Editorial = Just "Real World Haskell is [http://www.realworldhaskell.org/blog/2008/11/25/real-world-haskell-is-shipping/ finally here]!  [http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/ Read it online], and/or [http://book.realworldhaskell.org/#buy get your own dead tree copy].  Better yet, get two copies, one for yourself and one for a friend.  The fifteenth [http://www.haskell.org/communities/ Haskell Communities and Activities Report] is also here---check out all the exciting stuff being worked on in the Haskell world!",

Community [

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Announce [

Item
"HCAR"
"Janis Voigtlaender"
"[http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-November/051112.html announced] the 15th edition of the [http://www.haskell.org/communities/ Haskell Communities and Activities Report (HCAR)] is now available!",

Item
"Not quite another Haskell tutorial, but ..."
"Janis Voigtlaender"
"[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/16640 announced] that he submitted his [http://wwwtcs.inf.tu-dresden.de/~voigt/habil.pdf Habilitation thesis] last week. The first few chapters of it try to give an introduction to Haskell with emphasis on types and reasoning principles.",

Item
"hledger 0.2"
"Simon Michael"
"[http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-November/050920.html] announced version 0.2 of [http://joyful.com/hledger hledger], a minimal haskell clone of John Wiegley's [http://newartisans.com/software/ledger.html \"ledger\" text-based
accounting tool].",

Item
"darcs zlib error workaround"
"Eric Kow"
"[http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-November/051021.html outlined] workarounds and future plans for a darcs bug relating to broken CRCs in gzipped patch files.  You should read this if you have installed darcs 2.1.2 via the Cabal build method.",

Item
"Turbinado 0.2"
"Alson Kemp"
"[http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/haskell/2008-November/020836.html announced] version 0.2 of [http://www.turbinado.org/ Turbinado], an easy-to-use, fast web application framework.",

Item
"Fun with type functions"
"Simon Peyton-Jones"
"[http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-November/051069.html requests] examples of compelling use cases for type functions: \"can you tell us about the most persuasive, fun application you've encountered, for type families or functional dependencies? Simple is good.  It doesn't have to be elaborate: just something that does something useful you could not have done otherwise.\""

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HaskellPrime [

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Libraries [

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Conferences 
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Discussion [

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Jobs [

Item
"PhD Positions in Language-based Security at Chalmers"
"Andrei Sabelfeld"
"[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/16637 announced] the availability of [http://www.chalmers.se/cse/EN/news/vacancies/positions/ph-d-positions-in PhD student positions in programming language-based security] in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. The application deadline is January 30, 2009.",

Item
"FP Jobs"
"Julien Sylvestre"
"[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/16636 announced] several new permanent positions, based in Paris, with MLstate -- an IT company whose functional programming approach to SaaS and cloud computing has been recently recognized by the French Ministry of Research Innovation Award."

],

Blogs   [

Post
"2008-11-30"
"Dan Piponi (sigfpe)"
"An Approach to Algorithm Parallelisation"
"Dan illustrates a clever, general framework for parallelizing some not-so-obviously-parallelizable algorithms, based on linear operations over rings."
"http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2008/11/approach-to-algorithm-parallelisation.html"
N,

Post
"2008-11-29"
"Real-World Haskell"
"First European Orders Now Landing"
""
"http://www.realworldhaskell.org/blog/2008/11/29/first-european-orders-now-landing/"
N,

Post
"2008-11-29"
"Braden Shepherdson"
"Pimp Your XMonad #3: Prompt"
"Braden continues his series on getting the most out of your xmonad configuration with a post describing the Prompt family of extensions."
"http://braincrater.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/pimp-your-xmonad-3-prompt/"
N,

Post
"2008-11-29"
"Real-World Haskell"
"Amazon orders now arriving"
""
"http://www.realworldhaskell.org/blog/2008/11/26/amazon-orders-now-arriving/"
N,

Post
"2008-11-29"
"Real-World Haskell"
"Orders Now Arriving on the US West Coast"
""
"http://www.realworldhaskell.org/blog/2008/11/28/orders-now-arriving-on-the-us-west-coast/"
N,

Post
"2008-11-28"
"Luke Palmer"
"Relative time FRP"
"A new, more elegant semantics for FRP -- relative time instead of absolute time?"
"http://lukepalmer.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/relative-time-frp/"
N,

Post
"2008-11-28"
"JP Moresmau"
"Predictable random for testing"
""
"http://jpmoresmau.blogspot.com/2008/11/predictable-random-for-testing.html"
N,

Post
"2008-11-28"
"Osfameron"
"London Perl Workshop tomorrow!"
""
"http://greenokapi.net/blog/2008/11/28/london-perl-workshop-tomorrow/"
N,

Post
"2008-11-27"
"Chung-chieh Shan"
"Metalinguistics"
""
"http://conway.rutgers.edu/~ccshan/wiki/blog/posts/Metalinguistics/"
N,

Post
"2008-11-27"
"Alex McLean"
"Babble"
"A simple vocable synthesiser that runs in a web browser, written in HaXe."
"http://yaxu.org/babble/"
N,

Post
"2008-11-27"
"Jonathan Tang"
"Sum types vs. typeclasses"
""
"http://eve-language.blogspot.com/2008/11/sum-types-vs-typeclasses.html"
N,

Post
"2008-11-26"
"Magnus Therning"
"Re: Redesigning GHC's build system"
"Magnus's response to a recent post about redoing GHC's build system."
"http://therning.org/magnus/archives/417"
N,

Post
"2008-11-26"
"Real-World Haskell"
"Real World Haskell is shipping!"
""
"http://www.realworldhaskell.org/blog/2008/11/25/real-world-haskell-is-shipping/"
N,

Post
"2008-11-26"
"Twan van Laarhoven"
"Knight in n, part 1: moves"
"Twan explores knight-move problems in Haskell."
"http://twan.home.fmf.nl/blog/haskell/Knight1.details"
N,

Post
"2008-11-25"
"Conal Elliott"
"Semantic editor combinators"
"An elegant explanation of semantic editor combinators -- a principled framework for building up ways to \"edit\" components of structured values."
"http://conal.net/blog/posts/semantic-editor-combinators/"
N,

Post
"2008-11-24"
"David Sankel"
"Why is the Reactive Behavior tutorial taking so long? splitB"
""
"http://netsuperbrain.com/blog/posts/why-is-the-reactive-behavior-tutorial-taking-so-long-splitb/"
N,

Post
"2008-11-24"
"Chung-chieh Shan"
"Bowling balls"
"A nice solution to the bowling-ball problem in Haskell."
"http://conway.rutgers.edu/~ccshan/wiki/blog/posts/Bowling_balls/"
N,

Post
"2008-11-23"
"Ashish Hanwadikar"
"More on Haskell DSL"
"A Haskell DSL for replacing 'make'."
"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/ahanwadi/ashishs_niti/~3/n41w6S_82SE/more-on-haskell.html"
N,

Post
"2008-11-23"
"Luke Palmer"
"Screw laziness (w.r.t. Fran semantics)"
""
"http://lukepalmer.wordpress.com/2008/11/23/screw-laziness/"
N,

Post
"2008-11-28"
"Phil Ratzsch"
"Initial Haskell Impressions"
""
"http://www.geeklair.net/~pratzsch/blog/2008/11/initial-haskell-impressions.html"
NP,

Post
"2008-11-24"
"Cory"
"Developing in \"impractical\" languages"
""
"http://onag.blogspot.com/2008/11/developing-in-impractical-languages.html"
NP,

Post
"2008-11-24"
"Chris Double"
"Dynamic Compilation and Loading of Modules in Haskell"
"A mini-tutorial on using the GHC API."
"http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2008/11/dynamic-compilation-and-loading-of.html"
N

],

Quotes  [

Quote
"quicksilver"
"I ACCIDENTALLY THE WHOLE VERB",

Quote
"dons"
"[on ghc's new code generation] <byorgey> so how's the new code gen better? <dons> it's got 98% less dumbs.",

Quote
"adu"
"source code is transient, dreams are forever.",

Quote
"monochrom"
"n is the nth English letter.",

Quote
"nomeata"
"Ah, it seems I'm creating a tuple with more than 62 elements somewhere...",

Quote
"dons"
"we had 15 years building ivory towers - time to throw rocks from the top!"

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