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Issue 05-05

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** EuroOSCON CFP Now Open **
The O'Reilly European Open Source Convention 2005, to be held on October
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** Build a Wireless Gateway with Perl **
Tired of programming and want to tackle some system administration? How about
 using Perl to manage the wireless gateway you've always meant to set up?
 Alptekin Cakircali shows off his AWLP project, which combines Linux and Perl
 to make a customizable wireless gateway out of an old PC.
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** Inside YAPC::NA 2005 **
One of the success stories of the Perl community is the series of
 self-organized Yet Another Perl Conferences. This year's North American YAPC
 is in Toronto in late June. chromatic recently interviewed Richard Dice, the
 man behind YAPC::NA 2005 to discuss how to put together a conference and
 what to expect from the conference and its attendant extracurricular
 activities in lovely Toronto.
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** Massive Data Aggregation with Perl **
What do you do if you have a huge array of disparate data sources from which
 to collect and present data in multiple formats? First, reach for Perl.
 Then...good question. Fred Moyer explains how his team designed and built a
 system to aggregate and present huge amounts of data with Perl.
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** People Behind Perl: brian d foy **
People Behind Perl: brian d foy
brian d foy is a long-time Perl hacker and leader, having founded the Perl
 Mongers, written and helped to write many useful CPAN modules, and recently
 founding, publishing, and editing The Perl Review. Perl.com recently
 interviewed brian about his work, history, and future plans.
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** Automating Windows Applications with Win32::OLE **
Many Windows applications are surprisingly automable through OLE, COM, DCOM,
 et cetera. Even better, this automation works through Perl as well. Henry
 Wasserman walks through the process of discovering how to automate Internet
 Explorer components to automate web testing from Perl.
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** This Week in Perl 6, April 12 - 19, 2005 **
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with Pugs 6.2.0 released,
 documentation patches, a switch to Subversion, and scope, whitespace, and
 character class questions.
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** This Week in Perl 6, April 20 - 26, 2005 **
Piers Cawley summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with Pugs 6.2.1 released,
 more MMD schemes, and big discussions of blocks, invocants, and parameters.
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** This Week in Perl 6, April 26 - May 3, 2005 **
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with Pugs 6.2.2 released,
 Parrot freezing for a release, and the great debate over invocant naming
 continuing.
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** This Week in Perl 6, May 3, 2005 - May 17, 2005 **
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with Pugs gaining object
 support, Parrot 0.2.0 released, and Perl 6 going through a reduction (though
 not in volume).
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** This Week in Perl 6, April 4-11, 2005 **
Piers Cawley summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with a new plan for Ponie, a
 Parrot/Pugs hackathon announcement, and identity tests.
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** Building Good CPAN Modules **
Your code is amazing. It works exactly as you intended. You've decided to
 give back, to share it with the world by uploading it to the CPAN. Before
 you do, though, there are a few fiddly details about cross-platform and
 cross-version compatibility to keep in mind. Rob Kinyon gives several
 guidelines about writing CPAN modules that will work everywhere they will be
 useful.
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** Python on Your (S60) Phone by John Littler  **
Nokia recently released a Python distribution that runs on Series 60 phones.
 Sure it's cool, but is it useful? John Littler walks through the available
 packages and the installation process, as well as some example Python code.
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