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Good localtime(), @perl_newsletter_subscribers. (If that doesn't make
sense to you, this isn't the Precious Gems Newsletter.) Here's what
happened in the previous fortnight of Perl.

* Perl News

Parrot's next Bug Day will be 16 June 2007. Join the Parrot hackers in
#parrot on irc.perl.org as they finish the object subsystem, add new
features to the Perl 6 implementation, and fix bugs, port to new
platforms, and help you contribute to the project.

The Perl Foundation has announced its call for venue for YAPC::NA 2008.
This means, in practical terms, that if you want to host a few hundred
Perl programmers in your city or town, you can!

http://news.perl-foundation.org/2007/05/call_for_venueyapcna2008.html

Josh McAdams and Perlcast have returned. The newest episode is a chat with
Curtis "Ovid" Poe, the hardest working Portland expat in London. The
topic? Perl testing, of course:

http://perlcast.com/audio/Perlcast_Interview_042.mp3

If you haven't seen Austin Seipp's Dive into Perl 6 yet, your editor
recommends this new weblog for its "I'm a competent programmer just
getting started with Perl 6" approach:

http://diveintoperl6.blogspot.com

Your editor minuted the Perl 6 design meetings:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/07/0742259
http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/33463

* Perl at O'Reilly

Perl programmers rarely have to worry about memory management. Perl's
built-in garbage collection takes most of the pain away from managing
resources. Of course, there are limitations--but a clever technique called
"Resource Acquisition Is Initialization" not only solves those problems
but makes other features even easier. Igor Gariev demonstrates RAII in
Perl and shows how it can simplify your code:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/06/07/better-code-through-destruction.html

Hate remembering login names and passwords? Single-sign on helps you
manage identity across multiple sites. Sounds complicated, right? (If
you've ever built an SSO system, you know that it is.) Don't worry; there
are nice tools. Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp shows how to use Jifty and
Yale's Central Authentication Service to build a SSO system:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/05/31/cas-single-sign-on-with-jifty.html

Your editor loves the perldoc utility, but tried a local web-based version
of Perl documentation through Pod::POM::Web. The results--especially after
a quick bugfix--are quite useful:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/cpan_module_review_podpomweb.html

Dave Cross, another brilliant Perl programmer in the U.K., recently led a
free Teach-in at the BBC in London. It was a success. Here are his own words:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/06/perl_teachin.html

Adriano Ferreira skims the Perl 6 mailing lists for interesting tidbits.
This week, he found a tasty tidbit on the naming of certain Perl data
structures:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/06/tasty_hashes.html

Your editor also compared the number of assertions in Perl, Python, and
Ruby's core test suites as just a simple point of data:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/trust_but_verify.html

Finally, what happens when your camel has to testify before Congress?
Someone else might muscle in on her territory:

http://www.oreillynet.com/wateringhole/blog/

Didn't see that one coming, did you?
-c
chromatic@oreilly.com
Editor, Perl.com, et cetera

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