28 Jan 2010 - Modules and Tips
Date: Thu 28 Jan 2010 18:45 EST
Venue: Nexient Learning; Room 15 on the 8th floor
Topic: Modules and Tips
Synopsis:

A series of quick talks covering various modules which people have found useful or instructive. Some are old standbys, some are new.

Some of the presentations are archived here.

Abram Hindle: Net::OpenID::Server
Alan Rocker: How I nearly used Perl for a job, then came to my senses.

A short cautionary tale.

Alex Beamish: SQL - abstraction, injection, etc.
Dave Doyle: A couple of validation modules
  • Data::Schema
  • Params::Validate
Mike Stok: Odds & Ends

Website updates, a chance to do some non-maintenance Perl. Quick points from a handfull of modules and tools:

  • local::lib
  • perlcritic
  • perltidy
  • Path::Class
  • Template
  • File::Find::Rule
  • XML::Twig