From rkleeman at energoncube.net  Tue Jul  1 13:50:33 2014
From: rkleeman at energoncube.net (Bob Kleemann)
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 13:50:33 -0700
Subject: [San-Diego-pm] San Diego Perl Mongers Present Damian Conway
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I hope everyone had an educational and enjoyable evening with Damian.  I
know that I did.  I'd like everyone to share their feelings on the
presentation.

In case anybody wanted to see the presentation, but couldn't make it,
Damian has a similar (shorter) presentation available online:

    http://www.infoq.com/presentations/regex


Also, recall that our monthly meeting will be Thursday, June 17th!



On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Bob Kleemann <rkleeman at energoncube.net>
wrote:

> The San Diego Perl Mongers present the amazing Damian Conway giving his
> entertaining and instructive talk "Everything You Know About Regexes Is
> Wrong":
>
> For most programmers, regular expressions are a riddle wrapped in a
> mystery inside an enigma shrouded in line-noise.
>
> So most sensible programmers either don't use them at all (and are thereby
> forced to reinvent worse wheels...badly), or else they fall back on an
> "evolutionary programming" approach: find an existing regex that looks like
> it might do, then randomly permute its "genome" over and over again until
> it appears to work.
>
> In this talk we'll go back to basics and discover that regexes mostly
> aren't what you think they are, mostly don't work the way you were told
> they did, and mostly shouldn't be created the way everyone tells you to.
>
> More usefully, we'll also talk about what regexes really are, how they
> actually work, and see how normal programmers can make use of their
> existing software development skills to construct correct and efficient
> regexes...without selling their souls or losing their minds.
>
>
> This one night event will happen on Monday, June 30th, starting at 7 PM at
> the offices of Knobbe Martens, 12790 El Camino Real #100, San Diego, CA.
>
> RSVPs (to rkleemann at gmail.com or via
> http://www.meetup.com/SanDiego-pm/events/191240962/) are not required,
> but are helpful.
>
> Please feel free to share this with any coworkers, user groups, or other
> technical associations that might be interested.
>
>
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From rkleeman at energoncube.net  Mon Jul 14 14:44:31 2014
From: rkleeman at energoncube.net (Bob Kleemann)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:44:31 -0700
Subject: [San-Diego-pm] Meeting This Week!
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Perl Mongers,

Just a quick reminder that this Thursday, July 17th, we will have our
monthly meeting.  We will meet at our normal place (Ansir Innovation
Center), and our normal time (7PM).  We'll talk about Damian's talk,
regular expressions, and any other topics that a Perl Monger might be
interested in.  If you have anything to contribute (questions, answers,
ideas, or just something interesting), please come and share; if you don't
have anything to contribute, come and participate anyways.

Also, please remember this note from the fine folks at the Ansir Innovation
Center:

Please park on either Convoy Street, Engineer Road, or Brinell Street as we
have a small parking lot that we share with other businesses. Avoid parking
in other shopping centers as you may get towed. Look for the green door
marked Suite 210.


I'll look forward to seeing you all on Thursday evening!

  --Bob
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