[oak perl] Talks?

[David Fetter]

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:22:30AM -0700, Belden Lyman wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 10:57, George Woolley wrote:
> > Does anyone want to (or is anyone willing to) give a talk that
> > might be of interest to people in the group?
> > 
> > Let me know.
> 
> I've got little clue what I know that other people don't know, so
> rather than offering to talk about obfuscated Perl regexes (: Hi
> David! You know who you are! :)

Moi?  Vieux petit moi?!?

> I'll post my wish-list of pet projects I've been meaning to get to
> but haven't had the right jump-start yet:

> 
>   * there's a few different XML parsing modules out on CPAN.
>     Can anyone talk for 5 minutes or so about the different
>     modules available? Why would I choose XML::Parser over
>     XML::Twig? etc.
> 
>   * I've been wanting to screen-scrape http://www.uspto.gov
>     recently. Can anyone talk about a web bot they wrote using
>     WWW::Mechanize, LWP::Simple, or somesuch?
> 
>   * USPTO stores pre-1975 patents as .tiff only, which makes a
>     full-text search impossible. I've seen some Perl OCR projects
>     before; has anyone actually done some Perl OCR?

I suspect that it's better just to use one of the existing OCR
packages.

> Anyone else have the desire to learn something but don't know quite
> where to start?  Post to the list: if someone else knows, we've got
> a talk in the making.

Well, there was that dynamic javascript-y thing I started.  What I've
got of it works well enough for Geekcruises, but I'd greatly
appreciate some help extending the thing :)

Cheers,
D
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