Friday, April 13, 2007
Perl events and news
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Greetings, diverse Perl people. This is the Perl newsletter, sent out
every two weeks when the planets align favorably, designed to keep you informed
as to what's going on in the Perl world.
Hopping to it... now!
* Perl Events
Linuxfest Northwest 2007 will take place on April 28 and 29, in
Bellingham, Washington. Allison Randal, Tim Maher, Brad Fitzpatrick, Brian Aker, and
your editor (he thinks) will all present:
http://linuxfestnorthwest.org
The Toronto Perl Mongers have announced a hackathon on April 28:
http://rakudo.org/hackathon-toronto
Parrot's monthly bug day is also tomorrow. Join #parrot on irc.perl.org as
the core developers prepare for the monthly release, squash bugs, add new
features, and guide newcomers to contributing documentation, suggestions, tests,
fixes, and patches:
http://rakudo.org/parrot/index.cgi?Bug%20Day%2C%202007-04-14
Registration has opened for YAPC::NA 2007, in Houston:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/31/0445246
* Perl News
The Perl Foundation awarded Phil Crow the second Perl 6 microgrant. Phil
plans to write a tool to convert Java declarations to Perl 6:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/06/1148214
YAPC has announced a call for venue for YAPC::EU 2008:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/05/1952240
Your editor minuted the Perl 6 design minutes:
http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/32837
http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/32977
Ann Barcomb summarized the week in Perl 6:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/31/148237
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/03/2143229
Note that Ann is still looking for an assistant; if you'd like to
contribute greatly to the world of Perl 6 and are willing to gather a weekly summary
(using some powerful tools), please contact her.
* Perl at O'Reilly
OpenGL is a powerful API for 3D graphics programming. Perl programs using
OpenGL can outperform C programs using OpenGL in some cases. Bob Free
explains.
Aspect-oriented programming is a powerful, if complex, idea for
separating design concerns from an inherited object hierarchy. Perl's subroutine
attributes can help you achieve AOP concerns. Mike Friedman demonstrates.
Keeping test counts up to date in Perl test programs under active
development can be tedious. The Test::Count module is one approach to managing this
complexity. Shlomi Fish explores its use.
Perl can be pretty loose about which arguments you pass to which functions
and why. Sometimes you need to know more about what you've received, but how
can you check an object's type accurately without getting false positives or
negatives? brian d foy walks through the possibilities.
Yes, that's right--it's time again for Perl Lightning Articles:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/04/12/lightning-four.html
In other news, Jonathan Wellons solicits your two facts about LAMP:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/the_two_things_about_lamp.html
Matt S. Trout has begun to write a new Perl REPL:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/writing_a_modern_perl_repl.html
A new Perl-only Google search engine has appeared, thanks to Andy Armstrong:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/a_perlonly_google_search_engin.html
That sums up the week. Next time, how about reviews of B::Concise and
App::SVNBinarySearch?
That's the plan,
- c
chromatic@oreilly.com
Editor, Perl.com, et cetera
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