From bradoaks at gmail.com Tue Aug 14 16:18:22 2007 From: bradoaks at gmail.com (Brad Oaks) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:18:22 -0400 Subject: [Raleigh-talk] ideas for topics for this week's meeting and for future meetings Message-ID: I'd like some input on what kinds of topics folks would like to hear about at the upcoming Raleigh.pm meetings. If there is a topic you would like to present on yourself, let me know if it'd be a full presentation or a lightning talk (5-10 minutes) and we'll work to get you scheduled. For the meeting in two days, I'm leaning towards giving a talk on GNU Screen (Item 3 below). But I'm definitely open to suggestions. --bradoaks * Some of my favorite talks from YAPC::NA::2007 (Houston) 1) Log4perl - "This talk by Yahoo Engineer and Log4perl author Mike Schilli addresses common logging challenges, from small test scripts to systems performing well under high load." This tool is incredibly configurable can be applied in simple installations and where your needs might be more complex. The slides are online ( http://perlmeister.com/log4perl_yapc.html ). I would be able to prepare and reproduce this talk with a few weeks notice. 2) Sub::Exporter - Ricardo Signes is pretty smart and gave an information packed talk on how to use this better tool for modularizing your code and allowing others to have more control on how they import your code into their programs. I would need a lot of time playing around with the basic concepts to be comfortable fielding any questions about internals, but rjbs's slides are a decent starting point (as the audio is not included; with audio, they'd be great). I'm interested enough in this topic to invest the time for a future RPM presentation. 3) GNU Screen - Robert Blackwell's talk on "Making an AJAX GUI for GNU Screen" was interesting enough that there was an overflow crowd for the room he was booked in at the conference. The slides are online ( http://robertblackwell.com/perl/YAPC07/talk/). I should be able to give a reproduction of his talk with only a day or two's notice. 4) Perl Critic - Josh McAdams gave an Intro talk and an Extending talk in Houston. The slides are online (http://www.slideshare.net/joshua.mcadams/). I skipped the Intro talk and a fire alarm went off during the Extending talk, so I'd need more prep work before being able to talk on the subject. The conference wiki page has a list of the talks: http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2007/wiki?node=PresentationSlides Only some have slides posted. * Non-YAPC Talk Ideas 5) Memcached for shared cache across multiple machines. This application provides a cache pool for access from multiple machines. It is the next step in the logical progression from per-process caching, to shared-memory caching among all the apache processes on a given web server. Using memcached the pool is per cluster. Facebook, and LiveJournal use memcached to help reduce the load on their servers. There are clients written for most every major language. My talk would focus on installing the server and on the Cache::Memcached module that encapsulates the Perl client for accessing memcached caches. 6) Scraping my bank's web interface to archive check images. My bank provides images of canceled checks on their web interface. I'd like to save those to my machine before they roll off of the two months worth of statements that are available online. Cookies would definitely be involved, but I've had some exposure to coding a client for a cookies-enabled web app before. This is in the "merely a concept" phase of development. However I do not expect this would be too tedious of task except. The possible exception being if HTTPS isn't supported by the tools I'd use. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/raleigh-talk/attachments/20070814/bae22ce7/attachment.html From robertfwest at gmail.com Wed Aug 15 21:01:27 2007 From: robertfwest at gmail.com (Rob West) Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:01:27 -0400 Subject: [Raleigh-talk] ideas for topics for this week's meeting and for future meetings In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Brad, I think all of those sound interesting. (Well, maybe not the last one, but it could be.) I can think of lots of talks I'd like to hear but very few (as in none right now) I'd be able to present. If you want the list anyway, I can start throwing them out. I'm hoping to start using Perl::Critic at work. So, I'd definitely like to hear more about it and maybe could do a follow-on of some sort. Thanks, Rob P.S. I wonder why when I "reply" in gmail I get your address instead of the list address. Is this a setting with the list or a problem with gmail? On 8/14/07, Brad Oaks wrote: > I'd like some input on what kinds of topics folks would like to hear about > at the upcoming Raleigh.pm meetings. > > If there is a topic you would like to present on yourself, let me know if > it'd be a full presentation or a lightning talk (5-10 minutes) and we'll > work to get you scheduled. > > For the meeting in two days, I'm leaning towards giving a talk on GNU Screen > (Item 3 below). But I'm definitely open to suggestions. > > --bradoaks > > * Some of my favorite talks from YAPC::NA::2007 (Houston) > > 1) Log4perl - "This talk by Yahoo Engineer and Log4perl author Mike Schilli > addresses common logging challenges, from small test scripts to systems > performing well under high load." This tool is incredibly configurable can > be applied in simple installations and where your needs might be more > complex. The slides are online ( > http://perlmeister.com/log4perl_yapc.html). > I would be able to prepare and reproduce this talk with a few weeks notice. > > 2) Sub::Exporter - Ricardo Signes is pretty smart and gave an information > packed talk on how to use this better tool for modularizing your code and > allowing others to have more control on how they import your code into their > programs. > I would need a lot of time playing around with the basic concepts to be > comfortable fielding any questions about internals, but rjbs's slides are a > decent starting point (as the audio is not included; with audio, they'd be > great). I'm interested enough in this topic to invest the time for a future > RPM presentation. > > 3) GNU Screen - Robert Blackwell's talk on "Making an AJAX GUI for GNU > Screen" was interesting enough that there was an overflow crowd for the room > he was booked in at the conference. The slides are online > (http://robertblackwell.com/perl/YAPC07/talk/). > I should be able to give a reproduction of his talk with only a day or > two's notice. > > 4) Perl Critic - Josh McAdams gave an Intro talk and an Extending talk in > Houston. The slides are online > (http://www.slideshare.net/joshua.mcadams/). > I skipped the Intro talk and a fire alarm went off during the Extending > talk, so I'd need more prep work before being able to talk on the subject. > > The conference wiki page has a list of the talks: > http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2007/wiki?node=PresentationSlides > Only some have slides posted. > > * Non-YAPC Talk Ideas > > 5) Memcached for shared cache across multiple machines. This application > provides a cache pool for access from multiple machines. It is the next > step in the logical progression from per-process caching, to shared-memory > caching among all the apache processes on a given web server. Using > memcached the pool is per cluster. Facebook, and LiveJournal use memcached > to help reduce the load on their servers. There are clients written for > most every major language. > My talk would focus on installing the server and on the Cache::Memcached > module that encapsulates the Perl client for accessing memcached caches. > > 6) Scraping my bank's web interface to archive check images. My bank > provides images of canceled checks on their web interface. I'd like to save > those to my machine before they roll off of the two months worth of > statements that are available online. Cookies would definitely be involved, > but I've had some exposure to coding a client for a cookies-enabled web app > before. > This is in the "merely a concept" phase of development. However I do not > expect this would be too tedious of task except. The possible exception > being if HTTPS isn't supported by the tools I'd use. > > _______________________________________________ > Raleigh-talk mailing list > Raleigh-talk at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/raleigh-talk > > From bradoaks at gmail.com Thu Aug 16 07:51:37 2007 From: bradoaks at gmail.com (Brad Oaks) Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:51:37 -0400 Subject: [Raleigh-talk] Reply To change Message-ID: Hello all, In response to Rob's request and to encourage more discussion on this list, I've changed the list behavior so that it defaults to having replies go to the list instead of to the message sender. Let me know if this causes you any grief. --bradoaks