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Hello, Perl world. You're reading the biweekly (in theory) Perl.com
newsletter.
* Perl News
Perl 5.8.x pumpking Nicholaus Clark announced the first release candidate
of Perl 5.8.6:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/95786
It's on the CPAN, including at this link:
ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.6-RC1.tar.bz2
* Perl.com Articles
A common question among new Perl programmers (especially those coming from
the other half of the planet, the non-Unix world) is "What is a good
editor?" ActiveState (one of the companies bringing Perl to that world)
has an answer in their Komodo IDE. Jason Purdy reviews the new version
3.0:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/11/04/komodo3.html
Another common question among intermediate programmers is "What happens
if this application becomes more popular than we anticipated?" The answer
isn't always, "Throw more hardware at it" or "Rewrite the slow bits."
Sometimes, the right answer is "Let things queue up for a while and handle
them gently." That's the idea and code that Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski
provides in "Implementing Flood Control":
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/11/11/floodcontrol.html
Finally, the ever-detailed Matt Fowles has summarized the last two weeks
of October in the Perl 6 mailing lists:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/11/p6pdigest/20041131.html
We'll be on a weekly schedule from here on out.
* Conclusion
That's all for this newsletter. Tune in in two weeks for the
post-American-Thanksgiving edition.
See you then,
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*** Featured Articles ***
Implementing Flood Control
If the load of application relies on incoming events, you may eventually
face the happy curse of popularity: too much work to do with your
available resources. If you set a limit on how many events you can process
within a time period, you can avoid the flood. Vladi
Belperchinov-Shabanski explains the algorithm and demonstrates working
code.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/11/11/floodcontrol.html
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This Week in Perl 6, November 2 - 8 2004
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists, with the Parrot folks
talking about optimizations not to apply yet, the Perl 6 people receiving
updated Synopses and Apocalypses, and the Perl 6 Internals team being
strangely quiet.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/11/p6pdigest/20041108.html
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Komodo 3.0 Review
ActiveState has recently released version 3.0 of its Komodo IDE,
supporting agile languages. Jason Purdy reviews the progress made since
the 2.0 release.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/11/04/komodo3.html
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This Fortnight on Perl 6, October 2004 Part Two
Matt Fowles summarizes two more weeks of the Perl 6 mailing lists in the
last half of October.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/11/p6pdigest/20041131.html
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Installing Bricolage
Though CPAN makes it possible to write large and powerful applications,
distributing those applications can prove daunting. In the case of the
Bricolage content management system, though, David Wheeler's installation
guide here will walk you through the process.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/10/28/bricolage_installation.html
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This Fortnight on Perl 6, October 2004
In a stunning achievement, Matt Fowles makes his debut as the new Perl 6
summarizer, covering all three major mailing lists through the first half
of October.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/10/p6pdigest/20041017.html
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