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

["Bob McCoy" <bob@mccoy.net>]

Truth be told ... I thought your presentation was the only coherent one
of the lot (don't even get me started on gaming consoles).  I missed the
first round of talks during the previous week.  Obviously they didn't
set a very high bar for the students.

I was also shocked that, as we are now at the semester's end, that no
one in that group had any OO exposure.

Here's what I liked most about your presentation -- even though it was
ostensibly about operator overloading, the Date example was really
useful at showing the power of Perl modules to solve really thorny
issues.  It was like getting a bonus presentation.

I liked it.  I was engaged, but you probably couldn't tell as I was at
the far back of the room and there was a vast sea of zombie-like faces
between us.

There was one other guy that seemed to get it.  That was the guy who did
the talk on SMS messaging.

Sandy Vlasnik's class was in there because we had some database projects
based on the MovieTickets.com site.  I think that title caught her eye.
So we had a "field trip."  And while the speaker did manage to munge
together information from MovieTickets.com and IMDB, his talk really
didn't give any insights into the efficacy or the vagaries of the
process.

Anyway, good job.  And if I ever get a semester that's not too hairy, I
may return to the Perl Mongers' gatherings.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: omaha-pm-bounces@pm.org [mailto:omaha-pm-bounces@pm.org] On Behalf
Of Jay Hannah
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:05 PM
To: Perl Mongers of Omaha, Nebraska USA
Subject: Re: [Omaha.pm] Lightning Talks from UNO on Perl! :)

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
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