Jacinta Richardson

Jacinta Richardson
Training Coordinator, Perl Training Australia

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Jacinta Richardson runs Perl Training Australia, a micro-business offering courses throughout Australia. Both as part of her job and a massive free-time sink, she is involved in running conferences (linux.conf.au 2007, Open Source Developers’ Conference (Australia) 2004-2008, Australian System Administrators Conference (SAGE-AU) 2008-2009), attending conferences, writing perl-tips, speaking at Perl Monger meetings whenever she’s in the right town, participating in on-line Perl forums and promoting women in IT. For her work in the Perl community, Jacinta was awarded the White Camel Award in 2008. When away from the computer, Jacinta enjoys scuba diving,
cycling and baking.

Sessions

1:30pm–5:00pm Tuesday, 07/21/2009
Doing Perl Right
Perl
 Location: Ballroom A4/A5
Paul Fenwick (Perl Training Australia), Jacinta Richardson (Perl Training Australia)
Average rating: ****.
(4.12, 24 ratings)
You already know some Perl. You've read a book, written a few scripts, maybe even a module, but are you sure you're doing it right? Languagues and techniques evolve over time, and Perl is no exception. This detailed tutorial covers many of the best modern and practical techniques in Perl, including Moose, autodie, Devel::NYTProf, Devel::Cover, PAR, Perl::Critic and more. Read more.
10:45am–11:30am Wednesday, 07/22/2009
MVCs in Perl, Too Many Ways To Do It!
Perl, Web Applications
 Location: Meeting Room J2
Jacinta Richardson (Perl Training Australia)
Average rating: ****.
(4.11, 9 ratings)
Everyone else is using Model-View-Controller (MVC) frameworks to create their websites, but Perl has so many! How is an MVC-novice to choose between Catalyst, Jifty, Gantry, Maypole or many of the others? Come along for a whirlwind tour of these frameworks and more and see their strengths, their failures and make an informed decision about which one you'll use for your next project. Read more.
4:30pm–5:15pm Thursday, 07/23/2009
Just Get the Job Done! Serving the Community One Argument at a Time.
People
 Location: Meeting Room B1/B4
Jacinta Richardson (Perl Training Australia)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 2 ratings)
The president of your committee is doing most of the work and none of the management. The secretary hasn't written the minutes for any of the meetings for the last 6 months (you wrote the last 4 agendas). The treasurer can't access the bank account, and you haven't heard from your publicity officer since you started planning the big event. Welcome to the fun of volunteer communities! Read more.
  • Intel
  • Microsoft
  • Google
  • SourceForge.net
  • Sun Microsystems
  • Facebook
  • Gear6
  • Kaltura
  • Liferay
  • MindTouch
  • MySpace.com
  • Novell, Inc.
  • Open Invention Network
  • Rackspace Cloud
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • Symbian Foundation
  • Twilio
  • WSO2
  • Yabarana Corporation

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