BEGIN:VCALENDAR CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//Act//Data::ICal 0.16//EN VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2008 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:Kick off the weekend workshop mixing and mingling with fellow w orkshop attendees. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081010T220000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081010T180000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Friday Night Social UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/399 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/399 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Staff set-up DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T080000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T073000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Staff arrival and set-up UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/391 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/391 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Breakfast (provided) DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T090000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T080000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Breakfast (in the Atrium) UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/392 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/392 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Conference registration. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T102000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T080000 LOCATION:Wean 7500 SUMMARY:Registration UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/393 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/393 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Welcoming remarks presented by the PPW organizers. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T093000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T090000 LOCATION:Wean 7500 SUMMARY:Welcome and Introductions UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/401 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/401 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Details to come. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T103000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T102000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Break UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/403 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/403 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:All-day\, open hackathon. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T152000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T103000 LOCATION:Wean 7220 SUMMARY:Hackathon UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/419 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/419 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:About the course.\n\nFind out why Perl has become the language of choice for Web development\, text processing\, database access\, Intern et services\, mail filtering\, systems administration\, and other tasks re quiring portable and easily-developed solutions.\n\nThis comprehensive cou rse will enable you to unleash Perl's text processing and file manipulatio n powers using its rich collection of built-in functions and its unsurpass ed pattern matching capabilities.\n\nIn addition to providing a thorough i ntroduction to essential Perl syntax such as variables\, flow control\, su broutines\, file I/O\, string and array manipulation\, this course also pr esents more advanced techniques such as parsing text with regular expressi ons and building data structures dynamically.\n\nThis fast-paced course co vers the following Perl topics:\n\n * Basic I/O and Flow Control\n * Operators\n * Manipulating Strings\n * Arrays and Lists\n * Hash es\n * Additional I/O Techniques\n * Data Structures and References\ n * Regular Expressions\n * Subroutines\n\nAbout the instructor.\n\n Daniel Klein has been instructing Perl for over a decade as a member of th e Tom Christiansen Perl Consultancy. He has been teaching subjects relatin g to Unix since 1984\, and has been involved in Unix since 1976. His exper ience includes the internals of almost every Unix kernel released in the p ast 30 years\, real-time process control\, compilers and interpreters\, me dical diagnostic systems\, system security and administration\, web-relate d systems and servers\, graphical user interface management systems\, and a racetrack betting system. He contributes regularly to the proceedings of the USENIX Association\, and is also their education director. He holds a Masters of Applied Mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsbu rgh\, and in his free time is a member of an a capella choir and an improv isational comedy troupe. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T152000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T103000 LOCATION:Wean 5409 SUMMARY:From Zero to Perl UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/397 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/397 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:In this tutorial\, brian d foy will cover aspects of his latest book\, Mastering Perl\, which is practical advice for working programmers on creating professional\, enterprise-quality Perl programs. He will cove r four major topics:\n\n * benchmarking and the theory of measurement t o show you not only how to measure something but understand and interpret the results\n * configuring a Perl program so users can affect its beha vior with changing the source\, including environment variables\, command- line switches\, and configuration files\n * recording the operation of a program through logging to show errors\, report progress\, and record\n * debugging\, patching\, and modifying existing module code without cha nging the original source\n\nTarget audience: intermediate through advance d Perl programmers. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T152000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T103000 LOCATION:Wean 5403 SUMMARY:Mastering Perl UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/398 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/398 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:GPU programming with CUDA:\n\n\nChristiaan P. Gribble\nAssistan t Professor\nDepartment of Computer Science\nGrove City College\nhttp://ww w2.gcc.edu/dept/comp/faculty/gribblecp/\n\nAbstract:\n\nIn recent years\, commodity graphics processing units (GPUs) have rapidly evolved from fixed -function pipelines implementing the z-buffer rendering algorithm to progr ammable\, highly parallel machines that can be used to solve a wide range of problems. NVIDIA's Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) is a GPU programming environment based on extensions to the C programming language that exposes the processing power of these devices for general-purpose pr oblem solving. This talk provides a basic introduction to current GPU arc hitectures\, and includes a series of hands-on exercises that demonstrate some common techniques for programming NVIDIA GPUs using the CUDA framewor k. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T120000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T112000 LOCATION:Wean 5304 SUMMARY:GPU programming with CUDA: UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/418 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/418 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Newell-Simon Atrium DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T133000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T120000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Lunch (in the Atrium) UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/402 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/402 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Break time DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T152000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T151000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Break UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/405 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/405 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Saturday Dinner\n\n\nLocation: Clark Bar and Grill\nDate: Satur day\, October 12th\, 2008\nTime: Starts at 6:00pm\nLocation: 503 Martindal e St Pittsburgh\, PA 15212\nDirections\nPhone: 412.231.5720\n\nCome relax and enjoy yourself at the Clark Bar and Grill. Appetizers and some refresh ments will be provided. A full food menu and selection of drinks may be or dered through the wait staff.\n\nPlease note that we have the entire resta urant reserved. \n\nPlease add yourself to the wiki if you are coming. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T180000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Saturday Dinner UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/406 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/406 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Staff set-up. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T080000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T073000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Staff arrival and set-up UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/389 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/389 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Breakfast (provided) DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T090000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T080000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Breakfast (in the Atrium) UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/390 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/390 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Hackathon\, day 2. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T141000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T090000 LOCATION:Wean 7220 SUMMARY:Hackathon UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/421 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/421 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Have you inherited a hideous lump of code that would need an ex orcism before you could get it to run under 'use strict'? If you've acquir ed Perl code written by someone else\, or even if your own code is giving you problems\, this tutorial is for you. Based in part on Scott's book Per l Medic: Transforming Legacy Code (Addison-Wesley\, 2004)\, it provides fi rst aid for the ailing program that just landed in your lap. Don't be the victim of someone else's poor programming skills - be the hero by tackling and taming the legacy code beast!\n\nPerl is easy to start using. But som etimes being easy can get you into trouble. The many ways to program in Pe rl mean that Perl code can often be cryptic\, obscure\, or muddled\; just because a program runs doesn't mean it's maintainable. Hordes of programme rs have acquired just enough Perl knowledge to get a program to run\, and then one day\, you find yourself tasked with maintaining one of those prog rams\, and the horror begins.\n\nThis tutorial is designed to help you dea l with that horror. You'll learn how to:\n\n * Retrofit tests and profi ling onto legacy code\n * Get bad code to conform to best practices\n * Make code warnings- and strict- compliant\n * Recognize different P erl styles and deal with them\n * Use tools to detect and remove duplic ation\n * Make sense of code messes\n * Understand and edit code at micro and macro levels\n * Deal with political and interpersonal issues of code inheritance\n * Make your own code more maintainable\n\nTarget audience: beginning through intermediate Perl programmers. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T135000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T090000 LOCATION:Wean 5304 SUMMARY:Maintaining Code While Staying Sane UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/408 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/408 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Details to come DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T105000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T104000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Break UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/410 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/410 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Lets eat DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T133000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T120000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Lunch (in the Atrium) UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/409 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/409 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Break time DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T154000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T153000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Break UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/411 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/411 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Final event for the conference. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T174500 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T170000 LOCATION:Wean 7500 SUMMARY:Town hall\, Closing remarks. UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/388 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/388 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Lets Drink DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T180000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Sunday Social UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/407 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/event/407 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Michael Schwern ATTENDEE:Andy Grundman ATTENDEE:Kelli Ireland ATTENDEE:David Nolan ATTENDEE:Michael Aquilina ATTENDEE:Sterling Hanenkamp ATTENDEE:Jonathan David ATTENDEE:Tom Peters COMMENT:8 attendees DESCRIPTION:With limited resources\, my small research program at NIH has t o rely on Perl and other Open Source tools to satisfy all of our IT needs\ , including Information Security. This presentation intends to demonstrat e how to leverage a variety of Open Source Projects to gain a better under standing of your network.\n\nThe talk will cover Perl as a glue between se veral open source projects including: PostgreSQL\, Netdisco\, syslog\, Sno rt\, OSSEC-HIDS\, dnsmasq\, and RRDTool. It will also discuss the strengt hs of these projects and why they were incorporated into the system. Ther e will also be some overview of POE. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T151000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T142000 LOCATION:Wean 7500 ORGANIZER:Brad Lhotsky SUMMARY:Network Introspection with Open Source Tools UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1472 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1472 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Michael Schwern ATTENDEE:Dan Magnuszewski ATTENDEE:Kelli Ireland ATTENDEE:Michael Aquilina ATTENDEE:Sterling Hanenkamp ATTENDEE:Tom Peters COMMENT:6 attendees DESCRIPTION:This talk is about how to add a basic REST client/server archit ecture to your Perl application. I will explain the benefits of providing such an architecture in your application. I will demonstrate a very simple server that provides a REST interface and the client that uses it.\n\nSee http://contentment.org/2008/10/talk-making-your-perl-rest.html for slides . DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T153000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T144000 LOCATION:Wean 5403 ORGANIZER:Sterling Hanenkamp SUMMARY:Making Your Perl REST UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1496 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1496 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Michael Schwern ATTENDEE:David Nolan ATTENDEE:Sterling Hanenkamp ATTENDEE:Jonathan David COMMENT:4 attendees DESCRIPTION:Jifty is a full-stack web framework that can help you quickly b uild a web application. This talk will introduce you to the basics on gett ing started writing a Jifty application and the primarily components withi n the Jifty framework.\n\nSee http://qublog.net/2008/10/talk-introduction- to-jifty.html for slides. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T142000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T133000 LOCATION:Wean 5409 ORGANIZER:Sterling Hanenkamp SUMMARY:Introduction to Jifty UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1497 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1497 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Dan Magnuszewski ATTENDEE:Kelli Ireland ATTENDEE:David Nolan COMMENT:3 attendees DESCRIPTION:Tired of rewriting your code for various output formats or sett ling for "good enough" format converters? You need Graphics::Primitive!\n \nGraphics::Primitive - coupled with a star-studded cast of helpers - allo ws you to create everything from simple images to multi-page pdf documents with embedded graphics.\n\nIn this talk we will cover the building blocks of Graphics::Primitive\, take a tour of it's parts and touch on some adva nced uses. All of this for free! Attend this talk in the next five minut es and we'll throw in some flashy examples and stale jokes! DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T120000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T114000 LOCATION:Wean 5403 ORGANIZER:Cory Watson SUMMARY:Introduction to Graphics::Primitive UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1499 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1499 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Michael Schwern ATTENDEE:Ricardo Signes ATTENDEE:Andy Grundman ATTENDEE:Kelli Ireland ATTENDEE:David Nolan ATTENDEE:Michael Aquilina ATTENDEE:Sterling Hanenkamp ATTENDEE:Jonathan David ATTENDEE:Tom Peters COMMENT:9 attendees DESCRIPTION:This talk provides an overview of several advanced pattern matc hing techniques in Perl including the use of modifiers\, assertions\, matc hing Unicode\, embedded code and the major Perl 5.10 regex enhancements. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T142000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T133000 LOCATION:Wean 7500 ORGANIZER:Paul Grassie SUMMARY:Advanced Pattern Matching UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1505 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1505 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Dan Magnuszewski ATTENDEE:Kelli Ireland ATTENDEE:Michael Aquilina ATTENDEE:Mohammed Chaudhry ATTENDEE:Tom Peters COMMENT:5 attendees DESCRIPTION:This talk provides an overview of how Perl manages variables in ternally through the use of the Devel::Peek module\, the role of typeglobs and symbol tables in the import-export mechanism\, and creating subroutin e wrappers. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T142000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T133000 LOCATION:Wean 5403 ORGANIZER:Paul Grassie SUMMARY:Symbol Tables & Typeglobs UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1506 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1506 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Dan Magnuszewski ATTENDEE:Kelli Ireland ATTENDEE:Michael Aquilina ATTENDEE:Sterling Hanenkamp ATTENDEE:Jonathan David ATTENDEE:Tom Peters COMMENT:6 attendees DESCRIPTION:An in-depth look at Perl references and data structures. Exampl es cover a wide range of crucial techniques including the use of anonymous arrays and hashes\, multidimensional data structures\, autovivification\, anonymous subroutines\, closures\, and the role of references in object-o riented Perl. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T114000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T105000 LOCATION:Wean 5403 ORGANIZER:Paul Grassie SUMMARY:Mastering Data Structures & References UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1507 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1507 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Michael Schwern ATTENDEE:Ricardo Signes ATTENDEE:Andy Grundman ATTENDEE:John Anderson ATTENDEE:Kelli Ireland ATTENDEE:David Nolan ATTENDEE:Michael Aquilina ATTENDEE:Sterling Hanenkamp ATTENDEE:Jonathan David ATTENDEE:Tom Peters COMMENT:10 attendees DESCRIPTION:Email: you see it every day. It's on your desktop. It's in your servers.\nThrough the magic of modern technology\, it flows invisibly thr ough the air and\ninto your PDA! Your cellular phone conducts silent and a rcane conversations\nwith distant servers\, speaking the ancient language of SMTP and the unknowable\ndialects of IMAP. Surely all this technology m eans progress of mankind... or\ndoes it?\n\nNow you can learn the truth: b uried deep within the eldrich documents\ndescribing the slow accretion of features in the Elder Protocols lie subtle\nrecursions and devilish ambigu ities -- grammars that are not grammars\, strings\nquietly stripped of the ir higher bits -- designed to slowly bend the mind of\nall who implement t hem.\n\nNow you can hear of the horrors perpetrated by those who became th rall to these\ndocuments -- and by those\, too\, who fought to oppose them for the sake of their\nown dwindling sanity.\n\nNow it can be told: Email Hates the Living!\n\nWARNING: This talk is low in career-sustaining educa tional content. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T170000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T161000 LOCATION:Wean 7500 ORGANIZER:Ricardo Signes SUMMARY:Email Hates the Living! UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1516 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1516 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Dan Magnuszewski ATTENDEE:Michael Aquilina ATTENDEE:Mohammed Chaudhry ATTENDEE:Jonathan David ATTENDEE:Tom Peters COMMENT:5 attendees DESCRIPTION:Perl objects suck and Perl is dead right? No! Perl 5’s new (pos t) modern object system Moose provides robust flexibility and design to th is venerable language. Inspired by the Common LISP Object System (CLOS)\, Smalltalk and the Perl 6 meta model\, Moose brings deep introspection\, ea sy delegation\, a flexible type constraint system\, and many more modern O O tools. In short\, Moose makes OO Perl fun! DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T095000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T090000 LOCATION:Wean 5409 ORGANIZER:Stevan Little SUMMARY:Moose: A Postmodern Object System for Perl 5 UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1522 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1522 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Dan Magnuszewski ATTENDEE:John Anderson ATTENDEE:Jonathan David ATTENDEE:Tom Peters COMMENT:4 attendees DESCRIPTION:Python is a clean\, robust and object oriented language suitabl e for all kinds of programming tasks. It is widely considered to be the su ccessor to Perl\, which is well known for being a mass of line-noise and a d-hoc OO spaghetti. Any smart manager will know that Python is the future and Perl is just a downward spiral of unmaintainable code\, pain and event ually death! \n\nIn this talk I will explain how Moose will give you the s ame benefits without having to switch a language\, throw away your code\, and give up the CPAN. We will show how Moose can help you with everything from simple mundane scripts to large code bases\, and how it can be used t o incrementally refactor your existing code base. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T160000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T154000 LOCATION:Wean 5409 ORGANIZER:Stevan Little SUMMARY:The Case for switching to Python - A Manager's Guide to Moose UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1523 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1523 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Michael Schwern ATTENDEE:Ricardo Signes ATTENDEE:Andy Grundman ATTENDEE:John Anderson ATTENDEE:Kelli Ireland ATTENDEE:David Nolan ATTENDEE:Michael Aquilina ATTENDEE:Sterling Hanenkamp ATTENDEE:Jonathan David ATTENDEE:Tom Peters COMMENT:10 attendees DESCRIPTION:JSON is great! It mean we can stop using XML for web services and use something more compact\, more expressive\, and easier to implement . Unfortunately\, leaving XML behind means leaving all its useful tools\, like cross-platform validation schema.\n\nRx provides a simple but flexib le system for validating data across multiple platforms\, making it easy t o write schemata for JSON APIs or other applications. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T120000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T114000 LOCATION:Wean 7500 ORGANIZER:Ricardo Signes SUMMARY:Simple\, Portable Schemata with Rx UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1524 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1524 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Michael Schwern ATTENDEE:Andy Grundman ATTENDEE:Dan Magnuszewski ATTENDEE:John Anderson ATTENDEE:Kelli Ireland ATTENDEE:David Nolan ATTENDEE:Michael Aquilina ATTENDEE:Sterling Hanenkamp ATTENDEE:Mohammed Chaudhry ATTENDEE:Jonathan David COMMENT:10 attendees DESCRIPTION:Schedule\n\nZero to Jifty in 5-Minutes\nA LOLcat's History of P erl 6 and Parrot\nbest practices are a PITA\n\nFrom Sixty to Zero in Perl\ nthis space for rent\nthis space for rent\n\nthis space for rent\nthis spa ce for rent\nthis space for rent\n\nWhy Would You Want to do a Lightning T alk?\n\nMaybe you've never given a talk before\, and you'd like to start s mall. For a Lightning Talk\, you don't need to make slides\, and if you do decide to make slides\, you only need to make three.\n\nMaybe you're nerv ous and you're afraid you'll mess up. It's a lot easier to plan and delive r a five minute talk than it is to deliver a long talk. And if you do mess up\, at least the painful part will be over quickly.\n\nMaybe you don't h ave much to say. Maybe you just want to ask a question\, or invite people to help you with your project\, or boast about something you did\, or tell a short cautionary story. These things are all interesting and worth talk ing about\, but there might not be enough to say about them to fill up thi rty minutes.\n\nMaybe you have a lot of things to 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 several Lightning Talks. Hey\ , they're only five minutes.\n\nOn the other side\, people might want to c ome 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 sp eaker\, well\, at least it's over in five minutes. With lightning talks\, you're never stuck in some boring lecture for forty-five minutes.\n\nStill having trouble picking a topic\, here are some suggestions:\n\n 1. Why my favorite module is X.\n 2. I want to do cool project X. Does anyone w ant to help?\n 3. Successful Project: I did project X. It was a success. Here's how you could benefit.\n 4. Failed Project: I did project X. It was a failure\, and here's why.\n 5. Heresy: People always say X\, but t hey're wrong. Here's why.\n 6. You All Suck: Here's what is wrong with t he our community.\n 7. Call to Action: Let's all do more of X / less of X.\n 8. Wouldn't it be cool if X?\n 9. Someone needs to do X.\n 10. W ish List\n 11. Why X was a mistake.\n 12. Why X looks like a mistake\, b ut isn't.\n 13. What it's like to do X.\n 14. Here's a useful technique that worked.\n 15. Here's a technique I thought would be useful but didn' t work.\n 16. Why algorithm X sucks.\n 17. Comparison of algorithms X an d Y. \n\nOf course\, you could give the talk on anything you wanted\, whet her or not it is on this list. If we get a full schedule of nothing but fi ve minutes of ranting and raving on each topic\, a good time will still be had by most. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T165000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T160000 LOCATION:Wean 7500 ORGANIZER:R Geoffrey Avery SUMMARY:Lightning Talks UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1525 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:David Nolan ATTENDEE:Michael Aquilina ATTENDEE:Sterling Hanenkamp ATTENDEE:Jonathan David COMMENT:4 attendees DESCRIPTION:mod_perl is the foundation of many web sites today\, both large and small. But what happens when Perl 6 is finally released? Without a "m od_perl6"\, these sites will have no compelling reason to upgrade or even explore Perl 6. Fortunately\, mod_perl6 does exist! This talk will provide a overview of the current state of mod_perl6\, including its inner workin gs\, how it can function without a completed Perl 6\, and how it provides an upgrade path for future releases of Perl. There will even be working de mos of real Perl 6 handlers and registry scripts! DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T152000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T150000 LOCATION:Wean 5409 ORGANIZER:Jeff Horwitz SUMMARY:The Future of mod_perl: Perl 6 and Beyond UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1540 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1540 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Michael Schwern ATTENDEE:Ricardo Signes ATTENDEE:Andy Grundman ATTENDEE:John Anderson ATTENDEE:Kelli Ireland ATTENDEE:David Nolan ATTENDEE:Michael Aquilina ATTENDEE:Sterling Hanenkamp ATTENDEE:Jonathan David ATTENDEE:Tom Peters COMMENT:10 attendees DESCRIPTION:This talk will explore the various alternatives relational data bases for storing your data\, and when they might be more applicable.\n\nT his will include recently touted "document-oriented" databases (CouchDB fo r instance)\, RDF\, and Prolog\, comparing the pros and cons of such syste ms to using the SQL based databases we all know (and probably hate \;-)\n\ nLastly\, I will introduce KiokuDB\, a Moose based frontend to many such s ystems. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T161000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T152000 LOCATION:Wean 7500 ORGANIZER:Yuval Kogman SUMMARY:RDBMs UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1543 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1543 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Michael Schwern ATTENDEE:Sterling Hanenkamp ATTENDEE:Mohammed Chaudhry ATTENDEE:Jonathan David ATTENDEE:Tom Peters COMMENT:5 attendees DESCRIPTION:It's great that you're using Moose\, but are you getting the mo st out of it? In this talk\, we'll take a tour of the MooseX:: namespace and see how the modules there can make working with Moose even more fun th an it already is. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T120000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T114000 LOCATION:Wean 5409 ORGANIZER:Jonathan Rockway SUMMARY:MooseX::Tour UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1544 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1544 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Mohammed Chaudhry ATTENDEE:Jonathan David COMMENT:2 attendees DESCRIPTION:One of the tried and true ways of debugging is to sprinkle 'pri nt "Here! $val\\n"' around and see what happens or if the program even rea ches that point. Simple and effective! Carp::REPL lets you take this a ste p further by starting an interactive read-eval-print loop (REPL) at an arb itrary point in your program.\n\nI've taken this technique and mixed in a splash of Continuity to build an interactive web-based REPL and inspector for your application. It works on CGI scripts too (baring some fixable bro wser timeouts :) ). If you're nice to it\, it might even let you edit your source file\, reload it\, and continue execution. You just add a single " inspect()" where you like and you'll be whackin' those bugs DOWN!\n\nIn th is talk I'll show you how to use the tool and how it's built... and how yo u can add to it. And by then it'll be on CPAN :) DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T150000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T144000 LOCATION:Wean 5409 ORGANIZER:Brock Wilcox SUMMARY:A web REPL for CGI applications UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1545 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1545 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Michael Schwern ATTENDEE:Ricardo Signes ATTENDEE:Andy Grundman ATTENDEE:John Anderson ATTENDEE:Kelli Ireland ATTENDEE:David Nolan ATTENDEE:Michael Aquilina ATTENDEE:Sterling Hanenkamp ATTENDEE:Jonathan David ATTENDEE:Tom Peters COMMENT:10 attendees DESCRIPTION:SQLite is the most widely deployed SQL database engine in the w orld. It's used throughout OS X as well as in Firefox\, Google's Android\ , and in countless other applications. SQLite is extremely fast and light weight\, but it's lacking some features found in larger database systems. Fortunately SQLite can be easily extended with Perl. In this talk you'll learn how to write your own SQLite functions and aggregators in Perl. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T114000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T112000 LOCATION:Wean 7500 ORGANIZER:Walt Mankowski SUMMARY:SQLite Functions and Aggregators UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1548 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1548 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Michael Schwern ATTENDEE:Ricardo Signes ATTENDEE:Dan Magnuszewski ATTENDEE:David Nolan ATTENDEE:Mohammed Chaudhry COMMENT:5 attendees DESCRIPTION:In this talk we'll discuss how to write multithreaded programs in Perl. We'll begin with the basic threading model in Perl and how it di ffers from other popular thread systems such as pthreads and Java threads. We'll discuss how to create threads\, how to share data between threads\ , and how to coordinate access to data using locks and semaphores. Finall y we'll talk about how to use higher-level concepts such as queues and thr ead pools. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T114000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T105000 LOCATION:Wean 5409 ORGANIZER:Walt Mankowski SUMMARY:Getting Started with Multithreaded Perl UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1549 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1549 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Michael Schwern ATTENDEE:Kelli Ireland ATTENDEE:David Nolan ATTENDEE:Michael Aquilina ATTENDEE:Sterling Hanenkamp ATTENDEE:Mohammed Chaudhry COMMENT:6 attendees DESCRIPTION:Method::Signatures finally provides method signature syntax in Perl 5\, at full speed\, without a source filter.\n\nInstead of this:\n\ns ub echo {\n my $self = shift\;\n my $arg = shift\;\n\n return $a rg\;\n}\n\nyou can write this:\n\nmethod echo($arg) {\n return $arg\;\n }\n\nIt's about time!\n\nBut that's not all! It pulls in many features of Perl 6 so you can have required arguments\, optional arguments\, defaults \, named arguments\, aliases... It makes Perl 5 almost look like a real la nguage! DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T160000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T154000 LOCATION:Wean 5403 ORGANIZER:Michael Schwern SUMMARY:Finally\, method foo($arg)! UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1573 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1573 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Michael Schwern ATTENDEE:Dan Magnuszewski ATTENDEE:Kelli Ireland ATTENDEE:David Nolan ATTENDEE:Tom Peters COMMENT:5 attendees DESCRIPTION:The end of the Unix epoch is on Jan 19th\, 2038. The common Un ix date functions cease to work at this point. Perl\, and a whole lot of Perl code\, use these functions.\n\nI have a solution\, and The Perl Found ation has funded it.\n\nWhat causes the 2038 problem? Why do we care abou t it in 2008? How will Perl fix it?\n\nProject site: http://y2038.google code.com DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T104000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T095000 LOCATION:Wean 5403 ORGANIZER:Michael Schwern SUMMARY:Who's Afraid Of 2038? UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1574 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1574 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Ricardo Signes ATTENDEE:Michael Aquilina ATTENDEE:Sterling Hanenkamp ATTENDEE:Mohammed Chaudhry ATTENDEE:Jonathan David COMMENT:5 attendees DESCRIPTION:Prophet is a new kind of database designed for the post Web-2.0 world. It's made to let you collaborate with your friends and coworkers w ithout needing any kind of special server or internet provider.\n\nProphet 's buzzword-laden pitch reads something like this:\n\n A grounded\, sem irelational\, peer to peer replicated\, disconnected\, versioned\, propert y database with self-healing conflict resolution. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T144000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T142000 LOCATION:Wean 5409 ORGANIZER:Kevin Falcone SUMMARY:Prophet - Syncable Tools for the Offline Web UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1576 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1576 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Michael Schwern ATTENDEE:Ricardo Signes ATTENDEE:Andy Grundman ATTENDEE:Kelli Ireland ATTENDEE:David Nolan ATTENDEE:Michael Aquilina ATTENDEE:Sterling Hanenkamp ATTENDEE:Jonathan David ATTENDEE:Tom Peters COMMENT:9 attendees DESCRIPTION:Bug Labs enables software developers to easily create their own hardware gadgets. Based on an open source\, modular hardware platform\, each BUG is a fully programmable Linux computer\, with CPU\, RAM\, recharg eable lithium-ion battery\, LCD screen\, USB\, Ethernet\, MicroSD slot\, a nd serial interface\, along with button controls. BUGs come with 4 slots to add modules like a camera\, motion sensor/accelerometer\, GPS\, LCD Tou chscreen\, and more. It's like mashups for hardware! \n\nAt PPW '08\, we'l l be introducing you to BUG and giving you an overview of its features - i ncluding our SDK (in Java for the moment) and a preview of our newest modu les that haven't been released yet. Specially prepared for this conferenc e we'll also show Perl running on the Bug. \n\nWhile you're waiting for t he conference\, you can try out our SDK and learn more about us by visitin g www.buglabs.net. We look forward to seeing you soon. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T112000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T103000 LOCATION:Wean 7500 ORGANIZER:Alicia Gibb SUMMARY:Bug Labs Presents Gadget Innovation UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1587 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1587 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:R Geoffrey Avery ATTENDEE:Ricardo Signes ATTENDEE:Sterling Hanenkamp ATTENDEE:Mohammed Chaudhry ATTENDEE:Tom Peters COMMENT:5 attendees DESCRIPTION:Managing a large open-source project: Lessons from ten years wi th PostgreSQL DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T104000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T095000 LOCATION:Wean 5409 ORGANIZER:Tom Lane SUMMARY:Managing a large open-source project UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1588 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1588 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Michael Schwern ATTENDEE:Ricardo Signes ATTENDEE:Kelli Ireland ATTENDEE:Sterling Hanenkamp COMMENT:4 attendees DESCRIPTION:“Rakudo” is the new name for the Perl 6 compiler targeting the Parrot virtual machine. It currently supports much of Perl 6\, and people are even beginning to write applications for it.\n\nThis talk will presen t ways in which you (yes you!) can become active contributors to Perl 6 an d Rakudo Perl. We will look in detail at the organization of the Perl 6 t est suite\, how to add new tests\, the structure of the Rakudo Perl implem entation\, and where to start with writing code for Rakudo.\n\nThis talk f ocuses heavily on Perl 6 itself\, and does not include a lot of details ab out Parrot or its other programming languages. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T095000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T090000 LOCATION:Wean 5403 ORGANIZER:Patrick Michaud SUMMARY:Perl 6 and Rakudo Perl UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1604 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1604 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Michael Schwern ATTENDEE:Ricardo Signes ATTENDEE:Andy Grundman ATTENDEE:John Anderson ATTENDEE:Kelli Ireland ATTENDEE:David Nolan ATTENDEE:Michael Aquilina ATTENDEE:Sterling Hanenkamp ATTENDEE:Mohammed Chaudhry COMMENT:9 attendees DESCRIPTION:Details to come. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T102000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T093000 LOCATION:Wean 7500 ORGANIZER:Patrick Michaud SUMMARY:Keynote Address UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1611 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1611 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE:Michael Schwern ATTENDEE:Kelli Ireland COMMENT:2 attendees DESCRIPTION:Perl is not a meritocracy\, rule by those with merit. Perl is a do-ocracy\, rule by those who do. Who get things done. Rule by those w ho write the code. DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T144000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T142000 LOCATION:Wean 5403 ORGANIZER:Michael Schwern SUMMARY:Crap Is Gold UID:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1627 URL:http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/talk/1627 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR