LPM: www.perl.com: RSS and You (fwd)

Wed Feb 9 17:41:59 CST 2000

Thought the list might be like to see this ... some interesting info
about Perl 5.6.  Forwarded in its entirety so it's kindof long, sorry.

-Frank.
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Frank Price					fprice at mis.net
  Linux: the choice of a GNU generation -|- Why not go mad?

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Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 14:17:09 -0800
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Subject: www.perl.com: RSS and You

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Hello, perl.com subscribers.

Big doings this week: Perl 5.5.640 was released!  
(Note the new version number; in the old version number 
scheme, this would have been 5.005_64.)  This is a 
development version, and so should only be installed by 
people who want to test an alpha version of Perl.  But it's 
a sign that the long-awaited Perl 5.6 is on the horizon.  
One interesting, visible feature of 5.5.640: It has 
'version number constants'.  You can write

        require v5.5.640;

in a program to require that the Perl version be at least 
5.5.640, and you can write

        if ($VERSION > v1.11) { ... }

to test to see if the version number in the variable 
$VERSION is at least version 1.11.  Why not just use 
ordinary numbers here?  Because v1.2 is less than v1.11, 
even though 1.2 is greater than 1.11.

For more complete information, see 

http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2000-02/msg00160.html

or download the complete package from

http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/id/GSAR/perl5.5.640.tar.gz

             How I Caught the Spam 
                      and 
       What I Did With it When I Caught it 

Some time ago I wrote an article for LinuxPlanet web site 
about how to use Perl to filter spam out of your email.  
It was supposed to be a series, but the LinuxPlanet folks 
changed their minds and cancelled it.  I've gotten a lot of 
mail asking after the rest of the series, and this week the 
long-awaited second part is online at www.perl.com.
Even if you're not interested in spam filtering, drop by for 
some Perl techniques that you can use in other applications.

        Conference Paper Deadline Extended

The 2000 O'Reilly Perl Conference has extended their paper 
deadline again.  You have until February 18 to submit a 
250-word abstract of a paper you'd like to present at the 
conference.  If you were afraid you couldn't afford to go, 
this may be a good opportunity for you:  Paper presenters 
attend the conference for free.  For details, see

        http://conferences.oreilly.com/perl4/call.html

            Perl Wins Big in Beanie Awards

Slashdot has announced their annual Beanie Awards and the 
Perl folks cleaned up.  Perl luminary Tom Christiansen won 
the `Best Newbie Helper' award, and `Programming Perl' won 
the `best book' award.  (Tom and Larry are hard at work on 
the new third edition at this very moment; watch out for it.)

Doug McEachern's `mod_perl' won the award for `Best Apache 
Module'.  In case you've been living in a cave for the past 
few years, `mod_perl' is an Apache plugin module that embeds 
an entire Perl interpreter into your Apache web server, 
allowing you to write more Apache plugin modules in Perl, 
configure your Apache server in Perl, and run Perl programs 
natively inside the server instead of having to spawn an 
external CGI process.  

Lincoln Stein's famous CGI.pm module won the award for 
`Best Perl Module', defeating DBI.pm. CPAN.pm, and LWP.pm.

Regrettably, Larry Wall was beaten out in the `Bessed Dressed'
category by Tux the Penguin.  
Sorry, Larry.  Better luck next time.

For details:
   http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/02/06/1950248&mode=thread

Thank you all.  I will be in touch again next week.

Mark-Jason Dominus
Managing Editor

RSS and You

Real World Perl: RSS and You
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/01/rss.html?wwwrrr_20000126.txt
RSS is an XML application that describes web sites as 
channels, which can act as feeds to a user's site. 
Chris Nandor explains how to use RSS in Perl and how he 
uses it to build portals.  

Article: In Defense of Coding Standards
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/01/CodingStandards.html?wwwrrr_20000126.txt
Perl programmers may bristle at the idea of coding standards. 
Fear not: a few simple standards can improve teamwork without 
crushing creativity.

Article: Virtual Presentations with Perl
http://www.perl.com/pub/1999/12/virtual-presentations.html?wwwrrr_20000126.txt
This year, the Philadelphia Perl Mongers  had joint remote 
meetings with Boston.pm and St. Louis.pm using teleconferencing 
equipment to bring a guest speaker to many places at once. 
Adam Turoff describes what worked and what didn't, and how 
you can use this in your own PM groups.  

 In Defense of Coding Standards
 http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/01/12/index.html?wwwrrr_20000126.txt
 [01/12/2000]

 Virtual Presentations with Perl
 http://www.perl.com/pub/1999/12/28/index.html?wwwrrr_20000126.txt
 [12/28/1999]

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