From jkeenan at pobox.com Thu May 20 18:09:48 2021 From: jkeenan at pobox.com (James E Keenan) Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 21:09:48 -0400 Subject: [tpm] perl-5.34.0 released Message-ID: perl-5.34.0 was released a few hours ago. The release has begun percolating through CPAN, as shown by this page: https://www.cpan.org/src/README.html And the fact that that page shows 5.34.0 as a "maint" release means that you can use 'perlbrew' to install it: $ perlbrew install perl-5.34.0 Enjoy! From talexb at gmail.com Mon May 24 12:48:21 2021 From: talexb at gmail.com (Alex Beamish) Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 15:48:21 -0400 Subject: [tpm] Thursday's meeting Message-ID: Hi All, Thinking I was 30 again, I slugged a couple of boxes around on Monday, and by Wednesday I was really feeling it. Thursday I made my way to my local Emerg, where I was diagnosed with a back spasm, and sent home with some really powerful pain-killers and muscle relaxants. It's kinda scary to lose the ability to get out of bed. Anyway, this will explain why I'm a little late about planning for this month's talk -- I have a discussion topic I'd like to cover, but if anyone has a technical talk they'd like to deliver, please let me know. I have a video recording from last month's talk -- it just needs a little editing, then I can post it (thanks to Sergio for doing the capture). Cheers, Alex -- Alex Beamish Software Developer / https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alex-beamish-5111ba3 Speaker Wrangler / Toronto Perlmongers / http://to.pm.org/ Chair, Sponsorship Committee, TPF / https://www.perlfoundation.org/ Baritone, Operations Manager / Toronto Northern Lights, 2013 Champions / www.northernlightschorus.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From talexb at gmail.com Wed May 26 18:25:59 2021 From: talexb at gmail.com (Alex Beamish) Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 21:25:59 -0400 Subject: [tpm] Looking for ideas for a Lightning Talk Message-ID: Hi folks, To give you a heads-up on the topic I want to discuss tomorrow night (no, not the whole night): I'm chairing the Sponsorship Committee at The Perl Foundation, and during the last meeting, someone suggested doing a Lightning Talk about it at TPCiC. So, as one does, I've accepted the challenge. The general themes I'm looking at are: - Getting a company to be a sponsor -- they've probably have money in a budget somewhere. - Getting developers to be sponsors -- a small recurring amount would really help TPF. But these themes are kind of dry. How do you tell an engaging story about that? So I'd love to hear some ideas from you that I can put into this talk. I don't know if it would be a Top Ten list. It could also be Problem? Solution! type page (I laugh at the TV commercials like that -- the bumbling citizen filmed in black and white, followed by the thoroughly contented customer with a huge smile, filmed in colour.) No pressure -- I've got at least two weeks. Gulp. Alex -- Alex Beamish Software Developer / https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alex-beamish-5111ba3 Speaker Wrangler / Toronto Perlmongers / http://to.pm.org/ Chair, Sponsorship Committee, TPF / https://www.perlfoundation.org/ Baritone, Operations Manager / Toronto Northern Lights, 2013 Champions / www.northernlightschorus.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arocker at Vex.Net Thu May 27 17:16:18 2021 From: arocker at Vex.Net (arocker at Vex.Net) Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 20:16:18 -0400 Subject: [tpm] Fwd: Perl & =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C2=A0Regular_Expression_Developer----Toronto=2C_ON-----Lo?=ng Term Contract JOb Message-ID: A former colleague passed this on to me. Aside from being a bit weak on the SQL, I'm sure I'd get rejected on age grounds, so I'm publishing it in case it's useful to anyone else. > From: Rahul k Kumar2 > Date: May 25, 2021 at 3:59:05 AM EDT > Subject: Perl & Regular Expression Developer----Toronto, ON-----Long Term Contract JOb > > > My name is Rahul and I'm an IT recruiter at IDC Technologies. > > Below Job Opportunity is among all other critical positions I've for the day. > > Perl & Regular Expression Developer > Toronto, ON > Long Term Contract JOb > > Must have > 4+ years of professional experience in designing, developing, deploying, and supporting products > Proficiency in Perl and Regular Expressions > Experience with Oracle, or SQL databases > Good to have > Web development (html, css, xml) > Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher > > Regards > Rahul Kumar > IDC Technologies Inc. > Work- 437-500-1456 > Mail-to- rahul.kumar2 at idctechnologies.com > Linkedin- https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-kumar-a6686978/ > IDC Technologies, Inc. > _____________________________________ From talexb at gmail.com Thu May 27 17:25:28 2021 From: talexb at gmail.com (Alex Beamish) Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 20:25:28 -0400 Subject: [tpm] Good meeting tonight! Message-ID: Hi All, Thanks to the folks who attended -- Allan, sorry you had audio problems again. There was no talk scheduled, but we did manage to discuss a few things .. - The Perl and Raku Conference (https://perlconference.us/tprc-2021-cloud/) is happening the week after next .. should be yet another intellectually intriguing week hearing about technical stuff. - I mentioned the move of some user groups on IRC from Freenode to Libera, and we discussed the choices of IRC versus Slack. - Jim Keenan talked about the challenge of closing some of the BBC (blead break cpan) tickets prior to the release of Perl 5.34. - The discussion of 5.34 led to the question of Whatever Happened to Perl 7?, resulting in Jim giving an impromptu Lightning Talk on those challenges. (Spoiler alert: Things get hairy when you're trying to figure out where the problems are coming from when an eval is called within an eval.) - That discussion led to talk about subroutine signatures, and it sounded like the only way to properly implement that feature would be to ditch subroutine prototypes. Anyway, we managed to fill up an hour pretty neatly -- I wanted to cut things short to let anyway who wanted to go watch the Montreal/Toronto hockey game (Toronto leads the series 3-1, and could send Montreal to the golf courses with a win). After turning the game on, it became clear I had no idea about the timing -- it was already 2-0 for Montreal at the beginning of the second period, and Montreal scored again while I watched. I turned the game off .. I think I know where this is going. :/ Our usual plan is to skip the June meeting (as we also have The Perl Conference to keep us busy that month), so our next meeting will be Thursday, July 29. We'll continue to meet virtually until it's safe to drink beer together again. Cheers, Alex -- Alex Beamish Software Developer / https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alex-beamish-5111ba3 Speaker Wrangler / Toronto Perlmongers / http://to.pm.org/ Chair, Sponsorship Committee, TPF / https://www.perlfoundation.org/ Baritone, Operations Manager / Toronto Northern Lights, 2013 Champions / www.northernlightschorus.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: