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Conference season is nearly upon us, and although you've just missed the early bird registration deadline for this year's The Perl Conference, it's gearing up to be another great event; meanwhile, over at Yet Another Perl Conference, (where you'll be able to, indeed, meet me in St. Louis - how original...) the schedule has been announced and dorm rooms are available: http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ http://www.yapc.org/America/day1.shtml https://donate.perl-foundation.org/index.pl?node=Dorm+Info AxKit 1.6 is out! AxKit, in case you've been living in a cave, is an XML application server for mod_perl. What's that mean? It lets you not only dynamically publish XML as Web pages, PDFs, embossed articles for the blind, or whatever you want, but also have XML tags fire off Perl subroutines. This release brings separation of content and style providers and the addition of a new SAXMachine language module. And vaguely related but not quite, a new version of the Bricolage content management system is out. http://axkit.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:4164:gckddipdnjdnhmddncgd http://bricolage.thepirtgroup.com/ Last but not least, Dan Sugalski, Parrot designer and Perl Foundation fundraiser, will be in Phoenix next Thursday (June 20th) to talk about Parrot and Perl 6, and to pass the hat around for donations to continue the funding of Larry, Damian and himself. http://www.jundy.com/parrot/ * What's new on www.perl.com? One of the interesting new features of Perl 5.8.0 will be stable interpreter-based threading, thanks mainly to the work of Artur Bergman. In this installment of our Where Wizards Fear To Tread series, he explains how to create thread-safe Perl modules. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/11/threads.html Enjoy, SC ===================================================================== Sponsored by Oracle9i Oracle Technology Network will bring you to the top of your game in applications development technology. Download the latest development programs and sample code. Membership - and the latest development software - is free. Jumpstart your development on Oracle9i. Register for a FREE CD sampler. Oracle Technology Network. All you need to know. http://www.oreillynet.com/nlr/06/12/mid ===================================================================== *** Featured Articles *** Where Wizards Fear To Tread One of the new features coming in Perl 5.8 will be reliable interpreter threading, thanks primarily to the work of Artur Bergman. In this article, he explains what you need to do to make your Perl modules thread-safe. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/11/threads.html *** Apocalypse 5 In part 5 of his design for Perl 6, Larry takes a long hard look at regular expressions, and comes up with some interesting ideas... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/04/apo5.html *** Achieving Closure What's a closure, and why does everyone go on about them? http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/29/closure.html *** Improving mod_perl Sites' Performance: Part 1 What do we need to think about when optimizing mod_perl applications? Stas Bekman explains how hardware, software and good programming come into play. http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/29/mod_perl-opt.html *** Finding a mod_perl ISP... or Becoming One You're ready to use mod_perl -- but do you have a server to run it on? Stas Bekman explains what an ISP needs to do to run mod_perl programs, and how to find an ISP that lets you do so. http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/22/mod_perl-isp.html *** The Perl You Need To Know - Part 3 Stas Bekman finishes his introduction to the basic Perl skills you need to use mod_perl; this week, globals versus lexicals, modules and packages. http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/14/mod_perl.html ================================================================== The 4th O'Reilly Open Source Convention, July 22-26, 2002 Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina Learn the Latest and Greatest in Open Source Software Apache 2.0, Perl 6, PHP, XML, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Python and Zope, Mac OS X, Linux, Java, and more ... 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