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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">A few disjointed thoughts I've had
recently (topics that I personally find interesting):<br>
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<li>Discussing the meeting topics in general, with focus on
tackling modern problems and projects with Perl</li>
<ul>
<li>i.e: Concurrency problems; making DBIx::Class's
auto-schema generator less error prone (w/r/t table names
and relationships)</li>
<li>Moe is a great idea, but aside from fact that it will run
on the JVM, and will have concurrency benefits because of
Scala, what else would people be interested in using Moe for
that may be difficult to do right now?</li>
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<li>Making meetings more accessible to those who may not be able
to be there physically. Conf-call type setup with
audio/video, and remote users providing input/feedback via
some kind of messaging platform (twitter, email, irc)</li>
<ul>
<li>This may have been discussed several times in the past,
but with the emerging popularity of telecommute, and our
interest in nurturing new (often younger) developers, we may
want to do more to get with the (social) times.</li>
<li>Even if we can't come up with a solution for the next few
meetings, a discussion still may be useful with an aim to
have some new changes/improvements to how meetings are held
going forward. Tighter integration with the new TPM site is
also be a possibility!<br>
</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li>Although TMTOWTDI is something we encourage at the earliest
stages of learning, I think it would be beneficial for Perl
veterans to work closely to put together a bit of a "starter
package", a list of modules we would recommend to someone
doing project of type X - e.g.: Doing a web app? Start with
Dancer. Need your app to send e-mails? Try Email::Sender..
etc.</li>
<ul>
<li>An argument could be made that MetaCPAN already does some
of this via the module ratings, however we still leave it up
to to new Perl devs to make a choice between several
options. I often find that many of today's developers are
looking for the most "commonly used/accepted" way of doing
things so that they have a solid starting point. Sometimes
too many options can kill progress, and therefore interest.</li>
<li>Consider that Perl doesn't really have much corporate
support (although it's likely being used heavily in
corporate environments), so it is on the users themselves to
promote what they like about it.<br>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li>PerlDroid</li>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12212827/can-i-develop-android-applications-in-perl">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12212827/can-i-develop-android-applications-in-perl</a><br>
</li>
<li><a href="https://code.google.com/p/perldroid/">https://code.google.com/p/perldroid/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://code.google.com/p/perl-android-apk/">https://code.google.com/p/perl-android-apk/</a><br>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
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Don't know if I'll be out this month, as my wife and I have a baby
on the way (any day now... feel like I've been saying that for
weeks), but just figured I'd help to further the discussion.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
-Bobby<br>
<br>
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On 13-01-24 01:39 PM, Mike Stok wrote:<br>
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As the last Thursday looms, maybe we could do something simple.
I'd be happy to talk for about 5 minutes each on one technical
and one non-techincal book I have read recently or am reading
which I think are useful. If we had three or four people doing
that then it would be a reason to go.
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