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mod_perl digest
June 24, 2001 - June 30, 2001
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Recent happenings in the mod_perl world...
Features
o mod_perl status
o module announcements
o mailing list highlights
o links
mod_perl status
o mod_perl
- stable: 1.25 (released January 29, 2001) [1]
- development: 1.25_01-dev [2]
o Apache
- stable: 1.3.20 (released May 15, 2001) [3]
- development: 1.3.21-dev [4]
o Perl
- stable: 5.6.1 (released April 9, 2001) [5]
- development: 5.7.1 [6]
module announcements
o AxKit::XSP::PerForm - a "magic" forms library for building complex
web applications [7]
o HTML::Template 2.3 - makes using HTML templates simple and natural
by extending standard HTML with a few new HTML-esque tags [8]
mailing list highlights
o Long thread of the week goes to a discussion on how to layout
a web application API. [9] It ended with an idea about how to
optimize via Autosplit/Autoload and an module that records
module statistics [10]. There is now a module RFC available
for comment [11]
o While not mod_perl related, here's a tidbit on how to create
a script that uses Netscape cookies when crawling [12]
o As usual, the dev list is buzzing with activity [13]
news
o Netcraft June statistics
Apache 63.02% IIS 20.38% [14]
o Security Space June statistics
Apache 59.84% IIS 28.42% [15]
11.80% (224,373) of Apache servers are running mod_perl [16]
links
o The Apache/Perl Integration Project [17]
o mod_perl documentation [18]
o mod_perl modules on CPAN [19]
o mod_perl homepage [20]
o mod_perl news and advocacy [21]
o mod_perl list archives [22] [23]
happy mod_perling...
--Geoff
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[1] http://perl.apache.org/dist/
[2] http://perl.apache.org/from-cvs/modperl/
[3] http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/
[4] http://dev.apache.org/from-cvs/apache-1.3/
[5] http://www.cpan.org/src/stable.tar.gz
[6] http://www.cpan.org/src/devel.tar.gz
[7] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/gralgulwhy
[8] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/glilyyzhend
[9] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/farkhimshe
[10] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl&m=99405069123641&w=2
[11] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl&m=99410809405360&w=2
[12] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/mowhonhum
[13] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl-dev&r=1&w=2&b=200106
[14] http://www.netcraft.com/survey/
[15] http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/200106/index.html
[16] http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.200106/apachemods.html
[17] http://perl.apache.org
[18] http://perl.apache.org/#docs
[19] http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Apache/
[20] http://www.modperl.com
[21] http://www.take23.org
[22] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/
[23] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl&r=1&w=2
