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Written by Olaf Alders on 2025-01-16 at 16:21

🚀 Solving Geocoding Challenges with Perl at Geolytica 🌍

Geolytica tackles the tough problem of parsing free-form addresses and matching them to real-world locations! 🖥️✨

From correcting OpenStreetMap Point Of Interest data using in-house AI ("PerlGPT") to maintaining billions of geo-location entities, Perl’s stability and versatility make it the backbone of their geocoding engines for geocoder.ca and geocode.xyz.

https://www.perl.com/geolytica-powered-by-perl/

[#]perl @perl @tag-perl #programming

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Written by Olaf Alders on 2025-01-15 at 15:52

🎵 Create Music with Perl! 🎹

We have another first-time perl.com contributor today. Learn how to generate melodies, harmonies, bass lines, and even complex rhythms using Perl and MIDI tools. This guide by https://fosstodon.org/@ology covers everything from setting up your first score to crafting algorithmic compositions. 🎼

https://www.perl.com/article/creating-midi-music-with-perl/

[#]perl @perl @tag-perl #programming

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Written by Olaf Alders on 2024-12-31 at 18:45

perl.com is always looking for quality content. It's quite easy to get started. You can even re-purpose an existing article if you think it fits the format. Thanks to David Farrell for making it easy with this getting started tutorial.

https://www.perl.com/article/how-to-write-your-first-article-for-perl-com/

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Written by Olaf Alders on 2024-12-31 at 01:44

There's a new camel at https://www.perl.org/

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Written by Olaf Alders on 2024-12-29 at 23:27

I’m not getting in the pool tomorrow.

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Written by Olaf Alders on 2024-12-24 at 15:51

And that's a wrap for year 25 of the Perl Advent Calendar. We come full circle with Day 24's article being written by Mark Fowler, the calendar's creator. It's a fitting tribute to the arc of Perl over these years and the tradition of technical advent calendars which has been inspired by Perl.

https://perladvent.org/2024/2024-12-24.html

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Written by Olaf Alders on 2024-12-20 at 22:53

😷🎅 Santa’s elves are tackling more than just toys this year —- they’re using Perl to decode a tricky virus outbreak in the workshop! This festive bioinformatics tale shows how Perl saves the day with sequence alignment magic, proving it’s not just for the naughty or nice lists. 💪🧝

"Investigating a new respiratory virus outbreak in Santa's workshop" by Marc Perry is now available.

https://perladvent.org/2024/2024-12-20.html

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Written by Olaf Alders on 2024-12-19 at 05:17

Also some discussion on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42457182

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Written by Olaf Alders on 2024-12-19 at 00:48

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Dec 19 is a first for the Perl Advent Calendar. This article is actually a presentation which was recorded a few days ago, specifically for the Advent Calendar. I hope you enjoy "Half My Life with Perl" as presented by Randal Schwartz.

https://perladvent.org/2024/2024-12-19.html

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Written by Olaf Alders on 2024-12-12 at 22:20

🚇 Explore the World with Perl's Map::Tube! 🚇

Our next Perl Advent Calendar article is by the nicest guy in Open Source: @manwar. Mohammad takes you on a journey through Map::Tube, a CPAN framework for transit maps. 🌍

● Calculate the shortest route between stations using Map::Tube::London.

● Generate helpful map images with Map::Tube::Plugin::Graph.

● Set up your own map server with Map::Tube::Server.

● Install maps for 43 cities or bundle them all with ease.

https://perladvent.org/2024/2024-12-11.html

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Written by Olaf Alders on 2024-12-11 at 02:58

We are all really looking forward to hearing Randal speak to us on Saturday:

https://lu.ma/giz69577

The next big Zoom talk to follow that one will be held by Dave Cross:

https://lu.ma/3b8ekn8y

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Written by Olaf Alders on 2024-12-10 at 22:48

🌟 Day 10 of the Perl Advent Calendar! 🌟

Tim Potapov introduces us to the "e" module. 🚀 Debug with repl breakpoints, conquer tricky output issues with the obnoxious say, and explore documentation with ease using the pod command. 💡✨

Try it today: https://perladvent.org/2024/2024-12-10.html 🎄

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Written by Olaf Alders on 2024-12-09 at 22:36

🌟 Day 9 of the Perl Advent Calendar! 🌟

🎉 We’re thrilled to feature a first-time contributor: Emine Şule Çelik, who dives into the timeless utility of XML::Twig, showing how it makes parsing XML a breeze even in today’s JSON-dominated world. Learn to handle guest data, parse SOAP responses, and embrace the power of Perl’s beloved XML library! 💻📜

https://perladvent.org/2024/2024-12-09.html 🎅✨

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Written by Olaf Alders on 2024-12-09 at 00:07

🎄🎶 Tired of the same old tunes? This holiday season, Pixie the Elf found a clever way to diversify her playlists using PickAnArtist, a modern Perl program powered by the Last.fm API. 🌟

Today's article is "Pixie the Elf Picks an Artist: Exploring Perl's new class syntax" by Dave Cross.

👉 Read more on the Perl Advent Calendar

https://perladvent.org/2024/2024-12-08.html

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Written by Olaf Alders on 2024-12-07 at 23:04

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If you've run code coverage on your Perl, then you're already familiar with this author's work. He brought us Devel::Cover back in 2001 (or even earlier?) and it continues to be his labour of love even to this day. PJCJ has kindly authored today's article on getting things done faster with Parallel::ForkManager.

Today's article is "Keeping the Elves Busy" by @pjcj

https://perladvent.org/2024/2024-12-07.html

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Written by Olaf Alders on 2024-12-06 at 20:55

I spent the last summer of my university days locked away in a dorm room trying to start my own business. It was mostly based on CGI.pm and GD.pm. That code is still running, with changes, a couple of decades later.

So, I owe a lot to Lincoln Stein, who was the author of those modules. When I asked him to write an article for this year's Advent Calendar, I was thrilled that he accepted. 🎁🙏

Today's article is "Have Yourself an AI Christmas!" by Lincoln Stein.

https://perladvent.org/2024/2024-12-06.html

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