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July 26, 2007
Perl Lightning Talks
Listening to Perl lightning talks at OSCON 2007. The idea is that anyonce can get up and speak for 5 minutes. Talks are timed with a bell sounding at 4 minutes.
Vani: 5-minute version of her YUI CSS talk.
Michael: How to make a cup of tea.
Michael: Perl 5 now has a Wiki. Please use it to put in information about Perl, your company. [Perl demographics exercise] There is a Perl survey, please fill it out.
Ask: qpsmtpd - Perl-based qmail-smtp replacement
Andy Lester: ack - a awk/grep tool for huge amounts of data. New site Perl 101. Google code is a great site for managing projects. Use it over sourceforge.
Andy Lester: Religious speech about Perl not being a scripting language. We don't write scripts, we write programs. Don't call use a scripting languages.
[woman in Debian shirt]: Open source contributors are actually volunteers. Open source needs more volunteer coordination. The work will move forward better if there are tasks to do instead of telling people to pick something they'd like.
Eric Wilhelm: working on Tap::Parser for multi-cpu machines.
Eric Wilhelm: Module::Build is getting an update to reduce the number of steps to installing new modules. A new config configure_require which can be set to always check for upgrades on a few modules before updating.
Julian Cash: talks about having data in Flickr, Blogger etc and how that is a problem. Shows the concept for MoveMyData.org.
Tim Bunce: talks about a having a common DBI for Parrot and Perl 6. Is going to borrow the JDBC API, documentation etc to be the DBI for the underlying DBD. This is done with Inline::Java, which takes a set of Java classes and generates a set of Perl classes.
Tim Bunce: demonstrates use of MyNetIO, a module that lets you put one line of code into your Perl program and get network performance data.
Tim Bunce: Demonstrates Gofer, a scalable stateless proxy for DBI.
Michael Potter: Wants to open source messaging definition, inviting folks to join in a conversation on messenging standards.
Jon Rockaway: Catalyst in 5 minutes (kind of patterned after the rails screencasts, except you don't see the application working.)
John Peacock?: SVN::Notify::Config
[guy with guitar, Pudge?]: sings Barenaked Ladies "Life in a Nutshell" rewritten as "Perl in a Nutshell"
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