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--david nicol ---------------------- www.perl.com update -------------------------------------- The Email for www.perl.com Subscribers ======================================================================= Sponsored by NuSphere FREE NuSphere Security Scan when you purchase any NuSphere Advantage product before Sept. 30th! NuSphere Advantage pairs the reliability and cost-effectiveness of Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl with new technology enhancements for building business-critical web applications. Get 12 FREE scans of a single IP address with any Advantage product, or buy unlimited scans for 3 months for $100 or a year for $299. Visit: http://www.nusphere.com/op ======================================================================== 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. First of all, we've got some really good news for mod_perl users! Ticketmaster, one of the web's leading ticket agents, have hired Stas Beckman for a year to develop mod_perl towards version 2.0. Stas joins Larry and Damian in the ranks of Perl Indentured Slaves; we're seeing more and more businesses "sponsor" Perl and open source developers to do their thing, and this can only be good for us all. http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/zhyzhendrou/3BAA2755.9080701@sta son.org http://www.ticketmaster.com/ http://www.citysearch.com/ European Perl Hackers may like to know that the German Perl Workshop 4.0, 2002, has issued its first call for papers. The conference will run from Friday February the 13th to the 15th at the Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, in Sankt Augustin. Like, but unaffiliated to, YAPC, the German Perl Workshop is another non-profit conference, mainly covered by its sponsors. They're currently looking for tutors, workshop presenters and speakers - and, of course, attendees, so if you're probably going to be around Europe next February, make sure to check them out: http://www.perlworkshop.de/2002/ And finally... what *have* I created? Last week, we reported on Ask Bjorn Hansen's mod_parrot experiments; this week, Ask and Leon Brocard have set up the "parrotcode" site, with Parrot tutorials and examples. Leon has even ported a Mandelbrot set generator to Parrot. More seriously, (and deeply more embarrassingly) one of the Python developers has already started porting Python to Parrot. http://www.parrotcode.org/ http://www.astray.com/mandlebrot.pasm http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-September/017617.html * What's new on perl.com I'm still looking for a volunteer to take over the Perl 6 summaries. Please let me know if you can help. Ahbijit Menon-Sen, Artur Bergman and others have volunteered to share the load of the Perl 5 Porters summaries, and they will recommence beginning next week. I know I've said this several times before, but this time it might actually be accurate: the rumblings are getting louder and louder that we'll be able to bring you an Apocalypse and an Exegesis this week. The subject matter will be Perl 6's operators, including some interesting surprises. Stay tuned to perl.com later in the week. Right now, though, I can offer you a brilliant introduction to the world of asymmetric cryptography. Last month, we had an article from Ahbijit on symmetric cryptography: this is fine if you and I can meet and exchange a key before we send our super-secret messages. But what if we can never meet up - like, say, people on the Internet. Asymmetric crypto allows us to securely transmit secrets without even needing to share common information in advance. And as with all good things in life, it can all be done in Perl. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/26/crypto1.html Enjoy, SC ============================================================= Sponsored by Macromedia TRY A FREE COLDFUSION 5 TRIAL AND BUILD SOPHISTICATED SITES FAST. Macromedia ColdFusion 5 - the fastest way to build and deploy powerful Web applications - empowers you to quickly assemble content publishing systems and self-service applications. Try a FREE COLDFUSION DOWNLOAD: http://www.oreillynet.com/nlr/network/08/macromedia/1 ============================================================= *** Featured Articles *** Asymmetric Cryptography in Perl Last month, we had an article from Abhijit Menon-Sen about symmetric cryptography; this month, Vipul Ved Prakash and Benjamin Trott take us on a tour of its more advanced cousin, asymmetric cryptography. This introductory article is the first in a three-part series. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/26/crypto1.html *** Writing SAX Drivers for Non-XML Data Kip Hampton shows us how to write drivers to produce SAX events and, thus, XML documents from non-XML data sources. http://xml.com/pub/a/2001/09/19/sax-non-xml-data.html *** Parrot : Some Assembly Required Last week, the first version of the Parrot assembler and virtual machine was released; since then, we've seen a flurry of activity and patches to it. Simon Cozens tells us all about what Parrot is, how it relates to Perl 6, how to write in Parrot assembler, and how to get involved in developing and improving Parrot. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/18/parrot.html *** wxPerl: Another GUI for Perl Jouke Visse brings us a new tutorial on how to use wxPerl to create good-looking GUIs for Perl programs. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/12/wxtutorial1.html *** Changing Hash Behaviour with tie Hashes are one of the most useful data structures Perl provides, but did you know you can make them even more useful by changing the way they work? Dave Cross shows us how it's done. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/04/tiedhash.html ============================================================ *** A Special Offer from O'Reilly *** Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations--20% Off Get 20% off the list price when you buy O'Reilly's recently released "Beyond Contact" (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/alien/). 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