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8:30am Monday, 07/20/2009
Perl 6: Why? What? How?
Perl
 Location: Meeting Room B1/B4
Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
Average rating: ****.
(4.76, 21 ratings)
This half-day tutorial provides a comprehensive and practical introduction to the new language, specifically designed to get current Perl 5 programmers up to speed on the new and powerful features of Perl 6. Read more.
1:30pm Monday, 07/20/2009
What's new in Perl v5.10?
Perl
 Location: Meeting Room B1/B4
Tom Christiansen (TCPC)
Average rating: **...
(2.77, 13 ratings)
Perl5 is alive and well, and this tutorial outlines the many significant changes appearing in the 5.10.0 release and beyond, especially in regular expressions and modules. Read more.
8:30am Tuesday, 07/21/2009
Moose: A Complete (Meta-)OO System for Perl
Perl
 Location: Ballroom A7
Yuval Kogman (Infinity Interactive)
Average rating: **...
(2.50, 2 ratings)
Moose is a complete OO system for Perl that provides a declarative sugar layer along with a complete meta-model for introspection and extension. Read more.
1:30pm Tuesday, 07/21/2009
Doing Perl Right
Perl
 Location: Ballroom A4/A5
Paul Fenwick (Perl Training Australia), Jacinta Richardson (Perl Training Australia)
Average rating: ****.
(4.12, 24 ratings)
You already know some Perl. You've read a book, written a few scripts, maybe even a module, but are you sure you're doing it right? Languagues and techniques evolve over time, and Perl is no exception. This detailed tutorial covers many of the best modern and practical techniques in Perl, including Moose, autodie, Devel::NYTProf, Devel::Cover, PAR, Perl::Critic and more. Read more.
10:45am Wednesday, 07/22/2009
MVCs in Perl, Too Many Ways To Do It!
Perl, Web Applications
 Location: Meeting Room J2
Jacinta Richardson (Perl Training Australia)
Average rating: ****.
(4.11, 9 ratings)
Everyone else is using Model-View-Controller (MVC) frameworks to create their websites, but Perl has so many! How is an MVC-novice to choose between Catalyst, Jifty, Gantry, Maypole or many of the others? Come along for a whirlwind tour of these frameworks and more and see their strengths, their failures and make an informed decision about which one you'll use for your next project. Read more.
11:35am Wednesday, 07/22/2009
State-of-the-art Profiling with Devel::NYTProf
Perl
 Location: Meeting Room J2
Tim Bunce (TigerLead)
Average rating: ****.
(4.75, 8 ratings)
Devel::NYTProf has revolutionized profiling perl code. Making accurate and detailed performance data available for the first time, and in richly annotated and inter-linked HTML reports. Come and learn how NYTProf can shed light on the performance hot spots in your code. Read more.
1:45pm Wednesday, 07/22/2009
Perl 6 Update
Perl
 Location: Meeting Room J2
Larry Wall (The Wall Nuthouse), Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
Average rating: ****.
(4.09, 22 ratings)
Larry Wall and Damian Conway will present the latest features of Perl 6, and discuss the on-going implementation of the new Perl. Read more.
2:35pm Wednesday, 07/22/2009
Transparent Sharing of Complex Data with YAML
Databases, Java, Perl, PHP, Programming, Python, Ruby
 Location: Meeting Room B2
Ingy döt Net (Oui Code Software, LLC)
Average rating: ***..
(3.62, 16 ratings)
YAML is the serialization language that enables sharing of complex data between Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP and Java. It does it so in a human friendly manner. Many popular frameworks use YAML, including Ruby on Rails. In this talk, Ingy döt Net, one of the authors of the YAML specification, will show you how to share data objects not feasible by JSON or XML. Read more.
4:30pm Wednesday, 07/22/2009
R we f#¢$ed? Why We Don't Understand Risk, and How it Dooms Us All
Business, Emerging Topics, People, Programming
 Location: Ballroom A8
Danese Cooper (Wikimedia Foundation and Open Source Initiative), David Smith (REvolution Computing)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 14 ratings)
Risk and chance play a huge part in our daily lives, yet the human brain doesn't come pre-loaded with the right software to make intuitive decisions about them. This talk is to provide some illumination in the basic principles to help you understand and quantify risk, and to introduce you to the open-source language R, an essential tool for finding statistical solutions to your own problems. Read more.
5:20pm Wednesday, 07/22/2009
Bluffer's Guide to autoconf and automake
Programming
 Location: Ballroom A7
Casey West (Casey West Consulting)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 4 ratings)
As users of FLOSS software we have, on occasion, the need to understand the configuration systems of the software we use. This presentation will arm you with just enough knowledge to be dangerous. You will learn how to write configure template files and, yes, you will learn about m4. m4 is the macro processor language used by autoconf. Read more.
  • Intel
  • Microsoft
  • Google
  • SourceForge.net
  • Sun Microsystems
  • Facebook
  • Gear6
  • Kaltura
  • Liferay
  • MindTouch
  • MySpace.com
  • Novell, Inc.
  • Open Invention Network
  • Rackspace Cloud
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • Symbian Foundation
  • Twilio
  • WSO2
  • Yabarana Corporation

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