[roch-pm] Perl.com: Becoming a CPAN Tester (fwd)

Brian Mathis bmathis at directedge.com
Wed May 1 20:34:31 CDT 2002


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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.

The Apache::MP3 module is a great way to turn a server containing a
bunch of MP3s into a streaming jukebox for the home. Sean Burke has
started a project to localise it into your favourite language; just
the thing for today, Internet Radio Silence Day.


http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/27/228245&mode=nocomment&tid=5
    http://www.apachemp3.com/
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The Perl Review, together with O'Reilly and ActiveState, is hosting
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* What's new on www.perl.com?

This week sees another release of the CPANPLUS module for downloading
and installing modules from CPAN. A notable feature of this release
is that it has support for automatically sending module test results
to the CPAN testers. Autrijus Tang, release engineer for CPANPLUS,
explains how you can get involved in the CPAN quality assurance
effort.

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/04/30/cpants.html

In case you missed it last week, I reviewed the 'mod_perl Developers
Cookbook' from SAMS, and was indeed quite impressed with it! Later
on this week, I'll be looking over Liz Castro's Perl and CGI Visual
Quickstart, so check back to www.perl.com to see what I think of it...

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/04/25/review.html

Enjoy, and welcome to summer!

SC

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Becoming a CPAN Tester with CPANPLUS
A few weeks ago, Jos Broumans introduced CPANPLUS, his replacement
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automatically testing and reporting bugs in CPAN modules. Autrijus
Tang explains how it all works.

http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/04/30/cpants.html

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mod_perl Developer's Cookbook
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The Perl You Need To Know
This week, Stas Bekman goes back to basics to explain some Perl
topics of interest to his continuing mod_perl series.

http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/04/23/mod_perl.html

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XSP, Taglibs and Pipelines
In this month's AxKit article, Barrie explains what a "taglib" is,
and how to use them to create dynamic pages inside of AxKit.

http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/04/16/axkit.html

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Perl and XML on the Command Line
In this month's Perl and XML column, Kip Hampton explores how the
desperate Perl hacker can use its XML tools on the command line.

http://xml.com/pub/a/2002/04/17/perl-xml.html


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