BEGIN:VCALENDAR CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//Act//Data::ICal 0.16//EN VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Nordic Perl Workshop 2006 X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Oslo BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Oslo X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Oslo BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU TZNAME:CEST TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU TZNAME:CET TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Welcome speech with various useful info DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T092000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T090000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Welcome UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/100 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/100 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:A small breather between the talks DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T095000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T094000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Short break UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/108 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/108 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Snacks and caffeine for those of us who haven't woken up yet. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T110000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T103000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Coffee break UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/105 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/105 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:A quick break for fresh air. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T121000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T120000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Short break UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/110 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/110 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Lunch will be available at the "Fredrikke" cantina\, just 5 min utes walk from the venue. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T140000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T123000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Lunch UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/101 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/101 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:More snacks and caffeine! DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T153000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T150000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Coffee break UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/104 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/104 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Another breather so we can catch some fresh air. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T162000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T161000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Short break UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/111 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/111 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Each year the Norwegian Unix User Group arranges a barbecue for the Free Software community in the Oslo region. Traditionally it has alwa ys been fun - with free food\, cheap drink\, lots of engaging people to ta lk with\, live music and interesting chemical experiments (just kidding :) .\n\nThe biggest one yet was during DebConf3 in 2003 when we were 200 peop le at the barbecue. We had a blast! But this year the Nordic Perl Workshop is in town\, and we'll get the chance to show that Perl people can have j ust as much fun as the Debianista!\n\nWe hope you can come - Just make sur e to register in time! :-D DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T233000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T183000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:NUUG summer barbecue UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/99 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/99 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Fresh air for those of us who need a break. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T095000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T094000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Short break UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/113 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/113 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:A bit to eat and a drop to drink. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T110000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T103000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Coffee break UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/107 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/107 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Another small break. Use it to make a new acquaintance! :) DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T115000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T114000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Short break UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/114 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/114 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Lunch break for those of us who must eat. :)\n\nWe go to the "F redrikke" cantina for some cheap edible grub\, and are back in time for th e next talk. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T140000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T123000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Lunch UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/102 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/102 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:crackers and cheese DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T153000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T150000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Coffee break UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/106 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/106 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The last small break this conference. The next one is REALLY BI G! :-D DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T162000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T161000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Small break UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/116 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/event/116 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:Qpsmtpd is a flexible smtpd daemon written in Perl. As the dep loyment base has grown rapidly over the past several years\, it has proven to be a scalable\, full featured smtpd daemon which provides a useful API for the development of plugins to extend the featureset.\n\nQpsmtpd howev er is much more than just an smtpd daemon. The plugin API provides a fram ework through which email based applications can be developed. Using email s as transactions\, tasks which are normally accomplished via browser inte rfaces can be completed over email. The ideal workflow for an email based application is one that implements a fixed process given an input and car ries out a series of steps which would normally be cumbersome using tradit ional browser based interfaces. With the proliferation of mobile devices which are email capable\, this approach to application development becomes a compelling one. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T103000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T095000 LOCATION:Large ORGANIZER:Fred Moyer SUMMARY:Writing applications with Qpsmtpd UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/256 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/256 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:Apache::Dispatch is a lightweight Perl module that enables you to apply a defined pattern in building simple applications. With the only dependency beingmod_perl itself\, you can quickly put together application s using an API which rivals the more complicated libaries and frameworks o ut there\, and which plays nice with other Apache::* Perl Modules. \nI wi ll introduce the latest version of Apache::Dispatch\, which will hit the C PAN soon. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T114000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T110000 LOCATION:Small ORGANIZER:Fred Moyer SUMMARY:Lightweight mod_perl applications with Apache::Dispatch UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/257 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/257 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:Challenges in building a benchmark test suite for perl and less ons learned from perlbench. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T094000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T092000 LOCATION:Large ORGANIZER:Gisle Aas SUMMARY:Benchmarking Perl UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/258 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/258 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, we will show the problems traditional (hash base d) Perl objects can create\, and we will show the solution Inside-Out Obje cts offer.\n\nInside-Out objects take Fly Weight Objects one step further\ , and have attracted a lot of attention the last year\, not in the least d ue to the publication of "Perl Best Practises" by Damian Conway. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T172000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T162000 LOCATION:Large ORGANIZER:Abigail SUMMARY:Inside-Out Objects UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/260 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/260 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:Background: In 2001\, a group of thought leaders gathered to cr eate the Agile Manifesto\, uniting a set of modern development practices. The best known of these practices is Extreme Programming.\n\nThis talk wil l cover the basis of modern development practices such as Continuous Integ ration and Test-Driven Development in theory and practice. We will explore why rapid development cycles is beneficial\, how to enable them\, and how to compensate when you cannot deploy as frequently as you would like to.\ n\nThe talk will cover technical aspects in theory\, but will not explore Perl tools to enable agile practices in detail.\n\nAbout the speaker: Joha nnes Brodwall is lead software architect at BBS where we works with enabli ng projects to use agile methods. In the evening he develops various small projects for fun and profit. He is one of Norway's most prominent advocat es of agile software development practices. His Perl foo is very very limi ted. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T120000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T110000 LOCATION:Large ORGANIZER:Johannes Brodwall SUMMARY:Agile Development in Theory and Practice UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/261 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:logicShop is an open source e-commerce platform implemented usi ng Perl and PostgreSQL. Its aim is managing the complexity of products\, p rice strategies and customers and all of the aspects involved in\, and req uired by\, a modern e-commerce solution.\n\nlogicShop provides all the bas ic functionality required by an online shopping platform at the same time is addresses a few aspects and special cases using a flexible datamodel an d the power of Perl.\n\nThe platform has been implemented using Class::DBI and several other CPAN modules. Frontends are being implemented in severa l different frameworks\, Catalyst being one of them.\n\nThis paper will no t go through all of the implementation of logicShop\, but will focus on so me of the special cases and their implementations.\n\n * Flexible customer datamodel\, model and object mapping\n * Integration toward logicstic and day-to-day business via a rule-based backend\n * Controlling presentation from the model\n * Architecture\, views and tables\n * Prices\, curre ncies and taxes\n * Presentation\n * Controlling business-logic from t he model\n * The intelligent cart logicShop is the flagship product in l ogicLAB and integrates with several other products in the logicLAB portfol io.\n\nlogicLab is a one-man company\, based in Copenhagen/Denmark. The mi ssion of logicLAB is to become an ISV with several open-source application s in the portfolio.\n\nJonas B. Nielsen (jonasbn) is a CPAN contributor an d member of the Copenhagen Perl Mongers. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T094000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T090000 LOCATION:Large ORGANIZER:jonasbn SUMMARY:logicShop UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/262 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/262 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:'[User Interface] Design should make use of natural properties of people and of the world: it should exploit natural relationships and na tural constraints. As much as possible\, it should operate without instru ctions or labels. Any necessary instruction or training should be needed only once... If the explaination leads the person to think or say\, "How am I going to remember that?" the design has failed.'\n -- Donald Norman \, "The Design of Everyday Things\n\nYou plug in a USB device without need ing instruction. You once again forget a switch to ls. You use a CPAN mo dule with only a few glances at the documentation. You try to pull on a d oor only to find its labeled "push". Why are some things easy and natural to use and others a continual trial? How can you make software that needs no manual? How can you avoid writing\nsoftware which is the door everyone tries to pull? The answer\, in part\, is user interface design.\n\nProgr ammers tend to have a casual understanding of human interaction design. W e can identify good and bad designs but we cannot always explain why they are good and bad in concrete terms. We often do not even possess the voca bulary to describe what we mean or even think about it. As knowing Softwa re Design Patterns changes the way you think about writing code\, knowing user interface design principles will change how you think about your inte rfaces.\n\nThe seven principles of making tasks simple will be taught. Ea ch principle will be illustrated first using a physical example\, then an example in a computer user interface and finally it will be shown applied directly to programming.\n\nThe seven principles are:\n * Use both knowled ge in the world and knowledge in the head\n * Simplify the structure of ta sks\n * Make things visible\n * Get the mappings right\n * Exploit the pow er of constraints\n * Design for error\n * When all else fails\, standardi ze DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T150000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T140000 LOCATION:Large ORGANIZER:Michael Schwern SUMMARY:Seven Principles For Transforming Difficult Tasks Into Simple Ones UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/264 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/264 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:In Europe\, it is estimated that more people die from air pollu tion diseases than in traffic accidents. While traffic can be regulated wi thin a countries borders\, air pollution is an international issue\, cover ed for Europe by the UN-ECE Convention for Long Range Air Pollution. \nTo assess the current air pollution situation and estimate future scenarios t he European countries are asked to send in their emission estimates. Compl ex dispersion models run on Top500 supercomputers calculate then the meteo rological and chemical influence to the emissions. The results need to be compared to measurements and are published to the general public\, other s cientists and decision makers. \n\nThe talk will concentrate on the role o f Perl in air pollution\, starting from web-interfaces to automate emissio n data retrieval over data-validation of large model results to templating for publications. Since PDL\, the Perl Data Language\, is often involved in those tasks\, a short introduction to PDL will be given. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T150000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T140000 LOCATION:Large ORGANIZER:Heiko Klein SUMMARY:Perl\, PDL and Air Pollution UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/266 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/266 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:This is the succesor of the talk '20 things you might not know about perl'\, which has been given at several other conferences and proved quite successful. So by popular demand here is its follow up.\n\nThe talk shows several features of perl you might not have known that existed\, wh ich are being (ab)used to run a program that was designed never to be able to run in the first place... It's a high paced\, humourous and entertaini ng look at perls slightly less obvious features. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T114000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T110000 LOCATION:Large ORGANIZER:Jos Boumans SUMMARY:Barely Legal XXX Perl UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/269 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/269 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:This will be a practical tutorial to writing database driven ap plications with Catalyst and DBIx::Class. We will mainly focus on the vari ous features of DBIx::Class like paging\, joins\, group_by and such\, and using Catalyst as a underlying web framework for our tutorial. Hopefully t here will be a finished app at the end of the 45 minutes :) DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T103000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T095000 LOCATION:Small ORGANIZER:Marcus Ramberg SUMMARY:Developing database applications with Catalyst and DBIx::Class UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/271 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/271 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:With the advent of v6.pm\, we can write "use v6-pugs\;"\, start coding in Perl 6\, and deploy it as part of a Perl 5 application\, withou t any extra\n dependencies such as Haskell\, Parrot\, or even C compilers. \n\nThis talk will discuss typical deployment scenarios\, emphasizing on t he strength of Perl 6's deployment model:\n\n - Automatic dependency ana lysis\, so upgrading CPAN modules will no longer break programs mysterious ly.\n - Multiversioning\, allowing the use of multiple versions of the s ame module on the system.\n - Module and function interfaces that enable s more robust and self-documenting programs.\n - Cross-platform bytecode \, resulting in faster loading time and cross-compilation opportunity to e .g. client-side JavaScript.\n\nMoreover\, we will present recipes for reus ing Perl 5 modules in Perl 6 programs and vice versa.\n\n\nAbout the speak er:\n\nAudrey Tang (formerly known as Autrijus) is a Taiwanese free softwa re programmer\, best known for initiating and leading the Pugs project\, a joint effort from Haskell and Perl communities to implement the Perl 6 la nguage.\n\nShe is also known for internationalization and localization con tributions to several Free Software programs\, including SVK\, Kwiki\, Req uest Tracker and Slash\, as well as heading Traditional Chinese translatio n efforts for various Open Source-related books.\n\nOn the CPAN\, Tang ini tiated over 100 Perl projects\, including the popular Perl Archive Toolkit (PAR)\, a cross-platform packaging and deployment tool for Perl 5. She is also responsible for setting up smoke test and digital signature systems for CPAN.\n\nTang is a high school dropout and a vocal proponent for autod idactism and individualist anarchism. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T161000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T153000 LOCATION:Large ORGANIZER:Audrey Tang SUMMARY:Deploying Perl 6 UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/272 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/272 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:RT (Request Tracker) is the industry leading open source ticket ing system. It speaks over a dozen language (including Norwegian\, Finnish and Danish\, but not yet Swedish). Jesse will present some of the latest advances in RT technology and talk a bit about the project's history and future. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T123000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T121000 LOCATION:Large ORGANIZER:Jesse Vincent SUMMARY:RT - Request Tracker UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/273 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/273 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:Jifty is a new full-stack web framework written in Perl. It com es with built in Continuations\, Halos\, AJAX/AHAH support\, data model an d database management\, and a Pony.\n\nThis talk is a brief overview of Ji fty and will give developers the tools they need to get started with their first Jifty application. Discussed are Jifty's innovative declarative sy ntax\, advanced AJAX/AHAH support\, Continuations\, as well as the suite o f tools Jifty comes with that help developers build pretty\, modern web ap plications quickly and painlessly. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T103000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T095000 LOCATION:Large ORGANIZER:Jesse Vincent SUMMARY:Jifty UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/274 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/274 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:This talk describes\, which CPAN modules I've used to build the site www.letterjames.com (which has been set offline two weeks ago).\nI' l give short intro to HTML::Mason\, Class::DBI\, Log::Log4perl\, Exception ::Class and other CPAN modules\, telling what you can do with them\, why a nd how I used them. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T094000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T090000 LOCATION:Small ORGANIZER:Rolf Schaufelberger SUMMARY:How I did letterjames.com with a lot of CPAN modules UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/276 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/276 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:This talk is in Norwegian.\n\nMålgruppen for dette kurset er ho vedsaklig deg som enten ønsker å begynne å bruke Perl eller som ønsker å b li mer effektive i bruken av det. Dersom du har programmert en del i Perl vil du kunne få satt kunnskapen i system.\n\nKurset er basert på materiale som har vært utviklet siden 1996\, av foredragsholderen\, Gisle Aas\, sam t flere kursholdere fra Linpro. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T142000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060615T092000 LOCATION:Small ORGANIZER:Dag Asheim SUMMARY:Introduksjon til Perl UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/277 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/277 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:a collection of lightning talks DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T172000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T162000 LOCATION:Large ORGANIZER:Marcus Ramberg SUMMARY:Lightning talks UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/278 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/278 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:CGI::Prototype (CGIP) uses prototyped-based MVC\nprogramming to represent a web application. Instead of worrying about the usual banaliti es of web programming\, it breaks the entire process down into the basics: receiving the input\, analyzing the input\, deciding how to respond\, and rendering the result. Most frameworks tie handlers to URLs\, but CGIP doe s away with that. At any point\, the handling module can decide who should take care of the next step. This means that you can\, for instance\, hand le the errors at any point (save them up to the end or do it right away)\, block access at any point\, and render the result at any point. Since the framework takes care of the state\, the action is simply a matter of choo sing the module you want\, making for an extremely flexible application. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T161000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T153000 LOCATION:Large ORGANIZER:brian d foy SUMMARY:CGI::Prototype UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/280 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/280 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:Creating a Perl distribution takes more than editing a couple o f files. Good programmers use source control\, test their distributions\, package them in several ways\, and upload them to a variety of places. It takes quite a bit of work to make even a simple change once you have to de al with all of these steps\, or at least it did until I wrote release(1) t o do it for me. Now I have a script (also in module form) that ensures my distribution is in tip-top shape\, checks everything into source control b efore I make the distribution\, and then\, if the tests pass\, uploads it to CPAN and Sourceforge. What used to be complex\, tedious\, and error-fra ught is now simple\, easy\, and reproducible. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T123000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T115000 LOCATION:Large ORGANIZER:brian d foy SUMMARY:Module::Release UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/286 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/286 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT COMMENT:0 attendees DESCRIPTION:There number of XML-related modules on CPAN is legion\, from ge neric parsers\, generators\, XSLT transformation engines\, templating syst ems and debugging tools to modules for specific formats like RSS/Atom\, RD F and SVG. Some are written in Perl\, others in C or Java. We will compare the most popular modules with regards to features\, speed and ease of dep loyment\, and make some recommendations on working with XML more easily. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T123000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20060616T115000 LOCATION:Small ORGANIZER:Geir Aalberg SUMMARY:XML tools in Perl: An overview UID:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/294 URL:http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2006/talk/294 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR