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Okay. Now you're reading the Perl newsletter, a bi-monthly mailing
intended to remind you that the O'Reilly Network loves Perl almost as much
as you do.
Here's what's going on in camel-land lately.

* Perl Events

Want to go to Houston this summer? Now you have a good reason--YAPC::NA
will take place from June 25-27. If you've considered speaking, you
have less than two weeks to submit your proposal. If you're Michael G.
Schwern,
you have one week:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/26/2123243

Want to go to Vienna this summer? You have until midnight on the 31st to
register for YAPC::EU at the early bird price:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/26/2119226

* Perl News

The Perl Foundation has begun to award a series of small microgrants
designed to improve and spur on Perl 6. The first grant has gone to Steve
Peters
to improve the portability and correctness of Parrot (yay!):

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/22/1542235
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/26/1745205

Here's a fun project, if you want a nice example of the Catalyst
framework.
Website in a Box is a CMS for small- and medium-sized projects:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/21/0939245

Your editor minuted the Perl 6 design minutes:

http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/32825
http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/32837

Ann Barcomb summarized the week in Perl 6:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_26.html

Note that Ann is looking for an assistant; if you'd like to contribute
greatly to the world of Perl 6 and are willing to gather a weekly summary
(using
some powerful tools), please contact her.

Parrot 0.4.10 came out, with Parrot::Embed allowing you to use Parrot
from
Perl 5 programs:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/parrot_0410_released.html

* Perl at O'Reilly

When your editor first met Sean Burke, this brilliant linguist was
writing
a book called "Perl & LWP." Several years later, we've made the book
available as a wikibook. That means that you can read it for free but,
more
importantly, you can make your own annotations and contributions:

https://www.wikicontent.com/wiki/index.php/Perl_%26_LWP

Your editor once looked at the oldest Perl distribution he could find
(from 1988, when there was still a wall in both Berlins). It included a
test
suite and a test harness. Nowdays, there's a distribution called
Test::Harness
that interprets test runs. The code has a certain... lineage... however.
Now
a successor has started to appear in the form of TAP::Parser. Your editor
put it through its paces:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/cpan_module_review_tapparser.html

Mike Hendrickson reviewed competitive programming language market shares
based on book sales:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/language_dimensionsdementia.html

Curtis Poe winced at the pseudo-OO design behind the AuthenticationFairy:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/the_authenticationfairy.html

Dave Cross found an interesting use of Perl to generate newspaper
headlines:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/perl_in_the_news.html

Curt Hibbs suggested that Rails was only possible in full due to Ruby.
Agree?

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/03/why_was_rails_only_possible_wi.html

Next week, Perl.com will explore the highly-underused feature of
subroutine attributes.

Keep hacking,
-c
chromatic
chromatic@oreilly.com
Technical Editor
O'Reilly Network

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