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Perl 6 Design Minutes for 10 September 2008

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:10:48 -0700

The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 10 September 2008. Larry, Allison, Jerry, Patrick, Nicholas, and chromatic attended.

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Perl 6 Design Minutes for 17 September 2008

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:10:47 -0700

The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 17 September 2008. Larry, Allison, Jerry, Jesse, and Nicholas attended.

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The Quest for Perfect Tools

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:03:00 -0700

Both Gabor and Herbert have been discussing what they see as desirable in an editor.I think most of the specifics of what this tool should do or that tool should do are largely irrelevant, because as a user interface we're facing what is fundamentally an "Open Problem".What we can do, however, is identify the underlying effects that we need to achieve in the creation of tools for wide audiences, and then refer back to effects when looking at individual features.

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This Week on perl5-porters - 22-27 September 2008

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:02:58 -0700

"I'm really tempted to fix toke.c:S_incline() instead. I don't think there will be much breakage, right?" -- Rafaël Garcia-Suarez, hiking in mountain boots where angels fear to tread.

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90% less is more

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:51:04 -0700

Devel::NYTProf 2.04 is out. Tim has blogged about the "big"* improvement - it now takes about 10 times as long to fill your disk. Yes, profiles are now compressed as they are written. For significant sized programs this is a big win:NYTProf 2.03 was producing profile data at the rate of about 13MB per million statements executed. That might not sound too bad until you realise that on modern systems with cpu intensive code, perl can execute millions of statements every few seconds. * or small

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2008Q4 Call for Grant Proposals

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:08:31 -0700

The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in November 2008.In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI and Strawberry Perl, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others (just check our Grants page for more references).You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru. If you have a good idea and the means and ability to accomplish it, we want to hear from you!Do you have something that could benefit the Perl community but just need that little extra help? Submit a grant proposal by October 31.As a general rule, a properly formatted grant proposal is more likely to be approved if it meets the following criteria It has widespread benefit to the Perl community or a large segment of it. We have reasons to believe that you can accomplish your goals. We can afford it (please respect the limits or your proposal should be rejected immediately).To submit a proposal see the guidelines at http://www.perlfoundation.org/how_to_write_a_proposal and TPF rules of operation at http://www.perlfoundation.org/rules_of_operation. Then send your proposal to tpf-proposals @ perl-foundation.org.On November 1st, proposals will be made available publicly (on this blog) for public discussion, as it happened in the previous round. So, please make it clear in your proposal if it should not be public. Note that accepted but not funded proposals in the previous round do not need to be re-submitted.

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Twin City Perl Workshop 2008 CfPaper Deadline appr

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:08:26 -0700

Call for Papers Deadline on Tue, 7th Oct The deadline for submitting talks for the Twin City Perl Workshop 2008 is approaching fast! There's a little bit more than one week left to submit your proposals.We are looking for talks on Perl or related issues (coding best practices, web developement, AJAX, project management, ..) in various lenghts (20, 40 or 60 minutes) and various levels (from beginner to master). To submit your talk, please use the website.

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The Italian Perl Workshop 2008 has ended

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:08:15 -0700

On September 18 and 19, 2008, the Italian Perl Workshop 2008 took place at the Computer Science Department of the University of Pisa. It was a huge success; here are some numbers: 2 days of conference, 2 parallel tracks, more than 30 talks, 120 attendees, 20 sponsors, 3 patrons (Comune di Pisa, YAPC::Europe Foundation, Perl Foundation), and many international guests, including: Tim Bunce, Rafaël Garcia-Suarez, Marcus Ramberg and Matt S Trout.

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Perl 6 Design Minutes for 03 September 2008

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:07:35 -0700

The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 03 September 2008. Larry, Allison, Patrick, Jerry, Jesse, Nicholas, and chromatic attended.

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Damian Conway is coming...

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:07:23 -0700

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:36:53PM -0700, Bob Kleemann wrote:Ladies and Gentlemen, Techies and Programmers,The San Diego Perl Mongers are happy to announce, for one night only, the one and only Damian Conway! He will be appearing Monday night, September 29 at the Qualcomm Building Q Auditorium. Please arrive by 7 PM to hear him muse on a myriad of topics, including, but not limited to (in his own words): modern archaeological techniques, bidirectional cross- dressing, Ancient Greeks hackers, improbable romances, the real Club Med, why programmers shouldn't frequent casinos, the language of moisture vaporators, C++ mysticism, conversational Latin, state machines on steroids, feeding the dog the old-fashioned way, the shocking truth about anime, programming without variables or subroutines, the Four Voids of the Apocalypse, Microsoft's new advertising campaign, what the Romans used instead of braces, drunken stonemasons, the ancient probabilistic wisdom of bodkins, how to kill a language with a single byte, and the price of fish.Note: Topics are subject to change without notice, reason, or warning, so please pay attention!So please come on by and learn something new. Bring some friends if you like, and have fun in the process.Please let me know if there are any questions.Directions can be found on the San Diego Perl Mongers web site.

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Beijing Perl Workshop - Nov 08, 2008

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:07:28 -0700

Qiang writes "just a quick announcement that PerlChina is going to host a Beijing Perl Workshop on Nov 08, 2008. It is jointly organized with the postgresql china that means there will be some postgresql talks as well. We have also secured few sponsorships to fly Jesse Vincent and two other postgresql hackers to the workshop. The conference website is not ready yet (having problem finding someone from ACT to move our test ACT site into production). If you are planning a trip to beijing in the early November, send a email to conference[at]perlchina.org to register the workshop, or even better come give a talk(20,40 minutes or lighting talk)!"

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The Quest for

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:07:28 -0700

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My scalability talk at the Italian Perl Workshop 2

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:17:30 -0700

If you're interested, and you missed the great Italian Perl Workshop last week in Pisa, you can take a look at the talk I presented there, about scalability of our main community site here at Opera Software, my.opera.com. The level is probably basic for most of the readers here, and the presentation is not so "bullety" (someone is supposed to be speaking... :-), anyway, it's up on Slideshare, and I will put it up as a simple PDF file sometime in the near future. Any feedback is welcome. Please consider it's my first talk ever. Ok, fire now... :-)

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NEW CPAN Testers Reports

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:06:45 -0700

As soon as DNS catches up for you, the all new CPAN Testers Reports site is now live. There are plenty of changes and fixes that have gone into this release, and my thanks specifically to Gabor Szabo and David E. Wheeler for contributing patches.So what do you get with the new site? Well thanks to Gabor, a pass matrix has been added to each distribution page. On each author page, the distributions now link to their own respective pages. David E Wheeler's patch has been incorporated to provide an RSS feed that excludes the PASS reports. In addition the RSS feeds now limit to at most the last 100 reports. For the author page, the very latest release is listed, and not just the latest with reports, so authors can see more immediately whether their latest version is known about. On the distribution page, all known releases are listed, with those having no reports having text saying that. This latter change has been a cause for concern with some authors, as the latest versions were often getting missed. Unfortunately this was due to everything being referenced as per the BACKPAN files, and did not include everything that was still on CPAN. There have been many minor fixes, which all help to contribute to better usability.

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The Perl Community, in pictures by Julian Cash

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:04:12 -0700

Get Julian Cash's book of Perl people portraits, free for download or pay to have it as a bound book.At OSCON, Julian had a nice printed and bound book of his portraits of Perl people from various conferences. He gave me one for free, since I'm in it. Now you can get it for yourself.

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App::Prove::History

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:04:12 -0700

I finally have my first draft of App::Prove::History saving test suite information to an sqlite database. It's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination and to be frank, I'm unhappy with my design, but I'll keep hacking on it and eventually I'll have an alpha out to the cpan.Currently it only saves the start and end times of each test suite run, but that bit is just to show me that I have the (clumsy) basics working. All things told, I can't complain.

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TPF Grants Update (2008 - IV)

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:04:11 -0700

At the moment, these are the latest updates on the running TPF grants:

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Parrot 0.7.1

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:58:43 -0700

On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.7.1 "Manu Aloha." Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages.Parrot 0.7.1 is available via CPAN (soon), or follow the download instructions. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Subversion on our source code repository to get the latest and best Parrot code.

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YAPC Brasil 2008 hatching

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:58:36 -0700

We just started preparing a YAPC Brasil 2008. It will happen together with CONISLI 2008, at São Paulo (http://www.conisli.org/), October 18-19. Yes, that's very little time until the event, but we'll make the best we can with our distributed efforts. Brazilians are known for being good at improvising. (But we'll work hard to make that work in this limited piece of time.) We know we will have a stand and a room where the talks will happen. Everything else is in flux yet. We are going to try to put down a preliminary scheduling very soon, and we would appreciate contributors as speakers and people with good ideas and suggestions. At first sight, it is quite possible that we can gather together many Perl developers that never meet one another in person. That's mainly the people who keep busy the mailing lists Cascavel-pm, Rio-pm, and SaoPaulo-pm. We are assembling a preliminary list of talks I will try to post more information on the event as it is available.

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TwinCity Perl Workshop

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:58:27 -0700

Vienna.pm has set aside a budget of 1000 Euro to invite speakers to the Twin City Perl Workshop. If you're not living in Bratislava or Vienna, won't be funded by your company, but want to attend & give a talk, please send e-mail to twincity[å†]rt.useperl.at describing why we should invite you and how much it will cost to transport you to Vienna and Bratislava! The deadline for proposals is Sunday 21th Sept. 2008, and we will decide whom to invite until Wed, 24th Sept. Of course we're also looking for regular attendees, local speakers and sponsors! :-)

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Perl 6 Design Minutes for 20 August 2008

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:58:26 -0700

The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 20 August 2008. Larry, Allison, Patrick, Jerry, and Jesse attended.

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Perl 6 Design Minutes for 10 September 2008

Perl 6 Design Minutes for 17 September 2008

The Quest for Perfect Tools

This Week on perl5-porters - 22-27 September 2008

90% less is more

2008Q4 Call for Grant Proposals

Twin City Perl Workshop 2008 CfPaper Deadline appr

The Italian Perl Workshop 2008 has ended

Perl 6 Design Minutes for 03 September 2008

Damian Conway is coming...

Beijing Perl Workshop - Nov 08, 2008

The Quest for

My scalability talk at the Italian Perl Workshop 2

*NEW* CPAN Testers Reports

The Perl Community, in pictures by Julian Cash

App::Prove::History

TPF Grants Update (2008 - IV)

Parrot 0.7.1

YAPC Brasil 2008 hatching

TwinCity Perl Workshop

Perl 6 Design Minutes for 20 August 2008

NEW CPAN Testers Reports