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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.

If you didn't have quite enough Perl conferences to go to this 
year, there's a YAPC::Canada coming up in May; not to be confused 
with YAPC::NA in Florida, this runs from May 15 to 16, at Carleton 
University, Ottawa.

    http://www.yapc.ca/

If you're dealing with Unicode in Perl, you should look at this 
week's perl5-porters summary--there's some major changes to the 
way UTF8 works with locales coming up.

    http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/2036231&mode=nocomment&tid=12

And finally, somehow we missed this last week: the Perl, Python, 
Ruby, Tcl, and Lua (say what?) communities have worked together 
to create an article highlighting what's been going on in their 
worlds in the past year. Always interesting to see what the other 
people are up to...

    http://www.vendian.org/language_year/

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

There's more from the inimitable Piers Cawley on Perl 6; as usual, 
the threads on garbage collection and How I Learned To Stop 
Worrying and Love Unicode Operators continue in full swing. 
Meanwhile, some not-so-great news about Larry, Dan, and Piers 
themselves, and some interesting Parrot hackery...  

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/01/p6pdigest/20020319.html

Recently, I had to write an interface to Hotmail; now, there are 
better ways than the route I eventually chose, but it was an 
interesting one.  The way most people interact with Hotmail is 
with a Web browser--so what I wanted was for Perl to be my 
programmatic Web browser. Enter the WWW::Mechanize module, which 
does exactly that. Chris Ball introduces us to the joys of 
screen-scraping Web sites for information using WWW::Mechanize.

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/01/22/mechanize.html

Until next week,
Happy hacking!

Simon Cozens
<[email protected]>

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*** Featured Articles ***

Screen-scraping with WWW::Mechanize
Screen-scraping is the job of programmatically navigating through 
a usually visual task - like a web site - and then dealing with 
the result; and WWW::Mechanize is the best screen scraper out 
there for Perl! Chris Ball puts the two things together, to ensure 
that he never misses his favourite TV shows again...

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/01/22/mechanize.html

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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-01-19
Yet more on dead object detection and pipeline syntax, (surprise!) 
eval in Parrot, Larry and others need gainfultude, and much more...

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/01/p6pdigest/20020319.html

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Improving mod_perl Sites' Performance: Part 5
In this month's episode of Stas Bekman's mod_perl series, how to 
correctly fork new processes under mod_perl.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/01/07/mod_perl.html

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How Perl Powers Christmas
We've had some fantastic Perl Success Stories in the past, but 
this one tops them all: How Perl is used in the distribution of 
millions of Christmas presents every year.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/hohoho.html

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This week on Perl 6 (12/02-08, 2002)
Lots of work on IMCC, string literals, zero-indexec arrays, 
and much more...

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/12/p6pdigest/20021208.html

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Programming with Mason
Dave Rolsky, coauthor of Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason, offers 
recipes--adapted from those you'll find in his book--for solving 
typical Web application problems.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/12/11/mason.html

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