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• YAPC slides (Score:1)

  by tsee (4409)

  Hi Dave,
  
  thanks for sharing your slides. It's great that I can at least track some of the talks from YAPC if I can't come.
  
  Additionally, I think your thoughts on advocacy are pretty much dead on.
  
  Steffen
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by jjore (6662)

    I just read your ORM talk slides. Alzabo does much of that work already.
• Very informative!!! (Score:1)

  by sigzero (5768)

  I used that to re-create an Oracle schema that I was moving from an Access db.
  
  Any chance of putting those into PDF format?
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by davorg (18)

    Any chance of putting those into PDF format?

    Good plan. I'll look at that next week.
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by Matts (1087)

    If you print it, it uses a different stylesheet and produces a nice PDF if your OS has print-to-pdf features.
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by sigzero (5768)

      Beauty!
• Wow (Score:1)

  by sigzero (5768)

  Stop being fucking rude to newbies!

  Did you say that? That is the one thing I don't like about Perl and it has nothing to do with the language! I have been doing some Tcl work lately. Now Tcl is a cool language and it has some perception baggage as well. What I like about Tcl mostly? The community is the friendliest and helpful of any (including the Ruby one) that I have participated in bar none. That goes a looong way with someone trying to pick up a language.
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by davorg (18)

    Did you say that?

    I was going to. But when that point appeared on the slide, everyone laughed, so I didn't actually have to say it out loud.

    I got the point across tho' :-)
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by sigzero (5768)

      I am sure they laughed...because they know it is true! : )
• ORM questions (Score:1)

  by sigzero (5768)

  Q1: Since you have a definate opinion of what an ORM should do, is there one in the Perl community that you prefer?

  Q2: I think you are probably too busy to create the ultimate ORM, are you helping one of the other ORM projects to realize the Perl ORM nirvana?
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by davorg (18)

    Q1: Since you have a definate opinion of what an ORM should do, is there one in the Perl community that you prefer?

    Nope. Not yet. However, in the 48 hours since I gave that talk, I've heard a _lot_ of opinions from other people. I'll definitely be looking closely at DBIx::Class [cpan.org] over the next few weeks.

    Q2: I think you are probably too busy to create the ultimate ORM, are you helping one of the other ORM projects to realize the Perl ORM nirvana?

    Nope. Although I rant a lot, it doesn't really annoy me