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Hello, readers. You've stumbled across the Perl newsletter, Perl.com's
biweekly email about the wonderful world of Perl. Here's what's
noteworthy in the past two weeks.
* Perl News in Brief
It's all conferences, talks, and presentations this week.
YAPC::EU has issued its 2005 Call for Papers. Come to Braga, Portugal at
the end of August and talk about Perl:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/04/2243255&tid=7&tid=43
If Portugal's too far, or for whatever reason, you can't escape east
Texas, Perl 6 pumpking Patrick Michaud will discuss the Perl 6 grammar at
the Dallas/Fort Worth Perl Mongers meeting on 25 January. Come for the
Perl, stay for the Pop-Tart blowtorches:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/04/2246222&tid=30&tid=40
Finally, the Dutch Perl Workshop in late February has announced its
program. For all of the polyglots in the audience who may find themselves
in northern Europe then, here's a chance to practice Dutch and Perl at the
same time:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/07/1431223&tid=7&tid=40
* Perl.com Articles
Testing and design are only parts of quality. Ensuring and maintaining
quality takes more work. Tom McTighe's "An Introduction to Quality
Assurance" surveys some of the better literature on the subject from a
Perl point of view to help you think about how to improve the quality of
your software:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/01/13/quality_assurance.html
David Wheeler continued his series documenting Bricolage, the big and
powerful CMS, with "Bricolage Configuration Directives." Even if you
don't use Bricolage, it's worth skimming the article to see the kinds of
configuration options a big application must consider as well as how
Bricolage handles them:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/01/06/bricolage_configuration.html
On the ONLamp.com sister site, Manni Wood spent some time writing Perl to
work for him instead of railing at the repetition. "Automating PostgreSQL
Tasks" demonstrates a few techniques to reduce your administrative load:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/12/09/pg_automation.html
As promised, Geoff Broadwell produced the second installment of his
"Building a 3D Engine in Perl" series. This version discusses 3D
animation and SDL event handling; you'll probably want both in your 3D
engine, so don't miss out:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/12/29/3d_engine.html
We also continue to publish Matt Fowles' weekly reports on the exploits of
the Perl 6 design and code lists.
* A Call for Lighting Articles
With the success of the first Perl Lightning Articles just over three
months ago, it's time to consider another round. If you have an idea for
an article, please let us know; it's your chance to become slightly
famouser and slightly richer (but only slightly).
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/09/09/lightning.html
* Conclusion
That's all for now. Stay tuned for upcoming articles that just may
include crazy, crazy stuff such as XS-and-compiler-free linking to C
libraries.
Until next time,
-- c
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Editor, Perl.com and other things
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*** Featured Articles ***
An Introduction to Quality Assurance
The libraries and syntax for automated testing are easy to find. The
mindset of quality and testability is harder to adopt. Tom McTighe reviews
the basic principles of quality assurance that can make the difference
between a "working" application and a high-quality application.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/01/13/quality_assurance.html
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This Week in Perl 6, January 03 - January 11, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with bugfixes,
multimensional data structures, and a new syntax engine.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/01/p6pdigest/20050111.html
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This Fortnight in Perl 6, December 21 - 31 2004
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with the final summary of
2004. What's on the lists? Patches, design decisions, and lots of theory.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/01/p6pdigest/20051231.html
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Bricolage Configuration Directives
Any serious application has a serious configuration file. The Bricolage
content management system is no different. David Wheeler explains the
various configuration options that can tune your site to your needs.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/01/06/bricolage_configuration.html
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This Fortnight in Perl 6, December 7-20 2004
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists: the Perl 6 language list
discusses hashes, classes, and variables; the Perl 6 Compiler list
launches code; and the Parrot list fixes lots and lots of bugs.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/12/p6pdigest/20041227.html
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Building a 3D Engine in Perl, Part 2
The ultimate goal of all programming is to be as unproductive as
possible--to write games. In part two of a series on building a 3D engine
with Perl, Geoff Broadwell demonstrates animations and event handling.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/12/29/3d_engine.html
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