[Pdx-pm] April 2003 Meeting
Joshua Keroes
jkeroes at eli.net
Thu Apr 3 15:38:27 CST 2003
Next Wedsnesday is the next PDX.pm meeting. We have not one but two
speakers this month!
Curtis Poe has been cashing in his mad-scientist points to bring you:
use strict 'sql';
my $sql = 'SELECT *' and die "Don't do that!";
my $data = $sth->fetchrow_hashref and die "Or that!";
my $sql = 'SELECT this FROM that' and die "Still bad";
use base 'Class::DBI'; # much better
Many people misuse SQL. While some of the above can be fine for
a short script, we should be careful about how SQL is used in a
production environment. This talk will detail why the above
constructs can lead to non-scalable code.
First, we'll show some examples of bad SQL and then move on to
better SQL with bad implementations (hint: I don't avoid
&DBI::fetchrow_hashref for performance reasons). We'll finish
with a quick discussion of how object persistence modules can
help lead us lead us out of the quagmire.
That's either grounds for a religious war or a healthy debate! Bring
your arguments and/or armaments and we'll find out.
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Next up is Brian "I write a new module every week" Ingerson with guest
speaker Ward Cunningham. Together they'll talk about Test::FIT.
Test::FIT is an acronym for "Test Colon Colon Framework for Integration
Tests" which is a little redundantly-redundant but that's that.
Ward invented FIT to display a project's test status on the web so
everyone knows what works and what doesn't work.
Ingy implemented the framework in tight, clean object-oriented Perl.
A picture's worth a thousand words. See all those words at an actual
project that uses FIT: http://www.neocoretechs.com/results.html
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Summary:
Who: Curtis Poe, Brian Ingerson, Ward Cunningham and you!
What: April 2003 PDX.pm meeting
When: Wed 9 Apr 2003 6PM-8PM
Where: Old Market Pub & Brewery - Map at http://snurl.com/kk2
Why: Need you even ask?
Schedule:
6:00: Social Hour - pool, shuffleboard, chatter, beer, etc.
7:00: Curtis Poe - use strict 'sql';
7:45: Intermission
8:00: Brian Ingerson, Ward Cunningham - Test::FIR
-Joshua
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