23 Sep 2006
Perl at Work

2006 Workshop Schedule

A printable session listing is availble.

Registration Room pair Networks Room Socialtext Room
7:30 AM Staff arrival / Setup
8:00 AM Arrival / Registration Breakfast
9:00 AM Welcome and Introductions
9:30 AM Internet Kiosk Intermission
9:45 AM Making Perl Work for You brian d foy Make your database work for you Beth Skwarecki
10:30 AM Perl-Powered Extensions to MySQL: deferrable constraints and nested transactions Len Budney
10:45 AM Approximation Algorithms in Perl Walt Mankowski
11:15 AM Morning Beverage Service Intermission
11:30 AM Perl Modules for Exceptions, and Parameter Validation Dave Rolsky Writing an "Enterprise Scheduler" in Perl using POE, DBI, and SSH Al Tobey
12:00 PM Intermission
12:15 PM Sponsor Display / Job Recruitment Lunch
1:00 PM Thermd - an environmental monitoring, logging, graphing, and reporting engine Daniel V. Klein Having fun with stored procedures with DBIx::Fun Al Tobey, Scott Kwilinski
1:30 PM Preventing Crisis: Project estimation and tracking that works Andy Lester
1:45 PM Higher-Order Design Opportunities Sam Hume
2:00 PM The Tester's Toolkit Pete Krawczyk
2:30 PM Afternoon Beverage Service Intermission
3:00 PM Bring Your Smoke Tests to Life Michael Peters Practical Extraction with Perl 6 Nathan Gray
3:30 PM Internet Kiosk Talking to Managers Peter Scott
3:45 PM Perl DateTime Project Dave Rolsky
4:30 PM Intermission
4:45 PM Clean-up Closing / Thanks
5:30 PM Depart for social event