Hi All, I have to admit that I leant a lot more from LPW than I expected... and I expected quite a bit.
Some of my notes:- David Cantrell did an interesting thing on closures (which I'm sure I'll find very useful once I fully understand it :) String::Koremutake - Creates random memorable strings (I thought this could be useful for memorable passwords for users, better than them choosing their own) Term::Progressbar Arbyte - Not yet released, a framework for job queuing and execution (seems like a big part of my current project that I haven't done yet, thank you Alistair Macleod) Ed Freyfogle did an excellent piece on debugging:- Make helper scripts (to do the things you find yourself doing repeatedly) Logging - Log4Perl Dryrun option - shows you what would have been run rather than running it Schedule time for code review/learning Perl::Metrics::Simple User bug reporting - capture all that you can, such as all of ENV (browser, cookies...), time, etc. Nestoria.co.uk said they were looking for coders part/full time, so did Paul Makepeace (who is on this list) - Amias didn't you have some spare work time? Tom Hukins took an entertaining an energetic look deeper into Log::Dispatch and Log4Perl (I need to use this alongside the debug mode I've put into my current project, fills in the gaps I've had debugging)... Plus he reminded me of Timmy Mallett, which made it even funnier (it's ok, I told him and he thought that was cool) Tim Bunce did a very, very well presented bit on Devel::NYTProf that looked brilliant. I'm looking forward to using it. (Realised I was meeting a Perl celeb, when Peter told me that he was the author of DBI. Luckily had chance to talk to him in the pub later and get some useful advice) JJ did an interesting bit on a retail site he's worked on using a lot of CPAN including Catalyst, Handle a framework for shopping carts and PDF::Reuse (the only catalyst talk I went to, still prefer CGI::APP at the moment, will certainly start using PDF::Reuse as many of my customer don't seem to like a bare bones plain text invoices... hey, it's got my VAT number ain't it?) A lightening talk mentioned TAP::Formatter::HTML which seemed to do a bit more than just formatting and made the data very easy to look through. The Trout did a bit on encouraging people to post questions and idea's on Perl lists saying that they'd get support and useful feedback... Which Hugely contradicts the kind of responses he himself gives on LPM???? Maybe it's don't do as I Do, do as Lyle suggests... I don't take a lot of notes. Everything (I think) was recorded so you'll be able to watch the bits that interest you. Lyle Oh and it's seems that the inner London Cabal must to have a rule where it's fine to talk to Lyle, as long as no other Cabal members see you do it, lol ;) Makes me feel a big like Russell Brand, some people think that the BBC thing was a massive over reaction, others think it was unacceptable. Guess it just comes down to your sense of humour :) If only I had a Perl book out, sales might have rocketed (Brands book sales did). Maybe I should release a one off t-shirt "Perl is my bitch, but she doesn't like the way my beard feels against her thighs" - yes I have been drinking, LOL! _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
