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I work for MessageLabs [messagelabs.com] in Toronto, ON, Canada. I write spam filters, MTA software, high performance network software, string matching algorithms, and other cool stuff mostly in Perl and C.
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I work for MessageLabs [messagelabs.com] in Toronto, ON, Canada. I write spam filters, MTA software, high performance network software, string matching algorithms, and other cool stuff mostly in Perl and C.
Tuesday November 20, 2001
04:38 AM
TPC 2002
So, according to gnat's journal, the 2002 TPC call for papers is soon to go out. That means I have to start thinking about what to talk about.
I have several ideas, of course I'd like to talk about AxKit, and the stuff we're doing here at work, and maybe the "Why SOAP Sucks" talk again - I enjoyed doing that. But beyond those, I'm not sure what else to talk about. 2001's presentations I did are here.
Some ideas:
- XML::SAX and friends.
- Exceptions (again)
- Generating PDFs with PDFLib.pm
- "The Perl XML Talk"
- Non-compiler-compiler rec descent parsing in Perl
Is there anything specific that people would like to hear me witter on about?
(oh, and yes I'm going for a marathon again - I need some way to pay for my trip
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talks (Score:1)
how about a talk on the process of building a tool like AxKit? best coding practice, trade offs you made, success in interesting people in the work, etc.
Re:talks (Score:1)
I was already a Perl-XML geek. I wanted something to do server side XML transformations, and was jealous of other tools (e.g. cocoon) to do this. So I wrote one around mod_perl. It was pretty crap at first, but it evolved into AxKit, which is still crap in places, but better than it was. People got interested because I wasn't the only one who wanted server side XML transforms. And also because I was *very* noisy about it all over the place. Advertising is everything.
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