From kostas at cs.sunysb.edu Tue Dec 14 15:22:13 2004 From: kostas at cs.sunysb.edu (Kostas Pentikousis) Date: Tue Dec 14 15:24:35 2004 Subject: [sb.pm] Holiday gathering Message-ID: Hello all, I'd like us to hold a holiday meeting this Thursday at 6.30 or so. I reserved the CS lounge for that, and it will be great to see you all just before the end of the semester. I know some of you have pretty tough schedules these days, but try to attend as we have some very nice giveaways, including Perl debugger reference cards, books, and t-shirts. If there is consensus that most will be here next week, we can postpone it for a bit, as I would like to see as many of you as possibl. There is a chance we do have a meeting just after New Year's, but I wouldn't hold my breath just yet ;) Best regards, Kostas __________________________________________________________________ Kostas Pentikousis www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~kostas From kostas at cs.sunysb.edu Thu Dec 16 14:12:35 2004 From: kostas at cs.sunysb.edu (Kostas Pentikousis) Date: Thu Dec 16 14:15:02 2004 Subject: [sb.pm] Reminder: meeting today at 6pm in the CS Lounge Message-ID: See you all at 6 pm! Best regards, Kostas __________________________________________________________________ Kostas Pentikousis www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~kostas From jkeen at verizon.net Fri Dec 17 17:27:44 2004 From: jkeen at verizon.net (James Keenan) Date: Fri Dec 17 17:25:13 2004 Subject: [sb.pm] Perl Seminar NY Meets Tues 12/21 Message-ID: <413ED333-5083-11D9-8CBF-000D932B9CD4@verizon.net> There is a reason to visit New York in the week before Xmas -- besides seeing the Rockefeller Center Xmas tree: Perl Seminar NY's December meeting. NYPC User Group 481 8 Avenue (Ramada New Yorker hotel) Suite 1560 between 34th & 35th Sts, Manhattan, right near Penn Station Tuesday, December 21, 6:15-8:15 pm 1. Jim Cromie: "Life on p5p" Jetting in from the ski slopes of Colorado, one of our farthest flung members will discuss the 'perl5-porters' mailing list and its role in the ongoing development of the Perl computer language. Jim Cromie is an active contributor to p5p (as well as to the Perl6 list), and we've asked him to speak about one of the most important discussion forums in the worldwide community and its role in improving and extending Perl. 2. Jim Keenan: "A Primer on Coverage Analysis and Devel::Cover" At our October meeting Perl Seminar NY members agreed to participate in the ongoing Phalanx quality improvement project (http://qa.perl.org/phalanx) for CPAN modules. Coverage analysis is an important aspect of this: "I've written all these tests -- but how much of my code to they actually test?" Perl has an excellent coverage analysis tool in Paul Johnson's Devel::Cover module, available from CPAN. In this talk, Jim Keenan presents an introduction to coverage analysis via Devel::Cover.