New Releases of PureMessage and RT, plus Class::DBI

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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.

It's been a quiet week in the Perl community, with the only 
notable news being that the fine folk at ActiveState have come 
up with another version of their Perl mail gateway, now known 
as PureMessage. This version includes a Web-based GUI, antivirus 
protection, and more fine-grained control over quarantined 
messages. Take a look at the PureMessage site:

     http://www.activestate.com/PureMessage

And while we're on the subject of releases, Best Practical has 
released an alpha release of the 3.0 version of Request Tracker; 
RT is a free trouble-ticket managing tool, which is used both for 
tracking bugs in Perl 5 and Parrot as well as in all of the 
modules on CPAN.

     http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/

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

Have you ever had to write a database-based Perl application from 
scratch? Have you ever got bored and/or confused constructing 
joins, executing SQL statements, and trying to pull the data back 
into a sensible format? Not to mention having to write code to 
alter a particular record in the database and put it all back 
again. If so, then this week's feature article is for you; Tony 
Bowden introduces Class::DBI, a way of working with relational 
databases that means you only need to care about Perl classes and 
objects, and none of that ugly SQL stuff.

     http://www.perl.com/2002/11/27/classdbi.html

Many thanks to Schuyler who I'm sure has looked after you all
wonderfully in my absence, and a happy Thanksgiving holiday to all!

Simon Cozens
<[email protected]>

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*** Featured Articles ***

Class::DBI
Tony Bowden introduces a brilliantly simple way to interface to 
a relational database using Perl classes and the Class::DBI module

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/11/27/classdbi.html

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Managing Bulk DNS Zones with Perl
Chris Josephes describes the challenges to system administrators 
in maintaining forward and reverse DNS records, and how a clever 
sysadmin can use Perl to automate this often tedious task.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/11/20/dns.html

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This week on Perl 6 (11/10-11/17, 2002)
A quick Perl 6 roadmap, plus some JIT improvements, mysterious 
coredump fixes, continuations, superpositions, invocants, tests, 
and programming BASIC and Scheme in Parrot.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/11/p6pdigest/20021121.html

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Object Oriented Exception Handling in Perl
Arun Udaya Shankar discusses implementing object-oriented 
exception handling in Perl, using Error.pm. Also covered are 
the advantages of using exceptions over traditional error 
handling mechanisms, basic exception handling with eval {}, 
and the use of Fatal.pm.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/11/14/exception.html

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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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