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============================================================= Sponsored by Macromedia Coldfusion MX MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION MX: BUILD RICH INTERNET APPS FAST ColdFusion MX lets you harness Java, XML, and web services without the steep learning curve. FREE TRIAL. Visit: http://www.oreillynet.com/nlr/hub/08/13/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. Well, of course the big news this week is that it's Yet Another Perl Conference this week in Munich; be sure to check up with the regular journals from the delegates. Leon Brocard's even putting up video journals... http://use.perl.org/journal.pl http://www.yapc.org/Europe/ The Perl Review has come out with a wonderful Perl-at-a-glance page, containing the updated version of Jon Orwant's programming language Sucks-Rules-o-meter. (Perl doesn't suck very much, but unfortunately it appears not to rock as much as PHP...) TPR is also asking for subscriptions at $12 for four issues. http://www.theperlreview.com/at_a_glance.html http://www.theperlreview.com/ And finally, we've talked about Perl 6 for the past two years; now how about running some? Leon Brocard's slides from his recent London Perl Mongers talk tells you what you can do and how to do it: http://astray.com/perl6_now/ * What's new on www.perl.com? Web browsers are ubiquitous these days - it's hard to find a machine without one. To make use of a web browser, you need a web server, and they are simple enough to write that you can stick them almost anywhere. So when you've got an application you need to monitor, what better way to do it than to embed a web server in it? Robert Spier shows us how it's done. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/17/ewispp.html We don't have a Perl 6 summary for you right now, but Piers promises me there'll be one arriving real soon now. So until next week, enjoy. Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ================================================================== O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Sept 30-Oct 3, 2002, Santa Clara, CA Get your Mac OS X credentials from these leaders and innovators: James Gosling, Jordan Hubbard, Wilfredo Sanchez Vega, David Pogue, Sal Soghoian, Stuart Cheshire, Tim O'Reilly, and more. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/macosx2002/?CMP=EM4944 ================================================================== *** Featured Articles *** Embedding Webservers Web browsers are ubiquitous these days - it's hard to find a machine without one. To make use of a web browser, you need a web server, and they are simple enough to write that you can stick them almost anywhere. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/17/ewispp.html *** Retire your debugger, log smartly with Log::Log4perl! Michael Schilli describes a new way of adding logging facilities to your code, with the help of the log4perl module - a port of Java's log4j. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/11/log4perl.html *** Writing CGI Applications with Perl There are roughly four bazillion books on Perl and CGI available at the moment; one of the most recent is Brent Michalski and Kevin Meltzer's Writing CGI Applications with Perl. Kevin and Brent are long-standing members of the Perl community - can they do justice to this troublesome topic? Find out in this month's book review! http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/10/review.html *** This week on Perl 6 (9/1 - 9/8, 2002) Goals for the next release, arrays and hashes, hypothetical variables, getting more Parrot hackers, and a load besides... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/p6pdigest/20020908.html *** Going Up? Perl 5.8.0 brought stable threading to Perl - but what does it mean and how can we use it? Get a lift with Sam Tregar as he creates a multi-threaded simulation. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/04/threads.html *** The Fusion of Perl and Oracle Andy Duncan, the coauthor of Perl for Oracle DBAs, explains that Perl's symbiosis with the Oracle database helped in constructing the Perl DBA Toolkit. He also ponders what Ayn Rand might have thought of these two strange bedfellows. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/04/perlfororacle.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