From mongers at bsod.net Tue Jul 3 11:58:03 2007 From: mongers at bsod.net (Pete Krawczyk) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 13:58:03 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Chicago-announce] July 10, 2007: WWW::Mechanize / Andy Lester Message-ID: Chicago Perl Mongers Meeting Announcement --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topic: WWW::Mechanize Presenter: Andy Lester Date/Time: July 10, 2007, 7:00 PM CDT Location: IIT Rice Campus, Room 103, 201 East Loop Rd, Wheaton, IL --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andy Lester will be presenting on WWW::Mechanize. This will be a tutorial-style interactive presentation, illustrating how to write programs and tests that interact with web-based services. Andy Lester is the author of WWW::Mechanize. He is also the leader of the Chicago Perl Mongers, and there are few things he enjoys more than talking about Perl. Now in his 3rd decade of professional programming, Andy works for Follett Library Resources in McHenry, IL. As with all Chicago Perl Mongers meetings, everyone is welcome, whether or not you consider yourself a member. We look forward to seeing you there! Questions about this meeting? Ask on the chicago-talk at pm.org mailing list, or send email to andy at petdance dot com. You can also see a list of past and upcoming meetings at http://chicago.pm.org/meetings/. -Pete K -- Pete Krawczyk Chicago Perl Mongers mongers at bsod dot net From mongers at bsod.net Tue Jul 3 12:10:52 2007 From: mongers at bsod.net (Pete Krawczyk) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 14:10:52 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Chicago-announce] July 31, 2007: Lightning Talks and Perl::Critic Message-ID: Chicago Perl Mongers Meeting Announcement --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topic: Lightning Talks and Perl::Critic Presenter: You!, Josh McAdams Date/Time: Tuesday, July 31, 2007, 7:00 PM CDT Location: Performics, 12th Floor, 180 N. LaSalle, Chicago, IL RSVP: By 12:00 PM CDT the day of at pkrawczyk at doubleclick dot com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that this meeting is one week later than normally scheduled! RSVPs are also required for this meeting. This meeting will start with Lightning Talks, and if there is time remaining, Josh McAdams will present a tutorial on writing policies for Perl::Critic. If you are interested in doing a lightning talk, please pre-register for a five minute slot by sending an email to the RSVP address above. You can also sign up for a presentation slot at the meeting, if any are left. We will announce any pre-registered talks before the meeting. Lightning Talks are 5-minute talks, given on any subject you can think of. Here's somewhere to look for ideas: http://perl.plover.com/lt/lightning-talks.html We are also looking for lightning talks about what you learned at a recent conference, such as YAPC or OSCON; interesting projects or problems you've recently worked on; new technology you've recently discovered; or questions you'd like to present in front of a group of your peers. Lightning talks rely on YOU getting up there and doing your five minutes in the spotlight. It's a GREAT way for people who have never spoken before to get out there and get their feet wet. From MJD's page: Maybe you've never given a talk before, and you'd like to start small. For a Lightning Talk, you don't need to make slides, and if you do decide to make slides, you only need to make three. Maybe you're nervous and you're afraid you'll mess up. It's a lot easier to plan and deliver a five minute talk than it is to deliver a long talk. And if you do mess up, at least the painful part will be over quickly. Maybe you don't have much to say. Maybe you just want to ask a question, or invite people to help you with your project, or boast about something you did, or tell a short cautionary story. These things are all interesting and worth talking about, but there might not be enough to say about them to fill up thirty minutes. Lightning talks also don't require slides, charts or graphs. If you do want to use them, however, please be mindful of the five minute limit - you'll probably only get to cover three slides or so. As with all Chicago Perl Mongers meetings, everyone is welcome, whether or not you consider yourself a member. We look forward to seeing you there! Questions about this meeting? Ask on the chicago-talk at pm.org mailing list, or send email to andy at petdance dot com. You can also see a list of past and upcoming meetings at http://chicago.pm.org/meetings/. -Pete K -- Pete Krawczyk Chicago Perl Mongers mongers at bsod dot net From andy at petdance.com Thu Jul 19 19:06:01 2007 From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:06:01 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-announce] August 14th: Unit and Functional Testing with Perl Message-ID: <2AE8EA7D-FA1C-4F89-B1E2-AF6966969B6B@petdance.com> Tuesday, August 14th, 7:00pm Chicago Perl Mongers presents Kent Cowgill Perl Unit and Functional Testing at IIT Rice Campus Wheaton, IL See http://chicago.pm.org/meetings/ for directions Kent will be talking about getting started with unit and functional testing using everyone's favorite language, Perl. Additionally, he will talk about code quality, test coverage, and making things a lot easier on the person doing the testing using a Makefile. Finally, Kent will talk about how he used Test::Harness to create a custom test module in order to be able to unit test the code in use at his job, which is a template framework that combines perl code with HTML, making traditional unit testing rather difficult. Hope to see you there! xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => andy at petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance From andy at petdance.com Mon Jul 30 09:00:26 2007 From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:00:26 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Help the Perl community better understand its users at perlsurvey.org Message-ID: (Please feel free to forward this to anyone who might be able to help, such as other mailing lists. -- Andy) What sort of programmer uses Perl? Do most Perl programmers use it as a primary language, or just write the occasional script? And are there really as few women as conventional wisdom says? Kirrily Robert wants to know, and wants anyone around the world who uses Perl to help by answering a simple five-minute survey at perlsurvey.org. Kirrily's goal is to "take a snapshot of the Perl world as it currently stands." As an active member of the Perl community, she's often asked questions about Perl's users and is only left to "hypothesise, generalise, and hand-wave." Further, software communities can often be an echo chamber where people only hear from like-minded people. The Perl Survey is an attempt to break out of that echo chamber and hear from all Perl users around the world, regardless of skill level, not just the core users most active in vocal communities. An interesting part of the survey is asking the respondent's salary, if they choose to release it. "I hear a lot of talk about the going rate for Perl programmers," Kirrily says, "and whether organizations that claim they can't hire Perl programmers simply aren't paying enough." Correlating results with job experience and types of languages known could shed light on the topic. The survey's reach could help users around the world. "Salary information can be very hard to find out for anywhere other than the US," says Kirrily, an Australian. The survey will be open until September 30, 2007. Then, in October, Kirrily will be announcing the results and releasing the raw data, minus email addresses, under a Creative Commons "CC-BY" license. Her hope is that other interested people will provide their own analyses of the results. For further information, and to participate if you use Perl at all, visit perlsurvey.org. Thanks, xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => andy at petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance From mongers at bsod.net Mon Jul 30 09:08:07 2007 From: mongers at bsod.net (Pete Krawczyk) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:08:07 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Chicago-announce] REMINDER: July 31, 2007: Lightning Talks and Perl::Critic Message-ID: This is a reminder about tomorrow night's Perl Mongers meeting. There will also be several people in attendance who attended OSCON and would like to share their thoughts about the conference. Please RSVP as soon as possible if you think you might even possibly want to attend. It's better to be on the list and not attend than not be on the list and decide at the last minute to show up - the former causes us no grief; the latter gets hassled at security. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chicago Perl Mongers Meeting Announcement --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topic: Lightning Talks and Perl::Critic Presenter: You!, Josh McAdams Date/Time: Tuesday, July 31, 2007, 7:00 PM CDT Location: Performics, 12th Floor, 180 N. LaSalle, Chicago, IL RSVP: By 12:00 PM CDT on July 31 at pkrawczyk at doubleclick dot com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that this meeting is one week later than normally scheduled! RSVPs are also required for this meeting. This meeting will start with Lightning Talks, and if there is time remaining, Josh McAdams will present a tutorial on writing policies for Perl::Critic. If you are interested in doing a lightning talk, please pre-register for a five minute slot by sending an email to the RSVP address above. You can also sign up for a presentation slot at the meeting, if any are left. We will announce any pre-registered talks before the meeting. Lightning Talks are 5-minute talks, given on any subject you can think of. Here's somewhere to look for ideas: http://perl.plover.com/lt/lightning-talks.html We are also looking for lightning talks about what you learned at a recent conference, such as YAPC or OSCON; interesting projects or problems you've recently worked on; new technology you've recently discovered; or questions you'd like to present in front of a group of your peers. Lightning talks rely on YOU getting up there and doing your five minutes in the spotlight. It's a GREAT way for people who have never spoken before to get out there and get their feet wet. From MJD's page: Maybe you've never given a talk before, and you'd like to start small. For a Lightning Talk, you don't need to make slides, and if you do decide to make slides, you only need to make three. Maybe you're nervous and you're afraid you'll mess up. It's a lot easier to plan and deliver a five minute talk than it is to deliver a long talk. And if you do mess up, at least the painful part will be over quickly. Maybe you don't have much to say. Maybe you just want to ask a question, or invite people to help you with your project, or boast about something you did, or tell a short cautionary story. These things are all interesting and worth talking about, but there might not be enough to say about them to fill up thirty minutes. Lightning talks also don't require slides, charts or graphs. If you do want to use them, however, please be mindful of the five minute limit - you'll probably only get to cover three slides or so. As with all Chicago Perl Mongers meetings, everyone is welcome, whether or not you consider yourself a member. We look forward to seeing you there! Questions about this meeting? Ask on the chicago-talk at pm.org mailing list, or send email to andy at petdance dot com. You can also see a list of past and upcoming meetings at http://chicago.pm.org/meetings/. -Pete K -- Pete Krawczyk Chicago Perl Mongers mongers at bsod dot net