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"Well not since that time you thought that embedding perl was a good idea in the first place" -- Johnathon Stowe, commenting on Marc Lehmann saying that yes, he loved embedding perl in other applications and that no, he didn't do drugs.

The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 04 October 2006. Larry, Allison, Nicholas, Patrick, Jesse, and chromatic attended. These are the minutes.

Search open source code. All of it.

For instance, but who the heck would change these anyway?

Who uses Net::SMTP::SSL?

Uses of sprintf in any Perl code.

philcrow writes "Bigtop is a language for describing and generating web applications. It is a jump starter for web apps. For instance, the long movie makes a two table web app and gives a tour of the generated code in under six minues.

Bigtop 0.18 is making the rounds to a CPAN mirror near you. Currently Bigtop targets the Gantry web framework also available from CPAN. Both projects have svn checkout, see the Gantry project.

We started Vlaanderen Perl Mongers last month! Geert installed a kwiki wiki on the vlaanderen.pm.org server. I did the rest of the configuration and installed a little homepage. Members (and others) are invited to send content.

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"And here I thought you were a responsible, law-abiding citizen... :P "

-- Jonathan Lang, commenting on Larry Wall's self.HOW does Hash

It's the start of the third year in print!

The Fall 2006 issue of The Perl Review is online and ready for download. Subscribers should have already received an email telling them all about it. You can even buy TPR on the newsstand now if you shop at Powell's Technical Books in Portland.

In this issue (besides the cover showing the Larry Wall action figure by ArtCard Mike):

• Google's Summer of Code -- Jim Brandt
  
• pmtools -- Mark Leighton Fisher
  
• Parrot Magic Cookies -- Jonathan Scott Duff
  
• Agent-based Programming in Perl -- Guinevere Nell
  
• ETL Nightmares -- Thomas MacKenzie
  
• and other stuff
  

The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 27 September 2006. Larry, Patrick, Allison, chromatic, and Nicholas attended. These are the minutes.

When DateTime::Cron::Simple was originally uploaded to the CPAN, it contained a copyright assertion, but no license of any kind was provided with it.

Following an enquiry from the Venezuelan Patents and Intellectual Property Office on it's licensing status, and conversations with the author, the module is being deleted from the CPAN as per the author's demands.

At least one major Perl product (WebGUI) is known to use this module, and so I'd like to make a request for volunteers to write an API-compatible replacement to allow for continuity of service.

Any interested parties should contact the DateTime mailing list to co-ordinate, and permissions to the namespace will be reassigned as needed.

If we fake times in our fake stat then fake futimes makes sense. But chown and chmod make little sense to me - only the current process can access the scalar so current UID is owner (and can't exec it).

We could accept the calls and set errno to nearest code that made sense, or perhaps just set the mode so that fake stat saw it.

Have we missed any more fd related calls? If there anything else that we can do to filehandles via perl interface that we missed?

-- Nick Ing-Simmons, discussing how to improve PerlIO::Scalar, September 1st, 2006.

The dates for YAPC::NA 2007 have finally been established! The Houston.pm group and YAPC::NA 2007 organizers are pleased to announce that next year's YAPC::NA will be Monday, June 25th through Wednesday, June 27th, at the University of Houston. Please feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have. You can also visit the YAPC::NA homepage for updates and information. The site format and content should be changing soon so be sure to check back as often as you like. We'll try to post a schedule of when various things will be announced so that people know when to expect what (suggestion from this year's yapc wiki).

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. For more information, please see the Perl Foundation Blog entry.

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"my Yellow sub marine { @we.all.live }"

-- Larry Wall, concluding a series of Beatles references in the grep thread.

Larry Wall's State of the Onion 10 is now online on Perl.com. As most things Larry it makes an entertaining read.

"Now to move a huge pile of bugs out of my rt.cpan.org queue and into Randy's. THUD" -- Michael G. Schwern, making MakeMaker lighter.

cwest writes "The first-ever Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is coming September 23rd, and it's going to be fantastic. We have two excellent sets of sessions scheduled, an awesome after-event venue, and a bunch of surprises. It is nearly sold out, so please register now ($40 for general admission, $20 for students) to reserve your spot. We still need more volunteers to help make this a success. If you're interested, please sign up for the available positions on our wiki. We are planning to go to the festive and microbrew-licious Church Brew Works for an after-party at 7 p.m. It's very important to sign up if you want to go, so we know how many tables to reserve."

uri writes "As the famous poem goes, one if by land and two if by sea. Perl's
resident mad scientist Damian Conway is crossing the sea (the Atlantic
pond) to come to Boston so that means he will be giving 2 (count'em 2!)
talks. These talks have been received with riotous applause and deadly
silence at oscon::na and oscon::eu.

The 9th German Perl-Workshop will take place from Wednesday, 21 Feb. 2007 to Friday, 23 Feb.2007 and you are invited to submit proposals for talks or tutorials. We will happily accept proposals for interesting talks related to Perl.

The Perl 6 Design Team met on 13 September. Patrick, Allison, Larry, and chromatic attended. These are the minutes.

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This summary has been posted early because I will be going to OSCON Europe on Sunday. Next week's summary will include any threads which were not included this week.