From robertmhaas at gmail.com Fri Apr 1 19:12:12 2011 From: robertmhaas at gmail.com (Robert Haas) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 22:12:12 -0400 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Meeting reminder: 2011-04-04 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Chris Nehren wrote: > Hi, all. We'll be having our monthly tech meeting at Levine Hall (3330 Walnut St., room 307) from 1900-2100. As things didn't go as planned last month, we'll be trying again with our scheduled activities for this month: getting newbies up to speed with modern perl practices, or meeting planning / "lightning" talks by anyone who wants to talk. As usual, please RSVP with me if you plan on attending. Thank you! I'd like to come. ...Robert From c.nehren/phl at shadowcat.co.uk Mon Apr 4 20:36:11 2011 From: c.nehren/phl at shadowcat.co.uk (Chris Nehren) Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 23:36:11 -0400 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Meeting planning Message-ID: First, thank you to everyone who came out tonight! Glad to see there seems to be a steady interest in Perl in Philadelphia, something I'd like to see expand. To that end, I think more structured meetings might garner us that interest. We didn't get any planning done today because I talked for a while about cool new stuff for doing work with Perl. I'd like to do some brainstorming for things people would like to see/talk about in future--and give some other people a chance to talk. :) I recall a comment about the state of testing tools, which is definitely something I'd like to see. Do we have any other ideas? -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren From kenfox at starlinx.com Mon Apr 4 21:47:37 2011 From: kenfox at starlinx.com (Ken Fox) Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:47:37 -0400 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Meeting planning In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <001c01cbf34c$96cf1950$c46d4bf0$@starlinx.com> Newbie sort of point of view. I'd like to get an idea where Perl's headed - The last time I was heads down working in Perl, Parrot was new. While I could probably look it up myself I think it would be interesting to see where the language is headed as far as support and adoption. I've recently hat to work in Python and Java. They both have strengths and weaknesses, so I'm thinking where is it that (besides everywhere) Perl solves problems the best when compared to Java and Python or Ruby and so forth. Some background - I first learned Perl by writing programs to manipulate a robotic tape handler because it was mangling the backups. My second major project was a multinational tiered monitoring-aggregation-correlation engine with *intelligent* notification features (27K lines of code) -- Ken -----Original Message----- From: philadelphia-pm-bounces+kenfox=starlinx.com at pm.org [mailto:philadelphia-pm-bounces+kenfox=starlinx.com at pm.org] On Behalf Of Chris Nehren Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 11:36 PM To: philadelphia-pm at pm.org Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Meeting planning First, thank you to everyone who came out tonight! Glad to see there seems to be a steady interest in Perl in Philadelphia, something I'd like to see expand. To that end, I think more structured meetings might garner us that interest. We didn't get any planning done today because I talked for a while about cool new stuff for doing work with Perl. I'd like to do some brainstorming for things people would like to see/talk about in future--and give some other people a chance to talk. :) I recall a comment about the state of testing tools, which is definitely something I'd like to see. Do we have any other ideas? -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren _______________________________________________ Philadelphia-pm mailing list Philadelphia-pm at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/philadelphia-pm