[Buffalo-pm] February 21st Meeting - Topics Needed!

Shankar, Ganesh Ganesh.Shankar at RoswellPark.org
Fri Feb 17 06:05:37 PST 2006


 Hello All,

If the schedule is not full already, here's a suggestion for the beginner topic.  One of the hardest techniques for me to pick up as a beginner is how to blend Perl and the OS (unix of some flavor) to best advantage.  For example, one of the gotchas I fell for was not using ./ to run the local script.  Instead, a script with the same name in some default path was getting executed.  I wasted quite a bit of time on that one.  Another example is the utility of combining > to pipe Perl output to a file instead of doing anything special inside the program.

-Ganesh 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: buffalo-pm-bounces+ganesh.shankar=roswellpark.org at pm.org on behalf of DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI
Sent: Thu 2/16/2006 2:10 PM
To: buffalo-pm at mail.pm.org
Subject: Re: [Buffalo-pm] February 21st Meeting - Topics Needed!
 
I'd agree. Let's come up with a couple of "Perl Discussion Topics" for
the next meeting then - and who will lead the discussion. 

I believe that this is what you were talking about: 

http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/buffalo-pm/2005-June/000231.html 


-- clipped from June 7th email  --

2) Could we do a beginner topic each session? Spend maybe 30 minutes  
on it. Info for beginners and others can chime in on other ways to do 

it, etc. Also, we can rotate who covers the info.

3) Ideas for summer sessions:

* PerlMonks overview;
* More on GUI programming with Perl;
* Conference summaries for YAPC and OSCON;
* Perl 6;
* Cool modules;
* Good coding practices with Perl;
* How to write a Perl module;
* Installing Perl on Unixy systems and on Windows;
* Installing Perl modules;
* Testing;

-- clipped from June 7th email --


I think a few of these have already been discussed (mainly dealing with
the module stuff). I think doing something on Perl Best Practices would
be good.

If anyone sees something here (or in their head) that would be a good
5, 10, or 15 minute topic, then let me know.

-Dan

P.S - Here's the link to the archives, for those that are unaware of
its location: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/buffalo-pm/ 


>>> "Jim Brandt" <cbrandt at buffalo.edu> 02/15/06 3:29 PM >>>
I think an hour is OK for a presentation. If you add some Q & A and 
general Perl topics, that should fill up the meeting.

We could save lightning talks for another month.

A while ago, I think I threw out a tentative standing agenda that had 
some time for general perl questions, etc. that can fill probably 1/2
an 
hour.

Might be in the list archives somewhere...

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