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=============================================================== Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard HP Invent 2002: Register now for HP's Worldwide Developer Conference, on May 28-31 in Las Vegas. There will be hands-on workshops and breakouts, the hottest new wireless technologies, authorities such as Kent Beck, Dr. Richard Soley, Ron Schmelzer and many more. Enjoy an evening hosted by Bill Maher. For more info, complete session details, or to register, visit: http://www.hp.com/go/invent2002 =============================================================== 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. After many months of betas, MacPerl 5.6.1 has been released! In what maintainer Chris Nandor proudly calls "the most advanced release of Perl ever", we now have much better POSIX support in the form of a rewritten GUSI library, a brand new version of Shuck, a whole bunch of modules bringing it up to date not just with 5.6.1 but also on track with 5.8.x, and a slew of new and improved Mac-specific modules. Remember that this is the Classic Mac Perl; OS X users should use Unix Perl as normal. http://dev.macperl.org/docs/macperldelta.html http://www.macperl.org/ Didn't get back issues of the Perl Journal? Not to worry! O'Reilly is publishing the best articles from the Perl Journal in a series called, unsurprisingly, Best Of The Perl Journal. The first edition is due out in May, and focuses on Computer Science & Perl Programming: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tpj1/ And speaking of Perl magazines, there's a new issue of the Perl Review out; this one features articles from Sharon Hopkins on Perl poetry, Jeff Bay's Perl one-liners tutorial, some notes from Dan Sugalski on Parrot, and other articles. http://www.theperlreview.com/ * What's new on www.perl.com? Once again, Bryan Warnock brings us coverage of the Perl 6 and Parrot effort. This week, wrangling over what printf should be like; an assembler design document; a question on multi-method despatch; and the road to Parrot 0.0.4 http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/03/p6pdigest/20020309.html AxKit is an example of really pushing the Perl envelope; it's a mod_perl application for dynamic transformation of XML inside the web server. I've seen it used very effectively to serve up web sites with the content completely written in XML, to style the output, choose between HTML, PDF and other output formats, to degrade depending on browser, and so on. Barrie Slaymaker begins a series of articles on how to get the best of AxKit by explaining how to go about setting it up and serving up some simple XML files. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/03/12/axkit.html Enjoy! SC ===================================================================== Free Macromedia JRUN 4 Trial! Free JRUN 4 Trial: Fast, Affordable, Reliable J2EE 1.3 Speed up development and deployment of high performance J2EE apps With the most intuitive, easy-to-use, J2EE application server on the market. With simplified management, web services, and clustering. http://www.oreillynet.com/nlr/macromedia/jr/1 ===================================================================== *** Featured Articles *** Introducing AxKit This is the first in the series of articles by Barrie Slaymaker on setting up and running AxKit. AxKit is a mod_perl application for dynamically transforming XML. In this first article, we focus on getting started with AxKit. http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/03/12/axkit.html *** Stopping Spam with SpamAssassin SpamAssassin and Vipul's Razor are two Perl-based tools that can be used to dramatically reduce the number of junk emails you need to see. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/03/06/spam.html *** Why mod_perl? In the first of a series of articles from mod_perl guru, Stas Bekman, we begin by taking a look at what mod_perl is and what it can do for us. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/02/26/whatismodperl.html *** Preventing Cross-site Scripting Attacks Paul Lindner, author of the mod_perl Cookbook, explains how to secure our sites against Cross-Site Scripting attacks using mod_perl and Apache::TaintRequest. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/02/20/css.html ============================================================= The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference P2P, Web Services, Wireless, and Beyond . . . May 13-16, 2002 Westin Santa Clara, CA Participate in building the Internet OS. Day of Tutorials only $200 when you purchase a Conf. Pass Register Now! and Save $695! Offer ends March 22. http://conferences.oreilly.com/etcon/ =============================================================== -- For information on unsubscribing from this list, please visit http://rochester.pm.org