Stories for 2006-11-17

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In this issue:
    * Taking over Win32::API maintainership
    * Interview with Chip Salzenberg, the Parrot Pump King
    * This Week on perl5-porters (6-12 November 2006)
    * London Perl Workshop 2006 (Update)
    * New CPAN Distributions for November 16, 2006

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| Taking over Win32::API maintainership                              |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Thursday November 16, @02:27 (Module New|
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/16/078208               |
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I'm in the process of taking over the maintainance of Win32::API module
from Aldo Calpini, the original author.

I'm collecting patches, related web pages and information as I'd like to
make Win32::API work with the current VanillaPerl/Mingw environment.

I also updated [0]win32.perl.org Wiki to announce this.

So, anyone interested in getting your patches, suggestions, rants, ...
please get onboard now and communicate with me. If you already have your
bug reports filed on [1]http://rt.cpan.org/, be sure I'm working on those
(if I ever get to manage all of these bugs;-D )...

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=06/11/16/078208

Links:
    0. http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Vanilla_Perl_Problem_Modules#Build_Failures
    1. http://rt.cpan.org/


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| Interview with Chip Salzenberg, the Parrot Pump King               |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Thursday November 16, @05:30 (User Journ|
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/16/0711219              |
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Just off the heels of the [0]Chicago Perl Hack-A-Thon, which focused very
much on Parrot, I have a great [1]interview with Chip Salzenberg. Chip is
a past Perl 5 Pump King and is the current [2]Parrot Pump King.

Parrot, as many of you know, is a virtual machine that is intended be a
platform for running Perl 6. Actually, the Parrot virtual machine hopes
to run many languages other than Perl 6. There is currently beginning
implementations of many languages on Parrot including Ruby and TCL.
Parrot is different than many other virtual machines that we know of. It
is register-based, as opposed to the common stack-based architectures,
and it is designed to run dynamic languages.

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=06/11/16/0711219

Links:
    0. http://www.hackathon.info/
    1. http://www.perlcast.com/audio/Perlcast_Interview_036.mp3
    2. http://www.parrotcode.org/


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| This Week on perl5-porters (6-12 November 2006)                    |
|   posted by grinder on Thursday November 16, @08:32 (Summaries)    |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/16/1334256              |
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"This is like sitting your mother down to teach her computers and
beginning by explaining little endian vs big endian and the intimate
details of protected mode memory" -- Michael G. Schwern, firmly believing
that there must be a better way of installing perl.

This story continues at:
    http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/16/1334256

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=06/11/16/1334256


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| London Perl Workshop 2006 (Update)                                 |
|   posted by davorg on Thursday November 16, @08:52 (Events)        |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/16/1333205              |
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The [0]web site for the LPW has now been updated with this year's
details. It contains the [1]Call for Proposals and a [2]registration page.

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=06/11/16/1333205

Links:
    0. http://london.pm.org/lpw/
    1. http://london.pm.org/lpw/cfp.html
    2. http://london.pm.org/lpw/takesurvey.html


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| New CPAN Distributions for November 16, 2006                       |
|   posted by pudge on Thursday November 16, @18:30 (Module Listings)|
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/16/1530256              |
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  * [0]AI-PSO-0.85 -- Perl module for running the Particle Swarm
    Optimization algorithm
  * [1]Acme-Spork-v0.0.5 -- Perl extension for spork()ing in your script
  * [2]Alzabo-0.8903 -- A data modelling tool and RDBMS-OO mapper
  * [3]Bio-Trace-ABIF-0.02 -- Perl extension for reading and parsing ABIF
    (Applied Biosystems, Inc. Format) files
  * [4]CGI-Auth-Auto-1.10 -- Automatic authentication maintenance and
    persistence for cgi scrips.
  * [5]Class-InsideOut-1.0301 -- a safe, simple inside-out object
    construction kit
  * [6]DBIx-Class-0.07003 -- Extensible and flexible object <->
    relational mapper.
  * [7]DBIx-Class-Loader-ADO-0.05 -- DBIx::Class::Loader ADO
    Implementation.
  * [8]Data-UUID-0.147_01 -- Perl extension for generating
    Globally/Universally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs/UUIDs).
  * [9]Data-UUID-0.148 -- Perl extension for generating
    Globally/Universally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs/UUIDs).
  * [10]DateTime-Calendar-WarwickUniversity-0.01 -- Warwick University
    academic calendar
  * [11]DateTime-Event-WarwickUniversity-0.01 -- Warwick University
    academic calendar events
  * [12]DateTime-TimeZone-0.56 -- Time zone object base class and factory
  * [13]Encode-Arabic-1.4 -- Encodings of Arabic
  * [14]Encode-Mapper-1.4 -- Intuitive, yet efficient construction of
    mappings for Encode
  * [15]Getopt-Long-2.35_02 -- Extended processing of command line
    options
  * [16]HTML2XHTML-0.03.02 -- Wrapper to command-line program that
    converts from HTML 3.x/4.x to XHTML 1.0
  * [17]HTTP-Daemon-App-v0.0.8 -- Create 2 or 3 line, fully functional
    (SSL) HTTP server(s)
  * [18]HTTP-Server-Simple-0.24 -- Lightweight HTTP server
  * [19]Language-Indonesia-0.01 -- Write Perl program in Bahasa
    Indonesia.
  * [20]MIME-Charset-0.043 -- MIME
    のためのã‚ãƒ£ãƒ©ã‚¯ã‚¿ã‚»ãƒƒãƒˆæƒ…å ±
  * [21]MIME-EncWords-0.040 -- deal with RFC-1522 encoded words
    (improved)
  * [22]MPEG-ID3v2Tag-0.37 -- Parses and creates ID3v2 Tags for MPEG
    audio files.
  * [23]Net-CIDR-MobileJP-0.04 -- mobile ip address in Japan
  * [24]PDL-NetCDF-0.92 -- Object-oriented interface between NetCDF files
    and PDL objects.
  * [25]POE-Component-Daemon-0.1003 -- Handles all the housework for a
    daemon.
  * [26]POE-Component-IKC-0.1903 -- POE Inter-Kernel Communication
  * [27]POE-Component-IKC-0.1904 -- POE Inter-Kernel Communication
  * [28]POE-Component-IRC-5.12 -- a fully event-driven IRC client module.
  * [29]POE-Component-Server-IRC-1.04 -- a fully event-driven networkable
    IRC server daemon module.
  * [30]Perl-Critic-More-0.11 -- Supplemental policies for Perl::Critic
  * [31]PerlIO-nline-0.04 -- Perl extension for newline translation
  * [32]Querylet-0.323 -- simplified queries for the non-programmer
  * [33]Querylet-CGI-0.142 -- turn a querylet into a web application
  * [34]Querylet-Output-Excel-OLE-0.142 -- output query results to Excel
    via OLE
  * [35]Querylet-Output-Text-0.112 -- output querylet results to text
    tables
  * [36]Sledge-Engine-0.02 -- run Sledge based application
    (EXPERIMENTAL).
  * [37]Sledge-Engine-0.03 -- run Sledge based application
    (EXPERIMENTAL).
  * [38]Sys-RunAlone-0.06 -- make sure only one invocation of a script is
    active at a time
  * [39]Sys-RunAlone-0.07 -- make sure only one invocation of a script is
    active at a time
  * [40]Sys-RunAlways-0.04 -- make sure there is always one invocation of
    a script active
  * [41]Template-Declare--1.00_01
  * [42]Text-Balanced-v1.99.1 -- Extract delimited text sequences from
    strings.
  * [43]Tk-Clock-0.17 -- Clock widget with analog and digital display
  * [44]WWW-Domain-Registry-VeriSign-0.01 -- VeriSign NDS
    (https://www.verisign-grs.com/) Registrar Tool
  * [45]WebService-MusicBrainz-0.04
  * [46]threads-1.51 -- Perl interpreter-based threads

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=06/11/16/1530256

Links:
    0. http://search.cpan.org/~kylesch/AI-PSO-0.85
    1. http://search.cpan.org/~dmuey/Acme-Spork-v0.0.5
    2. http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/Alzabo-0.8903
    3. http://search.cpan.org/~vita/Bio-Trace-ABIF-0.02
    4. http://search.cpan.org/~leocharre/CGI-Auth-Auto-1.10
    5. http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/Class-InsideOut-1.0301
    6. http://search.cpan.org/~bricas/DBIx-Class-0.07003
    7. http://search.cpan.org/~bricas/DBIx-Class-Loader-ADO-0.05
    8. http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Data-UUID-0.147_01
    9. http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Data-UUID-0.148
   10. http://search.cpan.org/~diocles/DateTime-Calendar-WarwickUniversity-0.01
   11. http://search.cpan.org/~diocles/DateTime-Event-WarwickUniversity-0.01
   12. http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/DateTime-TimeZone-0.56
   13. http://search.cpan.org/~smrz/Encode-Arabic-1.4
   14. http://search.cpan.org/~smrz/Encode-Mapper-1.4
   15. http://search.cpan.org/~jv/Getopt-Long-2.35_02
   16. http://search.cpan.org/~oembry/HTML2XHTML-0.03.02
   17. http://search.cpan.org/~dmuey/HTTP-Daemon-App-v0.0.8
   18. http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/HTTP-Server-Simple-0.24
   19. http://search.cpan.org/~dns/Language-Indonesia-0.01
   20. http://search.cpan.org/~nezumi/MIME-Charset-0.043
   21. http://search.cpan.org/~nezumi/MIME-EncWords-0.040
   22. http://search.cpan.org/~cbtilden/MPEG-ID3v2Tag-0.37
   23. http://search.cpan.org/~tokuhirom/Net-CIDR-MobileJP-0.04
   24. http://search.cpan.org/~dhunt/PDL-NetCDF-0.92
   25. http://search.cpan.org/~gwyn/POE-Component-Daemon-0.1003
   26. http://search.cpan.org/~gwyn/POE-Component-IKC-0.1903
   27. http://search.cpan.org/~gwyn/POE-Component-IKC-0.1904
   28. http://search.cpan.org/~bingos/POE-Component-IRC-5.12
   29. http://search.cpan.org/~bingos/POE-Component-Server-IRC-1.04
   30. http://search.cpan.org/~cdolan/Perl-Critic-More-0.11
   31. http://search.cpan.org/~bmorrow/PerlIO-nline-0.04
   32. http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Querylet-0.323
   33. http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Querylet-CGI-0.142
   34. http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Querylet-Output-Excel-OLE-0.142
   35. http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Querylet-Output-Text-0.112
   36. http://search.cpan.org/~ikebe/Sledge-Engine-0.02
   37. http://search.cpan.org/~ikebe/Sledge-Engine-0.03
   38. http://search.cpan.org/~elizabeth/Sys-RunAlone-0.06
   39. http://search.cpan.org/~elizabeth/Sys-RunAlone-0.07
   40. http://search.cpan.org/~elizabeth/Sys-RunAlways-0.04
   41. http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/Template-Declare--1.00_01
   42. http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Text-Balanced-v1.99.1
   43. http://search.cpan.org/~hmbrand/Tk-Clock-0.17
   44. http://search.cpan.org/~masahito/WWW-Domain-Registry-VeriSign-0.01
   45. http://search.cpan.org/~bfaist/WebService-MusicBrainz-0.04
   46. http://search.cpan.org/~jdhedden/threads-1.51



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