From taylor at codecafe.com Tue Jan 2 15:00:51 2007 From: taylor at codecafe.com (Taylor Carpenter) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 17:00:51 -0600 Subject: APM: Jan meeting? Message-ID: <2537E35B-0753-4958-B3D1-FA63E569340C@codecafe.com> Are we doing anything for Jan? From ian at remmler.org Tue Jan 2 23:06:42 2007 From: ian at remmler.org (Ian Remmler) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 01:06:42 -0600 Subject: APM: New poobah In-Reply-To: <2537E35B-0753-4958-B3D1-FA63E569340C@codecafe.com> References: <2537E35B-0753-4958-B3D1-FA63E569340C@codecafe.com> Message-ID: <20070103070642.GA30357@localhost> On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 05:00:51PM -0600, Taylor Carpenter wrote: > Are we doing anything for Jan? Oh yeah, I guess I should mention for those who weren't there in December that during the meeting Mark Lehmann briefly left the room, and accordingly got himself elected president. So as I join the ranks of spare presidents, I'll defer to Mark. -- "A shark on whiskey is mighty risky. A shark on beer is a beer engineer." -- Dr. Worm From taylor at codecafe.com Thu Jan 4 11:40:18 2007 From: taylor at codecafe.com (Taylor Carpenter) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 13:40:18 -0600 Subject: APM: Jan meeting? In-Reply-To: <8fa2a6330701041126o7a2ddb20sdd22e3704315e8e3@mail.gmail.com> References: <2537E35B-0753-4958-B3D1-FA63E569340C@codecafe.com> <8fa2a6330701041126o7a2ddb20sdd22e3704315e8e3@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <39685307-A4DE-4DD8-8E8A-936FAA264C93@codecafe.com> On Jan 4, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Mark Lehmann wrote: > For next Wednesday what do ya'll want to do? > > Currently we are homeless for meetings. Mangia is happy to give us > the Pizza room and we can probably find a projector and a screen > for technical presentations. Does that sound godd to ya'll? > Sounds good to me. Taylor From mark at marklehmann.com Thu Jan 4 11:41:38 2007 From: mark at marklehmann.com (Mark Lehmann) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 13:41:38 -0600 Subject: APM: Plans for next Wednesdays meeting Message-ID: <8fa2a6330701041141p7f6e08f5m5c83ca3602c5779@mail.gmail.com> For next Wednesday what do ya'll want to do? Currently we are homeless for meetings. Mangia is happy to rent us their meeting room (for the fee of buying their pizza) and we can probably find a projector and a screen for technical presentations. Does that sound good to ya'll? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/austin/attachments/20070104/5abbb89d/attachment.html From dbii at interaction.net Sun Jan 7 10:08:44 2007 From: dbii at interaction.net (David Bluestein II) Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 12:08:44 -0600 Subject: APM: Plans for next Wednesdays meeting In-Reply-To: <8fa2a6330701041141p7f6e08f5m5c83ca3602c5779@mail.gmail.com> References: <8fa2a6330701041141p7f6e08f5m5c83ca3602c5779@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <287df1a270721e4cdbfd1eac6cde5ec3@interaction.net> How much pizza do we need to buy? How about for February, you see if the YAPC 2007 Houston guy'll come and present on YAPC 2007 planning and if we can help? David On Jan 4, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Mark Lehmann wrote: > For next Wednesday what do ya'll want to do? > > Currently we are homeless for meetings.? Mangia is happy to rent us > their meeting room (for the fee of buying their pizza) and we can > probably find a projector and a screen for technical presentations.? > Does that sound good to ya'll? > _______________________________________________ > Austin mailing list > Austin at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David H. Bluestein II President & Lead Developer dbii at interaction.net ii, inc. http://www.interaction.net -- Specializing in Interactive, Database Driven Web Applications -- From mark at marklehmann.com Sun Jan 7 15:11:25 2007 From: mark at marklehmann.com (Mark Lehmann) Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 17:11:25 -0600 Subject: APM: Plans for next Wednesdays meeting In-Reply-To: <287df1a270721e4cdbfd1eac6cde5ec3@interaction.net> References: <8fa2a6330701041141p7f6e08f5m5c83ca3602c5779@mail.gmail.com> <287df1a270721e4cdbfd1eac6cde5ec3@interaction.net> Message-ID: <8fa2a6330701071511w78a8a6dft626c44f335a18a93@mail.gmail.com> I believe we need to order $50 worth of food total for the group, which is pretty easy to do with even a few people. On 1/7/07, David Bluestein II wrote: > > How much pizza do we need to buy? > > How about for February, you see if the YAPC 2007 Houston guy'll come > and present on YAPC 2007 planning and if we can help? > > David > > On Jan 4, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Mark Lehmann wrote: > > > For next Wednesday what do ya'll want to do? > > > > Currently we are homeless for meetings. Mangia is happy to rent us > > their meeting room (for the fee of buying their pizza) and we can > > probably find a projector and a screen for technical presentations. > > Does that sound good to ya'll? > > _______________________________________________ > > Austin mailing list > > Austin at pm.org > > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > David H. Bluestein II > President & Lead Developer dbii at interaction.net > ii, inc. > http://www.interaction.net > -- Specializing in Interactive, Database Driven Web Applications -- > > _______________________________________________ > Austin mailing list > Austin at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/austin/attachments/20070107/c52d079e/attachment.html From wwalker at bybent.com Sun Jan 7 15:25:17 2007 From: wwalker at bybent.com (Wayne Walker) Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 17:25:17 -0600 Subject: APM: Plans for next Wednesdays meeting In-Reply-To: <8fa2a6330701071511w78a8a6dft626c44f335a18a93@mail.gmail.com> References: <8fa2a6330701041141p7f6e08f5m5c83ca3602c5779@mail.gmail.com> <287df1a270721e4cdbfd1eac6cde5ec3@interaction.net> <8fa2a6330701071511w78a8a6dft626c44f335a18a93@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20070107232516.GA3043@bybent.com> Got a location yet? On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 05:11:25PM -0600, Mark Lehmann wrote: > I believe we need to order $50 worth of food total for the group, which is > pretty easy to do with even a few people. > > On 1/7/07, David Bluestein II wrote: > > > >How much pizza do we need to buy? > > > >How about for February, you see if the YAPC 2007 Houston guy'll come > >and present on YAPC 2007 planning and if we can help? > > > >David > > > >On Jan 4, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Mark Lehmann wrote: > > > >> For next Wednesday what do ya'll want to do? > >> > >> Currently we are homeless for meetings. Mangia is happy to rent us > >> their meeting room (for the fee of buying their pizza) and we can > >> probably find a projector and a screen for technical presentations. > >> Does that sound good to ya'll? > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Austin mailing list > >> Austin at pm.org > >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >David H. Bluestein II > >President & Lead Developer dbii at interaction.net > >ii, inc. > >http://www.interaction.net > > -- Specializing in Interactive, Database Driven Web Applications -- > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Austin mailing list > >Austin at pm.org > >http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin > > > _______________________________________________ > Austin mailing list > Austin at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin -- Wayne Walker www.unwiredbuyer.com - when you just can't be by the computer wwalker at bybent.com Do you use Linux?! http://www.bybent.com Get Counted! http://counter.li.org/ Perl - http://www.perl.org/ Perl User Groups - http://www.pm.org/ Jabber: wwalker at jabber.gnumber.com AIM: lwwalkerbybent IRC: wwalker on freenode.net From austin.pm at sam-i-am.com Mon Jan 8 07:23:22 2007 From: austin.pm at sam-i-am.com (Sam Foster) Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:23:22 -0600 Subject: APM: Plans for next Wednesdays meeting In-Reply-To: <8fa2a6330701041141p7f6e08f5m5c83ca3602c5779@mail.gmail.com> References: <8fa2a6330701041141p7f6e08f5m5c83ca3602c5779@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <45A261EA.600@sam-i-am.com> I'll have to skip this wednesday - got a conflict with the (new, first ever) Austin Drupal meetup. I'll try and get future meetings on a different day. (besides, last month I got a big pizza expecting to take it home and share with the family - and forgot and ate it all) Sam Mark Lehmann wrote: > For next Wednesday what do ya'll want to do? > > Currently we are homeless for meetings. Mangia is happy to rent us > their meeting room (for the fee of buying their pizza) and we can > probably find a projector and a screen for technical presentations. > Does that sound good to ya'll? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Austin mailing list > Austin at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin From dbii at interaction.net Tue Jan 9 15:15:27 2007 From: dbii at interaction.net (David Bluestein II) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 17:15:27 -0600 Subject: APM: Plans for next Wednesdays meeting In-Reply-To: <8fa2a6330701041141p7f6e08f5m5c83ca3602c5779@mail.gmail.com> References: <8fa2a6330701041141p7f6e08f5m5c83ca3602c5779@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <286c50783ee635df2d874c7dafd507eb@interaction.net> Mark- I guess we're meeting at Mangia to discuss meeting topics :) Are we meeting at 7 and eating beforehand, or meeting at 7 and eating during since we need to food to cover room costs? David On Jan 4, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Mark Lehmann wrote: > For next Wednesday what do ya'll want to do? > > Currently we are homeless for meetings.? Mangia is happy to rent us > their meeting room (for the fee of buying their pizza) and we can > probably find a projector and a screen for technical presentations.? > Does that sound good to ya'll? > _______________________________________________ > Austin mailing list > Austin at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David H. Bluestein II President & Lead Developer dbii at interaction.net ii, inc. http://www.interaction.net -- Specializing in Interactive, Database Driven Web Applications -- From taylor at codecafe.com Tue Jan 9 15:49:38 2007 From: taylor at codecafe.com (Taylor Carpenter) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 17:49:38 -0600 Subject: APM: Plans for next Wednesdays meeting In-Reply-To: <286c50783ee635df2d874c7dafd507eb@interaction.net> References: <8fa2a6330701041141p7f6e08f5m5c83ca3602c5779@mail.gmail.com> <286c50783ee635df2d874c7dafd507eb@interaction.net> Message-ID: On Jan 9, 2007, at 5:15 PM, David Bluestein II wrote: > Mark- > > I guess we're meeting at Mangia to discuss meeting topics :) > > Are we meeting at 7 and eating beforehand, or meeting at 7 and eating > during since we need to food to cover room costs? Lets eat and discuss the topics. :) From mark at marklehmann.com Tue Jan 9 18:50:50 2007 From: mark at marklehmann.com (Mark Lehmann) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 20:50:50 -0600 Subject: APM: Plans for next Wednesdays meeting In-Reply-To: References: <8fa2a6330701041141p7f6e08f5m5c83ca3602c5779@mail.gmail.com> <286c50783ee635df2d874c7dafd507eb@interaction.net> Message-ID: <8fa2a6330701091850j760e6c12j5283140bf088bd9e@mail.gmail.com> We have the Chicago Room reserved for the Austin Perl Mongers at 1900 (7pm). Taylor, please update the website. Wayne, please give Taylor permission to update the site. Thanks On 1/9/07, Taylor Carpenter wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2007, at 5:15 PM, David Bluestein II wrote: > > > Mark- > > > > I guess we're meeting at Mangia to discuss meeting topics :) > > > > Are we meeting at 7 and eating beforehand, or meeting at 7 and eating > > during since we need to food to cover room costs? > > > Lets eat and discuss the topics. :) > _______________________________________________ > Austin mailing list > Austin at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin > From taylor at codecafe.com Wed Jan 10 13:51:40 2007 From: taylor at codecafe.com (Taylor Carpenter) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:51:40 -0600 Subject: APM: Meeting tonight: Mangia's @ 7:00 PM Message-ID: <0B4B2FDC-1FB8-4632-AA0D-C39557E3FF9F@codecafe.com> Informal meeting at Mangia's Pizza. We will be discussing future topics such as Perl::Tidy, Perl::Critic, PDFs, Self-contained Web Apps, AJAX, Perl IDEs, Curses, GUI (gtk++, wxwidgets, tk), Perl 6, etc They have a happy hour until 7:00 PM if you feel like getting there a bit early. 12001 Burnet Road @ Mopac Austin, TX 78758 http://mangiapizza.com/33/Gracy_Farms.html Ref: http://austin.pm.org/meetings.htm From mark at marklehmann.com Wed Jan 10 14:30:43 2007 From: mark at marklehmann.com (Mark Lehmann) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:30:43 -0600 Subject: APM: Meeting tonight: Mangia's @ 7:00 PM In-Reply-To: <0B4B2FDC-1FB8-4632-AA0D-C39557E3FF9F@codecafe.com> References: <0B4B2FDC-1FB8-4632-AA0D-C39557E3FF9F@codecafe.com> Message-ID: <8fa2a6330701101430v55f39238r86460c12cfccca2b@mail.gmail.com> I'm bringing a computer projector. I don't have a screen though. If anyone has a home slide projector portable white screen, that would be appreciated. On 1/10/07, Taylor Carpenter wrote: > > Informal meeting at Mangia's Pizza. We will be discussing future > topics such as Perl::Tidy, Perl::Critic, PDFs, Self-contained Web > Apps, AJAX, Perl IDEs, Curses, GUI (gtk++, wxwidgets, tk), Perl 6, etc > > They have a happy hour until 7:00 PM if you feel like getting there a > bit early. > > 12001 Burnet Road @ Mopac > Austin, TX 78758 > > http://mangiapizza.com/33/Gracy_Farms.html > > > Ref: http://austin.pm.org/meetings.htm > _______________________________________________ > Austin mailing list > Austin at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/austin/attachments/20070110/f34691c0/attachment.html From taylor at codecafe.com Wed Jan 10 16:18:54 2007 From: taylor at codecafe.com (Taylor Carpenter) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:18:54 -0600 Subject: APM: regarding topics to discuss Re: Meeting tonight: Mangia's @ 7:00 PM In-Reply-To: <8fa2a6330701101430v55f39238r86460c12cfccca2b@mail.gmail.com> References: <0B4B2FDC-1FB8-4632-AA0D-C39557E3FF9F@codecafe.com> <8fa2a6330701101430v55f39238r86460c12cfccca2b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: I mentioned Perl::Tidy, Perl::Critic, PDFs, Self-contained Web Apps, AJAX, Perl IDEs, Curses, GUI (gtk++, wxwidgets, tk), Perl 6, etc. These are possible topics that people have mentioned ater various times over the last year. Here is some info on these that could help someone that wishes to speak about one of the topics... Standalone web apps * HTTP::Daemon * HTTP::Server::Simple * POE * p5httpd - tiny perl http server * Ruby has RubyWebDialogs * lighttpd AJAX * CGI::Ajax - http://www.perljax.us/ * perl.com: Using Ajax from Perl - http://www.perl.com/pub/a/ 2006/03/02/ajax_and_perl.html * Perl Ajax Frameworks - Ajax Patterns - http://ajaxpatterns.org/ Perl_Ajax_Frameworks GUI * Perl/Tk * wxWidgets * Qt * GTK/GTK++ * CamelBones * Curses * Cmenu PDF * Template toolkit + PDF::Template * PDF::Create * PDF::API2 - pdfapi2.sourceforge.net * other issues like embedding fonts.. merging.. form data Perl IDE * http://open-perl-ide.sourceforge.net/ * Perl Express: A Free Perl IDE/Editor for Windows * ActiveState Komodo * Affrus: An OS X Perl IDE * EPIC - Eclipse Perl Integration * perl-support.vim - Perl-IDE - http://www.vim.org/scripts/ script.php?script_id=556 * http://www.indigostar.com/perledit.html Functional Programming * http://perl.plover.com/yak/fp/ * http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-road4.html * http://perldesignpatterns.com/?FunctionalProgramming * Perl and Haskell - http://www.ggoossen.net/haskellinperl/ etc Perl 6 * Status * Example * WWW::Kontent - perl 6 CMS Event Frameworks * POE * Twisted (python) Packaging * PAR From perlpilot at gmail.com Wed Jan 10 16:28:18 2007 From: perlpilot at gmail.com (Jonathan Scott Duff) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:28:18 -0600 Subject: APM: regarding topics to discuss Re: Meeting tonight: Mangia's @ 7:00 PM In-Reply-To: References: <0B4B2FDC-1FB8-4632-AA0D-C39557E3FF9F@codecafe.com> <8fa2a6330701101430v55f39238r86460c12cfccca2b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: On 1/10/07, Taylor Carpenter wrote: > > I mentioned Perl::Tidy, Perl::Critic, PDFs, Self-contained Web Apps, > AJAX, Perl IDEs, Curses, GUI (gtk++, wxwidgets, tk), Perl 6, etc. BTW, on a related-to-perl6 note, there will be a bug squashing day for parrot bugs this Saturday. Here's a URL that explains a little about it http://rakudo.org/parrot/index.cgi?bug_day_2007_01_13 If there's anyone who doesn't know, parrot is the underlying VM that perl6 will run on. See http://www.parrotcode.org/ cheers, -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff perlpilot at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/austin/attachments/20070110/a12d9d1a/attachment.html From taylor at codecafe.com Thu Jan 11 11:11:06 2007 From: taylor at codecafe.com (Taylor Carpenter) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:11:06 -0600 Subject: APM: Topics for upcoming meetings Message-ID: Please choose the order you would like to see the following topics and send me an email. I will coordinate with the presenters and update the APM website. Bob: * Perl::Tidy and Perl::Critic * LISA related info (probably short overview) * closures & refactoring (from LISA but could be stand alone) Doug: * POE * Self modifying code and other fun stuff Ian: * Perl 6 - Status update, future, code examples. * Scientific programming with Perl (possibly???) Mark: * Nested sets - a technique for representing hierarchical data with a flat structure and a non-recursive tree traversal. BTW, some of these items (and other topics) could be done in 10-15 minute segments. We could have a couple of people show something short then have a longer one. For instance a meeting could have * ~10mins about Standalone web apps * ~10mins about self-modifying code * ~10mins of LISA info and topics related to Perl * ~30mins about Perl 6 current status and examples If you have something that you think might be interesting to the whole group that would take 10mins or so then tell me. Basically don't think something would be to short for a full presentation. Furthermore doing 30mins rather than 1hr... or whatever lengh is fine. Taylor From taylor at codecafe.com Thu Jan 11 19:26:23 2007 From: taylor at codecafe.com (Taylor Carpenter) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:26:23 -0600 Subject: APM: PDF stuff Message-ID: <72181156-6342-4953-80DA-B9357D7662B0@codecafe.com> Anyone know how to do merging, form data handling, font embedding, and all that other fun stuff with PDFs and Perl (open to Python and Ruby as well)? From jad at texas.net Fri Jan 12 22:27:21 2007 From: jad at texas.net (John A. Dormer 2) Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:27:21 -0600 Subject: APM: Austin Digest, Vol 43, Issue 7 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <45A87BC9.4030508@texas.net> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 austin-request at pm.org/Taylor Carpenter wrote: > Anyone know how to do merging, form data handling, font embedding, > and all that other fun stuff with PDFs and Perl (open to Python and > Ruby as well)? My teams have used ImageMagick for some of this, in the newer 6.* releases. There were some time penalties in merging the final output, however. John -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFqHvJEd1YUJfL25YRAmdhAJsGcUAGNtIMdg5wH2eWpQR3wNIFggCgqBsC mGQkcnqievHkvXrJM1uEh+A= =hJOc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From Lshoberman at aol.com Mon Jan 15 17:30:59 2007 From: Lshoberman at aol.com (Lshoberman at aol.com) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:30:59 EST Subject: APM: livecd for Linux Message-ID: Can anyone recommend a livecd for Linux? Thanks, LH -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Michaud Date: Jan 23, 2007 5:00 PM Subject: Perl6/Parrot presentation in Austin To: mlehmann at marklehmann.com Hello- I'll be giving a public presentation about Parrot and Perl 6 at Freescale Semiconductor this Friday, and I was hoping you could pass along the talk announcement to members of Austin.pm, in case anyone is interested. Also, if Austin.pm is interested in having me come speak at one of your meetings, I'll be happy to do it! Thanks! Pm -------------- Patrick R. Michaud, Ph.D. Web: http://www.pmichaud.com Email: pmichaud at pobox.com ----- Forwarded message from George Wood ----- Subject: Patrick Michaud talks about Parrot - Updated Parrot, the virtual machine for Perl6, Python , Ruby, Tcl, JavaScript Why: Parmer FreeYourMind! and the Differentiated Tools Team are co-sponsoring a visit from Patrick Michaud to discuss Parrot, a tool of significance to the CAD industry. This is an open forum for members of the CAD community to meet and discuss their desires for how they would like the language to handle their requirements. The talk is open to the public and will be announced to Intel, Intrinsity, AMD, QualComm, IBM and the Austin Perl Mongers Group. Please tell your colleagues. What: Patrick Michaud will present Parrot, a virtual machine environment for Perl6, Python, Ruby, Tcl, JavaScript. When: 2006 Jan 26 Friday Refreshments: 10:00 until 10:30 A.M. Talk: From 10:30 A.M. until 12:30 P.M. With time for Questions until 1 P.M. Where: Parmer Auditorium, The Northern most building visible from Parmer Lane Building A, 7700 W. Parmer Lane, Austin, Texas 78729 URL: of Bldg A in center of frame: http://www.google.com/maps?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&q=freescale&near=Austin,+TX&radius=0.0&cid=30266944,-97742778,16484976286225323096&li=lmd&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=19&ll=30.458493,-97.751699&spn=0.00139,0.002631&t=h Who: Software Developers, Language Designers and Implementers, Perl users Talk description ---------------- Over the past few years the Perl community has been designing and developing Parrot, a virtual machine interpreter for dynamic languages. While this virtual machine is obviously intended to support compilation in Perl, a fundamental design goal of Parrot is also to provide language interoperability at the bytecode level with many scripting languages, including Python, Ruby, Tcl, JavaScript, and others. Parrot also provides a "native calling interface" that allows these dynamic languages to access libraries written in languages such as C or C++. This talk reviews the Parrot virtual machine environment and describes the goals and status of the Perl 6 and Parrot efforts. The talk includes an introduction to the compiler tools that have been created to simplify parsing, analysis, and bytecode generation for language translators (including Perl 6). The talk also provides a brief introduction to Parrot's native calling interface, demonstrations of currently available capabilities, and a look at how Parrot and Perl 6 are aiming to achieve language interoperability within a single runtime environment. About the presenter ------------------- Patrick R. Michaud is the lead designer ("pumpking") for the Perl 6 compiler and the Parrot compiler tools. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and was formerly a Professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He is currently a software developer and consultant focused on open source development and applications, including Perl, PmWiki, and Linux. Host: George Wood 512-996-4825 Member of Technical Staff Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Co-Host: Parmer FreeYourMind! Jessica Watts 512-996-4571 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. ----- End forwarded message ----- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/austin/attachments/20070124/01134d9e/attachment.html