[LA.pm] Recap [ Re: June Perl Mongers Meeting - Wed, Jun 17, 2009 ]

[Andrew Grangaard]

"Thank you!" to all who came out to the June meeting. We had nearly 20 
people and two excellent presentations.

David's talk challenged the common belief that "Perl is Slow" and 
sparked an excellent discussion that ranged from data models, snowflake 
schemas and pure perl olap cubes and off to Bloom filters, scaling 
horizontally vs vertically, hadoop/hbase and onwards. To paraphrase: 
Make it as simple as possible (elegance) and think about every speed 
consideration (diligence).

Matt's presentation was packed as he demonstrated the technologies and 
ideas behind his latest project. We got to see a lot of live code and 
patterns in action. Touching on Moose, MooseX::Storage, KiokuDB, Coro, 
Continuity, Mason, JSON, AnyEvent, Moose::Object::Pluggable, Process, 
Seamstress, HTML::Tree, HTML::Element, Net::Server, IPC::Cmd, jquery and 
Joose. Then gluing it all together and testing it.  The pdf cheatsheet 
from his talk is available at the link below.

In between speakers we continued the discussion while we munched pizza 
and raided the beer fridge. We had a fun cross section of people, those 
who signed in to show support: Gray, HSiegel, Jordan, David, David, 
Matt, Allen and others). Eric and his coworkers from Campus Explorer 
even drove to Santa Monica on their work-from-home-Wednesday.  Rubicon 
Project, thanks for the support, location, food and vibe.

Can't wait to see you all in July.

http://lowlevelmanager.blogspot.com/2009/06/june-perl-mongers-recap.html

peace,
Andrew

--
Andrew Grangaard
Senior Software Engineer - Rubicon Project - www.rubiconproject.com


> Hello Los Angeles!
> I am pleased to announce a Los Angeles Perl Mongers Meeting:
> 
> What:   LA Perl Mongers Meeting
> When:   7-9pm
> Date:   Wed, Jun 17, 2009.
> Where:  The Rubicon Project HQ - 1925 S. Bundy, 90025
> Theme:  Perl!
> Food:   Pizza and Pop provided.  Responses appreciated.
> 
> Speakers:
>   1) Data processing and Numerical Analysis in Perl (David Williams)
>   2) Moose and Joose -- Programming is (more) fun again. (Matthew Burns)
> 
> About our speakers:
>   Daivd Williams is a Senior Software Engineer and Researcher at the 
> Rubicon Project, formerly of RAND.  He's a mathematician, puzzle solver 
> and perl lover.
> 
>   Matthew Burns is a Senior Software Engineer at ValueClick / 
> Search123.  He has modernized and revitalized the S123 team and product 
> over the past year.  He's a magician and great at finding creative ways 
> to plug things together.
> 
> About your host:
> * The Rubicon Project (http://www.rubiconproject.com)
>     The Rubicon Project is an Advertising Technology Company 
> headquartered in Los Angeles.  Their mission is to automate the selling 
> and buying of online advertising.
> 
> *  Andrew Grangaard is a Senior Software Engineer at the Rubicon 
> Project, and long time Perl Monkey.  A Caltech EE, he made the switch 
> from Hardware to Software in 1998 and hasn't looked back.
> 
> Directions:
> The Rubicon Project is located just North-West of the intersection of 
> the 10 and 405 freeways, at 1925 S. Bundy.
> 
>  From the 405, exit Olympic Blvd, and travel West to Bundy, turn right 
> on Bundy.
>  From the 10W, exit Bundy and drive North on Bundy.
> 
> Turn left (west) from Bundy into the building parking lot just after La 
> Grange Ave.  Drive to the back of the building and turn right.  Don't 
> park in the first part of the lot, but you can park anywhere in front of 
> the Rubicon Project entrance.
> 
> Map:
> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=1925+S+Bundy+Dr,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90025&sll=34.034377,-118.45687&sspn=0.003179,0.005552&ie=UTF8&ll=34.034246,-118.457015&spn=0.001589,0.002776&t=h&z=19 
> 
> 
> blog post:
> http://lowlevelmanager.blogspot.com/2009/06/june-perl-mongers-meeting.html
> 
> 
> See you at 7 on the 17th.
> 
> Thank you,
> Andrew
> 
> 
> 
> ----
> Andrew Grangaard
> Senior Software Engineer - Rubicon Project - www.rubiconproject.com