[Charlotte.PM] Results of The Template Challenge

[William McKee]

At last week's meeting we had a good turnout to review six templating
solutions[1]. We looked at the code, the template language and the
output. For a couple of the templates, we added alternating color to
the rows. The next challenge will include this feature as well as
sortable column headers similar to Tk::DBI::Table.

There was no clear winner although I think everyone learned more about
some of the many alternatives on CPAN. Hopefully we'll get some other
solutions at the next review. Thanks to Red F for allowing us to use
their conference room and projector. Diona snapped a couple of pics
which I've added to the wiki[2].

Due to vacations and other summer activities, we have chosen to have a
holiday for the July meeting. The next meeting will be on August 18th to
hear about how Dale Lancaster is employing SCM at Choicepoint. We hope
to be able to use the Red F conference room once again. Look for the
location in the next meeting announcement.

I'll be attending YAPC next week in Toronto. I'll try to keep notes of
the sessions that I attend and share them with the list when I get back.
Is anyone else on the list going?

Have a good summer, keep hacking Perl, and keep sharing your code,
questions and ideas on the mailing list.


Talk to you later,
William

[1] Text::Bind, Template Toolkit, Text::Template, Petal, Mason,
HTML::Template
[2] http://charlotte.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?Pictures

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