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2009-07-02 - [Damien Krotkine discusses Curses::Toolkit], a textual widget library he's writing with some help from POE. He has also published [his slides].
2009-07-02 - Jerome Quelin writes about his [Pandemic game], which uses POE and Tk.
2009-06-13 - [Damien Krotkine discusses Curses::Toolkit], a textual widget library he's writing with some help from POE. He has also published [his slides].
2009-06-12 - Michael Scherer talks at the French Perl Workshop about [using POE for IRC bots] (French).
2009-06-12 - Damien Kortkine explains [how to create a POE::Wheel] (French).
2009-05-18 - [Bruno Vecchi uses POE::Component::DirWatch::Object] to trigger DNA sequence translation workflows when files are dropped into an inbox folder.
2009-05-15 - New site code and templates! Next task: move around the furniture!
2009-05-09 - Paul Miller releases [MrShell], a command line tool to run the same command on several hosts at once. It's also available as [App::MrShell] on the CPAN.
2009-04-21 - POE 1.005 was released. This release includes the complete first draft of POE's new documentation.
2009-04-08 - Hubert Lubaczewski writes (and writes about) [an HTTP to MUD proxy].
2009-03-31 - POE wasn't accepted for The Perl Foundation's entry in the 2009 Google Summer of Code. Please support TPF, however, by visiting [The Perl Foundation's GSoC site].
2009-03-13 - [Koha] 3.0 is released. This open-source Integrated Library System (ILS) uses POE.
2009-02-26 - Damien Kortkine announces his [Curses::Toolkit] project, which uses POE for its runloop.
2009-02-26 - Alex White describes [Grid::Panoptes], a self-deploying, agent-based monitoring system built in Perl with POE, GRID::Machine, Moose and DBM::Deep.
2009-02-22 - POE 1.003_01 has been released with several bug fixes and all-new documentation. This is a developer release so that the CPAN testers can check it out. The official 1.004 release will be out shortly. Until then, you can start reading the docs at http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?POE
2009-02-01 - Johannes Plunien publishes [a Twitter client for irssi] using POE.
2009-01-06 - Jermoe Quelin releases [POE::Component::Client::MPD].
2008-11-16 - Revision 2400 - Since POE reached 1.0, we've been putting our time into rewriting the documentation. This morning's commits, r2399 and r2400 finish a new draft for POE::Wheel::ReadWrite. POE also turned 10 this year, which means we've sustained an average rate of about 240 commits per year (or one commit every day and a half).
Older news is archived elsewhere.
Starting Points
Understanding and Acquiring POE
Read a brief overview of POE.
While one may download POE and install it manually, we recommend using the CPAN shell, CPANPLUS or ActiveState's Perl Package Manager instead.
POE's documentation is available online.
POE's support resources include mailing lists, IRC channels, where to report bugs, and other support options.
We include and link to several tutorials. Some have been presented at OSCON, YAPC, PerlMongers, and other conferences around the world.
POE's components list links to publicly available POE add-ons. It includes their last known development statuses and a brief list of researched but unstarted topics.
POE's FAQ is an ongoing effort to create comprehensive Q&A documentation. The site's hosted in a wiki, so feel free to chime in.
POE's Cookbook contains short, illustrative example programs for many aspects of programming with POE. Many of them have been adapted into full applications.
Other Users and Uses
Programmers and consultants with POE experience may be able to assist you with your next powerful, multitasking or massively networked Perl application. Add yourself if you'd like to be included.
Organizations and companies using POE have their own page. Add your company or organization.
Several projects use POE to provide networking and concurrency services. Many more exist in-house or are otherwise shrouded in secrecy.
Research and Development
[POE's live notes]? include avenues of research being pursued and changes being actively developed. If you have mission critical systems using POE, this is the place to look for deprecation and implementation schedules that may affect you.
POE development tools are experimental projects to automate POE development and application coding.
Support POE! It doesn't necessarily cost money. Perhaps you'd like to join us.
[POE Benchmarks]? View the benchmark suite at [POEBench]
View POE CVS statistics at [CIA]
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