[mplspm]: reminder: wednesday meeting

Josh Aas josha at mac.com
Tue Sep 24 00:00:39 CDT 2002


Anyone want to give a Macalester College student a ride? You guessed it 
- I can meet you near Macalester College.  ;-)
-Josh

P.S. Is Ken back yet? Is he ever coming back?

On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 11:33 PM, Dave Rolsky wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, James FitzGibbon wrote:
>
>> IIRC, Dave R. was going to present something at one of the more formal
>> meetings some months ago about large-scale programming projects in 
>> Perl
>> (presumably experiences from Mason/Alzabo).
>>
>> Now that I've had to try to apply some of the topics that were to be
>> discussed (specifically testing and exceptions), I'd like to hear 
>> other's
>> thoughts on best common practices.
>>
>> Dave, you still out there?  I saw a new Alzabo release on the CPAN 
>> mailing
>> list this morning and some ramblings in the ChangeLog about a 
>> vacation...
>
> Yeah, but I'm definitely not ready to do such a presentation.  FWIW, I 
> was
> planning on covering some of the following areas:
>
> - parameter validation for subroutines/methods
>
> - exception handling
>
> - logging
>
> - perhaps on-the-fly code generation (something I do a heck of a lot 
> of)
>
> - ??? - I'll take requests.  If there's something people want to hear
> about, I can take a crack at it.
>
>
> The first 3 items are there because I wrote modules for them,
> Params::Validate, Exception::Class, and Log::Dispatch respectively.  
> The
> latter two modules are seeing pretty wide adoption, especially
> Log::Dispatch, which has pretty much become the "standard" logging
> solution for Perl, especially now that people have built some log4j 
> type
> solutions on top of it.  I do use the word "standard" in quotes
> intentionally.  This is Perl, after all ;)
>
> Given my current workload, I don't know if I could do this for October.
> November would probably work.
>
>
> -dave
>
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