Alex, Any chance you could email me your presentation? Or maybe we should upload things to the site?? I'm doing some testing stuff at the moment and could do with having another flick through your detailed talk :)
Lyle Alex Francis wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
