Agenda
On 30 June, 2005, the Israeli Perl Mongers held their regular monthly meeting. The program:
- 19:00-19:30 -- Assembly and light refreshments
- 19:30-22:00 -- Stas Bekman will lecture about "mod_perl"
- As usual after the meeting we will go out to a nearby pub/coffee-shop/etc. for a post-meeting social gathering.
Location: Tel-Aviv University
Report
- Arik Manor
- Gabor Szabo
- Ido Perelmutter
- Jason Friedman
- Oded Porat
- Offer Kaye
- Pinkhas Nisanov
- Roman Parparov
- Shlomi Fish
- Stas Bekman
- Thomas Maier
- Uri Bruck
- Yishay Weiss
First of all, the
slides and
handouts
from the lecture
are available here. Download and enjoy.
Stas and I arrived just after the beginning of the assembly, so most people had already
arrived by the time we got there. Luckily for us there were not too many, so there
were many bourekas left over... :)
Stas began by explaining that he usualy requires 5-6 hours to cover the entire
tutorial, so since we only had about 2 hours there was only time to skim over the
top. So we decided to go over the HTTP protocol handler, filters and if time permitted
some of the other protocol handlers.
Stas began with a short overview of installing mod_perl (you need Apache2 installed).
Pinkhas asked about the benefits of static compilation, Stas said there weren't any.
I asked about adding a PREFIX argument to the "perl Makefile.pl" stage, Stas said
there was no problem with that.
The lecture continued with a quick overview of some of the new features in mod_perl2
compared to mod_perl. Basically the real power of mod_perl2 is the access to Apache's
API - over 400 functions are accessible using mod_perl2.
There was a lot more to the lecture, more than I can remember now, but all of
it was very interesting and informative. Also during a 10 minute break we had
Stas showed some pictures he took while he was in Honolulu, those were
simply amazing :)
After the technical meeting most of us continued to the nearby coffee-shop
where we drank beer and talked some more about mod_perl, Perl in general and
other stuff. It was fun and tasty, and I'm looking forward to the next meeting...
See you all there! :)
This meeting summary was written by your ever cheerful Israel.pm PR person - Offer Kaye.