[boulder.pm] TPC $current Perl Lightning Talks

Walter Pienciak walter at frii.com
Wed Jul 24 23:57:02 CDT 2002


Hi,

Here are my notes from today's session.

Walter

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Dan Brian dan at brians.org

  x sucks/rocks bases on google/perl analysis
  life sucks the most, apparently

Brian Ingerson (ingy)

  #perl singalong
  talkthrough of proposed beer.ingy program
  HashBang now on CPAN

Joe McMahon

  Call for a better Perl debugger (details).
  Calls from the audience: '[So] fix it!'
  He *has* started, has reformatted and commented what he can.
  Wants help.  Wants documentation.

Casey West

  Call for help:  Perl documentation project.
  Almost anything can be used, from talks to HOWTOs to ... ?
  There will be an editorial process to raise quality.
  But they need content content content.
  Will be mailing lists, website, Pod templates.
  Check use.perl.org soon for the announcement.

Tim Bunce

  What's new in DBI since the book.
    Fetch all the rows into one hash in a single method call.
    selectcol_arrayref
    faster fetching (C implementations of some methods)
    bulk fetching
    support for threads
    error handling additions, including custom handlers
    tracing tweaks
    performance profiling built in (DBI::Profile)
    DBD::PurePerl for where you can't compile extensions

Chip Salzenberg

  tongue in cheek reanalysis of the genesis/development
  of Perl (while working for the government?  came up with
  something useful?)  The deeper truth?  TMTOWTDI.  Not just in
  Perl but in our life and our future.

Alison Randal

  "On Beyond Perl V", by Dr. Seuss

Matt Sergeant

  Why does he have 50 modules on CPAN?
  He's lazy.  He's itchy.  Nobody else is going to do it.
  (Kudos to Perl community -- CPAN, rt.cpan.org, etc.)

Casey West

  random cartoon thanks to Perlfolk (South Park)

Ken Williams

  http://apprentice.perl.org

Tom Phoenix

  important euphemisms used by Perl people:
  improper access of packages
  test sticky bit
  google whacking
  fork
  consulting the blue camel
  quantum superpositions [safe when forking?]
  explicitly disallowing soft references
  looking up split in the camel
  sniff your own packets
  applying schwartzian transform
  eagerly awaiting next release

Adam Turoff

  i-book rocks (top 10 reasons to get an i-book)
  comes with perl
  it's unix
  everything just works
  who needs more reasons than that? yes this is all he provided,
    except for number 10:
  does not come with python

Pierre Denis pdenis at fotango.com

  Vx [100% pure] OO web service under www.fotango.com
  integrated multimedia exchange platform
  (think of $vhs as $dbh)
  opensource.fotango.com  Vx available now.
  Everybody welcome to hack Vx.
  by Leon, Graham, Andy (Wardley), Pierre

Graham Barr

  search-beta.cpan.org:  new iface coming soon
  full search of ALL the pods in ALL the distributions
  quicker nicer looking etc.

Michael Schwern

  Back to 1988 -- realtime configure/build/playing with
  Perl 1.0.14

Damian Conway

  response to ingy: built beer.ingy between ingy's presentation
  and now.  "Do not challenge the master."

Leon and Rael and Nat

  Apple 'Switch' commercial takeoffs
  Chris Dibona -- emacs -> vi
  David -- python -> perl
  Ken -- briefs -> boxers
  Nat -- perl -> python
  Sarah -- linux -> xp

Nat's YAPC 2002 movie
OSCON 2002 movie
both soon to be on www.perl.org under OSCON area.

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