NAME
    Acme::POE::Knee - Time sliced pony race using the POE kernel.

REQUIREMENTS
        Acme::POE::Knee requires the POE module to run. You can get that as well
        from CPAN or look at poe.sourceforge.net

SYNOPSIS
        #!/usr/bin/perl -w
        use strict;

        # Use POEny!
        use Acme::POE::Knee;

        # Every Acme::POE::Knee race will require a set of arguments. 
        # There are defaults but it's just more fun to set these 
        # yourselves. We set a distance the ponies must run and of course 
        # we name our race ponies! You'll have to specify the maximum 
        # delay a pony can have before reaching the next stage.
        # The lower the delay, the higher the chances are the pony will 
        # win the race.

        my $pony = new Acme::POE::Knee (
            dist        => 20,
            ponies  => {
                'dngor'     => 5,
                'Abigail'   => 5.2, 
                'Co-Kane'   => 5.4, 
                'MJD'       => 5.6,
                'acme'      => 5.8, 
            },
        );
    
        # start the race
        $pony->race( );
    
        exit;

QUICK LINKS
    Please see the samples directory in POE's distribution for several
    well-commented sample and tutorial programs.

    Please see <http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/01/poe.html> for an excellent,
    and more importantly: gradual, introduction to POE.

DESCRIPTION
    POE::Knee is an acronym of "Pony". We all like ponies. And wouldn't we
    love to race ponies? Well, that's what Acme::POE::Knee is for!

    It's great for those friday afternoons at the office, where you wonder
    who will pay the beer tab. Whoever 'wins' the race, loses!

    You specify a distance the ponies must run, and a maximum delay before
    the pony will reach the next step. So, the bigger the delay, the bigger
    the distance between multiple ponies can be.

    Of course this wouldn't be any fun if we couldn't name the ponies
    ourselves. Here, we simply put all our race ponies in an array reference
    and the Acme::POE::Knee module will take care of the rest.

USING Acme::POE::Knee
    Using Acme::POE::Knee is really easy. This simple progam would already
    suffice:

        use strict;
        use Acme::POE::Knee;

        my $pony = new Acme::POE::Knee;
        $pony->race();
        exit;

    This will use the defaults of the POE::Knee module, but you can of
    course specify your own arguments, as shown in the synopsis.

The Use of Acme::POE::Knee
    Use, yes... Usefull? Probably not. This was written in responce to a
    rather persistant meme on #perl (you know who you are!). Basicly, we all
    wanted ponies. Well folks, here it is.

    It's source might be interesting to look at for newcomers to POE to see
    how this time slicing works.

Learning more about POE
    The POE Mailing List
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    The POE Web Site
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      the Changes file and other stuff may be found: <http://poe.perl.org/>

    SourceForge
      POE's development has moved to SourceForge as an experiment in project
      management. You can reach POE's project summary page at
      <http://sourceforge.net/projects/poe/>.

  Author

    Jos Boumans
      Jos Boumans is <kane_at_cpan.org>. POE::Knee is his brainchild.

    Rocco Caputo
      Rocco Caputo is <troc+poe@netrus.net>. POE itself is his creation.

  COPYRIGHT

      Copyright (c) 2001, Jos Boumans. All Rights Reserved. This module is
      free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the
      terms of the Perl Artistic License (see
      http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html)

      Except where otherwise noted, POE is Copyright 1998-2001 Rocco Caputo.
      All rights reserved. POE is free software; you may redistribute it
      and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.