[rochester-pm-list] [Fwd: www.perl.com: Report on the Perl 6 Announcement]

Brian Mathis bmathis at directedge.com
Fri Aug 11 23:12:30 CDT 2000


"www.perl.com update" wrote:
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> Hello, perl.com subscribers.
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> Mark-Jason Dominus is off this week, so I am filling in for the
> www.perl.com newsletter.  I wanted to quickly point you towards
> some new Perl content on O'Reilly's site.
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> First,  Scott Guelich, the coauthor of "CGI Programming with Perl",
> has a short advocacy piece on why CGI is still relevant in the age
> of PHP, Servlets, ASP, and ColdFusion. CGI remains a language
> independent, universal way to develop dynamic content. What's more,
> the wealth of free resources and code online makes the learning
> curve easy.
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> http://web.oreilly.com/news/cgi_0700.html
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> Second, if you haven't read it yet, there's a new Perl Success Story
> featuring Kevin Lenzo in his role as systems scientist at Carnegie
> Mellon University's International Software Research Institute.
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> http://perl.oreilly.com/news/carnegie_0600.html
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> Third, Chapter 9 of "Perl for System Administration" is online.
> Chapter 9 is an in-depth look at one of the more common system
> administrator's duties: sifting through log files. The chapter
> covers everything from basic syslog, text only log files to
> Microsoft NT, binary log files and how to interpret them using
> Perl. David N. Blank-Edelman does more than just explain how to
> grok the files, he addresses several other problems, such as log
> file rotation and stateful vs stateless data. There is also a
> very detailed section on log file analysis. He covers several
> different algorithms for analyzing the logs and turning them
> into useful data. Also, he addresses the use of databases in the
> logfile analysis process.
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> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlsysadm/chapter/ch09.html
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> Lastly, I'd like to encourage you to try out Rael Dornfest's Meerkat
> service as a way of tracking Perl or other news. Rael uses Rich Site
> Summary (RSS), an XML specification for distributing news, product
> announcements, discussion threads, and other assorted content as
> channels. Meerkat is written in PHP, served up by an Apache Web server,
> and keeps its data in a MySQL database.
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> http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/
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> ***
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> Thanks for reading. Mark-Jason will be back with the newsletter and
> fresh content on www.perl.com in two weeks.
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