LA.pm: May and June Scheduling

[Samy Kamkar]

Sounds good!

May 11th and 18th are both ok for me, and the rest of you?
/me will be visiting my hometown (and a surprising amount of others on 
this list:) Pittsburgh on the 25th..
Scott, let us know if either of those dates (11th or 18th of May) are 
possible for you

Robert Spier wrote:

> Ok, I propose the following schedule:
> 
> First June....
> 
>     Saturday June 1- 
>       1:30pm-5pm (3hours with some breaks)
> 
>     Optimize Your Perl
>     ------------------
>     Location: TBA [1] 
> 
>     This tutorial is an introduction to optimizating perl
>     applications. It's important knowledge for anyone writing
>     time-sensitive applications, from a CGI script to a large
>     application.
> 
>     It covers the following four major components:
> 
>     1. A brief introduction to complexity theory
>     
>       Just enough complexity theory to have a basic language to talk
>       about runtimes of functions. O(1), O(n), O(n^2), etc. Complexity
>       of common perl idioms like map, sort, nested loops, etc. Why is
>       some code slow? (And it's not perl's fault!)
> 
>     2. Real world / real code examples and how to make them faster
> 
>       Examples of O(n^2) or worse functions and how they can be
>       improved by an order of magnitude by rewriting the algorithm,
>       and possibly changing the data structures used to store
>       things. Memoization/Caching/Persistency/Precomputing.
> 
>     3. Some simple Benchmarking
> 
>       Devel::DProf and Benchmark.pm can help to isolate problem spots
>       in your code. Learn how to properly interpret data and how to
>       pick the "important" pieces.
> 
>     4. Is it worth it?
> 
>       Not all time spent optimizing the code is worth it. There are
>       tradeoffs of time, readability, speed. Discuss development
>       strategies, pre-optimization, and over-optimization. O(n) can be
>       faster than O(1) for small n.
> 
>      followed by dinner somewhere nearby.
> 
>     I'll be also giving this tutorial at TPC (Part of OSCON 2002) in
>     San Diego in July.  http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2002.  If
>     you see it there, you'd pay about $320.  But, you can come to my
>     practice session for less than that.  I will ask for a (voluntary)
>     donation of $5 [2] at each class to cover expenses. [3]  Any funds
>     remaining after expenses will be donated to YAS [4] or The German
>     Shephard Rescue [5].
> 
> Then May....
> 
>     I'm pretty busy in May, but I do have another TPC Talk to
>     practice.  Scott has already expressed interest in it.   I'm busy
>     every Saturday except the 11th or 18th.  It'll be a short talk,
>     25-35 minutes long on...
> 
> 	Request Tracker
>         ---------------
>  	A Versatile Ticket Tracking system....
> 
> 	(No outline yet..)
> 
> 	http://www.bestpractical.com/
> 
> 	RT is written in Perl, runs under Mason, uses
> 	DBIx::SearchBuilder.  Works with mod_perl and fastcgi, is very
> 	OO, uses lots of mail modules, etc.. Definitely a cool and
> 	interesting tool.
> 
> 	I'll be talking about how to set it up, use it, configure it,
> 	integrate it with other tools, etc...
> 
>      Please express a date preference.  :)
> 
> 
> To Finalize...
> 
>     Well, There really isn't anything else to say.  These are two neat
>     talks, and I look forward to practicing them on you.  :)
> 
>     Any Questions?
> 
> -R
> 
> Footnotes: 
> [1]  Right now there are two possible locations: Scott's office in
>      Culver City, and the library in the North Valley.  If anyone else
>      has a location suitable for a presentation (with a projector for
>      a computer) and enough room, we could consider that too.
> 
> [2]  Or more.  :)  
> 
> [3]  Employes of the Walt Disney Company are exempted from this request.
> 
> [4]  http://www.yetanother.org
> 
> [5]  http://www.gsrecue.org
> 
> 


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Samy Kamkar Pezeshkian -- cp5 at LucidX.com
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