So much has been going on this summer of code! As a recap, TPF got nine student slots this year, which means we have nine mentors and nine students working on various things this summer. Here is a sample of what has been going on recently.
Pascal Gaudette describes his love for debugging tricky HTTP/1.1 issues in Mojo
and has even added a "featurette." Devin Austin has been talking about
eviscerating Catalyst::Helper and Daniel Arbelo Arrocha has thoughtfully
detailed the difference between bonding and bondage. My student, Robert Kuo,
has been busy reading the mathematical paper and example C implementation of
the Strong Lucas Pseudoprime primality test for Math::Primality . While installing Math::GMPz, which we use to access the GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP), he found a small issue which caused some test failures and submitted a bug report.
Math::Primality also very recently gained a working is_prime() method, which
works for arbitrary sized integers, due mostly to Robert Kuo's implementation
of is_strong_lucas_psuedoprime() being finished. Now you can test for prime numbers in Perl without installing Math::Pari! More about this in a separate post!
Ryan Jendoubi is working on a Perl interface for wxWebkit and Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson
is working on the command line utility to read Perl 6 documentation called grok.
Justin Hunter has been hacking on his blogging software so that he can blog about
his work on SQL::Translator. Sometimes it's a vicious cycle...
Back to hacking on some code!
Pascal Gaudette describes his love for debugging tricky HTTP/1.1 issues in Mojo
and has even added a "featurette." Devin Austin has been talking about
eviscerating Catalyst::Helper and Daniel Arbelo Arrocha has thoughtfully
detailed the difference between bonding and bondage. My student, Robert Kuo,
has been busy reading the mathematical paper and example C implementation of
the Strong Lucas Pseudoprime primality test for Math::Primality . While installing Math::GMPz, which we use to access the GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP), he found a small issue which caused some test failures and submitted a bug report.
Math::Primality also very recently gained a working is_prime() method, which
works for arbitrary sized integers, due mostly to Robert Kuo's implementation
of is_strong_lucas_psuedoprime() being finished. Now you can test for prime numbers in Perl without installing Math::Pari! More about this in a separate post!
Ryan Jendoubi is working on a Perl interface for wxWebkit and Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson
is working on the command line utility to read Perl 6 documentation called grok.
Justin Hunter has been hacking on his blogging software so that he can blog about
his work on SQL::Translator. Sometimes it's a vicious cycle...
Back to hacking on some code!
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