[LA.pm] Fwd: [San-Diego-pm] San Diego Perl Mongers Present Damian Conway

[Peter Serwe]

God I wish San Diego wasn't so far from Ventura!

Any chance this presentation might be recorded?

Peter


On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Christopher Grau <chris.grau at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Damian Conway will be in San Diego next week. It's a bit of a drive,
> but we'd love to have you.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bob Kleemann
> Date: Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:02 PM
> Subject: [San-Diego-pm] San Diego Perl Mongers Present Damian Conway
> To: San Diego Perl Mongers <san-diego-pm at pm.org>
>
> The San Diego Perl Mongers present the amazing Damian Conway giving
> his entertaining and instructive talk "Everything You Know About
> Regexes Is Wrong":
>
> >For most programmers, regular expressions are a riddle wrapped in a
> mystery inside an enigma shrouded in line-noise.
> >
> >So most sensible programmers either don't use them at all (and are
> thereby forced to reinvent worse wheels...badly), or else they fall back on
> an "evolutionary programming" approach: find an existing regex that looks
> like it might do, then randomly permute its "genome" over and over again
> until it appears to work.
> >
> >In this talk we'll go back to basics and discover that regexes mostly
> aren't what you think they are, mostly don't work the way you were told
> they did, and mostly shouldn't be created the way everyone tells you to.
> >
> >More usefully, we'll also talk about what regexes really are, how they
> actually work, and see how normal programmers can make use of their
> existing software development skills to construct correct and efficient
> regexes...without selling their souls or losing their minds.
>
> This one night event will happen on Monday, June 30th, starting at 7
> PM at the offices of Knobbe Martens, 12790 El Camino Real #100, San
> Diego, CA.
>
> RSVPs (to rkleemann at gmail.com or via
> http://www.meetup.com/SanDiego-pm/events/191240962/) are not required,
> but are helpful.
>
> Please feel free to share this with any coworkers, user groups, or
> other technical associations that might be interested.
>
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Peter Serwe
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