[roch-pm] Perl.com: Helping the Disabled Using Perl (fwd)

[Brian Mathis]

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Hello, world!

This is Simon Cozens, managing editor of www.perl.com, here to
bring you the week's news and developments both in the Perl world
and on our own site.

* Perl at large

If you're involved in any form of government work, Lisa Nyman has
set up a mailing list just for you! The list is for "the discussion
of Perl and other open source software in use in government - local,
national, provincial, etc." Lisa, if you remember from our Perl
success stories, is one of the people pushing for Perl at the Census
Bureau, and gave a talk about the use of Perl in the Bureau at last
year's YAPC, as well as a BOF on governmental use of Perl at the
recent Perl conference.

    mailto:gov-subscribe at perl.org
    http://perl.oreilly.com/news/census_0101.html
    http://yapc.org/America/previous-years/19100/schedule/author/nyman.html

Perl has been instrumental in bringing stored procedures to mysql:
in fact, you can now program your stored procedures in Perl. Isn't
that cool? What's also cool, but fewer people know about, is that
postgresql has been doing this for a while.


http://software.tangent.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/23/0817244&mode=thread&thre
shold=
    http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?plperl.html

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* What's new on perl.com

The perl5-porters summary returns this week, with news of clashes
of v-strings, callbacks in the core, coderefs in @INC (with
documentation!) and more.

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/p5pdigest/20010827.html

Similarly, the perl6 summary brings news of actual, real code being
developed for Perl 6, as well as discussions of closures, method syntax,
variable naming and modules.

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/p6pdigest/20010825.html

At the Perl conference, many of us were moved by Jon Bjornstad's
lightning talk. Jon has a disabled friend, Sue, who is quadraplegic
and cannot speak. To help out, Jon wrote a Perl/Tk program which
lets her select words and sentences to speak, read a book, look up
words in a dictionary and view pictures. Dan Brian talks to Jon
about what he's done and why.

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/27/bjornstad.html

Enjoy,
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*** Featured Articles ***

Choosing a Templating System
Perrin Harkins takes us on a grand tour of the most popular text
and HTML templating systems.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/21/templating.html

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Apache::CodeRed
Tired of seeing your web server logs fill up with Code Red error
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Yet Another Perl Conference Europe 2001
A review of this year's YAPC::Europe in Amsterdam.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/13/yapc-europe.html

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Quantum::Entanglement
Quantum::Superpositions rocked the Perl world, as it provided a
way to get more than one thing done at once. (in constant time.)
Quantum::Entanglement goes yet further, using solid quantum
physics theory to get an infinite number of things done at once.
To tell you more would be to spoil the surprise, but the module's
author, Alex Gough, tells us what it is and how it works...

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/08/quantum.html

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