Possible Topics for 2012-10-19 Programmer's Meeting

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Intro to Sass

http://github.com/sycobuny/sass_presentation

This is an intro to the "Sass" (not "SAS") language, which is a templating language used to generate CSS from a more minimal set of instructions, as well as a set of functions which can help with design and layout (mathematical operators in CSS!)

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Code Smells (and what to do about them)

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One of the buzzwords that has come into the programming world recently is "smells" - It's a new word for an old concept. Your code lets you know when it needs to be refactored; this talk highlights some of the ways it tells you.

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Intro to PL/Perl

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This presentation walks through a few of the more basic ways in which you can embed Perl into a PostgreSQL database using PL/Perl.

Mojolicious

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This will probably be a basic introduction to Mojolicious and how to use it to develop sweet apps without breaking a sweat.

IRP::Auth

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This would be a fast talk about my custom webform-based authentication module, written using mod_perl.