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Hey everyone,

Following is the p5p (Perl 5 Porters) mailing list summary for the past week.

Enjoy!

You know, I’ve been trying to analyze my working patterns lately, and I think I’ve hit on something.? Looking back over the past few years, it seems like I get obsessed with one particular project, work frantically on it and produce lots of great stuff, then I get distracted and next thing I know I’m obsessing over an entirely different project.? And then sometimes I circle back around to the first project, but it’s usually a long time later.? I’m actually starting to wonder if maybe I have some undiagnosed ADHD (not only because of the easily distracted, but also because of the hyperfocus, and SQUIRREL!).? Anyways, that appears to be the pattern of my life, so I think at this point I’m just going to have to learn to roll with it.

Before we start: this is my first post at blogs.perl.org. Awesome that you're reading it despite me being a noob! :)

Three years ago, I started to change the way I think about logging in applications. Before that, to me it was just printing lines into text files, in order to later read and grep my way through them.

Then, a friend pointed me to ElasticSearch and Kibana, with its infinite ways to search through, and visualize, large amounts of textual data. Due to the nature of my $work, I was well aware of the benefits of a full text search database, however, it soon became clear that text alone was only part of the deal. The real fun in ElasticSearch begins when you add structured data into it, allowing filtering, grouping, and get all businessy with pie charts and world maps and whatnot. This would be where you'd start to gain knowledge that wouldn't be available anywhere in text-based logfiles.

Whether you are operations guy, devops or developer from time to time you deal with scripts development for various tasks - handy utilities, automation scripts, monitoring tools, so on.

Outthentic - is universal, language independent framework to encourage scripts development in easy and fun manner.

Here is short introduction into it - "Outthentic ? quick way to develop users scenarios".

Thanks to some sterling work by ehuelsmann, not least of which was badgering me to commit some code, Test::BDD::Cucumber now integrates directly into prove. This means you can run your feature files in parallel, and in a shuffled order more easily. This is a bit of a mouthful to achieve:

prove -s -j 5 -r --source Feature --feature-option extensions=.feature --ext=.feature examples/

and any suggestions on how to make that a little easier gratefully received.

Hey everyone,

Following is the p5p (Perl 5 Porters) mailing list summary for the past week.

Enjoy!

We've had a few questions and discussions about the toolchain summit since our announcement in January. In this blog post we'll address some of those: why the name change, what things are fair game to be worked on, and who decides who comes?

The Perl Toolchain Summit is the new name of the Perl QA Hackathon, an event organised for the first time by Salve J. Nilsen in Oslo in April 2008. In Salve's words from 2008: ?"The purpose of a QA hackathon would be to Quality Assurance-related problems that are easier to solve when everyone is gathered in the same physical location. This can include issues with packaging, testing modules, community support or with tools."

Over time, the event has grown in importance (it is now the major non-conference event of the Perl community), and moved around Europe, organized every year by a different team in a different European city. It is entirely financed by corporate and community sponsors interested in having a healthy and reliable Perl environment.