[Melbourne-pm] Next meeting - 23rd Feb, 2016 (date change)
Alfie John
alfiej at fastmail.fm
Tue Jan 19 18:28:39 PST 2016
Apologies everyone,
I've had to change the date, so it will now be on the Wednesday, the
23rd of Feb.
Alfie
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016, at 08:02 AM, Alfie John wrote:
> Hello Perl Mongers!
>
> While Ricardo in is town, we've managed to convince him to give a talk.
> If you would also like to present, want to let people know that you are
> recruiting, or looking for work, please let the list know!
>
> The next Melbourne Perl Mongers meeting will be on Wednesday the 24th of
> February, 2016 and will start around 6:30pm:
>
> FastMail
> Level 1,
> 91-97 William Street,
> Melbourne CBD
>
> Ricardo Signes will be giving a talk titled "1.21 Gigawatts":
>
> Some talks carefully guide the listeners through the entirety of a
> topic, starting with the basics and ending with the fine details.
> Everybody in the audience leaves feeling like they've really learned
> something thoroughly. That's… not the plan for today. Instead, we're
> just going to see the highlight reel of a bunch of topics that caught
> my interest over the course of the year: the best modules you're not
> using, stupid optimization tricks, tools for handling catastrophic
> program failure, git scripts you'll become dependent on, a review of
> cool (and uncool) changes in Perl, productivity tools, and who knows
> what else. I will stand in place and let lightning talks strike over
> and over, until I am reduced to cinders. You get to witness the
> ordeal, and you might just learn a thing or two.
>
> Ricardo Signes studied philosophy and religion, only to learn that no
> jobs existed for these degrees apart from "Computer Programmer (Perl)."
> He has tried to make do, becoming a frequent contributor to the CPAN and
> finally, through some accident of fate, project manager ("pumpking")
> for Perl 5 itself. In his free time he writes code that then deletes
> it as quickly as possible, lest he have to maintain it.
>
> Alfie
>
>
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