SPUG:April Meeting: Perl for UNIX Users

Tim Maher tim at consultix-inc.com
Thu Apr 10 15:36:41 CDT 2003


SPUGsters,

We had two speakers tentatively lined up for this month's meeting,
but both have elected to postpone until May (too distracted by Wars and
Taxes, I guess).  So I'm stepping into the breach, in order to practice
some conference talks and get valuable feedback from the SPUGizens.

But if anybody else would like to make a presentation, please let me
know and I'll be happy to put you on the schedule too! 8-}

Also, I'd like to invite SPUGsters to let their interests be known
for upcoming talks.  What do you want to learn about?  XML? DBI?
Benchmarking? Debugging? References? 

Just post your ideas to the list, and we'll probably find somebody who
can educate us on it.

And please let us know (post to the list) if you'd like a seat
reserved for you at Cedar's before the meeting.

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| Tim Maher, Ph.D.            tim at timmaher.org        | 
| JAWCAR ("Just Another White-Camel Award Recipient") |
| SPUG Founder & Leader       spug at seattleperl.org    |
| Seattle Perl Users Group    www.seattleperl.org     |
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         April 2003 Seattle Perl Users Group Meeting
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     Theme: "Perl for UNIX Users"
   Speaker: Tim Maher, Consultix

      Time: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 7-9pm
  Location: SAFECO bldg, Brooklyn St. and NE 45th St.

      Cost: Admission is free and open to the general public.
      Info: http://seattleperl.org/

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Tim is writing_a_book for Manning_Publications called "Minimal Perl for Shell
Users and Programmers". Unlike other Perl books, this one will give the reader
advanced standing for existing knowledge of UNIX shell commands and shell
programming techniques, and capitalize on that to make Perl easier to learn.

In this talk, Tim will feature excerpts from the upcoming book, and 
his associated conference presentations at Linux_Fest_Northwest, YAPC::
America::North, and The Perl Conference.

He looks forward to receiving sage feedback from SPUGsters on what works
and doesn't in these presentations!

Topics will include:
 * the Five Perl One-liners all UNIX users should know
 * three Perl scripts UNIX users shouldn't live without
 * simple Perl scripts that improve on sed, grep, and awk
 * how the Shell's looping facilities compare to those of Perl, including
       o why the Shell's "while" loop is superior to its Perl counterpart
       o why Perl's "do/while" sucks
       o when to use the implicit (-n) loop, and when to roll your own
       o where you can use "goto" without shame
       o which Shell loop is missing from standard Perl, and how to use it
        anyway


Pre- and Post- Meeting Activities
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The pre-meeting dinner will be at the Cedars restaurant,
at 50th St. and Brooklyn, in the University District, near
the Safeco building where the meeting will take place. The
phone number is 527-5247. If you're planning to be there,
please RSVP to the list by 2pm on the meeting day with
your expected arrival time (5:30-5:45pm is recommended).

TO BE FAIR, from now on only those who comply with the
RSVP policy (and are therefore counted in the seating
reservation) will be allowed to sit at the speaker's table.

-Tim
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|  Tim Maher (206) 781-UNIX  (866) DOC-PERL  (866) DOC-UNIX  |
|  CEO, JAWCAR ("Just Another White Camel Award Recipient")  |
|  tim at Consultix-Inc.Com  TeachMeUnix.Com  TeachMePerl.Com   |
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|  Watch for my  Book: "Minimal Perl for Shell Programmers"  |
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