>>>>> "JM" == John Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JM> We had Damian give that talk in Toronto a couple of years ago JM> (amongst others). JM> In the 24 hours he had to prepare for the keynote, he wrote, JM> tested and documented (to the extent necessary for the keynote JM> slideshow, not for a formal release) 24 different modules. many fewer than that. but i tried to not give so much away! :) JM> The first step was to write a module for producing slides, JM> since his normal use of PowerPoint required far more than 24 JM> hours to produce and tune a presentation to the extent that JM> he normally does to get the well polished result we've come JM> to know and love. It continued on from there. IIRC, none of JM> the modules in that 24 hours involved an opportunity for him JM> to sleep. JM> As you might expect, the modules produced under those JM> constraints ranged for cute items that filled out the target JM> of 24 to powerful concepts worthy of full development (and a JM> number of them had been further developed). the talk is as much about his process and the story as it is about the actual modules. and IIRC a couple or so of them were developed far enough to be covered in perl best practices. rather an amazing batting average considering how they were initially created. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
