[Thousand-oaks-pm] In anticipation of Perl 6 Hackathon

[Jonathan Brown]

Guys,
 
One idea I had, which is kind of a merger of Shawn's 3 and 4, to some
extent, is: Build a website and accompanying backend that will parse feeds
of / use APIs of twitter/facebook/Daylife/wherever and agregate content
about a specific topic. I like this one because 1) it shows Perl 6 can be
used to build the kind of web apps that are popular today (no cgi!), 2) it's
not just the web app, because we'll need backend components and db layer to
store all the parsed content, 3) since we store the content instead of jsut
access live APIs, we can build a "universal" search on top that merges the
results of different sources together, and 4) it should be realtively well
suited to development by mutliple people, as someone can always just pick a
new data source and write an importer for it, or build some other feature
that uses the same data set for something.  It's basically a pseudo
real-time search app.  Finally, for the actual implementation of it we show
off, we could have it center on Perl 6 / Rakudo / Parrot content.  
 
Jon
 

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[mailto:thousand-oaks-pm-bounces+jbrown=reachlocal.com at pm.org] On Behalf Of
shawn faison
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 8:26 PM
To: Todd Presta
Cc: thousand-oaks-pm at pm.org
Subject: Re: [Thousand-oaks-pm] In anticipation of Perl 6 Hackathon


Hey Mongers,

Ive pondered a few ideas for our hackathon in no particular order such as: 

1. An  IRC bot

2. A chat client

3. A widget that parses a twitter feed and does some smart operations on it.


4. Something using the Facebook api, Flickr api, or Daylife api. Daylife is
pretty cool , it aggregates all types of blogs and news feeds. You can grab
news based on location , time , weather and other options.

5. A basic multiplayer roleplaying game with a web interface or a MUD RPG.
<-- this seems to be my default way of learning a new programming language
because its just fun 
We could do a server and a client for this. 

Im open to doing whatever though really and does anyone else have any ideas
? 
We could publish whatever we create and have a little catchy logo on the web
page that says "Created with Perl 6! or Created with Rakudo!" at the bottom.


Best Regards
Shawn



On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Todd Presta <toddpresta at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:


TO.pm

I started a repo on GitHub to push some toy programs initially, and to log
some flight time with Rakudo Perl 6.

If you are interested, it is located at:

  http://github.com/asciiville/perl6-playground
  http://github.com/asciiville/perl6-playground/tree/master  (first URI
redirects to this one)

Has anybody on the list pondered a Perl 6 project for a hackathon or
otherwise?

Todd







-- Todd Presta
-- http://www.asciiville.com	

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