From bmathis at directedge.com Wed Oct 2 22:42:41 2002 From: bmathis at directedge.com (Brian Mathis) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:19:42 2004 Subject: [roch-pm] [Fwd: Treats for Mac Perl users] Message-ID: <3D9BBCB1.6090200@directedge.com> Perl.com update -------------------------------------- The Email for www.perl.com Subscribers ============================================================= Sponsored by Macromedia Coldfusion MX Macromedia Coldfusion MX: Build Rich Internet Apps Fast. ColdFusion MX lets you harness Java, XML, and web services without the steep learning curve. FREE TRIAL. Visit: http://www.oreillynet.com/nlr/hub/08/13/top ============================================================= 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. Those of you who were at YAPC or TPC probably witnessed Mark-Jason Dominus' fantastic "Mailing List Judo" talk. Designed as a survival guide to perl5-porters, it's equally applicable (and equally funny) to many other open source mailing lists. David Wheeler videotaped the talk and it's available from perl.org: http://www.perl.org/tpc/2002/movies/ Multiple treats for the growing number of Mac Perl users: this week is O'Reilly's Mac OS X Conference, where Dan Sugalski gave a talk on writing graphical Perl applications; brian d foy has released a plethora of modules for doing fun things with iTunes; and Randal Schwartz has written an article for the O'Reilly Network on using Perl, AppleScript, and Web services together. http://search.cpan.org/author/BDFOY/Mac-iTunes-0.7/ http://search.cpan.org/author/BDFOY/Apache-iTunes-0.06/ http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/synd/2002/09/24/applescript_perl.html Finally, are you in South Florida? Get yourself over to the Duck at Boca Raton on October 15 for the inaugual meeting of South Florida Perl Mongers! http://southflorida.pm.org/ * What's new on www.perl.com? Once again, Piers brings us this week's Perl 6 summary: Surprisingly, nothing about multilevel keys this time. However, he does bring news of some short-term goals for PMCs, a new version of IMCC, "for" with multiple lists, a huge list speedup, and more: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/p6pdigest/20020929.html Have you ever used a hash in Perl? Of course you have. But have you thought about what a hash is, how they work, and how Perl implements them? Knowing these things can make our own use of hashes more efficient. Abhijit Menon-Sen takes us through Hashes 101: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/10/01/hashes.html Thanks to your responses to the Ask the Camel idea--please keep them coming to rt-askthecamel@simon-cozens.org. We plan to start answering them in a week or so. Simon Cozens ================================================================== 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. Select ten books to search, bookmark, and annotate. Cut and paste code examples. Find your answers fast. Sign up today! https://www.oreillynet.com/safaripromo/oreilly-14.html ================================================================== *** Featured Articles *** How Hashes Really Work We're all used to using hashes, and expect them to just work. But what actually is a hash, when it comes down to it, and how do they work? Abhijit explains! http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/10/01/hashes.html *** This week on Perl 6 (9/23 - 9/29, 2002) An IMCC update, the Scheme interpreter, lists and list references again, and a load besides... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/p6pdigest/20020929.html *** An AxKit Image Gallery Continuing our look at AxKit, Barrie demonstrates the use of AxKit on non-XML data: images and operating system calls. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/24/axkit.html *** This week on Perl 6 (9/16 - 9/22, 2002) The neverending keys thread, lists versus list references, and a load besides... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/p6pdigest/20020922.html *** This week on Perl 6 (9/9 - 9/15, 2002) Goals for the next release, arrays and hashes, hypothetical variables, getting more Parrot hackers, and a load besides... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/p6pdigest/20020915.html *** Embedding Webservers Web browsers are ubiquitous these days - it's hard to find a machine without one. To make use of a web browser, you need a web server, and they are simple enough to write that you can stick them almost anywhere. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/17/ewispp.html -- For information on unsubscribing from this list, please visit http://rochester.pm.org