Practical tips on installing per-application modules so you can deploy your applications independantly and safely.

A follow-up to last year's talk on git as a backup tool.

An overview of Dave Rolsky's revamp of Perl's OO tutorial.

An explanation and illustration of the git submodule mechanism which mere mortals can understand.

Slides at http://www.slideshare.net/oalders/git-submodule.

An introduction to vim's scripting language. Links referenced in the talk included:

Cheesemonger:

http://everything2.com/title/Whoremonger

Damian's code:

https://github.com/thoughtstream/Damian-Conway-s-Vim-Setup

Vim manual:

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/usr_41.html#script

VimPAN:

http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/index.php

IBM tutorials:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script-1/index.html

Thoughts about Perl and its place in Mike's world after a couple of decades of using it as his primary programming language.

Looking for intersting ideas and innovations e.g. Ruby's celluloid which might work well on parallel hardware one day, maybe on XMOS?

Languages supported at heroku:

• Ruby
• node.js
• Clojure
• Java
• Python

Languages mentioned in Seven Languages in Seven Weeks:

• Ruby
• Io
• Prolog
• Scala
• Clojure
• Haskell
• Python