From tobert at gmail.com Tue Oct 24 13:43:56 2006 From: tobert at gmail.com (Al Tobey) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:43:56 -0400 Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-announce] Perl Mongers THIS Friday - Catalyst, Selenium, and Free Pizza Message-ID: <5ac7acb10610241343i7e5c2864sb348f3ee38a70d17@mail.gmail.com> Where: Priority Health Conference Center 3111 Leonard St NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49525 http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3111+Leonard+St+NE,+Grand+Rapids,+MI+49525+(Priority%20Health%20Conference%20Center)&spn=0.016144,0.039312&hl=en When: Friday, October 27 2006 @ 11:30am What: This week, Jason Porritt will be presenting on Catalyst and Selenium. Here's what he has to say for himself: == "The past couple of years have seen a flurry of activity in the realm of web application frameworks. Specifically, Ruby on Rails gave the world a taste of easy, fun web development that sparked other development communities into action. The Perl community's response to such development platforms, the Catalyst Web Application Framework, seeks to provide many similar benefits while also building on the strong base that CPAN provides. We'll take a look at the makeup of the framework and get our feet wet with some of the official tutorial material (on CPAN as Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial). Official site: http://www.catalystframework.org/. I'll also do a brief overview of Selenium, a cross-browser web application test tool that has proven to be useful for automating acceptance tests and collecting simple performance metrics. Official site: http://www.openqa.org/selenium/." == As usual, free lunch will be provided. Please RSVP so we know how much to order. -Al