Stories for 2009-03-01

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In this issue:
    * New CPAN Distributions for February 28, 2009
    * Rakudo Perl development release #14
    * NPW'09 Registration is open

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| New CPAN Distributions for February 28, 2009                       |
|   posted by pudge on Saturday February 28, @10:30 (Module Listings)|
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/28/1530208              |
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  * [0]Apache2-ASP-2.31 -- ASP for Perl, reloaded.
  * [1]App-Maisha-0.12 -- A command line social micro-blog networking
    tool.
  * [2]Audio-ScratchLive-0.03 -- Simple way to read/write ScratchLIVE
    crates and databases
  * [3]Bot-Webalert-0.01 -- IRC bot watches Web sites and reports changes
    to IRC channels
  * [4]CPANPLUS-Dist-Build-0.08 -- CPANPLUS plugin to install packages
    that use Build.PL
  * [5]Catalyst-Example-InstantCRUD-0.0.30 -- A CRUD scaffolding for
    Catalyst.
  * [6]Convert-Color-0.03 -- color space conversions and named lookups
  * [7]DBIx-Migration-Directories-0.10 --
    Install/remove/upgrade/downgrade SQL schemas
  * [8]Filter-1.36
  * [9]Forest-0.05 -- A collection of n-ary tree related modules
  * [10]Forest-0.06 -- A collection of n-ary tree related modules
  * [11]Geo-WebService-OpenCellID-0.01 -- Perl API for the opencellid.org
    database
  * [12]Geography-JapaneseMunicipals-0.01 -- Japanese Municipals Data.
  * [13]HTML-BBCode-2.06 -- Perl extension for converting BBcode to HTML.
  * [14]Image-Heatmap-0.017 -- Build heatmap images
  * [15]Image-Heatmap-0.419 -- Build heatmap images
  * [16]Image-Heatmap-0.421 -- Build heatmap images
  * [17]Image-Heatmap-0.423 -- Build heatmap images
  * [18]JS-Chicken-0.01 -- Templating module for Javascript
  * [19]JS-Chicken-0.02 -- Templating module for Javascript
  * [20]JSORB-0.01 -- Javascript Object Request Broker
  * [21]Kools-Okapi-263.004 -- Perl extension for the OKAPI api of
    Kondor+ 2.6
  * [22]Kx-0.038 -- Perl extension for Kdb+ http://kx.com
  * [23]Lingua-LinkParser-1.10 -- Perl module implementing the Link
    Grammar Parser by Sleator, Temperley and Lafferty at CMU.
  * [24]MooseX-GlobRef-0.07 -- Store a Moose object in glob reference
  * [25]Net-IMAP-Client-0.11 -- Not so simple IMAP client library
  * [26]Net-IMAP-Client-0.91 -- Not so simple IMAP client library
  * [27]Parse-Eyapp-1.143 -- Extensions for Parse::Yapp
  * [28]Rose-HTMLx-Form-Field-PopUpMenuNumeric-0.001 -- popup menu for
    numeric values
  * [29]Rose-HTMLx-Form-Related-0.16 -- RHTMLO forms, living together
  * [30]SVN-Look-0.14.5 -- A caching wrapper aroung the svnlook command.
  * [31]Simo-0.09_01 -- Very simple framework for Object Oriented Perl.
  * [32]Storable-Ref-1.1 -- Persistent automatic variables vi Storable
  * [33]String-BufferStack-1.13 -- Nested buffers for templating systems
  * [34]Template-Declare-0.38 -- Perlish declarative templates
  * [35]Term-Completion-0.91 -- read one line of user input, with
    convenience functions
  * [36]Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.18 -- Perl extension for the GNU
    Readline/History Library
  * [37]Test-LeakTrace-0.06 -- Traces memory leaks
  * [38]Test-WWW-Mechanize-HSS-0.02 -- Test HTTP::Server::Simple programs
    using WWW::Mechanize
  * [39]Test-XML-Deep-0.05 -- = XML::Simple + Test::Deep
  * [40]Tie-FlatFile-Array-0.0401 -- Treat a flatfile database as an
    array of arrays.
  * [41]WWW-Facebook-Go-SGF-1.0 -- convert a game of Go on Facebook into
    SGF.
  * [42]WWW-Mechanize-Plugin-JavaScript-0.009 -- JavaScript plugin for
    WWW::Mechanize
  * [43]Waft-0.9908 -- A simple web application framework
  * [44]XML-Grammar-Screenplay-0.0500 -- CPAN distribution implementing
    an XML grammar for screenplays.
  * [45]autodie-1.999 -- Replace functions with ones that succeed or die
    with lexical scope
  * [46]threads-emulate-0.0.4 -- Create and use emulated threads (and
    share vars easyer)

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=09/02/28/1530208

Links:
    0. http://search.cpan.org/~johnd/Apache2-ASP-2.31
    1. http://search.cpan.org/~barbie/App-Maisha-0.12
    2. http://search.cpan.org/~capoeirab/Audio-ScratchLive-0.03
    3. http://search.cpan.org/~mschilli/Bot-Webalert-0.01
    4. http://search.cpan.org/~bingos/CPANPLUS-Dist-Build-0.08
    5. http://search.cpan.org/~zby/Catalyst-Example-InstantCRUD-0.0.30
    6. http://search.cpan.org/~pevans/Convert-Color-0.03
    7. http://search.cpan.org/~crakrjack/DBIx-Migration-Directories-0.10
    8. http://search.cpan.org/~pmqs/Filter-1.36
    9. http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/Forest-0.05
   10. http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/Forest-0.06
   11. http://search.cpan.org/~mrdvt/Geo-WebService-OpenCellID-0.01
   12. http://search.cpan.org/~yukio/Geography-JapaneseMunicipals-0.01
   13. http://search.cpan.org/~blom/HTML-BBCode-2.06
   14. http://search.cpan.org/~wazzuteke/Image-Heatmap-0.017
   15. http://search.cpan.org/~wazzuteke/Image-Heatmap-0.419
   16. http://search.cpan.org/~wazzuteke/Image-Heatmap-0.421
   17. http://search.cpan.org/~wazzuteke/Image-Heatmap-0.423
   18. http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/JS-Chicken-0.01
   19. http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/JS-Chicken-0.02
   20. http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/JSORB-0.01
   21. http://search.cpan.org/~muguet/Kools-Okapi-263.004
   22. http://search.cpan.org/~markpf/Kx-0.038
   23. http://search.cpan.org/~dbrian/Lingua-LinkParser-1.10
   24. http://search.cpan.org/~dexter/MooseX-GlobRef-0.07
   25. http://search.cpan.org/~mishoo/Net-IMAP-Client-0.11
   26. http://search.cpan.org/~mishoo/Net-IMAP-Client-0.91
   27. http://search.cpan.org/~casiano/Parse-Eyapp-1.143
   28. http://search.cpan.org/~karman/Rose-HTMLx-Form-Field-PopUpMenuNumeric-0.001
   29. http://search.cpan.org/~karman/Rose-HTMLx-Form-Related-0.16
   30. http://search.cpan.org/~gnustavo/SVN-Look-0.14.5
   31. http://search.cpan.org/~kimoto/Simo-0.09_01
   32. http://search.cpan.org/~vany/Storable-Ref-1.1
   33. http://search.cpan.org/~alexmv/String-BufferStack-1.13
   34. http://search.cpan.org/~alexmv/Template-Declare-0.38
   35. http://search.cpan.org/~marekr/Term-Completion-0.91
   36. http://search.cpan.org/~hayashi/Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.18
   37. http://search.cpan.org/~gfuji/Test-LeakTrace-0.06
   38. http://search.cpan.org/~corion/Test-WWW-Mechanize-HSS-0.02
   39. http://search.cpan.org/~jlavallee/Test-XML-Deep-0.05
   40. http://search.cpan.org/~mumiaw/Tie-FlatFile-Array-0.0401
   41. http://search.cpan.org/~dcantrell/WWW-Facebook-Go-SGF-1.0
   42. http://search.cpan.org/~sprout/WWW-Mechanize-Plugin-JavaScript-0.009
   43. http://search.cpan.org/~tamashiro/Waft-0.9908
   44. http://search.cpan.org/~shlomif/XML-Grammar-Screenplay-0.0500
   45. http://search.cpan.org/~pjf/autodie-1.999
   46. http://search.cpan.org/~fco/threads-emulate-0.0.4


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| Rakudo Perl development release #14                                |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Saturday February 28, @18:31 (Perl 6)   |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/28/2312209              |
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On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the
February 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #14 "Vienna". Rakudo is
an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1]. The
tarball for the February 2009 release is available from
[0]http://www.pmichaud.com/perl6/rakudo-2009-02.tar.gz

However, because of the rapid pace of Rakudo development and addition of
new features, we still recommend that people wanting to use or work with
Rakudo obtain the latest version directly from the main repository at
github -- more on this in a bit.

This is the fourteenth development release of Rakudo Perl, but it's the
first release independent from Parrot releases. We will continue to
follow a monthly release cycle, with each release to be code named after
a Perl Mongers group. This release is named for Vienna.pm ([1]http://vienna.pm.org),
who have been sponsoring Jonathan Worthington's work on Rakudo since
April 2008. A list of the other planned release dates and codenames for
2009 is available in the "docs/release_guide.pod" file. In general,
Rakudo development releases are scheduled to occur two days after each
Parrot monthly release. Parrot releases the third Tuesday of each month.

Rakudo Perl now uses git [2] for its version control system, hosted at
[2]http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo . The README file there is kept
up-to-date with the latest instructions for obtaining and building Rakudo
Perl.

In this release of Rakudo Perl, we've made the following major changes
and improvements:

  * Rakudo is now passing 7076 spectests. This is an increase of 796
    passing tests since the January 2009 release.

  * The Configure.pl script supports a "--gen-parrot" option to
    automatically fetch and build the appropriate version of Parrot.

  * The default make target now builds a binary executable directly,
    either perl6 or perl6.exe. It's still a Parrot "fakecutable", but we
    think we've made it more reliable so that it doesn't generate
    segmentation faults on exits. (If you don't know what a "fakecutable"
    is you can safely ignore this.)

  * Many builtins are beginning to be written in pure Perl 6, or Perl 6
    functions with inline PIR. These builtins are part of the core
    "setting" for Perl 6, and appear in the src/setting/ directory.
    Previously this was known as the "prelude".

  * Improved Test.pm diagnostic output.

Also, Rakudo now implements the following Perl 6 features:

  * Anonymous classes may be specified using ::

  * Existing parameterized roles are now reused instead of creating new
    ones.

  * Roles pun a class when .new is invoked on them.

  * "proto" now marks all same-named routines as "multi".

  * "XopX" is now "Xop".

  * <-> (rw) pointy blocks.

  * min= and max= metaoperators.

  * Many many bugfixes and documentation improvements.

The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for
making Rakudo Perl possible. The next release of Rakudo (#15) is
scheduled for March 19, 2009.

References:
[1] Parrot, [3]http://parrot.org/
[2] Git version control system, [4]http://git-scm.org/

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=09/02/28/2312209

Links:
    0. http://www.pmichaud.com/perl6/rakudo-2009-02.tar.gz
    1. http://vienna.pm.org/
    2. http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
    3. http://parrot.org/
    4. http://git-scm.org/


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| NPW'09 Registration is open                                        |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Saturday February 28, @18:31 (Events)   |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/28/2311210              |
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[0]sjn writes "Registration to Nordic Perl Workshop 2009 is now [1]open!

The schedule is looking good, the organizers are excited, and the payment
system will come online as soon as the [2]Act admins come back from
vacation. :)

See you in Oslo!"

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=09/02/28/2311210

Links:
    0. mailto:[email protected]
    1. http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2009/register
    2. http://act.mongueurs.net/



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