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Haskell Weekly News
http://sequence.complete.org/hwn/20080611
Issue 72 - June 11, 2008
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Welcome to issue 72 of HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the
[1]Haskell community.
Greetings, Haskellites! As many of you have already heard, Don Stewart
; has passed on the editorship of the HWN to me (Brent Yorgey). I'd like
; to thank Don and John Goerzen for their great work putting it together
in the past, and I'm excited to make the HWN once again into a
reliable, useful compendium of happenings in the Haskell community. You
can expect to see a few changes---for example, hackage uploads will no
longer be listed in the HWN (unless they are announced on the haskell
; or haskell-cafe mailing lists), since you can now see a dynamically
updated list on the front page of the Haskell wiki. This edition
includes all the announcements going back to Issue 71, but only some of
; the blog posts, since I couldn';t find a way to get old feed data from
; Planet Haskell. Hopefully next week things will settle down to
something more normal(ish) and I can begin tinkering with the format.
; Feel free to send suggestions and/or stories for inclusion to me,
byorgey at gmail dot com. Enjoy---'Putting the W back in HWN!'
Announcements
hfann. Olivier Boudry [2]announced the first release of the [3]hfann
module, an interface to the [4]'Fast Artificial Neural Network (FANN)';
library.
; funsat. Denis Bueno [5]announced a release of [6]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.
DEFUN08: Call for talks and tutorials. Matthew Fluet [7]announced the
final call for talks and tutorials at [8]DEFUN 2008, to be held in
; conjunction with [9]ICFP.
; Cabal-1.4 Release Candidate. Duncan Coutts [10]announced the second
release candidate for [11]Cabal-1.4.
; Programmer's Minesweeper. Bertram Felgenhauer [12]announced a Haskell
; implementation of [13]Programmer's Minesweeper, which allows
programmers to implement minesweeper strategies and run them.
hackage RSS feed. Don Stewart [14]announced a new [15]RSS feed for the
most recently uploaded packages on [16]Hackage.
; BLAS bindings. Patrick Perry [17]announced a set of bindings for the
[18]BLAS linear algebra library.
; Xen Control bindings. Thomas DuBuisson [19]announced the [20]hsXenCtrl
package, with FFI bindings to [21]Xen.
bloomfilter. Bryan O'Sullivan [22]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.
HCAR. Janis Voigtlaender [23]announced the 14th edition of the
[24]Haskell Community and Activities Report (HCAR).
HSmugMug. Daniel Patterson [25]announced [26]HSmugMug, a Haskell
; wrapper to the photo hosting site [27]SmugMug's API.
LIPL. Sam Lee [28]announced the release of [29]LIPL, a tiny functional
language implemented as a term project to learn Haskell.
; Glome 0.51. Jim Snow [30]announced version 0.51 of [31]glome, a
raytracer written in Haskell.
; ChessLibrary. Andrew Wagner [32]announced the [33]ChessLibrary project,
and mentioned that he is looking for an experienced haskeller to serve
as a mentor for this project.
xmonad-utils. Gwern Branwen [34]announced the upload to hackage of
[35]xmonad-utils, a couple of small Xlib programs which might be useful
for xmonad users.
Roguestar. Christopher Lane Hinson [36]announced the release of
; [37]Roguestar 0.2, a science fiction themed roguelike (turn-based,
chessboard-tiled, role playing) game written in Haskell.
; Streaming Component Combinators. Mario Blazevic [38]announced the 0.1
release of [39]Streaming Component Combinators in Haskell, based on
; earlier work done in [40]OmniMark.
Twitter client. Chris Eidhof [41]announced a simple [42]terminal-based
Twitter client.
Monad.Reader call for copy. Wouter Swierstra [43]issued a call for copy
for [44]The Monad.Reader. The submission deadline for Issue 11 is
August 1.
category-extras. Edward Kmett [45]announced a new release of the
[46]category-extras package, involving all sorts of new categorical
goodness.
Session Types for Haskell. Matthew Sackman [47]announced the
availability of [48]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.
; Haddock 2.1.0. David Waern [49]announced the release of [50]Haddock
2.1.0.
ReviewBoard. Adam Smyczek [51]announced the release of [52]Haskell
bindings to [53]ReviewBoard, a development tool designed to monitor
code changes and analyze dependencies.
diagrams. Brent Yorgey [54]announced the initial release of
[55]Graphics.Rendering.Diagrams, an embedded domain-specific language
for creating simple pictures and diagrams, built on top of the Cairo
vector graphics library.
; HXT. Uwe Schmidt [56]announced a new release of the [57]Haskel | |