I have made the selections for the lightning talks session at O'Reilly's TPC 2001. The tentative schedule (likely to change) is available here. Updates to this page will be made as new information arrives.

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Mark Dominus
Perl Paraphernalia

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Re: TPC 2001 Lightning Talks Selected
by frag (Hermit) on Jul 14, 2001 at 10:34 UTC
    As someone who isn't going, I really hope that some of the speakers can be cajoled/coerced/bribed (whatever works) into submitting write-ups, either to everyone's favorite journal, or else a web site such as http://www.perl.com.

    -- Frag.

      Usually most folks put their slides online afterwards, and Simon has already said that he wants Jon Bjornstad to write an article about his "Perl Helps the Handicapped" talk.

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      Mark Dominus
      Perl Paraphernalia

Re: TPC 2001 Lightning Talks Selected
by princepawn (Parson) on Jul 14, 2001 at 09:46 UTC
    All in all, these are some strong talks and I wish a few were full papers in the Conference proceedings. I especially like japhy's Loop::Watch module, which has some things in common with Event and Carp::Datum.

    However, I am shocked, appalled, and offended by the unnecessarily foul langauge used in Elaine Ashton's talk summary.Hopefully she's doing that for comic impact and doesn't come off that way in her presentation.

      My module isn't on CPAN yet, but it will be before the conference. As for Elaine's talk, I think she has a point to make, and I can understand her frustration.

      japhy -- Perl and Regex Hacker
      I'm on a couple of e-mail lists with Elaine, and watch her patiently try to grind sense into the senseless. As long as she doesn't come armed, she's justified in anything she does.

      If she does come armed, well, I wouldn't blame her.

      I'd also like to acknowledge my admiration of davorg for having two glaring ambiguities in his talk title and description. I'm anxious to hear how he resolves them.

      adamsj

      They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it. --Gracie Allen

        Heh! Well, my longer talk "Increasing Perl Usage" and my lightning talk "Why Perl Advocacy is a Bad Idea" pretty much contradict each other. You'll have to come and see them both to see which one I really believe :)

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