Speaking at Wellington Perlmongers
Tonight, I spoke at Wellington Perlmongers. I volunteered to do it last month and guess what, I only started my slides last night!
I did finish them before 3am though, so I got at least a few hours sleep.
All in all, I thought it went well. I meant it to last for maybe half an hour, but I suspect it was more like 45 mins if not a bit more.
My presentation was in two halves: the first was an introduction to Perl/Mason since I don't think the Wellington Perlmongers had had one before, so I had to go over a lot of material. In fact, I hardly touched the surface of Mason at all and I realised that it is a huge subject to tackle.
This was all in preparation of the main part of the talk. It was titled: 'Using Multiple Mason Component Roots: An experiment in CMS Design'.
Basically (ignoring the grand title) it was about writing and using http://zaapt.org.nz/ (deprecated) Zaapt using all the technologies and methodologies mentioned in the titles. I told them about KiwiWriters and also about the two demo Zaapt Sites.
All in all, I think my presentation was okay but possibly a bit boring in the middle. It seems that more than just a few people already knew Mason (in fact, probably the majority) but there was certainly a percentage who didn't.
There wasn't many questions about Mason though I learnt a couple of things too. There was, however, quite a number of questions about Zaapt, especially when I started showing them the sites.
One good thing though was that, I now have a copy of Advanced Perl Programming (signed by Simon Cozens) which I was given in return for the presentation. I also have a borrowed copy of Perl 6 Now (Apress) which I shall have a read of and try and write a review for.
I'll throw up a link to the slides once I have them. I reckon they'll appear somewhere on Wellington Perl Mongers Archive page.
Update: 2007-03-14 10:59:54 - The slides are now up. I'll see if I can try to fix the blatent mistakes I made :-)
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