[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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