SPUG:March meeting: "Green Lightning Talks"

Tim Maher tim at consultix-inc.com
Mon Mar 17 13:01:37 CST 2003


SPUGsters,

Happy SPUG-Patrick's Day! Today is the 5th birthday of SPUG,
which just keeps on chugging (that green beer) along.

We've got 6 speakers so far, and still room for more!
I'd like to encourage all of you to consider speaking for
5 minutes or more on some Perlish topic you'd like to share
with the group next week.  Please contact me if you'd like
to get on the agenda.

If you want to join other SPUGsters for dinner, please
RSVP to the list by 2pm Tuesday, 3/18.

Don't forget to wear something green!

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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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         March 2003 Seattle Perl Users Group Meeting
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     Theme: "Green Lightning Festival"
  Speakers: Various SPUGsters

      Time: Tuesday, March 18, 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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This month, we'll feature several short talks by SPUG members,
ranging in duration from 5 to 20 minutes.  This is a good way
to get started in sharing your knowledge with other SPUGSsters,
and we still have open slots for additional speakers, so send
email if you want to participate.

Why Green Lighting?  SPUG was born on St. Patrick's day, 1998, 
so please help us celebrate SPUG's 5th Birthday by wearing 
GREEN at this month's meeting!

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                 "Modules from the Spring Collection"
                              Tim Maher
                              Consultix

Tim will give a demo of his new module, Shell::POSIX::Select
(see http://teachmeperl.com/Select.html), and give short talks
on other Perly things, some excerpted from past and future
conference presentations.
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                          "Use vs. Require"
                             Jay Scherrer
                            Practical Tax

Jay's been writing a Perl program to implement the 1040 tax return,
which you can read about at his web site.  Along the way, he's learned
that it's better to use "require" when "use" is not required, and he'll
be sharing his knowledge of that subject in this short talk.
                                    
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                       "Fred's Calendar Thingy"
                             Fred Morris
                        Scary Devil Monastery

Sounds obscene, I know, but Fred Morris wants to talk about his
thingy! For the past year, he's been working on a multi-user calendar
thingy with mod_perl/MySQL. Fred is going to wander around the UI
while simultaneously discussing what motivated him in the first
place, why he chose the particular tools and architecture he did,
lessons learned and refactoring to be done, as well as the publicly
accessible SPUG calendar page and the template-driven report
generator which drives it. He will also briefly discuss "robot
motels". Check out the cool SPUG Calendar page being served-up by
Fred's thingy!

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               'RE-decl: A Regular Expression Decipherer"
                             Michael Wolf

REdeparse is a tool that explains a Perl regular expression,
much like the cdecl tool does for C and C++ declarations. Like the
Rosetta Stone, it provides multiple views of an expression in two
languages -- Perl and English.

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                  "Sweet & SAWA, a lite introduction"
                           Andrew B. Sweger
                    Addnorya Technology Consulting

SAWA (Simple API for Web Applications) facilitates a philosophical
notion that web application logic should be mutually exclusive from
how that data is formatted for public consumption. In other words,
the coder worries about the code, and the designer worries about
how the output will be transformed. SAWA::Lite is intended to
be a light-weight stepping-stone towards the much more powerful
(and learning-curve intensive) SAWA suite. However, SAWA::Lite
could possibly do all that you need depending on your application
needs. More information on SAWA and SAWA::Lite can be found at the
project web site, http://sawa.sf.net/lite/

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                   "Improving Periodic Webscraping"
                             Jeremy Mates
			University of Washington

Jeremy will share his thoughts on a queuing system to improve the
process of webscraping. The goal is to separate the downloading and
parsing stages to better adapt to changing content (that can break the
parser) and simplify the scripts involved.

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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.

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| Tim Maher, Ph.D.            tim at timmaher.org       |
| SPUG Founder & Leader       spug at seattleperl.org   |
| Seattle Perl Users Group    www.seattleperl.org    |
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