Open Source Bridge

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Description

Parrot hit 1.0 in March of this year. A virtual machine like no other, Parrot targets dynamic languages such as Python, Perl, PHP, and Ruby, it hosts a powerful suite of compiler tools tailored to dynamic languages and a next generation regular expression engine. This talk briefly explains the overall architecture of Parrot and teaches the skills needed to get started hacking in Parrot.

Tags

parrot, dynamic_languages, python

Speaker

• chromatic x

  Onyx Neon Inc.
  • Website: http://www.onyxneon.com/
  • Blog: http://www.modernperlbooks.com/
  • Twitter: chromatic_x
  • Identi.ca: chromatic

  Biography

  chromatic has a decade of experience contributing to free and open source software projects. He’s contributed to Perl 1, Perl 5, and Perl 6, and is a lead developer of the Parrot virtual machine. You may recognize him from the books Modern Perl, Modern Perl Testing, Parrot Developer’s Guide, How to Cook Forty Humans with Perl, and Defeating the Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse with Perl and Parrot.

  He is the publisher of Onyx Neon Press, focusing on producing great books about software, technology, and modern living. In his spare time, he writes novels and works on secret projects to improve the world.

  He does not advocate the inevitable zombie apocalypse, but forewarned is forearmed.

  Sessions

  • * Project Management Should be Boring!
    • Title: Project Management Should be Boring!
    • Track: Cooking
    • Room: Marquam
    • Time: 3:50 – 4:35pm
    • Excerpt:

      Many people see project management as the art of trying to please everyone and pleasing no one, while trying not to go too far over deadline and too far over budget. It doesn’t have to be that way. Good project management can be so predictable and reliable that it’s almost boring. Here’s what works in real projects.

    • Speakers: chromatic x
  • * Introduction to Parrot
    • Title: Introduction to Parrot
    • Track: Hacks
    • Room: Morrison
    • Time: 10:00 – 10:45am
    • Excerpt:

      This talk briefly explains the overall architecture of Parrot and teaches the skills needed to get started hacking in Parrot.

    • Speakers: chromatic x