Re: [Omaha.pm] Lightning Talks from UNO on Perl! :)

[Jay Hannah <jay@jays.net>]

My thoughts on last night's lightning talks:

My presentation (tough love, constructive criticism -grin-):
- I don't think I did a good job picking a topic, nor delivering it. For starters, I think the subject matter was too advanced. I was surprised no one had played w/ OO coding at all, and if you haven't played w/ objects (at all, in any language?) then Perl operator overloading (which only works for classes) probably isn't interesting, nor is Date::Calc. The fact that I couldn't play off anyone's feedback deadened the energy of my presentation (not to mention my total lack of charisma -laugh-). I need to work on keeping my energy level up w/ a dead (sleeping?) audience. -grin-
- If I'm ever invited back, I think I'll just to a big run through of the Acme::* namespace -- all kinds of fun, goofy stuff in there that might hold people's attention better than what I did last night?
- Any feedback for me out there? (*cough* bob mccoy? *cough*)
- I'm still naive enough to think I could pull off a 1+ hour TT demo if the audience has a touch of web programming experience. With or w/o a behind the scenes tour of www.omnihotels.com.

PHP
- Perl's Template Toolkit is one of Perl's many PHP-esque toolsets. I'm very versed in TT nowadays. 

Living and learning,

j