www.perl.com update -------------------------------------- The Email for www.perl.com Subscribers ================================================================= Sponsored by WebEvent Low Cost, Scaleable Web-Calendaring Add calendaring and scheduling to your Websites beginning at a one-time fee of just $150! WebEvent is the world leader in web-based calendar software, with a 96% customer approval rating. Access to source code makes the software customizable, and it is compatible with all major operating systems. Try it free for 15 days at www.WebEvent.com/cs/r?perl2. ================================================================= Hello, world! This is Simon Cozens, managing editor of www.perl.com, here to bring you the week's news and developments both in the Perl world and on our own site. * Perl at large. The Perl Conference is upon us! As I write this, Dan Sugalski is preparing to give his talk on the Perl 6 internals. The major focus of the conference has been the future status of Perl, and especially Perl 6; Larry's State of the Onion talk - or should I say, talks, since there were 33 of them - set out an overview of what Perl 6 would look like. The perl.com team was there, and we've put together the highlights into an article: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/07/25/onion.html We've been having too much fun to bring you as much coverage of the conference as we'd like, but you can always get the very latest from my weblog, including my report of day one of the conference: http://www.oreillynet.com/weblogs/Cozens http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/503 Also checkout the photos and other coverage of the conference on: http://www.oreillynet.com/oscon2001/ There've also been some awards. First, the technical awards: Brian Ingerson and Neil Watkiss won Best New Module for Inline; Dan Brian won the Damian Conway Award for his papers on linguistics, and Mark-Jason Dominus won the Larry Wall Award for Utility for his paper "Rx, a Regex Debugger for Perl." Second, the coveted White Camel Awards for contributions to the Perl community: David Adler, for his work with the Perl Mongers; Ask Hansen, for his tireless and dedicated work administering the perl.org web sites and mailing lists; and the YAPC::Europe organizing committee for, well, YAPC::Europe. Away from the conference, we ought to remind you of the Perl Journal's poetry contest deadline. As regular readers will know, the Perl Journal has gone through a takeover by CMP, and they wish to continue the contest. The deadline has been extended to Friday the 27th (tomorrow) at 5pm Pacific Time. See the URL for the details: http://perlguy.com/contest.html The perl.com team are all here at the conference, so what we've been doing this week has mainly been based around that. Normal service will be resumed next week when we all get home; we have some very interesting articles lined up for you, but right now, it's time to get back to the talks! SC ================================================================= Sponsored by NuSphere NuSphere MySQL Advantage delivers Enhanced MySQL to run your business. Row-level locking, ACID transactions, crash recovery and more are supplied by Gemini, a new MySQL table type that provides the performance, scalability and reliability required by the most demanding applications. Get the NuSphere MySQL Advantage today. Visit http://www.nusphere.com/op ================================================================== *** Featured Articles *** The State of the Onion 5 Larry Wall gives his annual summary of the state of the Perl world. This year, as one might expect, the major focus was on Perl 6. Larry gave 33 lightning talks, of 55 seconds each, outlining elements of Perl 6's design. Here's a rundown on what Perl 6 is going to be. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/07/25/onion.html *** Mail Filtering with Mail::Audit Does your e-mail still get dumped into a single Inbox because you haven't taken the time to figure out the incantations required to make procmail work? Simon Cozens shows how you can easily write mail filters in something you already know: Perl. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/07/17/mailfiltering.html *** This Week on p5p 2001/07/16 Description 5.7.2 is out, some threading fixes, and much more. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/07/p5pdigest/20010716.html *** Symmetric Cryptography in Perl Abhijit Menon-Sen explains how to use Perl to keep your secrets... secret. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/07/10/crypto.html Sister Sites: --------------------------------- O'Reilly Network http://www.oreillynet.com The Source for Open and Emerging Technologies. XML.com http://xml.com/ XML from the Inside Out. ONLamp.com http://onlamp.com O'Reilly Network's High-Performance Web Development Site. 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