Phoenix.pm: Meeting 07/18/2002

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Preach on, Brother Scott !

At 02:36 PM 7/15/02 -0700, you wrote:
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>OO has been a bit like religion.. while it preaches peace, more people
>have been killed in its name.
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>Not to discourage anyone from attending, but I put a lot of what I
>did up on http://www.slowass.net/wiki/?PerlDesignPatterns. 
>The slideshow I'm saving for PM is a lot more fun though =)
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>I'm struggling with how to make the material interesting and
>applicable. I had 0 interest in the topic until after being forced
>to look at other peoples bad OO code one too many times, and I
>started to wonder if maybe I was doing really annoying obnoxious things
>that I didn't realize (in addition to the annoying obnoxious things
>I realized I was doing). If Design Patterns were fun and accessable,
>people may willingly apply the ideas to their code. 
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>I think the major part of the success of the original Design Patterns
>book was that it gave a common language to program structure. 
>While not interested in high ideals and contrived examples, many
>programmers enjoyed expanding their vocabulary.
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>I really really want feedback and ideas to that effect, more than
>anything else. Possibly the coolist thing I could do is something
>in the vein of "Devils Dictionary". If I can get things polished
>a bit, I want to turn it loose on the Perl community.
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>Thanks for the encouraging words =)
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>-scott
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>On 15 Jul 2002, Lowell Hamilton wrote:
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>> Yay .. just what I'm tackling now (well learning the "right" way to do
>> it anyway).  Good OO has always been a mistery to me ;(
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>> I'll be there.
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>> Lowell
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>> On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 13:53, Doug Miles wrote:
>> > We'll be having a Phoenix.pm meeting Thursday, July 18th at 7:00PM.
>> > It will be held at Bowne, which is located at 1500 N. Central Avenue,
>> > which is on the Southwest corner of Central and McDowell.  The parking
>> > lot is gated, so just press the button on the intercom, and tell the
>> > receptionist that you are there for the Perl meeting.  Park in the lot
>> > that is straight ahead from the entrance on the South side of McDowell.
>> > Park in any uncovered, non-reserved space.  Proceed to the main lobby,
>> > which is on the Northeast side of the parking lot.
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>> > Scott will be presenting "Design Patterns in Perl: Writing scalable 
>> > Object Oriented code"
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>> > - Doug
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