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Articles

Hooray, Perl 6 is here! Let everyone know, Perl 6 is here! OK, so I am
two weeks late on my April Fool's joke, but when is Perl 6 coming? Well,
if you want to start using some of the features being built into Perl 6,
you don't have to wait: start by reading "Lightning Strikes Four Times," by
Shlomi Fish, Bob Free, Mike Friedman, and brian d foy. They explain that
good software design principles tell us that we should work to separate
unrelated concerns. Ideally, it's possible to replace any one of your
MVC components without breaking the whole system.
Other concerns are difficult to separate. See what they have to say:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/04/12/lightning-four.html

In "Five Ways to Improve Your Perl Programming," brian d foy explains
that inside every tangle of obfuscated Perl code is a clean,
well-architected gem struggling to emerge from its cocoon. A
well-designed program can simplify testing
because you've broken the code into distinct parts that lend
themselves to unit testing. You can test the parts without running the
entire program. Check out what brian has to say:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/04/12/five-ways-to-improve-your-perl-programming.html

Blogs

On the blog front, we have Chris Adamson's provocative piece on
"Leviathan's Ipod." The post has brought out partisan groups supporting
and denouncing the ideas. When a blogger gets folks to argue
passionately on both sides of a topic, I think he's done an
excellent job. Go see for yourself:

http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/04/leviathans_ipod.html.

Speaking of passionate, you have to read Bruce Stewart's post on "Apple
Postpones Leopard Release Until October." The cult of Mac folks has
come out. I wonder when another major hardware/software manufacturing
type of company will build such a strong brand and product loyalty as Apple has.
See what I mean:

http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/04/apple_postpones_leopard_releas.html

Podcasts

In "Distributing the Future," hosted and produced by Daniel H.
Steinberg, the latest installment is "Finding Your Voice." There are
three pieces that center on this theme. Google CEO Eric Schmidt talks
to John Battelle about the corporate voice that Google has taken on.
Moshe Cohen is a clown who performs using his voice but no words.
In many of his missions, including Clowns Without Borders
USA, he cheers people up but also leaves them with a deep lesson. Finally,
there's a remixed piece by David Battino from the Digital Media Insider
that looks at how much computer voices have improved.
Check it out:

http://www.oreillynet.com/future

Stats

Well, in the stats area, we have a couple of things to show you. One is
a blog I wrote a couple of weeks ago that has garnered a few
comments. It is about language dimensions and dementia. Basically, I
think folks are crazy about their language, regardless of how highly it is
ranked on some scale. Check it out here:

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

And if you want to see what people are looking for on each of our
centers, you can get that data here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/feeds/widgets/organic_search_tagcloud/

As always, if you have any ideas, questions, or something you want to
write, please send your thoughts to ideas@oreillynet.com

Thanks for reading.

Mike Hendrickson
General Manager, The O'Reilly Network

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