Phoenix.pm: Call for presentations

Doug Miles doug.miles at bpxinternet.com
Wed Apr 16 16:13:07 CDT 2003


Scott Walters wrote:
> Ideas
> -----
> 
> . webcast the presentation - I'm curious how many people just don't
>   feel like doing anything physical in the Real World
> 
> . Doug's bots idea. If people beg and plead, I'll allocate some 
>   time there.
> 
> . If people beg and plead, I'll finish my FuzzyLogic module.

Beg, plead. This sounds interesting to me!

> . Have something that runs server side to finds dereferenced HTML
>   files in about a page of code. Gives the route you have to surf
>   to find each page that isn't dereferenced relative to the main
>   page. 
> 
> . Loads of new stuff on wiki.slowass.net/?PerlDesignPatterns -
>   any of it could be turned into a presentation of various
>   degrees of lameness. I'd be happy to do any number of these -
>   either as full presentations, or as 10-30 minute mini-presentations.
>   Since this is my current pet project, I don't want to stuff it
>   down peoples throats, so you have to ask for it ;)
>   I tend to be irrational and obsessive about my pet projects.

Is this something you could do this Thursday?  Maybe we could have a 
short presentation, and try to schedule out some future presentations, 
and have some social time.

> . As part of my continuations project (which I'm only at the 
>   poking-at-with-a-long-stick phase with), I could do something
>   on Perl5 "B" bytecode/assembly. Syntax, kinds of ops, 
>   binary representation, comparison to source/input Perl,
>   related tools. I'm trying to learn XS and perlguts
>   (perldoc perlguts), but I don't know enough to talk on it yet -
>   would someone else like to do a nice XS presentation?

Can't do an XS presentation, but I can loan you "Extending and Embedding 
Perl".

> Other ideas have been suggested in the past - many of them are marked up
> on the phoenix.pm.org website. This email does not presume to preempt or
> supersede any previous suggestions - just aggregate my current mental
> state.
> 
> -scott
> 
> On  0, Doug Miles <doug.miles at bpxinternet.com> wrote:
> 
>>If you would like to make a presentation this Thursday night, or any 
>>other meeting, please let me know the topic and when you would like to 
>>do it.  Historically, I have done a fair bit of the presentations.  The 
>>problem right now is that I'm not doing a lot of Perl development right 
>>now.  If we want to continue having meetings, I need everyone's help. 
>>Thanks!
>>
>>doug.miles at bpxinternet.com
>>
> 
> 





More information about the Phoenix-pm mailing list