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=========================================================== Sponsored by VeriSign - The Value of Trust Is your e-business secure enough? Learn why it's vital to encrypt your business transactions, secure your intranets, and authenticate your Web site with the strongest encryption available-128-bit SSL. To learn more, get VeriSign's FREE Guide, "Securing Your Web Site for Business" now: http://www.verisign.com/cgi-bin/go.cgi?a=n203763060014000 =========================================================== Hello, world! This is Simon Cozens, managing editor of www.perl.com, here to bring you the week's news and developments both in the Perl world and on our own site. * Perl at large. The huge, big, amazing news this week was the announcement by DynDNS during the Perl Whirl cruise that they would be donating $20,000 to the Perl Foundation's Grant Fund drive. This spurred a whole host of individual donations, and the current total including the new $20K stands at just over $81,000, over half way there. Huge thanks to DynDNS! Could this prompt you into action? http://www.dyndns.org/news/2002/perl.php http://www.geekcruises.com/ One of the authors of "Running Weblogs with Slash", chromatic, has written an article for the O'Reilly Network explaining how to extend Slash using your own plugins; he demonstrates the Wiki plugin, and explains the features that Slash provides for web application authors. Oh, and a new version of the Slash::Gallery image gallery plugin is out. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/01/17/slash_plugin.html http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runblogslash/ http://sf.net/projects/slash-gallery/ * What's new on perl.com Bryan Warnock brings us another Perl 6 summary, this time covering the new Apocalypse, Parrot string handling, and more... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/p6pdigest/20020119.html How did you get started using Perl? I'll bet you the majority of your answers will have something to do with CGI. So why is it, then, that the vast majority of CGI code available on the web isn't of the highest quality? Dave Cross looks at how it could be better, and what he's doing about it. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/23/cgi.html Enjoy, SC ================================================================= Sponsored by AT&T FREE AT&T Digital Ericsson R300LX Cell Phone with AT&T Service. No Credit Card required. $80 Mail in Rebate, 3 FREE Accessories, Unlimited Night & Weekend, FREE Nationwide Long Distance. http://www.arbango.com/att/index.html?dist=ory&source=itu ================================================================= *** Featured Articles *** Finding CGI Scripts Dave Cross explains what to watch out for when choosing CGI scripts to run on your server, and announces a new best-of-breed project for CGI scripting. http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/23/cgi.html *** This Week on Perl 6 (13 - 19 Jan 2002) Apocalypse 4, Parrot strings, and more... http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/p6pdigest/20020119.html *** WebContent Validation with XML::Schematron Kip Hampton explains how to use his XML::Schematron module to validate XML Web content with Perl. http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/23/perl-schematron.html *** Apocalypse 4: All About Blocks In his latest article explaining the design of Perl 6, Larry Wall tackles the syntax of the language. http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/15/apo4.html *** Creating Custom Widgets Steve Lidie, coauthor of Mastering Perl/Tk, brings us more wisdom from his Tk experience--this time, explaining how to create your own simple widget classes. http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/09/perltk.html ============================================================ The 4th O'Reilly Open Source Convention, July 22-26, 2002 Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina The Call for Participation is now live--Individuals and companies are invited to submit proposals http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2002/ Mark Your Calendar - Registration Begins April 1, 2002 ============================================================ ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you want to cancel a subscription to this newsletter, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: Please make certain to unsubscribe from the email address at which you receive this message For non-automated human help email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- For information on unsubscribing from this list, please visit http://rochester.pm.org