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== Uri Guttman's Hackathon Page

I have several CPAN modules and more in the works and all can use
hacking. There are bug fixes, submitted patches, improvements, new
designs and code, doc work and more. I am inviting anyone interested in
hacking with any skill level as there are many projects, big and small
to be done. I will be at the hackathon all day Thursday and Friday and
will work closely with any hackers. I guarantee you will learn more
Perl, do useful work and have fun at the same time or your hackathon
fees will be returned! Here are the modules and some tasks I would like to
see done. Feel free to email me or chatting with me at YAPC about any of
these projects.

SVN all my modules

• I need some help converting from CVS to SVN
• Work on the conversion with me - I have been told about conversion scripts
• Get emacs svn module and use it.
• This is more handholding :)
• My hoster will be at YAPC and I intend to get him to help with this but more help is welcom
• This should be done before the hackathon so that group hacking can happen.

File::Slurp

• A very popular module that reads/writes complete files
• Speed up slurping of short files (medium skill)
• Rewrite benchmark script (in process) (easy skill)
  • prepend_file()
  • edit_file() - slurps, edits, writes out a file in one call
  • edit_file_lines() - slurps, edits line by line, writes out a file in one call
• Add table driven test for new features - designed, needs coding (medium)
• Convert other tests to table driving (medium)

Template::Simple

• A fast and simple to use templating module
• Support precompiling templates for speed (high skill level)
• 3 possible compiling styles
  • code generation/eval
  • functional style with closures
  • data tree with small interpreter
• General improvements (medium)

CMS::Simple

• This is a simple configuration management system under development
• Uses Template::Simple
• Used in two internal projects
  • http://bestfriendscocoa.com
  • A new HTML slide maker
• Add documentation (medium)
• Add tests (medium)
• Add dependency checking like makefile (hard)
• Add publishing support (medium)
• Clean up for CPAN (medium)
• Add missing features to slide maker program (easy)
• Add templates for slide maker to support S5 or other slide formats (easy)

Event::ThreadFarm

• Being Designed
• Will support running kernel c/c++ threads under any perl event loop
• This will allow blocking c/c++ calls and libraries to be used in an event loop application
• Similar to IO::AIO but with more features, flexibility
• Finish Perl API (medium)
• Design Perl/C thread interface (in progress) (hard)
• Develop Perl side with generic event loop support (medium)
• Develop multiplatform thread side in C (hard)

LogicEngine

• Being Designed
• Will support Async logic flow
• Run under any event loop
• Support Expect.pm style of coding but with multiple channels
• High level logic instead of ugly state machines
• Support reuse of logic code at multiple levels (perl, high level logic)
• Pure Perl and OO
• Great for protocols, server application logic
• Architecture (in progress) (hard)
• Prototype (can use some existing code) (medium)

Stem

• Network application framework and toolkit
• Message passing architecture
• Reduces coding requirements for most networked applications
• High level config instead of boilerplate coding
• Many areas to work on at all skill levels
• Edit existing external docs into pod (easy)
• Add more tests (medium)
• Finish stem2pod documentation tool (medium)
• Add better routing (steal from internet protocols) (hard)

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