[LA.pm] MJD and Red Flags 2006

[Robert Spier]

I would do this in a heartbeat.  MJD is a friend of mine.  I will drop
him a note to find out what we need to do to make this happen.

-R


At Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:19:55 -0800,
Christopher Nielsen wrote:
> 
> Hiya,
> 
> This announcement caught my eye, and I thought I would pass it along. 
> Apparently, the author of Higher Order Perl, and an outspoken member
> in the Perl community, Mark Jason Dominus, is putting together a
> speaking schedule for 2006.
> 
> I really enjoyed his book, and I've heard from people in ny.pm and
> phila.pm that Mark's talks are pretty engaging and fun.  I wonder what
> people think about inviting MJD out here to speak?
> 
> Or how he feels about being enticed away from his native PA for the
> palm tree shaded sunshine of Los Angeles sometime this winter maybe :)
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mark Dominus <mjd-lists-nypm+ at plover.com>
> Date: Dec 13, 2005 5:23 PM
> Subject: Please help me with my new book!
> To: ny at lists.pm.org
> 
> 
> 
> Dear New York Perl Mongers,
> 
> I'm writing a new book, which I hope will be published in 2007.   It's
> about code review and refactoring in Perl.  (For more complete
> information, please see http://perl.plover.com/flagbook/ .)
> 
> To do this 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.
> 
> I have about half the examples that I need.  I hope that the Perl
> community can provide the other half.
> 
> For the next year, I'll be travelling around speaking to Perl Mongers
> groups about this.  I'd like to give about one talk each month for the
> rest of the year.
> 
> What I hope will happen is that a group will invite me to come speak,
> and that some of the group members will send me some example code
> ahead of time.  Then I'll read over the code, write up a talk about
> how I think it could be improved, and come visit the group and give
> the talk.  After I go home again, I'l' write up a book chapter about
> the code, incorporating the points that the PM group raised when I
> gave the talk.
> 
> (Of course, you can also send code even if you're not part of a Perl
> Mongers group or if I can't visit your group.  The more contributions,
> the better.)
> 
> Guidelines for code contributions are at
> 
>         http://perl.plover.com/flagbook/contribute.html
> 
> To contribute, send code to:
> 
>         mjd at plover.com
> 
> Questions?   Send them to:
> 
>         mjd at plover.com
> 
> Want to invite me to speak to your group?  Invitations to:
> 
>         mjd at plover.com
> 
> You get the picture.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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