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============================================================ The 4th O'Reilly Open Source Convention, July 22-26, 2002 Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina The Perl Conference 6 -- You cannot afford to miss this conference if you want to sharpen your Perl skills, mingle with the elite of the Perl community, and learn all about Parrot and the state of Perl 6! Featuring Larry Wall, Damian Conway, Slomo Mellmann, and many more! http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ ============================================================ 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. The big news this time is the Yet Another Perl Conference that took place in St. Louis last week. It began with one mind-blowing talk, as Larry Wall expounded the values of hackerdom in Middle Earth, ended with another, Damian Conway expanding the very fabric of space and time; and, naturally, there were a bunch of very good talks in the middle. A huge and heartfelt thanks to Sarah, Ben and the rest of the organising team, and don't forget to take a look at the pictures, recordings and videos of the conference from the perl.org site. http://www.yapc.org/America/ http://www.perl.org/yapc/2002/ Also at the conference, it was announced that Damian's term of sponsorship by the Perl Foundation had come to an end, and that there isn't enough money in the kitty to continue both Dan's and Larry's sponsorships for much longer. Hence, Dan will also return to real life at the end of the month, leaving the rest of the cash for funding Larry and to hire a professional fundraiser. If you want to help the Perl Foundation, please donate! http://donate.perl-foundation.org/ Vote early, vote often! The nominations for the ActiveState programmer awards have been announced, and in the Perl camp there's Michael Schwern, Matt Sergeant, Michael Peppler, Damian Conway and Bill Luebkert. Unfortunately, you currently have to vote for programmers in all categories, meaning you have to choose a favourite Tcl, Python, PHP and XSLT programmer too. Which is fine if you happen to have one. http://www.activestate.com/Corporate/Awards/ActiveAwards.html * What's new on www.perl.com? Good news! The Perl 6 Summary returns this week with a report from Piers Cawley on the week's goings-on on the perl6-language and perl6-internals mailing lists. Join him for news of parsers, XS support, and more on the Perl Foundation. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/07/p6pdigest/20020702.html Barrie Slaymaker continues his exploration of AxKit, Matt Sergeant (see above)'s XML application server. This week, we look at the creation of custom taglibs using the TaglibHelper and SimpleTaglib libraries. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/07/02/axkit.html Enjoy, Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Managing Editor, www.perl.com =================================================================== New Report from O'Reilly Research: Planning for Web Services Planning for Web Services is a new report from O'Reilly Research by industry visionary Clay Shirky. This report guides CTOs and CIOs through the inflated claims, competing standards, and amalgam of acronyms to arrive at a realistic appraisal of the business impact of Web Services. $495 Save $100! 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Benchmarks are key to this, and Stas Beckman introduces the important tools for mod_perl benchmarking. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/19/mod_perl.html *** PDF Presentations Using AxPoint In this month's Perl and XML column on XML.com, Kip Hampton describes AxPoint, a way to create presentations in PDF using Perl and XML. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/06/19/perl-xml.html ================================================================== Build a Better Bookshelf with Safari Tech Books Online Get your first 14 days free when you subscribe to Safari Tech Books Online, with over 700 of the best technical books available from O'Reilly and other top publishers. Select ten books to search, bookmark, and annotate. Cut and paste code examples. Find your answers fast. Sign up today! https://www.oreillynet.com/safaripromo/oreilly-14.html ================================================================== -- For information on unsubscribing from this list, please visit http://rochester.pm.org