Re: pl/Perl

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 05:46:59PM -0400, Chris Browne wrote:
> david@fetter.org (David Fetter) writes:
> > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 03:54:30PM -0400, Chris Browne wrote:
> >> johncwang@gmail.com ("John Wang") writes:
> >> > Thanks Lukas and Jim. The OmniTI presentation is great and
> >> > along the lines that I'm looking for, presentations that are
> >> > geared towards a technical audience working on deploying and
> >> > adminstering the database.
> >>
> >> Speaking of presentations, does anyone have one on pl/Perl?  Or
> >> something that has a chunk of material on pl/Perl?
> >
> > I've got some slides from a PL/Perl talk I gave at FISL 7.0
> > <http://fetter.org/Perl_and_PostgreSQL.pdf>
> >
> > The slides illustrate one cute thing you can do with PL/Perl that
> > would be challenging any other way :)
>
> Pretty neat, albeit brief.

Good talks are like good dresses: short enough to be interesting, long
enough to cover the subject.

> [And definitely done using Keynote...]

And proud of it. :)

> Something that strikes me as really useful would be to point to some
> Perl DB access libraries as being either highly recommended or not
> based on stuff like whether they hold transactions open.  That's not
> a pl/Perl thing, but it falls into what PerlMongers ought to be
> interested in.

I'll be shoving DBI-Link 2.0beta1 out the door tomorrow or Friday. :)
Explaining how it works to a newcomer audience would take a couple of
hours, tho.  Some of the other slides on
<http://fetter.org/resume.html> also at least touch on PL/Perl.

Cheers,
D
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