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"Localizing legacy code, automating the process, and how to work with your translators"

Jeff Goff (DrForr) will be talking about his experience with localizing a
large and hugely successful mission critical legacy perl application.

The meeting will take place at 7 pm PST on Tuesday August 25th at Six Apart World Headquarters.

http://search.cpan.org/~jgoff/

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RSVP at Meetup - http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Perl-Mongers/calendar/11080121/

I have migrated my subversion repositories containing Class::Factory and Class::DBI::Sweet to http://github.com/redhotpenguin. I wasn't able to access the authoritative C::D::Sweet svn repo so I uploaded what I had. I've had a few requests to apply patches in the past week, and I figure this is the best way to keep the code alive at this point.

  We're going to be running an SF Perl Mongers table at the July 2009 OSCON Expo at the San Jose Convention Center, and we're looking for volunteers to help staff the table.

Essentially, we need coverage by 2 or 3 people at all times to hang around the table answering questions -- typically these range from very simple ("When is Perl 6?") to really interesting ("Is perl any good for natural language processing?").

The Expo Hall is only open for two days of the conference:

  Wednesday, July 22:
          10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m
          6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (expo hall reception)
    Thursday, July 23:
          10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Location - http://www.sjcc.com/

We're breaking that down into three shifts:

    10am to 12:30pm
    12:30pm to 3pm
    3pm on.

We only get 4 exhibitor passes, but anyone can sign up for a free pass to the Expo Hall:
        https://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/register

So in effect we can bring in any number of volunteers, but let me know if you think you'd be a good person to sport an "exhibitor" badge.

Interestingly enough, we also get one free session pass. I think it would be terrible if we all ended up fighting over this, so I'm going to take it -- but presuming we can get away with loaning it out to different people, I'd like to make sure that any of the booth volunteers can attend at least one of the sessions.

Joseph Brenner, 24 Jun 2009

http://obsidianrook.com/sfpm/conventional/oscon_expo_volunteers.html

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The July meeting of SF.pm will take place at 7 pm PST on July 28th at Six Apart World Headquarters.

Catalyst expert Dan Dascalescu will be returning to give a talk on the Catalyst based Mojo wiki application. Post OSCON wrapup will take place after.

http://mojomojo.org/

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The June meeting of SF.pm will take place at 7 pm PST on June 23rd at Six Apart World Headquarters.

Jeff Thalhammer returns to speak on "Continuous Integration of Perl Code". The discussion will cover:

        * What is Continuous Integration (CI)?
        * A survey of available CI frameworks.
        * Tips and tricks for using CI with Perl.
        * Show-and-tell with an actual CI system.

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Reposting the announcement by Philippe M. Chiasson (Gozer) from the mod_perl users list

http://perl.apache.org/dist/

It's finally here! After quite a few release candidates, I am happy to share with you all this new mod_perl release. Enjoy!

Changes since 1.30:

• Fix static APACI build on Mac OS X. [Gozer]
• Fix XSS vulnerability in Apache::Status reported by Richard J. Brain, CVE-2009-0796 [Fred Moyer]
• On Win32, mod_perl.h needs to include before the perl headers, at least when built with USE_ITHREADS [Steve Hay]
• Win32 needs PERL_SYS_INIT/PERL_SYS_TERM calls when built with USE_ITHREADS [sic--that's different to USE_THREADS]. In fact, they ought to be always called if they are defined [Steve Hay]
• Fix potential segfault when the environment contains NULL values [Mike Schilli]
• Fix static APACI build against newer apache-1.3.38+ [Gozer]
• Fixed modules/regex.t test 4 on Win32 [Steve Hay]
• Avoid possible segfault when PerlFreshRestart is On. [Michael Rendell ]
• Prevent segfault when running with perl >= 5.9.3 [Steve Hay]
• Fix shared libary extensions on Win32 to be .dll not .so [Nikolay Ananiev ]
• Patch to mod_perl.dsp to remove /D _WINSOCK2API_ on Win32 for perl >= 5.8.6 [Steve Hay]

Update - the Perlmonks node.

This is my latest attempt at a Makefile.PL section that invokes Apache::Bootstrap or exits with 255. The intent is that if Apache::Bootstrap is not installed, the Makefile.PL dies with exit code 255, the same failure code returned to the shell as if 'use 5.8.8;' failed in Makefile.PL. I've been looking around for a list where the MakeMaker experts hang out, please clue me in if you know of such a place.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

################################################################### ######
# minimum version of A::B required
my $ab = 0.06;

eval { require Apache::Bootstrap };

($@ or ($Apache::Bootstrap::VERSION < $ab)) &&
    do { $! = 255; die("Apache::Bootstrap $ab required"); };

# make sure we have at least one minimum version of mod_perl

my $bs = eval { Apache::Bootstrap->new({
                      mod_perl2 => 1.99022,
                      mod_perl  => 1.30 }) };

do { $! = 255; die($@); } if $@;

######################################################################### #

# use $bs to determine whether ExtUtils::MakeMaker or ModPerl::Build::MM should be used

I fixed a four year old bug in Apache::Test tonight, and closed another bug that is no longer relevant. There were 9 open bugs total, now there are only 7 more to fix.