-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello everyone, I've updated the web site with meeting notes from the last meeting. Here's the link: http://rochester.pm.org/meetings-past.html I've also attached the Perl news description and links. - -- Brian Mathis Direct Edge http://www.directedge.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.3 iQEVAwUBOutLtrGo2cj8O3o1AQF17Qf/f2n5arZJsmn1nrNiQ01Kl0iqOev7vHxE EL7/4u4PncAjDrKp3nYdjWPwaqu+AADQcoqASTqwO1U+j5jeYKE5wagaEuOFRe1e mGrd3DNZcdVSkHQ0sFfee+ilytQduYgvAkiReghhDgQF8qIjB5Yuk8khuJNhTaoy ScypWNwBGNbolzU1on1ORK79A37kBBLai0SinOMrung38O6pqt8sUgv259ZL1Skv oVgcCL0bCyNxt7eI0aHHM7/Nkd4erLOLpKnju/dcuTkfq1TWPpJuwwYoGOOSdEuD qMJBZtKKdlgKXFBA+Qclclpbqnxl3YS8z18H92aml5L3fOpZ6EYEGg== =jRii -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Title: Meeting 01/17/2001 - Rochester Perl Mongers
Meeting 04/18/2001 - Rochester Perl Mongers
Recent Perl News (from http://use.perl.org/): HTML::Mason 1.0 released Perl 5.6.0 has been ported to Windows CE YAPC Registration is now open: conference will be held June 13-15 at McGill University in Montreal. Fee is $85 Builder.com: Introduction to SOAP with Perl (http://home.cnet.com/webbuilding/0-7704-8-4874769-1.html) perltidy: a util to tidy up your Perl code. It attempts to adhere to the Perl style guide, “perlstyle” http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/ qrpff: a 7-line DeCSS program written in Perl. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/ A high school kid got in big trouble for using scalar instead of list context in a Perl script. (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/13/208259) XML-RPC & Perl on IBM Developer Works - IBM developerWorks Web Services is sporting a multipart series of articles by Joe Johnston on XML-RPC and Perl. Part 1 introduces XML-RPC and some simple coding techniques (an earlier version appeared here). Part 2 is coming next month. Perl 5.6.1 TRIAL has been released. Give it a try, but not on any machine that matters. (http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/GSAR/perl-5.6.1-TRIAL3.tar.gz) Perl: Warts and All - The
Web Developer's Virtual Library
has an ongoing series concerning Perl. The 22nd(!) installment talks about the
ugly side of Perl:
warts and all. The criticisms are by and large quite valid (and ones
all Perl programmers should know about and understand). Writing database-oriented web based applications: http://www.linux.com/newsitem.phtml?sid=93&aid=11857 Larry Wall and Guido van Rossum, the respective creators of the Perl and Python programming languages, have announced they will jointly develop the next generation language Parrot. See the press release below, read the Simon Cozens interview with Larry and Guido on perl.com, and check out the O'Reilly book in progress. (Note this was posted on April 1st) In the first of a series of articles on www.perl.com, Larry Wall writes about how Perl 6 is going to take shape in Apocalypse 1: The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good . It probably doesn't need to be said, but this is required reading if you want to know what is going on with Perl 6. It will be a part of your grade, it will be on the test. Stas Beckman's series on improving mod_perl performance can be found here on apachetoday. Gurusamy Sarathy has released version 5.6.1 of perl. It is available on a CPAN mirror near you. Check out the full distribution or the patch. Also please read the announcement. "cwest suggested it and the ever-handy Ask (perl.org's mail admin) set it up. If you are interested in helping out beginners, be sure to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The mailing list is supposed to be a friendly place for beginners to ask their questions, so leave your flaming suits and "RTFM"s at home. Archive will be at http://archive.develooper.com/beginners%40perl.org / when mail starts to trickle in." markjugg writes "I've got a new article up on Validating CGI Forms with Perl. The aim of this system is to make the process fast and easy. Example code is provided." ask writes "We are working on a global CPAN cluster. That is, ftp.perl.org and ftp.cpan.org will in the future give you the IP of your local CPAN mirror. gnat writes "Registration for The Perl Conference (and Open Source Convention) is now open. 14+ tracks, 2 days of tutorials, 3 days of talks. San Diego, July 23-27. Early-bird registration ends 22 June." |
