Vienna.pm TechMeet résumé

maks on 2003-09-25T11:49:33

below you'll find a resumé of yesterdays TechMeet, it's quick typed in middle of the presentations, so do not expect to much Kwalitee feel free to add any omissions or to correct me

thx to domm for the organisation special thx for their presence belongs to Michael G. Schwern and David "cogent" Hand a pleasure to meet you all maks



* domm (Thomas Klausner) : CPANTS - CPAN Testing Service * maks (Maximilian Attems) : vacherie - language learning tool * leo (Leopold Tötsch) : parrot * Wilhelm Nagy : xedm * Matthias**2 (Matthias Tarasiewicz, Matthias Subik) : fs2 - multimedia p2p +database * Lucas Czjzek: mmm - Moving Media Multiplicator

domm starts with cpants the basic idea is to test cpan modules after catching ownership he did the obvious: there exists a completly rewroten cpants cpants has to analyse sourcecode because code would probably not compile (os, required modules, missing c libraries, ..) -> parse perl -> cpanratings -> database not yet decided on how to calculate qualiity (Makefile, symlinks, ..) slides: http://domm.zsi.at/talks/vienna_pm200309/

me continues with vacherie a nice tool for learning another language, javascript and interface feeded by a perl script which chooses random vocabularies the database is feeded by individual chosen entries quite a nice sunday afternoon hack .. hope so

leo introduces parrot parrot is the new virtual machine Perl6 will be based on parrot iternals based on registers (Integer, double float, Strings, PMC) PMC = Parrot Magic Cookies kind of low level objects ~1200 opcodes for all sort of operations (addition + ..) parrot uses 3-register machine - garbage collection leo shows some nice benchmarks resume: parrot is fast, sometimes 30x faster than perl 5 great final with old mandelbrot c ponie wants to run in 2 years, pie-thon next year for oscon latest parrot 0.11 contains lots of new stuff: can translate files in native executables like elf continuation style calling convention (subroutine return continuation .. restores stacks that subroutine may have changed .. you can jump in also in this subrout ine) the slide where of course done in Parrot!!! unicode + regex engine + perl parser may need some help http://www.parrotcode.org/

wilhelm likes kobol for xedm but runs after his shirt and may hand you over some cute proprietary browsers his application is for governement and subsidiaries it can run on a usb stick, and is very easy to install contains mysql, active state perl (cgi+ dbi + blowfish), modified tinyweb, gui (html + css) looks like acces (!befuddle clerks) can control and start any process like vi or m$ excel xedm has 100 users, specification will also be used in eu tab seperated with left column controll statements (inserts, deletes) .. human readable and machine readable format for excel programmer uses meta objects .. he just configure it further talks planned on the database .. project managment programm was intertroduced yesterday questions: nagy@ubavie.gv.at

matthias**2 presents fs2 a metamedia p2p sequencing database main approach contrasts the googlish popularity approach important to have a look at rare content metainformation decentralised shall permit distributed media using pointers to the underground stuff interlink media content not anonymosly taking the best out of the internet infrastructure kind of distributed wiki media type recognition done in perl my cpan modules: Digest::MD5, Video::Info; XML::RSS mailinglist and sourceforge link will be posted soon.

lukas made the glorious finish with mmm shows hard to find demo stuff opengl demos jackson five, music video sofa surfers opening event 8 october kunsthalle dj female pressure http://mmm.ok.ag/