David L. Nicol
Wed, 06 Jun 2001 12:17:13 -0700
I have lately been _not_ sending notices about O'Reilly-sponsored
conferences to the kcpm list. They tend to include an offer of
%20 off the conference reg. fee. The conferences tend to be on coasts.
Please tell me if you think I should forward more conference announcements.
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From: Perl Newsletter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Perl.com: Using CGI::Application
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 16:46:05 -0700
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* Perl at large.
It's been quite a quiet week for Perl, as everyone's been getting
ready for the conference season. YAPC starts in a week's time, and
TPC is coming up July 23. If you haven't heard already, the Open
Source Convention, TPC's sister conference, has announced a rather
unexpected keynote speaker: Craig Mundie from Microsoft who will
be telling us about Shared Source, Open Source and the GPL.
http://yapc.org/America/
http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2001/view/e_sess/1834
The Perl CD Bookshelf has been updated: this version contains the
latest text of the "Camel Book", Programming Perl Third Edition;
Perl for System Administration; Perl in a Nutshell; The Perl Cookbook,
and Advanced Perl Programming. Pretty much everything you need to know
about Perl on a handy CD. Neat, eh? And if you're still hankering
after dead trees, they've thrown in a paper copy of Perl In A Nutshell
as well. Who could ask for anything more?
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After a brief beta period, Ask Bjorn Hansen has provided an invaluable
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The Perl 5 Porters summary this week comes once again courtesy of
Leon Brocard, who tells us all about the latest developments in the
Perl test suite, experiments with -Wall, and the push to introduce
libnet into the Perl core.
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/06/p5pdigest/THISWEEK-20010604.html
Once again, Bryan Warnock brings us his summary of the Perl 6 mailing
lists, detailing the results of the discussion on virtual machine
architecture, another attempt at codifying some coding conventions, a
brief look at .NET, and the suggestion of an "it" variable. Read all
about it at:
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/06/p6pdigest/THISWEEK-20010601.html
Our feature article this week is one I'm personally very glad to see.
Have you ever written any CGI applications? I've been maintaining one
recently which browses the Perl source repository, and it's really,
really boring.
Why? Because most CGI programs end up with the same basic design -
take in some parameters which represent the state, one of which will
tell you which "action" to perform; then a big switch statement to
select the possible actions; then code to perform the actions. Once
you've done it 10 times, you really, really don't want to do it
again.
When faced with a recurring design scenario like that, Jesse Erlbaum
took the obvious but innovative move - abstract it away! He brings
us a tutorial introduction to his "CGI::Application" module, which
allows you to create CGI Web applications just like object-oriented
modules, including inheritance and, if you want, distributing them
on CPAN.
Well worth a look if you do anything to do with CGI - it may even
save you a bunch of time!
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/06/05/cgi.html
Enjoy!
SC
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Using CGI::Application
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/06/05/cgi.html?wwwrrr_20010605.txt
The Common Gateway Interface may well be the backbone of many Web
applications, but sometimes it can feel dry and monotonous to
work with. If you're fed up with "my $query = CGI->new()",
Jesse Erlbaum presents a kinder, gentler alternative.
Turning the Tides on Perl's Attitude Toward Beginners
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/05/29/tides.html?wwwrrr_20010605.txt
Casey West is taking a stand against elitism in the Perl
community and seems to be making progress. He has launched
several new services for the Perl beginner that are being
enthusiastically received.
Taking Lessons From Traffic Lights
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/05/22/trafficlights.html?wwwrrr_20010605.txt
Michael Schwern examines traffic lights and shows what lessons
applied to the development of Perl 6.
Exegesis 2
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/05/08/exegesis2.html?wwwrrr_20010605.txt
Having trouble visualizing how the approved RFC's for Perl 6 will
translate into actual Perl code? Damian Conway provides and
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