[kw-pm] MJD presenting at a Very Special Toronto Perl Mongers meeting, Sat 13 May 2006

[Richard Dice]

Hi everyone,

I've been working with Mark-Jason Dominus (MJD) over the past few months 
for him to give a talk to the Toronto Perl Mongers.  I have final 
confirmation now.  We're scheduling the talk for the afternoon of 
Saturday 13 May, duration of approx. 4 hours.  (Exact location 
information will be forthcoming.)

I have attached here a note from MJD he asked me to distribute.  The 
main thrust of his speaking tour is in prepartion for his newest book, 
currently under constructions, "Perl Program Repair Shop and Red Flags". 
  He would like code contributions -- see details in his letter.  We'll 
get him to give a talk about this and also another from his repetoire. 
(See the "Free talks" section on http://perl.plover.com/yak/#free ) 
Suggestions are welcome!

The talk is free, but donations are both appreciated and needed!  The 
only support for this event is what comes from its attendees.  Thanks to 
all who have pledged already.

Eric Maki has told me that he'd help organizer the KW.pm folks who might 
  want to attend.  If you have any questions about who MJD is, making a 
donation, etc., you can talk to either of us.  (Carpooling and more 
local type things Eric could handle much better than I.)

Cheers,
Richard

(The following is verbatim from MJD.)

        Dear Toronto Perl Mongers,

        I'm coming to visit you on May 13 as part of my tour to gather
        material for my new book, which I hope will be published in
        2007.  The book is about code review and refactoring in Perl.
        (For more complete information, please see
        http://perl.plover.com/flagbook/ .)

        To do the job right, I need real examples of real code that
        other people wrote.  I'll review the code and fix it up, and
        explain in the book what I did and why.

        Please send me some code to look at so that I have something
        to talk about on May 13.  I need it no later than Friday,
        April 14, but sooner is better.

        What I need: code for a program or module that is between 150
        and 700 lines long, not counting comments or blank lines.
        Also, you must be authorized to give me permission to use the
        code in my book.

        If I use your code in the talk, I will give you a free copy of
        my last book, _Higher-Order Perl_.
        (http://hop.perl.plover.com/) If I use your code in the new
        book, you'll get a free copy of that when it comes out.

        If you want more details about what I need, please see:

                http://perl.plover.com/flagbook/contribute.html

        To contribute, send code to:

                mjd-contrib-tor at plover.com

        Questions?   Send them to:

                mjd at plover.com

        Thanks.