Greetings everyone,<br><br>It's that time of year again. :)<div><br></div><div>The Fall 2008 UNO CSCI 2850 (Programming on the Internet) class invites you to an evening of lightning talks on Perl programming, the Firefox web browser and other (mostly) web-related topics.<br>
<br>Lightning Talks are no longer than 5 minutes and can be about anything: a new idea, an evaluation, an observation, a story, a complaint, an explanation, a suggestion, a report of success or failure, a call to action, a description of a technique, technology, or a lament.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Usually we split the talks over two nights, but this semester it's going to be one, big solid night of talks.<br><ul><li>Where: Peter Kiewit Institute, Room 252 ( <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/5g83cb">http://tinyurl.com/5g83cb</a> )<br>
</span></li><li>When: Tuesday, December 9th, 2008<br></li><li>Time: 6:00 PM until 8:30 PM</li></ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Topics</span></span><br>
<ol><li>Writing a Greasemonkey script for FireFox to make BlackBoard tolerable<br></li><li>Obfuscating Perl<br></li><li>Connecting Perl to databases<br></li><li>Net::SSH::Expect<br></li><li>Using BioPerl for sequence analysis<br>
</li><li>Perl Google APIs<br></li><li>Acid Test 3<br></li><li>Gossamer Forum<br></li><li>Perl vs. Python<br></li><li>Index a website starting with a single page<br></li><li>Dictionary attack using Perl<br></li><li>iTunes playlist extractor: C++ vs. Perl<br>
</li><li>Regex Creator<br></li><li>Regex Coach<br></li><li>History of Perl<br></li><li>Software Pirating Debate (Spore, SecuROM)<br></li><li>Perl 6 vs. Perl 5<br></li><li>Rapid Exploit Development using Perl<br></li><li>SSH on iPod Touch<br>
</li><li>Regex usage in Perl vs. C<br></li><li>Ubuntu with Conky<br></li><li>Perl-XML: XML Made Easy with Perl!<br></li><li>Perl Module - GD::SecurityImage<br></li><li>Gmail:Checker module<br></li><li>Improving Perl program efficiency/performance<br>
</li><li>Subversion tortoise client search<br></li><li>Perl PayPal APIs<br></li><li>JQuery UI<br></li><li>Talking to LCD projectors using Perl<br></li></ol></div>