Stories for 2006-02-24

use Perl Daily Newsletter

In this issue:
    * Employees, Pender Financial Acquire ActiveState
    * Perl Grant Approved:  Improve Perl 5
    * New CPAN Distributions for February 23, 2006

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| Employees, Pender Financial Acquire ActiveState                    |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Wednesday February 22, @22:24 (ActiveSta|
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/23/039213               |
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[0]ActiveState writes "ActiveState, the leading provider of tools and
services for dynamic languages, announced yesterday that it has been
acquired by ActiveState Software Inc., a new company jointly owned by the
employees of ActiveState and Pender Financial Group Corporation, an
investment company focused on technology and healthcare. All of
ActiveState's business, assets, and liabilities were acquired from
Sophos, Inc., a subsidiary of Sophos Plc., for the purchase price of
US$2,250,000."

This story continues at:
    http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/23/039213

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=06/02/23/039213

Links:
    0. http://www.activestate.com/


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| Perl Grant Approved:  Improve Perl 5                               |
|   posted by pudge on Thursday February 23, @01:43 (The Perl Foundat|
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/23/0323237              |
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For 2006 Q1, only one grant was approved, but it's fantastic. Nick Clark
is going to spend some time fixing some long-standing issues with Perl 5.
Thanks Nick!

Some issues which will be resolved:

  * Fix bugs affecting Unicode handling, Class::DBI, Tk and PAR.

  * Allow relocatable Perl installations, which permits developers to
    distribute applications complete with a bundled Perl.

  * Support source filters as part of code references in @INC

  * Complete lexical pragmas, a milestone on the way to 5.10

  * Further memory saving for 5.10 - previous work saved >33% for hashes
    and arrays

  * Merge Larry's p5-p6 work into core, which will allow others to start
    contributing to it.

See the [0]Perl Foundation blog for more information.

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=06/02/23/0323237

Links:
    0. http://news.perlfoundation.org/2006/02/2006_q1_grant_votes.html


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| New CPAN Distributions for February 23, 2006                       |
|   posted by pudge on Thursday February 23, @18:30 (Module Listings)|
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/23/1530204              |
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  * [0]Astro-SpaceTrack-0.016 -- Retrieve orbital data from
    www.space-track.org.
  * [1]Blog-Simple-HTMLOnly-0.04 -- Very simple weblog (blogger) with
    just Core modules.
  * [2]CGI-Ajax-0.691 -- a perl-specific system for writing Asynchronous
    web applications
  * [3]CPAN-1.86_52 -- query, download and build perl modules from CPAN
    sites
  * [4]Class-DBI-Loader-0.31 -- Dynamic definition of Class::DBI sub
    classes.
  * [5]Class-DBI-Plugin-QueriesTime-0.01 -- Get your query's time.
  * [6]Config-Tiny-2.05 -- Read/Write .ini style files with as little
    code as possible
  * [7]Crypt-OpenSSL-PKCS10-0.05 -- Perl extension to OpenSSL's PKCS10
    API.
  * [8]DBIx-Class-QueriesTime-0.01 -- Get your query's time.
  * [9]FLAT-FA-0.3 -- A finite automata base class
  * [10]File-Save-Home-0.08 -- Place file safely under user home
    directory
  * [11]GBPVR-CDBI-0.02 -- Database Abstraction for GBPVR
  * [12]HTTP-Browscap-0.02 -- Parse and search browscap.ini files
  * [13]Module-Install-0.57 -- Standalone, extensible Perl module
    installer
  * [14]Net-SFTP-Foreign-0.90_04 -- Secure File Transfer Protocol client
  * [15]POE-Component-Daemon-0.10 -- Handles all the housework for a
    daemon.
  * [16]Puppet-Log-1.012 -- Log facility with an optional Tk display
  * [17]Purple-0.9 -- Distributed granular addresses on the web
  * [18]SQL-Statement-1.15 -- SQL parsing and processing engine
  * [19]SWISH-HiLiter-0.04 -- simple interface to SWISH::API and
    HTML::HiLiter
  * [20]Speech-Recognizer-SPX-0.0801 -- Perl extension for the Sphinx2
    speech recognizer
  * [21]Symantec-PCAnywhere-Profile-0.03 -- Base class for pcAnywhere
    utility functions
  * [22]Symantec-PCAnywhere-Profile-CHF-0.03 -- Encodes and decodes
    Symantec pcAnywhere connection profiles
  * [23]TestGen4Web-Runner-0.0.1 -- A PERL module to replay files
    recorded with TestGen4Web
  * [24]TestGen4Web-Runner-0.01 -- A PERL module to replay files recorded
    with TestGen4Web
  * [25]Text-Emoticon-0.04 -- Factory class for Yahoo! and MSN emoticons
  * [26]Text-Emoticon-GoogleTalk-0.01 -- Emoticon filter of GoogleTalk
  * [27]VCS-Lite-0.08 -- Minimal version control system
  * [28]WWW-Ebay-0.076
  * [29]WWW-Search-Jobs-2.022
  * [30]WebService-Livedoor-Weather-0.02 -- Perl interface to Livedoor
    Weather Web Service
  * [31]XML-Atom-0.17 -- Atom feed and API implementation
  * [32]perl-GPS-gpsd-0.4
  * [33]perl-GPS-gpsd-0.5

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=06/02/23/1530204

Links:
    0. http://search.cpan.org/~wyant/Astro-SpaceTrack-0.016
    1. http://search.cpan.org/~lgoddard/Blog-Simple-HTMLOnly-0.04
    2. http://search.cpan.org/~bct/CGI-Ajax-0.691
    3. http://search.cpan.org/~andk/CPAN-1.86_52
    4. http://search.cpan.org/~dmaki/Class-DBI-Loader-0.31
    5. http://search.cpan.org/~nekokak/Class-DBI-Plugin-QueriesTime-0.01
    6. http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Config-Tiny-2.05
    7. http://search.cpan.org/~jonozzz/Crypt-OpenSSL-PKCS10-0.05
    8. http://search.cpan.org/~nekokak/DBIx-Class-QueriesTime-0.01
    9. http://search.cpan.org/~estrabd/FLAT-FA-0.3
   10. http://search.cpan.org/~jkeenan/File-Save-Home-0.08
   11. http://search.cpan.org/~davidrw/GBPVR-CDBI-0.02
   12. http://search.cpan.org/~gwyn/HTTP-Browscap-0.02
   13. http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Module-Install-0.57
   14. http://search.cpan.org/~salva/Net-SFTP-Foreign-0.90_04
   15. http://search.cpan.org/~gwyn/POE-Component-Daemon-0.10
   16. http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/Puppet-Log-1.012
   17. http://search.cpan.org/~cdent/Purple-0.9
   18. http://search.cpan.org/~jzucker/SQL-Statement-1.15
   19. http://search.cpan.org/~karman/SWISH-HiLiter-0.04
   20. http://search.cpan.org/~djhd/Speech-Recognizer-SPX-0.0801
   21. http://search.cpan.org/~kulp/Symantec-PCAnywhere-Profile-0.03
   22. http://search.cpan.org/~kulp/Symantec-PCAnywhere-Profile-CHF-0.03
   23. http://search.cpan.org/~mackers/TestGen4Web-Runner-0.0.1
   24. http://search.cpan.org/~mackers/TestGen4Web-Runner-0.01
   25. http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/Text-Emoticon-0.04
   26. http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/Text-Emoticon-GoogleTalk-0.01
   27. http://search.cpan.org/~ivorw/VCS-Lite-0.08
   28. http://search.cpan.org/~mthurn/WWW-Ebay-0.076
   29. http://search.cpan.org/~mthurn/WWW-Search-Jobs-2.022
   30. http://search.cpan.org/~kazeburo/WebService-Livedoor-Weather-0.02
   31. http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/XML-Atom-0.17
   32. http://search.cpan.org/~mrdvt/perl-GPS-gpsd-0.4
   33. http://search.cpan.org/~mrdvt/perl-GPS-gpsd-0.5



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