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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">This month's Perl Mongers
meeting may be skipped in lieu of the YAPC North American Perl
conference that some of us are attending in Austin (WOOT!!!!)<br>
<br>
I'm asking the group for a show of hands, or emails, on what
topics the group would like to cover in future meetings. Also,
I'm asking for anyone who'd be willing to speak/present/rant about
a given Perl topic to step forward and email me about it.<br>
<br>
So sound off about the ideas below and provide your own
suggestions of topics you'd like to know more about and/or share.
<b>Please</b> toss your ideas and opinions into the hat. We're
going to have a lot more fun and a lot more attendance by covering
the topics that we care most about. Lurkers, this means you too
:-)<br>
<br>
Potential topics that have been tossed around include:<br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Crash course series
on Perl for absolute beginners<br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Regular expressions</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Winning with
Perlbrew</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Working with
databases which could be a multi-part workshop</font></li>
<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">basic serialized
datastructures</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Berkeley DB</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">SQLite?</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">classic DBI</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">DBIx::Class </font></li>
</ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Perl on Windows</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Distributing and
managing distributions with Dist::Zilla</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Automated Testing
with Test::More and friends</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Perl to JSON to
jQuery and back</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Moose and Moo<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">A full demonstration
of the Catalyst MVC stack with complete working examples of a
functional website including user accounts and logins<br>
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<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Authentication and
Authorization</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">DBIC</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Sessions</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Nginx and Starman<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">HTML / HTML5</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">AJAX with jQuery</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">CSS and JavaScript
glue</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Template::Toolkit<br>
</font></li>
</ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Perl for system
administration and automation</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Network programming</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">IPC (interprocess
communication)</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Threading and
Forking<br>
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</ul>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
--Tommy Butler<br>
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