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Greetings, Perl fans. This is the Perl newsletter, a more-or-less
biweekly look at the world of Perl through the eyes of Perl.com.
* Perl News (in brief)
Pumpking Nicolas Clark released Perl 5.8.6:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/30/1125252&tid=6
Mark Fowler announced the 2004 Perl Advent Calendar:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/1121244&tid=42
http://perladvent.org/
brian d foy released issue 1.1 of The Perl Review:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/03/1045228&tid=42
* Perl.com Articles
Jim Brandt, IT hero for the University of New York Buffalo, recently
worked on a project to allow students to pay their tuition online. Gluing
together a mainframe, a financial department, credit card processing, and
all of these sytems with different languages and platforms sounded to him
like a job for Perl. Indeed, it worked so well that we call it a Perl
success story:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/12/09/epayment.html
As promised, Geoff Broadwell began a series on building a 3D Engine in
Perl. In this first installment, he demonstrates just enough OpenGL to
display polygons on the screen and move the point of view. It's not much
code and it's not much math. It's just the start of big, impressive
things though:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/12/01/3d_engine.html
Matt Fowles reliably summarized several weeks on the Perl 6 mailing lists,
including the introduction of the Parrot Grammar Engine. If you eagerly
awaited code on the Perl 6 compiler list, here's your chance to dig in:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/12/p6pdigest/20041202.html
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/12/p6pdigest/20041209.html
* Conclusion
That wraps it up for now. Tune in soon for another Perl Test Kata.
30 minutes to better living,
-- c
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*** Featured Articles ***
The Evolution of ePayment Services at UB
Perl is often a workhorse behind the scenes, content to do its job quietly
and without fuss. When the University of New York at Buffalo needed to
offer electronic payment services to students, the Department of Computing
Services reached for Perl. Jim Brandt describes how Perl (and a little
Inline::Java) helped them build just enough code to allow students to pay
their bills online.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/12/09/epayment.html
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This Fortnight in Perl 6, December 1 - 6 2004
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists: the Perl 6 language list
discusses a shiny new syntax update, and the Parrot list discusses what is
and isn't up for grabs.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/12/p6pdigest/20041209.html
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This Fortnight in Perl 6, November 16-30 2004
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists, with the introduction of
the Parrot Grammar Engine!
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/12/p6pdigest/20041202.html
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Building a 3D Engine in Perl
The ultimate goal of all programming is to be as unproductive as possible
-- to write games. Why hurt yourself to write in low-level languages,
though, when Perl provides all of the tools you need to do it well? Geoff
Broadwell demonstrates how to use OpenGL from Perl.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/12/01/3d_engine.html
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Perl Debugger Quick Reference
Perl's debugger is both powerful and somewhat esoteric. This printable
excerpt from Richard Foley's Perl Debugger Pocket Reference can help take
some of the mystery out of the common commands and put more advanced
features within your reach.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/11/24/debugger_ref.html
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Cross-Language Remoting with mod_perlservice
Remoting -- sharing data between server and client processes -- is
powerful, but writing your own protocols is tedious and difficult. XML-RPC
is too simple and SOAP and CORBA are too complex. Isn't there something in
the middle, something easier to set up and use? Michael W. Collins
introduces mod_perlservice, an Apache httpd module that provides remote
services to C, Perl, or Flash clients.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/11/18/mod_perlservice.html
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