[Melbourne-pm] Perl Mongers in 2015...

Drew Taylor drew at drewtaylor.com
Tue Jan 6 17:06:44 PST 2015


Anything Plack-based is your friend. IMHO mod_perl should be considered
legacy technology these days.

Drew

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Mathew Robertson <
mathew.blair.robertson at gmail.com> wrote:

> mod_perl is your friend.
>
> On 7 January 2015 at 11:22, Tim Connors <tim.w.connors at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Ooh, I wonder if I should put something together about my air
>> conditioner/heater controller.  Teaching myself ajax, and javascript, but
>> on the minus side, using CGI::Fast (on the pi, CGI ':standard' takes about
>> a second to load, and when it takes 5 ajax queries to display the state of
>> the air conditioner, fast matters; plus, I'm too old a dog to learn
>> mojolicious and everything all the cool kids are using.  On the
>> minus-minus-bad side, the AC's state machine is done in bash.
>>
>> But yet, pub next Wednesday.
>>
>> On Wed, 7 Jan 2015, Stephen Edmonds wrote:
>>
>> > There was a blog post I read last year (and now cannot find again) that
>> > talked about changes that a perl mongers group (I think San
>> Francisco...)
>> > made that resulted in their meetings growing.
>> >
>> > One big change was that they dropped the fixed day of the month for the
>> > meetings. If there was a speaker that was not available on Wednesdays
>> but
>> > was available on Thursdays, then there would be a meeting on a Thursday.
>> > They also saw a number of new people as it turned out there were a
>> number
>> > of people on the mailing list that also couldn't make a Wednesday but
>> could
>> > make a Thursday. Of course there were some that then couldn't make the
>> > Thursday, but over time that would even out with meetings on Tuesdays,
>> > Fridays, Mondays, etc...
>> >
>> > Another change they made was to not require the talks to be on perl,
>> just
>> > that the talks should be something interesting to people that used perl.
>> > This concept is not new to us, I remember a talk on git a few years ago
>> and
>> > more recently there was a night where the focus was on embedded systems
>> > such as arduino, raspberry pi, beaglebone, etc.
>> >
>> > These are things to consider...
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Stephen
>> >
>> >
>> > On 7 January 2015 at 08:53, Dean Hamstead <dean at fragfest.com.au> wrote:
>> >
>> > >  From my experience in Sydney PM and taken from experiences with SF pm
>> > > and SL pm - just start having meetings consistently and attendance
>> will
>> > > swell.
>> > >
>> > > Even if the first meeting is 3-4 people, press forward and promote
>> each
>> > > event via blogs.perl.org, reddit, facebook etc.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Dean
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On 2015-01-06 23:53, Stephen Edmonds wrote:
>> > >
>> > > After not having any meetings in 2014, what are we going to do in
>> 2015?
>> > >
>> > > How about we get started with a social meeting on the 14th? We have
>> had a
>> > > decent number at the Mitre Tavern in the past...
>> > >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > > Stephen
>> > >
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