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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.

Those of you who were at YAPC or TPC probably witnessed Mark-Jason 
Dominus' fantastic "Mailing List Judo" talk. Designed as a survival 
guide to perl5-porters, it's equally applicable (and equally funny) 
to many other open source mailing lists. David Wheeler videotaped 
the talk and it's available from perl.org:

     http://www.perl.org/tpc/2002/movies/

Multiple treats for the growing number of Mac Perl users: this 
week is O'Reilly's Mac OS X Conference, where Dan Sugalski gave 
a talk on writing graphical Perl applications; brian d foy has 
released a plethora of modules for doing fun things with iTunes; 
and Randal Schwartz has written an article for the O'Reilly 
Network on using Perl, AppleScript, and Web services together.

     http://search.cpan.org/author/BDFOY/Mac-iTunes-0.7/
     http://search.cpan.org/author/BDFOY/Apache-iTunes-0.06/
     http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/synd/2002/09/24/applescript_perl.html

Finally, are you in South Florida? Get yourself over to the Duck 
at Boca Raton on October 15 for the inaugual meeting of South 
Florida Perl Mongers!

     http://southflorida.pm.org/

* What's new on www.perl.com?

Once again, Piers brings us this week's Perl 6 summary: 
Surprisingly, nothing about multilevel keys this time. However, 
he does bring news of some short-term goals for PMCs, a new 
version of IMCC, "for" with multiple lists, a huge list speedup, 
and more:

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/p6pdigest/20020929.html

Have you ever used a hash in Perl? Of course you have. But have 
you thought about what a hash is, how they work, and how Perl 
implements them? Knowing these things can make our own use of 
hashes more efficient. Abhijit Menon-Sen takes us through 
Hashes 101:

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/10/01/hashes.html

Thanks to your responses to the Ask the Camel idea--please keep 
them coming to [email protected]. We plan to start 
answering them in a week or so.

Simon Cozens
<[email protected]>

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*** Featured Articles ***

How Hashes Really Work
We're all used to using hashes, and expect them to just work. But 
what actually is a hash, when it comes down to it, and how do they 
work? Abhijit explains!

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/10/01/hashes.html

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This week on Perl 6 (9/23 - 9/29, 2002)
An IMCC update, the Scheme interpreter, lists and list references 
again, and a load besides...

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/p6pdigest/20020929.html

***

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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