[LA.pm] LA.PM: Mark Your Calendars: Randal Schwartz Tech Talk: Monday, Ma rch 6th, 2006

[Todd Cranston-Cuebas]

I'm pleased to announce that Randal Schwartz, of "Learning Perl" fame (among
other things!), is going to be in town next week and has agreed to launch
this year's perl tech talks!

Presenter: Randal Schwartz
Topic:     Introduction to CGI::Prototype,
           preceded by an introduction to Class::Prototyped
Location:  Ticketmaster Office
           8800 W. Sunset Blvd
           West Hollywood, CA 90069
Date:      Monday, 03/06/06
Time       7 p.m. to 9 p.m. with an option to grab dinner after!
Parking:   Below building. More details to follow.
RSVP:      Please do drop a quick email to tcc at ticketmaster.com
           so I can be make the appropriate arrangements.

Randal will be presenting an introduction to his perl-based MVC framework
CGI::Prototype which melds well with our recent discussions on frameworks in
general.
 
In his words...
 
"This talk covers the motivation for and basic architecture of
CGI::Prototype, a web framework that leverages Class::Prototyped objects as
the controllers of the MVC triad, yielding surprisingly simple but
extensible features for both small and big applications. Current
developments will also be discussed (Ajax, XSLT, and so on)"

Since Class::Prototyped objects act as the controllers in this framework,
Randal will also present a brief introduction to Class::Prototyped to kick
off the event.
 
Since this is the first perl tech talk of the year, I'm also hoping is that
we can get a representative group of individuals to this meeting who will
come prepared to make a few critical decisions. To that end...
 
1). Please bring a list of the top 10 topics you want to see covered by
someone who is a true perl guru. If I know what you're most interested in, I
can do my best to be sure that these topics are covered during the course of
the year.
 
2). Bring your calendars! I want to establish a recurring monthly day that
we can hold these meetings. I'm hoping for a consistent day where we won't
clash with another LA-based user groups. I'm proposing the last Tuesday of
each month so we can still have the more casual dinner meetings early in the
month, but let's hammer that out on Monday.
 
3). If you have serious thoughts about locations for future talks, please be
prepared to not only suggest alternate cities, but other specific locations
(i.e., the meeting hall of the Elks Lodge down around the corner in Notts
Hole... etc.). This is far more helpful than "I just hate driving to..." You
get the point.
 
Finally, let's not spend time clogging the list with these issues if it can
be avoided. Let's get in a room and bang this out as best as possible.
 
Remember, this is your chance to make your opinion known so please show up!
If you can't attend, contact a list member you know (or me) and vote by
proxy.

Regards, 

Todd 

todd cranston-cuebas
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