Lightning Talks

Lightning Talks at OSCON

First Half	Second Half
moxi - a modern memcached proxy by Steve Yen	Black holes by Aron Wall
SQL::Translator by Ken Youens-Clark	Geotpt::Complete - shell tab completion for Perl apps by Scott Smith
Calculating Binomial Distribution Probabilities by John Evans	Flock by Akkana Peck
Place holder by speaker withheld	Sixty to Zero in Perl by Peter Scott
MayYou, an authorization management tool by Mark Grand	Cool operators in Perl 6 by Patrick Michaud
ChangeLogML: Keeping Project ChangeLogs in XML by Randy J Ray	This Space For Rent by Your Name Here
Astronomy Observatory Operations and Perl by Charlie Katz	Subversion Lifetime Achievement Award by Michael G Schwern
Esthetic Randomness by Joseph Brenner	Platonic Programming by Kate Agnew

The long version

moxi - a modern memcached proxy
by Steve Yen
What happens when you fit together memcached + libmemcached together into one program?
http://labs.northscale.com/moxi/
(Programming)

SQL::Translator
by Ken Youens-Clark
How to automatically translate to new schema dialects, and create code, tests and images directly from database schemas.
http://sqlfairy.sourceforge.net/
(Programming)

Calculating Binomial Distribution Probabilities
by John Evans
In an effort to find balance in a dice-based game, I used Perl to do the hard crunching for me. 42 lines of Perl code later I had my numbers... then it was time for the analysis.

(Programming)

Place holder
by speaker withheld
I know what will be here, but am not saying yet.

(Other)

MayYou, an authorization management tool
by Mark Grand
MayYou is an authorization management tool, under construction, to perform fine grained authorization. Its purpose is to determine who is allowed to perform what operations on a resource. A resource is anything with a unique name or identifier.

(Programming)

ChangeLogML: Keeping Project ChangeLogs in XML
by Randy J Ray
ChangeLogML is an XML vocabulary for describing project change-log data in a way that makes it easy to use across many different applications. The App::Changelog2x package on CPAN can process this XML with XSLT into a variety of useful snippets.
http://www.blackperl.com/OSCON2009/changelogml.html
(Programming)

Astronomy Observatory Operations and Perl
by Charlie Katz
Using Perl to integrate the diverse efforts of astronomers and engineers in the operation of the Submillimeter Array, a radio telescope observatory.
http://docs.google.com/Presentation?docid=0ATZt6M8aeazxZG52dzY0al83a3Z3NXgyZmM&h
(Serious)

Esthetic Randomness
by Joseph Brenner
There are different kinds of randomness, some applications need hard randomness (cryptography) but for others hard randomness can get in the way (e.g. randomly choosing an image or a song).
http://obsidianrook.com/devnotes/talks/esthetic_randomness/
(Programming)

Black holes
by Aron Wall
N misconceptions about black holes.

(Other)

Geotpt::Complete - shell tab completion for Perl apps
by Scott Smith
A Perl module to instantly make your Perl app tab-complete in the bash shell.
http://kivasti.com/getopt-complete.pdf
(Programming)

Flock
by Akkana Peck
What do pigeons and sheep have to do with open source?

(Other)

Sixty to Zero in Perl
by Peter Scott
Devolutionary Perl

(Funny)

Cool operators in Perl 6
by Patrick Michaud
Perl 6 operators do cool stuff.
http://pmichaud.com/2009/pres/oscon-perl6op/
(Programming)

This Space For Rent
by Your Name Here
You know you want to submit a lightning talk to replace this one.

(Other)

Subversion Lifetime Achievement Award
by Michael G Schwern
Subversion has been getting a lot of crap lately, how silly to make a better CVS? I don't think we fully appreciate it in its historical context and all it has done for the acceptance of distributed version control today.
http://github.com/schwern/Subversion-Lifetime-Achievement-Award/
(Funny)

Platonic Programming
by Kate Agnew
Would Plato be a programmer, or a hacker-- and does it matter to you? Plus, sock puppets.

(Funny)

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The order of the schedule is subject to change.