From jacoby.david at gmail.com Tue Jan 19 14:12:46 2016 From: jacoby.david at gmail.com (Dave Jacoby) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 17:12:46 -0500 Subject: [Purdue-pm] Next Meeting, without the cake Message-ID: (A previous attempt to send this was blocked because It included a picture of the Perl 6 cake that Mark Senn brought to today's meeting. Picture is available here: https://www.instagram.com/p/BAulklMhsNr/) Thank you, Mark, for the cake celebrating the release of Perl 6 and for the talk on it's details and shortcomings. After the talk, Joe and I talked, and decided that we could both give presentations in February. I have it scheduled for 6pm Feb 17 at MatchBox Coworking Studio, and have asked Wally and Broc to reserve the room for us. I intend to give the presentation I intended to give in January, on using Twitter Favorites. Joe has been doing some work with RapidApp, a framework built on Catalyst for creating web apps. Again, this will be a Wednesday meeting that feeds into GLOSSY Food & Beer & Chat at Lafayette Brewing Company. There WILL NOT be a January F&B&C tomorrow, but if you decide to eat out there yourself, just don't expect to see me. B) Our March meeting takes place on March 15 or 16 (depending on if we do MatchBox or Campus), which puts it firmly in the middle of Purdue's Spring Break. If you have a perfect idea for a presentation that month, or conversely, know you'll be out of town or otherwise engaged, please let us know. -- David Jacoby jacoby.david at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mark at purdue.edu Thu Jan 21 12:28:03 2016 From: mark at purdue.edu (Mark Senn) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:28:03 -0500 Subject: [Purdue-pm] YAPC 2016 Perl Conference Message-ID: <24561.1453408083@pier.ecn.purdue.edu> YAPC::NA is short for "Yet Another Perl Conference, North America". The 2016 conference is reportedly going to be held in Orlando Florida at a hotel. Some of the conferences in the past have been at colleges using cheap student dorm housing. See yapc.org for more about YAPC conferences held around the world. See after my signature for the official annoncement of this meeting. Go to the web page listed after the annoncement to sign up for the YAPC mailing list. Usually at least some of the talks from the conference are put on the web. For me, it has not always been worth the time or expense to go to these conferences in the past. They do not consist of All Perl, All The Time presentations---there is a lot of down time for meals, social events, etc. What works best for me is watching the recorded talks I'm interested in on the web. Some people find the conferences worthwhile though. This conference will probably be more interesting than some of the past ones because of all the work being done on Perl 6. Most of the YAPC technical talks are of high quality. Mark Senn, Systems Programmer, Engineering Computer Network, Purdue University From: YAPC Admin Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 13:54:08 -0500 To: announce at yapcna.org Subject: [YAPC::NA Announce] YAPC::NA::2016 Update #2 -- It's Orlando! Hello fellow Perlers! I am pleased to be able to bring you the news we have all been waiting for! We know the wait hasn't been easy, and so the YAPC::NA 2016 organizing committee would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your patience. It's been a long road getting to this point, but thankfully we have finally secured a location that best fits all of our needs. Throughout our search we considered and visited venues in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Kansas, Florida, and Washington D.C.. Many people spent countless hours putting out feelers and soliciting bids. In particular, we would like to give a huge thanks to the DC/Baltimore Perl Mongers and the Detroit Perl Mongers: their efforts were invaluable in this process, and we hope that we can eventually bring YAPC::NA to their fantastic cities. It is with great enthusiasm that we happily announce YAPC::NA 2016 will be held Sunday, June 19th through Friday, June 24th at the Downtown Doubletree Hotel in Orlando, Florida! The main event will run from Monday, June 20th through Wednesday, June 22nd. Master Classes, training, and other activities will be held on the 19th, 23rd, and 24th. We highly encourage you to attend all days, but especially look forward to seeing you at the Main Event. We'll be opening up the new website, registration, call for talks, etc over the next month or so. Please continue to watch your email for future updates. Thank you, Dan Wright YAPC::NA::2016 Lead Organizer _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce at yapcna.org http://yapcna.org/mailman/listinfo/announce_yapcna.org From mark at purdue.edu Wed Jan 27 06:37:23 2016 From: mark at purdue.edu (Mark Senn) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:37:23 -0500 Subject: [Purdue-pm] precompilation in Rakudo Perl 6 version 2015.12 Message-ID: <25180.1453905443@pier.ecn.purdue.edu> Version 2015.12 of Rakudo Perl 6 has some new features you may be interested in. >From https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/ChangeLog + Greatly overhauled module loading and installation, including handling precompilation at module installation time in Rakudo + Automatic precompilation of modules + 'no precompilation' pragma to opt out of precompilation It has been announced that an easy to installl Rakudo Star distribution of Perl 6 will be available in two weeks or so. I've installed Rakudo Star versions of Perl 6 on Linux in the past with no problems. I personally haven't used any of the other ways to install Perl 6 yet. -mark From markleightonfisher at gmail.com Wed Jan 27 09:02:37 2016 From: markleightonfisher at gmail.com (Mark Fisher) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 12:02:37 -0500 Subject: [Purdue-pm] precompilation in Rakudo Perl 6 version 2015.12 In-Reply-To: <25180.1453905443@pier.ecn.purdue.edu> References: <25180.1453905443@pier.ecn.purdue.edu> Message-ID: +1 for Rakudo Star if what you want is to build stuff with Perl 6. Rakudo Star might also be fine if you want to hack on the language, but for me (someone who wants to try out the nifty new Perl 6 features) Rakudo Star is a good choice. Mark Leighton Fisher markleightonfisher at gmail.com On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Mark Senn wrote: > Version 2015.12 of Rakudo Perl 6 has some new features you may be > interested in. > > From https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/ChangeLog > + Greatly overhauled module loading and installation, including > handling > precompilation at module installation time in Rakudo > + Automatic precompilation of modules > + 'no precompilation' pragma to opt out of precompilation > > It has been announced that an easy to installl Rakudo Star distribution > of Perl 6 will be available in two weeks or so. I've installed Rakudo > Star versions of Perl 6 on Linux in the past with no problems. I > personally haven't used any of the other ways to install Perl 6 yet. > > -mark > _______________________________________________ > Purdue-pm mailing list > Purdue-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/purdue-pm > -- *Mark Leighton Fishermarkleightonfisher at gmail.com * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: