I have done a lot of work on POOF since I started working for
degrees.com, but under the scope of my employment.  I have to
get things in a better state and lobby them to release it to
open source; otherwise I have to go back to 0.03 and start over
if I ever quit.  Since they're still paying me, and I'm otherwise
broke, I probably won't quit.  ;-)  Current features include
massive improvements to the Data Shepherd, ability to define
and select across one-to-one and one-to-many relationships in
single SQL queries that are constructed from simple parameters,
and integration with Apache custom handlers using a session table
based on XML::Dumper.  It's pretty fun.  I wish I could share,
but I don't want to get sued before I convince someone that in
fact Object::POOF is a generic framework and wouldn't compromise
any of our business logic.  This has been a tremendous experience.
I'm considerably lucky that I had the leeway to implement the
entire system any way I wanted to.

Mark Hedges
hedges *at> ucsd.edu
20050526