frameworks

Hear Brent Shaffer (@bshaffer), a Symfony developer and contributer, duke it out with Travis Roberts (@travisroberts), a Ruby on Rails proponent, in the battle of two frameworks. The discussion will include an introduction to both frameworks and a comparison of the PHP and Ruby languages. At the end, Symfony and Rails will meet in a no-holds-barred battle to the death, and only you can decide the victor. Time for Q&A will also be allotted.

Yes really!

Nasvhille, flush with healthcare companies, generally means Java, PHP or .Net when programming topics arise. The LAMP stack is widely accepted but Perl, popular in many places around the world, isn't on the radar in the southeastern US. Perl's age and the stigma it carries from the Matt's Script Archive days have caused Perl's one-time glory to atrophy away. The Perl community, gleefully ignoring themselves being ignored have been soldiering on, borrowing, innovating and creating. I'm here to show you how.