LPM: www.perl.com: RSS and You (fwd)
Frank Price
fprice at mis.net
Wed Feb 9 17:41:59 CST 2000
Thought the list might be like to see this ... some interesting info
about Perl 5.6. Forwarded in its entirety so it's kindof long, sorry.
-Frank.
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Hello, perl.com subscribers.
Big doings this week: Perl 5.5.640 was released!
(Note the new version number; in the old version number
scheme, this would have been 5.005_64.) This is a
development version, and so should only be installed by
people who want to test an alpha version of Perl. But it's
a sign that the long-awaited Perl 5.6 is on the horizon.
One interesting, visible feature of 5.5.640: It has
'version number constants'. You can write
require v5.5.640;
in a program to require that the Perl version be at least
5.5.640, and you can write
if ($VERSION > v1.11) { ... }
to test to see if the version number in the variable
$VERSION is at least version 1.11. Why not just use
ordinary numbers here? Because v1.2 is less than v1.11,
even though 1.2 is greater than 1.11.
For more complete information, see
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2000-02/msg00160.html
or download the complete package from
http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/id/GSAR/perl5.5.640.tar.gz
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What I Did With it When I Caught it
Some time ago I wrote an article for LinuxPlanet web site
about how to use Perl to filter spam out of your email.
It was supposed to be a series, but the LinuxPlanet folks
changed their minds and cancelled it. I've gotten a lot of
mail asking after the rest of the series, and this week the
long-awaited second part is online at www.perl.com.
Even if you're not interested in spam filtering, drop by for
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Conference Paper Deadline Extended
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deadline again. You have until February 18 to submit a
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conference. If you were afraid you couldn't afford to go,
this may be a good opportunity for you: Paper presenters
attend the conference for free. For details, see
http://conferences.oreilly.com/perl4/call.html
Perl Wins Big in Beanie Awards
Slashdot has announced their annual Beanie Awards and the
Perl folks cleaned up. Perl luminary Tom Christiansen won
the `Best Newbie Helper' award, and `Programming Perl' won
the `best book' award. (Tom and Larry are hard at work on
the new third edition at this very moment; watch out for it.)
Doug McEachern's `mod_perl' won the award for `Best Apache
Module'. In case you've been living in a cave for the past
few years, `mod_perl' is an Apache plugin module that embeds
an entire Perl interpreter into your Apache web server,
allowing you to write more Apache plugin modules in Perl,
configure your Apache server in Perl, and run Perl programs
natively inside the server instead of having to spawn an
external CGI process.
Lincoln Stein's famous CGI.pm module won the award for
`Best Perl Module', defeating DBI.pm. CPAN.pm, and LWP.pm.
Regrettably, Larry Wall was beaten out in the `Bessed Dressed'
category by Tux the Penguin.
Sorry, Larry. Better luck next time.
For details:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/02/06/1950248&mode=thread
Thank you all. I will be in touch again next week.
Mark-Jason Dominus
Managing Editor
RSS and You
Real World Perl: RSS and You
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/01/rss.html?wwwrrr_20000126.txt
RSS is an XML application that describes web sites as
channels, which can act as feeds to a user's site.
Chris Nandor explains how to use RSS in Perl and how he
uses it to build portals.
Article: In Defense of Coding Standards
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/01/CodingStandards.html?wwwrrr_20000126.txt
Perl programmers may bristle at the idea of coding standards.
Fear not: a few simple standards can improve teamwork without
crushing creativity.
Article: Virtual Presentations with Perl
http://www.perl.com/pub/1999/12/virtual-presentations.html?wwwrrr_20000126.txt
This year, the Philadelphia Perl Mongers had joint remote
meetings with Boston.pm and St. Louis.pm using teleconferencing
equipment to bring a guest speaker to many places at once.
Adam Turoff describes what worked and what didn't, and how
you can use this in your own PM groups.
In Defense of Coding Standards
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/01/12/index.html?wwwrrr_20000126.txt
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Virtual Presentations with Perl
http://www.perl.com/pub/1999/12/28/index.html?wwwrrr_20000126.txt
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