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=========================================================== Sponsored by VeriSign - The Value of Trust Get the strongest server security-128-bit SSL encryption! Download VeriSign's FREE guide, "Securing Your Web Site for Business" and learn everything you need to know about using SSL to encrypt your e-commerce transactions for serious online security. Click here! http://www.verisign.com/cgi-bin/go.cgi?a=n204063060057000 =========================================================== Hello, world, and Happy New Year! 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. I hope all of you and your families have had a restful holiday season and a pleasant New Year! Thanks to the holidays, there hasn't been an amazing amount of Perl things going on, so this week's news is pretty brief. But that doesn't mean it's not important! For starters, the Call For Participation in this year's Perl Conference has been announced. As last year, it's in the Sheraton San Diego, and is between July 22nd and 26th. I'll be there, of course, and I hope to see you there too! Oh, and speaking of conferences, don't forget the Bioinformatics Conference in Tucson at the end of the month - it's not too late to get yourself signed up. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2002/ http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/ And, of course, there's this year's Yet Another Perl Conference Europe. YAPC::Europe 2002 is on "The Science of Perl", from 18-20 September in Munich, Germany. Papers are solicited now! http://www.yapc.org/Europe/ http://www.yapc.org/Europe/2002/speakers.html Finally, yes, I've mentioned it before, but Yet Another Society's Perl Development Grant funding drive is still on, and still a worthy cause for those wanting to give something back to the Perl community. The total currently stands at nearly $45k of the $175k target. Please consider how you or your company could help sponsor Damian and Dan to do great things for Perl in 2002. http://www.perl-foundation.org/ * What's new on www.perl.com? The indefatigable Bryan Warnock brings us two Perl 6 summaries, covering the holiday period and before. Some very cool advancements to Parrot have happened in the past couple of weeks, including the surprise addition of a lightning-fast Just In Time compiler, so make sure you catch up! http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/12/p6pdigest/20011222.html http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/12/p6pdigest/20011229.html With all the fuss about bioinformatics - and, of course, the aforementioned bioinformatics conference coming up - I wondered what would happen if, instead of explaining to biochemists how to program Perl, we explained to Perl programmers how to get into bioinformatics. I put the question to James Tisdall, the author of O'Reilly's "Beginning Perl For Bioinformatics", and this week's article is his response. http:/www.perl.com/pub/2002/01/02/bioinf.html http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/begperlbio/ Enjoy! SC ============================================================== Sponsored by Macromedia FREE TRIAL: DEVELOP AND DEPLOY J2EE COMPATIBLE APPLICATIONS QUICKLY! Macromedia JRun 3.1 - with speed, ease-of-use, scalability, and high performance - empowers you to build powerful J2EE compatible Java applications with Java Servlets, JSP, and EJBs. TRY JRUN FOR FREE at http://www.oreillynet.com/nlr/11/Macromedia/jrun ============================================================== *** Featured Articles *** Beginning Bioinformatics James Tisdall's new book is great for biochemists eager to get into the bioinformatics world, but what about us Perl progrmammers? In this article, we turn the tables, and ask what your average Perl programmer needs to know to get into this exciting new growth area. http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/02/bioinf.html *** This Week on Perl 6 (23 - 29 December 2001) JITs, primitives for output, and the PDGF. http://perl.com/pub/a/2001/12/p6pdigest/20011229.html *** This Week on Perl 6 (16 - 22 December 2001) A JIT Compiler, the PDFG, an I/O layer, and much more. http://perl.com/pub/a/2001/12/p6pdigest/20011222.html *** Building a Bridge to the Active Directory Kelvin Param explains how Perl provides the glue between Microsoft's Active Directory and non-Windows clients. http://perl.com/pub/a/2001/12/19/xmlrpc.html ================================================================ O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference January 28-31, 2002, Tucson, AZ Tutorials on cutting edge biotechnology BioPerl, DAS, BLAST, Linux Clusters, DHTML, and much more - Keynotes from Lee Hood, Lincoln Stein, Ewan Birney, Gene Meyers, James Ostell and Terry Gaasterland - Meet the brightest of the bio-community in the warmth of Tucson - http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/ ================================================================ ============================================================ *** A Special Book Offer from O'Reilly *** Pre-Publication Offer--Practical PostgreSQL--Save $10 Save $10 off list price when you buy O'Reilly's soon-to-be released "Practical PostgreSQL" (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ppostgresql/). This book is a fast-paced guide that shows you how to get PostgreSQL installed, configured, and running. Offer valid only through the oreilly.com shopping cart. Use the following code: OPC32. Expires January 7, 2002. ============================================================ ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you want to cancel a subscription to this newsletter, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: Please make certain to unsubscribe from the email address at which you receive this message For non-automated human help email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- For information on unsubscribing from this list, please visit http://rochester.pm.org