Tonight we had our first TechMeet of 2019. There was a slight focus on parsing: Daxim talked about "Parsen mit Perl", in preparation for his talk at the German Perl Workshop. Robert also talked about parsing, showing us some parsers he wrote using Parse::Yapp and Parse::RecDescent. Throughout the talks we had interesting discussions about parsing,
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Mit Zungenschnalzen und Prince-Gitarren startet Janelle Monae und makes me feel (01) so good, so good, so fuckin' real. Dirty Projectors trifft anscheinend seine Traumfrau, she's a break thru (02). Superorganism sind vermutlich nicht allzu happy, dass everybody wants to be famous (03), weswegen Homeboy Sandman & Edan vielleicht etwas radikal ...
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At our last Vienna.pm meeting at Cafe Else we talked about brian's recent blog post on new Unicode 10 emojis in Perl 5.28. I noticed that some of them have ridiculous long names: 🤭 (U+1F92D) SMILING FACE WITH SMILING EYES AND HAND COVERING MOUTH So I wondered which code point has the longest description. Spoiler It's this: ﯹ (U+FBF9) ARABIC ...
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Previously on YEF (This is my personal account on the history of YEF. Other past or current members might have a different story) YEF (a meta-acronym for YAPC Europe Foundation, where YAPC stands for Yet Another Perl Conference) was founded around 2005 by various previous YAPC organizers to help future organizers. The main services are: ...
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This year I did not manage (was not in the mood) to take notes during to conference, so this is not my traditional "Things I learned ..." post. I hope you like it anyway... So, Glasgow... It was a great conference at an amazing venue, which was even topped by the attendees dinner location. I ate one deep fried Mars bar and countless cookies. I ...
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