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Jonathan Leto spoke at pdx.pm tonight about what Math::GSL (a result of Thierry's project in this year's Summer of Code) can do. There is a podcast and maybe some slides to go with it real soon now.

From the Changes file:

• Add Ctrl-Shift-O to open a file based on the selection in the current window.
• Enable ack integration even though it is not nice yet but it is working
• Use real Wx:AboutDialogInfo for the about box.
• Hide method names (in the method window) when they don't start on the first column.
• Add menu option to close all buffers.
• Escape $ signs by default so they will not interpolate during search.
• Open file now opens in the directory where the current file is.
• Add Bookmarks
• Add toolbar with several icons. Tested on Windows as well.
• Add icon for the application.
• Enable/disable regex in search.
• Add menu option to convert line endings.
• Replace relative path with full path on the command line.
• Implement basic CallTips and add menu option to enable/disable them

As part of my, very behind schedule, project to rebuild Test::Builder I also want to rebuild the Test::Builder community. Test::Builder and Test::More have never really had a home of their own, discussion either living in my inbox, on RT, or padding out the post count on perl-qa. The repository was never really all that open, even though a lot of people have commit bits they tend to get lost and forgotten.

I've moved the project off my personal box and onto Google Code which allows repository access to be much more easily managed. I've also set up a Use and Development mailing list so people can discuss Test::More without cluttering up/without being cluttered by perl-qa. There's also a commit list so people can easily see work being done. Finally, we're trying out the Google issue tracker to see how it compares with RT.

My YAPC::EU 2008 BackPAN Archeology talk is on YAPC.tv, where you can watch the high resolution or low resolution video, or even download the Flash or MPEG video.

You can't see the slides, but they are on SlideShare.

In the talk I mention that many things are in progress, although I just uploaded a demonstration video of it actually working on MiniCPAN. My previous post details that.

In a fit of wild yak shaving, I finally adapted Adriano Ferreira's patch to allow customization of the META.yml file in MakeMaker so I can add "resources" to Test::More. Now you can pass in data structures via META_ADD or META_MERGE to, respectively, add/override or merge META.yml values.

http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/newtalk

and fill out the form. It's that easy.

But don't delay! Claim your speaking spot while there's still time."

Till the end of this year our community is hosting three Perl Workshops, maybe not too big in sense of attendees number, but very important in geographical aspect.

These are:
Far East Perl Workshop in Vladivostok, 26 September;
Belorussian Perl Workshop “BY Perl” in Minsk, 18 October and
3rd Russian Perl Workshop “South Perl” in Rostov-On-Don, 1 November.

From my point of view (I look at every event with the eyes of organizer) “South Perl” Workshop is interesting because it was fully initiated by local Perl monger group, RostovOnDon.pm, and was inspired by “May Perl” conference.

“Far East” and “BY Perl” are very attractive as well, and I will tell about how they went later.

We all want to see foreign attendees (both speakers and listeners) at each of our events, and hope that visa problems will not stop those who want to help spreading the word of Perl.