<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class=""></span><span class="">Unfortunately, something's come up, and the FFI::Platypus talk has been postponed.</span><span class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span><span class="">Instead, I'll be giving a talk on the DBIx::Class ORM library. DBIx::Class automates the tedium of writing SQL, and makes it easier to build more portable and reusable database models.<br class=""><br class=""></span><div class=""><span class="">I'll have examples for an ETL job reporting database with an accompanying web application (my current $work project).</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="">RSVP at the same Meetup page: </span><a href="http://www.meetup.com/ChicagoPM/events/220967211" class="">http://www.meetup.com/ChicagoPM/events/220967211</a></div><div class=""><br class=""><span class=""><br class=""><div class="">Doug Bell<br class=""><a href="mailto:madcityzen@gmail.com" class="">madcityzen@gmail.com</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Apr 3, 2015, at 12:10 AM, Doug Bell <<a href="mailto:madcityzen@gmail.com" class="">madcityzen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">This month, Dylan Cali will give a presentation on FFI::Platypus[1], a friendly and fast interface to libffi[2]. With FFI::Platypus, you can use native libraries without having to write bindings in XS or one of the Inline modules, and still achieve excellent performance (almost as fast as XS).<br class=""><br class="">Dylan will also show off other performance improvements added to version 1 of ZMQ::FFI[3], an FFI-based wrapper for the zeromq messaging library.<br class=""><br class="">RSVP on the Chicago.PM Meetup page: <a href="http://www.meetup.com/ChicagoPM/events/220967211/" class="">http://www.meetup.com/ChicagoPM/events/220967211/</a><br class=""><br class="">Office hours are April 9 this month. RSVP on the Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ChicagoPM/events/221525547/<br class=""><br class="">[1]: FFI::Platypus: https://metacpan.org/release/FFI-Platypus<br class="">[2]: libffi: http://sourceware.org/libffi<br class="">[3]: ZMQ::FFI: https://metacpan.org/pod/ZMQ::FFI<br class="">[4]: zeromq: http://zeromq.org<br class=""><br class="">Doug Bell<br class="">madcityzen@gmail.com<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></span></div></body></html>