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=========================================================== Sponsored by Oracle 9i Improve your marketability by increasing your skills, experience and knowledge by gaining certification through the Oracle Certified Professional Program. These industry- recognized credentials will help you emerge a winner. Click here for a FREE OCP Starter Kit and receive 20% off testing. http://www.oreillynet.com/nlr/perl/01/09/02/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. Yet Another Perl Conference dates and location have been decided upon by Yet Another Society. YAPC::America 2002 will take place over June 26-28, at Washington University, St. Louis. An announcement from YAS is forthcoming. http://www.yapc.org/ http://www.yetanother.org/ http://www.wustl.edu/ Other than that, it's been a pretty quiet week. New York Perl Mongers played host to an interesting guest this week: Guido van Rossum, of Python fame. According to some of the attendees I spoke to, the meeting was enjoyable and civil, with Guido being tossed the occasional obligatory low ball for fun. Meanwhile, over in Denver, Randal Schwartz has been talking about Perl 6 to Perl Mongers groups there. * What's new on perl.com We turn our attention back to Parrot this week, with Jeff Goff explaining Parrot Magic Cookies. PMCs are the means by which Parrot will be language-independent, and implementing different types of PMC is the way to get your favourite language's data types working on the Parrot interpreter. I know that at the moment, there are people working on PMCs for Perl, Python and Scheme. Jeff shows us how we write custom data types and use them inside Parrot. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/30/pmcs.html Enjoy, SC ======================================================================= FREE COLDFUSION 5 Trial and Seminars Lets You Build Advanced Sites Fast Macromedia ColdFusion 5 - the fastest way to build and deploy powerful Web apps - empowers you to increase productivity, simplify management, and enhance application performance. FREE TRIAL AND FREE SEMINARS. http://www.oreillynet.com/nlr/macromedia/cf/2 ======================================================================= *** Featured Articles *** Beginning PMCs Parrot promises to give us support for extensible data types. Parrot Magic Cookie classes are the key to extending Parrot and providing support for other languages, and Jeff Goff shows us how to create them. http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/30/pmcs.html *** Finding CGI Scripts Dave Cross explains what to watch out for when choosing CGI scripts to run on your server, and announces a new best-of-breed project for CGI scripting. http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/23/cgi.html *** Apocalypse 4 In his latest article explaining the design of Perl 6, Larry Wall tackles the syntax of the language. http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/15/apo4.html ============================================================ The 4th O'Reilly Open Source Convention, July 22-26, 2002 Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina The Call for Participation is now live--Individuals and companies are invited to submit proposals http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2002/ Mark Your Calendar - Registration Begins April 1, 2002 ============================================================ ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you want to cancel a subscription to this newsletter, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: Please make certain to unsubscribe from the email address at which you receive this message For non-automated human help email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- For information on unsubscribing from this list, please visit http://rochester.pm.org