Editorial = Nothing, Community [ ], Announce [ Item "ANN xmobar-0.9.2" "Andrea Rossato" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/17080 announced] the release of [http://code.haskell.org/~arossato/xmobar/ xmobar-0.9.2], which features a fix for a longstanding resource leakage bug, new nested color definitions, and more.", Item "CFP Haskell Symposium 2009" "Stephanie Weirich" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/17072 reminded everyone] that there are only 4 weeks until the submission deadline for the [http://haskell.org/haskell-symposium/2009/ 2009 Haskell Symposium]!", Item "hmatrix-static: statically-sized linear algebra" "Reiner Pope" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/56772 announced] the release of [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hmatrix-static hmatrix-static], a thin wrapper over Alberto Ruiz's excellent [http://www.hmatrix.googlepages.com/ hmatrix library] for linear algebra. The main additions of hmatrix-static over hmatrix are that vectors and matrices have their length encoded in their types, and vectors and matrices may be constructed and destructed using view patterns, affording a clean, safe syntax.", Item "haskellmode for Vim now at projects.haskell.org" "Claus Reinke" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/56495 announced] that the Haskell mode plugins for Vim have just completed their move to their [http://projects.haskell.org/haskellmode-vim/ new home], and took the opportunity to reiterate what they can do (quite a lot, it seems), and mention that some screencasts are available.", Item "MSem replacement for QSem" "ChrisK" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/56761 announced] [http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/SafeConcurrent MSem], a proposed replacement module for Control.Concurrent.QSem.", Item "Hac5 is almost upon us!" "Sean Leather" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/56758 reminded everyone] that in six days, tens of crazy/obsessed, type-safe, functional programmers will be converging on Utrecht to commence execution of the [http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hac5 5th Haskell Hackathon], from April 17-19, 2009 in Utrecht, The Netherlands! The local organizing team welcomes you all and looks forward to all of the new developments that come out of everyone's undying quest to write more and better code.", Item "Yogurt-0.4" "Martijn van Steenbergen" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/56747 announced] version 0.4 of [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/Yogurt Yogurt], a functional MUD client. Version 0.4 makes Yogurt available as a standalone executable that is able to dynamically load and reload Yogurt scripts.", Item "Elerea, another FRP library" "Patai Gergely" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/56731 announced] the release of [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/elerea Elerea], aka \"Eventless reactivity\", a minimalistic FRP implementation that comes with a convenient applicative interface, supports recursive definition of signals and signals fed from outside by IO actions, plays nice with resources, and is the result of some furious hacking. There are working examples to show off the current capabilities of the library, found in the separate [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/elerea-examples elerea-examples] package.", Item "tree-monad 0.2" "Sebastian Fischer" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/56639 announced] version 0.2 of the [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/tree%2Dmonad tree-monad package], which provides instances of MonadPlus that represent the search space of non- deterministic computations as a tree. Version 0.2 implements an optimized CPS version of the tree.", Item "HCard -- A library for implementing card-like structures." "Joe Fredette" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/56573 announced] the release of [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HCard HCard], a library which supports a card-like data structures and uses associated types to provide shuffling, dealing, and other facilities. It's general enough to support many different types of playing cards; it currently comes with the common \"French Deck\" (4-suit, 13 card deck that is very common in the US) implemented and an example cribbage scoring application.", Item "SVGFonts 0.1" "Tillmann Vogt" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/56444 announced] his first Haskell library, [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/SVGFonts SVGFonts 0.1], which parses the relatively unknown SVG Font format to produce outlines of characters. The big advantage of this format is that it is XML, which means easy parsing and manipulating.", Item "network-bytestring 0.1.2" "Johan Tibell" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/56374 announced] a new release of [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/network-bytestring network-bytestring], a Haskell library for fast socket I/O using ByteStrings. New in this release is support for scatter/gather I/O (also known as vectored I/O). Scatter/gather I/O provides more efficient I/O by using one system call to send several separate pieces of data and by avoiding unnecessary copying." ], HaskellPrime [ ], Libraries [ ], Conferences Nothing [ ], Discussion [ ], Jobs [ Item "Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Leicester" "Roy L. Crole" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/17066 announced] an opening for a lectureship at the University of Leicester. The successful candidate will have a strong or promising research record in computer science, with a background in formal foundations (either algorithms and complexity, or semantics of programming or modelling languages), and will be able to contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and supervision in software engineering." ], Blogs [ Post "2009-03-09" "Leon Smith" "Lloyd Allison's Corecursive Queues" "" "http://blog.melding-monads.com/2009/03/09/lloyd-allisons-corecursive-queues/" N, Post "2009-04-07" "Leon Smith" "Polynomial multiplication" "" "http://blog.melding-monads.com/2009/04/07/polynomial-multiplication/" N, Post "2009-04-07" "Joe Fredette" "Card games, scorekeeping, and ... Associated Datatypes?" "" "http://lowlymath.net/2009/card-games-scorekeeping-and-associated-datatypes/" N, Post "2009-04-11" "Human Constraints" "Haskell Type Hackery" "" "http://blog.human-constraints.com/?p=49" NP, Post "2009-04-05" "Brant Carlson" "Lightning Modeling in Haskell" "" "http://bayern.stanford.edu/~brant/lightning/" NP, Post "2009-04-12" "Mark Wassell" "Edge Detection in Haskell" "" "http://www.poundstone.org/blog/?p=137" N, Post "2009-04-12" "Sean Leather" "Latest on the incremental fold and attributes" "" "http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/splonderzoek/~3/KWqNCgsK1ww/latest-on-incremental-fold-and.html" N, Post "2009-04-12" "Sean Leather" "Haskell mode for Vim on a Mac" "" "http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/splonderzoek/~3/0QNaK4byWhg/haskell-mode-for-vim-on-mac.html" N, Post "2009-04-12" "Sean Leather" "Incremental attributes" "" "http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/splonderzoek/~3/4B0bHoeTCeQ/incremental-attributes.html" N, Post "2009-04-11" "LHC Team" "A new beginning." "" "http://lhc-compiler.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-beginning.html" N, Post "2009-04-10" "London Haskell Users Group" "Don Stewart: Engineering Large Projects in Haskell: A Decade of Haskell at Galois" "" "http://www.londonhug.net/2009/04/10/don-stewart-engineering-large-projects-in-haskell-a-decade-of-haskell-at-galois/" N, Post "2009-04-09" "Ulisses Costa" "More Hylomorphisms in Haskell" "" "http://ulissesaraujo.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/more-hylomorphisms-in-haskell/" N, Post "2009-04-09" "Ulisses Costa" "Anamorphisms in Haskell" "" "http://ulissesaraujo.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/anamorphisms-in-haskell/" N, Post "2009-04-09" "London Haskell Users Group" "Next Meeting: Don Stewart from Galois" "" "http://www.londonhug.net/2009/04/09/next-meeting-don-stewart-from-galois/" N, Post "2009-04-08" "LHC Team" "Hello world!" "" "http://lhc-compiler.blogspot.com/2009/04/hello-world.html" N, Post "2009-04-08" "mightybyte" "Adding Authentication to the Blog App" "" "http://softwaresimply.blogspot.com/2009/04/adding-authentication-to-blog-app.html" N, Post "2009-04-07" "mightybyte" "Basic Happstack Blog App" "" "http://softwaresimply.blogspot.com/2009/04/basic-happstack-blog-app.html" N, Post "2009-04-06" "mightybyte" "A Standalone Auth Framework for Happstack" "" "http://softwaresimply.blogspot.com/2009/04/standalone-auth-framework-for-happstack.html" N, Post "2009-04-06" "Mads Lindstr\195\184m" "Introducing WxGeneric" "" "http://lindstroem.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/introducing-wxgeneric/" N, Post "2009-04-06" "happstack.com" "2 new projects that use Happstack" "" "http://blog.happstack.com/2009/04/06/2-new-projects-that-use-happstack/" N ], Quotes [ ], Commits [ ] -- vim: paste