[Melbourne-pm] Upcoming meeting dates and talks! (Next meeting: 14th Jan)
Alec Clews
alec.clews at gmail.com
Sun Jan 4 23:46:24 PST 2009
Given Perl's migration to git it may be opportune to have some git
presentations?
I'd be happy to demo github.com (simple 20 mins)
Paul Fenwick wrote:
> G'day MPM,
>
> Welcome to 2009. This year I'm hoping to have speakers and meetings
> organised well in advance. If you want to give a presentation, help
> organise a meeting, or hunt down new speakers, then let me (and preferably
> the list) know!
>
> Unless there are any objections, I'll be giving a sneak preview of my talk
> for Linux.conf.au at our first meeting. This is a full 40 minute talk:
>
> When: Wednesday, 14th January, 6:30pm
>
> Where: Remasys Pty Ltd
> Level 1
> 180 Flinders St
> MELBOURNE VIC 3121
>
> Talk: Awesome things you've missed in Perl! (Paul Fenwick)
> (Full abstract at end of e-mail)
>
> I also had plans to give my "Art of Klingon Programming" talk at the second
> MPM meeting, but Linux Users Victoria (LUV) asked very nicely if they could
> see it to. As such, our second meeting for the year is combined with LUV:
>
> When: Tuesday, 3rd February
>
> Where: Buzzard Theatre
> Even Burge Building
> Trinity College
> Parkville VIC
>
> Map: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map
>
> Talk: The Art of Klingon Programming (Paul Fenwick)
> Abstract at: http://wiki.osdcsydney.info/program/talk63
>
> All the very best,
>
> Paul
>
> ---begin abstract---
>
> Awesome things have been happening in Perl recently; so many that even if
> you've been paying close attention, you may have missed a few. In this talk
> we'll examine some of the coolest recent technologies for Perl programmers,
> including:
>
> * Overhauling Perl's Object Oriented framework with Moose.
>
> * Flexible, rapid, and painless web development with Catalyst.
>
> * Making everything a first-class object with autobox.
>
> * Slashing your error handling code with autodie.
>
> * Building fast, readable and reusable regular expressions with Perl 5.10.
>
> * Bundling and building stand-alone applications using PAR, the
> Perl Archiver.
>
> * Astonishingly good profiling with Devel::NYTProf.
>
> * Playing MineSweeper automatically with App::SweeperBot.
>
> Knowledge of Perl is nice, but not essential to appreciate the contents of
> this talk.
>
> ---end abstract---
>
>
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