Haskell Weekly News: Issue 77 - July 16, 2008

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Haskell Weekly News
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Issue 77 - July 16, 2008
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   Welcome to issue 77 of HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the
   [1]Haskell community.

Announcements

   Takusen 0.8.3. Alistair Bayley [2]announced the release of [3]Takusen
   0.8.3, with ODBC support, more Cabal improvements, bug fixes, and some
   basic result-set validation.

   Launching Haskell Group in Vancouver, Canada. Jon Strait [4]announced
   that a [5]Haskell Programmers Group has been created in Vancouver; the
   first meeting is scheduled for next Monday, July 21st. Feel free to
   join the Google Groups list to be notified of future events, or just
   show up to a meeting to bounce ideas and questions off of other Haskell
   programmers.

   Sphinx full-text searching client on Hackage. Chris Eidhof [6]announced
   work on a [7]client for the [8]sphinx full-text search engine. Help
   hacking on it, testing it or improving documentation is welcome.

   haskell-src-exts 0.3.5. Niklas Broberg [9]announced that the
   [10]haskell-src-exts package is now updated to understand the current
   version of Template Haskell syntax. Bug reports welcome.