On Monday we had an extra London.pm tech meet. I say extra as we weren't scheduled to have another tech meet until next month, but as David Wheeler was in town and was offering to speak I didn't want to pass up the opportunity.
I'd been meaning to get Mark Lester and Andy Wardley to speak for ages. Mark is the creator of Jake, Yahoo!'s internal templating language, and as everyone who reads this journal knows, Andy wrote The Template Toolkit. Since David was speaking we had three experts on templating systems, so I got the Fotango lot to convince Alex Monney to make it four and did something we've never done at London Perl Mongers: a panel discussion.
So after David did the same talk he's scheduled to present over an hour and a half at YAPC::NA in 30min (way to go David), the panel answered questions from the audience. I was really pleased that we got a collection of sensible questions, though I did love Dom's "What's the worse way you've abused a templating system" as well.
And then we knocked off early and went to the pub. Everyone seemed to enjoy it, though acme complained that no-one threw any punches in the panel even though they were using different templating system. I guess he has a point...next month we'll have vi and emacs users getting on.
-Dom
Re:Templating Abuse
Dom2 on 2003-04-17T13:04:47
Oooh, and I'd like to nominate sendmail's m4 macros as a close second.-Dom
Re:Templating Abuse
drhyde on 2003-04-17T13:26:19
And I'll nominate the EEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL m4-based DNS producing thing at my previous employers.
