How about a programming contest of some sort? Announce a problem to the mailing list before the meeting. 1 book goes to the most obfuscated. Another book goes to the shortest(perl golf-wise) Another book goes to the *mumble*. You get the idea. The meeting could be brief show & tell's of individual solutions with a vote at the end with prizes awarded.
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:35:50 -0400 From: "Uri Guttman" <u...@stemsystems.com> Subject: [Boston.pm] schwag for next meeting To: boston-pm@mail.pm.org Message-ID: <87k5386xt5....@quad.sysarch.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii hi all, o'reilly sent me some new books to give out at our next meeting. i have 2 copies of the second edition of system administration with perl. it is written by david blank-edelman who teaches at northeastern. i heard something that he may even want to give a talk to us about the book. bill or i will look into that more. the other book (1 copy) is the regular expressions cookbook. it has 'detailed solutions in eight programming languages'. those are c#, vb.crap, java, javascript, perl, python, ruby and php. as with other cookbooks it is organized by recipes which shows the regex solution to a problem and then all the variations needed for the different langs. so we will have to come up with a way to award these books to worthy pm'ers. any ideas are welcome. thanx, uri
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