[roch-pm] Perl.com Newsletter: E-commerce with Apache and mod_perl (fwd)

Fri Oct 19 08:18:57 CDT 2001

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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.

Damian Conway's been busy again... or should I say, as usual. This
week, he released his new module, Class::Delegation. This provides
a different style of object-oriented inheritance: instead of telling
Perl that a parent class provides all the undefined functionality
of your class, you encapsulate the parent class inside your object,
and delegate the undefined methods through it. While it's conceptually
similar to the inheritance you know and love, it allows you much more
flexibility over what a parent class can and cannot do and how it
should do it.

He's also apparently pretty close to finishing his
Lingua::tlhInganHol::yIghun module. I'm never sure whether this
is good or bad. Or both.

    http://yetanother.org/damian/diary_October_2001.html#day_15

http://search.cpan.org/doc/DCONWAY/Class-Delegation-1.00/lib/Class/Delegatio
n.pm

Oracle is making Perl a "first-class citizen" in their Oracle9iAS
database application server by shipping mod_perl and DBI support
as standard. About time, but "first-class citizen"? Bah. Perl's
been first-class for a lot longer than Java and all these other
new kids on the block.

    http://technet.oracle.com/products/ias/daily/oct04.html

And finally... fed up with Active Server Pages and Java Server
Pages? Turnabout is fair play.

    http://www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0108/0108g/0108g.htm
    http://psp.sourceforge.net/

* What's new on perl.com

Our feature article comes from Perrin Harkins, who gave a talk at
ApacheCon 2001 on his involvement with eToys; his article explains how
he set up the eToys site and what goes into making a large, scalable
e-commerce system based around Apache and mod_perl

    http://perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/17/etoys.html

Enjoy,
SC

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*** Featured Articles ***

Building a Large-scale E-commerce Site with Apache and mod_perl
Bill Hilf and Perrin Harkins recount their experiences setting up
an e-commerce site for eToys. If you've ever wanted to know what
goes on under the hood in such a large-scale site - and how you
can set up something like it for yourself - here's your chance
to find out.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/17/etoys.html

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Filtering Mail with PerlMx
PerlMx is ActiveState's Perl plug-in for Sendmail; in the first
article in a new series, Mike DeGraw-Bertsch shows us how to begin
building a mail filter to trap spam.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/10/perlmx.html

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Apocalypse 3
Larry Wall brings us the next installment in the unfolding of
Perl 6's design.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/02/apocalypse3.html

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Exegesis 3
Damian Conway puts Larry's third Apocalypse to work and explains
what it means for the budding Perl 6 programmer.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/03/exegesis3.html

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