So - the tech meet happened :-) Thanks to the 3 others who made it, I enjoyed all the talks.
Quick summary for those who missed it (apologies if I misquote titles): * My talk - Automated Testing Patterns in Perl Quite a large topic, so my talk was broad but shallow. I covered why you'd want to write automated tests, different types of test, testing tools and then some concrete examples of how to get started. * Lyle Hopkins - Fixing the Perl mushroom Lyle talked about ways to kick-start Perl's popularity, including modernising Perl's web presence, presenting a friendlier face to Perl newbies and bridging the gap between CGI hackers and "higher level Perl". * Peter Haworth - Contributing to CPAN Peter gave us a very thorough talk-through of how to go about contributing a distribution to CPAN, including the various choices you have to make and some guidance on which options would be the least painful. * Robin Edwards (AKA Rob) - Parrot and Porcupine Rob - nice to meet you Rob - talked us through his project to build a Pascal compiler using Parrot. He included an overview of Parrot's components and compilation model; particularly interesting was the Parrot Grammar Engine (PGE) which looked very human-friendly in its syntax. I had to leave a little early, so there may have been more to the meeting than that (Peter had a 2nd talk prepared, for instance). Do let me know what I missed. Alex _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
