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================================================================== O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Sept 30-Oct 3, 2002, Santa Clara, CA For developers, power users, hackers, and network administrators Don't miss keynote speakers James Gosling (Sun), Jordan Hubbard (Apple), Wilfredo Sanchez Vega (Darwin), David Pogue (Author), and Tim O'Reilly. Pass and 2 Tutorials for $1345.00 when you register by August 9, 2002. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/macosx2002/?CMP=EM4944 ================================================================== 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. Good news from the Perl Mongers! At a Perl Foundation meeting at the Open Source Convention, Dave Cross, founder and spiritual leader of London Perl Mongers, volunteered for the thankless task of being Perl Mongers User Group Coordinator. Assisted by his able orange sidekick Leon Brocard, they plan to rejuvenate the Perl Mongers site and bring Perl Mongers groups together. http://use.perl.org/articles/02/08/07/1055215.shtml?tid=8 http://www.pm.org/ http://www.perl.org/ There's going to be a Perl 6 Conference in Zurich, Switzerland this September, thanks to the generous sponsorship of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. While three days will be a "Perl 6 retreat" for the design team, there'll also be a two-day workshop and presentation for the general public. Find out more at the address below: http://perl6.ethz.ch/ * What's new on www.perl.com? Piers Cawley brings you the latest news from Perl 6, including thoughts about operators in Parrot, regex speed, a new ARM JIT, lexical pads, and much more... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/07/p6pdigest/20020805.html What happens if you want to have data structures that have mutually recursive references? Well, traditional wisdom says that you either have a memory leak, or you have to manually break the circular reference. Neither of these solutions were palatable to Matt Sergeant, who follows the Perl philosophy of wanting things to "just work". In this week's feature article, Matt demonstrates the power of the Proxy Object pattern, creating circular references which get garbage collected when they go out of scope. Sounds impossible? Read on... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/07/proxyobject.html Next week, stay tuned for more news from Perl 6 as well as techniques on how to use your favorite commenting syntax in Perl 5... Enjoy, Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =================================================================== 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. 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Stas Bekman explains how to optimize Apache and mod_perl for the most efficient memory use. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/07/30/mod_perl.html *** Improving mod_perl Sites' Performance: Part 3 This week, Stas Bekman explains how to use the Perl and mod_perl benchmarking and memory measurement tools to perform worthwhile optimizations on mod_perl programs. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/07/16/mod_perl.html *** This Week on Perl 6 (8 - 14 Jul 2002) Second system effect, IMCC, Perl 6 grammar, and much more... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/07/p6pdigest/20020714.html *** A Test::MockObject Illustrated Example Test::MockObject gives you a way to create unit tests for object-oriented programs, isolating individual object and method behavior http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/07/10/tmo.html ================================================================== 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. 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