[grand-rapids-pm-list] Last meeting / next meetings

[John Oleszkiewicz]

Hello all,

    I just wanted to e-mail and say that Chase and I enjoyed the GRPM 
meeting and we're looking forward to coming back. I think that the 
lightning talk format was effective. All of the topics were interesting 
and some topics were immediately useful to us Smiths guys (e.g. the Perl 
debugger talk). I think the wide range of talks ensured everyone would 
get something useful out of the meeting.

    So - I would put in a vote for more lightning talks for future 
meetings. I'd be particularly interested in talks about members' 
favorite examples of perl "kung-fu". I write relatively unsophisticated 
scripts - I sometimes think they look more like lazy C programs than 
Perl. It would be neat to get an introduction to what people have done 
in the past to solve a problem in a uniquely Perl way.

    If anyone is interested, I could give a talk about an offbeat use of 
Perl. One of my hobbies is genealogy, and the interoperability standard 
for genealogical databases is (essentially) a flat text file. I use Perl 
to automate some of the manipulations of my home genealogical database. 
The talk probably wouldn't be worth more than 10 minutes, since the 
stuff I'm doing is pretty simple. But I figured this would be an unusual 
topic and worth bringing up.

-John