[ABE.pm] see you all on august 4th

[Faber J. Fedor]

On 24/07/07 18:53 -0400, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
> 
> That's a week from tomorrow.
> 
> Let's go into this one with an AGENDA!  Let's plan a tech meeting.  I'm just
> sending this email off-the-cuff, but we'll want to decide:
> 
>   * is this instead of, or in addition to, a beer outing in its month?

I say have both on the same night; have a tech talk scheduled for, say
an hour, hour and a half and then head to a nearby joint for
refreshments afterwards.  The tech talk can be for the general
(programming) public and the drink/dinners afterwards for anyone who
wants to attend. It will make for a late evening or thos of us who have
to drive for an hour but it could be worth it.

Aren't there some local colleges that teach computers/programming?  How
about reaching out to those kids for the tech talk? I'll bet they're not
being taught Perl and real-world programming.

>   * desired topics?

I'm going out on a limb here, but something about Perl programming? I
feel my coding is sub-par and I'd like to improve it but I don't know
how. 

How about a "technique night" or "problem-solving night" where we bring
in real world problems or projects and work on them. I'm *not* talking
the YAPC Hackathon.  Here's an example: I've got to ftp/scp data in
various text-based formats, possibly munge the code, and load it into a
database.  Should I write a different program for every data source?
Should I write one program that takes different configurations for each
data source, and how do I do the data-munging differently for each
configuration? Is it better to do a ORM or should we do a LOAD DATA FILE
and munge the data on the database server?  What's the best way of doing
that in Perl? I would love to see the difference between rjbs' and Ted's
approaches since they would be coming at it from two different
perspectives; one more of a programmer and the other more of a DBA.

What I'm envisioning is more technical talks as opposed to topical talks

Another topic: "What tools do you use and how do you use them?" with
demonstrations.


>   * frequency of future talks?  this relates to first point!
>   * volunteers?

If I thought I had anything to teach you guys, I'd be first up, but
alas...



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