www.perl.com update -------------------------------------- The Email for www.perl.com Subscribers ============================================================= ** FREE Apache SSL Guide from Thawte ** Planning Web Server Security? Find out how to implement SSL! Get the free Thawte Apache SSL Guide and find the answers to all your Apache SSL security issues and more at: http://www.oreillynet.com/nlr/perl/09/12/top ============================================================= 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. Two major things this week. Firstly, all of us at perl.com and the O'Reilly Network extend our condolences and prayers to those people or their families caught up in this week's devastation in New York and Washington, D.C. Damian Conway has set up a page to track the status of all members of the Perl community known to have been in NY or DC at the time; if you're worried about a friend in the community, your first port of call should be: http://www.yetanother.org/damian/September_11.html Thankfully, at time of writing, everyone on that message board is marked as "Safe", but we recognise that many of you will have been touched in some way by this tragedy, and our thoughts are with you. And now some happier news; on Monday, Nat Torkington announced that the holder of the source pumpkin for Perl 6 would be Simon Cozens - oh, hang on, that's me. Later in the day, I released the first version of Parrot, the Perl 6 bytecode interpreter. http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/10/1730204&mode=thread&threshold= http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00293.html And you can download parrot from CPAN, from CVS or from the nightly snapshot service: http://www.cpan.org/src/parrot-0.0.1.tar.gz http://cvs.perl.org/ http://www.netthink.co.uk/downloads/parrot-nightly.tar.gz Patches are, of course, welcome. * What's new on perl.com As you might have guessed from the above, I've been more than a little busy this week; unfortunately, this means I haven't had time to produce the perl5-porters summary. My apologies, and I'll try harder next week. However, the Perl 6 summary is here, covering oodles of documentation, and more discussion of the much-misunderstood lexical insertion feature. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/p6pdigest/20010908.html You've heard of Tk, you might have heard of Gtk, but what about wxWindows? This is a highly portable, good-looking graphical user interface and, like all good things, you can use it from Perl. Jouke Visse brings you the first part of his wxPerl tutorial. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/12/wxtutorial1.html Enjoy, SC ============================================================== Sponsored by Macromedia TRY A FREE COLDFUSION 5 TRIAL AND BUILD SOPHISTICATED SITES FAST. Macromedia ColdFusion 5 - the fastest way to build and deploy powerful Web applications - empowers you to quickly assemble content publishing systems and self-service applications. Try a FREE COLDFUSION DOWNLOAD: http://www.oreillynet.com/nlr/network/08/macromedia/1 ============================================================== *** Perl.com Features *** wxPerl: Another GUI for Perl Jouke Visse brings us a new tutorial on how to use wxPerl to create good-looking GUIs for Perl programs. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/12/wxtutorial1.html *** Changing Hash Behaviour with tie Hashes are one of the most useful data structures Perl provides, but did you know you can make them even more useful by changing the way they work? Dave Cross shows us how it's done. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/04/tiedhash.html *** Perl Helps The Disabled As part of Mark-Jason Dominus's Lightning Talks at the 2001 O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Jon Bjornstad gave a talk about a Perl/Tk program he wrote to help a mute quadriplegic friend, Sue Simpson, to speak and to better use her computer. Jon's talk received a grand reception, not only for his clever use of Perl, but for a remarkably unselfish application of his skills. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/27/bjornstad.html *** Choosing a Templating System Perrin Harkins takes us on a grand tour of the most popular text and HTML templating systems. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/21/templating.html ============================================================ *** A Special Offer from O'Reilly *** XSLT--20% Off Get 20% off the list price when you buy O'Reilly's recently released "XSLT" (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xslt/). The author explains XSLT by building from the basics to its more complex and powerful possibilities, so that whether you're just starting out in XSLT or looking for advanced techniques, you'll find the level of information you need. Offer valid through the oreilly.com shopping cart, or by calling O'Reilly Customer Service at 1-800-998-9938. Use the followingcode: W1DZ02. Expires September 24, 2001. ============================================================ Apache::CodeRed Tired of seeing your web server logs fill up with Code Red error messages? Reuven M. Lerner shows us how to write an Apache module to notify system administrators about Code Red 2 attacks. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2001/08/16/code_red.html *** Quantum::Entanglement Quantum::Superpositions rocked the Perl world, as it provided a way to get more than one thing done at once. (in constant time.) Quantum::Entanglement goes yet further, using solid quantum physics theory to get an infinite number of things done at once. To tell you more would be to spoil the surprise, but the module's author, Alex Gough, tells us what it is and how it works... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/08/quantum.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. 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