Perl Weekly #688 - Perl and Hacktoberfest

Originally published at Perl Weekly 688

Hi there,

A belated happy birthday to Larry Wall, who turned 70 last Friday, 27th September.

Opensource contributions season is about to start with Hacktoberfest tomorrow. It would continue the whole month, enough time for you to contribute to opensource projects. Although I have registered to be part of this year event but I doubt to have time for contribution unfortunately.

For me, I am looking forward to the most awaited event, London Perl & Raku Workshop 2024. It is happening after a long gap of 5 years. If you are planning to attend the event then I would suggest you register your details as it would help the organiser to manage the event smoothly.

There is another Perl Conference that I completely missed and it was Perl-Conf.Ru. The first Perl developers conference in Russia in four years.

Enjoy rest of the newsletter.

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Your editor: Mohammad Sajid Anwar.

Announcements

Perl-Conf.Ru

If you missed the event then you can still checkout the event results.

Crypt::OpenSSL::PKCS12 1.93 released to CPAN

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Cloud VM performance / price comparison 2024

Talk on the topic was presented at The Perl and Raku Conference 2024.

The Weekly Challenge

The Weekly Challenge by Mohammad Sajid Anwar will help you step out of your comfort-zone. You can even win prize money of $50 by participating in the weekly challenge. We pick one champion at the end of the month from among all of the contributors during the month, thanks to the sponsor Lance Wicks.

The Weekly Challenge - 289

Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Third Maximum" and "Jumbled Letters". If you are new to the weekly challenge then why not join us and have fun every week. For more information, please read the FAQ.

RECAP - The Weekly Challenge - 288

Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Closest Palindrome" and "Contiguous Block" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy.

Diving Deep: Recursive Solutions for Palindromes and Contiguous Blocks

Clever use of recursive approach in Perl and Go. Hope to see regular post from next week onward.

Contiguously Closest

As always we got plenty of Raku magics, specially the debug mode. Highly recommended.

Return of the Son of This Looks Like A Job For Recursion!

Welcome back with yet another thoroughly discussed solution. Hope to see more in coming weeks.

Contiguous Palindromes

Mathematical approach to deal with Palindrome, something I never seen before. Great work, thanks for sharing.

Perl Weekly Challenge 288: Closest Palindrome

Cool trick to get the job done alongwith Raku magic. Bonus, as always, we got Perl implementation too. Keep it up great work.

not complete!

A very simple yet effective approach and easy to follow using Raku. Thanks for sharing knowledge with us.

Perl Weekly Challenge 288

Regex? I am pleasantly surprised to see the use of regex to get the Palindrome task done. You really don't want to skip. Thanks for your contribution.