From alfiej at fastmail.fm Mon Jan 18 14:02:31 2016 From: alfiej at fastmail.fm (Alfie John) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:02:31 +1000 Subject: [Melbourne-pm] Next meeting - 24th Feb, 2016 Message-ID: <1453154551.1606855.495640298.1F9868D2@webmail.messagingengine.com> Hello Perl Mongers! While Ricardo in is town, we've managed to convince him to give a talk. If you would also like to present, want to let people know that you are recruiting, or looking for work, please let the list know! The next Melbourne Perl Mongers meeting will be on Wednesday the 24th of February, 2016 and will start around 6:30pm: FastMail Level 1, 91-97 William Street, Melbourne CBD Ricardo Signes will be giving a talk titled "1.21 Gigawatts": Some talks carefully guide the listeners through the entirety of a topic, starting with the basics and ending with the fine details. Everybody in the audience leaves feeling like they've really learned something thoroughly. That's? not the plan for today. Instead, we're just going to see the highlight reel of a bunch of topics that caught my interest over the course of the year: the best modules you're not using, stupid optimization tricks, tools for handling catastrophic program failure, git scripts you'll become dependent on, a review of cool (and uncool) changes in Perl, productivity tools, and who knows what else. I will stand in place and let lightning talks strike over and over, until I am reduced to cinders. You get to witness the ordeal, and you might just learn a thing or two. Ricardo Signes studied philosophy and religion, only to learn that no jobs existed for these degrees apart from "Computer Programmer (Perl)." He has tried to make do, becoming a frequent contributor to the CPAN and finally, through some accident of fate, project manager ("pumpking") for Perl 5 itself. In his free time he writes code that then deletes it as quickly as possible, lest he have to maintain it. Alfie -- Alfie John alfiej at fastmail.fm From alfiej at fastmail.fm Tue Jan 19 18:28:39 2016 From: alfiej at fastmail.fm (Alfie John) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 12:28:39 +1000 Subject: [Melbourne-pm] Next meeting - 23rd Feb, 2016 (date change) In-Reply-To: <1453154551.1606855.495640298.1F9868D2@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1453154551.1606855.495640298.1F9868D2@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <1453256919.3483885.497058570.51F1EB62@webmail.messagingengine.com> Apologies everyone, I've had to change the date, so it will now be on the Wednesday, the 23rd of Feb. Alfie On Tue, Jan 19, 2016, at 08:02 AM, Alfie John wrote: > Hello Perl Mongers! > > While Ricardo in is town, we've managed to convince him to give a talk. > If you would also like to present, want to let people know that you are > recruiting, or looking for work, please let the list know! > > The next Melbourne Perl Mongers meeting will be on Wednesday the 24th of > February, 2016 and will start around 6:30pm: > > FastMail > Level 1, > 91-97 William Street, > Melbourne CBD > > Ricardo Signes will be giving a talk titled "1.21 Gigawatts": > > Some talks carefully guide the listeners through the entirety of a > topic, starting with the basics and ending with the fine details. > Everybody in the audience leaves feeling like they've really learned > something thoroughly. That's? not the plan for today. Instead, we're > just going to see the highlight reel of a bunch of topics that caught > my interest over the course of the year: the best modules you're not > using, stupid optimization tricks, tools for handling catastrophic > program failure, git scripts you'll become dependent on, a review of > cool (and uncool) changes in Perl, productivity tools, and who knows > what else. I will stand in place and let lightning talks strike over > and over, until I am reduced to cinders. You get to witness the > ordeal, and you might just learn a thing or two. > > Ricardo Signes studied philosophy and religion, only to learn that no > jobs existed for these degrees apart from "Computer Programmer (Perl)." > He has tried to make do, becoming a frequent contributor to the CPAN and > finally, through some accident of fate, project manager ("pumpking") > for Perl 5 itself. In his free time he writes code that then deletes > it as quickly as possible, lest he have to maintain it. > > Alfie > > > -- > Alfie John > alfiej at fastmail.fm > _______________________________________________ > Melbourne-pm mailing list > Melbourne-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pm -- Alfie John alfiej at fastmail.fm From alfiej at fastmail.fm Tue Jan 19 18:31:30 2016 From: alfiej at fastmail.fm (Alfie John) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 12:31:30 +1000 Subject: [Melbourne-pm] Next meeting - 23rd Feb, 2016 (date change) In-Reply-To: <1453256919.3483885.497058570.51F1EB62@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1453154551.1606855.495640298.1F9868D2@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1453256919.3483885.497058570.51F1EB62@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <1453257090.3484385.497060114.4C620CC9@webmail.messagingengine.com> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016, at 12:28 PM, Alfie John wrote: > I've had to change the date, so it will now be on the Wednesday, the > 23rd of Feb. Did I just do that :/ I meant Tuesday, the 23rd of February! Alfie -- Alfie John alfiej at fastmail.fm