BEGIN:VCALENDAR CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:Data::ICal 0.16 VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:London Perl Workshop 2008 BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Dave Cross\nWeb Programming with Perl: An Introduction to CGI P rogramming\nA Tutorial Session\n2hrs 30minutes DTEND:20081129T122000 DTSTART:20081129T101000 LOCATION:Class Room SUMMARY:Web Programming: Tutorial (ignore break) UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/event/456 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/event/456 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Short Morning Break DTEND:20081129T110500 DTSTART:20081129T104500 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Morning Break UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/event/452 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/event/452 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Lunch time - 1 hour break DTEND:20081129T134000 DTSTART:20081129T124000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Lunch UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/event/453 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/event/453 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Matt Trout\nAdvanced Web Programming with Perl: Catalyst\, DBIx ::Class and Moose\nA Tutorial Session\n2hrs 30minutes DTEND:20081129T163000 DTSTART:20081129T140000 LOCATION:Class Room SUMMARY:Advanced Web Programming Tutorial UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/event/457 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/event/457 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Afternoon Break and pause for lightning Talks DTEND:20081129T165000 DTSTART:20081129T163000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Afternoon Break UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/event/454 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/event/454 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:ActionAid: Short discussion of what we do and how we use the mo ney raised\n\nPaul Makepeace: Who are IDL and what do we do\n\nMichele Bel trame: Italy: a Perl success story\n\nAndy Wardley: Template Toolkit Updat e\n\nLeo Lapworth: DBIx::Class for (advanced) beginners\n\nSteve Purkis: T AP::Formatter::Html\n\nDavid Leadbeater: Wikipedia Summary\n\nEdmund von d er Burg: Sudoku solver in three lines\n\nMatt Trout: You're all worthless and so am I DTEND:20081129T174000 DTSTART:20081129T165000 LOCATION:Main Lecture Room SUMMARY:Lightning Talks UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/event/455 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/event/455 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:I have 74 modules on the CPAN and I haven't\nyet given a talk a bout most of them. I'll pick ten \nuseful but less-known modules of mine a nd give two \nminute introductions to each DTEND:20081129T102000 DTSTART:20081129T100000 LOCATION:Main Lecture Room SUMMARY:Ten modules I haven't yet talked about UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1501 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1501 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:London.pm has been going for ten years. That in itself\, is ama zing. This talk tells the story of those ten years. Why did we do it? What have we learned? Would we do it again?\n\nThere will be jokes\, slander a nd embarrassing photos.\n\nBut maybe you'd be better off spending another half hour in bed. DTEND:20081129T095000 DTSTART:20081129T091000 LOCATION:Main Lecture Room SUMMARY:The Complete History of the Perle Mongers of Olde London Towne (Par te One) UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1502 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1502 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Yes\, functional programming is useful in Perl already but it i sn't always pretty. I'll show a selection of techniques from FP languages \, and also ways to make them pretty and Perlish. Including:\n\n - lazy l ists\n - currying\n - monads\n - list comprehensions\n - pattern matching\ n - functional IO\n\nWe'll use some shiny new Perl toys (like Devel::Decla re) to help us get convenient syntax for these techniques. DTEND:20081129T163000 DTSTART:20081129T161000 LOCATION:Main Lecture Room SUMMARY:Functional Pe(a)rls. UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1513 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1513 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:CPAN Testing is an effort to set up a Quality Assurance (QA) te am for CPAN modules\, comprised\nof a globally diverse group of individual s\, maintained a diverse collection of operating environments.\n\nThe CPAN testers was conceived back in May 1998 by Graham Barr and Chris\nNandor\, so this is the tenth anniversary.\n\nThis talk aims to illustrate the pro cesses and mechanisms associated with CPAN smoke testing\,\nas experienced by a veteran CPAN Tester\, including the following topics:\n\n - What is CPAN Testing?\n - The tools of CPAN Testing\n - How do we know what module s to test?\n - The problems and dangers of CPAN Testing\n - Scaled up CPAN Testing\n - Future developments DTEND:20081129T160000 DTSTART:20081129T152000 LOCATION:Second Lecture Room SUMMARY:Rough Guide to CPAN Testing UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1537 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1537 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Practical usage of the database testing.\n\n1 Database test str ategy\n - insert load \n - refresh load \n2. Loading test data sets\n - Using a query to take the database snapshot\n - Manual test data sets\n\ n3. Verifying test results\n - Ignoring some columns in comparison\n - dyn amic tests\n\n4. Test with database sequences\n\n5. LOBs tests\n\n6. Tests with multiple database instances. DTEND:20081129T142000 DTSTART:20081129T134000 LOCATION:Main Lecture Room SUMMARY:Database testing. UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1556 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1556 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:- Entities model(SQL::Entity)\n- Entity Manager\n- Objects mode l\n- Object to entity mapping\n- Value generators\n- LOBs\n- Multi inherit ance strategy DTEND:20081129T160000 DTSTART:20081129T152000 LOCATION:Third Lecture Room SUMMARY:Perl and database persistence - Object to relation database mapping UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1557 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1557 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:1. hash/array/external(transistent) storage type \n2. simple va lidation and default values \n3. helper methods for an array and hash type s\n4. class associations / deassociations\n - to one\n - to many\n - ma ny to many\n - cleanup methods\n5. decorators\n6. abstract methods/classe s DTEND:20081129T114500 DTSTART:20081129T110500 LOCATION:Second Lecture Room SUMMARY:Meta object protocol - Moose alternatives ? UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1558 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1558 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:A demonstration of some of the more powerful features of Moose\ , and why you should be using it for your OO Perl development\, with parti cular emphasis on the neat things you can do inside attribute definitions without writing any methods at all. Covers handles\, lazy\, default and co erce\, as well as MX::AttributeHelpers and Moose::Autobox. DTEND:20081129T151500 DTSTART:20081129T145500 LOCATION:Second Lecture Room SUMMARY:Intermediate Moose UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1584 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1584 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Enlightened Perl is an organization that supports certain Perl development efforts to ensure Perl's future as an enterprise-grade develop ment platform. Mike Whitaker explains why it matters\, how it fits in with other Perl organizations\, and why you should care. DTEND:20081129T163000 DTSTART:20081129T161000 LOCATION:Second Lecture Room SUMMARY:Enlightened Perl: what is it and why should I care? UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1585 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1585 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:An introduction to the Moose OO framework\, and how to use it f or Perl OO programming. Covers class and attribute definition\, basics of type checking\, methods\, inheritance\, roles. DTEND:20081129T121500 DTSTART:20081129T115500 LOCATION:Main Lecture Room SUMMARY:Introduction to Moose UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1586 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1586 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:A look at some of the files and indices created for CPAN and BA CKPAN\, and why they are useful. DTEND:20081129T124000 DTSTART:20081129T122000 LOCATION:Second Lecture Room SUMMARY:Cataloging CPAN UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1589 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1589 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, we explore how a simple data munging script tend s towards a fully blown ETL (extract\, transform\, load) tool as it gets r olled out in a production environment. DTEND:20081129T104500 DTSTART:20081129T102500 LOCATION:Second Lecture Room SUMMARY:How data munging leads to ETL tool development UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1590 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1590 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Everything you don't know yet about character classes. DTEND:20081129T142000 DTSTART:20081129T134000 LOCATION:Second Lecture Room SUMMARY:Regexp mini tutorial: Character Classes UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1593 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1593 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Let's say you have a database\, and wish to have a basic web in terface supporting Create\, Retrieve\, Update\, Delete and Search\, with n ear-zero effort.\n\nThis talk will explain how one of the small crop of so lutions to this problem works\, namely the CatalystX::ListFramework::Build er distribution.\n\nTechnologies covered include Catalyst plugins\, DBIx:: Class\, Template::Toolkit\, ExtJS Javascript\, dreadful hacky Perl\, heur istics\, intuition\, and magic. Yet it all works rather well.\n\nFollow th e linked Talk URL to see the demo site. DTEND:20081129T145000 DTSTART:20081129T143000 LOCATION:Third Lecture Room SUMMARY:An instant web front-end for your databases UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1605 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1605 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:A discussion of my experiences in developing an online retail w ebsite with Catalyst\, Handel\, OpenThought\, and other Perl technologies. How the modules fit together\, useful tips and tricks\, and [tempting fat e] a live demo! DTEND:20081129T163000 DTSTART:20081129T161000 LOCATION:Third Lecture Room SUMMARY:Online Retail with Perl UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1612 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1612 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Badger is an application toolkit designed to simplify the proce ss of building object-oriented Perl applications. It provides a set of fou ndation classes upon which you can quickly build robust and reliable syste ms. \n\nBadger grew out of the development of version 3 of the Template T oolkit. It's lightweight\, dependency free (mind altering substances notw ithstanding) and enjoys foraging in the forest for nuts and berries. DTEND:20081129T142000 DTSTART:20081129T134000 LOCATION:Third Lecture Room SUMMARY:Badger Power UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1614 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1614 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:This talk describes how to log your Perl application's behaviou r.\n\nThe talk should interest anyone new to writing large Perl applicatio ns: it describes how to log effectively\, how logging helps you develop a nd maintain applications and how to diagnose problems in your code.\n\nIn terms of Perl\, the talk focuses on Log4perl and Log::Dispatch\, showing y ou how to customise the different things you care about at different times and how to log them in different ways. DTEND:20081129T145000 DTSTART:20081129T143000 LOCATION:Main Lecture Room SUMMARY:Logging With Perl UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1620 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1620 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:How CPAN::Mini::Webserver came about. DTEND:20081129T151500 DTSTART:20081129T145500 LOCATION:Main Lecture Room SUMMARY:Searching CPAN offline UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1632 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1632 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:There are several job queue and execution systems available to perl but while they may suit the application of the designer they do not a lways generalise well causing frustration when some critical feature is mi ssing. They also provide different interfaces making it harder to change s ystem.\n\nArbyte can make use of systems such as Helios\, TheSchwartz and Gearman while providing a consistent interface and the ability to override behaviours to suit the application's requirements.\n\nThis talk will desc ribe the Arbyte architecture\, options for customisation and integration w ith other systems and note current state of development. The speaker hopes to gain feedback from the community with a view to releasing the system o n CPAN if after further development it proves successful. DTEND:20081129T112500 DTSTART:20081129T110500 LOCATION:Third Lecture Room SUMMARY:Arbyte - A modular\, extensible and flexible framework for job queu ing and execution UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1639 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1639 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:How to build Perl classes with roundtrip data binding to XML\, painlessly\, using W3C XML Schema and XML::Pastor\n\nSlides are online at: \nhttp://www.slideshare.net/joelbernstein/painless-oo-xml-with-xmlpastorq- presentation/\n\n- XML is hard\, right? Some things which are hard.\n- XML data binding\n- Comparisons of modules\n - XML::Twig\n - XML::Smart\n - X ML::Simple\n - XML::Pastor\n - Pastor howto\n- XML schema inference\n - T rang\, Relaxer\n - Relaxer howto\n- The future?\n\nFor more information o n XML::Pastor see:\nhttp://search.cpan.org/~aulusoy/XML-Pastor/\n\nRelaxer download:\nhttp://www.relaxer.jp/download/relaxer-1.0.zip\n\nRelaxer book (Japanese...):\nhttp://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/4894715279/\n\nT rang:\nhttp://www.thaiopensource.com/download/trang-20030619.zip DTEND:20081129T145000 DTSTART:20081129T143000 LOCATION:Second Lecture Room SUMMARY:Painless OO <-> XML with XML::Pastor UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1651 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1651 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:DBIx::Class from scratch to advanced\, tips for existing and ne w users\, debugging\, best practices and building searches easily. DTEND:20081129T102000 DTSTART:20081129T100000 LOCATION:Second Lecture Room SUMMARY:DBIx::Class for (advanced) beginners UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1655 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1655 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The tale of building an app with a moderately complex DB schema and strict performance requirements on the single most complex query in t he application\, mixing and matching straightforward DBIx::Class ORM code to automate away the simple stuff\, postgres views and triggers to create a transparent OODB-style setup using multiple table inheritance and to all ow for complex queries to be optimised at the database level without the O RM getting in the way\, and how we mixed the two together to create an app that not only meets the performance requirements set out at the start of the project but substantially exceeds them\, and is still fast to add feat ures to and easy to maintain. DTEND:20081129T114500 DTSTART:20081129T110500 LOCATION:Main Lecture Room SUMMARY:Catalyst\, DBIx::Class and PostgreSQL UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1657 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1657 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Perl is strongly a dialectical language - in this talk\, with a little help from Devel::Declare\, I show how to make this even more so by introducing idioms from an english dialect into the language as additiona l keywords. Warning: resulting code may be scary\, silly and entirely poin tless. DTEND:20081129T124000 DTSTART:20081129T122000 LOCATION:Main Lecture Room SUMMARY:Acme::Yorkshire UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1658 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1658 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Come and see the amazing new NYTProf v2 profiler in action. Pro filing your Perl source code has never been so accurate\, so detailed\, so insightful\, or so pretty!\n\nStatement-level profiling\, subroutine leve l profiling\, even block-level profiling (a first for any perl profiler). Subroutine call counting and timing per calling location. More accurate st atement timing than any other profiler. Supports mod_perl 1 and 2. Richly annotated and cross-linked html reports. NYTProf v2 has all that and more! DTEND:20081129T160000 DTSTART:20081129T152000 LOCATION:Main Lecture Room SUMMARY:State-of-the-Art Perl Profiling with Devel::NYTProf UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1673 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1673 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:In building complex\, long-lived systems it can be highly advan tageous to plan and code for the need for future debugging. I'll discuss s ome techniques and tools we use at property search engine Nestoria. DTEND:20081129T121500 DTSTART:20081129T115500 LOCATION:Second Lecture Room SUMMARY:Planning for debugging UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1674 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1674 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:In this talk I will explain what a closure is\, and then show w ith two examples how they can help make your code smaller and consequently have fewer bugs. DTEND:20081129T104500 DTSTART:20081129T102500 LOCATION:Main Lecture Room SUMMARY:Using closures for fun and maybe profit UID:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1679 URL:http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/talk/1679 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR