[Bielefeld-pm] Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, April 15
Sebastian Riedel
sri at oook.de
Fre Apr 16 03:35:11 CDT 2004
Hi,
Den Safari Account würd ich nehmen...
Kennt sich von euch jemand zufällig mit Bonobo aus?
Ich bin grad dabei Gnome2::PanelApplets zum laufen
zu bringen, hab aber noch ein paar kleine Probleme.
Christian Dühl wrote:
>Hallo,
>
>ich reiche den Newsletter von O'Reilly mal an alle weiter...
>
>Gruß Christian.
>
>P.S. Nächstes Treffen ist am 27.04. ... tut sich schon irgendwas an der
>Mobilisierungsfront? ;)
>
>
vielleicht bin ich bis dahin ja wieder gesund...
>Themen: Perl6, Perl-Community-Treffen in München (da fahr ich heute
>Nachmittag hin, geht bis Sonntag Abend), ...
>
>(weitere Vorschläge?)
>
>
Ihr könnt euch was wünschen:
- Class::DBI und SQLite (Nie wieder SQL schreiben)
- WWW::Curl::Lite (Undokumentierte tricks, wie das wiederaufnehmen von
abgebrochenen downloads, callbacks etc.)
- Parrot Erweiterungen mit C/PIR/NCI
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