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Perl Conference 2.0, Continued
Other Parts of the Onion: Technical Papers
One set of talks consisted of
technical papers describing Perl-related applications or theories which users
had been working on for the past year. 18 papers (out of 48 submitted) were
chosen for presentation at the conference. Six of those papers won a $1000 prize each. Below is a list of the six winners
with a brief description of each. URLs link to the authors' pages, but the
papers are also available at the Perl Conference site.
Best Software Development Tool
When the STL Isn't Enough: Adding Perl to Your C++ Applications
by Ken Fox
Reference URL: http://www.msen.com/~fox/
This paper describes libperl++, a programming library that helps simplify the
task of using Perl code in C++ applications. C++ and Perl each have their
advantages as a programming language. By using both, you can accomplish more
than you could with just one.
Best New Module
LWPng: Adding HTTP1.1
by Gisle Aas
Reference URL: http://www.linpro.no/lwp/lwpng-pa
er/
This paper discusses the addition of support for HTTP/1.1 (instead of just
1.0) to libwww-perl, a collection of Perl modules that provides a basis for
building web clients (both robots and browsers). It includes support for
multiple persistent (simultaneous) connections.
Best System Administration Tool
System Performance Database: System Information Gathering
and Display
by Marty D. Cudmore and Richard Jetton
Reference URL: http://www.cudmore.net/PerlCon
erence2.0
This paper talks about the development of System Performance Database (SPD), a
framework for gathering system data, storing it in a database, and serving
that information to administrators in an understandable format.
Best Web Application Tool
Distributed HTTP
by Jon Udell
Reference URL: http://udell.roninhouse.
om/download/dhttp.zip
This paper describes a project in which the author developed a system of web
servers (entirely written in Perl) designed to run on ordinary users'
computers for the purpose of creating a peer-to-peer, instead of
client-server, network. As a result, people not connected to the Net were able
to gather information or perform calculations locally, then distribute their
information to a network of small local web servers that need to share
information.
Best End-User Application
An Internet Banking Framework
by Javier Rodriguez and Carlos de la Guardia
Reference URL: http://www.aldea.com.mx/papers/
anking/
This paper describes a project in which the authors developed a system,
through a series of modules, to allow communication between a large bank's
legacy computing systems and Internet-connected computers that could serve
customers online.
Larry Wall Award for Practical Utility
Declarative Command-Line Interfaces
by Damian Conway
Reference URL: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~d
mian/
This paper deals with a new approach to command-line argument parsers for
Perl. The package described allows the programmer to specify the usage string
for each argument which is entered. |
