[Phoenix-pm] meeting proposal
Scott Walters
scott at illogics.org
Tue Jul 19 23:56:35 PDT 2005
Cruising around on ORA's site, I find this graph of booksales
per language:
http://photos16.flickr.com/19788490_a28a007a66_o.png
Lots of Java novices. Bwahahahaha!!
POD sounds good to me, but I'm still waiting to hear votes from
people who might be interested in a subject.
-scott
On 0, Andrew Johnson <andypm at exiledplanet.org> wrote:
> For the beginner-to-intermediate part, I could present an
> Introduction to POD. Some people think POD is an advanced
> part of Perl, but it's really quite easy to learn (the talk
> is ~15min). Plus, once you have the basics down, POD can
> be a powerful way to document your Perl source.
>
> OK, enough salesmanship; if the group is interested, I'd
> be happy to present. If not, that's just another set of
> slides we're all spared from. :-)
>
> --aj
>
>
> Brock <awwaiid at thelackthereof.org> wrote:
> __________
> >
> >Hello all,
> >
> >For those of you who prefer to think of me as the benevolent
> dictator, I
> >thought I'd let you know that we are having a meeting on
> Thursday July
> >29 2005 at 7:00pm at the Scottsdale Public Library, Civic
> Center. For
> >the (representative-)democratically inclined, I welcome
> feedback on this
> >time/location. I'll make a full anouncement once we have
> a topic.
> >
> >And now for the second part... the presentation / talk
> portion. Once
> >again I refer you to
> >
> >http://web.archive.org/web/20040726180006/phoenix.pm.org/wiki/in
> ex.cgi?PerlMongersIdeas
> >
> >for some suggestions. Please mail your suggestions here
> to the list.
> >Ideally I'd like two shorter talks -- a beginner-intermediate
> one and an
> >intermediate-advanced. Scott and I both are willing to
> talk about all
> >sorts of things, and other volunteers are very welcome.
> Something
> >bugging you about some Perl code you're working on? Some
> module you'd
> >like to see in action? Now is the time and place to get
> the dirt on it!
> >
> >recently mentioned suggestions (mostly by Scott... hope
> he doesn't mind):
> > * The making of _Perl 6 Now_
> > * Architecture of "Active Wiki Pages" in TinyWiki (secure
> server-side
> > execute of Perl in user-edited pages)
> > * How to parse HTML, scrape pages, and crawl sites
> > * A really horrible PDF invoice generator in Perl that'll
> make you want to cry
> > * Theory and use of Perl6::Contexts (ooh, this would
> be fuuun) --
> > adding Perl 6 style string, integer, boolean, and reference
> contexts
> > to Perl 5 for a mondo cool code effect with greatly reduced
> > suckiness. This is another B::Generate hack of mine.
> > * Intro to Perl5 objects
> > * Using Perl for the ICFP 2005 Contest (which was all
> sorts of fun)
> > * Using (pick your favorite web-framework -- lets say
> CGI::Application)
> > * other suggestions / volunteer presentations welcome
> >
> >So much to talk about! The floor is open.
> >
> >--Brock
> >
> >On 2005.07.15.00.38, Scott Walters wrote:
> >| Scottsdale Civic Center library sounds good. That should
> be a lot more accessible
> >| to people in Mesa and Phoenix but we might lose some
> of the North Scottsdale
> >| crowd. I sure don't have a data projector. If enough
> people have laptops with
> >| WiFi and the VNC client, we can all get the on the network
> and do view-only
> >| mode off of the presenter. Just a thought.
> >|
> >| -scott
> >|
> >|
> >| On 0, Brock <awwaiid at thelackthereof.org> wrote:
> >| >
> >| > Does anyone have a projector? We can meet at the Scottsdale
> Public
> >| > Library (Civic Center) -- They have wifi, whiteboards,
> but no projector.
> >| >
> >| > --Brock
> >| >
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