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[Brian Mathis]

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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.

Conference season is nearly upon us, and although you've just
missed the early bird registration deadline for this year's The
Perl Conference, it's gearing up to be another great event;
meanwhile, over at Yet Another Perl Conference, (where you'll be
able to, indeed, meet me in St. Louis - how original...) the
schedule has been announced and dorm rooms are available:

     http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/
     http://www.yapc.org/America/day1.shtml
     https://donate.perl-foundation.org/index.pl?node=Dorm+Info

AxKit 1.6 is out! AxKit, in case you've been living in a cave, is
an XML application server for mod_perl. What's that mean? It lets
you not only dynamically publish XML as Web pages, PDFs, embossed
articles for the blind, or whatever you want, but also have XML
tags fire off Perl subroutines. This release brings separation of
content and style providers and the addition of a new SAXMachine
language module. And vaguely related but not quite, a new version
of the Bricolage content management system is out.

     http://axkit.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:4164:gckddipdnjdnhmddncgd
     http://bricolage.thepirtgroup.com/

Last but not least, Dan Sugalski, Parrot designer and Perl
Foundation fundraiser, will be in Phoenix next Thursday (June 20th)
to talk about Parrot and Perl 6, and to pass the hat around for
donations to continue the funding of Larry, Damian and himself.

     http://www.jundy.com/parrot/

* What's new on www.perl.com?

One of the interesting new features of Perl 5.8.0 will be stable
interpreter-based threading, thanks mainly to the work of Artur
Bergman.  In this installment of our Where Wizards Fear To Tread
series, he explains how to create thread-safe Perl modules.

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/11/threads.html

Enjoy,

SC

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*** Featured Articles ***

Where Wizards Fear To Tread
One of the new features coming in Perl 5.8 will be reliable
interpreter threading, thanks primarily to the work of Artur
Bergman. In this article, he explains what you need to do to make
your Perl modules thread-safe.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/11/threads.html

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Apocalypse 5
In part 5 of his design for Perl 6, Larry takes a long hard look
at regular expressions, and comes up with some interesting ideas...

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/04/apo5.html

***

Achieving Closure
What's a closure, and why does everyone go on about them?

http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/29/closure.html

***

Improving mod_perl Sites' Performance: Part 1
What do we need to think about when optimizing mod_perl
applications? Stas Bekman explains how hardware, software and
good programming come into play.

http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/29/mod_perl-opt.html

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Finding a mod_perl ISP... or Becoming One
You're ready to use mod_perl -- but do you have a server to run it
on? Stas Bekman explains what an ISP needs to do to run mod_perl
programs, and how to find an ISP that lets you do so.

http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/22/mod_perl-isp.html

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The Perl You Need To Know - Part 3
Stas Bekman finishes his introduction to the basic Perl skills you
need to use mod_perl; this week, globals versus lexicals, modules
and packages.

http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/14/mod_perl.html

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