From kent at c2group.net Sun Jan 28 17:15:35 2007 From: kent at c2group.net (Kent Cowgill) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:15:35 -0600 Subject: [WindyCity-pm] Membership, and a few questions Message-ID: So, not being one to want to step on anyone's toes, but what's the plan for adding people to this particular organization? Is one of us going to post something to chicago-talk at pm.org, or are we making private announcements/requests to those we know are amenable to having a separate (city of) chicago pm? Also, I am working up a presentation on testing - but it's pretty specific to my current company, as I've written a Test:: module to test the horrid pseudo templating system we currently have in use, and are extremely unlikely to migrate away from, as we're quite entrenched in it - what with (at least in one branch of the website) about 99,000 production (plus archival backup) files. The format is hunks of perl (accessing a custom object) embedded inside HTML comments, which gets parsed (in a couple of passes, really) and evaluated, and then tons of substitutions happen. But since no one at the company knows anything about testing, I have to include an introduction to writing tests. I'm also touching on Perl::Critic and Devel::Cover -- I'm also trying to incorporate a little HTML::Lint, too :) Once I nail down more of my Test:: module, and the presentation to go along with it, do you guys think there'd be any interest in this particular presentation? I could also talk a bit about how I started writing a parser for this templating system but instead turned it into a Test:: module? :) Though I'm not really sure I've gone about it in the best way, so I suppose a little advanced feedback would be appreciated :) -Kent Cowgill C2 Group, Inc. kent at c2group.net http://www.c2group.net 312.804.0160