Perl Conference Season

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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 fine folks at ActiveState have been very busy recently; 
they've just released a new version of their Visual Studio toolkit 
to go with MS VS.NET 2003. Visual Perl, Visual Python and Visual 
XSLT are all available now, and can be bought as a single bundle 
for $495. Get a trial license and check it out!

    http://www.activestate.com/Corporate/Communications/Releases/Press1051213228.html
    http://www.activestate.com/Products/Visual_Perl

Fans of content-management systems get a double dose of news this 
week.  First, Bricolage 1.6 has been released: new features include 
"complete support for localization, with Portuguese and Italian 
translations; fully editable document model fields; greater 
flexibility for managing the URLs of documents published through 
Bricolage Output Channels; a new content editing interface; 
document distribution via WebDAV and Secure FTP; and much more."

    http://www.kineticode.com/news/2003/04/29/bricolage_1_6/
    http://www.bricolage.cc/

Also, the third Open Source Content Management conference is open 
for registration. It'll be running from May 28-30 at Harvard 
University.

    http://www.oscom.org/Conferences/Cambridge/

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

And speaking of conferences, there's rather a lot of them going 
on over the next few months. I took some time to sit and look 
over the Perl conference season. Here's a peek at my picks for 
the talks you don't want to miss:

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/05/06/conferences.html

Finally, Piers Cawley brings us news of native call interface 
hackery, continued debate over the existence of a boolean type, 
and all the other latest news from the world of Perl 6:
 
    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/04/p6pdigest/20030427.html

Until next week,
Happy hacking!

Simon Cozens
<[email protected]>

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*** Featured Articles ***

2003 Perl Conferences
There are a plethora of Perl conferences on this year; which of 
them should you go to? I survey the conference scene and make a 
few recommendations about talks you might want to try and get to see.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/05/06/conferences.html

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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-05-04
Piers reports on Parrot's calling conventions, the strange case 
of the boolean type, and much from the Perl 6 lists this week.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/05/p6pdigest/20030507.html

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POOL
What do templating, object oriented modules, computational 
linguistics, Ruby, profiling and oil paintings have in common? 
They're all part of this introduction to POOL, a tool to make it 
easier to write Perl modules.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/04/22/pool.html

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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-04-20
Piers brings us a summary of much discussion of the proposed Perl 
6 type system.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/04/p6pdigest/20030420.html

Filters in Apache 2.0
Geoffrey Young, co-author of the renowned mod_perl Cookbook, brings 
us an introduction to Apache mod_perl 2.0, starting with Apache 
filters.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/04/17/filters.html

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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-04-13
Parrot on Win32, roll-backable variables, and properties versus 
methods. Piers has the scope, uh, scoop.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/04/p6pdigest/20030413.html

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Synopsis 6
Damian Conway and Allison Randal bring you a handy summary of the 
Perl 6 subroutine and type system, as described in last month's 
Apocalypse.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/04/09/synopsis.html

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