Stories for 2006-10-02

use Perl Daily Newsletter

In this issue:
    * The Perl Review 3.0 (Fall 2006)
    * Perl 6 summary, 24-30 September, 2006
    * New CPAN Distributions for October  1, 2006

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| The Perl Review 3.0 (Fall 2006)                                    |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Sunday October 01, @00:33 (User Journal)|
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/01/0413244              |
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It's the start of the third year in print!

The [0]Fall 2006 issue of [1]The Perl Review is online and ready for
download. Subscribers should have already received an email telling them
all about it. You can even buy TPR on the newsstand now if you shop at
[2]Powell's Technical Books in Portland.

In this issue (besides the cover showing the [3]Larry Wall action figure
by ArtCard Mike):

  * Google's Summer of Code -- Jim Brandt

  * pmtools -- Mark Leighton Fisher

  * Parrot Magic Cookies -- Jonathan Scott Duff

  * Agent-based Programming in Perl -- Guinevere Nell

  * ETL Nightmares -- Thomas MacKenzie

  * and other stuff

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=06/10/01/0413244

Links:
    0. http://www.theperlreview.com/Subscribers/ThePerlReview-v1i3.pdf?up
    1. http://www.theperlreview.com/?up
    2. http://www.powells.com/technicalbooks
    3. http://www.artcardmike.com/artarmy/file/customfigures/LarryWall.jpg


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| Perl 6 summary, 24-30 September, 2006                              |
|   posted by kudra on Sunday October 01, @10:24 (Summaries)         |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/01/147214               |
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This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists

"And here I thought you were a responsible, law-abiding citizen... :P "

-- Jonathan Lang, commenting on Larry Wall's self.HOW does Hash

This story continues at:
    http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/01/147214

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=06/10/01/147214


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| New CPAN Distributions for October  1, 2006                        |
|   posted by pudge on Sunday October 01, @18:30 (Module Listings)   |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/01/1530247              |
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  * [0]Acme-Meta-0.02 -- Enhances the Meta package
  * [1]CPAN-Reporter-0.24 -- Provides Test::Reporter support for CPAN.pm
  * [2]Class-MOP-0.35 -- A Meta Object Protocol for Perl 5
  * [3]Config-Format-Ini-0.04 -- Reads INI configuration files
  * [4]Config-Tiny-2.10 -- Read/Write .ini style files with as little
    code as possible
  * [5]Crypt-ProtectedString-0.00_01 -- protected format for storing
    sensitive data in databases, with partial display capability.
  * [6]Crypt-Pwsafe-1.001 -- Perl extension for decrypting and parsing
    PasswordSafe V3 data files
  * [7]EekBoek-1.00.02 -- Bookkeeping software for small and medium-size
    businesses
  * [8]JSAN-Client-0.14 -- The JavaScript Archive Network Client Library
  * [9]JSAN-Mini-0.03 -- Creates a minimal local mirror of JSAN for
    offline installation
  * [10]JSAN-Parse-FileDeps-1.00 -- Parse file-level dependencies from
    JSAN modules
  * [11]Lemonldap-NG-Handler-0.1 -- Perl extension for building a
    Lemonldap compatible handler
  * [12]Lingua-EN-VarCon-1.00 -- Provides access to the VarCon (Variant
    Conversion Info)
  * [13]Moose-0.13 -- A complete modern object system for Perl 5
  * [14]Net-DPAP-Client-0.26 -- Connect to iPhoto shares (DPAP)
  * [15]Net-Google-Calendar-0.4 -- programmatic access to Google's
    Calendar API
  * [16]Net-IPMessenger-0.04 -- Interface to the IP Messenger Protocol
  * [17]PITA-Test-Dummy-Perl5-Make-1.02 -- CPAN Test Dummy for PITA
    Makefile.PL installs
  * [18]POE-Component-WWW-Shorten-1.04 -- A non-blocking wrapper around
    WWW::Shorten.
  * [19]Process-0.18 -- Objects that represent generic computational
    processes
  * [20]SUPER-1.15 -- control superclass method dispatch
  * [21]Snort-Rule-1.04 -- Perl extension for dynamically building snort
    rules
  * [22]Test-Script-1.01 -- Cross-platform basic tests for scripts
  * [23]Text-Lorem-More-0.04 -- Generate correctly formatted nonsense
    using random Latin words.
  * [24]Text-Lorem-More-0.05 -- Generate correctly formatted nonsense
    using random Latin words.
  * [25]sepia-0.64
  * [26]vars-global-v0.0.1 -- try to make global variables a little safer
  * [27]xul2ppt_mec-0.01

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=06/10/01/1530247

Links:
    0. http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/Acme-Meta-0.02
    1. http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/CPAN-Reporter-0.24
    2. http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/Class-MOP-0.35
    3. http://search.cpan.org/~ioannis/Config-Format-Ini-0.04
    4. http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Config-Tiny-2.10
    5. http://search.cpan.org/~ido/Crypt-ProtectedString-0.00_01
    6. http://search.cpan.org/~tangent/Crypt-Pwsafe-1.001
    7. http://search.cpan.org/~jv/EekBoek-1.00.02
    8. http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/JSAN-Client-0.14
    9. http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/JSAN-Mini-0.03
   10. http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/JSAN-Parse-FileDeps-1.00
   11. http://search.cpan.org/~guimard/Lemonldap-NG-Handler-0.1
   12. http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Lingua-EN-VarCon-1.00
   13. http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/Moose-0.13
   14. http://search.cpan.org/~lbrocard/Net-DPAP-Client-0.26
   15. http://search.cpan.org/~simonw/Net-Google-Calendar-0.4
   16. http://search.cpan.org/~masanorih/Net-IPMessenger-0.04
   17. http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/PITA-Test-Dummy-Perl5-Make-1.02
   18. http://search.cpan.org/~bingos/POE-Component-WWW-Shorten-1.04
   19. http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Process-0.18
   20. http://search.cpan.org/~chromatic/SUPER-1.15
   21. http://search.cpan.org/~saxjazman/Snort-Rule-1.04
   22. http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Test-Script-1.01
   23. http://search.cpan.org/~rkrimen/Text-Lorem-More-0.04
   24. http://search.cpan.org/~rkrimen/Text-Lorem-More-0.05
   25. http://search.cpan.org/~seano/sepia-0.64
   26. http://search.cpan.org/~polettix/vars-global-v0.0.1
   27. http://search.cpan.org/~sal/xul2ppt_mec-0.01



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