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============================================================ Sponsored by VeriSign - The Value of Trust FREE E-COMMERCE SECURITY GUIDE Is your e-business built on a strong, secure foundation? Find out with VeriSign's FREE White Paper, "Building an E-Commerce Trust Infrastructure." Learn how to authenticate your site to customers, secure your web servers with 128-Bit SSL encryption, and accept secure payments online. Click here: http://www.verisign.com/cgi-bin/go.cgi?a=n20390091180057000 ============================================================ 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. Yet Another Perl Conference is nearly upon us, and as I polish up my presentations and pack my bags, there's time to note that the schedule for lightning talks has been posted. Looks like there'll be some fun stuff! http://perl.plover.com/lt/yapc2002.html Do you remember the perl5-porters and perl6 summaries we used to run? I'd very much like to run those again, but this needs *YOU* to help write them. If you're interested in helping out, please let me know, and we'll discuss what's involved. [EMAIL PROTECTED] And finally, want to win free training in Seattle? Every dollar you donate to the Perl Foundation enters you into a raffle for a training session with Damian Conway. Kudos to Consultix for coming up with this neat way to raise funds! http://teachmeperl.com/apworkshop.html http://donate.perl-foundation.org/ * What's new on www.perl.com? Stas Bekman is back with his mini-series on optimizing mod_perl applications. Before you can start optimizing, it's a good idea to know exactly what you need to optimize, and that means benchmarking. Stas introduces the key Apache and mod_perl benchmarking tools. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/19/mod_perl.html Next week, we'll all be at Yet Another Perl Conference, whence we'll be bringing you plenty of updates about the goings-on; be sure to keep checking our weblogs column for the latest! Enjoy, SC ===================================================================== The 4th O'Reilly Open Source Convention, July 22-26, 2002 Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina The Perl Conference 6 -- You cannot afford to miss this conference if you want to sharpen your Perl skills, mingle with the elite of the Perl community, and learn all about Parrot and the state of Perl 6! Featuring Larry Wall, Damian Conway, Slomo Mellmann, and many more! http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ ===================================================================== *** Featured Articles *** Improving mod_perl Sites' Performance: Part 2 Before making any optimizations to mod_perl applications, it's important to know what you need to be optimizing. Benchmarks are key to this, and Stas Beckman introduces the important tools for mod_perl benchmarking. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/19/mod_perl.html *** PDF Presentations Using AxPoint In this month's Perl and XML column on XML.com, Kip Hampton describes AxPoint, a way to create presentations in PDF using Perl and XML. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/06/19/perl-xml.html *** Where Wizards Fear To Tread One of the new features coming in Perl 5.8 will be reliable interpreter threading, thanks primarily to the work of Artur Bergman. In this article, he explains what you need to do to make your Perl modules thread-safe. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/11/threads.html *** Apocalypse 5 In part 5 of his design for Perl 6, Larry takes a long hard look at regular expressions, and comes up with some interesting ideas... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/04/apo5.html *** Achieving Closure What's a closure, and why does everyone go on about them? http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/29/closure.html =================================================================== New Report from O'Reilly Research: Planning for Web Services Planning for Web Services is a new report from O'Reilly Research by industry visionary Clay Shirky. This report guides CTOs and CIOs through the inflated claims, competing standards, and amalgam of acronyms to arrive at a realistic appraisal of the business impact of Web Services. $495 Save $100! Use or mention code wsrpen. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wsrep ================================================================== ================================================================== Build a Better Bookshelf with Safari Tech Books Online Get your first 14 days free when you subscribe to Safari Tech Books Online, with over 700 of the best technical books available from O'Reilly and other top publishers. Select ten books to search, bookmark, and annotate. Cut and paste code examples. Find your answers fast. Sign up today! https://www.oreillynet.com/safaripromo/oreilly-14.html ================================================================== -- For information on unsubscribing from this list, please visit http://rochester.pm.org