Re: Putting together the TPC mod_perl track

2000-11-13 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
"Stas" == Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stas I know that people pay a lot of money to attend TPC, compared to Stas YAPC, but I doubt that people would complain about a few laughs. They've never complained at any of my seminars, and I bill myself as a "technical comedian". Humor helps

Re: Putting together the TPC mod_perl track

2000-11-12 Thread Stas Bekman
Stas et al, Since its getting towards the end of the year, should we be thinking of putting together a mod_perl track for TPC? Has anyone got any ideas on what they'd like to either a) talk about, or b) hear talks about ? Well, we have planned to announce the CFP when Nathan will give

Re: Putting together the TPC mod_perl track

2000-11-12 Thread Stas Bekman
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Nathan Torkington wrote: Matt Sergeant writes: Since its getting towards the end of the year, should we be thinking of putting together a mod_perl track for TPC? I've got a room allocated to mod_perl for two days of conference at the next OScon. With this group's

Re: Putting together the TPC mod_perl track

2000-11-12 Thread Piers Cawley
Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, if you have something to talk about that isn't really useful, but very funny, you should propose it as well. Dave Cross' talk about Sub::Approx at YAPC::Europe was the killer talk. Remember that learning new things is nice, but having a few minutes

Re: Putting together the TPC mod_perl track

2000-11-12 Thread Stas Bekman
Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, if you have something to talk about that isn't really useful, but very funny, you should propose it as well. Dave Cross' talk about Sub::Approx at YAPC::Europe was the killer talk. Remember that learning new things is nice, but having a few

Re: Putting together the TPC mod_perl track

2000-11-12 Thread Nathan Torkington
Stas Bekman writes: Sorry about not mentioning all the other speakers who have added to the YAPC fun. Nat was there, so we will make sure to bring at least a little of this fun to TPC. I know that people pay a lot of money to attend TPC, compared to YAPC, but I doubt that people would

Re: Putting together the TPC mod_perl track

2000-11-02 Thread Trey Connell
: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 11:14 AM Subject: Re: Putting together the TPC mod_perl track Matt Sergeant writes: Since its getting towards the end of the year, should we be thinking of putting together a mod_perl track for TPC? I've got a room allocated to mod_perl for two days

Putting together the TPC mod_perl track

2000-11-01 Thread Matt Sergeant
Stas et al, Since its getting towards the end of the year, should we be thinking of putting together a mod_perl track for TPC? Has anyone got any ideas on what they'd like to either a) talk about, or b) hear talks about ? -- Matt/ /||** Director and CTO ** //||** AxKit.com

RE: Putting together the TPC mod_perl track

2000-11-01 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi Geoff, On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Geoffrey Young wrote: pretty basic, stuff like that... I think that's what's needed. 73, Ged.

Re: Putting together the TPC mod_perl track

2000-11-01 Thread Nathan Torkington
Matt Sergeant writes: Since its getting towards the end of the year, should we be thinking of putting together a mod_perl track for TPC? I've got a room allocated to mod_perl for two days of conference at the next OScon. With this group's blessing I'd like to call it "the mod_perl confe

Re: Putting together the TPC mod_perl track

2000-11-01 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: Has anyone got any ideas on what they'd like to either a) talk about, or b) hear talks about ? I was thinking of giving a talk on Mason unless Jon Swartz wants to (haven't asked him yet). I also have another planned but its not mod_perl specific

Re: Putting together the TPC mod_perl track

2000-11-01 Thread Nathan Torkington
I wrote: I've got a room allocated to mod_perl for two days of conference at the next OScon Man, that'll teach me to open my big mouth :-) OScon is O'Reilly's Open Source Convention. Next year it will be in San Diego. See http://conferences.ora.com/ for a link to this year's OScon. OScon

Re: Putting together the TPC mod_perl track

2000-11-01 Thread Marc Spitzer
what is AO? thanks marc - Original Message - From: "Nathan Torkington" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Matt Sergeant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 12:14 PM Subject: Re: Putting together the TPC mod_perl track Matt Sergeant

Re: Putting together the TPC mod_perl track

2000-11-01 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Marc Spitzer wrote: what is AO? A port of the servlets architecture to mod_perl. -- Matt/ /||** Director and CTO ** //||** AxKit.com Ltd ** ** XML Application Serving ** // ||** http://axkit.org ** ** XSLT, XPathScript, XSP ** // \\| // **

Re: Putting together the TPC mod_perl track

2000-11-01 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Nathan Torkington wrote: * Case studies showing how big companies use mod_perl This latter is an important part of the Perl conference. Many companies who would never 'fess up to using Perl seem quite happy to send employees to speak at conferences. Their talks end up

Re: Putting together the TPC mod_perl track

2000-11-01 Thread brian moseley
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Marc Spitzer wrote: what is AO? A port of the servlets architecture to mod_perl. from the original announcement i sent on 4 sept 2000: README snip-- AO is a servlet engine for Perl. It provides an application environment

Re: Putting together the TPC mod_perl track

2000-11-01 Thread Nathan Torkington
Perrin Harkins writes: I may be able to offer something on how we use mod_perl at eToys. We recently rewrote our codebase to take better advantage of mod_perl and are using some fun OO stuff, as well as a bunch of scalability tricks. I was also thinking about presenting a comparison of

Re: Putting together the TPC mod_perl track

2000-11-01 Thread Sander van Zoest
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Nathan Torkington wrote: * Case studies showing how big companies use mod_perl This latter is an important part of the Perl conference. Many companies who would never 'fess up to using Perl seem quite happy to send employees to speak at conferences. Their talks end up

Re: Putting together the TPC mod_perl track

2000-11-01 Thread Gunther Birznieks
I'd be curious to know how this is working out as we already have something similar and have been working on it for a couple years in evolution where Java Servlet compatibility was a key (but I'll admit -- not a #1) component to our design process. The stuff we've done emulates servlet