Perl.com Update: An AxKit Image Gallery

O'Reilly Network Newsletter <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:50:28 -0700
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Hello, world! This is Simon Cozens, www.perl.com managing editor, 
bringing you the latest goings-on from the world of Perl and our 
own site.

* Perl at large.

First, releases! A new version of the QT bindings for Perl, 
PerlQT 3, has been released. This is a major update that brings 
the library up to date with QT3. Those of you who want to build 
QT- and KDE-based applications in Perl should take a look at this 
tutorial:
 
    http://perlqt.infonium.com/dist/current/doc/index.html

Can you host a Yet Another Perl Conference in your city? Yet 
Another Society has issued a call for venues for the next YAPC. 
There's a helpful text file available outlining the venue 
requirements, and a YAPC distribution on CPAN explaining what you 
need to do if you think you can host next year's conference:

    http://www.yapc.org/venue-reqs.txt
    http://search.cpan.org/author/LENZO/YAPC-1.01/YAPC.pm
    http://search.cpan.org/author/LENZO/YAPC-1.01/YAPC/Venue.pm
    
And finally, are you part of a Perl Mongers group that's been 
pretty quiet recently? If so, chances are you'll have dropped 
off the great Perl Monger Groups List. If that's the case, please 
get in touch with Dave Cross, the Monger Herder, and let him know 
you're still alive:

    http://www.pm.org/groups/
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* What's new on www.perl.com?

Piers brings us this week's Perl 6 summary with tales of the 
neverending key story, the excruciating difference between () 
and [], hot-pluggable regular expression operators, and much more:

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/p6pdigest/20020922.html

Barrie Slaymaker is back with another article in his 
"Introduction to AxKit" series. Although we've been thinking of 
AxKit as an XML application server, this week we use it for two 
things that are definitely not XML: image data and system 
calls to list directories. Barrie takes these two ideas and 
turns AxKit into an image gallery server:

   http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/24/axkit.html

For next month, we're considering running an "Ask the Camel" 
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*** Featured Articles ***

An AxKit Image Gallery
Continuing our look at AxKit, Barrie demonstrates the use of 
AxKit on non-XML data: images and operating system calls.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/24/axkit.html

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This week on Perl 6 (9/16 - 9/22, 2002)
The neverending keys thread, lists versus list references, and a 
load besides...

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/p6pdigest/20020922.html

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This week on Perl 6 (9/9 - 9/15, 2002)
Goals for the next release, arrays and hashes, hypothetical 
variables, getting more Parrot hackers, and a load besides...

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/p6pdigest/20020915.html

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Embedding Webservers
Web browsers are ubiquitous these days - it's hard to find a 
machine without one. To make use of a Web browser, you need a 
Web server, and they are simple enough to write that you can 
stick them almost anywhere.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/17/ewispp.html

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Retire your debugger, log smartly with Log::Log4perl!
Michael Schilli describes a new way of adding logging facilities 
to your code, with the help of the log4perl module - a port of 
Java's log4j.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/11/log4perl.html

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Writing CGI Applications with Perl
There are roughly four bazillion books on Perl and CGI available 
at the moment; one of the most recent is Brent Michalski and Kevin 
Meltzer's Writing CGI Applications with Perl. Kevin and Brent are 
long-standing members of the Perl community - can they do justice 
to this troublesome topic? Find out in this month's book review!

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/10/review.html

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