[roch-pm] Perl.com: Building a Bridge (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. We're getting ready for the festive
season here, and I shall be heading home soon, to return in
the New Year.

* Perl at large.

Things are winding down for Christmas, but the Perl Development
Grant Fund drive has not gone away! In fact, it's doing rather
well, with just over $20,000 raised in the past week. Thanks
to everyone who contributed. But there's still much to do, so
please consider donating if you haven't done so yet!

    http://www.perl-foundation.org/index.cgi?page=pr#pr-drive
    http://yetanother.org/damian/

Perl had a birthday yesterday; it's now 14 years old,
making it legal to marry in some states. Uhm.

    http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html#1980s

* What's new on perl.com

Bryan Warnock has another Perl 6 summary. This week, he talks about
all the fun we've been having with make, Jeff Goff's attempt to
get 0.0.4 ready to go already, and much more...

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/12/p6pdigest/20011215.html

Active Directory is the Microsoft directory server for Windows 2000;
it can hold all sorts of information about systems on the network
or people in your organization. However, it doesn't tend to like
talking to things that aren't Windows. What can we do about this?
Perl to the rescue! Kelvin Param shows us how to use Perl and
XML::RPC to create a web-services bridge to Active Directory.

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/12/19/xmlrpc.html

Now, all of you and those whom you love, have a great Christmas
and a happy New Year, and I'll see you all again in two weeks time.

Enjoy,
SC

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*** Featured Articles ***

Building a Bridge to the Active Directory
Kelvin Param explains how Perl provides the glue between Microsoft's
Active Directory and non-Windows clients.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/12/19/xmlrpc.html

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This Week on Perl 6 (9 - 15 December 2001)
Slice context, troubles with make, aggregates and more...

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/12/p6pdigest/20011215.html

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A Drag-and-Drop Primer for Perl/Tk
This article, by Steve Lidie, coauthor of Mastering Perl/Tk,
describes the Perl/Tk drag-and-drop mechanism, often referred
to as DND. Steve illustrates DND operations local to a single
application, where you can drag items from one Canvas to another.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/12/11/perltk.html

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XML and Modern CGI Applications
Kip Hampton explores a modern CGI module, CGI::XMLApplication,
which uses XML and XSLT to separate logic and presentation cleanly.

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/12/12/2001/cgi-xml.html

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An Interview with Lincoln Stein
We recently spoke to Lincoln Stein about the state of bioinformatics.
Lincoln will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming O'Reilly
Bioinformatics Technology Conference.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2001/12/07/stein.html

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