tech_talks/index.xml
<page title="London.pm - Technical Papers" keywords="technical papers london perl mongers">
<item title="Papers presented at technical meetings">
<p>We hold, currently, bi-monthly technical meetings
at which members of London.pm volunteer to give talks
on what they are doing. These have ranged from music with
perl to mars quarks and quantum mechanics.
</p>
<p>Find out details of upcoming technical talks on the
<a href="[% rooturl %]/meetings/">meetings</a> page.</p>
</item>
<item title="2006 March 23rd">
<p>Held at <a href="/meetings/locations/fotango.html">Fotango</a>.</p>
<p>Richard Jones - <a href="/tech_talks/2006-03-23/richard_jones-caml_for_perl_mongers.tar.gz">OCaml for Perl Programmers</a></p>
<p>Paul Hammond - <a href="http://www.paulhammond.org/2006/json.pm/">Introduction to JSON</a> (lightning talk)</p>
<p>Leon Brocard - Make real things with PDF::API2 (lightning talk - no slides)</p>
<p>Stig Brautaset - <a href="http://brautaset.org/files/talks/MBK.pdf">Module::Build::Kwalitee</a> (lightning talk)</p>
<p>Nicholas Clark - <a href="http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/P/granttalk/">The Perl Foundation, their money, and how to get it.</a> (lightning talk)</p>
<p>Tom Hukins - <a href="/tech_talks/2006-03-23/tom_hukins-tracing_code_with_aspect_pm.pdf">Tracing code with Aspect.pm</a> (lightning talk)</p>
<p>Alistair McGlinchy - <a href="/tech_talks/2006-03-23/alistair_mglinchy-snmp_and_netsnmp.ppt">SNMP and Net::SNMP</a> (lightning talk)</p>
<p>Simon Cozens - Domain Specific Languages, evil CHECK block hacks and Email Received Header parsing (lightning talk - no slides)</p>
<p>Dave Cross - <a href="http://dave.org.uk/talks/lpm/2006/orm/">What's Wrong With ORM?</a></p>
</item>
<item title="2004 September 9th">
<p>Held at BUPA House in Holborn, this technical talk covered some recent articles and modules by the speakers and provided an opportunity to see an upcoming YAPC::Europe talk.</p>
<p>Mark Fowler gave a <a href="http://2shortplanks.com/talks/dumb_errors/">talk about 'dumb errors'</a> and <a href="http://2shortplanks.com/talks/phalanx">spoke </a> about the <a href="http://qa.perl.org/phalanx/">Phalanx</a> project.</p>
<p>Alex Mclean talked about making music in Perl, giving a live demonstration of what he's been talking about in his 'as seen on slashdot today' <a href="http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/08/31/livecode.html">Perl.com article</a>.</p>
<p>Simon Cozens gave a talk, simply labelled "What I've been working on", which will probably have covered things like Where Was, his new 'search everything you've ever seen' and other exciting things.</p>
<p>Tom Hukins did his talk on <a href="http://belfast.yapc.org/wiki/index.cgi?RunningWebBusinessWithPerl">Running Web Business With Perl</a>, which he's practising for the upcoming YAPC::Europe.</p>
<p>Trelane also <a href="http://use.perl.org/~2shortplanks/journal/20816">blogged</a> about the talk and other stuff at use.perl.org.</p>
</item>
<item title="2004 July 22nd">
<p>
Held at Morgan Stanley, this technical meeting was made up of many lightening talks including
<ul>
<li> Tom Hukins spoke about <a href="http://www.class-dbi.com/">Class::DBI</a>.</li>
<li> Jerakeen spoke about Object::Persist</li>
<li> Steve Purkis talked about <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~jduncan/Pixie-2.06/">Pixie</a>. You can find a good <a href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pixie.html">introduction to Pixie</a> at the IBM Developworks website.</li>
<li> Mark Fowler spoke about Unicode</li>
</ul>
</p>
</item>
<item title="2004 May 27th">
<p>Held upstairs at The Angel Pub, Old Street, sponsered by Fotango who kindly provided a small buffet.</p>
<p>Nicholas Clark, the perl 5.8.0 pumpking and leading ponie developer gave a quick summary of some of the development
that's going on with the perl core and ponie (Perl On New Internal Engine.)</p>
<p>Ivor Williams gave us a preview of the <a href="http://un.earth.li/~ivorw/slides/geogmod.ppt
">Geographical modules</a> talk for YAPC::Europe</p>
<p>Mark Fowler did likewise for his talk on turning Perl Modules into CPAN Bundlers for YAPC::NA this year</p>
<p>James Duncan gave a twenty minute version of the talk on Enterprise Perl for YAPC::NA and OSCON</p>
<p> We were also lucky to have Chia-liang Kao, the developer of the Perl based revision control system SVK in town.
He gave a brief introduction to the current status of the project and what SVK can do for us.
</p>
</item>
<item title="2004 January 22nd">
<p>Sponsered by Fotango, and held in a local pub</p>
<p>Ivor Williams talked about <a href="http://un.earth.li/~ivorw/slides/perlport.ppt">Portable perl</a></p>
<p>Leon Brocard talked about perl 5.005_04 and perl pumpkins</p>
<p>blogged in acme's <a href="http://use.perl.org/~acme/journal/16968">use.perl journal</a></p>
</item>
<item title="2003 November 27th">
<p>Talks at Morgan Stanly </p>
<p>Andy Wardley - <a
href="www.template-toolkit.org">Template Toolkit 3</a></p>
<p>David Lillie and Nick Williams - Coyote development experience</p>
<p>Shevek - designing completely and utterly secure systems</p>
<p>Nick - report on the CPAN meeting</p>
</item>
<item title="2003 September 18th">
<p>
Dave Cross gave a talk on Writing a Book Using The Template Toolkit,
where he talks about writing the upcoming "Perl Template
Toolkit" book that he co-authored. You can see his article based on this
at <a href="http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/01/30/ttbook.html">perl.com</a>
</p>
<p>
Martin Ling gave a talk on Alzabo and gave a brief summary :
<i>Alzabo (http://www.alzabo.org)</i> is a Perl data modelling tool that groks
relational database systems. You can use it to manipulate database
schemas in the abstract, reverse engineer them from existing DBs, and
generate SQL diffs to a live database to rearrange its structure. It
also provides an object-oriented runtime API which provides similar
features to Class::DBI and other modules. Martin Ling will give an
overview of its capabilities, compare it to other related modules and
preview some new features in development.
</p>
<p>
Nicholas Clark gave a lightning talk on the upcoming release of
Perl 5.8.1 and what's changed in the new shiny shiny version of Perl.
</p>
<p>
Mark Fowler waffled about his new Attempt module.
</p>
<p>
Leon Brocard talked about the plans for the CPAN cabal meeting
a couple of weeks later entitled "How can we make CPAN even better?"
</p>
<p>
Tom Hukins presented a lighting talk about his experiences of
teaching Perl to absolute beginners.
</p>
<p>
James Duncan was explaining to us why he's never ever going to write
another container class again.
</p>
<p>
Finally Earle Martin was detailing Stupid RSS Tricks On IRC.
</p>
</item>
<item title="2003 July 17th">
<p>Talks at The Angel pub,Old Street</p>
<p>Steve Purkis talked about <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~spurkis/Pangloss-0.06/">'Pangloss'</a>, a multilingual
terminology management system built on OpenFrame/Pixie. His slides are onlines <a href="files/pangloss-talk">here</a>
</p>
<p>Paul Mison presented on Managing Digital Music Metadata
with Perl you can get the PDF (of YAPC talk) <a href="http://husk.org/perl/id3s/mdmcwp.pdf">here</a>
or read his <a href="http://husk.org/perl/id3s/notes.html">Notes</a>
</p>
<p>
Arthur Bergman, James Duncan and Leon Brocard talked about the
infamous Ponie project that all the cool kids are abuzz about these
days, and fielding questions. <a href="http://opensource.fotango.com/ponie/">http://opensource.fotango.com/ponie/</a>
</p>
<p>
Richard Clamp talked about his funky Bluetooth remote control
for his computer he made out of his <a href="http://unixbeard.net/~richardc/cgi/blog.cgi/dea.pod/">mobile phone and some Perl code</a>.
.. it got <a href="http://www.hackdiary.com/archives/000037.html">blogged</a> elsewhere along with some other info
</p>
<p>Tim Sweetman gave a lightning talk on some new concepts he's proposing for improving Wikis.</p>
<p>Dominic Mitchell gave a lightning talk on general usage of namespaces in XML, and surprises therein</p>
<p>Finally, Nigel Hamilton presented the second part of his series of jovial looks at IP law from a programmer's point of view.</p>
<p>
There is a review of the night by Mark Fowler in his <a href="http://use.perl.org/~2shortplanks/journal/13528">use.perl journal</a>
</p>
</item>
<item title="2003 May 22nd ">
<p>Talks at State51</p>
<p>Richard Clamp - <a
href="http://siesta.unixbeard.net/">Siesta</a> mailing list manager<br/>
<a
href="http://unixbeard.net/~richardc/cgi/blog.cgi/siesta-timeline.pod/">Timeline</a>,
<a href="http://unixbeard.net/~richardc/cgi/blog.cgi/siesta.pod/">Siesta
talk</a>,
<a
href="http://unixbeard.net/~richardc/cgi/blog.cgi/mariachi.pod/">Mariachi</a>
</p>
</item>
<item title="2003 April 14th">
<p>"Templating Engines and Processing Content" mini-tech meet at Yahoo
including David Weeler's half hour talk on Bricolage, and a 40 min discussion
with an illustrious panel
</p>
<p>
Some <a href="http://www.paranoidfish.org/notes/2003/04/15/2055">notes blogged</a> by Paul Hammond
</p>
</item>
<item title="2003 March 13th">
<p>Lots of talks at Yahoo</p>
<p>Matt Biddulph - <a
href="http://www.hackdiary.com/archives/000026.html">Lightning talk on RDF
and the Semantic Web </a></p>
<p>Celia - <a href="files/20030313/celia/">Soap operas and the semantic web</a></p>
<p>Ivor - <a href="http://un.earth.li/~ivorw/slides/vcslite.ppt">VCS::Lite</a></p>
<p>Matt and <a href="http://space.frot.org">Jo</a> - RDF and the semantic web</p>
<p>Nigel - <a href="files/20030313/nigel/">Intellectual Property</a></p>
<p>Nik - AxKit::App::Gallery <a
href="http://people.freebsd.org/~nik/AxKit-App-Gallery.mov">.mov of the talk
- 40 megs!</a></p>
<p>Schwern - <a href="http://magnonel.guild.net/~schwern/talks/MakeMaker_Is_DOOMED/">MakeMaker is DOOMED</a></p>
</item>
<item title="2003 January 23rd">
<p>Dave Cross - <a
href="http://dave.org.uk/talks/overload/">Overload.pm</a></p>
<p>Simon Batistoni - <a HREF="http://hitherto.net/talks/tt_xml/">Generating websites with Template::Plugin::XML::LibXML</a></p>
<p>Alex Knowle - <a HREF="http://www.twoshortplanks.com/alex/sigs/">4 line japhs
- signature scripts</a></p>
<p>Leon Brocard - <a
href="http://www.astray.com/coremodules/"> Core Perl Modules You Might Not
Know About</a></p>
</item>
<item title="2002 Novemeber 21st">
<p>Many lightening talks - <a href="21_nov_2002/">View them here</a></p>
</item>
<item title="2002 September 12th">
<p>Leon Brocard - <a href="http://astray.com/perl6_now/">Perl 6 Now</a></p>
<p>Mark Fowler - <a href="http://2shortplanks.com/talks/yapce2002/">Extending the Template Toolkit</a></p>
<p>James Duncan - <a href="http://www.openframe.org/OpenFrame.pdf">OpenFrame</a></p>
<p>Nicholas Clark - <a href="http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/P/Fast_Enough/">When Perl Is Not Quite Fast Enough</a></p>
</item>
<item title="2002 July 18th">
<p>Leon Brocard: - <a href="http://www.astray.com/modules/">Modules I like, modules I dislike</a></p>
<p>Chris Ball: <a href="http://printf.net/mgp/">"Magicpoint: A meta-presentation"</a> </p>
<p>Dave Cross: <a href="http://dave.org.uk/talks/idiomatic/">"Idiomatic Perl" (another extract)</a></p>
<p>Jo Walsh: "Why bots and the semantic web will change the world.</p>
<p>Paul Mison: <a href="http://husk.org/perl/talk/scribot.pdf">"The One Where I Bore You To Death About Scribot"</a></p>
<p>Pierre Denis: <a href="http://opensource.fotango.com/vx.html">"A Talk About Vx"</a></p>
</item>
<item title="2002 March 21st">
<p>Richard Clamp: - <a href="http://unixbeard.net/~richardc/lab/talks/acme-your/acme-your.slides/">Acme::Your</a></p>
<p>Nicholas Clark: - <a href="http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/P/state_of_eight.html">The State Of 5.8</a></p>
<p>Alex Gough: - <a href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~shug0957/dd/">Meaningful Strong Typing with Data::Dimensions</a></p>
<p>Leon Brocard: - <a href="http://www.astray.com/pipelines/">Pipelines</a> - humor!</p>
<p>Mark Fowler: - <a href="http://www.twoshortplanks.com/talks/testing/">Building Test Modules With Test::Builder</a></p>
<p>Simon Wilcox: - <a href="http://www.simonw.demon.co.uk/talks/lpm020321/">Practical Perl Advocacy</a></p>
</item>
<item title="2002 January 24th">
<p>Leon Brocard - <a href="http://www.astray.com/parrot/">Beginning to Program Parrot Assembler</a></p>
<p>Richard Clamp - The Road To Attribute::Parameters</p>
<p>Dave Cross - <a href="http://www.mag-sol.com/talks/idiotic/">Idiotic Perl</a></p>
<p>Nicholas Clark - Long Numbers in Perl 5</p>
<p>Mark Fowler - Advent Calendar Recap</p>
</item>
<item title="2001 November 22nd">
<p>Leo Lapworth - <a href="http://www.backhand.org">Wackamole and http://www.backhand.org</a></p>
<p>Leon Brocard - <a href="http://www.astray.com/benchmarking_perl/">Benchmarking in Perl</a></p>
<p>James Duncan- <a href="http://openframe.fotango.com/docs/presentation/London_pm-png/">Open Frame</a> - Application, also on CPAN</p>
<p>Dave Cross - <a href="http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/">NMS</a></p>
<p>Matthew Byng-Maddick - <a href="http://colon.colondot.net/~mbm/keyman/slide00.shtml">KeyMan</a></p>
<p>Piers - refactoring</p>
</item>
<item title="2001 September 20th">
<p>Paul Mison - <a href="http://use.perl.org/journal.pl?op=display&uid=1597">RSS, Infobots and You</a> - A talk on getting news feeds into dipsy</p>
<p>Richard Clamp and Michael Stevens - <a href="http://unixbeard.net/~richardc/drivel/pod::coverage_talk.pod">Pod::Coverage</a> - Making sure modules are documented</p>
<p>Michael Stevens - <a href="http://search.cpan.org/doc/MSTEVENS/Mail-ListDetector-0.18/lib/Mail/ListDetector.pm">Mail::ListDetector</a> - Automatically sorting mail on mailing lists</p>
<p>Mark Fowler and Richard Clamp - <a href="http://www.waxonwaxoff.org">Wax::On Wax::Off</a> - a repeat of their talk at yapc on humourous ways to teach perl</p>
<p>Simon Cozens - <a href="http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/18/parrot.html">Parrot</a> - What's happening in the weird and wacky world of the Perl 6 (and friends) virtual machine development</p>
<p>Leon Brocard - <a href="http://astray.com/java/">Java</a> - getting Java byte code compiled to Parrot</p>
</item>
<item title="2001 July 19th">
<p>Leon Brocard - <A HREF="http://www.astray.com/testing_perl/">Testing Perl</A> - some good points about and methods for, testing your code.<br/></p>
<p>Richard Clamp - <a href="http://unixbeard.net/~richardc/lab/tcpbug-playback/">Using tcpdump to learn how to code</a></p>
<p>Redvers Davies - Gtk tutorial, how to make a gui for X windows with Perl.</p>
<p>Simon Wistow - <a href="http://www.twoshortplanks.com/flash/">Perl::Flash</a> - now written in C! - but with a perl interface</p>
</item>
<item title="2001 June 21st">
<p>Marty Pauly: Using TT instead of h2xs - very nice, now where's the module Marty ?</p>
<p>Dave Cross: <a href="http://www.dave.org.uk/talks/ppl/slide1.html">Perl For The People</a>, talked about making all other programming languages beside perl illegal (and we believed he was right).</p>
<p>Leo Lapworth: Website Status Report - it's alive I tell you, alive!</p>
<p>Robin Houston: Something Scary About Regexes, and that's an understatment, because it also involved Quantum::Sups</p>
<p>Leon Brocard: Something Cool Using Inline.pm, funky stuff from the 'YEA BABY' himself.</p>
<p>Mark Fowler: <a href="http://london.pm.org/~mark/ttxpath/">Using Template Toolkit and XML to render</a> - well almost anything using views, ok, so it wasn't given on this date</p>
</item>
</page>
tech_talks/index.xml
<page title="London.pm - Technical Papers" keywords="technical papers london perl mongers">
<item title="Papers presented at technical meetings">
<p>We hold, currently, bi-monthly technical meetings
at which members of London.pm volunteer to give talks
on what they are doing. These have ranged from music with
perl to mars quarks and quantum mechanics.
</p>
<p>Find out details of upcoming technical talks on the
<a href="[% rooturl %]/meetings/">meetings</a> page.</p>
</item>
<item title="2006 March 23rd">
<p>Held at <a href="/meetings/locations/fotango.html">Fotango</a>.</p>
<p>Richard Jones - <a href="/tech_talks/2006-03-23/richard_jones-caml_for_perl_mongers.tar.gz">OCaml for Perl Programmers</a></p>
<p>Paul Hammond - <a href="http://www.paulhammond.org/2006/json.pm/">Introduction to JSON</a> (lightning talk)</p>
<p>Leon Brocard - Make real things with PDF::API2 (lightning talk - no slides)</p>
<p>Stig Brautaset - <a href="http://brautaset.org/files/talks/MBK.pdf">Module::Build::Kwalitee</a> (lightning talk)</p>
<p>Nicholas Clark - <a href="http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/P/granttalk/">The Perl Foundation, their money, and how to get it.</a> (lightning talk)</p>
<p>Tom Hukins - <a href="/tech_talks/2006-03-23/tom_hukins-tracing_code_with_aspect_pm.pdf">Tracing code with Aspect.pm</a> (lightning talk)</p>
<p>Alistair McGlinchy - <a href="/tech_talks/2006-03-23/alistair_mglinchy-snmp_and_netsnmp.ppt">SNMP and Net::SNMP</a> (lightning talk)</p>
<p>Simon Cozens - Domain Specific Languages, evil CHECK block hacks and Email Received Header parsing (lightning talk - no slides)</p>
<p>Dave Cross - <a href="http://dave.org.uk/talks/lpm/2006/orm/">What's Wrong With ORM?</a></p>
</item>
<item title="2004 September 9th">
<p>Held at BUPA House in Holborn, this technical talk covered some recent articles and modules by the speakers and provided an opportunity to see an upcoming YAPC::Europe talk.</p>
<p>Mark Fowler gave a <a href="http://2shortplanks.com/talks/dumb_errors/">talk about 'dumb errors'</a> and <a href="http://2shortplanks.com/talks/phalanx">spoke </a> about the <a href="http://qa.perl.org/phalanx/">Phalanx</a> project.</p>
<p>Alex Mclean talked about making music in Perl, giving a live demonstration of what he's been talking about in his 'as seen on slashdot today' <a href="http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/08/31/livecode.html">Perl.com article</a>.</p>
<p>Simon Cozens gave a talk, simply labelled "What I've been working on", which will probably have covered things like Where Was, his new 'search everything you've ever seen' and other exciting things.</p>
<p>Tom Hukins did his talk on <a href="http://belfast.yapc.org/wiki/index.cgi?RunningWebBusinessWithPerl">Running Web Business With Perl</a>, which he's practising for the upcoming YAPC::Europe.</p>
<p>Trelane also <a href="http://use.perl.org/~2shortplanks/journal/20816">blogged</a> about the talk and other stuff at use.perl.org.</p>
</item>
<item title="2004 July 22nd">
<p>
Held at Morgan Stanley, this technical meeting was made up of many lightening talks including
<ul>
<li> Tom Hukins spoke about <a href="http://www.class-dbi.com/">Class::DBI</a>.</li>
<li> Jerakeen spoke about Object::Persist</li>
<li> Steve Purkis talked about <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~jduncan/Pixie-2.06/">Pixie</a>. You can find a good <a href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pixie.html">introduction to Pixie</a> at the IBM Developworks website.</li>
<li> Mark Fowler spoke about Unicode</li>
</ul>
</p>
</item>
<item title="2004 May 27th">
<p>Held upstairs at The Angel Pub, Old Street, sponsered by Fotango who kindly provided a small buffet.</p>
<p>Nicholas Clark, the perl 5.8.0 pumpking and leading ponie developer gave a quick summary of some of the development
that's going on with the perl core and ponie (Perl On New Internal Engine.)</p>
<p>Ivor Williams gave us a preview of the <a href="http://un.earth.li/~ivorw/slides/geogmod.ppt
">Geographical modules</a> talk for YAPC::Europe</p>
<p>Mark Fowler did likewise for his talk on turning Perl Modules into CPAN Bundlers for YAPC::NA this year</p>
<p>James Duncan gave a twenty minute version of the talk on Enterprise Perl for YAPC::NA and OSCON</p>
<p> We were also lucky to have Chia-liang Kao, the developer of the Perl based revision control system SVK in town.
He gave a brief introduction to the current status of the project and what SVK can do for us.
</p>
</item>
<item title="2004 January 22nd">
<p>Sponsered by Fotango, and held in a local pub</p>
<p>Ivor Williams talked about <a href="http://un.earth.li/~ivorw/slides/perlport.ppt">Portable perl</a></p>
<p>Leon Brocard talked about perl 5.005_04 and perl pumpkins</p>
<p>blogged in acme's <a href="http://use.perl.org/~acme/journal/16968">use.perl journal</a></p>
</item>
<item title="2003 November 27th">
<p>Talks at Morgan Stanly </p>
<p>Andy Wardley - <a
href="www.template-toolkit.org">Template Toolkit 3</a></p>
<p>David Lillie and Nick Williams - Coyote development experience</p>
<p>Shevek - designing completely and utterly secure systems</p>
<p>Nick - report on the CPAN meeting</p>
</item>
<item title="2003 September 18th">
<p>
Dave Cross gave a talk on Writing a Book Using The Template Toolkit,
where he talks about writing the upcoming "Perl Template
Toolkit" book that he co-authored. You can see his article based on this
at <a href="http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/01/30/ttbook.html">perl.com</a>
</p>
<p>
Martin Ling gave a talk on Alzabo and gave a brief summary :
<i>Alzabo (http://www.alzabo.org)</i> is a Perl data modelling tool that groks
relational database systems. You can use it to manipulate database
schemas in the abstract, reverse engineer them from existing DBs, and
generate SQL diffs to a live database to rearrange its structure. It
also provides an object-oriented runtime API which provides similar
features to Class::DBI and other modules. Martin Ling will give an
overview of its capabilities, compare it to other related modules and
preview some new features in development.
</p>
<p>
Nicholas Clark gave a lightning talk on the upcoming release of
Perl 5.8.1 and what's changed in the new shiny shiny version of Perl.
</p>
<p>
Mark Fowler waffled about his new Attempt module.
</p>
<p>
Leon Brocard talked about the plans for the CPAN cabal meeting
a couple of weeks later entitled "How can we make CPAN even better?"
</p>
<p>
Tom Hukins presented a lighting talk about his experiences of
teaching Perl to absolute beginners.
</p>
<p>
James Duncan was explaining to us why he's never ever going to write
another container class again.
</p>
<p>
Finally Earle Martin was detailing Stupid RSS Tricks On IRC.
</p>
</item>
<item title="2003 July 17th">
<p>Talks at The Angel pub,Old Street</p>
<p>Steve Purkis talked about <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~spurkis/Pangloss-0.06/">'Pangloss'</a>, a multilingual
terminology management system built on OpenFrame/Pixie. His slides are onlines <a href="files/pangloss-talk">here</a>
</p>
<p>Paul Mison presented on Managing Digital Music Metadata
with Perl you can get the PDF (of YAPC talk) <a href="http://husk.org/perl/id3s/mdmcwp.pdf">here</a>
or read his <a href="http://husk.org/perl/id3s/notes.html">Notes</a>
</p>
<p>
Arthur Bergman, James Duncan and Leon Brocard talked about the
infamous Ponie project that all the cool kids are abuzz about these
days, and fielding questions. <a href="http://opensource.fotango.com/ponie/">http://opensource.fotango.com/ponie/</a>
</p>
<p>
Richard Clamp talked about his funky Bluetooth remote control
for his computer he made out of his <a href="http://unixbeard.net/~richardc/cgi/blog.cgi/dea.pod/">mobile phone and some Perl code</a>.
.. it got <a href="http://www.hackdiary.com/archives/000037.html">blogged</a> elsewhere along with some other info
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<p>Tim Sweetman gave a lightning talk on some new concepts he's proposing for improving Wikis.</p>
<p>Dominic Mitchell gave a lightning talk on general usage of namespaces in XML, and surprises therein</p>
<p>Finally, Nigel Hamilton presented the second part of his series of jovial looks at IP law from a programmer's point of view.</p>
<p>
There is a review of the night by Mark Fowler in his <a href="http://use.perl.org/~2shortplanks/journal/13528">use.perl journal</a>
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<item title="2003 May 22nd ">
<p>Talks at State51</p>
<p>Richard Clamp - <a
href="http://siesta.unixbeard.net/">Siesta</a> mailing list manager<br/>
<a
href="http://unixbeard.net/~richardc/cgi/blog.cgi/siesta-timeline.pod/">Timeline</a>,
<a href="http://unixbeard.net/~richardc/cgi/blog.cgi/siesta.pod/">Siesta
talk</a>,
<a
href="http://unixbeard.net/~richardc/cgi/blog.cgi/mariachi.pod/">Mariachi</a>
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<item title="2003 April 14th">
<p>"Templating Engines and Processing Content" mini-tech meet at Yahoo
including David Weeler's half hour talk on Bricolage, and a 40 min discussion
with an illustrious panel
</p>
<p>
Some <a href="http://www.paranoidfish.org/notes/2003/04/15/2055">notes blogged</a> by Paul Hammond
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<item title="2003 March 13th">
<p>Lots of talks at Yahoo</p>
<p>Matt Biddulph - <a
href="http://www.hackdiary.com/archives/000026.html">Lightning talk on RDF
and the Semantic Web </a></p>
<p>Celia - <a href="files/20030313/celia/">Soap operas and the semantic web</a></p>
<p>Ivor - <a href="http://un.earth.li/~ivorw/slides/vcslite.ppt">VCS::Lite</a></p>
<p>Matt and <a href="http://space.frot.org">Jo</a> - RDF and the semantic web</p>
<p>Nigel - <a href="files/20030313/nigel/">Intellectual Property</a></p>
<p>Nik - AxKit::App::Gallery <a
href="http://people.freebsd.org/~nik/AxKit-App-Gallery.mov">.mov of the talk
- 40 megs!</a></p>
<p>Schwern - <a href="http://magnonel.guild.net/~schwern/talks/MakeMaker_Is_DOOMED/">MakeMaker is DOOMED</a></p>
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<item title="2003 January 23rd">
<p>Dave Cross - <a
href="http://dave.org.uk/talks/overload/">Overload.pm</a></p>
<p>Simon Batistoni - <a HREF="http://hitherto.net/talks/tt_xml/">Generating websites with Template::Plugin::XML::LibXML</a></p>
<p>Alex Knowle - <a HREF="http://www.twoshortplanks.com/alex/sigs/">4 line japhs
- signature scripts</a></p>
<p>Leon Brocard - <a
href="http://www.astray.com/coremodules/"> Core Perl Modules You Might Not
Know About</a></p>
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<item title="2002 Novemeber 21st">
<p>Many lightening talks - <a href="21_nov_2002/">View them here</a></p>
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<item title="2002 September 12th">
<p>Leon Brocard - <a href="http://astray.com/perl6_now/">Perl 6 Now</a></p>
<p>Mark Fowler - <a href="http://2shortplanks.com/talks/yapce2002/">Extending the Template Toolkit</a></p>
<p>James Duncan - <a href="http://www.openframe.org/OpenFrame.pdf">OpenFrame</a></p>
<p>Nicholas Clark - <a href="http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/P/Fast_Enough/">When Perl Is Not Quite Fast Enough</a></p>
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<item title="2002 July 18th">
<p>Leon Brocard: - <a href="http://www.astray.com/modules/">Modules I like, modules I dislike</a></p>
<p>Chris Ball: <a href="http://printf.net/mgp/">"Magicpoint: A meta-presentation"</a> </p>
<p>Dave Cross: <a href="http://dave.org.uk/talks/idiomatic/">"Idiomatic Perl" (another extract)</a></p>
<p>Jo Walsh: "Why bots and the semantic web will change the world.</p>
<p>Paul Mison: <a href="http://husk.org/perl/talk/scribot.pdf">"The One Where I Bore You To Death About Scribot"</a></p>
<p>Pierre Denis: <a href="http://opensource.fotango.com/vx.html">"A Talk About Vx"</a></p>
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<item title="2002 March 21st">
<p>Richard Clamp: - <a href="http://unixbeard.net/~richardc/lab/talks/acme-your/acme-your.slides/">Acme::Your</a></p>
<p>Nicholas Clark: - <a href="http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/P/state_of_eight.html">The State Of 5.8</a></p>
<p>Alex Gough: - <a href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~shug0957/dd/">Meaningful Strong Typing with Data::Dimensions</a></p>
<p>Leon Brocard: - <a href="http://www.astray.com/pipelines/">Pipelines</a> - humor!</p>
<p>Mark Fowler: - <a href="http://www.twoshortplanks.com/talks/testing/">Building Test Modules With Test::Builder</a></p>
<p>Simon Wilcox: - <a href="http://www.simonw.demon.co.uk/talks/lpm020321/">Practical Perl Advocacy</a></p>
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<item title="2002 January 24th">
<p>Leon Brocard - <a href="http://www.astray.com/parrot/">Beginning to Program Parrot Assembler</a></p>
<p>Richard Clamp - The Road To Attribute::Parameters</p>
<p>Dave Cross - <a href="http://www.mag-sol.com/talks/idiotic/">Idiotic Perl</a></p>
<p>Nicholas Clark - Long Numbers in Perl 5</p>
<p>Mark Fowler - Advent Calendar Recap</p>
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<item title="2001 November 22nd">
<p>Leo Lapworth - <a href="http://www.backhand.org">Wackamole and http://www.backhand.org</a></p>
<p>Leon Brocard - <a href="http://www.astray.com/benchmarking_perl/">Benchmarking in Perl</a></p>
<p>James Duncan- <a href="http://openframe.fotango.com/docs/presentation/London_pm-png/">Open Frame</a> - Application, also on CPAN</p>
<p>Dave Cross - <a href="http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/">NMS</a></p>
<p>Matthew Byng-Maddick - <a href="http://colon.colondot.net/~mbm/keyman/slide00.shtml">KeyMan</a></p>
<p>Piers - refactoring</p>
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<item title="2001 September 20th">
<p>Paul Mison - <a href="http://use.perl.org/journal.pl?op=display&uid=1597">RSS, Infobots and You</a> - A talk on getting news feeds into dipsy</p>
<p>Richard Clamp and Michael Stevens - <a href="http://unixbeard.net/~richardc/drivel/pod::coverage_talk.pod">Pod::Coverage</a> - Making sure modules are documented</p>
<p>Michael Stevens - <a href="http://search.cpan.org/doc/MSTEVENS/Mail-ListDetector-0.18/lib/Mail/ListDetector.pm">Mail::ListDetector</a> - Automatically sorting mail on mailing lists</p>
<p>Mark Fowler and Richard Clamp - <a href="http://www.waxonwaxoff.org">Wax::On Wax::Off</a> - a repeat of their talk at yapc on humourous ways to teach perl</p>
<p>Simon Cozens - <a href="http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/18/parrot.html">Parrot</a> - What's happening in the weird and wacky world of the Perl 6 (and friends) virtual machine development</p>
<p>Leon Brocard - <a href="http://astray.com/java/">Java</a> - getting Java byte code compiled to Parrot</p>
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<item title="2001 July 19th">
<p>Leon Brocard - <A HREF="http://www.astray.com/testing_perl/">Testing Perl</A> - some good points about and methods for, testing your code.<br/></p>
<p>Richard Clamp - <a href="http://unixbeard.net/~richardc/lab/tcpbug-playback/">Using tcpdump to learn how to code</a></p>
<p>Redvers Davies - Gtk tutorial, how to make a gui for X windows with Perl.</p>
<p>Simon Wistow - <a href="http://www.twoshortplanks.com/flash/">Perl::Flash</a> - now written in C! - but with a perl interface</p>
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<item title="2001 June 21st">
<p>Marty Pauly: Using TT instead of h2xs - very nice, now where's the module Marty ?</p>
<p>Dave Cross: <a href="http://www.dave.org.uk/talks/ppl/slide1.html">Perl For The People</a>, talked about making all other programming languages beside perl illegal (and we believed he was right).</p>
<p>Leo Lapworth: Website Status Report - it's alive I tell you, alive!</p>
<p>Robin Houston: Something Scary About Regexes, and that's an understatment, because it also involved Quantum::Sups</p>
<p>Leon Brocard: Something Cool Using Inline.pm, funky stuff from the 'YEA BABY' himself.</p>
<p>Mark Fowler: <a href="http://london.pm.org/~mark/ttxpath/">Using Template Toolkit and XML to render</a> - well almost anything using views, ok, so it wasn't given on this date</p>
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