%HTMLlat1; ]> http://www.perl.com/ www.perl.com features a rich mix of information and services for the Perl community. hourly 2 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://meerkat.oreillynet.com/icons/meerkat-powered.jpg http://meerkat.oreillynet.com http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/05/p6pdigest/20040509.html The native call interface raises questions on the internals list; Piers Cawley has the details on this and everything else from the Perl 6 effort. Perl.com Piers Cawley O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2004-05-14 P6P Digest text/html en-us Copyright 2004, O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/05/14/affrus.html Affrus is a new IDE from Late Nite Software; Simon puts it through its paces to see how it compares to Komodo and his beloved Unix editors. Perl.com Simon Cozens , Tools O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2004-05-14 Article text/html en-us Copyright 2004, O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/05/07/testing.html Save time, test more, and use what the CPAN has made available to enhance your development. Casey West demonstrates examples of good techniques when testing Perl-based software. Perl.com Casey West , Modules O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2004-05-07 Article text/html en-us Copyright 2004, O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/05/p6pdigest/20040502.html The internals list mulls over strings and multi-method dispatch, while Apocalypse 12 continues to intrigue and entertain the language list. Perl.com Piers Cawley O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2004-05-07 P6P Digest text/html en-us Copyright 2004, O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/04/p6pdigest/20040425.html Now that Apocalypse 12 is out, what do the Perl 6 developers think about it? Piers has all the details... Perl.com Piers Cawley O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2004-04-29 P6P Digest text/html en-us Copyright 2004, O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/04/29/maypole.html We use Maypole to turn last week's product catalogue into a complete web commerce application. Perl.com Simon Cozens , Web Development O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2004-04-29 Article text/html en-us Copyright 2004, O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/04/p6pdigest/20040418.html Parrot gains the beginnings of some Unicode support, causing much fallout; meanwhile, there's a fight over who gets the backtick operator, and what Perl 6 does to recognize and run Perl 5 code. Perl.com Piers Cawley O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2004-04-22 P6P Digest text/html en-us Copyright 2004, O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/04/15/maypole.html Maypole is a framework for creating web applications; Simon Cozens explains how to set up database-backed applications extremely rapidly. Perl.com Simon Cozens , Web Development O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2004-04-22 Article text/html en-us Copyright 2004, O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/04/16/a12.html Larry Wall explains how objects and classes are to work in Perl 6. Perl.com Larry Wall , Perl 6 O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2004-04-16 Article text/html en-us Copyright 2004, O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/04/p6pdigest/20040404.html This week, the vexed question of how assignment should work returns, and Piers tries to make sense of continuations; meanwhile, the language list comes alive on the first of April... Perl.com Piers Cawley O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2004-04-04 P6P Digest text/html en-us Copyright 2004, O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/04/08/bloom_filters.html Perl hashes make set membership easy at the cost of memory usage. A lesser-known technique, Bloom filters, trades a tunable false-positive rate for compactness -- and has interesting applications for privacy concerns. Maciej Ceglowski explains the theory and practice of Bloom filters. Perl.com Maciej Ceglowski , Data Structures O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2004-04-08 Article text/html en-us Copyright 2004, O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/03/p6pdigest/20040328.html The language list is relatively quiet, but the Parrot implementors are haunted by continuations this week. Piers has the full story. Perl.com Piers Cawley O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2004-03-28 P6P Digest text/html en-us Copyright 2004, O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/04/01/masongal.html One of the major problems with the plethora of photo gallery software available is that very few of them integrate well with existing sites. Casey West comes up with a new approach using Imager and Mason to fit in with Mason sites. Perl.com Casey West , Graphics, Web Development O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2004-04-01 Article text/html en-us Copyright 2004, O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/03/p6pdigest/20040321.html Concerns about embedding and a new release of Tcl on Parrot occupy the internals mailing list, while the language list experiences some surprise about changes to the hash subscriptor syntax. Perl.com Piers Cawley O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2004-03-21 P6P Digest text/html en-us Copyright 2004, O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/03/25/dictionaries.html Sean Burke is a linguist who helps save dying languages by creating dictionaries for them. He shows us how he uses Perl to layout and print these dictionaries. Perl.com Sean M. Burke , Lingua O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2004-03-25 Article text/html en-us Copyright 2004, O'Reilly Media, Inc. Search Meerkat... s http://meerkat.oreillynet.com/