BEGIN:VCALENDAR CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//Act//Data::ICal 0.16//EN VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2007 X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:What: Friday night social\nLocation: Google Pittsburgh\nDate: F riday\, October 12th\, 2007.\nTime: 6:00pm - 8:00pm\n\nKick off the weeken d workshop mixing and mingling with fellow workshop attendees and represen tatives from the Google Pittsburgh office. Complimentary beer\, wine and h or'dourves will be provided.\n\nRSVP requested.\n\nPlease see the wiki pag e for more details and RSVP information. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071012T200000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071012T180000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Friday Night Social UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/252 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/252 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:All staff should report by 7:30 to assist in setting things up. (anybody else that wants to come and help is also welcome) DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T080000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T073000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Staff arrival and set-up UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/232 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/232 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Breakfast served in the Keynote room. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T090000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T080000 LOCATION:Google keynote room SUMMARY:Breakfast UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/233 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/233 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Our staff will be available in the registration room between 8: 00 and 11:30 to get you registered for the event and answer any questions. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T111500 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T080000 LOCATION:Registration SUMMARY:Registration UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/230 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/230 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Welcoming remarks presented by the PPW organizers. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T093000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T090000 LOCATION:Google keynote room SUMMARY:Welcome and Introductions UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/234 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/234 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Michael Schwern: Results of the Perl Survey.\n\nRichard Dice: 7 stages of a Perl Monger. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T103000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T093000 LOCATION:Google keynote room SUMMARY:Keynote Address UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/235 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/235 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Beverages will be served in the Keynote room. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T104500 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T103000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Break UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/236 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/236 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:From Zero to Perl\, a day-long tutorial presented by Daniel Kle in.\n\nExtra registration fee required. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T154000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T104500 LOCATION:pair Networks room SUMMARY:From Zero to Perl UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/237 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/237 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Pittsburgh Perl Workshop Hackathon DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T154000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T113000 LOCATION:Registration SUMMARY:Hackathon Day 1 UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/229 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/229 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Boxed lunch served from the keynote room. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T133000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T120000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Lunch UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/231 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/231 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Beverages served in the Keynote room DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T153000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T152000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Break UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/239 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/239 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Please see the Wiki for more details. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T213000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T183000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Saturday Night Social UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/253 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/253 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Staff set-up. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T080000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T073000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Staff arrival and set-up UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/238 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/238 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Day 2 of The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop hackathon. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T140000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T080000 LOCATION:Registration SUMMARY:Hackathon Day 2 UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/243 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/243 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Breakfast served in the keynote room. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T090000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T080000 LOCATION:Google keynote room SUMMARY:Breakfast UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/245 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/245 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Beverages served in the keynote room. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T100000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T095000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Break UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/240 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/240 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Boxed lunches served in the keynote room. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T133000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T120000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Lunch UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/241 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/241 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Beverages served in the Keynote room. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T150000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T145000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Break UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/242 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/242 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Closing. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T174500 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T170000 LOCATION:Google keynote room SUMMARY:Town hall\, Closing remarks. UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/244 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/event/244 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:Security is the buzz of the IT Industry\, nearly as hot as Web 2.0 frameworks and abusive Javascript. My primary responsibility for the N ational Institute on Health is ensuring compliance with Federal informatio n security policies. I'm using and abusing perl for key parts of network based intrusion detection systems and correlating data between several ope n source products.\n\nThis will be a look from the trenches protecting the network from malicious outsiders\, and poorly written software. I'll als o cover how to introduce fewer vulnerabilities into your systems by utiliz ing safe programming techniques in Perl. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T152000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T143000 LOCATION:Google keynote room ORGANIZER:Brad Lhotsky SUMMARY:Security through Detection\, Prevention and Introspection with Perl UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/713 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/713 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:Roles are a new way of looking at code-reuse which is more \ngr ainular then classes but safer then traditional mix-ins. \nRoles are based on Smalltalk Traits and are a major part \nof Perl 6\, but you can start using them right now in Perl 5 \nwith Moose. In this talk we take you beyo nd the contrived \nexamples and talk about real world problems and how rol es \ncan be leveraged to provide more flexible and re-useable \nsolutions. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T135000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T133000 LOCATION:pair Networks room ORGANIZER:Stevan Little SUMMARY:Horizontal Code Reuse with Moose::Role UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/714 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/714 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:Moose is a complete modern object system for Perl 5 \nbased on the Perl 6 object system. Moose's main goal \nis to make Perl 5 OO clean a nd easy to write without \nsacrificing the stability\, power and flexibili ty that \nyou have come to expect from Perl 5. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T115000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T110000 LOCATION:pair Networks room ORGANIZER:Stevan Little SUMMARY:Introduction to Moose UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/715 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/715 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network is one of Perl's secret weapons\, carrying solutions to many of the problems that we face. However \, CPAN is more than a repository of Perl software: CPAN is a worldwide fa mily of technologies. In this talk\, you will learn about the CPAN\, PAUSE \, backpan\, searching CPAN\, CPAN testing\, contributing to CPAN\, CPAN's history\, CPAN-related mailing lists and websites\, distribution ratings and defect/enhancement tracking\, and much more. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T155000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T150000 LOCATION:pair Networks room ORGANIZER:Adam Foxson SUMMARY:CPAN Comprehensive UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/716 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/716 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:Schedule\n\nManage::Objects\nBricolage is Alive and Well and Ru nning RAND.org\nCatalyst - It's not as scary as you think\nRunning the Car negie Mellon network with Perl\nChompie\nWin32::OLE with Active Directory\ n\nIntroduction to PerlScript\nHow to destroy a database\nThermd - help me !\nAnalyzing the perl survey\nLightning fast review of ::Util\n\nYou can s ubmit your talk with the link in the "Presentations" section of the menu t o the left of this page. The sooner you submit your talk the sooner you k now you are accepted and can finish working on your slides\n\nWhy Would Yo u Want to do a Lightning Talk?\n\nMaybe you've never given a talk before\, and you'd like to start small. For a Lightning Talk\, you don't need to m ake slides\, and if you do decide to make slides\, you only need to make t hree.\n\nMaybe you're nervous and you're afraid you'll mess up. It's a lot easier to plan and deliver a five minute talk than it is to deliver a lon g talk. And if you do mess up\, at least the painful part will be over qui ckly.\n\nMaybe you don't have much to say. Maybe you just want to ask a qu estion\, or invite people to help you with your project\, or boast about s omething you did\, or tell a short cautionary story. These things are all interesting and worth talking about\, but there might not be enough to say about them to fill up thirty minutes.\n\nMaybe you have a lot of things t o say\, and you're already going to give a long talk on one of them\, and you don't want to hog the spotlight. There's nothing wrong with giving sev eral Lightning Talks. Hey\, they're only five minutes.\n\nOn the other sid e\, people might want to come to a lightning talk when they wouldn't come to a long talk on the same subject. The risk for the attendees is smaller: If the talk turns out to be dull\, or if the person giving the talk turns out to be a really bad speaker\, well\, at least it's over in five minute s. With lightning talks\, you're never stuck in some boring lecture for fo rty-five minutes.\n\nStill having trouble picking a topic\, here are some suggestions:\n\n1. Why my favorite module is X.\n2. I want to do cool proj ect X. Does anyone want to help?\n3. Successful Project: I did project X. It was a success. Here's how you could benefit.\n4. Failed Project: I did project X. It was a failure\, and here's why.\n5. Heresy: People always sa y X\, but they're wrong. Here's why.\n6. You All Suck: Here's what is wron g with the our community.\n7. Call to Action: Let's all do more of X / les s of X.\n8. Wouldn't it be cool if X?\n9. Someone needs to do X.\n10. Wish List\n11. Why X was a mistake.\n12. Why X looks like a mistake\, but isn' t.\n13. What it's like to do X.\n14. Here's a useful technique that worked .\n15. Here's a technique I thought would be useful but didn't work.\n16. Why algorithm X sucks.\n17. Comparison of algorithms X and Y.\n\nOf course \, you could give the talk on anything you wanted\, whether or not it is o n this list. If we get a full schedule of nothing but five minutes of rant ing and raving on each topic\, a good time will still be had by most. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T170000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T160000 LOCATION:Google keynote room ORGANIZER:R Geoffrey Avery SUMMARY:Lightning Talks UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/720 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/720 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:OpenID seems to be everywhere - it's springing up everywhere ar ound the web\, but many people aren't really sure what it is or what it's for.\n\nThis talk will cover the following topics:\n* What is OpenID and w hy should you care?\n* Walking through the flow of an OpenID interaction\n * Perl OpenID modules\n* An example of integrating OpenID into an existing application DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T105000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T103000 LOCATION:pair Networks room ORGANIZER:Kirsten Jones SUMMARY:OpenID is the New Black UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/724 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/724 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:If you have ever said\, "Hey\, I've heard of coverage analysis. How does that work in Perl?"\, you should attend this presentation. It will explore the role of coverage analysis in testing and guide you throug h typical uses of Perl's major tool for conducting coverage analysis\, Pau l Johnson's CPAN module Devel::Cover. The use of Devel::Cover will be ill ustrated in simple programs\, in CPAN-style distributions and in large-sca le projects such as Parrot. Participants will get a take-home exercise .. . and possibly a pony! DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T115000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T110000 LOCATION:Google keynote room ORGANIZER:James E Keenan SUMMARY:Better Code via Coverage Analysis during Testing UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/725 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/725 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:If you've been writing your web applications with CGI\, plain m od_perl\, or Mason\, it's time to look at Catalyst. In this talk\, we'll see how Catalyst's MVC features lets you design more maintainable applicat ions in less time. You'll see how to get an application started\, how to interface with a database\, add authentication and authorization\, how to write code that you'll understand in 6 months\, and how to make sure it al l works.\n\nAt the end of the talk\, you'll know enough to get data onto t he web with Catalyst\, how to understand the documentation for the core an d extensions\, and where to go for more help. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T142000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T133000 LOCATION:Google keynote room ORGANIZER:Jonathan Rockway SUMMARY:Getting started with Catalyst UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/726 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/726 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:You know you want to test your code... but it's so hard and you keep putting it off. Put it off no longer! In this talk we'll see how t o design your application to be easily testable\, and then how to test it. We'll look at some notoriously difficult testing scenarios (web applicat ions\, console applications\, IRC bots\, etc.)\, and then we'll fix up the code and start testing it.\n\nThis talk isn't a tour of the Test::More AP I\, it's about how to write code that's easy to test in the first place. Of course\, we'll be getting cozy with the Test:: namespace\, too. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T135000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T133000 LOCATION:Google keynote room ORGANIZER:Jonathan Rockway SUMMARY:Test More! UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/727 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/727 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:Perl's a great language for doing text processing\, and that ma kes it a great language for doing Natural Language Processing as well. CP AN has an abundance of NLP modules\, ranging from modules that pluralize E nglish words and sort Klingon\, to interfaces to complex databases like Wo rdNet. In fact\, there are so many NLP modules on CPAN that\ntrying to ma ke sense of them all can be a daunting task for any Perl programmer. In t his talk I'll do a survey of NLP modules in CPAN\, concentrating on the mo dules under Lingua::EN::*. I'll also show how to use Perl to interface wi th the CMU link grammar parser libraries and with the WordNet database. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T162000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T153000 LOCATION:Google keynote room ORGANIZER:Walt Mankowski SUMMARY:Natural Language Processing in Perl UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/728 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/728 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:Make Apache bend to your will! We'll look at two ways to have f un with apache and mod_perl. \n\nFirst\, we'll see how to write a simple Apache2 module that acts as an output filter (munging text in cert ain pages) according to parameters from your Apache configuration. \n\nNext\, we'll look at a more drastic modification - changing Apache::Registry itself to add some n ew behaviors\, such as sending an email when a perl script dies. \n\nThis topic is based on modules developed at the Sol Genomics Network\, http://s gn.cornell.edu. Attendees will be encouraged to adapt these techniques for their own nefarious purposes. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T120000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T114000 LOCATION:Google keynote room ORGANIZER:Beth Skwarecki SUMMARY:Apache Hacks UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/731 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/731 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:It's easy to write command-line programs in Perl. There are a million option parsers to choose from\, and Perl makes it easy to deal wit h input\, output\, and all that stuff.\n\nOnce your program has gotten bey ond just taking a few switches\, though\, it can be difficult to maintain a clear interface and well-tested code. App::Cmd is a lightweight framewo rk for writing easy to manage CLI programs.\n\nThis talk provides an intro duction to writing programs with App::Cmd. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T102000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T100000 LOCATION:pair Networks room ORGANIZER:Ricardo Signes SUMMARY:Writing Modular Command-line Apps with App::Cmd UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/734 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/734 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:Everybody knows about Exporter.pm: you use it\, and if someone uses your module\, they don't have to type quite as much. We'll look at h ow the Exporter works\, and how it fails to take advantage of the powerful concepts on which it's built. We'll see how you can provide flexible imp ort routines that allow your module's user to type even less and get code that behaves much more like part of his own program. You can avoid repeat ing unnecessary parameters to every overly-generic routine and can avoid c ollision-prone global configuration. All of this is made possible -- and easy -- by Sub::Exporter.\n\nGenerators -- routines that build routines -- can produce customized code\, built to each importer's specifications. S ub::Exporter lets you build and provide customized routines easily. You'l l learn how to write generators\, and how to use them with Sub::Exporter . In its simplest form\, it's as easy to use as Exporter.pm. With just a bit more configuration\, it can build\, group\, rename\, and julienne rout ines easily. With this tool\, you'll be able to provide interfaces that a re both simpler and more powerful than those provided by the stock Exporte r. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T172000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T163000 LOCATION:Google keynote room ORGANIZER:Ricardo Signes SUMMARY:Crafting Custom Interfaces with Sub::Exporter UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/735 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/735 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:Continuity is a library for building a highly structured web-ba sed interface for your application\, without using ad-hoc state management . This is done through a minimalist API similar in scope to CGI.pm\, abstr acting away the request-response cycle by using continuations.\n\nThis tal k will first introduce the concept of continuation-based web applications\ , specifically discussing the popular Seaside (smalltalk) framework. We wi ll then introduce Continuity itself\, demonstrating entry-level code to ge t started using it. Finally we will discuss architectural and philosophica l implications of using Continuity\, along with future goals for the proje ct.\n\nCode will be written and demonstrated live throughout the talk. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T105000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T100000 LOCATION:Google keynote room ORGANIZER:Brock Wilcox SUMMARY:Continuity: A Continuation-Based Web App Library for Perl UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/736 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/736 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:All the hype about perl 5.10 can sound a little intimidating. User-level pragmata! Overloadable smartmatching operator! Thread-safe re fkey hashes! For Pete's sake\, have you heard about lexically scoped plug gable regexp engines?\n\nIt's enough to make you think that 5.10's changes are just for the hard-core perl hackers\, but it couldn't be further from the truth! The new version of Perl is full of changes that are easy to u se and pack lots of useful benefits for doing plain old every day Perl pro gramming.\n\nWe'll look at the new features\, small and large\, and see wh y you\, too\, will love 5.10. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T142000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T140000 LOCATION:Google keynote room ORGANIZER:Ricardo Signes SUMMARY:Perl 5.10 for "Normal" Programmers UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/737 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/737 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:Learn how to use a few CPAN modules to make deploying web appli cations on multiple servers as easy as "make install" and get back to what you really want to be doing\, developing your application. Using the rig ht tools we will organize configurations\, pathing\, document trees\, and database schemas\, and enable your app\, to have its own deployment\, beyo nd just installing libraries on your server. \n \nFor developers that lik e to tinker with new web applications it is easy to get bogged down in dep loyment. Maybe you write your application on your laptop\, testing it wit h Apache from ~/public_html. Now you want to deploy on a public server yo u have or maybe hand the application over to a peer for review. But what if Apache is configured differently there? How do you install actual temp lates\, static files\, images\, etc\, and not just your libs? How do you get from your modules being installed on the server\, to a web root being setup\, httpd configured\, database deployed\, and application running? \n \nIt is these questions which can immediately take you out of what you want to be doing\, developing your app\, and bog you down in tedious repet ition. Don't Repeat Yourself. A generic deployment should be able to auto matically apply across servers\, without you having to rethink it each tim e. \n \nBy the time we are done\, you will be one command\, a copy and pa ste\, and a HUP away from seeing your app live\, without copying configura tions from one server to another\, dealing with path issues\, getting your document root together\, and all the other gotchas that tend to creep up. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T145000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T143000 LOCATION:Google keynote room ORGANIZER:John Cappiello SUMMARY:Taking the Hassle Out of Web Application Deployment UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/738 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/738 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:Perl is not only a world-class programming language but also a potent command-line tool. In this tour de force of compact Perl prowess\, every audience member will become a command-line ninja! DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T142000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T140000 LOCATION:pair Networks room ORGANIZER:Walt Mankowski SUMMARY:Essential One-liners UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/739 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/739 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:40 Million Seconds. 20\,000 pieces of content. 200 page maint ainers. 100 subsites. 15 months. Three new employees. A new hope. The ob jective? Implement an enterprise-grade\, Perl based content managment sys tem (CMS) at a small\, selective university. Find out how the Denison Uni versity Web Services Department did it using the Open Source Perl and Maso n-based Bricolage CMS. Among the challenges: a website in need of reorgani zation\, no Perl experience among the core team\, a user community leery o f change\, and managing a team of 10 students. The talk will address top ics such as: overcoming the credibility gap of open source\, organizing la rge projects to meet deadlines\, working with the user community\, surmoun ting unforseen obstacles\, and\, of course\, setting up\, customizing\, an d deploying Bricolage. The talk is designed for those considering impleme nting Bricolage\, those interested in content management systems in genera l\, and those interested in the story of how three young employees worked together to complete a big project. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T095000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T090000 LOCATION:pair Networks room ORGANIZER:Matthew Rolf SUMMARY:40 Million Seconds to Freestyle: Content Management with Bricolage UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/741 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/741 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:Bear is a personal content management system designed to make i t easy for one person to publish simple web sites. Faisal will talk about the tool\, how it got here\, where it's going\, what he learned along the way\, and what Perl had to do with it. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T145000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T143000 LOCATION:pair Networks room ORGANIZER:Faisal Jawdat SUMMARY:Bear: A Personal Content Management System UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/744 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/744 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:Geeks aren't the greatest when it comes to people. And like it or not\, other geeks are people\, too. We'll look at the common reasons for why geeks fail to communicate well with other geeks (forget regular pe ople) and how to fix that. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T155000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T150000 LOCATION:Google keynote room ORGANIZER:Michael Schwern SUMMARY:Improving geek2geek Communications UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/746 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/746 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:SVK is a modern\, distributed version control client built in P erl on top of Subversion. SVK's powerful branching and merging let's you use it in many ways that plain Subversion isn't so good at. We'll go thro ugh the ways SVK is useful in day to day programming tasks:\n\n* An instan t repository\n* An enhanced Subversion client\n* Teasing apart a tangled e dit\n* Organizing your patch submissions\n* Managing vendor code\n* Managi ng Subversion branches\n* Managing your programming tasks\n* Using a repos itory when you're offline\n* Making a mirror of someone else's repository\ n\nThe audience:\n* Should be familiar with basic version control concepts (revisions\, checkouts\, checkins\, diffs\, updates...)\n* You don't need to know Subversion (but it helps)\n* You don't need to understand (or lik e) branching\n* You don't need to understand distributed version control DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T095000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T090000 LOCATION:Google keynote room ORGANIZER:Michael Schwern SUMMARY:The Many Faces of SVK UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/747 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/747 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:Parrot Intermediate Representation (PIR) is the core language f or writing extensions\, modules\, tools\, compiler transformations\, and m ore for Parrot. While the syntax is quite simple\, the power it gives you will be familiar to anyone who has worked with a dynamic language like Per l. This talk will walk you through the basics\, and on to a level where yo u'll be prepared to handle advanced uses. An informal hackathon will be ru nning throughout the workshop\, where you can get more training in PIR or in working on the Parrot project. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T104500 LOCATION:Google keynote room ORGANIZER:Allison Randal SUMMARY:PIR Tutorial UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/768 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/768 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR