''2008-06-11''

<ul><li><p><em>hfann</em>. Olivier Boudry
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/41154 announced] the first release of the [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hfann hfann module], an interface to the [http://leenissen.dk/fann/ 'Fast Artificial Neural Network (FANN)' library].</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>funsat</em>. Denis Bueno
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/41167 announced] a release of [http://churn.ath.cx/funsat.html funsat], a modern, DPLL-style SAT solver written in Haskell.  Funsat solves formulas in conjunctive normal form and produces a total variable assignment for satisfiable problems.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>DEFUN08: Call for talks and tutorials</em>. Matthew Fluet
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/38392 announced] the final call for talks and tutorials at [http://www.deinprogramm.de/defun-2008/ DEFUN 2008], to be held in conjunction with [http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2008/ ICFP].</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>Cabal-1.4 Release Candidate</em>. Duncan Coutts
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/41059 announced] the second release candidate for [http://www.haskell.org/cabal/ Cabal-1.4].</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>Programmer's Minesweeper</em>. Bertram Felgenhauer
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/40950 announced] a Haskell implementation of [http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/ramsdell/pgms/index.html Programmer's Minesweeper], which allows programmers to implement minesweeper strategies and run them.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>hackage RSS feed</em>. Don Stewart
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/41045 announced] a new [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/recent.rss RSS feed] for the most recently uploaded packages on [http://hackage.haskell.org/ Hackage].</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>BLAS bindings</em>. Patrick Perry
           [http://quantile95.com/?p=5 announced] a set of bindings for the [http://www.netlib.org/blas/ BLAS] linear algebra library.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>Xen Control bindings</em>. Thomas DuBuisson
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/40790 announced] the [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hsXenCtrl hsXenCtrl] package, with FFI bindings to [http://xen.org/ Xen].</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>bloomfilter</em>. Bryan O'Sullivan
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/40745 announced] the availability of a fast Bloom filter library for Haskell.  A Bloom filter is a probabilistic data structure that provides a fast set membership querying capability.  It does not give false negatives, but has a tunable false positive rate.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>HCAR</em>. Janis Voigtlaender
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/40703 announced] the 14th edition of the [http://www.haskell.org/communities/ Haskell Community and Activities Report (HCAR)].</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>HSmugMug</em>. Daniel Patterson
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/40546 announced] [http://dbpatterson.com/articles/10 HSmugMug], a Haskell wrapper to the photo hosting site [http://www.smugmug.com/ SmugMug]'s API.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>LIPL</em>. Sam Lee
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/40500 announced] the release of [http://www.lipl.googlepages.com/index.html#source LIPL], a tiny functional language implemented as a term project to learn Haskell.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>Glome 0.51</em>. Jim Snow
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/40479 announced] version 0.51 of [http://syn.cs.pdx.edu/~jsnow/glome/ glome], a raytracer written in Haskell.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>ChessLibrary</em>. Andrew Wagner
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/40052 announced] the [http://code.haskell.org/ChessLibrary/ ChessLibrary] project, and mentioned that he is looking for an experienced haskeller to serve as a mentor for this project.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>xmonad-utils</em>. Gwern Branwen
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/39773 announced] the upload to hackage of [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmonad-utils xmonad-utils], a couple of small Xlib programs which might be useful for xmonad users.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>Roguestar</em>. Christopher Lane Hinson
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/39710 announced] the release of [http://roguestar.downstairspeople.org/ Roguestar 0.2], a science fiction themed roguelike (turn-based, chessboard-tiled, role playing) game written in Haskell.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>Streaming Component Combinators</em>. Mario Blazevic
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/39654 announced] the 0.1 release of [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/scc-0.1 Streaming Component Combinators] in Haskell, based on earlier work done in [http://www.idealliance.org/papers/extreme/proceedings/html/2006/Blazevic01/EML2006Blazevic01.html OmniMark].</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>Twitter client</em>. Chris Eidhof
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/39648 announced] a simple [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/twitter terminal-based Twitter client].</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>Monad.Reader call for copy</em>. Wouter Swierstra
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/39522 issued] a call for copy for [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/The_Monad.Reader The Monad.Reader]. The submission deadline for Issue 11 is August 1.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>category-extras</em>. Edward Kmett
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/39492 announced] a new release of the [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/category-extras category-extras package], involving all sorts of new categorical goodness.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>Session Types for Haskell</em>. Matthew Sackman
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/39482 announced] the availability of [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/sessions Session Types for Haskell]. Session types are a means of describing communication between multiple threads, and statically verifying that the communication being performed is safe and conforms to the specification.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>Haddock 2.1.0</em>. David Waern
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/39352 announced] the release of [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/haddock-2.1.0 Haddock 2.1.0].</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>ReviewBoard</em>. Adam Smyczek
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/39347 announced] the release of [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/ Haskell bindings] to [http://code.google.com/p/reviewboard/ ReviewBoard], a development tool designed to monitor code changes and analyze dependencies.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>diagrams</em>. Brent Yorgey
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/39342 announced] the initial release of [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/diagrams-0.1 Graphics.Rendering.Diagrams], an embedded domain-specific language for creating simple pictures and diagrams, built on top of the Cairo vector graphics library.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>HXT</em>. Uwe Schmidt
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/39271 announced] a new release of the [http://www.fh-wedel.de/~si/HXmlToolbox/index.html Haskell XML Toolbox].</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>GSoC</em>. Malcolm Wallace
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/39040 announced] the seven student projects chosen to be funded by the [http://code.google.com/soc/2008/haskell/about.html Google Summer of Code].</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>bytestring</em>. Don Stewart
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/38992 announced] a new major release of [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/bytestring bytestring], the efficient string library for Haskell, suitable for high-performance scenarios.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>HXQ</em>. Leonidas Fegaras
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/38991 announced] the release of [http://lambda.uta.edu/HXQ/ HXQ], an [http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/ XQuery] compiler/interpreter for Haskell.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>Win32-notify</em>. Niklas Broberg
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/38965 announced] the first release of [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/Win32-notify-0.1 Win32-notify], an inotify-alike for Windows.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>cpuid</em>. Martin Grabmueller
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/38922 announced] the new [http://uebb.cs.tu-berlin.de/~magr/projects/cpuid/doc/ cpuid] package, which provides functionality for accessing information about the currently running IA-32 processor.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>Emping</em>. Hans van Thiel
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/38870 announced] version 0.5 of the [http://home.telfort.nl/sp969709/emp/empug.html Emping] package, a utility which derives the shortest rules from a table of rules.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>datapacker</em>. John Goerzen
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/38773 announced] the first release of [http://software.complete.org/datapacker datapacker], a tool to pack files into a minimum number of CDs, DVDs, or any other arbitrary bin.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>darcswatch</em>. Joachim Breitner
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/38736 announced] the release of [http://darcswatch.nomeata.de/ darcswatch], a tool for tracking darcs patches and repositories.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>Generic Haskell</em>. Thomas van Noort
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/38676 announced] the fifth release of [http://www.generic-haskell.org/ Generic Haskell], an extension of Haskell that facilitates generic programming.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>drawingcombinators</em>. Luke Palmer
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/38542 announced] the release of [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/graphics-drawingcombinators-0.1 graphics-drawingcombinators], a wrapper around OpenGL with a functional interface.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>The Monad.Reader</em>. Wouter Swierstra
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/38505 announced] the publication of Issue 10 of [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/The_Monad.Reader The Monad.Reader], a quarterly magazine about functional programming.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>Well-Typed LLP</em>. Ian Lynagh
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/38419 announced] that he, Björn Bringert and Duncan Coutts have set up a Haskell consultancy company, [http://www.well-typed.com/ Well-Typed LLP]. Their services include application development, library and tool maintenance, project advice, and training.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>hgdbmi</em>. Evan Martin
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/38173 announced] the [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hgdbmi hgdbmi] package, which wraps the operations of attaching GDB to a process and parsing the GDB/MI output.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>xmonad</em>. Don Stewart
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/38167 announced] the release of [http://xmonad.org/ xmonad] version 0.7. Updates include improved integration with GNOME, more flexible "rules", various stability fixes, and of course, many new and interesting features in the extension library.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>Haskell Server Pages</em>. Niklas Broberg
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/37996 announced] a new release of [http://code.google.com/p/hsp Haskell Server Pages], a programming model for writing dynamic web pages in Haskell, both server-side and client-side.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>Network.MiniHTTP</em>. Adam Langley
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/37853 announced] a release of [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/network-minihttp-0.2 network-minihttp], a small bytestring HTTP library.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>Disciplined Disciple Compiler</em>. Ben Lippmeier
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/37831 announced] the initial alpha release of the [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/DDC Disciplined Disciple Compiler], an explicitly lazy dialect of Haskell.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>haskell-src-exts</em>. Niklas Broberg
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/37703 announced] a new release for [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/haskell-src-exts-0.3.2 haskell-src-exts], a package for handling and manipulating Haskell source code.</p></li>
     
    <li><p><em>omnicodec</em>. Magnus Therning
           [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/37688 announced] the package [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/omnicodec omnicodec], containing two command line utilities for encoding and decoding data.</p></li></ul>

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