[Canberra-pm] Re: Starting meetings

[Jepri]

Eeek.  It looks like my other mail (the one I was speaking of) didn't 
make it off the ground.  I was saying that all these topics look pretty 
good, and wondering who was going to give them.

I've got one or two talks I could do, but I can guarantee that you'll 
get sick of my voice pretty fast.

It's interesting that there are people here developing for perl as well 
as using it.  I'm not good enough at C or XS to do that, or even talk 
about it.  Maybe Iain could tell us how to make basic wrappers for C 
libraries?

I'd like to have some people do some 'lightening talks' about what they 
do with perl.  Lightening talks are little five minute talks that you 
finish before you have time to get scared or run out of things to say.

The one liners sound good, but what does this one do?

perl -e"@_=a..z.~0"

It looks like 'fill a..z and concatenate with the binary something 
operator on zero'?  tye is a pretty scary coder.


On 2002.10.22 15:17 Rob Casey wrote:
> > Fun uses of LWP? Masterful regexen? 101 ways to core dump perl with
> your
> > XS? Writing elegant/idiomatic Perl? Infiltrating your work place
> with
> > Perl? Using Perl to automate your development? Using Perl to answer
> your
> > email? Perl vs Python? Perl vs PHP? mod_perl vs PHP? mod_perl and
> how
> it
> > can change your life.
> 
> A nifty little topic for a light-hearted talk that could have wide
> appeal would be 'perl one-liners' - References for such a talk might
> include:
> 
> http://history.perl.org/oneliners/
> http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=55592
> http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=84218
> 
> Cheers,
> Rob
>