[Van-pm] January van.pm meeting

[Davidl]

Luke Closs wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:48:53PM +0000, mock wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:14:31PM -0800, Helen Cook wrote:
>>> Hello and happy new year!  Hope you all had a good holiday.
>>>
>>> Let's make some plans for a January meeting.  I like the format of
>>> having two short(er) talks; I think this works quite well.  
>>>
>>> I spoke with Gurusamy Sarathy at the ActiveState party last month, and
>>> have (hopefully sucessfully) convinced him to give a talk.  One
>>> suggestion for a topic is: lessons learned during the development of
>>> PureMessage.  Are there any other requests?
>>>
>>> Will, you had also expressed some interest last month about speaking in
>>> January.. 
>>>
>>> So the date, tentatively: Wednesday January 25, subject to speaker and
>>> meeting room availablility.   
>>>
>>> --h
>>>
>> Assuming the date is still the 25th, I'll be talking about Localizing Catalyst
>> Applications.  If you're not already familiar with Catalyst, it's the MVC 
>> framework all the cool kids are using to build their web apps (unlike 
>> Ruby on Rails, which is so yesterdays news).  Let me tell you of all the 
>> foolish design decisions I made, and how you can avoid them and hopefully do
>> it the right way the first time.  Useful code may be provided, if I get off
>> my ass and get it CPAN ready by that point, otherwise you'll be stuck with the
>> crappy examples on my slides.
>>
>> Hope to see at least some of you there.
>>
>> will
> 
> Catalyst is already passe.  Jifty is what all the cool kids are using
> now (it's true - I asked them).
> 
> Having said that, I still think any Catalyst talk would be
> interesting... :)
> 
> Also, I've been talking with GSAR about his talk.  He's not sure what
> he should present on that will be interesting.  Does anyone have ideas
> or requests?

As a PureMessage developer, I for one would like to hear the talk 
mentioned above: "Lessons learned during the development of PureMessage" :)

If not then how about a beginner/intermediate howto on XS?

Cheers,.
   Davidl
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