The State of Perl
Perl 6 and Parrot do not represent our future, but rather our long-term insurance policy. When Perl 6 was announced, the Perl 5 implementation was already about seven years old. Core developers were leaving perl5-porters and not being replaced. (We didn't know it at the time, but this turned out to be a temporary lull. Thankfully.) The source code is quite complex, and very daunting to new developers. It was and remains unclear whether Perl can sustain itself as an open source project for another ten or twenty years if virtually no one can hack on the core interpreter.
Today, over three years later, the Perl development community is quite active writing innovative software that solves the problems real people and businesses face today. However, the innovation and inspiration is not entirely where we thought it would be. Instead of seeing the new language and implementation driving a new wave of creativity, we are seeing innovation in the libraries and modules available on CPAN — code you can use right now with Perl 5, a language we all know and love.
Open Guides
Kake Pugh describes how Perl can help you find good beer in London, and many other places, with the OpenGuides collaborative city guides.
Blosxoms, Bryars and Blikis
How to add a blog, wiki, or some combination of the two to almost anything.
上周去体检了，今天收到了体检报告：
您本次体检在选择的项目中，以下指标请您关注：
1、体重：偏瘦。
2、眼科：印象屈光不正。沙眼。
3、口腔科：上颌局部义齿。
据说根据国家标准，我这种年龄身高的，体重应该在65.3～79.9KG，对我来说，真是太遥远了。好像从事计算机方面的人或多或少都有眼科病，偶同事基本都有，呵呵。至于口腔嘛，前些日子刚镶了个假牙 
[i][12-Jan-2004][/i] PHP 4.3.5RC1 has been released for testing. This is the first release candidate and should have a very low number of problems and/or bugs. Nevertheless, please download and test it as much as possible on real-life applications to uncover any remaining issues. List of changes can be found in the NEWS file.
ADOdb 4.10 Released!
Change Log
4.10 12 Jan 2004
- Dan Cech contributed extensive changes to data dictionary to support name quoting (with `), and drop table/index.
- Informix added cursorType property. Default remains IFX_SCROLL, but you can change to 0 (non-scrollable cursor) for performance.
- Added ADODB_View_PrimaryKeys() for returning view primary keys to MetaPrimaryKeys().
- [u]Simplified chinese file, adodb-cn.inc.php from cysoft.[/u]
- Added check for ctype_alnum in adodb-datadict.inc.php. Thx to Jason Judge.
- Added connection parameter to ibase Prepare(). Fix by Daniel Hassan.
- Added nameQuote for quoting identifiers and names to connection obj. Requested by Jason Judge. Also the data dictionary parser now detects `field name` and generates column names with spaces correctly.
- BOOL type not recognised correctly as L. Fixed.
- Fixed paths in ADODB_DIR for session files, and back-ported it to 4.05 (15 Dec 2003)
- Added Schema to postgresql MetaTables. Thx to col#gear.hu
- Empty postgresql recordsets that had blob fields did not set EOF properly. Fixed.
- [u]CacheSelectLimit internal parameters to SelectLimit were wrong. Thx to Nio.[/u]
- Modified adodb_pr() and adodb_backtrace() to support command-line usage (eg. no html).
- Fixed some fr and it lang errors. Thx to Gaetano G.
- Added contrib directory, with adodb rs to xmlrpc convertor by Gaetano G.
- Fixed array recordset bugs when _skiprow1 is true. Thx to Gaetano G.
- Fixed pivot table code when count is false.
我上次提交的 BUG（CacheSelect bug (ADOdb 4.04)）在这个版本中总算被 fixed 了。另外还发现了崔岩（cysoft）兄弟翻译的 adodb-cn.inc.php，呵呵，不错！
