Editorial = Nothing, Community [ ], Announce [ Item "Google Summer of Code 2009 - mentors wanted!" "Eric Kow" "[http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/haskell-cafe/2009-February/056798.html reminded everyone] that darcs will be applying to be a mentoring organisation for the Google Summer of Code project 2009, and is seeking people to serve as mentors. You need not be a darcs expert to serve as a mentor!", Item "c2hs 0.16.0" "Duncan Coutts" "[http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/haskell/2009-February/021052.html announced] the release of [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/c2hs c2hs version 0.16.0], a tool which assists in the development of Haskell bindings to C libraries by extracts interface information from C header files and generating Haskell code with foreign imports and marshaling. The major change in this release is that it now uses the [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/language%2Dc Language.C library].", Item "X Haskell Bindings 0.2" "Antoine Latter" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/16888 announced] the 0.2.* series release of the [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xhb X Haskell Bindings], mostly aimed at making the API prettier. The goal of XHB is to provide a Haskell implementation of the X11 wire protocol, similar in spirit to the [http://xcb.freedesktop.org/ X protocol C-language Binding] (XCB).", Item "text and text-icu, fast and comprehensive Unicode support using stream fusion" "Bryan O'Sullivan" ", on behalf of the Data.Text team, [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/53780 announced] the release of preview versions of two new packages: [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/text text 0.1], providing fast, packed Unicode text support with modern stream fusion, and [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/text-icu text-icu 0.1], which augments text with comprehensive character set conversion support and normalization (and soon more), via bindings to the ICU library.", Item "Boston Area Haskell User's Group, first meeting on Saturday February 28th" "Shae Matijs Erisson" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/53761 announced] the first meeting of the [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Boston_Area_Haskell_Users%27_Group Boston Area Haskell User's Group] this Saturday, February 28, at 2pm. Directions are on the web page; you can also check out the [http://groups.google.com/group/bostonhaskell mailing list].", Item "New version of Hieroglyph released: Hieroglyph 1.1 is on hackage" "Jeff Heard" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/53549 announced] the release of a new version of [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/Hieroglyph Hieroglyph]; the biggest change is that it now uses Russell O'Connor's excellent [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/colour Data.Colour library].", Item "bug fix for regex-tdfa, version 0.97.4 (and \"regex-ast\")" "ChrisK" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/53525 announced] another bug fix release for the [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/regex%2Dtdfa regex-tdfa package], which fixes another tricksy bug. This is now the only known regex library that passes the entire test suite.", Item "Hac5: April 17-19, Utrecht -- Book Now!" "Sean Leather" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/53510 announced] some updated information regarding the [http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hac5 5th Haskell Hackathon]. The executive summary: hotel or hostel accommodation may be hard to come by, so book your room now, and check out the website for lots of useful information.", Item "pkgenv - disposable, isolated pkg environments" "Paolo Losi" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/53448 announced] a tool, [http://bitbucket.org/pao/pkgenv/raw/488bfe8e58dd/pkgenv pkgenv], which facilitates setting up isolated, disposable package environments." ], HaskellPrime [ ], Libraries [ ], Conferences Nothing [ ], Discussion [ ], Jobs [ ], Blogs [ Post "2009-02-24" "boegel" "Using Haskell to win the Netflix Prize" "" "http://boegel.kejo.be/?q=node%2F8" N, Post "2009-01-16" "Benjamin L. Russell" "Learning Haskell through Category Theory, and Adventuring in Category Land: Like Flatterland, Only About Categories" "" "http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/learning-haskell-through-category-theory-and-adventuring-in-category-land-like-flatterland-only-about-categories/" N, Post "2009-02-27" "JP Moresmau" "A high-level GUI library for Haskell" "" "http://jpmoresmau.blogspot.com/2009/02/high-level-gui-library-for-haskell.html" N, Post "2009-02-27" "Magnus Therning" "More fun with Cabal, visualising dependencies" "Giant graphs are fun!" "http://therning.org/magnus/archives/534" N, Post "2009-02-27" "Magnus Therning" "A no-no in my book (found in Cabal)" "" "http://therning.org/magnus/archives/523" N, Post "2009-02-27" "Bryan O'Sullivan" "Finally! Fast Unicode support for Haskell" "Data.Text is here!" "http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2009/02/27/finally-fast-unicode-support-for-haskell/" N, Post "2009-02-27" "happstack.com" "Happstack now outputs Apache Combined Logs" "" "http://blog.happstack.com/2009/02/26/happstack-now-outputs-apache-combined-logs/" N, Post "2009-02-26" "GHC / OpenSPARC Project" "Benchmarking" "" "http://ghcsparc.blogspot.com/2009/02/benchmarking.html" N, Post "2009-02-26" "Christophe Poucet (vincenz)" "Fibonacci in the Type System" "" "http://cpoucet.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/fibonacci-in-the-type-system/" N, Post "2009-02-26" "Eric Kow (kowey)" "inkscape layers" "" "http://koweycode.blogspot.com/2009/02/inkscape-layers.html" N, Post "2009-02-25" "Magnus Therning" "Another reason to create distro-specific packages for Haskell modules" "" "http://therning.org/magnus/archives/522" N, Post "2009-02-24" "Magnus Therning" "Simple Cabal parsing" "" "http://therning.org/magnus/archives/514" N, Post "2009-02-24" "GHC / OpenSPARC Project" "Bugfixes and pretty graphs" "" "http://ghcsparc.blogspot.com/2009/02/bugfixes-and-pretty-graphs.html" N, Post "2009-02-24" "Jeff Heard" "New version of Hieroglyph released." "" "http://vis.renci.org/jeff/2009/02/24/new-version-of-hieroglyph-released/" N, Post "2009-02-24" "Chris Done" "Vgrabbj hacking" "" "http://chrisdone.com/blog/html/2009-02-25-vgrabbj.html" N, Post "2009-02-24" "Conal Elliott" "Paper: Beautiful differentiation" "Another draft paper from Conal." "http://conal.net/blog/posts/paper-beautiful-differentiation/" N, Post "2009-02-24" "happstack.com" "Momentum builds as we approach Happstack 0.2" "" "http://blog.happstack.com/2009/02/23/momentum-builds-as-we-approach-happstack-02/" N, Post "2009-02-24" "Luke Palmer" "RTS Research" "" "http://lukepalmer.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/rts-research/" N, Post "2009-02-23" "GHC / OpenSPARC Project" "Sanity" "" "http://ghcsparc.blogspot.com/2009/02/sanity.html" N, Post "2009-02-23" "Darcs" "darcs weekly news #18" "" "http://blog.darcs.net/2009/02/darcs-weekly-news-18.html" N, Post "2009-02-22" "Don Stewart (dons)" "Can Haskell give me a pony?" "The answer is: Yes! Haskell can do that." "http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/can-haskell-give-me-a-pony/" N, Post "2009-02-22" "Neil Mitchell" "Hoogle package search" "" "http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2009/02/hoogle-package-search.html" N, Post "2009-02-22" "Alex Mason" "AVar changes" "" "http://axman6.homeip.net/blog/2009/02/avar-changes.html" N, Post "2009-02-21" "Xmonad" "Using gimp under xmonad" "It can actually be quite nice, despite what you might think." "http://xmonad.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/using-gimp-under-xmonad/" N, Post "2009-02-21" "FP-Syd" "Sydney FP Group: FP-Syd #12." "" "http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/FP-Syd/fp-syd-12.html" N, Post "2009-02-21" "Eric Kow (kowey)" "implementing join in terms of (>>=)" "" "http://koweycode.blogspot.com/2009/02/implementing-join-in-terms-of.html" N, Post "2009-02-21" "GHC / OpenSPARC Project" "Triage" "" "http://ghcsparc.blogspot.com/2009/02/triage.html" N ], Quotes [ Quote "lilac" "haskell's learning curve is like this: |", Quote "cowardlydragon" "[from a reddit comment thread] Don't get me started on monad. What is that, a man with a single testicle?" ], Commits [ ] -- vim: paste