[San-Diego-pm] Meeting today (Monday, March 13th, 2006)

[Tony Foiani]

[Since our fearless lizard is off on a "womantic jouwney" to celebrate
his 1st wedding anniversary, your slightly more fearful lizard is
filling in...]

Just a reminder that we have a meeting this evening at the usual place
and the usual time:

   Panera Breads (in the Edwards Cenema shopping center, SW corner of
   Mira Mesa and I-15.  don't forget they have free wi-fi!)

   7:00p (Although many of us have been showing up at 6:30 to grab a
   bite to eat before the meeting.)

If nobody else has any other topics, I've run across two things that
might make for interesting conversation:

1. Sudoku solving in Perl

     http://kw.pm.org/talks/2006-01-sudoku/
     http://www.ecclestoad.co.uk/blog/2005/05/25/sudoku_solver_in_four_lines.html

     And the spring 2006 edition of "The Perl Review".  Which I didn't
     even know existed, although at least one big name (brian d foy)
     is writing for it.  Huh.

     Reading about those solutions also got me sidetracked into the
     world of dancing links, algorithm x, and "exact cover"
     problems.  Eeek.

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Links
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm_X
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exact_cover

2. "inside-out" objects

     http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/UnixReview/col63.html
     (no content until apr 1st, although I first noticed this based on
     a seminar that he gave for my company, so...)

     http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9979/sam0603g/0603g.htm
     Hm.  Appears to be that article.  :-/

     http://www.cpanforum.com/posts/1316

Any other topics?  Questions always welcome.

See you this evening!

t.