[Melbourne-pm] Upcoming meeting dates and talks! (Next meeting: 14th Jan)

[Alec Clews]

Given Perl's migration to git it may be opportune to have some git 
presentations?

I'd be happy to demo github.com (simple 20 mins)


Paul Fenwick wrote:
> G'day MPM,
>
> Welcome to 2009.  This year I'm hoping to have speakers and meetings
> organised well in advance.  If you want to give a presentation, help
> organise a meeting, or hunt down new speakers, then let me (and preferably
> the list) know!
>
> Unless there are any objections, I'll be giving a sneak preview of my talk
> for Linux.conf.au at our first meeting.  This is a full 40 minute talk:
>
> 	When:	Wednesday, 14th January, 6:30pm
>
> 	Where:	Remasys Pty Ltd
> 		Level 1
> 		180 Flinders St
> 		MELBOURNE VIC 3121
>
> 	Talk:	Awesome things you've missed in Perl!  (Paul Fenwick)
> 		(Full abstract at end of e-mail)
>
> I also had plans to give my "Art of Klingon Programming" talk at the second
> MPM meeting, but Linux Users Victoria (LUV) asked very nicely if they could
> see it to.  As such, our second meeting for the year is combined with LUV:
>
> 	When:	Tuesday, 3rd February
>
> 	Where:	Buzzard Theatre
> 		Even Burge Building
> 		Trinity College
> 		Parkville VIC
>
> 	Map:	http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map
>
> 	Talk:	The Art of Klingon Programming (Paul Fenwick)
> 		Abstract at: http://wiki.osdcsydney.info/program/talk63
>
> All the very best,
>
> 	Paul
>
> ---begin abstract---
>
> Awesome things have been happening in Perl recently; so many that even if
> you've been paying close attention, you may have missed a few. In this talk
> we'll examine some of the coolest recent technologies for Perl programmers,
> including:
>
> * Overhauling Perl's Object Oriented framework with Moose.
>
> * Flexible, rapid, and painless web development with Catalyst.
>
> * Making everything a first-class object with autobox.
>
> * Slashing your error handling code with autodie.
>
> * Building fast, readable and reusable regular expressions with Perl 5.10.
>
> * Bundling and building stand-alone applications using PAR, the
>   Perl Archiver.
>
> * Astonishingly good profiling with Devel::NYTProf.
>
> * Playing MineSweeper automatically with App::SweeperBot.
>
> Knowledge of Perl is nice, but not essential to appreciate the contents of
> this talk.
>
> ---end abstract---
>
>