Hi everyone, Richard here...

I asked talexb to post this because his PerlMonks-foo is strong, so he'd know where to categorize this strange request.

Basically, I'm just drowning in work trying to answer the other 100-ish questions in the survey in time for this coming Friday (when Forrester would like the replies) so I decided that the "I'll do everything myself!" strategy just wasn't going to work. I spent a lot of time on Sunday trying to figure out who I could ask to help out with what questions and emailing them to get in touch. For these 3 questions I thought, hey, PerlMonks! People here seem to like code challenges. (That's something that I don't think came through strongly enough from Alex's posting. What is actually being asked for in the survey is code examples that show the language being used to do the question/task given.)

On a personal note, I'd be really interested in seeing alternative code to what I made. (This is the .tar.gz that Alex linked to.) I think it's a pretty clean, simple and concise reply to the question but it also seems like it would be pretty abstract to someone who doesn't live and breathe Perl and the CPAN.

While I'm thinking about it, does anyone out there have experience and knowledge with Web Services Standards? There are a chunk of questions on this in the survey and I'm not sure right now who I can turn to for help. These are the topics - Core Web Services, Web Service Security, Web Service Management, Registry and Metadata, Process and Delivery Control, Transaction and Packaging. These are paragraph-sized essay questions. Someone who knows this stuff could probably put it all to bed in 10 minutes. If you know this stuff and think you could spare a bit of time to help out, please get in touch. (Alex slipped my email address in to the posting. How tricky of him!)

Regarding the two replies I've seen so far, on the question of "wireframes" - no, it's not a product. It's just their terminology for "inactive HTML mockup." You can click on the links that Alex gave to see screenshot images of the "wireframes." What they're asking for is an implementation of code that powers this. My own code sample actually takes care of item #3 in Alex's list. (Not the "first example" as Alex called it in his posting.)

About the survey -- Forrester Research got in touch with The Perl Foundation about 2 weeks ago, asking for us to participate in a survey they are doing regarding "Dynamic Languages." The languages that are being included in the survey are: Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, Javascript and JScript. (Yes, I know they aren't all in the "same space." It's their survey and they'll have to make that clear using their own techniques.) The survey involves about 100 questions, a handful of submitted code samples, and a collection of telephone interviews, and it has been eating my brain quite handily. But I think it's important for TPF to participate or else Perl just won't be represented in the survey. The consumers of the research are going to be Fortune 500-type companies, their CIOs, VPs of IT, etc. It's a really good opportunity to show the applicability and relevance of Perl to enterprise computing.

Cheers,
Richard