From bmathis at directedge.com Thu Aug 1 10:37:00 2002 From: bmathis at directedge.com (Brian Mathis) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:19:41 2004 Subject: [roch-pm] Perl.com Newsletter: ActiveState Active Awards Winners (fwd) Message-ID: Perl.com update -------------------------------------- The Email for www.perl.com Subscribers ================================================================== O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Sept 30-Oct 3, 2002, Santa Clara, CA For developers, power users, hackers, and network administrators Don't miss keynote speakers James Gosling (Sun), Jordan Hubbard (Apple), Wilfredo Sanchez Vega (Darwin), David Pogue (Author), and Tim O'Reilly. Pass and 2 Tutorials for $1345.00 when you register by August 9, 2002. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/macosx2002/?CMP=EM4944 ================================================================== Hello, world! This is Simon Cozens, www.perl.com managing editor, bringing you the latest goings on from the world of Perl and our own site. * Perl at large. Well, all the good news this week comes from the Open Source Conference, so let's start off with the ActiveState Active Awards. Congratulations especially to Matt Sergeant, who won the People's Choice award for both Perl and XSLT. Matt's the driving force behind Perl's XML support and applications, and he's also the creator of AxKit, the Perl XML application server. The ActiveState employees chose Andy Dougherty for their Activator's Choice award, for nearly ten years of dilligent pumpkinging. http://www.activestate.com/Corporate/Awards/ActiveAwards.html?_x=1 http://www.axkit.org/ http://www.lafayette.edu/~doughera/ And speaking of pumpkings, we have two new ones! Chip Salzenburg has returned to Perl development and has taken on the formidable task of keeping 5.005 up to scratch; he's currently working on the mythical 5.005_04 maintenance release. Michael Schwern has stepped up to the plate to accept the pumpking for a maintenance release of Perl 1, of all things. Expect a release of Perl 1 building on all modern operating systems Real Soon Now. http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/30/2016230&mode=thread&tid=6 And finally, all the fun of the Perl conference for those who couldn't make it: Nat Torkington, Leon Brocard and Rael Dornfest have been making movies... http://www.perl.org/tpc/2002/movies/ * What's new on www.perl.com? Stas Bekman's back this week with an explanation of how to make the best use of your shared memory in mod_perl servers. Tuning the maximum memory size, number of requests per server and number of server processes is the key to an efficient mod_perl service, and who better than Stas to explain how to do it? http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/07/30/mod_perl.html Unfortunately, we can't bring you the Perl 6 summary quite yet, as our regular summarizer, Piers, has had some bad news recently. Hang in there, Piers, we're all thinking of you. Enjoy, Simon Cozens simon@oreillynet.com =================================================================== New Report from O'Reilly Research: Planning for Web Services Planning for Web Services is a new report from O'Reilly Research by industry visionary Clay Shirky. This report guides CTOs and CIOs through the inflated claims, competing standards, and amalgam of acronyms to arrive at a realistic appraisal of the business impact of Web Services. $495 Save $100! 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Sign up today! https://www.oreillynet.com/safaripromo/oreilly-14.html ================================================================== -- For information on unsubscribing from this list, please visit http://rochester.pm.org From bmathis at directedge.com Fri Aug 16 12:48:18 2002 From: bmathis at directedge.com (Brian Mathis) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:19:41 2004 Subject: [roch-pm] [Fwd: Perl.com Newsletter: Garbage Collected Circular References] Message-ID: <3D5D3AE2.7040606@directedge.com> Perl.com update -------------------------------------- The Email for www.perl.com Subscribers ================================================================== O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Sept 30-Oct 3, 2002, Santa Clara, CA For developers, power users, hackers, and network administrators Don't miss keynote speakers James Gosling (Sun), Jordan Hubbard (Apple), Wilfredo Sanchez Vega (Darwin), David Pogue (Author), and Tim O'Reilly. Pass and 2 Tutorials for $1345.00 when you register by August 9, 2002. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/macosx2002/?CMP=EM4944 ================================================================== Hello, world! This is Simon Cozens, www.perl.com managing editor, bringing you the latest goings on from the world of Perl and our own site. * Perl at large. Good news from the Perl Mongers! At a Perl Foundation meeting at the Open Source Convention, Dave Cross, founder and spiritual leader of London Perl Mongers, volunteered for the thankless task of being Perl Mongers User Group Coordinator. Assisted by his able orange sidekick Leon Brocard, they plan to rejuvenate the Perl Mongers site and bring Perl Mongers groups together. http://use.perl.org/articles/02/08/07/1055215.shtml?tid=8 http://www.pm.org/ http://www.perl.org/ There's going to be a Perl 6 Conference in Zurich, Switzerland this September, thanks to the generous sponsorship of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. While three days will be a "Perl 6 retreat" for the design team, there'll also be a two-day workshop and presentation for the general public. Find out more at the address below: http://perl6.ethz.ch/ * What's new on www.perl.com? Piers Cawley brings you the latest news from Perl 6, including thoughts about operators in Parrot, regex speed, a new ARM JIT, lexical pads, and much more... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/07/p6pdigest/20020805.html What happens if you want to have data structures that have mutually recursive references? Well, traditional wisdom says that you either have a memory leak, or you have to manually break the circular reference. Neither of these solutions were palatable to Matt Sergeant, who follows the Perl philosophy of wanting things to "just work". In this week's feature article, Matt demonstrates the power of the Proxy Object pattern, creating circular references which get garbage collected when they go out of scope. Sounds impossible? Read on... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/07/proxyobject.html Next week, stay tuned for more news from Perl 6 as well as techniques on how to use your favorite commenting syntax in Perl 5... Enjoy, Simon Cozens =================================================================== New Report from O'Reilly Research: Planning for Web Services Planning for Web Services is a new report from O'Reilly Research by industry visionary Clay Shirky. This report guides CTOs and CIOs through the inflated claims, competing standards, and amalgam of acronyms to arrive at a realistic appraisal of the business impact of Web Services. $495 Save $100! Use or mention code wsrpen. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wsrep ================================================================== *** Featured Articles *** Proxy Objects: Building Garbage Collected Circular References How do you manage to have circular references without leaking memory? Matt Sergeant shows how it's done, with the Proxy Object pattern. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/07/proxyobject.html *** This week on Perl 6 (week ending 2002-08-04) More ops, JIT v2, Regex speed, and more... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/07/p6pdigest/20020805.html *** Improving mod_perl Sites' Performance: Part 4 Your Web server may have plenty of memory, but are you making the best use of it? Stas Bekman explains how to optimize Apache and mod_perl for the most efficient memory use. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/07/30/mod_perl.html *** Improving mod_perl Sites' Performance: Part 3 This week, Stas Bekman explains how to use the Perl and mod_perl benchmarking and memory measurement tools to perform worthwhile optimizations on mod_perl programs. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/07/16/mod_perl.html *** This Week on Perl 6 (8 - 14 Jul 2002) Second system effect, IMCC, Perl 6 grammar, and much more... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/07/p6pdigest/20020714.html *** A Test::MockObject Illustrated Example Test::MockObject gives you a way to create unit tests for object-oriented programs, isolating individual object and method behavior http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/07/10/tmo.html ================================================================== Build a Better Bookshelf with Safari Tech Books Online Get your first 14 days free when you subscribe to Safari Tech Books Online, with over 700 of the best technical books available from O'Reilly and other top publishers. 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Second, if you're going to the conference and have a local Perl Monger group T-shirt (like the Tatooine, Sunnydale, and Ankh Morpork Perl Mongers), then you're invited to bring a spare for auction to raise funds for YAS. mailto:Richard.Foley@t-online.de http://www.thegestalt.org/tshirts/ * What's new on www.perl.com? Piers Cawley is here as usual, bringing us more news of regular expression shenanigens, a rogue version of the Parrot interpreter, and more Perl6y goodness! http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/p6pdigest/20020812.html And Sean Burke, the author of O'Reilly's latest Perl offering, Perl & LWP, takes us through a few LWP recipes: getting documents from the Web, the LWP class model, adding request headers, sending and storing cookies, posting to forms, and much more. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/20/perlandlwp.html Simon Cozens ================================================================== O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Sept. 30 - Oct. 3, 2002, Santa Clara, CA Get your Mac OS X credentials from these leaders and innovators: James Gosling, Jordan Hubbard, Wilfredo Sanchez Vega, David Pogue, Sal Soghoian, Stuart Cheshire, Tim O'Reilly, and more. Conference pass and 2 Tutorials for $874.25 when you register by August 23, 2002. 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He describes the current hacks people use to get multiline comments, and explains his Acme::Comment module, which now supports 44 different commenting styles. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/13/comment.html *** This week on Perl 6 (week ending 2002-08-11) Arrays, Garbage collection, keys (again), regular expressions on non-strings, and more. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/p6pdigest/20020811.html *** Proxy Objects: Building Garbage Collected Circular References How do you manage to have circular references without leaking memory? 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