Stories for 2009-08-25

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In this issue:
    * Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #20 (&
    * New CPAN Distributions for August 24, 2009
    * $9.99 Learning Perl and Mastering Perl e-books from O'Reilly

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| Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #20 (&                 |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Sunday August 23, @23:06 (Perl 6)       |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/24/0346241              |
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kyle writes "On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to
announce
the August 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #20 "PDX".
Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1].
The tarball for the August 2009 release is available from
[0]http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads .

Due to the continued rapid pace of Rakudo development and the
frequent addition of new Perl 6 features and bugfixes, we continue
to recommend that people wanting to use or work with Rakudo obtain
the latest source directly from the main repository at github.
More details are available at [1]http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo .

Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release code named
after a Perl Mongers group. August 2009 is code named "PDX" for the
Portland Perl Mongers. PDX.pm has been home to several Rakudo
contributors (chromatic, Allison Randal, and more) and PDX.pm has
held meetings that have produced feature and bugfix patches for Rakudo.

Beginning with this release, Rakudo Perl builds from an "installed
Parrot" instead of using Parrot's build tree. This release of Rakudo
requires Parrot 1.5.0. For the latest information on building and
using Rakudo Perl, see the README file section titled "Building and
invoking Rakudo". (Quick note: the "--gen-parrot" option still
automatically downloads and builds Parrot as before, if you prefer
that approach.)

Also, unlike previous versions of Rakudo Perl, the "perl6"
(or "perl6.exe") executables only work when invoked from the
Rakudo root directory until a "make install" is performed.
Running "make install" will install Rakudo and its libraries
into the Parrot installation that was used to build it, and then
the executables will work when invoked from any directory.

Some of the specific major changes and improvements occuring
with this release include:

* Rakudo is now passing 12,369 spectests, an increase of 493
passing tests since the July 2009 release. With this release
Rakudo is now passing 69.98% of the available spectest suite.

* We now have a much cleaner traits implementation. Many of the
Perl 6 built-in traits are now implemented in Perl 6, and
user-defined traits can now be defined and applied to classes
and roles.

* The 'hides' trait on classes can make one class hide another.

* Many not-yet-implemented operators and features now provide
more helpful error messages instead of simply producing
parse errors.

* The ROADMAP has been substantially updated and includes some
details regarding the "Rakudo Star" release [2].

* Embedded comments now require backticks (Perl 6 specification change).

Since the Perl 6 specification is still in flux, some deprecated features
will be removed from Rakudo. Prominently among those are:

* '=$handle' is deprecated in favor of '$handle.get' (one line)
and '$handle.lines' (all lines).

* 'int $obj' is deprecated in favor of '$obj.Int'.

The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for
making Rakudo Perl possible. If you would like to contribute,
see [2]http://rakudo.org/how-to-help , ask on the [email protected]
mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode.

The next release of Rakudo (#21) is scheduled for September 17, 2009.
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.

Have fun!

References:
[1] Parrot, [3]http://parrot.org/
[2] Rakudo Star, [4]http://use.perl.org/~pmichaud/journal/39411
 "

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/24/0346241

Links:
    0. http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads
    1. http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo
    2. http://rakudo.org/how-to-help
    3. http://parrot.org/
    4. http://use.perl.org/~pmichaud/journal/39411


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| New CPAN Distributions for August 24, 2009                         |
|   posted by pudge on Monday August 24, @10:30 (Module Listings)    |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/24/1530210              |
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  * [0]Acme-CPANAuthors-Chinese-0.12 -- We are chinese CPAN authors
  * [1]Acme-MirrorTracer-2009.051914390009 -- Do nothing.
  * [2]Acme-Tie-Formatted-0.04 -- embed sprintf() formatting in regular
    print()
  * [3]Acme-Time-Baby-2009082401 -- Tell time little children can
    understand
  * [4]Apache2-ASP-2.39 -- ASP for Perl, reloaded.
  * [5]Book-Chinese-MasterPerlToday-0.02_02 -- free book in Chinese
  * [6]Book-Chinese-MasterPerlToday-0.02_03 -- free book in Chinese
  * [7]CPAN-Packager-0.062 -- Create packages(rpm, deb) from perl modules
  * [8]CPU-Z80-Assembler-2.05_04 -- a Z80 assembler
  * [9]Catalyst-Authentication-Credential-OpenID-0.14_02 -- OpenID
    credential for Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication framework.
  * [10]Catalyst-Authentication-Credential-OpenID-0.14_03 -- OpenID
    credential for Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication framework.
  * [11]Catalyst-Plugin-AutoCRUD-0.48 -- Instant AJAX web front-end for
    DBIx::Class
  * [12]Chart-Clicker-2.42 -- Powerful, extensible charting.
  * [13]Class-Accessor-Grouped-0.09000 -- Lets you build groups of
    accessors
  * [14]Class-C3-XS-0.12_01 -- XS speedups for Class::C3
  * [15]DBIx-Simple-Procedure-1.40 -- An Alternative To SQL Stored
    Procedures using DBIx::Simple
  * [16]Dist-Zilla-Plugin-AutoVersion-Relative-0.01000104 --
    Time-Relative versioning
  * [17]Dist-Zilla-Plugin-AutoVersion-Relative-0.01000119 --
    Time-Relative versioning
  * [18]Flickr-API-1.03 -- Perl interface to the Flickr API
  * [19]HTML-Defang-1.02 -- Cleans HTML as well as CSS of scripting and
    other executable contents, and neutralises XSS attacks.
  * [20]HTML-Template-Pro-0.86 -- Perl/XS module to use HTML Templates
    from CGI scripts
  * [21]HTTP-Engine-0.02004 -- Web Server Gateway Interface and HTTP
    Server Engine Drivers
  * [22]IMAP-Admin-1.6.7 -- Perl module for basic IMAP server
    administration
  * [23]Inline-Interp-0.05 -- Make Inline modules for interpreted
    languages easily
  * [24]LaTeX-TOM-0.9_03 -- A module for parsing, analyzing, and
    manipulating LaTeX documents.
  * [25]Module-CoreList-2.18 -- what modules shipped with versions of
    perl
  * [26]MooseX-AttributeIndexes-0.01000300 -- Advertise metadata about
    your Model-Representing Classes to Any Database tool.
  * [27]MooseX-Types-0.19 -- Organise your Moose types in libraries
  * [28]MooseX-Types-DateTime-0.05 -- DateTime related constraints and
    coercions for Moose
  * [29]PDF-Kit-v1.0.4 -- A collection of subroutines for PDF::API2.
  * [30]PDF-Kit-v1.0.5 -- A collection of subroutines for PDF::API2.
  * [31]POEx-ProxySession-0.092360 -- Simple, IKC-like remote session
    proxifier
  * [32]Perl-Critic-1.104 -- Critique Perl source code for
    best-practices.
  * [33]Posterous-0.02 -- API to posterous.com
  * [34]Server-Control-0.02 -- Flexible apachectl style control for
    servers
  * [35]Test-DBIx-Class-0.03 -- Easier test cases for your DBIx::Class
    applications
  * [36]Test-XML-Simple-0.10 -- easy testing for XML
  * [37]TinyURL-RU-0.01 -- shorten URLs with byst.ro (aka tinyurl.ru)
  * [38]TinyURL-RU-0.02 -- shorten URLs with byst.ro (aka tinyurl.ru)
  * [39]Tkx-Scrolled-0.02 -- Tkx megawidget for scrolled widgets
  * [40]URI-ImpliedBase-0.07 -- magically force all URIs to be absolute
  * [41]Video-FourCC-Info-1.002 -- Perl module to retrieve information
    about FourCCs
  * [42]Win32-GetDefaultBrowser-1.00 -- Return full path to default
    browser on Windows systems
  * [43]indirect-0.18 -- Lexically warn about using the indirect object
    syntax.
  * [44]local-lib-1.004005 -- create and use a local lib/ for perl
    modules with PERL5LIB
  * [45]perl-5.10.1 -- Practical Extraction and Report Language

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/24/1530210

Links:
    0. http://search.cpan.org/~fayland/Acme-CPANAuthors-Chinese-0.12
    1. http://search.cpan.org/~andya/Acme-MirrorTracer-2009.051914390009
    2. http://search.cpan.org/~mcmahon/Acme-Tie-Formatted-0.04
    3. http://search.cpan.org/~abigail/Acme-Time-Baby-2009082401
    4. http://search.cpan.org/~johnd/Apache2-ASP-2.39
    5. http://search.cpan.org/~fayland/Book-Chinese-MasterPerlToday-0.02_02
    6. http://search.cpan.org/~fayland/Book-Chinese-MasterPerlToday-0.02_03
    7. http://search.cpan.org/~kitano/CPAN-Packager-0.062
    8. http://search.cpan.org/~pscust/CPU-Z80-Assembler-2.05_04
    9. http://search.cpan.org/~ashley/Catalyst-Authentication-Credential-OpenID-0.14_02
   10. http://search.cpan.org/~ashley/Catalyst-Authentication-Credential-OpenID-0.14_03
   11. http://search.cpan.org/~oliver/Catalyst-Plugin-AutoCRUD-0.48
   12. http://search.cpan.org/~gphat/Chart-Clicker-2.42
   13. http://search.cpan.org/~rkitover/Class-Accessor-Grouped-0.09000
   14. http://search.cpan.org/~flora/Class-C3-XS-0.12_01
   15. http://search.cpan.org/~awncorp/DBIx-Simple-Procedure-1.40
   16. http://search.cpan.org/~kentnl/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-AutoVersion-Relative-0.01000104
   17. http://search.cpan.org/~kentnl/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-AutoVersion-Relative-0.01000119
   18. http://search.cpan.org/~iamcal/Flickr-API-1.03
   19. http://search.cpan.org/~kurianja/HTML-Defang-1.02
   20. http://search.cpan.org/~viy/HTML-Template-Pro-0.86
   21. http://search.cpan.org/~yappo/HTTP-Engine-0.02004
   22. http://search.cpan.org/~eestabroo/IMAP-Admin-1.6.7
   23. http://search.cpan.org/~iamcal/Inline-Interp-0.05
   24. http://search.cpan.org/~schubiger/LaTeX-TOM-0.9_03
   25. http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/Module-CoreList-2.18
   26. http://search.cpan.org/~kentnl/MooseX-AttributeIndexes-0.01000300
   27. http://search.cpan.org/~rkitover/MooseX-Types-0.19
   28. http://search.cpan.org/~nuffin/MooseX-Types-DateTime-0.05
   29. http://search.cpan.org/~shcorey/PDF-Kit-v1.0.4
   30. http://search.cpan.org/~shcorey/PDF-Kit-v1.0.5
   31. http://search.cpan.org/~nperez/POEx-ProxySession-0.092360
   32. http://search.cpan.org/~elliotjs/Perl-Critic-1.104
   33. http://search.cpan.org/~shelling/Posterous-0.02
   34. http://search.cpan.org/~jswartz/Server-Control-0.02
   35. http://search.cpan.org/~jjnapiork/Test-DBIx-Class-0.03
   36. http://search.cpan.org/~mcmahon/Test-XML-Simple-0.10
   37. http://search.cpan.org/~ksuri/TinyURL-RU-0.01
   38. http://search.cpan.org/~ksuri/TinyURL-RU-0.02
   39. http://search.cpan.org/~mjcarman/Tkx-Scrolled-0.02
   40. http://search.cpan.org/~mcmahon/URI-ImpliedBase-0.07
   41. http://search.cpan.org/~frequency/Video-FourCC-Info-1.002
   42. http://search.cpan.org/~phatwares/Win32-GetDefaultBrowser-1.00
   43. http://search.cpan.org/~vpit/indirect-0.18
   44. http://search.cpan.org/~apeiron/local-lib-1.004005
   45. http://search.cpan.org/~dapm/perl-5.10.1


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| $9.99 Learning Perl and Mastering Perl e-books from O'Reilly       |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Monday August 24, @15:24 (User Journal) |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/24/2012226              |
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O'Reilly dropped the regular price of e-books for [0]Learning Perl and
[1]Mastering Perl to $9.99. I volunteered to be the guinea pig for
pricing experiments. I specifically want to see if this makes it easier
to get these books when access to the hard-copies is prohibitively
expensive. You can get these books in Mobi, PDF, or ePub directly from
O'Reilly. I'd like to do more of these sorts of experiments to get the
books into as many hands as possible.

The $9.99 price is the regular price, so all existing discount and coupon
codes apply. For instance, you can still use the 35% user group discount
to get either book for $6.50.

These are the updated versions of the books too. All reported errata
should be corrected, so they are slightly fresher than the hard copies.

Remember, the great thing about PDFs is that they don't take up any shelf
space. Buy as many as you like!

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/24/2012226

Links:
    0. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520106/
    1. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527242/



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