[MacPerl] SF Bay Area Perl Mongers (4/13)

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

If you're in the San Francisco Bay area, read on:

At 09:48 -0700 4/12/99, Matthew D. P. K. Strelchun-Lanier wrote:
> Hello all-
>
> It's time for the next San Francisco Perl Users Group meeting, that wacky
> group of perl programmers who like to sit around, talk about perl, drink,
> get into religious debates on vi vs emacs, drink, evangelize about perl,
> and generally get each other jobs.
>
> In this talk we present HTML::Mason, a powerful web site development and
> delivery engine available for free on CPAN.  Mason allows you to embed
>Perl
> code in your HTML and construct pages from shared, reusable building
>blocks
> called components.  Mason solves frequent problems one faces when
>developing
> for the web: caching, debugging, profiling, simulating different browser
> conditions, etc. The upcoming release of Mason includes a full featured
> web-based content management system that allows developers to edit sites
> remotely.
>
> Although it can be used from CGI or even stand-alone, Mason is optimally
> designed for use with mod_perl and Apache.  In this configuration it is
> robust enough to serve over a million page views a day at CMP Media.
>
> The majority of the talk will be a live demo of Mason's features and an
> explanation of how to start experimenting with it.  We'll also talk about
>a
> few of the cool tricks in the implementation and the process of releasing
> our "internal" CMP work as open source.
>
> For more information before the talk, download HTML::Mason from CPAN or
> check out www.masonhq.com.
>
> About the speakers:
>
> Jonathan Swartz, co-author of Mason, is a software consultant in San
> Francisco helping companies build high-traffic web sites with Apache and
> mod_perl. He developed Mason over a three-year period at CMP Media.
>
> Mark Schmick has worked for 16 years as a programmer, instructor, and
> consultant, the last four steeped delightedly in Perl. Big web sites
> equal big fun, especially those that publish data from interesting
> backends like SQL databases or XML repositories.
>
>
> Here's the Details:
>
> Where:  DSL networks 480 2'nd Street, at the intersection of 2'nd and
>townsend
> 	San Francisco
>
> When: Tuesday, April 13, 7:30 pm until whenever we're done
>
> What to bring:  a $5 donation would be appreciated, as I'm paying for this
> myself.  Last month, a little extra money went to Randal Schwartz's
>defense
> fund.
>
> What Else:
> 	RSVP TO matt@saturn5.com with the subject line: "attending= $num".
>Anyone
> found returning that line directly without doing doublequote variable
> interpolation will be mocked mercilessly.
>
> 	RSVP
>
> 	once again, please remeber to RSVP
>
> If you have any additional questions, please consult the sfpug web site at
> http://sf.pm.org.  If that doesn't answer your question, follow one of the
> e-mail links there.
>
> I look forward to seeing you there!
>
>
> Matthew D. P. K. Lanier
> President, San Francisco Perl Users Group
> http://sf.pm.org
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