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  • The Perl Foundation is at OSCON Wed, 25-Jul-2007 by Jim Brandt

    Got a question about The Perl Foundation Want to volunteer some time for The Perl Foundation? Come see us on the floor in the Expo Hall at OSCON We're right next to the massage booth!

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  • ProhibitComplexMapping Policy Released Sun, 15-Jul-2007 by Rosellyne Thompson
    in: Grants

    It gives me great pleasure to announce that Chris Dolan's Policies for Perl::Critic grant awarded April 07, is now underway. Chris intends to add twenty policies that are inspired by Damian Conway's Perl Best Practices to Perl::Critic to help developers to make their code more maintainable. Chris has written the first of the twenty policies funded by the grant, Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitComplexMapping, which insists that the block argument to map has at

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  • Parrot Grant Update - May and June Wed, 11-Jul-2007 by Dave Rolsky
    in: Grants

    May and June saw the usual monthly releases of Parrot, 0.4.12 and 0.4.13. Between these two releases, there were numerous language updates, including PHP and Lisp. On the Perl 6 front, 0.4.13 was the first release where Parrot passed the Perl 6 sanity tests. This is an exciting achievement, because it means that Parrot supports enough of Perl 6 that the developers can start using Perl 6 to bootstrap its

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  • Reminder: Call for Venue--YAPC::NA::2008 deadline Wed, 11-Jul-2007 by Jim Brandt

    The deadline for submitting your venue bids for this year is approaching. I know there are some folks out there working on bids, so don't count on us going into overtime. The due date is August 1. You can find more details in this year's call and the previous call

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  • New TPF Community Relations Leader Tue, 10-Jul-2007 by Bill Odom

    After four years of excellent work behind the scenes of pm.org Dave Cross has decided to step down and take a well-deserved rest. Thanks, Dave! Stepping into Dave's role is José Castro, already well-known to many in our community as cog José will be leading a team charged with helping to establish and nurture Perl Mongers groups throughout the world. There are already a number of projects under way, and

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  • A new wiki for Perl 5 Tue, 10-Jul-2007 by Bill Odom

    The irrepressible Michael Schwern has launched a new wiki devoted to all things Perl 5, and has invited everyone to contribute: Perl 5 needs a place to collect its community knowledge which is currently scattered around in penny packets on perl mongers sites, scads of perl.org hosts, mailing list archives, man pages and books. This sort of thing is handled well by a wiki. Perl 5 now has one: http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/

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  • A trio of Perl 6 microgrants Thu, 05-Jul-2007 by Bill Odom

    Three more Perl 6 Microgrants have been awarded! Jesse Vincent of Best Practical writes: Flavio Glock will receive a travel microgrant to help him attend YAPC::EU and evangelize kp6 and the Perl 6 in Perl 6 effort. Steve Pritchard will receive a microgrant to complete the RPM packaging of Parrot and Pugs for Fedora, and to submit those packages for inclusion in the official Fedora distribution. Steve will be blogging

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  • Help Wanted: Some Hacking on a Google Calendar Script Fri, 29-Jun-2007 by Jim Brandt

    This is an easy one. I need a script to grab conference event data from the Perl community Google calendar. I've got it started, but it needs some polishing. If you're interested, email me and I'll send you what I've got so far

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  • Parrot and Perl 6 wikis moved to perlfoundation.org Fri, 29-Jun-2007 by Andy Lester

    For a year or two now, I've hosted the Perl 6 and Parrot wikis on my home server, on a not-too-fast DSL line, at rakudo.org. They've now been moved to the wiki infrastructure at perlfoundation.org, on a dedicated box. This means much better performance, so if you've tried the wikis before and found them slow, check them out now. The moved wiki workspaces are: http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/ Perl 6 http://www.perlfoundation.org/parrot/ Parrot http://www.perlfoundation.org/hackathon-chicago/

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  • Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2007 announced Mon, 25-Jun-2007 by Andy Lester

    The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is a low-cost technical conference held at the University Center on Carnegie Mellon University's Oakland Campus The workshop will be held on October 13–14 2007 You can sign up for the announcement mailing list at Google Groups 06/22/07 Announcing PPW 2007 October 13,14 2007 The Pittsburgh Perl Mongers are pleased to announce The PITTSBURGH PERL WORKSHOP 2007, a two-day, low-cost

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  • Perl 6 & Parrot Essentials now available as project documentation Wed, 20-Jun-2007 by Bill Odom

    Allison Randal informs us that she has "...just signed an agreement with O'Reilly that assigns the full copyright in the book Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials to The Perl Foundation. The text is out-of-date, but can be updated much more rapidly than it can be rewritten from scratch." The contents of the book will soon be available via the perl.org Subversion server Many thanks to O'Reilly for this generous gift

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  • Parrot 0.4.13 "Clifton" released Wed, 20-Jun-2007 by Andy Lester

    On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.4.13 "Clifton." Parrot parrotcode.org is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 0.4.13 can be obtained via CPAN or follow the download instructions at http://parrotcode.org/source.html Parrot 0.4.13 News: Languages: Updated Lisp, Lua, PHP Python ABC, WMLScript, and Tcl Perl 6 passes all of the sanity tests. PGE supports latest Perl 6 grammar syntax.

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  • Parrot Bug Day, June 16th 2007 Tue, 12-Jun-2007 by Andy Lester

    On Saturday, 16 June 2007, please join us on IRC in #parrot to work on closing out as many RT tickets as possible in the parrot queue https://rt.perl.org/rt3/ This will help us get ready for the next release of parrot: 0.4.13, scheduled for Tuesday 19 June 2007. You'll find C, Parrot assembly, Perl, documentation, and plenty of tasks to go around. Core developers will be available most of the day

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  • Parrot Grant Update - February, March, and April Fri, 11-May-2007 by Dave Rolsky

    Since this update is so late, I'm taking the liberty of covering three months of Parrot work, rather than two. That means this report covers February through end of April of 2007. Parrot has been sticking to its new monthly release schedule, which means that we saw three releases in this grant period, 0.4.9, 0.4.10, and 0.4.11. The highlight of this period is the finalization of the object design marking

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  • Call for Venue--YAPC::NA::2008 Thu, 10-May-2007 by Jim Brandt

    It's that time of year again--we need your bids in to host YAPC::NA in your town next summer. Most of the details for a bid are in my post from last year To re-iterate a few points: If you plan on bidding, folks from your group should really attend YAPC::NA this year to see how things work and maybe even help out. Get your bid ready early and we'll give

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  • Calls For Proposals Tue, 08-May-2007 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    If you have an idea for doing some work for the Perl community and you think it's worthy of a grant, please send your grant entry to tpf-proposals@perl-foundation.org Because we're running a little late this time, submission deadline is June 8, 2007, voting starts immediately after. We will be awarding the grants by the beginning of July. Voting usually goes fairly quickly, so we don't anticipate a problem. First, please

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  • XML::RSS Cleanup Grant Completed - Final Report Wed, 02-May-2007 by Rosellyne Thompson
    in: Grants

    I am pleased to announce that Shlomi Fish has completed his XML::RSS cleanup grant In his own words, Shlomi has summarised the work he's done and offers his thanks to those who helped him transform XML::RSS into a high quality tool for the community: This is a summary of a Perl Foundation XML::RSS grant, I've been doing. Its scope was for two or three months from 1 January, 2007 onwards,

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  • Help Wanted: SOAP::Lite Wed, 02-May-2007 by Jim Brandt

    Here's my first Help Wanted entry. SOAP::Lite needs your help. Byrne Reese has posted a good assessment of the state of the SOAP::Lite Read on for details. To start, SOAP::Lite works. That is, it works well for easy things and you can get it to work for complicated things. But it needs help and it's going to need more help in the near future. SOAP is becoming more and more

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  • Help Wanted: Perl Coding Needed Wed, 02-May-2007 by Jim Brandt

    I often hear this: "I'd get involved in Perl, but all the cool stuff is done and there's no room to make a name for myself. No one needs another DBI module..." or even: "All the cool kids are using because they don't have CPAN yet and they can become the uber-programmer for the cool modules." Well, to these I say, "Nonsense!" There is a ton of work to be

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  • White Camel nominations for 2007 now open Thu, 26-Apr-2007 by Andy Lester

    It's a new year and time for the White Camel process to begin. The White Camel awards are given each year at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention by The Perl Foundation for community-oriented, rather than technical, contributions to Perl. The list of previous winners goes back to 1999. The nomination process is open to the public, and we welcome your involvement. If there's someone who's served to make Perl better,

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  • Running Perl on your Apple TV Tue, 17-Apr-2007 by Andy Lester
    in: Projects

    Hackszine.com has an article about how to run Perl programs on your Apple TV so that you can have little menu options to look up the weather and whatnot.

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  • Hackathon Toronto is April 28, 2007 Wed, 11-Apr-2007 by Andy Lester

    James Keenan writes: Toronto Perl Mongers are pleased to announce Hackathon Toronto a one- day, almost-spur-of-the-moment hackathon, to be held Saturday, April 28, 2007. A hackathon is a gathering of free and open source software developers reflecting the joy of collective hacking. Building on the tradition of previous Perl hackathons in Toronto, Chicago and elsewhere, Hackathon Toronto will encourage people to come together for face-to-face work on Perl 5, Perl

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  • Perl Events, Great and Small Tue, 10-Apr-2007 by Jim Brandt

    There are so many Perl events around the world now that I thought I'd take a shot at categorizing how they all relate to one another. I thought this might help people thinking about attending something for the first time, people thinking about presenting something and also people thinking about organizing an event. For people thinking about becoming more involved in the Perl community, this presents a sort of ladder

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  • Phil Crow to create JDBC API for Perl 6 Sat, 07-Apr-2007 by Andy Lester

    From Jesse Vincent and Leon Brocard: We're pleased to announce that we've selected Phil Crow as the recipient of the second Perl 6 microgrant. Phil is the hacker behind the Java::Swing module that allows Perl programmers to put a Java Swing GUI on their application without writing any Java and he'll be using this knowledge to convert Java declarations to Perl 6. You can find details of the project he's

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  • Planet YAPC Fri, 06-Apr-2007 by Jim Brandt

    With so many Perl events going on around the world, I often wish I could take a quick peek to see what's going on at each one. I watch the conference sites and wikis when I can and I watch use.perl, but not everyone posts info there. I think what I really want is a planet yapc aggregator like planet perl that could pull in blogs tagged with pre-arranged tags.

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  • YAPC::Europe::2008 Call for Venue Thu, 05-Apr-2007 by Jim Brandt

    Just announced Note that based on our schedule, the call for venue for YAPC::NA will be coming soon as well. With preparations for YAPC::Europe::2007 well underway in Vienna, it is time for the YAPC::Europe Venue Committee to consider suitable hosts for the 2008 conference. Any dedicated group interested in hosting YAPC::Europe::2008 should send a brief statement of intent to venue@yapceurope.org A full and complete application should then be sent to

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  • YAPC::NA Registration Open with Act Mon, 02-Apr-2007 by Jim Brandt

    In case you haven't seen it elsewhere registration for YAPC::NA is now open One really cool part about this is that it takes the Act! -hosted conference site to the next point of integration, which is accepting payments through the Perl Foundation's payment site This fulfills a large part of my call last year for a conference system I mentioned that Act was a start, but it wasn't open-source and

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  • New Grant Awards Sun, 01-Apr-2007 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    The Perl Foundation is pleased to announce two new grant awards. The first is adding new policies to Perl::Critic. The second is improving the Smolder project. Note that the second project involves the TAP::Parser module This was a project I started, currently maintained on the CPAN by Andy Armstrong This is slated to be the replacement for Test::Harness. Because we're seeing more grant applications involving this module, I have decided

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  • Mango Grant Update Sun, 01-Apr-2007 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    Here are the latest update from the Mango grant. As a side note, we're working on a new process for getting grant information out even faster than we currently do If everyone signs off, this information should be much more timely. Update 1 I finally got desperate enough to find a solution I could live with after rolling my own config file format. So, I managed to convert the admin/roles/users

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  • First Perl 6 microgrant announced Mon, 26-Mar-2007 by Andy Lester

    From Jesse Vincent Leon Brocard: We're pleased to announce that we've selected Steve Peters as the recipient of the first Perl 6 microgrant. Steve has been instrumental in helping to ensure that Perl 5 has stayed incredibly portable for the past few years. Steve's starting to turn some of his attention to Parrot. You can find details of the project he's planning in the text of his grant application:

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  • Adam Kennedy's Refactoring Editor Grant Sun, 25-Mar-2007 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    First off, let's get the bad news out of the way. Here's Adam's final report on the PPI refactoring editor: It is with some sadness I think I will have to finally draw a line under this effort and consider it over. Without the appearance of a pure-Perl cross-platform programmer's text editor on the CPAN, I don't see how I can complete the proof of concept. The entire grant was

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  • European Perl Hackathon Results Thu, 22-Mar-2007 by Jim Brandt

    The first European Perl Hackathon has successfully concluded. They ended up with 16 registered attendees from 6 different countries. Read on for more details. The total cost to The Perl Foundation was 468.71 euros, and you can read about what they got done on the successes page Work was done on Parrot, Perl, Act, CPAN6, and a few other things. You can find some additional info here: Flickr Spaanse Filosoof

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  • Best Practical sponsors Perl 6 Microgrants Thu, 22-Mar-2007 by Bill Odom

    Best Practical and TPF are pleased to announce the inaugural Perl 6 Microgrants program. Best Practical Solutions has donated USD5,000 to The Perl Foundation to help support Perl 6 Development. Leon Brocard, representing TPF's Grants Committee, will work with Jesse Vincent, Perl 6 Project Manager to select proposals and evaluate project success. We'll be making USD500 grants to worthy Perl 6-related efforts. We're hoping to fund a range of Perl

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  • TPF and SoC 2007 Tue, 20-Mar-2007 by Bill Odom

    A few people have raised questions about TPF's lack of involvement in this year's Google Summer of Code wondering if TPF simply decided not to participate, or if there was more to the story. There is, and I hope this post will help answer the questions. The short version: We submitted an application to be a mentoring organization, but we weren't accepted. The longer version starts back in 2005, when

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  • Parrot Grant Update - December, 2006 and January, 2007 Mon, 05-Mar-2007 by Dave Rolsky

    Here's the latest grant update as sent to NLNet The 0.4.8 release Parrot marked the completion of a design milestone, the IO PDD. This is a major accomplishment, as the design work on IO impacts much of Parrot's design, including areas such as concurrency and networking. This work was completed by Allison with help and review by Jerry Gay. The next area Allison will be focusing on is the object

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  • Grant Updates Tue, 20-Feb-2007 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    Desperately trying to catch up with everything needed for the grant committee and am getting around to posting grant updates for Ingy and Chris Laco. For Ingy's "Port PyYAML to Perl" grant: Ingy's not been able to make much progress over the last month due to other commitments, but is now back in the saddle. He's aiming to do the the libyaml bindings first. This will likely get us to

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  • Haskell book available on wikibooks Mon, 12-Feb-2007 by Jim Brandt

    I was checking out Wikibooks today and noticed that one of the "hot picks" is a wikibook on Haskell Looks like it might be a good way to get your feet wet and maybe help out the Perl 6 development effort.

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  • Grants: Calls for Proposals Fri, 02-Feb-2007 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    If you have an idea for doing some work for the Perl community and you think it's worthy of a grant, please send your grant entry to tpf-proposals@perl-foundation.org Submission deadline is the last day of February, voting starts in March and we will be awarding the grants by the beginning of April. First, please read about how to submit a grant Read that carefully as grants are often rejected if

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  • European Perl Hackathon Fri, 02-Feb-2007 by Jim Brandt

    Details are now available for the European Perl Hackathon in Arnhem, the Netherlands, from 2 4 March, 2007. Space is limited for this one and it's coming up soon, so don't wait if you're interested. From the organizers: Familiarity with the featured projects is not required; you need only bring a laptop and a willingness to join in. Although there is no fee to attend the hackathon, you are required

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  • Time to prepare your presentations Mon, 29-Jan-2007 by Jim Brandt

    It's the time of year to gather up all the cool stuff you've been working on and get it ready to show everyone else. The calls are out there for several conferences right now: YAPC::Asia Nordic Perl Workshop YAPC::NA YAPC::EU OSCON Wow, that's a lot of Perl to talk about.

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  • A Conference Toolkit (ACT) Goes Open Source Fri, 26-Jan-2007 by Jim Brandt

    A while ago I blogged that I really wanted a Perl-based conference toolkit that YAPCs and other conferences could use so they didn't spend time hacking on the website when they should be organizing the conference. Well, the folks who work on ACT have been working to fulfill some of the items I presented and earlier today they officially announced that it is open source with a dual GPL/Artistic license.

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  • Grant Updates Tue, 23-Jan-2007 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    We have two grant updates this time. Adam Kennedy's "Extending PPI Towards a Refactoring Perl Editor" has no new news to report. This grant is currently stalled. Shlomi Fish's work on "XML::RSS Cleanup", however, is going quite well. Read on for more information. Well, I wrote two use.perl.org journal entries about XML-RSS that detail some of my progress: http://use.perl.org/~Shlomi+Fish/journal/32081 http://use.perl.org/~Shlomi+Fish/journal/32121 What's been accomplished: 1. Moving the data files from under

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  • Mango Grant Update Thu, 04-Jan-2007 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    Chris Laco's Mango grant application work was delayed slightly, but he's now starting on it. Below is his latest grant update, as collected by his grant manager, Adrian Howard. Well, it's that time of year. Time to pay the piper. Handel 1.0 and Handel-Storage-RDBO 0.01 are in a holding pattern waiting for releases of DBIC and RDBO, but they're done. Time to get the Mango train rolling. Done: setup

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  • Grants Awards Thu, 04-Jan-2007 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    Grant vote results are in and one grant was awarded. The first Perl Foundation grant of 2007 has been award to Shlomi Fish for resolving outstanding issues in XML::RSS Shlomi has worked with Ask Bjørn Hansen, the module's maintainer, to resolve some bugs in it in the past and now plans to tackle the rest of the work. Rosellyn Thompson is the grant manager assigned to this grant. Below is

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  • Perl Hackathons Gaining Steam Wed, 27-Dec-2006 by Jim Brandt

    It seems the Chicago hackathon organized by Andy Lester and Pete Krawczyk and sponsored by the Perl Foundation has sparked some interest from other groups. We think these events are a great way to support Perl, use your donations effectively, and keep things rolling on various active projects. Now we need some ideas on how we should keep things going. I think hackathons will largely be regional events. This is

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  • Parrot Grant Update - October and November Wed, 20-Dec-2006 by Dave Rolsky

    Here's the latest grant update as sent to NLNet During October and November, Allison has continued working on the PDD for IO, which she hopes to finish soon. Parrot 0.4.7 was released on November 14th. This release includes design work on bytecode files, embedding, concurrency, and objects. The bytecode file PDD is complete, and is beginning to be implemented. There has been significant design and implementation work on the Perl6

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  • Save the date: New England Perl Workshop, March 10, 2007 Wed, 13-Dec-2006 by Andy Lester

    This just in from the Boston Perl Mongers Boston.pm will be presenting the inaugural "New England Perl Workshop" at Northeastern University on Saturday, March 10th, 2007. We are following in the tradition of the Pittsburgh, London, and Nordic Perl workshops in having two tracks of talks with opportunities to socialize. We're also hoping to include a hackathon. We hope to draw a mix of interested participants from New England and

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  • Parrot bug day is December 16, 2006 Tue, 12-Dec-2006 by Andy Lester

    Parrot ’s first ever Bug Day is this Saturday, 16 December 2006. The core Parrot developers will be in #parrot on irc.perl.org all day to: Review tickets in the Parrot RT queue Answer questions from newcomers Fix bugs Add features Improve the documentation or tests or… Recruit and encourage new developers If you’re curious about Parrot, please join us. You don’t have to be an expert programmer. If you can

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  • Grant Information Update Thu, 07-Dec-2006 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    Sorry this hasn't been updated lately. Our company is shutting down their offices and I have to move to London. Needless to say, my life has been in a bit of a turmoil as I try to get things sorted out Now, on with the grant update: Christopher Laco's Mango grant is being postponed until January. We're still waiting on an update regarding Ingy dot Net's grant to port PyYAML

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  • Lightning talks in Omaha Mon, 04-Dec-2006 by Andy Lester
    in: Meetings

    Robert Fulkerson sends notice of a set of a Perl lightning talks in Omaha, NE, on December 5th at 6pm. "Everyone's invited to come visit the UNO CSCI 2850 class's semester-ending lightning talks. This semester's talks are in room 256 at the Peter Kiewit Institute at 67th Pacific. They'll start at 6 PM and last until 7:30. Unfortunately, we don't have any funding so there won't be any drinks or

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  • A trio of Perl calendars Sun, 03-Dec-2006 by Andy Lester

    December brings three different online calendars for the Perl community. First, the traditional Perl Advent Calendar informs you about a snazzy module every day until the 25th, with requisite RSS feed for those of you practicing one of the three virtues this holiday season. Next, for Catalyst users, or those who'd like to start, the Catalyst Advent Calendar brings a daily tip for those interested in this increasingly popular framework.

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  • Chicago Perl Hackathon a rousing success Fri, 17-Nov-2006 by Andy Lester

    The first standalone Perl Hackathon has been a rousing success, and The Perl Foundation is looking forward to sponsoring two or three each year around the country, or around the world. From Friday November 10th to Sunday November 12th, over thirty Perl hackers converged on the Country Inn Suites in Crystal Lake, IL, a far northwest suburb of Chicago. For three days, nearly around the clock, we worked, talked, ate,

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  • Perl's taint checking to the rescue Fri, 17-Nov-2006 by Andy Lester

    I read today in the November 15th issue of Software Development Times that buffer overflows are no longer the most common update security problem reported by CVE cve.mitre.org The three most common types of security vulnerabilities in 2005 were cross-site scripting SQL injection and buffer overflows So far in 2005, buffer overflows has lost the #3 place to PHP remote includes. The good news is that Perl has long had

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  • Nat Torkington interviewed Sun, 05-Nov-2006 by Andy Lester

    Perl Foundation board member, conference organizer and Perl oldbie Nat Torkington is interviewed in this article from Linux Format

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  • Call for Proposals Wed, 01-Nov-2006 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    This call for proposals is delayed because I managed to set up my calendar notification incorrectly. My apologies if this has inconvenienced anyone. Also, after this, I'll be on vacation for a week and a half, so I won't be able to respond right away to grant submissions, but I'll catch up with this when I get back. If you have an idea for doing some work for the Perl

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  • Parrot Grant Update - August and September Fri, 27-Oct-2006 by Dave Rolsky

    Here's the latest Parrot Grant Update In August and September, Allison has been working on the PDD for IO, which she expects to finish sometime in October or November. Because IO, events, and threads are so inter-related, some of the IO work will spill over into work on the PDDs for events and threads as well. Parrot 0.4.6 was released on August 9. It includes support for several new languages,

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  • YAML Grant Status Thu, 26-Oct-2006 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    For those curious, the YAML grant's status is being tracked by Ingy döt Net at this wiki I'll chase down more info on the Mango grant and post it here. #perl-yaml-grants-mango

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  • Krugle joins the Chicago Hackathon Fri, 20-Oct-2006 by Andy Lester

    The Chicago Hackathon http://hackathon.info is excited to have Krugle part of the proceedings. Krugle http://krugle.com is a search engine for source code, projects, and technical information across the web, and they want your feedback. The Krugle team wants to hear from Perl programmers about how Krugle can be more useful to the Perl community. On Saturday, Krugle will be hosting a demo of Krugle, as well as feeding us pizza.

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  • Moving toward a conferences toolkit (ACT) Fri, 06-Oct-2006 by Jim Brandt

    Long-time readers might remember my plea for a conference module to allow YAPC organizers to organize rather than hack the website. Well, I'm very pleased to announce that I was able to get in touch with the YAPC Europe folks and the ACT folks and they have agreed to work on making ACT the default YAPC web site framework. One of the main issues with ACT was that it hadn't

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  • Thanks Nick Wed, 27-Sep-2006 by Graham Barr

    This week the Perl community lost one of its long time contributors, Nick Ing-Simmons, who died of a heart attack on Monday September 25th 2006. Nick joined the Perl community in the early days of Perl 5. He consistently contributed to the perl5-porters mailing list and later became pumpkin for 5.003_02 where he added the initial implementation of the PerlIO layer. Nick is probably best known for his work on

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  • Take back your modules Mon, 18-Sep-2006 by Andy Lester

    Mark Stosberg wrote a great article on perlmonks called "Take Back Your Modules" about the responsibilities module users have for the modules they use.

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  • A look at Ruby on Parrot Wed, 13-Sep-2006 by Andy Lester

    Pat Eyler pointed me to his interview with Kevin Tew of the Cardinal project Cardinal is Ruby running on the Parrot virtual machine.

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  • Perl 5 powering Web 2.0 Tue, 05-Sep-2006 by Andy Lester

    John Wang has a great blog entry titled Perl 5 Powering Web 2.0 that points at all the web apps out there that are done in good ol' Perl 5. You don't have to have Rails to do amazing things with the web. You want frameworks, we got frameworks!

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  • Houston and Vienna for YAPCs Next Year Fri, 01-Sep-2006 by Jim Brandt

    The Perl Foundation in conjunction with the YAPC::Europe Foundation are happy to announce Houston and Vienna as the venues for next year's North American and European YAPCs. The votes were close again this year for YAPC::NA and we had three excellent bids from Boston, Houston, and Philadelphia. With the evaluations complete, the Perl Foundation's Conferences Committee has selected Houston, Texas, as the venue for YAPC::NA::2007. The proposal was a joint

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  • Announcing the Chicago Hackathon 2006, Nov 10-12 Mon, 28-Aug-2006 by Andy Lester

    The Chicago Perl Mongers and 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

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  • Ponie has been put out to pasture Wed, 23-Aug-2006 by Andy Lester

    Over the past several years, one key aspect of the migration plan to Perl 6 has been the Ponie project, a fusion of the Perl 5 runtime with Parrot. Sponsored by Fotango, Artur Bergman and Nicholas Clark did a heroic job cleaning up Perl's internals to make it possible to replace some components of Perl 5 with Parrot, one piece at a time, while still keeping the core of the

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  • TPF RFC Tue, 22-Aug-2006 by Bill Odom

    TPF's been a busy little foundation lately. Interesting things are taking shape, and you'll be seeing announcements about some of them very soon. Be sure to stay tuned. Much of this progress is a result of the excellent feedback we've received from the community. pleasant feedback, but it's useful all the same.> But we're a greedy bunch, and making progress just makes us want to make more. That means we

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  • Grant approved: Mango Tue, 22-Aug-2006 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    Here's Christopher Laco's "Mango" grant application. NAME: Christopher H Laco EMAIL: claco@chrislaco.com PROJECT: Mango AMOUNT: $1500 DURATION: 2-3 Months, starting immediately. SYNOPSIS: Mango is a Web 2.0 Ecommerce Solution built using the Handel and Catalyst frameworks. PREFACE: Since graduating college, I've spent the last 10 years working on various forms of ecommerce solutions. Most of that time has been in connecting various website checkout processes to backend business systems using

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  • Grant approved: Port PyYAML to Perl Tue, 22-Aug-2006 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    Here's Brian Ingerson's "Port PyYAML to Perl" grant application. Name: Ingy döt Net Email: ingy@ttul.org Project Title: Port PyYAML to Perl Amount Requested: $3000 Synopsis: PyYAML is a pure Python implementation of the YAML 1.1 specification It is considered the highest quality YAML implementation to date. It has an excellent API a comprehensive test suite, full unicode support, very good tagging/type support, follows the spec precisely and is written in

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  • 2006 3rd Quarter Vote Results Tue, 22-Aug-2006 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    The latest round of grant voting has ended and I've informed all of the applicants of the status of their grant. Two grants were approved this quarter "Porting PyYAML to Perl" and "Mango", a Web 2.0 ecommerce application built using the Handel and Catalyst frameworks. The full applications will be posted after this. The PyYAML port is to be done by Ingy and was approved because frankly, YAML support in

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  • Parrot Grant Update - June and July Sat, 19-Aug-2006 by Dave Rolsky

    My job as Parrot Grant Manager is basically to make prepare a report every two months for NLnet, who are the funders behind the big Parrot grant Here is the grant report for June and July of 2006: Since the last report, there has been a change in title for several of the Parrot contributors. Allison Randal has taken on the mantle of chief architect. This means that she will

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  • Bids Posted Fri, 04-Aug-2006 by Jim Brandt

    I have posted all the bids. If you seen any horrible errors in my cut-and-paste, let me know perlfoundation.org or post a comment.

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  • YAPC::NA::2007 Boston Bid Fri, 04-Aug-2006 by Jim Brandt

    The Boston.pm bid follows: Update: Applied some formatting updates from Bob Clancy to address cut-off columns on some tables. NAME SYNOPSIS CRITERIA Estimated Costs Site 1: Northeastern University Introduction Meeting Room Costs Banquet Costs Possible University Staff Costs A/V costs Speaker Costs Other Costs Site 2: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Readily Accessible Location Public Transportation

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  • YAPC::NA::2007 Philadelphia Bid Fri, 04-Aug-2006 by Jim Brandt

    The Philadelphia.pm bid follows: YAPC::Philadelphia 2007 Overview Why Philadelphia? Because Philadelphia is less than an 8 hour drive for one third of the nation's population. Because it is home of the cheesesteak. And most importantly because we are hosting YAPC just before Independence Day, a day the city participated in creating. Each year Philadelphia celebrates with more than a week of activities at the Sunoco Welcome America festival complete with

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  • YAPC::NA::2007 Houston Bid Fri, 04-Aug-2006 by Jim Brandt

    The Houston.pm bid follows: Overview Proposed Dates Facilities Location Rice University University of Houston Downtown University of Houston Internet Access Cost/Affordability Low Cost Experience Attendee Cost Conference Budget Audio/Visual and Equipment Other Fees and Services Accommodations Food Service/Catering Dining Catering Internet Access Alternative Accommodations Transportation Getting to Houston

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  • YAPC::NA::2007 Call for Venue Now Closed Thu, 03-Aug-2006 by Jim Brandt

    After a flurry of last minute activity and a submission at 11:58 PM EST last night, the bidding period for hosting YAPC::NA::2007 is now closed. I'm happy to report that we have three bids, two of them from confederations of multiple PM groups. First, let me clarify that I did extend the bid deadline by one day because of some confusion with one of the groups regarding the due date.

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  • YAPC::NA call for venue deadline tomorrow Mon, 31-Jul-2006 by Jim Brandt

    I think the title says it all. August 1 is the deadline, so get your hosting bids polished up and submitted. As discussed here previously, once the call for venue is officially closed

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  • Reminder: YAPC::NA Call for Venue Closing Soon Mon, 17-Jul-2006 by Jim Brandt

    As spelled out in my original Call for Venue August 1st is the closing date. At this year's YAPC::NA, the YAPC BOF drew some interested parties from Texas who were considering a bid. I also believe Boston.pm were going to re-submit, but I haven't heard anything from them recently. Did you attend this year and have a blast? Can you keep YAPC::NA going? We need you to make it happen

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  • Call for proposals -- Perl Foundation Grants Sun, 02-Jul-2006 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    It's that time again! If you have an idea for doing some work for the Perl community and you think it's worthy of a grant, please send your grant entry to tpf-proposals@perl-foundation.org Grant applications must be in by the last day of July and we will be awarding the grants at the beginning of September. First, please read about how to submit a grant Read that carefully as grants are

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  • YAPC Buffalo bid document Mon, 26-Jun-2006 by Jim Brandt

    In the interest of providing more examples of bids from the past to help future bidders, I'm posting the Buffalo bid here. Read on for details. Note that we had a wiki up with details, pictures, etc., but the wiki has since gone away. Proposed dates: To keep with past years, it seems June 16-18, 2004 would be best. However, we can be flexible with other dates in June. Facilities.

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  • Only two weeks until YAPC::NA 2006 Mon, 12-Jun-2006 by Andy Lester

    There are only two weeks left until YAPC::NA 2006 begins at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. The schedule includes great subject tracks, including Perl 6 Parrot and Web Frameworks YAPC::NA 2006 also includes keynotes by Larry Wall and Damian Conway Registration is still open and costs only $100. In addition, three additional courses taught by Damian Conway, Randal Schwartz and brian d foy are available following YAPC::NA 2006

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  • Nicholas Clark's "Improve Perl 5" Grant Completed Sun, 21-May-2006 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    I was going to announce Nicholas Clark's progress on his Improve Perl 5 when I announced this quarter's grant votes. However, the summary below isn't quite accurate. It was sent to me on May 11th, and as of a May 20th email to me, I'm informed that even Nicholas' TODO items have been accomplished, along with documentation of user pragmata. His grant appears to be finished and a great

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  • May Votes Sun, 21-May-2006 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    Just a quick update about the grant applications for May, 2006. Regrettably, no applications were approved. We generally don't publish the rejected applications because we don't want to make the applicants feel awkward, but I do have the unenviable task of informing the applicants not only that their grants were not approved, but also giving them a rough summary of why the grants were not approved. For this round, it

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  • perl6-users mailing list Wed, 17-May-2006 by Ask Bjørn Hansen

    Between Parrot and Pugs Perl 6 is slowly but surely getting to a state where it's actually usable. We created the first mailing list for "Perl6 users". Eventually most of the regular perl mailing lists will be for both Perl 5 and Perl 6 users, but for now it makes sense to have a list specifically for users of Perl 6 Subscribe by sending a mail to perl6-users-subscribe@perl.org

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  • When to make bids public Tue, 09-May-2006 by Jim Brandt

    Jeremy Fluhmann responded to my Call for Venue post saying he'd be interested to see the other bids when they get posted. This brings up a good point: when should the bids be made public? My thought was that they would be made public after the Conferences Committee has selected the host group. This allows people to see what we voted on and it's a good reference for next year.

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  • Call for Venue--YAPC::NA::2007 Wed, 03-May-2006 by Jim Brandt

    Can't figure out how you're going to get to Chicago for YAPC::NA this year and wish it was in your city? Want to meet Perl luminaries, but aren't sure how? Want to contribute to Perl without writing a new MVC framework? If you answer yes to at least two of these questions, you might be just the person we want to host YAPC next year. But you can't host if

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  • YAPC::NA 2006 schedule published Wed, 26-Apr-2006 by Andy Lester

    Josh McAdams and Pete Krawczyk have just released the YAPC::NA 2006 schedule on the conference website. This year there will be four rooms of talks going on for the three days of the conference. We are lucky enough to have both Larry Wall and Damian Conway giving keynote addresses. Of course, there will be a lot of Perl 6, Pugs, and Parrot talks, was well as the usual barrage of

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  • Artistic License 2.0 public review Fri, 21-Apr-2006 by Ask Bjørn Hansen

    "Allison":http://www.theperlreview.com/Interviews/allison-randal-20060412.html posted the "Artistic License 2.0 public review":http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/20/2042256 announcement to use.perl.org today. bq.. Part of the Perl 6 RFC process in 2000 identified the need to update the Artistic License 211 and 346 From 2000-2001, a group of interested Perl users on the perl6-licenses mailing list worked on a first draft of an updated Artistic License. In 2003, The Perl Foundation started an extensive review process with independent legal counsel

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  • Helping others write better Perl Mon, 17-Apr-2006 by Andy Lester

    Something I think we can all do in the Perl community is help spread the knowledge of how to use this marvelous tool. There are so many layers to the onion, and some people may only know about the outermost layer. The other day I saw an entry in Erica Sadun's blog where she'd hacked together a quick Perl program for some user interaction that then generates URLs and fires

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  • "Improve Perl 5" status report Thu, 13-Apr-2006 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    Here's the latest status update for Nicholas Clark's Improve Perl 5 grant. As usual, he's gotten quite a bit done. Completed "Reblessing references interacts badly with overloading" For blead I've moved the flag for "overloading" from the reference to the referent, which logically is where it should always have been. This isn't binary compatible, so isn't a viable solution for 5.8.x. For that, the flag stays in the same place,

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  • Announcing the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop, September 23, 2006 Thu, 06-Apr-2006 by Andy Lester

    The Pittsburgh Perl Mongers are pleased to announce The PITTSBURGH PERL WORKSHOP a one-day, low-cost conference on Saturday, September 23, 2006. This year's theme is "Perl at Work." The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is modeled after the highly successful Perl workshops held in Europe over the last several years. The day is designed to provide you with a comfortable, exciting, and enjoyable learning experience. The Workshop

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  • Perl Foundation projects looking for volunteers Wed, 05-Apr-2006 by Andy Lester
    in: Projects

    A recent thread in the London.pm mailing list got people saying that they wanted to donate some time to The Perl Foundation, but didn't know where their efforts could be used. Here are two places to start: Jim Brandt, who organized YAPC::NA 2004 in Buffalo, is looking for volunteers to help with a Perl-based conference system. See his TPF blog post for details I'm looking for someone to write up

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  • Nominations for the White Camel Awards 2006 Sat, 01-Apr-2006 by Ask Bjørn Hansen
    in: Awards

    Every year the group of past recipients gives out three new "White Camel Awards":http://www.perl.org/advocacy/white_camel/ to recognize a few of the many people who give their time and energy to help the Perl community. Since we don't know nearly as many of the contributors and contributions as we'd like, we are looking for input on who should be considered. Keywords: Community service Unsung heroes better than well known ones

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  • I need a perl-based conference system Fri, 31-Mar-2006 by Jim Brandt

    As TPF Conferences Chair, I try to help eager, excited organizers put together a YAPC. Ever since I ran YAPC in Buffalo in 2004 I've wanted to put together something called Conference::Toolkit that would solve all of the YAPC web-site needs. Well, given my TPF duties, I honestly don't have the time to do this right. And I want it done right. I want to put together the best conference

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  • YAPC::Asia::2006 coming soon in Tokyo Fri, 24-Mar-2006 by Jim Brandt

    I've been remiss in noting that YAPC::Asia::2006 is right around the corner. But if you're in Tokyo and want to go, it appears you're a bit too late. They've sold out! They have a great line-up of talks and speakers If you're already registered, have fun!

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  • YAPC::Brasil::2006 Coming in April Wed, 08-Mar-2006 by Jim Brandt

    This year YAPC::Brasil will be held April 19-22, 2006 in Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil in conjunction with the 7th International Free Software Forum From what I've heard, FISL

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  • Nicholas Clark's "Improve Perl 5" grant work Tue, 07-Mar-2006 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    I have just received the first report for Nicholas Clark's grant. So far, things are going rather well. Read on to see what Nicholas has done. I've completed the planned typeglob structure shrinking. This turned out to be somewhat more complex than I expected. Specifically: Discovered that PVGVs use magic to perform stringification. Removed this need for magic, saving 24 bytes. Discovered that pads use PVGVs for storing C variable

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  • PPI Refactoring Editor Tue, 07-Mar-2006 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    One of the grants the grant committee approved last year was to extend PPI towards a refactoring editor. At that time, we didn't have procedures in place to take the grant reports and post them to a common spot. Now that we have this blog, our intention is to post these reports regularly so you can see the bang you're getting for your buck. What follows is Adam Kennedy's report

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  • OSDC Israel and pre-event Perl 6 work Wed, 22-Feb-2006 by Jim Brandt

    In Toronto last year, there was a pre-YAPC hack-a-thon that brought together many of the Perl 6 coders in person, which can be very productive. TPF provided $600 US to cover costs, and as you can tell by the amount, the group worked as low-budget as possible. Right now, the week before OSDC Israel they are

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  • 2006 - Q1 Grant Votes Wed, 22-Feb-2006 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    Only one grant was approved this quarter, but it's fantastic. Nicholas Clark, the current 5.8 Pumpking has applied for an $11,000 grant to improve Perl 5. Some of what he intends to do: Fix bugs affecting Unicode handling, Class::DBI, Tk and PAR. Allow relocatable Perl installations, which permits developers to distribute applications complete with a bundled Perl. Support source filters as part of code references in @INC

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