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- Perl Success Story: Client-Side Collection and Reporting
- Document Modeling with Bricolage
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- Making Sense of Subroutines
- Data Munging for Non-Programming Biologists
- Making Menus with wxPerl
- The State of the Onion 9
- Perl Internationalization and Haskell: An Interview with Autrijus Tang
- Perl Needs Better Tools
- This Week in Perl 6, August 17-23, 2005
- Parsing iCal Data
- This Week in Perl 6, Through August 14, 2005
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YAPC::Asia 2006 in Tokyo, March
miyagawa writes "Shibuya Perl Mongers are pleased to announce that YAPC::Asia 2006 is now scheduled on March 29th - 30th in Tokyo. The conference is to be held at Ota City PiO, Tokyo.
Registration will open some time in January but start looking for your flights and booking hotels during the conference now :)
We are also announcing the call for participation for the conference today. We are looking for 20 and 45 minutes presentations, and five minutes Lightning Talks. Please submit your proposal via our web form. Make sure you include a title for your presentation, an abstract, a language of the talk (English or Japanese), and the amount of time that you think you will need for the presentation. Feel free to submit multiple proposals if you want to increase your chance to speak. The deadline for submissions is January 31st, 2006.
We launched a blog at http://tokyo.yapcasia.org/ so you can keep yourself updated by subscribing its RSS feed.
We're looking forward to seeing you in Tokyo!"
Registration will open some time in January but start looking for your flights and booking hotels during the conference now :)
We are also announcing the call for participation for the conference today. We are looking for 20 and 45 minutes presentations, and five minutes Lightning Talks. Please submit your proposal via our web form. Make sure you include a title for your presentation, an abstract, a language of the talk (English or Japanese), and the amount of time that you think you will need for the presentation. Feel free to submit multiple proposals if you want to increase your chance to speak. The deadline for submissions is January 31st, 2006.
We launched a blog at http://tokyo.yapcasia.org/ so you can keep yourself updated by subscribing its RSS feed.
We're looking forward to seeing you in Tokyo!"
Nordic Perl Workshop 2006 Call for papers.
draven writes "The Nordic Perl Workshop 2006 is scheduled to take place in Oslo, Norway the 15nd and 16th of June. We can already promise great weather and barbeque, now we just need you to make this a memorable workshop by submitting your talk-proposals. Please read the call-for-papers which is in effect now. For more information, visit our website for updates and/or subscribe to our mailing-list by sending an empty mail to nordic-workshop-subscribe@perl.org. Hope to see you in Oslo."
Meeting Announcements: Inside-Out Objects at Perl Seminar NY
kid51 writes "Inside-out objects have drawn increasing attention in recent years, particularly since Damian Conway wrote about them in Perl Best Practices. Their pros and cons have been extensively discussed in recent Perlmonks threads.
Perl Seminar NY, New York City's monthly Perl user group, is pleased to announce that Perlmonk contributor xdg -- known in what is alleged to be real life as David A Golden -- will be speaking on Inside-Out Objects at our Tuesday, December 20 meeting.
Details: Perl Seminar NY. Tuesday, December 20, 6:15-8:15 pm. NYPC User Group Office Suite. 481 8 Ave (Ramada New Yorker Hotel building), btw West 34 & 35 Sts, Manhattan. Room 550."
News: Patch to sprintf() Fixes Buffer Overflow
Andy Lester writes "Perl 5 Porters have released a fix to the sprintf function
that was recently discovered to have a buffer overflow in very specific
cases. All Perl users should consider updating immediately.
Dyad Security recently released
a security advisory explaining how in certain cases, a carefully crafted format string passed to sprintf can cause a buffer overflow. This buffer overflow can then be used by an attacker to execute code on the machine. This was discovered in the context of a design problem with the Webmin
administration package that allowed a malicious user to pass unchecked data into sprintf. A related fix for Sys::Syslog
has already been released."
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Call For Pumpking: Do you want a Ponie?
jesse writes "Two and a half years ago, Fotango announced their sponsorship of the Perl 6 effort, in the form of the "Ponie" project to port the Perl 5 runtime to the Parrot Virtual Machine. For the past year, Nicholas Clark has worked as the pumpking for Ponie as part of his work for Fotango. He's recently moved on from Fotango and it's time for Ponie to do so as well. We're currently interviewing for a new pumpking to take over his role."
This Week on perl5-porters - 5-11 December 2005
This week had seen the development of the responses of Perl community
to the Webmin security hole, with the usual assortment of activity
on many other fronts in the advancement of the Perl interpreter.
Pod::Simple integration, issues in newer Windows, better OpenVMS
support illustrate the discussion diversity.
News: Perl Mongers Census Results
The results of the 2005 Perl Mongers census are now online. Over the coming weeks I'll be using the data to clean up the lists of groups at http://pm.org/groups/ so that inactive groups no longer get listed. I'm also planning to add some summary reports.
News: Updated Perl modules alleviate Webmin security bug
Andy Lester, wearing his Perl Foundation PR hat writes "The Perl community has updated the core module
Sys::Syslog
to help alleviate a security hole in the
Webmin
web administration package. All Webmin users should update immediately
to the updated version of Sys::Syslog."
News: Interview with Peter Wainwright
jmcada writes "In October, Perlcast interviewed Peter Wainwright about his latest book "Pro Perl". In the interview, we discuss the book of course, as well as, space tourism. Enjoy.
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Features: Catalyst Advent Calendar
draven writes "After some sudden inspiration, Catalysters decided to put together a Catalyst advent calendar to complement the excellent perl one. You can see the result here: http://catalyst.perl.org/calendar/, and the source is available in the Catalyst trunk here: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/Catalyst/trunk/examples/CatalystAdvent/. It's even got RSS, for the lazy among you :)"
--Alan Kay
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