RT 3.0 Beta Released

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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.

Excellent news for RT users! The free trouble-ticketing system 
written in Perl and HTML::Mason (subject of last week's book 
review) has hit 3.0 beta. This release brings a host of new 
features, but also provides a fantastic example of developing 
and maintaining large-scale, production-ready Perl applications.

    http://www.bestpractical.com/releases/pr3.html
    http://www.bestpractical.com/

The intrepid Leon Brocard has a new idea for a service for CPAN 
authors; it would be really nice if we authors had some idea of 
how many people were using our code, which versions, and on which 
platforms. So Leon has put together the CPANSTATS program. Please 
download it, run it, and look at the nice statistics:

    http://www.astray.com/cpanstats/

Do you know someone who'd love to learn Perl but is put off by 
the cost of tutorial books? Well, learn.perl.org, "The site for 
people learning Perl," has set up the Learn Perl Online Library, 
where you can view online versions of the mod_perl book, the 
Mason book, and my own "Beginning Perl." Usual stuff about 
rewarding authors by paying for their books eventually applies!

    http://learn.perl.org/library/

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

Piers Cawley's Perl 6 summaries continue apace; this week, Damian 
Conway has taken a well-deserved break, while the debate about 
how to get objects working in Parrot continues:

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/02/p6pdigest/20030202.html

And Stas Bekman is back with a very interesting article; those of 
you running Apache sites probably know that the key to getting 
good performance lies in certain magical configuration settings. 
But how many of you know how to determine what they should be set 
to? Stas explains all in his latest column:

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/02/05/mod_perl.html

Until next week,
Happy hacking!

Simon Cozens
<[email protected]>


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