MadMongers

This discussion will include an overview of the basics and the intermediates, as well as introduction to more advanced and possibly esoteric concepts.  We'll then do an interactive workshop for various types of fun problems that could be solved with regular expressions (bring your computer).  Do you have an example that you've solved that you thought was particularly interesting, or maybe one that you didn't solve just yet?  If so, bring it along, or email it to me in advance if you want at alanvoss at hotmail dot com.

After getting the scary terms like "lexing" and "abstract syntax tree" out
of the way, segway into a comparison of Perl parsing strategies for a
simple Lisp-like language.  The presenter will make every attempt to
pretend to be a tenured professor of Computer Science, though he won't be
fooling anyone by the end.

Rebuilding pages for mobile devices
   -- Making mountains into molehills

With the onslaught of mobile devices and the
web traffic they bring, any site which doesn't
address the interface issues that arise will
likely lose traffic.  There several possible
solutions to this issue; and many reasons
for choosing one.  I will be discussing a 
project where we chose to make minimal 
server side changes and implement large
changes at the client browser via javascript.