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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. First, releases! A new version of the QT bindings for Perl, PerlQT 3, has been released. This is a major update that brings the library up to date with QT3. Those of you who want to build QT- and KDE-based applications in Perl should take a look at this tutorial: http://perlqt.infonium.com/dist/current/doc/index.html Can you host a Yet Another Perl Conference in your city? Yet Another Society has issued a call for venues for the next YAPC. There's a helpful text file available outlining the venue requirements, and a YAPC distribution on CPAN explaining what you need to do if you think you can host next year's conference: http://www.yapc.org/venue-reqs.txt http://search.cpan.org/author/LENZO/YAPC-1.01/YAPC.pm http://search.cpan.org/author/LENZO/YAPC-1.01/YAPC/Venue.pm And finally, are you part of a Perl Mongers group that's been pretty quiet recently? If so, chances are you'll have dropped off the great Perl Monger Groups List. If that's the case, please get in touch with Dave Cross, the Monger Herder, and let him know you're still alive: http://www.pm.org/groups/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] * What's new on www.perl.com? Piers brings us this week's Perl 6 summary with tales of the neverending key story, the excruciating difference between () and [], hot-pluggable regular expression operators, and much more: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/p6pdigest/20020922.html Barrie Slaymaker is back with another article in his "Introduction to AxKit" series. Although we've been thinking of AxKit as an XML application server, this week we use it for two things that are definitely not XML: image data and system calls to list directories. Barrie takes these two ideas and turns AxKit into an image gallery server: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/24/axkit.html For next month, we're considering running an "Ask the Camel" column here on perl.com; consider it a Perl equivalent of "Ask Abby". Send us your burning Perl questions and we'll select the most interesting ones and publish answers to them. If this is something you'd like to see, please send us interesting questions! 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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 ================================================================== 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