Timo has built an AppImage for MoarPref. The image combines all of the dependencies including Rakudo in a single package, which makes it very easy to try out MoarPref without having to worry about installing its dependencies. Read more at: ... read more |
Timo has resumed work on the grant after the unexpected delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Read about the changes to the instrumented profiler that in turn resulted in a drastic increase of profiler speed at: How would you like a 1000x speed increase. ... read more |
The latest feature is named "Network View" and offers a top level view of objects and their relationships. Read Timo's latest grant report at: Introducing: The Heap Snapshot UI. ... read more |
It has been a while since the last grant report. However, Timo has made good progress. Read more about snapshot summary updates and new frontend graphs at: Progressing with progress. ... read more |
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Timo's latest update regarding compression of heap snapshots: Intermediate Progress Report: Heap Snapshots. ... read more |
Timo has written a new blog post with the latest updates. Read more at: Always Wear Safety Equipment When Inline Scalaring! ... read more |
Timo has implemented a new graph for the overview page: Graph items, when selected, display more information such as the file name and line number. The file name and line number are clickable and will take you to the file and line in GitHub. Read more at: ... read more |
Original article was published on November 9, 2018 The overview page now shows all data displayed in the previous profiler's page as well as adds a "Start times of threads" chart. "GC" tab has been updated with sub-tabs to customise graphs using different display modes. The routines list now features a "goto" arrow for smooth and easy navigation. Read more at: Where did I leave my AT-KEYs? Where did I ... read more |
"Overview" tab is now functional but in flux. The "Routines" tab has been improved to include sorting functionality for columns, a minimal view in the "Paths" sub tab and a new "Callers" sub tab. An "Allocations" top level tab has also been added. Read more at: Full Screen Ahead! Full Screen Ahead! Whew, it's been a long time since the last report already! Let's see what's new. Photo by ... read more |
The first public release! Code is now hosted in GitHub Please see the instructions on how to install and run The release features a renewed "Routines" tab. Please read Timo's blog post to know how it compares to the previous profiler: The first public release! The first public release! Hello esteemed readers, and thank you for checking in on my progress. Not a full month ago I showed off the ... read more |
Timo has developed a shiny new UI for the tool. It displays thread-level garbage collection details. Read more at: Wow, check out this garbage Wow, check out this garbage Hello everyone! It's been more than a month since the last report, but I've been able to put hours in and get code out. And now I'll show you what's come out of the last weeks. The Garbage Collector One important ... read more |
Timo is still not completely well. However, he has been able to make good progress: Optional parametres are now correctly logged Fixed a crash caused when the profiler is used on multithreaded code Read more at: No Major Breakthroughs No Major Breakthroughs Sadly, the time since the last post on this blog hasn't been fruitful with regards to the profiling project. There have been slight improvements to the profiler inside ... read more |
Timo has made good progress and is writing about it. Please see: Delays and Delights Delays and Delights Hi, my name is timotimo and I'm a Perl 6 developer. I've set up this blog to write reports on my TPF Grant Before the actual report starts, I'd like to issue an apology. In between my grant application and the grant being accepted I developed a bit of RSI that lasted ... read more |
Timo Paulssen is recovering from a repetitive strain injury, and has not been able to start work on the grant yet. While waiting for the condition to get better, Timo has been watching videos related to the technologies he will be using. Moving apartments in January has been another issue bothering Timo. Timo is very eager to start working on the grant as soon as he is able to. ... read more |
Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer reported: This past May, The Perl Foundation awarded a grant to fund development of a couple features in Pinto. Pinto is a robust tool for curating a private repository of CPAN modules, so you can build your application with the right modules every time. This is my fifth progress report on that work. Pinto 0.0995 was just shipped to CPAN and it includes a |
Torsten Raudssus reported: The next phase working on YACT was at the patch -p1 Hackathon in Paris from 6.-8. December 2013. At this time it was very often my mission to explain to others how the YACT project is organized so trying to spread the awareness. But as usual this didn't kicked on, no pull requests or any involvement, but still it was a bit of a prove that the ... read more |
Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer reported: This past May, The Perl Foundation awarded a grant to fund development of a couple features in Pinto. Pinto is a robust tool for curating a private repository of CPAN modules, so you can build your application with the right modules every time. This is my fourth progress report on that work. I've done quite a lot of work on Pinto the last few weeks. And ... read more |
Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer reported: This past May, The Perl Foundation awarded a grant to fund development of a couple features in Pinto. Pinto is a robust tool for curating a private repository of CPAN modules, so you can build your application with the right modules every time. This is my third progress report on that work. I've been preoccupied with Stratopan lately, so I have no progress to report this ... read more |
Torsten Raudssus reported: In July 2013 I started work on my grant, using time off given by my empoyer for such projects. Unfortunately, after my first week of work, the NSA Snowden Affair brought a massive influx of interest towards DuckDuckGo, forcing me to pause my progress. At the Patch -p1 event I plan to continue my work on the grant. In the first week, I concentrated on forming a ... read more |
Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer reported: This past May, The Perl Foundation awarded a grant to fund development of a couple features in Pinto. Pinto is a robust tool for curating a private repository of CPAN modules, so you can build your application with the right modules every time. This is my second progress report on that work. The next deliverable on the grant proposal is a merge command. The idea here ... read more |
Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer reported: This past May, The Perl Foundation awarded a grant to fund development of a couple features in Pinto. Pinto is a robust tool for curating a private repository of CPAN modules, so you can build your application with the right modules every time. This is my first progress report on that work. The grant proposal covered two key features. I have a tendency to pick the ... read more |
Enrique Nell and Joaquin Ferrero reported: Project status: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkmrG_9Q4x15dC1MNWloU0lyUjhGa2NrdTVTOG5WZVE CPAN distribution: http://search.cpan.org/dist/POD2-ES/ Project host: https://github.com/zipf/perldoc-es If we hadn't lost so much time building a nuclear shelter in the backyard, our final report would have been ready by Christmas time... We still can't believe the Mayan prophecy was wrong!! This is our last monthly grant report. It also includes a summary of the tasks completed during this 6-month period. New files ... read more |
Grant Conclusion Report Shlomi Fish has sent a Grant Conclusion Report: This is a final report of my grant of improving the Perl built-in debugger |
Shlomi Fish reported: This report will be less formal and detailed than the other reports, because I have neglected to write the changes I did every day as I went. I continued to refactor |
Enrique Nell and Joaquin Ferrero reported: Project status: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkmrG_9Q4x15dC1MNWloU0lyUjhGa2NrdTVTOG5WZVE CPAN distribution: http://search.cpan.org/dist/POD2-ES/ Project host: https://github.com/zipf/perldoc-es After a brief interlude, we have resumed our reporting activity. A careful analysis of our report date slip trend shows strong evidence that our final report might be ready at Christmas time. During this month we updated to v5.16.2 and finally completed the translation of |
Shlomi Fish reported: 2012-Sep-25: Test |
Enrique Nell and Joaquin Ferrero reported: Project status: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkmrG_9Q4x15dC1MNWloU0lyUjhGa2NrdTVTOG5WZVE CPAN distribution: http://search.cpan.org/dist/POD2-ES/ Project host: https://github.com/zipf/perldoc-es In the context of our terminology extraction efforts, we decided to give priority to |
Shlomi Fish reported: 2012-Sep-08: Added a test for the |
Enrique Nell and Joaquin Ferrero reported: Project status: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkmrG_9Q4x15dC1MNWloU0lyUjhGa2NrdTVTOG5WZVE CPAN distribution: http://search.cpan.org/~enell/POD2-ES-5.16.1.02/ Project host: https://github.com/zipf/perldoc-es This month we updated |
Shlomi Fish reported: 2012-Sep-01: Plans for today: 1. Report the segfaults in |
Shlomi Fish reported: 2012-Aug-28: I received the E-mail that my grant for improving the Perl debugger was accepted in the afternoon today My grant manager will be Alan Haggai Alavi, whom I talked with and successfully collaborated with in the past. I decided to start working. I checked the pending tests on my shlomif-perl-d-add-tests-take-2-may-git-burn-in-hell has given me some trouble in the past incarnation of the branch>, and after merging the ... read more |
David Golden reported: Cooking Perl with Chef Grant Completion Report I am pleased to report the completion of my TPF grant, "Cooking Perl with Chef". The goal of this grant was to create ready-to-use tools and supporting tutorials that teach Perl developers how to deploy Perl applications repeatable and reliably using the Chef configuration management tool. In the section of the original proposal on my motivations for this grant, I ... read more |
Enrique Nell and Joaquin Ferrero reported: Project status: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkmrG_9Q4x15dC1MNWloU0lyUjhGa2NrdTVTOG5WZVE CPAN distribution: http://search.cpan.org/~enell/POD2-ES-5.16.0.07/ Project host: https://github.com/zipf/perldoc-es During the second month we did a thorough proofreading of files included in POD2::ES which led to fixing several errors We also kept updating translated files to 5.16.0, and reviewed a few files that were included in the latest POD2::ES releases. While translating perlobj.pod, a bug in sample code was detected and reported through perlbug. ... read more |
David Golden reported: Overview For those wondering about of updates on this grant, I'm pleased to be back with some significant progress on the teaching deliverables. Some circumstances in my personal life required me to put the grant on the back burner during June, but July and OSCON-centered conference-driven development have allowed me to rebuild some momentum. In particular, I have three things to announce: perlchef.com is now live. This ... read more |
Enrique Nell and Joaquin Ferrero reported: Project status: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkmrG_9Q4x15dC1MNWloU0lyUjhGa2NrdTVTOG5WZVE CPAN distribution: http://search.cpan.org/~enell/POD2-ES-5.16.0.04/ Project host: https://github.com/zipf/perldoc-es During the last month we updated POD2::ES from v5.14.2 to v5.16.0 and released to CPAN the updated distribution. Other translated files that still must be reviewed Tools We have implemented several changes in the post-processing script: Support for the new naming convention used for Readmes in v5.16 Handling of pod files containing the =encoding utf8 ... read more |
David Golden reported: Current progress Three of the eight deliverables are complete and a fourth is substantially complete: Publish a Chef cookbook for Perl interpreter deployment Publish a Chef cookbook for CPAN module deployment Publish a Chef cookbook for Plack application deployment Improve the Pantry command line tool Pantry I released new versions of Pantry to CPAN, which add support for command-line configuration of Chef nodes and roles for use ... read more |
David Golden reported: Current progress Three of the eight deliverables are complete: Publish a Chef cookbook for Perl interpreter deployment Publish a Chef cookbook for CPAN module deployment Publish a Chef cookbook for Plack application deployment These have been uploaded to the Opscode Community Cookbooks site in two separate cookbook distributions: perlbrew The perlbrew cookbook satisfies deliverables #1 and #2. It provides several "lightweight resource providers" that use perlbrew to ... read more |
David Golden reported: I have adapted the "proof of concept" code that I demonstrated at Perl Oasis based on issues discovered subsequently. The code is sufficient to deploy the "Hello World" application that will be the basis for one of the tutorials and the presentation. Over the next couple weeks, I will be working on documentation and preparing the "cookbooks" for release to Opscode's community Chef repository. I will also ... read more |
Kartik Thakore reported: Cleaner Code and a lot of memory and performance improvements 10 out of 11 chapters completed: The profiling chapter was dropped as there was not enough content to justify a chapter. 3 Extra chapters added. Deviation from a CPAN SDL::Manual release. Due to the nature of the Manual it is being released as a creative commons book instead https://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL_Manual/blob/master/dist/SDL_Manual.pdf Next Steps: Get the book polished ... read more |
Kartik Thakore reported: Added content for several chapters: Tetris Chapter: Cleaned up the code Started work on chapter Music and Sound Chapter: Added code and sound data files Finished Chapter Code Profiling Chapter Start work XS Effects Chapter: Explain Inline::C usage with SDL First draft completed Additional Chapter to get art content SDL Supports Inline::XS Preliminary ... read more |
Kartik Thakore reported: SDL 2.523 released: Adds stability and better memory management for the game loop Two chapters have been completed Pong chapter Additional modules One extra chapter has been added Puzz chapter 2 Chapters are in the Works Tetris code has mostly been done Needs to be fixed Needs write up Sound and music effects code has been done Needs ... read more |
Kartik Thakore reported: Since last time: We have released SDL 2.518 Game Loop support completed Chapters: 2nd Drafts for: Preface to Game Loop Chapters completed: 5/11 45% Extra: cfedde has made a script to extract code listings for readers to try examples with out having to retype them. Coments: I am receiving a lot more help from the community, most notable from cfedde for proofreading. I will be ... read more |
Kartik Thakore reported: 1st drafts Preface Chapter 2: First SDL Application Started work on Chapter 3: Drawing Outlines for the first 7 chapters have been completed Book build framework has been setup Released SDL 2.514 This code is the one that will be used in the book for chapter 02 Got more of the Drawing chapter done Added several more code examples for other chapters Progress: 2.75 ... read more |