Another successful meeting at Boston.com! We had about 20 people at the
meeting last Tuesday.
James Freeman presented presented PISE, a system written in Perl for
creating web interfaces to command line tools using XML templates. The
system has some very nice features, such as forking a process to execute
the command line in case it will take a long time to finish. It was noted
that the Perl code wanted some improvements, however.
While James was setting up, I played with the nifty features of the
Boston.pm projector, such as pointers, underlining, and zoom. Reading the
manual really does pay off! :)
After the presentation, we discussed the short DeCSS code that was recently
posted to the list. I reviewed a thread on the Fun With Perl list, that
resulted in the code shrinking from 526 characters to 472. I wasn't able
to explain the algorithm used in the code, though.
Thanks to James for the presentation, Boston.com for hosting, and everyone
who attended!
If you are interested in giving a presentation at a future Boston.pm
technical meeting, let me know! If you're giving a presentation at an
upcoming conference, this is a great way to rehearse.
Ronald
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