[San-Diego-pm] San-Diego-pm Digest, Vol 122, Issue 5

[Reuben Settergren]

Hey Bob,

>From BAE I've got myself coming rain or shine, two more guys that
definitely want to come but have to check with their better halves first,
and I'm hoping by Mon a few more will see the light and join us.

Looking forward to it, thanks for organizing!

r


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>    1. San Diego Perl Mongers Present Damian Conway (Bob Kleemann)
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> The San Diego Perl Mongers present the amazing Damian Conway giving his
> entertaining and instructive talk "Everything You Know About Regexes Is
> Wrong":
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> For most programmers, regular expressions are a riddle wrapped in a mystery
> inside an enigma shrouded in line-noise.
>
> So most sensible programmers either don't use them at all (and are thereby
> forced to reinvent worse wheels...badly), or else they fall back on an
> "evolutionary programming" approach: find an existing regex that looks like
> it might do, then randomly permute its "genome" over and over again until
> it appears to work.
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> In this talk we'll go back to basics and discover that regexes mostly
> aren't what you think they are, mostly don't work the way you were told
> they did, and mostly shouldn't be created the way everyone tells you to.
>
> More usefully, we'll also talk about what regexes really are, how they
> actually work, and see how normal programmers can make use of their
> existing software development skills to construct correct and efficient
> regexes...without selling their souls or losing their minds.
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> This one night event will happen on Monday, June 30th, starting at 7 PM at
> the offices of Knobbe Martens, 12790 El Camino Real #100, San Diego, CA.
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> RSVPs (to rkleemann at gmail.com or via
> http://www.meetup.com/SanDiego-pm/events/191240962/) are not required, but
> are helpful.
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> Please feel free to share this with any coworkers, user groups, or other
> technical associations that might be interested.
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