From bmathis at directedge.com  Wed Sep  4 22:54:34 2002
From: bmathis at directedge.com (Brian Mathis)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:19:41 2004
Subject: [roch-pm] [Fwd: Perl.com Newsletter: Going Up?]
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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. I hope you all had a good holiday!

* Perl at large.

Another month, another issue of the Perl Review; this month, what
every Perl programmer should know about Java, Perl assembly
language, tying filehandles, and why extreme programming is like
mowing the lawn.
 >From the usual place:

     http://www.theperlreview.com/

If you're part of the growing ranks of Perl mongers using Apple's
OS X, here's a great article from Apple's own Internet Developer
magazine about installing Perl 5.8.0 on Jaguar:

     http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/perl.html

Finally, are you a Perl nostalgic? The fine folk at perl.org are
putting old Perl conference precedings on line; check out the
conference CD from 1998, or any of the sessions you missed from
this year. And if you've got any old material or CDs you could
donate to make the collection more complete, I'm sure they'd love
to hear from you:

     http://www.perl.org/tpc/1998/
     http://www.perl.org/tpc/2002/

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

We have a Perl 6 summary for you this week, thanks to Piers again;
this week brings more talk of garbage collection, the never-ending
keys debate, Parrot 0.0.8, lots and lots about regular expressions,
and a good deal more:

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/p6pdigest/20020901.html

Perl 5.8.0 gave Perl something it had been looking for for years:
good, stable threading support. Now we've got it, what are we
going to do with it? Sam Tregar brings us an example of what you
can do with threads, by constructing an elevator emulator:

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/04/threads.html

Also, Andy Duncan, coauthor of Perl for Oracle DBAs says Perl is
the finest scripting language ever invented for helping Oracle DBAs
in their daily jobs. In this article, Andy explains that Perl's
symbiosis with the Oracle database helped him to construct the Perl
DBA Toolkit.  Along the way, he considers what Ayn Rand might have
thought of these two strange bedfellows.

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/04/perlfororacle.html

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Going Up?
Perl 5.8.0 brought stable threading to Perl - but what does it
mean and how can we use it? Get a lift with Sam Tregar as he
creates a multi-threaded simulation.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/04/threads.html

***

The Fusion of Perl and Oracle
Andy Duncan, the coauthor of Perl for Oracle DBAs, explains that
Perl's symbiosis with the Oracle database helped in constructing
the Perl DBA Toolkit. He also ponders what Ayn Rand might have
thought of these two strange bedfellows.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/04/perlfororacle.html

***

This week on Perl 6 (8/26 - 9/1, 2002)
More talk of garbage collection, the never-ending keys debate,
Parrot 0.0.8, lots and lots about regular expressions, and a good
deal more...

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/p6pdigest/20020901.html

***

Mail Filtering
Michael Stevens compares two popular mail filtering tools, both
written in Perl: ActiveState's PerlMX, and the open source
Mail::Audit. How do they stack up?

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/27/filtering.html

***

Exegesis 5
Are Perl 6's regular expressions still messing with your head?
Never fear, Damian is here - with another Exegesis explaining
what real programs using Perl 6 grammars look like.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/22/exegesis5.html

***

Web Basics with LWP
LWP is a group of Perl modules that lets you access data on the
Web. Because there are so many LWP modules, it's hard to know
where to look for information on doing even the simplest things.
This article offers sample recipes for performing common tasks
with LWP, by the author of Perl & LWP.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/20/perlandlwp.html

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From: bmathis at directedge.com (Brian Mathis)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:19:41 2004
Subject: [roch-pm] [Fwd: Perl.com Update: Return of The Perl Journal]
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own site.

* Perl at large.

Excellent news from CMP, publishers of "The Perl Journal." As you'll
no doubt remember, TPJ was bought and integrated into "SysAdmin"
magazine, and then ceased to exist. Well, it's back.

CMP is relaunching "The Perl Journal" as a monthly online ezine,
for the extremely reasonable price of $1 per issue. That's right,
$12 for a year's subscription. My contacts there say that if they
can raise 2,500 subscriptions, the project will go ahead, and that TPJ
may, in the future, again have a print edition. The Web site should
be available tomorrow:

    http://www.tpj.com/

Geoff Young has noticed that mod_perl usage is going up and up,
according to the latest Security Space server survey: although
mod_php is still in the lead with usage on 39 percent of servers, it
seems to be falling, while mod_perl has shot up by 20 percent to 37
percent of servers. Big thanks to people like Stas Bekman and Doug
McEachern, whose solid
work on mod_perl has almost certainly contributed to this trend:

 
https://secure1.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.200208/apachemods.html
     http://perl.apache.org/

Slashdot interviewed Larry Wall last week, and his answers are up
now; Larry talks about Perl 6, the role of Perl as a scripting
language, and how his relationship with Jesus has shaped Perl:

     http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/06/1343222

And finally, do you want to meet other Perl folk but don't
have a Perl Mongers group nearby? Well, you could either start
one, or you could sign up for the Perl Meetup taking place next
Thursday, September 19th:

     http://perl.meetup.com/

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

There are roughly four bazillion books on Perl and CGI available
at the moment; one of the most recent is Brent Michalski and Kevin
Meltzer's "Writing CGI Applications with Perl." Kevin and Brent are
long-standing members of the Perl community--can they do justice
to this troublesome topic? Find out in this month's book review:

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/10/review.html

Piers Cawley brings us another exciting episode of the Perl 6
summary, with news of the current release and some goals for the
next; tidying up the tinderbox builds; long debates about
hypothetical variables; how to bring more Parrot hackers into the
fold; and, as usual, a lot more besides...

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/p6pdigest/20020908.html

And for this week's feature article, Michael Schilli gives us a
demonstration of a new logging module--Log::Log4perl is a port
of the log4j architecture beloved of Java programmers. But even
though it was designed by Java programmers, it still has some
useful ideas that can help you when you're debugging your
programs. Read on...

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/11/log4perl.html

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*** Featured Articles ***

Retire your debugger, log smartly with Log::Log4perl!
Michael Schilli describes a new way of adding logging facilities
to your code, with the help of the log4perl module--a port of
Java's log4j.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/11/log4perl.html

***

Writing CGI Applications with Perl
There are roughly four bazillion books on Perl and CGI available
at the moment; one of the most recent is Brent Michalski and Kevin
Meltzer's Writing CGI Applications with Perl. Kevin and Brent are
long-standing members of the Perl community - can they do justice
to this troublesome topic? Find out in this month's book review!

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/10/review.html

***

This week on Perl 6 (9/1 - 9/8, 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/20020908.html

***

Going Up?
Perl 5.8.0 brought stable threading to Perl - but what does it
mean and how can we use it? Get a lift with Sam Tregar as he
creates a multi-threaded simulation.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/04/threads.html

***

The Fusion of Perl and Oracle
Andy Duncan, the coauthor of Perl for Oracle DBAs, explains that
Perl's symbiosis with the Oracle database helped in constructing
the Perl DBA Toolkit. He also ponders what Ayn Rand might have
thought of these two strange bedfellows.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/04/perlfororacle.html

***

This week on Perl 6 (8/26 - 9/1, 2002)
More talk of garbage collection, the never-ending keys debate,
Parrot 0.0.8, lots and lots about regular expressions, and a good
deal more...

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/p6pdigest/20020901.html

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From bmathis at directedge.com  Wed Sep 18 21:15:29 2002
From: bmathis at directedge.com (Brian Mathis)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:19:41 2004
Subject: [roch-pm] [Fwd: Perl.com Newsletter: Embedding Webservers]
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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.

Well, of course the big news this week is that it's Yet Another
Perl Conference this week in Munich; be sure to check up with the
regular journals from the delegates. Leon Brocard's even putting
up video journals...

     http://use.perl.org/journal.pl
     http://www.yapc.org/Europe/

The Perl Review has come out with a wonderful Perl-at-a-glance
page, containing the updated version of Jon Orwant's programming
language Sucks-Rules-o-meter. (Perl doesn't suck very much, but
unfortunately it appears not to rock as much as PHP...) TPR is
also asking for subscriptions at $12 for four issues.

     http://www.theperlreview.com/at_a_glance.html
     http://www.theperlreview.com/

And finally, we've talked about Perl 6 for the past two years;
now how about running some? Leon Brocard's slides from his recent
London Perl Mongers talk tells you what you can do and how to do
it:

     http://astray.com/perl6_now/

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

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.  So when you've got an application you need
to monitor, what better way to do it than to embed a web server
in it? Robert Spier shows us how it's done.

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/17/ewispp.html

We don't have a Perl 6 summary for you right now, but Piers
promises me there'll be one arriving real soon now. So until
next week, enjoy.

Simon Cozens
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*** Featured Articles ***

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

***

Retire your debugger, log smartly with Log::Log4perl!
Michael Schilli describes a new way of adding logging facilities
to your code, with the help of the log4perl module - a port of
Java's log4j.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/11/log4perl.html

***

Writing CGI Applications with Perl
There are roughly four bazillion books on Perl and CGI available
at the moment; one of the most recent is Brent Michalski and Kevin
Meltzer's Writing CGI Applications with Perl. Kevin and Brent are
long-standing members of the Perl community - can they do justice
to this troublesome topic? Find out in this month's book review!

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/10/review.html

***

This week on Perl 6 (9/1 - 9/8, 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/20020908.html

***

Going Up?
Perl 5.8.0 brought stable threading to Perl - but what does it
mean and how can we use it? Get a lift with Sam Tregar as he
creates a multi-threaded simulation.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/04/threads.html

***

The Fusion of Perl and Oracle
Andy Duncan, the coauthor of Perl for Oracle DBAs, explains that
Perl's symbiosis with the Oracle database helped in constructing
the Perl DBA Toolkit. He also ponders what Ayn Rand might have
thought of these two strange bedfellows.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/04/perlfororacle.html

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From bmathis at directedge.com  Wed Sep 25 22:22:23 2002
From: bmathis at directedge.com (Brian Mathis)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:19:41 2004
Subject: [roch-pm] [Fwd: Perl.com Update: An AxKit Image Gallery]
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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.

First, releases! A new version of the QT bindings for Perl,
PerlQT 3, has been released. This is a major update that brings
the library up to date with QT3. Those of you who want to build
QT- and KDE-based applications in Perl should take a look at this
tutorial:

     http://perlqt.infonium.com/dist/current/doc/index.html

Can you host a Yet Another Perl Conference in your city? Yet
Another Society has issued a call for venues for the next YAPC.
There's a helpful text file available outlining the venue
requirements, and a YAPC distribution on CPAN explaining what you
need to do if you think you can host next year's conference:

     http://www.yapc.org/venue-reqs.txt
     http://search.cpan.org/author/LENZO/YAPC-1.01/YAPC.pm
     http://search.cpan.org/author/LENZO/YAPC-1.01/YAPC/Venue.pm

And finally, are you part of a Perl Mongers group that's been
pretty quiet recently? If so, chances are you'll have dropped
off the great Perl Monger Groups List. If that's the case, please
get in touch with Dave Cross, the Monger Herder, and let him know
you're still alive:

     http://www.pm.org/groups/
     user_groups@pm.org

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

Piers brings us this week's Perl 6 summary with tales of the
neverending key story, the excruciating difference between ()
and [], hot-pluggable regular expression operators, and much more:

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/p6pdigest/20020922.html

Barrie Slaymaker is back with another article in his
"Introduction to AxKit" series. Although we've been thinking of
AxKit as an XML application server, this week we use it for two
things that are definitely not XML: image data and system
calls to list directories. Barrie takes these two ideas and
turns AxKit into an image gallery server:

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/24/axkit.html

For next month, we're considering running an "Ask the Camel"
column here on perl.com; consider it a Perl equivalent of
"Ask Abby". Send us your burning Perl questions and we'll select
the most interesting ones and publish answers to them.
If this is something you'd like to see, please send us interesting
questions! Send your questions to rt-askthecamel@simon-cozens.org.

     rt-askthecamel@simon-cozens.org

Also, I'd like to hear your thoughts about what we can do to make
the site more interesting to you. Are there any topics you'd like
to see covered? Should there be more articles each week? Is there
any part of the Web site that you have any comments on? Please
send your thoughts to me at the address below, and I'll see what
we can do.

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*** Featured Articles ***

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

***

Retire your debugger, log smartly with Log::Log4perl!
Michael Schilli describes a new way of adding logging facilities
to your code, with the help of the log4perl module - a port of
Java's log4j.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/11/log4perl.html

***

Writing CGI Applications with Perl
There are roughly four bazillion books on Perl and CGI available
at the moment; one of the most recent is Brent Michalski and Kevin
Meltzer's Writing CGI Applications with Perl. Kevin and Brent are
long-standing members of the Perl community - can they do justice
to this troublesome topic? Find out in this month's book review!

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/10/review.html

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