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It's the first day of YAPC::Europe in Frankfurt and it's the hottest day of the year so far. It's pretty warm in the conference venue. Max gave us a good introduction to the conference and handed over to the announcement of YAPC::Europe next year: Kiev, Ukraine. Then the star of the show: Larry Wall took a small Perl 5 script and slowly converted it to Perl 6 live, showing some useful debugging features and nice compact clear code.

David Leadbeater presented An exploration of trie regexp matching where he explained the inner workings …

A new release of Devel::Trepan is out there.

A number of changes were the result of problems found in writing the various debugger blogs and in preparing for a little local NY Perl Mongers meeting.

Possibly there will be one more debugger blog on stepping.

How many times a day do you reach for <ctrl> + r when using the shell? What about the history command? !! anyone?

Do we as programmers evolve and stop making the same mistakes? Do we really optimize our workflows? This is where the idea of personal analytics comes in. I am going to see what I can learn from looking at my bash history for the last few years. Here are the relevant settings in my .bashrc file:

shopt is a bash command that shows and changes shell option names. The histappend…

YAPC::Europe 2012 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany starts on Monday. This is the biggest gathering of Perl people in Europe and I'll keep you updated day by day.

I'm presenting The Fallacies of Distributed Computing? on Tuesday afternoon.

The star of the conference for me is the lightning talk sessions: lots of speakers giving 5-minute talks. R Geoffrey Avery normally hosts them but unfortunately he can't make it this year, so I'll be your host for the lightning talks this year. There are…

Spell checking is one of those problems that is already solved... sorta.

Like all problems it really depends on context. Take Jon Bentley's Programming pearls: a spelling checker where he examines the problem space and the differences between a spell checker and a spelling corrector. I start by searching the keyword 'spell' across all of CPAN.

wget http://www.cpan.org/modules/01modules.index.html
ack -i spell 01modules.index.html
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Hi Folks

I've just released Benchmark::Featureset::StopwordLists.

It compares 3 modules implementing stopword lists.

You can skip the review and just examine the report.

Various other modules have stopword lists, sometimes using one of these modules.

If you know if any stand-alone modules implementing a stopword list, please comment here.

Last year it was announced that www.berlios.de was going to be shut down. People were asking if someone was going to back it up to save all those open source projects. I decided to gave it a shot and I was able to backup all of the berlios projects. While working on the process of uploading it to a new host (I was looking at github) it was announced that the site was saved, so I set the project aside.
Digging around I found this code and decided to post it so that people who are trying to build data mining style tools can have another real w…