code generation
by ???

  we do lots of stuff with API hidden behind SOAP
  auth
  resource discovery
  notification
  message braodcasting

  done with lots of languages

  my job is to take care of the Perl stuff

  auth:
    is this trader allowed to do $1,000,000 trade today at 0900?
    can his assistant if the trader is sick?

    create an XML message
    send to SOAP
    get a reply
  
  common alert xml system

??
jim brandt + randal schwartz

  we do a lot of reading from the db and writing to the web
  who knows mvc?  (everyone)

  all cgi things tend to:
    read params
    do something
    figure out how to reply
    do it
  
  i married class::prototype to something cgi-y
  CGI::Prototype

  create generic system, subclass as needed, creating hierarchy

  you just override methods so that every page calls the same Stuff but has
  different specific behavior

perl is too slow
??

  perl is too slow

  mod_perl good for apache
  speedycgi should work for everyone
  ...but doesn't

  pperl is new, and works
  send_fd and recv_fd <-- pass fd's between unix domain sockets
  
  also, speed up string matching
  using aho curasick algo
  150x faster

  Text::QSearch -- maybe on CPAN soon

aegis sccs
schwern

  i don't like cvs
  i don't like patches
  i keep getting patches
  it's a pain
  i want to stop that

  aegis is an old sccs
  anybody can made a dev
  they can decide to make a change
  declare their intention
  they can make a checkout
  then can checkin: only if a test is porivded and works
  once checked in, goes to review
  reviewer can decide whether to keep or discard


thomas
tactical technology collective

  i found a challenge I couldn't code my way out of
  I'd tell people: go home and use open source software
  they'd go: where am i gonna get it
  i'd go: it's online
  they'd go: but I'm not!

  it was hard to code my way out of this

  so we have NGO in a box.  it's a box with open source software in it
  we tell people to install that.

  that's it!

daron clay, the boeing company
the package factory
  
  we use a lot of perl (and python and php, and even ms stuff)

  package factory is a workflow tool
  lamp application
  centralized service used by many boeing developers
    boeing is big enough that there is internal competition inside boeing

andy lester
start using prove!

  prove: designed as a development tool
  part of test harness
  will change a lot of how you deal with testing

  it's like make test, but more flexible
  included with core perl and test harness
  will change the way you think about tests and testing

  you can run just one test if you get test failures: prove -v filename

  test-first development and prove are best pals

  write your pod+api
  write tests
  prove: they fail
  write code
  prove: they pass
  yay!

  prove gives you control make test doesn't:
  you can run test outside of module, with no Makefile, or even make(1)

guy who works for richard stallman (david turner)
licensing for perl(6)

  reading from "sinners in the eye of an angry god"

  I do free software licensing.

  Licensing is not theology.  It's rocket science.

  I'm gonna talk about the terrible state of Parrot licensing that is going to
  send you all to hell.

  Add copyright files to every file in Parrot.  They're missing.

  Also, don't use the Artistic License.  Use the Clarified Artistic License.

  If you want to assign copyright to TPF, you must have signed forms.  You
  must.  It's in the law.  Do it.

  If you want help, we will help you do things right.