[Tallahassee-pm] [Fwd: OSCON/TPC 7 Wrap-up]

[James Tillman]

Hi, guys.  I get this newsletter from Perl.com via a subscription to
their mailing list.  I recommend it.  They always have interesting
stuff.  The issue below covers a new thing called Ponie, which is
apparently a project to allow Perl5 to run in the Parrot virtual
machine.  (Read more below if you don't know what Parrot is!)

jpt

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> Subject: OSCON/TPC 7 Wrap-up
> Date: 11 Jul 2003 17:33:08 -0700
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> Hello, everyone.
> 
> OSCON 2003 has just ended and with it TPC 7 (or so).  As there's 
> been a terribly huge amount of information this week, best to just 
> look at the official site:
> 
> 	http://conferences.oreillynet.com/oscon/
> 
> the Wiki (with links to many journals):
> 
> 	http://oscon.kwiki.org/
> 
> the official coverage page:
> 
> 	http://www.oreillynet.com/oscon2003/
> 
> as well as the use Perl site:
> 
> 	http://use.perl.org/
> 
> the new perl.org site:
> 
> 	http://www.perl.org/
> 
> and the oddly tinted CPAN search:
> 
> 	http://search.cpan.org/
> 
> If you're *really* interested in Ponie, your guest editor covered 
> some of the technical details in a weblog entry:
> 
> 	http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3467
> 
> Oh, and the Perl Foundation made nearly $5,000 at the TPC auction.  
> Way to go, everyone!
> 
> * Interesting Module Corner
> 
> Let's take a little break from hard-hitting news and examine a 
> slightly less than serious module, Acme::Nada:
> 
> 	http://search.cpan.org/author/JV/Acme-Nada-0.1/
> 
> Though it's not well documented, Johan Vromans has achieved 
> complete and perfect test coverage in the first release of a 
> module.  It's very impressive; be sure to check it out. (Of 
> course, he doesn't need the BEGIN block, but I might dash off a 
> patch; it's nice to make a distribution slightly smaller.)
> 
> * Perl.com News
> 
> The annual State of the Onion talk is always entertaining.  This 
> year's big announcement was Ponie, Perl 5 on Parrot. We'll have 
> the complete text of the talk up soon. In the meantime, Daniel 
> Steinberg summarizes the State of the Onion and the other States 
> of the Union talks at OSCON 2003:
> 
> 	http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/07/09/oscon_report.html
> 
> Geoff Young (who is, possibly, the mod_perl hacker with the biggest 
> smile) continues his monthly column. In "Writing a Custom 
> Authentication Handler," learn about the nice new authentication 
> framework in Apache 2 that allows mod_perl 2 hackers to authenticate 
> against various and sundry sources with ease. (Really--just copy 
> Geoff's code. He's very clever.)
> 
> 	http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/07/08/mod_perl.html
> 
> Finally, the recent Perl 6 mailing list summary marks slow but 
> steady progress. Yay, IMCC can build as parrot now; Parrot IO 
> is using more and more PMCs; and the daydreams of using Perl 6 
> continue. Read Piers Cawley's latest here:
> 	
> 	http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/06/p6pdigest/20030706.html
> 
> * In Conclusion
> 
> It's time for a nap.  Rest up yourselves--YAPC::EU is coming soon!
> 
> Until next time,
> 
> -- chromatic
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