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Meet The Champion: Perl Weekly Challenge - 029

Monday, Oct 14, 2019 by Mohammad S Anwar Perl5, Perl6

Welcome to the weekly series “Meet The Champion”. Last week we spoke to Andrezgz, the winner of Perl Weekly Challenge - 028. Today we are talking to the Perl Weekly Challenge - 029 winner Dave Jacoby. I hope you are going to enjoy the interview. Mohammad: Tell us about your technical background? Dave: My first degree was in Journalism, but while I was told there was a language requirement for college, the school I attended had a computers requirement, which I did not meet, so I took a remedial course in BASIC.

Perl Weekly Challenge - 030

Sunday, Oct 13, 2019 by Mohammad S Anwar Perl5, Perl6

HEADLINES With great pleasure, we announce Dave Jacoby as the winner of “Perl Weekly Challenge - 029”. Congratulations Dave, you should soon hear from Perl Careers about your reward. For rest of the participants, I would say Good Luck for next time. Keep sending in your solutions and share your knowledge with each other. RECAP Here is the recap of last week “Perl Weekly Challenge - 029”. PERL5 REVIEW Please checkout Perl5 solutions review of the “Perl Weekly Challenge - 028” by Kian-Meng Ang.

RECAP - Perl Weekly Challenge - 029

Sunday, Oct 13, 2019 by Mohammad S Anwar Perl5, Perl6

HEADLINES It is Day 14 of “Hacktoberfest 2019”, I am so proud of team members actively participating and contributing towards the “Pull Request” count. As of now, 27 team members have submitted 68 Pull Requests as listed below: [' 1: Joelle Maslak' , 8] [' 2: Yet Ebreo' , 8] [' 3: Lubos Kolouch' , 6] [' 4: Dave Jacoby' , 4] [' 5: E. Choroba' , 4] [' 6: Roger Bell_West' , 4] [' 7: Steven Wilson' , 3] [' 8: Adam Russell' , 2] [' 9: Andrezgz' , 2] ['10: Daniel Mita' , 2] ['11: Dave Cross' , 2] ['12: Duane Powell' , 2] ['13: Duncan C.

Kian-Meng Ang Weekly Review: Challenge - 028

Sunday, Oct 13, 2019 by Kian-Meng Ang Perl5, Perl6

Continues from previous week. Feel free to submit a merge request or open a ticket if you found any issues with this post. We highly appreciate and welcome your feedback. For a quick overview, go through the original tasks and recap of the weekly challenge. Task #1 CPAN modules used: Const::Fast, Cwd, File::Basename, File::MMagic, File::Type, Function::Parameters, Modern::Perl, Moose, Test::More, constant, feature, strict, utf8, warnings We would recommend that you start with the solution by Duncan C White, Colin Crain and Joelle Maslak for their intriguing and well-written comments.

Laurent Rosenfeld Weekly Review: Challenge - 006

Sunday, Oct 13, 2019 by Laurent Rosenfeld Perl6

Perl6 Solutions Weekly Review Task #1: Compact Number Ranges This is derived in part from my blog post made in answer to the Week 6 of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar as well as answers made by others to the same challenge. The challenge reads as follows: Create a script which takes a list of numbers from command line and print the same in the compact form.

Laurent Rosenfeld Weekly Review: Challenge - 007

Sunday, Oct 13, 2019 by Laurent Rosenfeld Perl6

Perl6 Solutions Weekly Review Task #1: Niven (or Harshad) Numbers This is derived in part from my blog post made in answer to the Week 7 of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar as well as answers made by others to the same challenge. The challenge reads as follows: Print all the Niven numbers from 0 to 50 inclusive, each on their own line. A Niven number is a non-negative number that is divisible by the sum of its digits.

Laurent Rosenfeld Weekly Review: Challenge - 028

Sunday, Oct 13, 2019 by Laurent Rosenfeld Perl6

Perl6 Solutions Weekly Review Task #1: File Types This is derived in part from my blog post made in answer to the Week 28 of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar as well as answers made by others to the same challenge. The challenge reads as follows: Write a script to check the file content without explicitly reading the content. It should accept file name with path as command line argument and print “The file content is binary.