[Thousand-oaks-pm] Saturday Hackathon Perl 6 Rakudo

Aran Deltac bluefeet at gmail.com
Wed Aug 26 14:15:14 PDT 2009


Sounds perfect.

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Todd Presta <toddpresta at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> I can host or anyone for that matter and we can just add collaborators to
> the repo itself AFAIK. The project should be in its own repo for easier
> tracking. The biggest question is what to name it. Early on we thought of it
> to be a web sponge of sorts. I like the Padre IDE's other name: "Almost
> Six." Maybe we could call it Sponge Six? It could have a cool 3D logo with
> the number 6 and a sponge texture applied. :)
>
> Anyone had any names in mind?
>
> Unless there are any objections, I'll create a repo called sponge-six this
> evening and add Aran and Shawn initially as collaborators so we can all do a
> test push-pull.
>
> If the name doesn't work out, its's no big deal to delete it...
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> -- Todd Presta
> -- http://www.asciiville.com
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> *From:* Aran Deltac <bluefeet at gmail.com>
> *To:* Todd Presta <toddpresta at sbcglobal.net>
> *Cc:* shawn faison <shawn at web-hero.net>; thousand-oaks-pm at pm.org
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 26, 2009 12:27:37 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Thousand-oaks-pm] Saturday Hackathon Perl 6 Rakudo
>
> Hey Todd - should we use one of your github repos for this project?  If
> not, could you make one?
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Todd Presta <toddpresta at sbcglobal.net>wrote:
>
>> I don't remember $you at any of the meetings. :)
>>
>> The time slot is good for me. I think I left the twitter search api code
>> on my other machine. It was a simple OO approach to the wpget.p6 program
>> somewhere in one of my github repos, as was just a Perl 6 class that used a
>> role to perform the core retrieval behavior (IO::SOCKET::INET, etc). It also
>> used the following Perl 6 code http://github.com/moritz/json/tree/masterto parse the JSON content returned from the twitter api search call.
>>
>> Gotta get back onto my old machine, find the code,  and migrate the new
>> box.
>>
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>>
>> Todd
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>>
>> -- Todd Presta
>> -- http://www.asciiville.com
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* shawn faison <shawn at web-hero.net>
>> *To:* thousand-oaks-pm at pm.org
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 26, 2009 9:30:17 AM
>> *Subject:* [Thousand-oaks-pm] Saturday Hackathon Perl 6 Rakudo
>>
>> So we have a Perl 6 Hackathon scheduled for this Saturday August 29th at
>> the ValueClick office.
>>
>> So far I think we have 4 or 5 people who have either confirmed or showed
>> interest in working on this.
>>
>> Todd
>> Aran
>> Andrew
>> Shawn
>> $you
>>
>> If anyone else is interested please let me know because we would love to
>> have you there.  Free coffee, soda, and hot babes will be there too doing
>> the monkey dance.
>> Its a great way to help out the Perl 6 core development team by giving
>> Rakudo more experience points so that it may level up faster.
>> We are also learning the new language features that we have been looking
>> forward to.
>>
>> Todd has created SQLite functionality for us to use along with Rakudo and
>> Parrot. He also created several other key pieces of Perl 6 functionality we
>> will need.
>> Todd has also been able to access the Twitter Search api with Perl 6.
>>
>> Aran has got mod_parrot working with Apache. So we have everything we need
>> to do something non-trivial and useful with Perl 6 as far as web services
>> go.
>>
>> I have worked on creating Perl 6 clients for the Twitter api and the
>> Daylife api ( neither is complete ) .  I am going to see if I can finish up
>> the Daylife client before Saturday so we can have more data to play with
>> from the start.
>>
>> The proposed time I believe was 9 am. to 1 pm.   Does this time work for
>> everyone?
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Shawn Faison
>>
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