I'd like some input on what kinds of topics folks would like to hear about at the upcoming <a href="http://raleigh.pm/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Raleigh.pm</a> meetings.<br>
<br>If there is a topic you would like to present on yourself, let me
know if it'd be a full presentation or a lightning talk (5-10 minutes)
and we'll work to get you scheduled.<br><br>For the meeting in two days, I'm leaning towards giving a talk on GNU Screen (Item 3 below). But I'm definitely open to suggestions.<br><br>--bradoaks<br><br>* Some of my favorite talks from YAPC::NA::2007 (Houston)
<br><br>1)
Log4perl - "This talk by Yahoo Engineer and Log4perl author Mike
Schilli addresses
common logging challenges, from small test scripts to systems
performing
well under high load." This tool is incredibly configurable can be
applied in simple installations and where your needs might be more
complex. The slides are online (<a href="http://perlmeister.com/log4perl_yapc.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://perlmeister.com/log4perl_yapc.html</a>).<br>I would be able to prepare and reproduce this talk with a few weeks notice.<br><br>
2) Sub::Exporter - Ricardo Signes is pretty smart and gave an
information packed talk on how to use this better tool for modularizing
your code and allowing others to have more control on how they import
your code into their programs.<br>
I would need a lot of time playing around with the basic concepts to be
comfortable fielding any questions about internals, but rjbs's slides
are a decent starting point (as the audio is not included; with audio,
they'd be great). I'm interested enough in this topic to invest the
time for a future RPM presentation.<br>
<br>
3) GNU Screen - Robert Blackwell's talk on "Making an AJAX GUI for GNU
Screen" was interesting enough that there was an overflow crowd for the
room he was booked in at the conference. The slides are online
(<a href="http://robertblackwell.com/perl/YAPC07/talk/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://robertblackwell.com/perl/YAPC07/talk/</a>). <br>
I should be able to give a reproduction of his talk with only a day or two's notice.<br><br>4) Perl Critic - Josh McAdams gave an Intro talk and an Extending talk
in Houston. The slides are online
(<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/joshua.mcadams/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.slideshare.net/joshua.mcadams/</a>).<br>
I skipped the Intro talk and a fire alarm went off during the Extending
talk, so I'd need more prep work before being able to talk on the
subject.<br>
<br>The conference wiki page has a list of the talks: <a href="http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2007/wiki?node=PresentationSlides" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2007/wiki?node=PresentationSlides
</a> <br>Only some have slides posted.
<br><br>* Non-YAPC Talk Ideas<br><br>5) Memcached for shared cache
across multiple machines. This application provides a cache pool for
access from multiple machines. It is the next step in the logical
progression from per-process caching, to shared-memory caching among
all the apache processes on a given web server. Using memcached the
pool is per cluster. Facebook, and LiveJournal use memcached to help
reduce the load on their servers. There are clients written for most
every major language.
<br>My talk would focus on installing the server and on the
Cache::Memcached module that encapsulates the Perl client for accessing
memcached caches.<br><br>6) Scraping my bank's web interface to archive
check images. My bank provides images of canceled checks on their
web interface. I'd like to save those to my machine before they roll
off of the two months worth of statements that are available online.
Cookies would definitely be involved, but I've had some exposure to
coding a client for a cookies-enabled web app before.
<br>This is in the "merely a concept" phase of development. However I do not expect this would be too tedious of task except. The possible exception being if HTTPS isn't supported by the tools I'd use.
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