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Hello, Perl.com Newsletter subscribers! (There really ought
to be a short nickname for you.) Here's a quick look at this
week in Perl.
* Perl News
Registrations have opened for YAPC::AU and the Open Source
Developers Conference. This three-day conference down under
features 50 speakers, most of whom are not poisonous plants,
insects, spiders, or animals.
http://www.osdc.com.au/registration/index.html
Speaking of conferences, captain Neil Bauman mentioned that
next week is Perl Whirl '04. It's probably too late to
convince your boss to send you on a Mediterranean cruise, but
it's not too late to start thinking about a little vacation
next year:
http://www.geekcruises.com/seminar/pw4_seminar.htm
In other news, the highly-valuable and impossible to over-appreciate
NMS project (providing secure and easy-to-install CGI programs
for budding and non-Perl programmers) has put out a call for
volunteers. If you'd like to help neophytes, here's one place
to start:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/05/1445249&tid=1&tid=16&tid=42
* Perl.com Articles
This week's new article comes from Luke Schubert. Quoting
Richard Gabriel about reading code helping beginners become
effective experts, Luke promotes the idea of reviewing code--not
to find bugs or to ensure conformance to a set of style
guidelines--but to learn new techniques and to improve your
own coding. His "Why Review Code?" explores the Math::Complex
module, an eight-year-old module now distributed in the Perl core.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/10/07/code_reviews.html
* Conclusion
That wraps it up for this week. There are several interesting
new articles in the queue, including small code exercises,
a detailed look at installing and upgrading Perl, and principles
of design gleaned from Larry's linguistic locutions. No, that's
not the formal title.
See you in two weeks,
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*** Featured Articles ***
Why Review Code?
Want to become a better programmer? Read good code! How do you
know what's good code and where to start? Luke Schubert
demonstrates how to pull ideas out of code by exploring
Math::Complex.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/10/07/code_reviews.html
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Don't Be Afraid to Drop the SOAP
Web services may be unfortunately trendy, but having a simple
API for other people to use your application is very powerful
and useful. Is SOAP the right way to go? Sam Tregar describes
an alternate approach he's pulled from working the Bricolage
and Krang APIs.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/09/30/drop_the_soap.html
***
This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-09-24
Piers Cawley has the latest from the Perl 6 mailing lists.
The perl6-compiler list discusses rule engine flexibility, the
Parrot people discuss the Parrot versions of Forth, Tcl, and
Python as well as lexical pads, and the Perl 6 Language list
argues about what being in the core really means.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/09/p6pdigest/20040926.html
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Building a Finite State Machine Using DFA::Simple
A finite state machine (FSM) is a general-purpose mechanism
for solving common programming problems that involve performing
actions based on previous and current input. (They're good for
parsers and the like.) William Ruppert demonstrates how to
build and use FSMs in Perl.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/09/23/fsms.html
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This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-09-17
Piers Cawley has the latest from the Perl 6 mailing lists.
The perl6-compiler list discusses grammar bootstrapping, the
Parrot people debate namespaces again, and the Perl 6 Language
list ponders the freshly updated Synopsis 5.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/09/p6pdigest/20040917.html
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Embedded Databases
Every serious program needs data, but not every serious program
needs a full-blown relational database server backend. You're
not stuck to reading, parsing, and writing flat-files forever,
though. Phillip Janert explores three types of embedded databases
that are easy to install, use, and distribute.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/09/12/embedded.html
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