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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.

This week has really made up for the last's "slow news week!" 
First of all, two magazine releases: the "Perl Review" November 
edition is available at the usual URL; and "The Perl Journal" has 
produced its first edition in the new format. TPR covers RSS with 
Perl, Ruby, and an analysis of LAN traffic, while TPJ looks at 
stress-testing servers, compiling Perl script, converting HTML to 
RSS, testing, and persistence. Both publications also contain a 
book review of the same book, but with wildly different 
conclusions. Which goes to show ...

     http://www.tpj.com/
     http://www.theperlreview.com/

Important news for users of Mail::Mailer, part of the MailTools 
bundle: there has been a security alert regarding this module. If 
you have programs that send data derived from external sources 
without taint checking, you may well be vulnerable to a remote 
command execution exploit. See the advisory for further details, 
and upgrade as soon as possible.

     http://lwn.net/Alerts/14612/

Mac OS X users will be glad to hear about an article that reviews 
CamelBones-- the Cocoa bridge for Perl--and that also previews 
what's coming up in the 0.3 release:

     http://www.macslash.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/04/010257&mode=nested
     http://www.macslash.org/comments.pl?sid=02/11/04/010257&cid=11

Meanwhile, Autrijus Tang has released a brand-new way of bundling 
Perl applications--the Perl ARchive (PAR) rolls up all of an 
application's scripts and modules into a single, standalone 
executable:

     http://search.cpan.org/author/AUTRIJUS/PAR/
     http://www.autrijus.org/par-intro/

And finally, Allison Randal presented her "Introduction to 
Linguistics for Perl Programmers" at TPC and YAPC::EU. Don't 
worry, it's more interesting than it sounds; the talk is available 
in both PDF and QuickTime video formats, with MP3 coming soon:

http://www.perl.org/tpc/2002/sessions/randal_tagmemics.pdf
http://www.perl.org/tpc/2002/movies/tagmemics/

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

Piers Cawley returns with not one but two Perl 6 summaries! Last 
week's summary contains details of a license change, the great 
operator debate, and some interesting discussion from the C# and 
Portable.NET people.  This week contains some haggling over 
bytecode formats, the great operator debate continues, and much more!

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/11/p6pdigest/20021107.html
     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/11/p6pdigest/20021027.html

And in this month's book review, we take a look at Sam Tregar's 
"Writing Perl Modules for CPAN." For many years, the Perl 
community has extolled the virtues of CPAN and reusable, modular 
code. But why hasn't there been anything substantial written on 
how to achieve it? Sam attempts to redress the balance, and we 
took a look at how he got on.

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/11/06/review.html

And now, I will leave you in the competent hands of Schuyler 
Erle for the next two weeks, as I say "mata ne!" and head off to 
Japan for a well-deserved break.

Until then,

Simon Cozens
<[email protected]>

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*** Featured Articles ***

This week on Perl 6 (10/28-11/03, 2002)
Bytecode formats, "Simon Cozens versus the world", and more...

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/11/p6pdigest/20021107.html

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Writing Perl Modules for CPAN
For many years, the Perl community has extolled the virtues of 
CPAN and re-usable, modular code. But why hasn't there been 
anything substantial written on how to achieve it? Sam Tregar 
redresses the balance, and this month's book review looks at how 
he got on.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/11/06/review.html

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This week on Perl 6 (10/20-27, 2002)
C# and Parrot, fun with operators, a license change, and more...

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/11/p6pdigest/20021027.html

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On Topic
Allison Randal explains the seemingly strange concept of "topic" 
in Perl 6 - and finds that it's alive and well in Perl 5 too...

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/10/30/topic.html

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The Phrasebook Design Pattern and Class::Phrasebook
Have you ever written code that uses two languages in the same 
program? Whether they be human languages or computer languages, 
the phrasebook design pattern helps you separate them for more 
maintainable code.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/10/22/phrasebook.html

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Radiator
Are you fed up with those who think that commercial applications 
need to be written in an "enterprise" language like Java or C++? 
So are we, so we spoke to Mike McCauley at Open System Consultants.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/10/15/radiator.html

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