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YAPC Talk Slides

davorg on 2006-09-01T10:38:37

More details about my trip to Birmingham will follow when I'm not spending all my time in really interesting talks - so probably not until I get home.

But you might be interested in reading the slides from my three talks:

YAPC slides

tsee on 2006-09-01T11:49:26

Hi Dave,

thanks for sharing your slides. It's great that I can at least track some of the talks from YAPC if I can't come.

Additionally, I think your thoughts on advocacy are pretty much dead on.

Steffen

Re:YAPC slides

jjore on 2006-12-24T07:20:48

I just read your ORM talk slides. Alzabo does much of that work already.

Very informative!!!

sigzero on 2006-09-01T13:39:40

I used that to re-create an Oracle schema that I was moving from an Access db.

Any chance of putting those into PDF format?

Re:Very informative!!!

davorg on 2006-09-01T14:27:26

Any chance of putting those into PDF format?

Good plan. I'll look at that next week.

Re:Very informative!!!

Matts on 2006-09-01T20:14:45

If you print it, it uses a different stylesheet and produces a nice PDF if your OS has print-to-pdf features.

Re:Very informative!!!

sigzero on 2006-09-01T21:01:25

Beauty!

Wow

sigzero on 2006-09-01T14:12:10

Stop being fucking rude to newbies!

Did you say that? That is the one thing I don't like about Perl and it has nothing to do with the language! I have been doing some Tcl work lately. Now Tcl is a cool language and it has some perception baggage as well. What I like about Tcl mostly? The community is the friendliest and helpful of any (including the Ruby one) that I have participated in bar none. That goes a looong way with someone trying to pick up a language.

Re:Wow

davorg on 2006-09-01T14:25:40

Did you say that?

I was going to. But when that point appeared on the slide, everyone laughed, so I didn't actually have to say it out loud.

I got the point across tho' :-)

Re:Wow

sigzero on 2006-09-01T14:29:57

I am sure they laughed...because they know it is true! : )

ORM questions

sigzero on 2006-09-01T23:54:19

Q1: Since you have a definate opinion of what an ORM should do, is there one in the Perl community that you prefer?

Q2: I think you are probably too busy to create the ultimate ORM, are you helping one of the other ORM projects to realize the Perl ORM nirvana?

Re:ORM questions

davorg on 2006-09-02T13:11:33

Q1: Since you have a definate opinion of what an ORM should do, is there one in the Perl community that you prefer?

Nope. Not yet. However, in the 48 hours since I gave that talk, I've heard a _lot_ of opinions from other people. I'll definitely be looking closely at DBIx::Class over the next few weeks.

Q2: I think you are probably too busy to create the ultimate ORM, are you helping one of the other ORM projects to realize the Perl ORM nirvana?

Nope. Although I rant a lot, it doesn't really annoy me enough to push into actually doing anything about it (well, except ranting). Feel free to adapt your opinion of my opinions accordingly :-)