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-The Future and Beyond!
+Grant Progess Reports 1-3: Sept - Nov
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-<div style="text-align: right;"><i>I do not think about awesomeness...<br />I just am awesomeness<br />n.n<br />--<a href="http://irclog.perlgeek.de/sdl/2009-10-20#i_1620287">KatrinaTheLamia</a></i><br /></div><br /><h3>Updates</h3>Since the last post SDL Perl has seen an increase of interest to both use and contribute to SDL Perl. Before I dig into the updates, I would like to acknowledge them.<br /><h3>Core Development</h3><b>Acme (<a href="http://use.perl.org/%7Eacme/journal/">Leon Brocard</a>):</b> Has started to work on the Redesign Effort with me. The help is much appreciated! Enjoy your vacation. <br /><br /><h3>Website and Windows Testing</h3><b>FROGGS (Tobias Leich):</b> Came in as a new user to SDL Perl. And after breaking the redesigned SDL Perl in as many ways possible he has decided to help out on the new site. <br /><br /><br /><h3>Last Legacy Release</h3><br />Ok! Now this weekend hopefully we will release our last legacy release, after this we move on! This release will focus on showing of SDL + Perl possibilities.<br /><h3>Pong + SDL::Game::Rect</h3><a href="http://onionstand.blogspot.com/">garu</a> has been working on making SDL object extensions that provide a more perly way to use and play with the SDL bindings. To demonstrate the benefits of this SDL::Tutorial::Pong is done and being polished up. SDL::Game::Rect is a peek in to the design and vision we have for SDL down the road.<br /><h3>Design</h3>The design we have settled on for future release for SDL Perl can be broken in to two layers, SDL::* and SDL::Game::*. Previously the SDL Perl library tried to provide C bindings and provide Perl Idiomatic access. This was messy in regards to the single responsibility principle (do one thing and do it well).<br /><br />We have decided to separate these two focuses into the two name spaces SDL::* and SDL::Game::*. SDL::* will provide straight access to SDL's C API, nothing less and nothing more. SDL::Game::* will extend and make pretty unicorns for Perl. <br /><br />This design has already begin to pay of. One major benefit been in the XS <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/commit/20f544ea4f3e7b34c68445aba89ed9c69d411ddf">readability</a>. Moreover since structs are treated as objects, Perl manages their destruction, and deliver less memory leaks.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-4327446497206876141?l=yapgh.blogspot.com'/></div></div>
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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>
+</ul></div><br />
+<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 />
+<br />
+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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