fixing malformed XML with Perl’s XML::Parser
• Hands off that constant

February

• Building libexpat and XML::Parser on Windows 8.1 64 bit using Visual Studio 2013

January

• A Ubee nightmare: Maybe your cable modem is the problem after all