[grand-rapids-pm-announce] Special Speaker -- Mark your calendars --

mheusser@charter.net mheusser at charter.net
Tue Feb 14 07:04:11 PST 2006


Who: Brian D Foy, co-Author of Learning Perl, 4th Edition
What: A presentation on Design Patterns in Perl at the next meeting of the Grand Rapids Perl Mongers.
When: Friday, Feb 24th, 11:30AM
Where: Priority Health Conference Center (3111 Leonard St)
Lunch: Is included for those who RSVP.  RSVP by Tuesday of that week; RSVP to Albert.Tobey at priority-health.com.
 

TOPIC:
Design patterns gives names to and describe ways for solving tricky
coding problems without creating additional complexity. Many of these
ideas are useful in Perl, and, when correctly applied, let you express
your ideas more clearly and naturally.

About Brian:
Brian has been an instructor for Stonehenge since 1998 and a Perl user
since he was a Physics graduate student. He founded the first Perl
users group, the New York Perl Mongers, as well as the Perl advocacy
non-profit Perl Mongers, Inc. which helped form over 200 Perl user
groups across the globe. He maintains the perlfaq portions of the core
Perl documentation, several modules on CPAN, and some stand-alone
scripts. He's the publisher of The Perl Review, a magazine devoted to
Perl, and a frequent speaker at conferences including The Perl
Conference, Perl University, MarcusEvans BioInformatics '02, and YAPC.
His writings on Perl appear in The Perl Journal, Dr. Dobbs, and The
Perl Review

The Priority Health Conference Center is located at 3111 Leonard St, Grand Rapids, just west of the corner of Beltline and Leonard, just north of Cornerstone University.  For more informatiuon, you can contact myself or Al Tobey directly.

Regards,


--
Matthew Heusser, www.xndev.com
Program Chair, Grand-Rapids.pm.org
mheusser at charter.net



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