[Mpls-pm] Fw: Join us for MinneDemo on Dec 6!

[Craig S. Wilson]

Lee Carmichael wrote:
> For those interested. These are good events to see what young companies are doing in the cities.
> 
> Too bad there aren't any demos from Perl companies. Is anyone doing cool startup stuff in TC anymore? Or is it only in NYC and CA?

At 11 Below, we are one cooler, and a startup (last couple years) so we qualify by default.

We use Perl on the backend of http://caps.fool.com to do all of the scoring, calculations, and database updates.  Lots 
and lots of database updates.  Somewhere in the range of 7,000,000 database updates per hour, during market hours.

We also are working on a new site, that will be hitting private beta RSN.  Again, Perl doing the heavy lifting on the 
backend.

The problems of demonstrating what we do are:

1. the Perl is on the backend. no flash or graphics.
2. we are too busy doing, to tell people what we are doing.

However, if you know of anyone looking to implement a community intelligence site using web services and a large back 
end database, have them give me a call.


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