[roch-pm] [Fwd: Perl.com: Using Request Tracker]

[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. Hope you had a good holiday!

* Perl at large.

Dave Rolsky has been hard at work writing a little article to
compare various methods of storing objects into databases - "object
persistence" - making them more permanent and easy to manage. If
you're doing heavy-duty applications involving objects, this is
almost certainly something you need to know about; and if you're
not already on enough mailing lists, check out the POOP-group,
for more Perl Object-Oriented Persistence talk.

     http://poop.sourceforge.net/
     http://lists.perl.org/showlist.cgi?name=poop-group
     http://lists.perl.org/showlist.cgi?name=poop-scoop

Good news for Mac users, as another beta of MacPerl 5.6.1 appears,
thanks to the hard work of Chris Nandor. As usual, yes, you can
build it using freely-available compilers. Go get it, play with
it, and pass on any bug reports to Chris and the other developers.
Enjoy!

     http://dev.macperl.org/
     http://dev.macperl.org/?build

And finally... some good news on the "stupid modules" front; the
popular /dev/bollocks device driver for Linux has been ported to
Perl, in the form of Dev::Bollocks. If that wasn't enough, Autrijus
Tang threatens to break our brains with the wonderful-yet-disturbing
Acme::ComeFrom. Urgh.

     http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Dev-Bollocks-0.04
     http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Acme-ComeFrom-0.05

* What's new on perl.com

Do you ever forget what you're supposed to be doing today? Do you
have a million and one projects on the go, but no idea where you're
up to with them? I frequently get that, and I don't know how I'd
get anything at all done if it wasn't for Request Tracker. Robert
Spier explains how to use the open-source Request Tracket application
to organise teams working on common projects.

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/11/28/request.html

Have a good holiday,
SC

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Request Tracker
Do you ever forget what you're supposed to be doing today? Do you
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up to with them? I frequently get that, and I don't know how I'd
get anything at all done if it wasn't for Request Tracker. Robert
Spier explains how to use the open-source Request Tracker
application to organise teams working on common projects.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/11/28/request.html

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Lightweight Languages
Simon Cozens reports from this weekend's Lightweight Languages
workshop at the MIT AI labs, where leading language researchers
and implementors got together to chat about what they're up to.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/11/21/lightweight.html

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Parsing Protein Domains with Perl
James Tisdall, author of O'Reilly's Beginning Perl for
Bioinformatics, shows biologists how to program in Perl using
biological data, with downloadable code examples.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/11/16/perlbio2.html

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Create RSS channels from HTML news sites
Chris Ball shows us how to turn any ordinary news site into a
Remote Site Summary web service.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/11/15/creatingrss.html

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