From westerman at purdue.edu Wed Jan 2 08:01:37 2008 From: westerman at purdue.edu (Rick Westerman) Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:01:37 -0500 Subject: [Purdue-pm] Mongers: Jan tech meeting In-Reply-To: <200712231942.lBNJgPX1017735@pier.ecn.purdue.edu> References: <200712231942.lBNJgPX1017735@pier.ecn.purdue.edu> Message-ID: <477BB561.8080209@purdue.edu> I did some correction to the Dec meeting notes. For the Jan technical meeting, here is an idea: 5 minutes from each person on a neat part of perl 5.10 that you enjoy. And/or a part of 5.10 that is making you go "huh, what is that all about?" I know that Dave gave an overview of 5.10 last meeting but that was before 5.10 was officially released. What I am thinking about is everyone focusing on one specific detail of 5.10 that they enjoy or hate. For the delta changes from 5.8 see: http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.10.0/pod/perl5100delta.pod Of course if anyone has a non-5.10 talk that they would like to present then that would be great as well. -- -- Rick From westerman at purdue.edu Fri Jan 4 06:29:48 2008 From: westerman at purdue.edu (Rick Westerman) Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:29:48 -0500 Subject: [Purdue-pm] More on Jan tech meeting In-Reply-To: <477BB561.8080209@purdue.edu> References: <200712231942.lBNJgPX1017735@pier.ecn.purdue.edu> <477BB561.8080209@purdue.edu> Message-ID: <477E42DC.5040501@purdue.edu> OK gang, I have the title of my 5.10 talk: "The switch statement: syntactic sugar overload. The mechanism behind the switch statement: syntactic sugar oo-la-la!" It will probably take more like 15 minutes than 5. Anyone else gearing up for a talk? Let me know and/or put it on the web site. -- Rick Westerman westerman at purdue.edu Bioinformatics specialist at the Genomics Facility. Phone: (765) 494-0505 FAX: (765) 496-7255 Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture 625 Agriculture Mall Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010 Physically located in room S049, WSLR building From westerman at purdue.edu Tue Jan 8 11:18:53 2008 From: westerman at purdue.edu (Rick Westerman) Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:18:53 -0500 Subject: [Purdue-pm] 5.10 SmackDown tonight! Message-ID: <4783CC9D.4010301@purdue.edu> Unbeknown to me, Dave stole the subject of my talk tonight. Or was did I steal from him? :-) In any case it has turned ugly. So tonight, Tuesday Jan. 8 at 5:30 PM in ME 119 we are having the first (and last) Perl 5.10 SmackDown! In one corner will be Dave "The Bruiser" Jacoby featuring his talk "Be smart about switching" while in the other corner Rick "The Crusher" Westerman bellies up to bar with "The switch statement: syntactic sugar overload. The mechanism behind the switch statement: syntactic sugar oo-la-la!" Expect the competition to be brutal as each contestant tries to out-geek the other. Scorecards will be given to audience members so that each presentation can be rated. While audience participation in encouraged, please, no tomatoes -- I have to do my own laundry. :-( Also featured with be a relatively calm -- but probably more informative -- talk by Mark on "Perl 5.10.0 grep performance". -- Rick Westerman westerman at purdue.edu Bioinformatics specialist at the Genomics Facility. Phone: (765) 494-0505 FAX: (765) 496-7255 Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture 625 Agriculture Mall Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010 Physically located in room S049, WSLR building