[Developers] Pre Hack Day present

[Don Jackson]

1) My prayers for an updated perl client have been answered, thank you  
Philip!

2) Strongly second Kirrily's github suggestion.  That would be a great  
place to host this code....

Don

On Jul 9, 2009, at 2:58 PM, Kirrily Robert wrote:

> I would strongly advocate github.  Internally, we've been talking
> about making a Freebase project there and making libraries for various
> languages part of it.  What do you (plural, dev list generally) think
> of that?
>
> K.
>
> On 09/07/2009, at 2:50 PM, Tom Morris wrote:
>
>> If you guys can get it up on github or Google Code or someplace
>> similar it will be a lot easier to collaborate on it with others.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Kirrily Robert<kirrily at metaweb.com>
>> wrote:
>>> This is awesome, Phil!  I would be happy to hand over CPAN
>>> maintainership of the module to you.  You should definitely make it
>>> available via CPAN.  If you're not familiar with that process, I can
>>> help you out.
>>>
>>> K.
>>>
>>> On 09/07/2009, at 1:51 PM, Philip Kendall wrote:
>>>
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> I can't make hack day due to being on the wrong side of the
>>>> Atlantic, so
>>>> I'll give up my little offering now for anyone interested...
>>>>
>>>> A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away (OK, actually 10 Sep
>>>> 2007), an
>>>> intrepid coder called Kirrily "Skud" Robert (you may have heard of
>>>> her)
>>>> released the Metaweb Perl module for interfacing with this a new
>>>> site called "Freebase".
>>>>
>>>> Then not much happened, other than JSON::XS changed its API so the
>>>> module no longer works without a quick hack.
>>>>
>>>> One thing I've had going on the back burner is an updated version  
>>>> of
>>>> Metaweb.pm, and now seems as good a time as any to get it out  
>>>> there.
>>>> Brief highlights of my changes:
>>>>
>>>> * Use new JSON::XS API
>>>> * Full cookie support (mwLastWriteTime now works)
>>>> * New search, touch and trans methods, which map through to the
>>>> appropriate Freebase services
>>>>
>>>> That's about it. The documentation's lacking in areas. Please feel
>>>> very
>>>> free to hack on it at Hack Day and come up with something better.
>>>> Blame
>>>> me for all bugs, not Kirrily.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.shadowmagic.org.uk/Metaweb.tar.gz
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Phil
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Philip Kendall <philip at shadowmagic.org.uk>
>>>> http://www.shadowmagic.org.uk/
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>>> Freebase Community Director
>>> kirrily at metaweb.com
>>>
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