<div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>We had a small group at the TEK Systems conference room last night for November's meeting, and we took in a really interesting presentation by Felipe Gasper about his new module Net::WebSocket. We also discussed topics for future talks, and I got a little better at sorting out the broadcast part of the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Felipe reviewed existing modules and explained his target platform was the VPS, an environment where memory is at a premium, so his environment required the smallest possible memory footprint -- so object systems such as Moose, Mouse and Moo could not be used. Similarly, because the Mojo::WebSocket modules are part of the Mojo blob, they weren't suitable.</div><div><br></div><div>(I'm going to review the video and see if the discussion afterwards was audible. I may also chop off the first few minutes where I'm getting the video sorted out.)</div><div><br></div><div>This module was developed alongside Felipe's modules IO::Framed, Call::Context and X::Tiny as part of work he is doing to support a cPanel installation. All of these modules are available on CPAN.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>After Felipe's presentation, we discussed possibilities for future talks, starting in January, and talk turned to Perl6, with the following questions:</div><div>- Does anyone have experience using Perl6 in production?</div><div>- Has anyone written code to take advantage of its built-in parallelization?</div><div>- Does Perl6 have as many global variables as Perl?</div><div>- How does the Eval / Try / Catch feature compare to what's available in Perl (via Try::Tiny)?</div><div><br></div><div>Someone mentioned interest in the parallelization available in Rust, and there was also a question about why Parrot failed (a joke that turned into a real project?).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I managed to get the video broadcast sorted out this time around, but then experienced audio problems that weren't present during my test broadcasts -- as I was using my own laptop for the tests. I will make plans to get a proper stand-up microphone for January's meeting, and I'll do a systems check earlier on. Thanks to all the listeners continued patience. A/V is hard!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Action items:</div><div>1. If anyone on the list has an interest in doing a presentation, let me know.</div><div>2. We don't have a date for the December social -- Dec 14, 21 and 28th are the three Thursdays possible. I would like to propose the middle date, as it's closest to Perl's 30th birthday on December 18.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks all!<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Alex Beamish</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Software Developer / <span style="background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica,freesans,"liberation sans",helmet,arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alex-beamish-5111ba3" target="_blank">https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alex-beamish-5111ba3</a></span><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Baritone, Board Member, Toronto Northern Lights, 2013 Champions / <a href="http://www.northernlightschorus.com" target="_blank">www.northernlightschorus.com</a></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Certified Contest Administrator, Barbershop Harmony Society / <a href="http://www.barbershop.org" target="_blank">www.barbershop.org</a></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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