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Hello, everyone. As your editor writes this, he is in a conference room
discussing the next year of Perl 5 and Perl 6. That doesn't stop him from
bringing you the biweekly Perl newsletter, however. Read on for more!
* Perl News in Brief
Conference season is coming, so petition your managers and significant
others for vacation time spent huddled around tables, head in your laptop
chatting with others in the room. Here are the new calls for proposals.
OSCON 2005 will be in sunny (no, seriously) Portland, Oregon again this
year. The Call for Proposals is open; you have just over two weeks to
submit your tutorial or talk proposal:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/21/1356251&tid=7&tid=42
If Oregon is the wrong side of the continent for you, perhaps Toronto is
more to your liking. YAPC::NA has also put out its call for papers:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/24/1357207&tid=1&tid=43
* Perl.com Articles
If you've been to conferences or Perl Monger talks, you've likely met Andy
Lester. He's lately gone on the road promoting the Phalanx project, with
the laudable goal of improving the kwalitee of the top 100 non-core CPAN
modules to help Ponie and Perl 5. What's the current state of the
project? How can you help? Read on...
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/01/13/phalanx.html
* A (Second) 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). There have been a
couple of contributions so far. Don't miss out!
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/09/09/lightning.html
* Conclusion
That's everything for this newsletter. Tune in again next time to learn
more about how RPC implementations work under the hood and how to test
databases.
Until then,
-- c
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Editor, Perl.com and other things
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*** Featured Articles ***
The Phalanx Project
One ancient Greek military invention was the phalanx, a group of soldiers
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the top CPAN modules. Project founder Andy Lester describes the goals and
ambitions.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/01/13/phalanx.html
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This Week in Perl 6, Jan. 11-18, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with idioms, loop
counters, method-calling semantics, and the return of Dan Sugalski.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/01/p6pdigest/20050118.html
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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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