[Oc-pm] UUASC-OC October 2004 Program

[Brian.Cooke at VerizonWireless.com]

Since we've been meeting-challenged for a while, I thought I'd pass this
along from the UUASC list.  Their upcoming meeting is Perlish in nature.
I'm planning on attending this one.

Plus there's beer afterward...

Cheers,

Brian


 
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	UUASC-OC October 2004 Program
Date: 	Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:01:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: 	Hershel Remer <unixrabbi at rabbs.com>
Reply-To: 	UUASC at UUASC.org
To: 	uuasc-announce at UUASC.org






                  UUASC-OC
Unix Users Association of Southern California
            Orange County Chapter
               October Meeting
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            Poor Perl Programming

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           Monday, Oct. 11, 7-9 PM

            Sun Microsystems, Inc.
         2020 S. Main St. in Irvine
                 12th Floor

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NOTE: PLEASE BE AWARE OF OUR NEW LOCATION.

UUASC prides itself on presenting fair and balanced UNIX. After hosting
a
series of lessons on AWK during the past couple of years, we felt it
necessary
to provide a Perl tutorial.

Kenytt Avery, one of UUASC's resident Perl programmers, maintains that
Perl
has a reputation for being ugly because too many people insist on
writing poor
code. At the October meeting of UUASC-OC, Kenytt will take some really
bad
Perl scripts and show us how to whip them into shape.

He will show us some common errors, how to fix them, and how some common
Perl
idioms can make your code easier to read and maintain.  Examples will be
drawn
from open source projects such as NMIS, MetaDot, and LogWatch, and names
will
not be changed to protect the guilty.

Kenytt once had the goal of acheiving more industry certifications than
any
other unemployed sysadmin, but is now gainfully employed by Willing
Minds LLC,
http://www.willingminds.com . He wrote his first Perl program in 1993.

POST-MEETING ACTIVITIES: Join us at the Pilsner Room, within walking
distance.

AFTER HOURS ACCESS: The Sun building's doors are locked at 7 p.m. If you
arrive late, please contact the guard at 949 - 372 - 2937 for access.

CARPOOL INFO: If you are interested in joining a carpool with other
members,
please post an email to the general list, uuasc at uuasc.org , requesting
carpool
info.

PARKING: Convenient FREE parking is located next to the Sun office
building in
the visitor parking lot for after hours usage. Take a ticket when
entering the
garage but don't be concerned - no one will be there to collect money
when the
meeting ends, so you can exit for free.

DIRECTIONS: Exit the San Diego Freeway (I-405) at MacArthur, go north
(away
from the airport) to the signal at Main Street (the first cross-street),
turn
right to Mercantile (the first signal on Main Street), turn right to
parking.
Please visit our web site, http://uuasc.org/oc.html , where you will
find a
detailed map. Here's an ASCII version:


            |    Mercantile           | Gillette
            |         v               |
  Main -----+---------+---------------+-----------
            |         | ElTorito      |
            |         |               |
            |         | Sun           |
            |         \_______________/
            +--\     parking
            |  /\
  405 ======|=====================================
            |  \/
   Airport  +--/    (all intersections shown
            |        have signals (+))

The El Torito is on the corner and can serve as a landmark. The Pilsner
Room
is at the other end of the same block, Gillette and Main. The Sun
building is
behind the one with El Torito. 949-833-1640.

UUASC-OC wants to thank our host, Sun Microsystems, for the continued
support
of our meetings.

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