Stories for 2006-08-30

use Perl Daily Newsletter

In this issue:
    * Announcing the Chicago Hackathon 2006
    * CPAN.pm adds support for CPAN::Reporter
    *  Pittsburgh Perl Workshop information
    * Strawberry Perl 5.8.8 Alpha 2 released
    * New CPAN Distributions for August 29, 2006

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| Announcing the Chicago Hackathon 2006                              |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Monday August 28, @23:19 (User Journal) |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/29/030247               |
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The [0]Chicago Perl Mongers and [1]The Perl Foundation are proud to
announce the Fall 2006 Chicago Hackathon, the weekend of November 10-12,
2006 in suburban Crystal Lake, IL. It will be a round-the-clock weekend
of programming on Perl-related projects with your colleagues in the open
source community. Dozens of programmers from the open source community in
the midwest, as well as others from around the US, will be getting
together to share ideas, work on code, and move their [2]Perl-related
projects forward.

The participants set the agenda for what we'll be working on, but Perl 6
and Parrot are already on the roster of projects. Chip Salzenberg,
pumpking for the [3]Parrot project, will be on hand to help with Parrot
and Perl 6. Andy Lester will also be driving some Parrot maintenance
tasks, and other midwest programmers will be working on their own
projects. There's sure to be something interesting for everyone!

Participation in the hackathon costs nothing. [1]The Perl Foundation is
even providing hotel rooms at a special rate if you want to spend the
night. Even if you're in the area for just an hour, stop by, grab a snack
or some pizza and talk with other people interested in Perl. You might
contribute more than you think just by talking with other programmers.

To find out more, visit [4]http://hackathon.info. If you'll be attending,
please sign in on the [5]Attendees wiki page, and/or email
[6][email protected] . You can also send questions to Andy Lester at
[7][email protected]

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=06/08/29/030247

Links:
    0. http://chicago.pm.org/
    1. http://www.perlfoundation.org/
    2. http://use.perl.org/projects/
    3. http://parrotcode.org/
    4. http://hackathon.info/
    5. http://rakudo.org/hackathon-chicago/index.cgi?Attendees
    6. mailto:[email protected]
    7. mailto:[email protected]


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| CPAN.pm adds support for CPAN::Reporter                            |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Monday August 28, @23:21 (User Journal) |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/29/031256               |
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As of version 1.87_57, [0]CPAN.pm has support for [1]CPAN::Reporter. I
wrote about this project in my last journal entry. At that time, one
needed to install a subversion branch of CPAN.pm to use CPAN::Reporter.
Now, it's easy to set up directly from the CPAN shell:

This story continues at:
    http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/29/031256

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=06/08/29/031256

Links:
    0. http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN/
    1. http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN-Reporter/


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|  Pittsburgh Perl Workshop information                              |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Monday August 28, @23:22 (User Journal) |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/29/032245               |
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Just a few things about the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop. The Workshop is
Saturday Sept 23. The Pittsburgh Steelers are playing the Bengals the
next day. So you might want to go. Good luck getting tickets.
[0]http://news.steelers.com/ We have posters to promote the workshop.
Please print some off and hang them up.
[1]http://www.robertblackwell.com/ppw/ppw-poster.pdf The schedule is out.
[2]http://pghpw.org/schedule.html

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=06/08/29/032245

Links:
    0. http://news.steelers.com/
    1. http://www.robertblackwell.com/ppw/ppw-poster.pdf
    2. http://pghpw.org/schedule.html


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| Strawberry Perl 5.8.8 Alpha 2 released                             |
|   posted by davorg on Tuesday August 29, @03:15 (User Journal)     |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/29/0655233              |
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[0]Strawberry Perl 5.8.8 Alpha 2 for Win32 is out. Largely synchronizes
with Vanilla Perl Build 7, but with updates to CPAN.pm and other
toolchain modules.
  * [1]Download strawbery-perl-5.8.8-alpha-2.exe (24.0 MB) [2](Changelog)

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=06/08/29/0655233

Links:
    0. http://vanillaperl.com/
    1. http://vanillaperl.com/files/strawberry-perl-5.8.8-alpha-2.exe
    2. http://svn.phase-n.com/svn/cpan/tags/Perl-Dist-Strawberry/release-0.1.2/Changes


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| New CPAN Distributions for August 29, 2006                         |
|   posted by pudge on Tuesday August 29, @18:30 (Module Listings)   |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/29/1530213              |
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  * [0]Best-0.07 -- Fallbackable module loader
  * [1]CGI-Wiki-Store-Mediawiki-0.02 -- Mediawiki (MySQL) storage backend
    for CGI::Wiki
  * [2]CPAN-Reporter-0.13 -- Provides Test::Reporter support for CPAN.pm
  * [3]Catalyst-Plugin-CRUD-0.13 -- CRUD (create/read/update/delete)
    Plugin for Catalyst
  * [4]CharsetDetector-1.0.0 -- Detect charset
  * [5]Class-DBI-Replicated-0.040 -- Replication from single master to
    multiple slaves
  * [6]Config-Wrest-1.036 -- Read and write Configuration data With
    References, Environment variables, Sections, and Templating
  * [7]Crypt-Tea_JS-2.19 -- The Tiny Encryption Algorithm in Perl and
    JavaScript
  * [8]DBIx-Romani-0.0.15
  * [9]Data-Hive-0.040 -- convenient access to hierarchical data
  * [10]DateTime-TimeZone-0.48 -- Time zone object base class and factory
  * [11]Email-FolderType-0.812 -- determine the type of a mail folder
  * [12]Email-Store-0.252 -- Framework for database-backed email storage
  * [13]Error-Subclasses-0.01
  * [14]Excel-Template-TT-0.0.1 -- wrapper class for Excel::Template to
    using TT
  * [15]FFmpeg-6036 -- Perl interface to FFmpeg, a video converter
    written in C
  * [16]FFmpeg-Command-0.04 -- A wrapper class for ffmpeg command line
    utility.
  * [17]FSA-Rules-0.26 -- Build simple rules-based state machines in Perl
  * [18]Module-CPANTS-Analyse-0.64 -- Generate Kwalitee ratings for a
    distribution
  * [19]Nagios-Report-0.003 -- Perl class to filter and munge Nagios
    availability data
  * [20]Net-Pcap-0.13 -- Interface to pcap(3) LBL packet capture library
  * [21]Object-Array-0.060 -- array references with accessors
  * [22]Object-Enum-0.070 -- replacement for if ($foo eq 'bar')
  * [23]POE-Component-IRC-4.99 -- a fully event-driven IRC client module.
  * [24]Perl-Dist-0.0.5 -- Create binary Perl distributions
  * [25]Perl-Dist-Strawberry-0.1.2 -- Strawberry Perl for win32
  * [26]Perl-Dist-v0.0.4 -- Create binary Perl distributions
  * [27]Plagger-0.7.10 -- Pluggable RSS/Atom Aggregator
  * [28]Rose-DB-0.724 -- A DBI wrapper and abstraction layer.
  * [29]Rose-DB-Object-0.751 -- Extensible, high performance RDBMS-OO
    mapper.
  * [30]Shell-EnvImporter-1.02 -- Perl extension for importing
    environment variable changes from external commands or shell scripts
  * [31]Sort-Key-Top-0.01 -- select and sort top n elements
  * [32]Sys-Syslog-0.18 -- Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls
  * [33]Test-Number-Delta-1.02 -- Compare the difference between numbers
    against a given tolerance
  * [34]Test-WWW-Mechanize-Object-0.020 -- run mech tests by making
    requests on an object
  * [35]Tie-Trace-0.01 -- easy print debugging with tie
  * [36]WWW-CybozuOffice6-0.03 -- Perl extension for accessing Cybozu
    Office 6
  * [37]Want-0.12 -- A generalisation of wantarray
  * [38]Wx-Demo-0.02 -- the wxPerl demo
  * [39]XML-Liberal-0.15 -- Super liberal XML parser that parses broken
    XML
  * [40]XML-Liberal-0.16 -- Super liberal XML parser that parses broken
    XML
  * [41]Xmldoom-0.0.15 -- The XML Document Object-Oriented Model
  * [42]ack-1.27_01 -- grep-like text finder for large trees of text
  * [43]checkservers-0.9

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=06/08/29/1530213

Links:
    0. http://search.cpan.org/~gaal/Best-0.07
    1. http://search.cpan.org/~dprice/CGI-Wiki-Store-Mediawiki-0.02
    2. http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/CPAN-Reporter-0.13
    3. http://search.cpan.org/~bayside/Catalyst-Plugin-CRUD-0.13
    4. http://search.cpan.org/~foolfish/CharsetDetector-1.0.0
    5. http://search.cpan.org/~hdp/Class-DBI-Replicated-0.040
    6. http://search.cpan.org/~bbc/Config-Wrest-1.036
    7. http://search.cpan.org/~pjb/Crypt-Tea_JS-2.19
    8. http://search.cpan.org/~dsnopek/DBIx-Romani-0.0.15
    9. http://search.cpan.org/~hdp/Data-Hive-0.040
   10. http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/DateTime-TimeZone-0.48
   11. http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Email-FolderType-0.812
   12. http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Email-Store-0.252
   13. http://search.cpan.org/~pevans/Error-Subclasses-0.01
   14. http://search.cpan.org/~tawan/Excel-Template-TT-0.0.1
   15. http://search.cpan.org/~allenday/FFmpeg-6036
   16. http://search.cpan.org/~mizzy/FFmpeg-Command-0.04
   17. http://search.cpan.org/~dwheeler/FSA-Rules-0.26
   18. http://search.cpan.org/~domm/Module-CPANTS-Analyse-0.64
   19. http://search.cpan.org/~hopcrofts/Nagios-Report-0.003
   20. http://search.cpan.org/~saper/Net-Pcap-0.13
   21. http://search.cpan.org/~hdp/Object-Array-0.060
   22. http://search.cpan.org/~hdp/Object-Enum-0.070
   23. http://search.cpan.org/~bingos/POE-Component-IRC-4.99
   24. http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/Perl-Dist-0.0.5
   25. http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/Perl-Dist-Strawberry-0.1.2
   26. http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/Perl-Dist-v0.0.4
   27. http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/Plagger-0.7.10
   28. http://search.cpan.org/~jsiracusa/Rose-DB-0.724
   29. http://search.cpan.org/~jsiracusa/Rose-DB-Object-0.751
   30. http://search.cpan.org/~dfaraldo/Shell-EnvImporter-1.02
   31. http://search.cpan.org/~salva/Sort-Key-Top-0.01
   32. http://search.cpan.org/~saper/Sys-Syslog-0.18
   33. http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/Test-Number-Delta-1.02
   34. http://search.cpan.org/~hdp/Test-WWW-Mechanize-Object-0.020
   35. http://search.cpan.org/~ktat/Tie-Trace-0.01
   36. http://search.cpan.org/~kazuho/WWW-CybozuOffice6-0.03
   37. http://search.cpan.org/~robin/Want-0.12
   38. http://search.cpan.org/~mbarbon/Wx-Demo-0.02
   39. http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/XML-Liberal-0.15
   40. http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/XML-Liberal-0.16
   41. http://search.cpan.org/~dsnopek/Xmldoom-0.0.15
   42. http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/ack-1.27_01
   43. http://search.cpan.org/~dmahoney/checkservers-0.9



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