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-Grant Progess Reports 1-3: Sept - Nov
+Closing the Grant
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-As you know I have received a TPF grant to write a SDL Perl Manual.<br />
-<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_716654272"><br />
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-<a href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/08/2010q3-grant-proposal-manual-f.html">http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/08/2010q3-grant-proposal-manual-f.html</a><br />
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-<a href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/08/accepted-grants-for-2010q3.html">http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/08/accepted-grants-for-2010q3.html</a><br />
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-I have been a bit busy with that and not been able to update my blog. Anyway here are some of the back dated Grant Updates. These updates where also posted on <a href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/">http://news.perlfoundation.org/</a><br />
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-<div style="text-align: center;">REPORT 1: Sept 2010</div><br />
-<ul><li>1st drafts <ul><li>Preface </li>
-<li>Chapter 2: First SDL Application</li>
-</ul></li>
-<li>Started work on Chapter 3: Drawing</li>
-<li>Outlines for the first 7 chapters have been completed</li>
-<li>Book build framework has been setup</li>
-<li>Released SDL 2.514 (2.515 will be released on 16th of September) <ul><li>This code is the one that will be used in the book for chapter 02</li>
-</ul></li>
-<li>Got more of the Drawing chapter done (It will be done by the end of the week) </li>
-<li>Added several more code examples for other chapters</li>
-</ul>Progress: 2.75 chapters / 11 chapters = approx 25%<br />
-Kartik's work can be followed at:<br />
-<ul><li><a href="http://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL_Manual">http://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL_Manual</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/releases/SDL_Manual.pdf">http://sdlperl.ath.cx/releases/SDL_Manual.pdf</a></li>
-</ul><br />
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-<div style="text-align: center;">REPORT 2: October 2010</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;">Since last time:<br />
-<ul><li>We have released SDL 2.518 <ul><li>Game Loop support completed</li>
-</ul></li>
-</ul>Chapters:<br />
-<ul><li>2nd Drafts for: <ul><li>Preface to Game Loop ( Chapter 0 - Chapter 04)</li>
-</ul></li>
-<li>Chapters completed: 5/11 => 45%</li>
-</ul>Extra:<br />
-<ul><li>cfedde has made a script to extract code listings for readers to try examples with out having to retype them.</li>
-</ul>Coments:<br />
-<ul><li>I am receiving a lot more help from the community, most notable from cfedde for proofreading.</li>
-<li>I will be fleshing out the next 6 chapters shortly and work will begin on them soon</li>
-<li>I am pleased with the progress so far, and I feel the quality is improving due to the pacing.</li>
-</ul>Our work can be seen at:<br />
-<ul><li><a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/releases/SDL_Manual.pdf">http://sdlperl.ath.cx/releases/SDL_Manual.pdf</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/releases/SDL_Manual.html">http://sdlperl.ath.cx/releases/SDL_Manual.html</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL_Manual">http://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL_Manual</a></li>
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-<div style="text-align: center;">REPORT 3: November 2010</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
-This is the progress so far:<br />
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-- SDL 2.523 Releases:<br />
- - Adds stability and better memory management for the game loop<br />
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-- 2 chapters have been completed <br />
- - Pong Chapter (Contributed by garu)<br />
- - Additional Modules<br />
-- 1 extra chapter has been added<br />
- - Puzz(le) Chapter (Contributed by Blaizer)<br />
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-- 2 Chapters are in the Works<br />
- - Tetris Code has been mostly done (contributed by FROGGS)<br />
- - Needs to be fixed <br />
- - Needs write up<br />
- - Sound and Music Effects code is done<br />
- - Needs to be fixed<br />
- - Needs write up<br />
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-Our work can be seen at:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/releases/SDL_Manual.pdf">http://sdlperl.ath.cx/releases/SDL_Manual.pdf</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/releases/SDL_Manual.html">http://sdlperl.ath.cx/releases/SDL_Manual.html</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL_Manual">http://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL_Manual</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
-Regards,<br />
-YAPGH</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-4413645254021668635?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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+With the following <a href="https://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL_Manual/commit/3acf7fada644a24b020fc1caf8338c2dd32b6985">commit</a> I am closing the grant.<br />
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+This is what has been accomplished from each of the objectives:<br />
+<ul><li>Cleaner Code and a lot of memory and performance improvements ( SDL 2.527 released Jan 18th )</li>
+<li>10 out of 11 chapters completed:</li>
+<ul><li>The profiling chapter was dropped as there was not enough content to justify a chapter.</li>
+</ul><li>3 Extra chapters added.</li>
+<li>Deviation from a CPAN SDL::Manual release due to the nature of the Manual it is being released as a creative commons<a href="https://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL_Manual/blob/master/dist/SDL_Manual.pdf"> book</a> instead.</li>
+</ul>Next Steps:<br />
+<ul><li>Get the book polished and edited with chromatic's help</li>
+<li>Fix build system of the html to make a real SDL::Manual release</li>
+<li>Constant update of the book with more releases of SDL and reviewer comments.</li>
+</ul><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-6952731709319833584?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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