APM: Selfish topic suggestion

[Sam Foster]

Sounds like a good topic to do some live coding on.
I'm actually going to show up to the meeting this week (!) .. or at 
least that's the plan.

I've also been thinking about an update to the site, to use a service 
like upcoming.org to handle the meeting times/topics for us. We do 
something similar for the refresh austin site: 
http://www.refreshaustin.org. So anyone in the group can create a 
meeting on upcoming.org, and it will just show up on austin.pm.org. They 
(the refreshaustin.org developers) are Rails people, but its just 
querying a webservice and could surely be done in 
perl/catalyst/cgi.pm/cgi::application

Sam

Ian Remmler wrote:

>One topic area I just became interested in (because my boss told
>me I should be): We need a web-based UI for an application.  One
>user, no database, nothing fancy.  I don't know what all it will
>do, but one example is transferring files to the client and
>managing/deleting files on the server.  I really don't know what
>that means or what else it will do.  Using a small, built-in web
>server would be nicer than requiring apache.
>
>So what's the best way to build a small, maintainable,
>expandable, self-contained web app?  And is Perl even the way to
>go, or would Ruby be a better fit (python is out because of the
>whole syntax thing).  The key is that it should be easy to
>expand and maintain without becoming a mess.  If someone wanted
>to talk about that at the meeting, I wouldn't mind. :)
>
>Thanks,
>    - Ian.
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