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<p>CONTACT: Sara Winge, 707/829-0515 x285, <a href="mailto:sara@oreilly.com">sara@oreilly.com</a><br />
More information at <a href="http://conference.perl.com/" title="http://conference.perl.com/">http://conference.perl.com/</a></p>
<p>PERL CONFERENCE 2.0 GETS REAL:<br />
SIX USERS TO WIN $1000 EACH, AND A THOUSAND CAN MEET A GURU</p>
<p>Sebastopol, CA--Perl, the popular open source programming language, boasts<br />
a passionate and active community using and supporting it around the world.<br />
So it makes sense that O'Reilly & Associates, presenting Perl Conference<br />
2.0, is tapping into the expertise and enthusiasm of Perl programmers<br />
themselves to provide some of the excitement for the Perl community's<br />
second annual conference, August 17-20 in San Jose, California. Complete<br />
conference information including online registration is available at<br />
<a href="http://conference.perl.com/" title="http://conference.perl.com/">http://conference.perl.com/</a>, and the deadline for early registration<br />
discounts is July 3.</p>
<p>A highlight of this year's Perl Conference is the presentation of papers by<br />
users describing their real-world applications of Perl, and a contest<br />
awarding $1,000 each for the six best applications. A committee of Perl<br />
experts judged all submissions, and the 18 best will be presented at the<br />
conference. The name of the prizewinners will be announced at the<br />
conference. Papers to be presented include:</p>
<p>* "Creating High-Performance Web Applications Using Perl, Display<br />
Templates, XML, and Database Content," by Alex Shah and Tony Darugar,<br />
Binary Evolution, Inc.;</p>
<p>* "An Internet Banking Framework with Perl," by Carlos de la Guardia and<br />
Javier Rodriguez, Aldea Internet;</p>
<p>* "Perl and Multiple-Byte Characters," by Ken Lunde, Adobe Systems;</p>
<p>* "PDL2--Perl Data Language v2.0," by Tuomas Lukka, Harvard Society of<br />
Fellows, et al.</p>
<p>The Guru Is In, another new feature this year, offers conference attendees<br />
the rare opportunity to meet in small, informal sessions with the<br />
guru-in-charge. Perl gurus will answer technical questions about all<br />
aspects of Perl, including networking and the World Wide Web, security,<br />
regular expressions, and MacPerl. Those currently scheduled to take on the<br />
role of guru include:</p>
<p>* Lincoln Stein, creator of the widely-used CGI.pm module; author, "How to<br />
Set Up and Maintain a Web Site," (Addison-Wesley); and developer for the<br />
Human Genome Project;</p>
<p>* Tim Bunce, responsible for building and releasing maintenance versions of<br />
Perl 5.004 (the current version), and a major contributor to the<br />
development of the Perl language and many of its core modules;</p>
<p>* Mark-Jason Dominus, columnist for The Perl Journal and Perl programmer<br />
since 1992;</p>
<p>* Jeffrey Friedl, software engineer at Yahoo!; author of bestselling<br />
<p>* Chris Nandor, Perl programmer, author, and contributor to The Perl<br />
Journal, CPAN, and the Perl/MacPerl communities.</p>
<p>Perl Conference 2.0 also features a keynote presentation by Larry Wall,<br />
creator of Perl and senior developer with O'Reilly & Associates; intensive<br />
tutorials for beginning and advanced Perl programmers; Perl and Apache<br />
tracks, and workshops for active Perl core developers and module authors.</p>
<p>The first Perl Conference in 1997 was attended by more than 1000 Perl<br />
developers.</p>
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