[Neworleans-pm] Meeting Summary for July 9, 2004

[Dave Cash]

I've posted to the wiki a meeting summary for last night's meeting.
I may have forgotten things we talked about.  If so, could folks who
were there please add in anything I forgot to mention?  Thanks!

Here's what I wrote:

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Four people attended the meeting July 9, 2004 meeting:

* DonnieCameron
* DaveCash
* DavidKeeney
* FranLedger

Donnie talked about some concerns he was having related to hosting
his clients' web sites at his house, over his cable internet line.
They talked about the options for dedicated hosting or co-location.
Dave recommended the site [http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ Web
Hosting Talk] as a good resource for finding a good hosting company.

Dave gave a status report on the open, distributed library
application he's been writing.  He's building it around some groovy
Perl technologies, like Class::DBI, Template Toolkit, DBD::!SQLite,
YAML.  He hopes to have it completed by the August meeting.  He also
plans to open-source the project and to package it in such a way
that it can (once its dependencies have been installed) be easily
installed on any system for use by any group.  He will also be happy
to give a presentation about its insides at a future Perl Mongers
meeting, if members so desire.

We spent a little time talking about other programming languages.
Donnie is crazy about C# and talked a little about it.  We also
talked about Python a bit.  Parrot and ponie came up briefly.

We got into a discussion of the trials and tribulations of making
web applications work for Internet Explorer vs. for any of the
other, more feature-rich, frequently updated browsers (Mozilla,
FireFox, Opera, etc.).  Donnie predicted that within one year,
Internet Explorer's market share would drop below 60%.  The others
at the meeting didn't think this would happen (thought they all
hoped it would).  They all agreed to keep an eye on it to see if
Donnie's prediction is correct.
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Thanks!

Dave

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