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============================================================ Sponsored by Oracle Compaq Alliance Unbreakable. Oracle9i Real Application Clusters on Compaq Clustered Systems. Eliminate planned and unplanned downtime. Learn more by registering for your FREE Cluster Success Kit: http://www.oreillynet.com/nlr/perl/02/06/02/top ============================================================ Hello, world! This is Simon Cozens, www.perl.com managing editor, bringing you the latest goings on from the world of Perl and our own site. * Perl at large. Yet Another announcement from the Yet Another Society; the Perl Development Fund Grant, being extended to Dr Damian Conway and Dan Sugalski, is breaking with its tradition of giving money to people whose name starts with 'D'. The Perl Foundation is pleased to announce that it will be offering a fully-funded grant to Larry Wall, the author of Perl, to enable him to completely focus on Perl 6 for at least the next twelve months. http://www.yetanother.org/ YAPC::NA is starting to shape up. As in previous years, Mark-Jason Dominus will be running the Lightning Talks. If you've got something you'd like to say to the Perl community and you want five minutes to say it in, Mark would like to hear from you: http://perl.plover.com/lt/yapc2002.html Just to remind you, the call for papers for YAPC::America::North::2002 is available from the YAPC website: http://www.yapc.org/America And The Perl Conference 6 and 4th Open Source Convention call for participation is also out. TPC6 runs from July 22-26 in the San Diego Sheraton, and promises to be excellent as ever: http://conference.perl.com/ * What's new on www.perl.com? Like many Perl users, I'm a command-line diehard; nevertheless, I realise that people coming to Perl on a particular popular operating system are less comfortable with command line tools than us Unix old-timers. So how does one go about bringing a graphical Integrated Development Environment to Perl? We asked Eric Promislow, the development lead on ActiveState's Visual Perl plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio, and he told us... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/02/05/visperl.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 ======================================================================= Visual Perl Most Perl programmers are die-hard command line freaks, but those coming to Perl on Windows may be used to a more graphical way to edit programs. We asked the lead developer of the new Visual Perl plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio to tell us the advantages of a graphical IDE. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/02/05/visperl.html *** Quick and Dirty Topic Mapping If you've ever tried to map out a taxonomy for an existing or future body of content, you know it can be a frustrating exercise. Here's a strategy for creating a taxonomy from the bottom up rather than top down -- including the Perl script to run it. http://oreillynet.com/pub/a/webservices/2002/01/01/topic_map.html *** 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://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/30/pmcs.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] ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- Brian Mathis Direct Edge http://www.directedge.com -- For information on unsubscribing from this list, please visit http://rochester.pm.org