[Dbix-class] plat-form contest starting soon

[Matt S Trout]

On 23 Jan 2007, at 11:36, Rolf Schaufelberger wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> at thursday 9.00 am CET the web development platform contest starts
> (http://www.plat-forms.org). Some of you may have heard of it, some  
> others
> not, so I'll just give some info:
>
> The contest first hadn't Perl on i'ts list of languages (besides  
> ASp, Java,
> PHP, Ruby,Python), but after some mails from Perl Monks they added  
> Perl to
> the list of languages. Surprisingly, besides Perl, only java and  
> php got
> three programmings teams to participate.
> What has this to do with DBIx::Class you may ask.  Well, our team  
> is very very
> new to DBIx::Class but we decided to use it at the contest. We have  
> taken
> our "framework"  and moved it from Class::DBI to DBIx::Class. While  
> all the
> basic stuff worked so far, I 'm still afraid of running into  
> problems when
> some more complex queries come up, and since we have to finish  
> within 30
> hours quick solutions are necessary. But since we can use "normal  
> mailing
> list or internet support" we can post our problems and ask for  
> help. So I
> just want to ask all you guys, keep your eyes open for mailings  
> starting
> with "platform" , give us quick answers and help Perl  
> "win" (actually there
> will be nor real winner) the contest.
> Besides: One of the other teams will use catalyst, probably using  
> DBIC as
> well.

Get your asses on IRC as well then. #dbix-class on irc.perl.org will,  
as always, be happy to help.

The Catalyst team I'm sure will be taking advantage of this, so I'd  
suggest you do too :)

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