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Apr. 09, 2009

Next SPUG Meeting on Apr. 21

Languages :: Perl, User Groups

It has been announced that the next Seattle Perl Users Group meeting will be held on April 21, 2009.

Dec. 16, 2008

Perl 5.8.9 Released

Languages :: Perl

Perl 5.8.9 has been released. Perl is a cross-platform, high-level, general-purpose programming language.

This release includes: an update of the Unicode Character Database to 5.1.0, support for source filters in @INC, improved internal UTF-8 caching, Configure support for creating a perl tree that is relocatable at runtime, new internal variables, support for overriding the readpipe built-in function, simple exception handling macros, support for several new platforms, new and updated modules, the new perlthanks utility, new and updated documentation, performance improvements, bug fixes, new tests, and other changes.

Dec. 12, 2008

Next SPUG Meeting on Dec. 16

Languages :: Perl, User Groups

It has been announced that the next Seattle Perl Users Group meeting will be held on December 16, 2008.

Nov. 24, 2008

Parrot 0.8.1 Released

Languages :: Perl, Languages :: Ruby, Platforms :: Parrot

Parrot 0.8.1 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: the removal of the pseudo PIR opcode 'addr', the addition of the 'box' opcode, the use of .tailcall instead of .return for tailcalls, improved debugging support, the JIT compilation of NCI signatures on x86-32, updates to the Perl 6 and Ruby language implementations, documentation updates, improvements to the OpenGL bindings, bug fixes, and other changes.

Nov. 14, 2008

Next SPUG Meeting on Nov. 18

Languages :: Perl, User Groups

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on November 18, 2008. Gryphon Shafer will be discussing the building of a mod_perl-based MVC framework.

Oct. 27, 2008

Parrot 0.8.0 Released

Languages :: Perl, Languages :: Ruby, Platforms :: Parrot

Parrot 0.8.0 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: the expansion of float precision from 6 significant digits to 15, the auto-promotion of large integers in PIR to avoid precision loss, improved precision of complex square root, support for exception handlers registering the types of exceptions they catch, updates to the Cardinal implementation of Ruby, updates to the Rakudo implementation of Perl 6, new and updated examples, documentation updates, bug fixes, and other changes.

Sep. 18, 2008

Parrot 0.7.1 Released

Languages :: Perl, Languages :: Ruby, Platforms :: Parrot

Parrot 0.7.1 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: preliminary support for resumable exceptions, updates to the Rakudo (Perl 6) and Cardinal (Ruby) language implementations, documentation updates and cleanups, and other changes.

June 16, 2008

Next SPUG Meeting on June 17

Languages :: Perl, User Groups

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on June 17.

May 16, 2008

Next SPUG Meeting on May 20

Languages :: Perl, User Groups

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on May 20, 2008. Dan Sabath will be speaking about the WhitePages.com public search API.

Apr. 11, 2008

Next SPUG Meeting on Apr. 15

Languages :: Perl, User Groups

It has been announced that the next Seattle Perl Users Group meeting will be held on April 15, 2008.

Mar. 05, 2008

Next SPUG Meeting on Mar. 18

Languages :: Perl, User Groups

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on March 18, 2008.

Feb. 07, 2008

Next SPUG Meeting on Feb. 19

Languages :: Perl, User Groups

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on February 19, 2008.

Jan. 16, 2008

Parrot 0.5.2 Released

Languages :: Perl, Platforms :: Parrot

Parrot 0.5.2 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: a LOLCODE language implementation, the new pbc_to_exe utility for turning bytecode into executables, 'make perl6' for building a Perl 6 executable, documentation updates, faster UTF-8 string handling, bug fixes, and other changes.

Dec. 19, 2007

Perl 5.10.0 Released

Languages :: Perl

Perl 5.10.0 has been released. Perl is a cross-platform, high-level, general-purpose programming language.

This release includes: the new smart match operator, capturing matches based on names, a switch statement, state variables, a defined-or operator, improved error messages, a smaller and faster interpreter, UTF-8 improvements, threading improvements, and other changes.

Sep. 21, 2007

ActivePerl 5.8.8.822 Released

Languages :: Perl

ActivePerl 5.8.8.822 has been released. ActivePerl is a Perl distribution supporting Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX.

This release includes: updates and fixes from the core Perl repository, and updates to the bundled modules.

Aug. 15, 2007

Next SPUG Meeting on Aug. 21

Languages :: Perl, User Groups

It has been announced that the next Seattle Perl Users Group meeting will be held on August 21, 2007.

June 13, 2007

Next Seattle Perl Users Group Meeting on June 19

Languages :: Perl, User Groups

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on June 19, 2007.

Apr. 14, 2007

Next Seattle Perl Users Group Meeting on Apr. 17

Languages :: Perl, User Groups

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on April 17, 2007.

Apr. 11, 2007

Hackathon Toronto Announced

Languages :: Perl

It has been announced that Hackathon Toronto will be held on April 28, 2007. It will be a "one-day, face-to-face, collective hacking session focused on Perl, Parrot and related open source programming projects.

Feb. 14, 2007

Next SPUG Meeting on Feb. 20

Languages :: Perl, User Groups

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on February 20, 2007.

Feb. 11, 2007

Next SanDiego.pm Meeting on Feb. 12

Languages :: Perl, User Groups

It has been announced that the next meeting of the San Diego Perl Mongers will be held on February 12, 2007.

Feb. 01, 2007

European Perl Hackathon 2007 Announced

Languages :: Perl

The European Perl Hackathon 2007 has been announced. It will be held from March 2 to 4, 2007, in Arnhem, the Netherlands.

Jan. 29, 2007

Nordic Perl Workshop 2007 Announced

Languages :: Perl, Workshops

The Nordic Perl Workshop 2007 has been announced. The Nordic Perl Workshop is a "yearly event aimed at giving some focus on Perl and Perl use in the nordic countries.

The workshop will be held on April 28 and 29, 2007, in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Jan. 28, 2007

YAPC::NA 2007 Call For Participation

Conferences, Languages :: Perl

The 2007 Yet Another Perl Conference North America has put out a call for participation.

The abstract submission deadline is April 9, 2007. The conference will be held in Houston, Texas, from June 25 to 27, 2007.

Jan. 23, 2007

Next Geneva.pm Meeting on Jan. 23

Languages :: Perl, User Groups

It has been announced that the next Geneva.pm meeting will be held on January 23, 2007. Eriam Schaffter and Sam Carmalt will be presenting about Perl Object Environment.

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