Stories for 2005-12-07

use Perl Daily Newsletter

In this issue:
    * Announcing the Perl Foundation Blog
    * `Unofficial' 2005 Perl Advent Calendar
    * This Week on perl5-porters - 28 November-4 December 2005
    * New CPAN Distributions for December  6, 2005

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| Announcing the Perl Foundation Blog                                |
|   posted by davorg on Tuesday December 06, @02:20 (The Perl Foundat|
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/06/0718211              |
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Andy Lester writes "The Perl Foundation was established in December 2001,
but is a mystery to many people. Today we announce [0]The Perl Foundation
Blog at [0]blog.perlfoundation.org (also available as [1]Atom and [2]RSS).

This story continues at:
    http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/06/0718211

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=05/12/06/0718211

Links:
    0. http://blog.perlfoundation.org/
    1. http://blog.perlfoundation.org/atom.xml
    2. http://news.perlfoundation.org/index.xml


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| `Unofficial' 2005 Perl Advent Calendar                             |
|   posted by davorg on Tuesday December 06, @02:32 (CPAN)           |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/06/0712229              |
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[0]belg4mit writes "Against my better judgement I've decided there must
be a calendar this year, and the first installment is online [1]over
there. The pretty graphics will come later. I suspect this one isn't as
in depth as some would like, but let me know. Personally I always looked
forward to just having things pointed out that've been lurking in the
dark shadows of CPAN... or were as plain as the nose on your face and as
easily overlooked."

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=05/12/06/0712229

Links:
    0. http://pthbb.org/
    1. http://web.mit.edu/belg4mit/www/


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| This Week on perl5-porters - 28 November-4 December 2005           |
|   posted by rafael on Tuesday December 06, @08:51 (Summaries)      |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/06/1353226              |
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A rather hectic week on p5p, when it was revealed that signed/unsigned
comparisons and unchecked format strings to printf and sprintf could
cause serious problems in poorly written applications.

This story continues at:
    http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/06/1353226

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=05/12/06/1353226


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| New CPAN Distributions for December  6, 2005                       |
|   posted by pudge on Tuesday December 06, @18:30 (Module Listings) |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/06/1530217              |
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  * [0]App-Info-0.46 -- Information about software packages on a system
  * [1]App-Info-0.47 -- Information about software packages on a system
  * [2]App-SimpleScan-Plugin-Retry-0.01 -- implement retry pragma/command
    line option
  * [3]CAM-PDF-1.05 -- PDF manipulation library
  * [4]Catalyst-Engine-Apache-1.02 -- Catalyst Apache Engines
  * [5]Catalyst-Model-EmailStore-0.02 -- Email::Store Model Class
  * [6]Convert-UUlib-1.06 -- Perl interface to the uulib library (a.k.a.
    uudeview/uuenview).
  * [7]DBIx-Roles-1.03 -- Roles for DBI handles
  * [8]Data-LetterTree-0.1 -- Native letter tree Perl binding
  * [9]Data-Walk-0.02 -- Traverse Perl data structures
  * [10]Graph-0.69 -- graph data structures and algorithms
  * [11]HTML-Table-2.03 -- produces HTML tables
  * [12]IO-String-1.08 -- Emulate file interface for in-core strings
  * [13]MDV-Distribconf-1.01 -- Read and write config of a Mandriva Linux
    distribution tree
  * [14]Net-Server-0.90 -- Extensible, general Perl server engine
  * [15]Net-Whois-IP-1.00 -- Perl extension for looking up the whois
    information for ip addresses
  * [16]Net-Whois-IP-1.01 -- Perl extension for looking up the whois
    information for ip addresses
  * [17]OCR-PerfectCR-0.03 -- Perfect OCR (if you have perfect input).
  * [18]PDF-Report-1.31 -- A wrapper written for PDF::API2
  * [19]PDF-Report-Table-1.00 -- Adds table support to PDF::Report
  * [20]PDF-Report-Table-1.01 -- Adds table support to PDF::Report
  * [21]Podcast-Publisher-0.43 -- Module for creating and managing
    podcasts
  * [22]Readonly-XS-1.04 -- Companion module for Readonly.pm, to speed up
    read-only scalar variables.
  * [23]Sys-MemInfo-0.3
  * [24]TagLib-1.4 -- a library for reading and editing audio meta data,
    commonly know as *tags*.
  * [25]Text-Printf-0.06 -- A simple, lightweight text fill-in class.
  * [26]UPnP-1.0 -- Perl extension for UPnP
  * [27]libwww-perl-5.804
  * [28]spod5-0.02 -- Turn pod into S5

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=05/12/06/1530217

Links:
    0. http://search.cpan.org/~dwheeler/App-Info-0.46
    1. http://search.cpan.org/~dwheeler/App-Info-0.47
    2. http://search.cpan.org/~mcmahon/App-SimpleScan-Plugin-Retry-0.01
    3. http://search.cpan.org/~clotho/CAM-PDF-1.05
    4. http://search.cpan.org/~agrundma/Catalyst-Engine-Apache-1.02
    5. http://search.cpan.org/~willert/Catalyst-Model-EmailStore-0.02
    6. http://search.cpan.org/~mlehmann/Convert-UUlib-1.06
    7. http://search.cpan.org/~karasik/DBIx-Roles-1.03
    8. http://search.cpan.org/~grousse/Data-LetterTree-0.1
    9. http://search.cpan.org/~guido/Data-Walk-0.02
   10. http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/Graph-0.69
   11. http://search.cpan.org/~ajpeacock/HTML-Table-2.03
   12. http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/IO-String-1.08
   13. http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/MDV-Distribconf-1.01
   14. http://search.cpan.org/~rhandom/Net-Server-0.90
   15. http://search.cpan.org/~bschmitz/Net-Whois-IP-1.00
   16. http://search.cpan.org/~bschmitz/Net-Whois-IP-1.01
   17. http://search.cpan.org/~jmastros/OCR-PerfectCR-0.03
   18. http://search.cpan.org/~mitti/PDF-Report-1.31
   19. http://search.cpan.org/~mitti/PDF-Report-Table-1.00
   20. http://search.cpan.org/~mitti/PDF-Report-Table-1.01
   21. http://search.cpan.org/~cdawson/Podcast-Publisher-0.43
   22. http://search.cpan.org/~roode/Readonly-XS-1.04
   23. http://search.cpan.org/~scresto/Sys-MemInfo-0.3
   24. http://search.cpan.org/~dongxu/TagLib-1.4
   25. http://search.cpan.org/~roode/Text-Printf-0.06
   26. http://search.cpan.org/~skonno/UPnP-1.0
   27. http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.804
   28. http://search.cpan.org/~book/spod5-0.02



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