2 posts tagged “myspace”
I just got finished presenting Seaside at Freescale Semiconductors (a spin-off of Motorola as I understand it) here in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. I used a slightly revised version of the presentation I made a week ago at MySpace, and as expected, the level of interest was high and the questions were good. I'm told that while they've traditionally used Perl for the web apps, they're looking at Grails and other solutions right now, so this might be another case of perfect timing.
What makes this slightly amusing is that I'm here because I was hired to teach a 3-day Perl class last week, but happened to have an extra layover day. I started talking about Seaside to my contacts here, and they encouraged me to present my talk. When I got to the part where I said that the teenagers sold Auctomatic for $5 million, one of them said "man, what am I doing here?". Oops.
As an aside, I got to do the Tequila Express yesterday (pictures and videos are up on Flickr already), and am looking forward to doing that every time I come back to Guadalajara!
My longtime friend (and fellow Perl book author) Carl Dichter now runs the show at Myspace.com for the infrastructure team (or something like that). He invited me to present Seaside at their regular "programming dojos" where experts are called in to expose the company to bleading-edge technologies for possible assimilation into the already diverse frameworks within Myspace.
I beefed up the "elevator talk" because I knew I'd have about 90 minutes. So this is yet-another version of the "intro to seaside" talk, and the one I'm happiest with so far.
The talk was well received, with many good questions and (once again) a standing-room-only crowd. However, this time, I was also videotaped, and I'm told it will appear on "myspace TV" very soon, and I'll link to that when it goes up. You can all see how bad my typing went on the live demo, and how I couldn't figure out how to get Squeak to resize to the 1024x768 screen very well.
