[pgh-pm] Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Meeting | 04.09.2003

casey at geeknest.com casey at geeknest.com
Tue Apr 8 13:47:47 CDT 2003


*Techincal Talks*

Two Pittsburgh Perl Mongers strut their stuff.

*Location*

  Agnew Moyer Smith Inc
  3700 South Water Street
  Suite 300
  http://amsite.com
  04.09.2003
  05:00

The doors to this building are locked after 18:00.  Please ring
extension *195* from the keypad at the door.  This will allow you to
bypass this "feature" of building security.

*Talks*

*Functional Templates*      Tom Moertel

     Most template systems encourage programmers to view templates
     as documents that contain placeholders or processing
     instructions that can be replaced or evaluated dynamically.
     However, there is another way of looking at templates that
     yields a simple yet powerful method for building and managing
     complex sets of information.  That way is to view templates as
     *functions* (hence the name) that take named values as input
     and yield documents or other templates as output.  The real
     power of this method is revealed by passing functional
     templates as *arguments* to other templates, which allows for
     global sharing and local specialization.  A host of other
     interesting properties appear when one considers that the
     arguments themselves can be the results of calling other
     functional templates.  Mind-bending fun for all!

*Stuffing the Ballot Box*   Casey West

     Online polls are taken way too seriously.  This is not just a
     condition of the poller, but often of the pollee.  In this talk,
     we're the pollee.  Don't worry, it's all legal, your brain won't
     be counted as a circumvention device (and therefore detained)
     from having heard this.  I promise.



-- 
Casey West
(via automation)



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