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
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   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
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   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