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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.
You may remember the story of Jouke Visser, the developer of
pVoice, a system to help disabled children communicate. We have
some good news: pVoice is now sponsored by ActiveState, which has
provided a free license of the Perl Developer's Kit to Jouke.
Thanks to all at ActiveState for their commitment to this
important project, and I hope more people will donate something
to help Jouke with his work.
http://www.pvoice.org/
http://www.pvoice.org/news.html
Have you heard about PAR? I like PAR! PAR is a packaging system
for Perl applications and modules; it functions as both a binary
distribution format similar to ActiveState's PPMs, and an
application distribution mechanism similar to perl2exe. Put
these together and you have something like Java's JARs. This
release of PAR allows for binary distribution of CPAN modules
and links up with a new version of Module::Install, which
attempts to get PARs where possible:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/11/0938205&mode=nocomment&tid=5
http://search.cpan.org/~autrijus/PAR/
* What's new on www.perl.com?
Piers just about gets away without summarizing the fall-out from
the Apocalypse, but instead he has to deal with a long discussion
on how Parrot's object system will work:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/03/p6pdigest/20030309.html
Meanwhile, Dave Rolsky, one of the chief module author herders
behind Perl's many date and time modules and coauthor of
O'Reilly's "Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason" book, provides us
with an overview of all of those Date::* modules; what's important
about them; and how they differ:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/03/13/datetime.html
Happy hacking!
Simon Cozens
<simon@oreillynet.com>
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*** Featured Articles ***
The Many Dates and Times of Perl
There are a huge number of date and time handling modules on the
CPAN; how do you know which ones are any good? Dave Rolsky, one
of the men behind the datetime mailing list takes you on a tour.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/03/13/datetime.html
***
This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-03-09
Object specifications and serialization discussion takes over
both lists, and Piers narrowly escapes having to summarise the
fallout from the Apocalypse already...
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/03/p6pdigest/20030309.html
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Apocalypse 6
Larry continues his unfolding of the design of Perl 6 with his
latest Apocalypse - this time, how subroutines are defined and
called in Perl 6.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/03/07/apocalypse6.html
***
This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-03-02
IMCC is still a subject of much debate on the perl6-internals
list, while tumbleweed drifts through perl6-language. Piers has
the details.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/03/p6pdigest/20030302.html
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Improving mod_perl Sites' Performance: Part 8
In the penultimate of Stas Bekman's mod_perl articles, more of
those obscure Apache settings which can really speed up your
web server.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/03/04/mod_perl.html
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Genomic Perl
After James Tisdall's "Beginning Perl for Bioinformaticists", has
Rex Dwyer come up with a "Beginning Bioinformatics for Perl
Programmers"? Simon Cozens reviews "Genomic Perl", with some
anticipation...
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/02/27/review.html
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-02-23
More from Piers Cawley on Perl 6, IMCC, Parrot's perfomance and
the continuing arrays versus lists saga.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/02/p6pdigest/20030223.html
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