Exegesis 7
Editor’s note: this document is out of date and remains here for historic interest. See Synopsis 7 for the current design information. What a piece of work is Perl 6! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In…
This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-22
Loading bytecode at runtime Last week Dan had specced out the rules for runtime loading of bytecode. This week, Leo Tötsch started implementing it. There was a certain amount of quibbling about syntax, but that was quickly sorted out….
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Find What You Want with Plucene
For the past few months, my former employers and I have been working on a port of the Java Lucene search engine toolkit. On the February 3rd, Plucene was released to the world, implementing almost all of the functionality…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-15
In his talk on Parrot at OSCON last year, Dan said that Parrot would have objects ‘by the end of the week’. It’s been a very long week, and it’s not finished yet. Right, venting over, time for the…
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Mail to WAP Gateways
It’s coming up to Valentine’s day again, and invariably my thoughts turn back to last year’s rather memorable weekend-break to Stockholm, in which I learned two things: Stockholm makes a great Valentine’s destination. My girlfriend of the time was not…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-08
Another Monday evening. Another day of displacement activity out of the way. There’s a huge lump of belly pork braising slowly in a mixture of stock, rice wine & soy sauce, and nothing on the telly. It must be time…
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Siesta Mailing List Manager
Sometime around July 2002 there was another of the seemingly inevitable and interminable threads about mailing list managers that pop up with regrettable frequency on the London Perl Mongers mailing list. It almost certainly contained references to Reply To…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-01
Welcome once again to Gateshead, where the skies are grey, the view is uninspiring, and the workmen across the road seem determined to fall off the ladder before they get the double glazing fitted. But enough of the gay Gateshead…
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How We Wrote the Template Toolkit Book ...
There are a number of tools available for writing books. Many people would immediately reach for their favorite word processor, but having written one book using Microsoft Word I’m very unlikely to repeat the experience. Darren Chamberlain, Andy Wardley, and…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-01-25
Welcome to the first summary from my new home in Gateshead. The same old wibble, with a different view from its window and fewer trips to London. Right, time to see what’s been going on in perl6-internals this week….
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Introducing Mac::Glue
Thanks to the popularity of Mac OS X, the new iBook, and the PowerBook G4, it’s no longer uncool to talk about owning an Apple. Longtime Mac devotees have now been joined by longtime Unix devotees and pretty much…
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Maintaining Regular Expressions
For some, regular expressions provide the chainsaw functionality of the much-touted Perl “Swiss Army knife” metaphor. They are powerful, fast, and very sharp, but like real chainsaws, can be dangerous when used without appropriate safety measures. In this article…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-01-11
It’s Monday. People have been talking about Perl 6, Parrot and the European Union Constitution. Let’s find out what they’ve been saying about Parrot first shall we? Threads Threads were discussed some more. Dan’s deadline is coming up soon,…
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The State of Perl
A colleague of mine recently asked me about Perl’s future. Specifically, he wondered if we have any tricks up our sleeves to compete against today’s two most popular platforms: .NET and Java. Without a second’s hesitation, I repeated the…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-01-04
What a surprise, a scant week after the last Perl 6 Summary of 2003, it’s the first Perl 6 Summary of 2004. Will wonders never cease? Without further ado, we’ll start with perl6-internals as usual. Garbage Collection Tasks Dan noted…
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Blosxoms, Bryars and Blikis
Recently we heard from Kake Pugh about the OpenGuides project, a wiki-based collaborative city guide system; previously, we heard from Brian Ingerson about his Kwiki wiki implementation. Guides, wikis, blogs … the new fashion in software engineering at the…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-12-07
Another week, another late summary. Luckily it’s been a quiet week so I should get this written faster than usual. As is traditional, we start with perl6-internals Parrot build system tinkering Andy Dougherty and other discussed extending the Parrot build…
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How Perl Powers the Squeezebox
Slim Devices made their name in 2001 with the SLIMP3, a networked MP3 and Internet radio player. The SLIMP3 won a five-out-of-five mouse rating in Macworld magazine, and was featured in GQ magazine and on TechTV’s The Screen Savers….
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-11-30
Welcome back to the weekly Perl 6 Summary, which I’m hoping to keep on a weekly cycle for the foreseeable future. It’s been a relatively low volume week this week, I’m assuming that Thanksgiving had something to do with…
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This fortnight on Perl 6, week ending 2003-11-23
Right, hopefully things are back to normal(ish) after the disk crashes that rather spoilt the last summary. I’ve managed to fill in my mail archive too so this summary will cover the events of the last fortnight (that’s two…
