[Boston.pm] Tech meeting TONIGHT - Mark Fowler - in WALTHAM

On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 1:43 AM Bill Ricker wrote: > Mark Fowler, "Perl Advent Calendar Redux" > > For the October 9 gathering of Boston Perl Mongers we'll be hosted by > MaxMind in Waltham, instead of our usual MIT > location. Our speaker will be Mark Fowler. > >

[Boston.pm] Tech meeting Tuesday - Mark Fowler - in WALTHAM

Mark Fowler, "Perl Advent Calendar Redux" For the October 9 gathering of Boston Perl Mongers we'll be hosted by MaxMind in Waltham, instead of our usual MIT location. Our speaker will be Mark Fowler. (Boston.PM is happy to accept this offer of hosting from MaxMind, and

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting - Tuesday - Ricky Morse - Perl 6 Typesetting

I will be there.

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting - Tuesday - Ricky Morse - Perl 6 Typesetting

(1) The Wiki is Back! New hosting thanks to Greg R 's Qualitybox.US , suppliers of wikis and forums to discerning SMBs. same Boston.PM.org address thanks to Perl.ORG (2) Meetings resume ! September at the usual place, October a road-trip to Waltham (center of town so

[Boston.pm] Tech meeting 5/8: shorts: Signatuers and Precision

May the Fourth be with you ! Our next tech meeting is Tuesay, May 8. We'll watch (dissect?) two shorter conference videos, with our usual MST3K commentary and rabbit-hole research. Topics are 3 dialects of Function Signatures in recent Perls and infinite precision computation in Perl 6.

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Federico Live! GPS! Randomness with Radiation!

I shall be there, sans pizza. ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting TONIGHT: Federico Live! Hardware! GPS! Randomness with Radiation!

April 10th (2nd Tuesday=TODAY) last reminder Federico Lucifredi / Hardware Hacking 101: time and randomness Abstract: Using the lowest amount of custom hardware and pouring Perl over everything as the glue binding it all, we create two minimalistic devices delivering a perfectly tuned network

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Federico Live! GPS! Randomness with Radiation!

MONDAY REMINDER: TOMORROW April 10th (2nd Tuesday) Federico Lucifredi / Hardware Hacking 101: time and randomness Abstract: Using the lowest amount of custom hardware and pouring Perl over everything as the glue binding it all, we create two minimalistic devices delivering a perfectly tuned

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Federico Live! GPS! Randomness with Radiation!

Next Meeting April 10th (2nd Tuesday) Federico Lucifredi / Hardware Hacking 101: time and randomness Abstract: Using the lowest amount of custom hardware and pouring Perl over everything as the glue binding it all, we create two minimalistic devices delivering a perfectly tuned network time

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday Feb 13th - Commercial Game Design with Modern Perl !

I intended to play the 1:06:00 long version of the same talk from Amsterdam Perl Conference (which starts with the Formerly Known as YAPC joke bombing). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmLwYLSmTSs So if you want 100% more Ovid & Tau Station with <= 50% overlap ... e.g. "Gender is complicated" I

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday Feb 13th - Commercial Game Design with Modern Perl !

Let's try this again ... last month we tried, but it being IAP, we didn't actually have a room. (Minor admin oversight. We did have a nice chat over pizza.) February 13th, 2nd Tuesday -- Ovid builds a MMORPG in Perl 7/7:30pm, MIT E51-732, Amherst St, Cambridge. Amsterdam Perl Conference 2017

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday - Commercial Game Design with Modern Perl !

Typo E51-376 Tonight! On Jan 8, 2018 1:24 AM, "Bill Ricker" wrote: > HAPPY NEW YEAR ! And FIRST MEETING ! > 2nd Tuesday comes early this month. This week ! > > January 9th, 2nd Tuesday -- Ovid builds a MMORPG in Perl > 7/7:30pm, MIT E51-732, Amherst St, Cambridge. >

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday - Commercial Game Design with Modern Perl !

HAPPY NEW YEAR ! And FIRST MEETING ! 2nd Tuesday comes early this month. This week ! January 9th, 2nd Tuesday -- Ovid builds a MMORPG in Perl 7/7:30pm, MIT E51-732, Amherst St, Cambridge. Amsterdam Perl Conference 2017 video screening Noted Perl personality Ovid (Curtis Poe) has built a

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting "Deep Learning in Perl" Nov. 14th - Adam Russell (live!)

We changed speakers and topics at the last minute last month because real life. Our very interesting previously-planned speaker will instead speak this month -- next week. Remember, if you get Veterans' Day Monday off work, Tuesday will feel like Monday. Next Meeting - Tuesday, November 14th -

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting TONIGHT // Topic Change

> Next Meeting - Tuesday, October 10th - Last-minute Speaker / Topic change / Github Continuous Integration for Perl CPAN modules / see below. > LIVE Speaker ! > ROOM Change (from spring): E51-372 We're sorry to report that due to circumstances beyond the speaker's control, he won't be able to

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting "Deep Learning in Perl" October 10th - Adam Russell (live!)

Next Meeting - Tuesday, October 10th - Adam Russell "Deep Learning in Perl" LIVE Speaker ! ROOM Change (from spring): E51-372 "Deep Learning with AI::MXNet: Navigating implementation issues" ABSTRACT This talk will cover lessons learned from a recent experience in getting a deep learning

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Damian's 'Why I Love Perl' keynote (TPC'17)

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Greg London wrote: > >> NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages >> (parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking >> after-hours. > > Well that sucks. It was in retrospect amazing how long the

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Damian's 'Why I Love Perl' keynote (TPC'17)

> NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages > (parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking > after-hours. Well that sucks. ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Damian's "Why I Love Perl" keynote (TPC'17)

> "Uri" == Uri Guttman writes: Uri> is this talk available on the web? I wonder if that's just a retitlement of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob6YHpcXmTg -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Damian's "Why I Love Perl" keynote (TPC'17)

I shall be there ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Damian's "Why I Love Perl" keynote (TPC'17)

On 09/10/2017 08:09 PM, Bill Ricker via Boston-pm wrote: Current meeting - Tues, Sep 12th - The Perl Conference 2017 Review : Damian's keynote ( from TPC / YAPC::NA) ROOM TBD - watch Email or @BostonPM twitter or Wiki for room # when confirmed ! The Damian Conway gave one of his rapid-paced,

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Damian's "Why I Love Perl" keynote (TPC'17)

Current meeting - Tues, Sep 12th - The Perl Conference 2017 Review : Damian's keynote ( from TPC / YAPC::NA) ROOM TBD - watch Email or @BostonPM twitter or Wiki for room # when confirmed ! The Damian Conway gave one of his rapid-paced, wide-ranging tour-de-force presentations as an invited

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday: Lightning Talk Dim Sum (TPC/YAPC review)

Next Tech Meeting Tues, Jul 11th The Perl Conference 2017 Review : Lightning Talk Dim Sum ( from TPC / YAPC::NA) MIT E51-376 starting 7.30 (but there 7-ish) Attendees will select Lightning Talks from The Perl Conference 2017 playlist. We can't play all 29 of them unless we 'gong' more than half

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday - Perl 5.26 released - Parking Alert - now with abstract !

Tech Meeting June 13th. 7:00/7:30pm E51-376 New features, changes in Perl 5.26 Join us to see what's new in the latest Perl. Using slides prepared by brian d foy for an AmsterdamX.pm presentation, we'll go over the highlights of new features and changes in Perl 5.26, including the potential

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday - Perl 5.26 released - Parking Alert

Next Tech Meeting June 13th. 7:00/7:30pm E51-376 New features, changes in Perl 5.26 [Bill and anyone else with opinions] *** Parking Alert. *** Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours. (This is a natural

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday Apr 11 - MIT - 7ish - Digital pack-ratting for Tumblr

Ricky Morse, Digital pack-ratting for Tumblr : (Perl 5 and Perl 6) Tues, Apr 11th, 2017, 7ish Room E51-376 "I’m a bit of a digital packrat, so I will be showing a tool that I developed to help me hoard Tumblr meme posts. As a bonus, just for this talk I wrote something in Perl 6 that does a

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday - Digital pack-ratting for Tumblr (Perl 5 and Perl 6) "

Ricky Morse, Digital pack-ratting for Tumblr (Perl 5 and Perl 6) Tuesday March 14th (3.14=Pi Day!!) 7ish MIT Room E51-376 "I’m a bit of a digital packrat, so I will be showing a tool that I developed to help me hoard Tumblr meme posts. As a bonus, just for this talk I wrote something in Perl 6."

[Boston.pm] TECH MEETING 2/14 POSTPONED TO MARCH 14th

RSVPs are nil to none, just Tom, Ricky (speaker), and me so far. Looks like everyone else has something important to do on 2/14. We get better turnout on MLB SportsBall World Series ... Go figure. (My wife believes in Movable Feasts for all holidays, so I'm flexible.) We may have Perl6 version

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech meeting "Christmas Lights Tour" December 13th, MIT room E51-376, 7ish

a maths-of-Xmas advent calendar (blog, no grid :-( ) from old England ... http://www.mathistopheles.co.uk/ ​ ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech meeting "Christmas Lights Tour" December 13th, MIT room E51-376, 7ish

Slides with the links posted to boston.pm.org/Calendar/ ​ ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

[Boston.pm] Tech meeting "Christmas Lights Tour" December 13th, MIT room E51-376, 7ish

Next meeting is this week ! December 13th, MIT room E51-376, 7ish "Christmas Lights Tour" A mutually-guided tour of the first half of several Perl-ish Advent Calendars Bill & Greek Chorus Around this time of year there is a tradition in the programming communities to share our favorite

Re: [Boston.pm] tech meeting THIS TUESDAY - flamegraph.pl A visualization for Profiler output

Almost last call for (optional) RSVP ... On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 11:45 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: > Tues Sept 13th, MIT room E51-376 7.pm - Brendan Gregg's FlameGraphs (Bill > Ricker, moderator) > [image: cpu-mysql-crop-250.png] > Brendan Gregg's FlameGraph profiler

[Boston.pm] tech meeting THIS TUESDAY - flamegraph.pl A visualization for Profiler output

Tues Sept 13th, MIT room E51-376 7.pm - Brendan Gregg's FlameGraphs (Bill Ricker, moderator) [image: cpu-mysql-crop-250.png] Brendan Gregg's FlameGraph profiler visualizationI stumbled on a link to a set of posts and hand-drawn 'zines' about Linux debugging and 'doing' software at jvns.ca/zines/ .

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech meeting Tuesday 7/12 - CPAN Contribution live Demo / hack

Our ?biennial? hackathon to support our adopted Damian module, Config::Std is our July topic. • https://metacpan.org/release/Config-Std • https://github.com/n1vux/Config-Std-Perl We have a new old bug -- prior deprecation of literal '{' becomes fatal in 5.25 dev release for 5.26, coming in

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting TONIGHT : Testing Modern Perl

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: > > ​The 14th is as late as the 1st Tuesday ever comes in the month ... > However, it's worth the wait. > We have a live speaker ! > > ​RSVP appreciated but not required.​ > > ​As seen on http://boston.pm.org/ , ​ > 2nd

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday (TOMORROW) : Testing Modern Perl

​The 14th is as late as the 1st Tuesday ever comes in the month ... However, it's worth the wait. We have a live speaker ! ​RSVP appreciated but not required.​ ​As seen on http://boston.pm.org/ , ​ 2nd Tuesday, June 14th. Tim King: Testing Modern Perl with Test::Class

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday : Testing Modern Perl

> > ​The 14th is as late as the 1st Tuesday ever comes in the month ... However, it's worth the wait. We have a live speaker ! ​As seen on http://boston.pm.org/ , ​ 2nd Tuesday, June 14th. Tim King: Testing Modern Perl with Test::Class MIT E51-376 aka

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting, Tues 11/10 : Perl 6

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: > Tue Nov 10 2015 MIT E51-376 9.30pm ​TYPO 7.30 talk (gather 7ish)​ -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ Boston-pm mailing list

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting, Tues 10/13 : Perl 6

I would go but I have a yoga class on Tuesdays now. On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 02:51:09PM -0400, Bill Ricker wrote: > TONIGHT -- Any more RSVPs ? Real working Perl 6 code ! > > Perl 6 v1.0 to release for real in 10 weeks ... website has relaunched. > This is a very good thing, a long time in

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting, Tues 10/13 : Perl 6

TONIGHT -- Any more RSVPs ? Real working Perl 6 code ! Perl 6 v1.0 to release for real in 10 weeks ... website has relaunched. This is a very good thing, a long time in coming, it's going to be fun ! bill On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: > *October*

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting, Tues 10/13 : Perl 6

*October* Next Meeting: 2nd Tuesday Oct 13 - Perl 6 is almost here ​Autumn Theme: Perl 6 for Xmas Tuesday October 13, 2015 7:30-9:30pm @ MIT E51-376 "Perl 6 - A Dynamic Language for Mere Mortals" *Author* - *Ovid* (Curtis Poe). *Abstract* This month

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Perl 5.22 & Modern Perl: TUESDAY

On 09/07/2015 11:18 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: by the time you read this, it will ALREADY be TUESDAY even though it feels like Monday. RSVP if you can come please. +1 uri ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech meeting - SD card (in)security with Perl - Federico's Lab

*​Tuesday June 9th, 2015​ (tomorrow)​* Topic: * SD card (in​​)security with Perl http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Calendar* Time: 7:00p - 10:00p (talk 7:30) Classroom: E51-376 Speaker: *Federico Lucifredi ​Federico will be attempting access to the CPU embedded in the SD storage card, using Perl

[Boston.pm] Tech meeting - SD card (in)security with Perl - Federico's Lab

​*​* *​Tuesday June 9th, 2015* Topic:* SD card (in)security with Perl http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Calendar* Time: 7:00p - 10:00p (talk 7:30) Classroom: E51-376 Speaker: *Federico Lucifredi * *Boilerplate details* Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT building E51,

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting 9/9 Creating And Managing a Private CPAN with Pinto Stratopan

Early announcement before weekend email hole ... TOPIC: Creating And Managing a Private CPAN with Pinto Stratopan DATE: September 9 TIME: 7:00 – 10:00 PM ROOM: MIT E51-376 SPEAKER: Jeffrey Thalhammer If you use Perl, then you have probably wrestled with CPAN. Shifting dependencies, incompatible

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting 9/9 Creating And Managing a Private CPAN with Pinto Stratopan

Sweet! On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: Early announcement before weekend email hole ... TOPIC: Creating And Managing a Private CPAN with Pinto Stratopan DATE: September 9 TIME: 7:00 – 10:00 PM ROOM: MIT E51-376 SPEAKER: Jeffrey Thalhammer If you

[Boston.pm] tech meeting ideas

hi all, our tech meetings have not been drawing good crowds in the last year or two. some of you may recall the early days (like in my attic!) where we would have 20 or more regularly. it seems like in those days we were all learning perl more and the meetings were a good way to do that.

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting tonight

Bill Ricker wrote: Next meeting Tuesday, July 8, E51-376 TOPIC: Offensive Defensive Web User Identity DATE: July 8 TIME: 7:00 - 9:00 PM ROOM: E51-376 SPEAKER: Zak Zebrowski (via Hangouts) This talk looks at web users from a two different perspectives: First, we look at identifying

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday after long weekend !

* Good thing I sent pre-announce message early this month due to long weekend​, as Monday message is going out late Monday.* *​ ​N​ote that 2nd Tuesday is as early as they come this month, and if you stretch the long weekend, it may be first day back ! * *Next meeting Tuesday, July 8,

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday after long weekend !

On 07/07/2014 05:56 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: * Good thing I sent pre-announce message early this month due to long weekend​, as Monday message is going out late Monday.* *​ ​N​ote that 2nd Tuesday is as early as they come this month, and if you stretch the long weekend, it may be first day back

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday after long weekend !

*I'm sending the Boston Perl Mongers Friday pre-announce message early this month due to long weekend ... note that 2nd Tuesday is as early as they come this month, and if you stretch the long weekend, it may be first day back ! * *Next meeting Tuesday, July 8, E51-37**6* TOPIC: *Offensive

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech meeting Tuesday, June 10, E51-376: Selenium, Perl 5.20, List::Util

Last call for RSVPs is really around 4. ​​ Next meeting Tuesday, June 10, E51-37*6* *Ricky Morse, automation of web browsers with Selenium::Remote::Driver* *Bill Ricker, Perl 5.20 (just released) new features demonstrated (Including List::Util updates)* ​ *Boilerplate details* Tech Meetings

[Boston.pm] Tech meeting Tuesday, June 10, E51-376: Selenium, Perl 5.20, List::Util

Next meeting Tuesday, June 10, E51-37*6* *Ricky Morse, automation of web browsers with Selenium::Remote::Driver* *Bill Ricker, Perl 5.20 (just released) new features demonstrated (Including List::Util updates)* *Boilerplate details* - Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday

Both speakers that Tom and I were recruiting for this month are unable to speak this week, so what we have is a Video replay presentation with group discussion. (Our group discussion adds value to anything!) Choice of : - Unicode Programming in Modern Perl NY.pm Nick Patch (ex Boston!)

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Feb 11, MIT, Parsing strange fixed-length records

We have goodly number of RSVPs so far. See you all there ! eat bill uri af mp ms rem mj listen tom jc jp maybe aml tim On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: Next meeting Tuesday, February 11, 2014 TOPIC: *Parsing the weirdest fixed-record-length

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Feb 11, MIT, Parsing strange fixed-length records

Next meeting Tuesday, February 11, 2014 TOPIC: *Parsing the weirdest fixed-record-length format you've ever seen* ! DATE: February 11 TIME: 7:00 - 10:00 PM ROOM: E51-37*2 (**NOTE we're back in the squarish room 372 for winter/spring.)* SPEAKER: Uri G The PerlHunter at my new job i have

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: A recap of the DFW Perl Mongers Deduplication Hackathon

Tom Metro wrote: TOPIC: A recap of the DFW Perl Mongers Deduplication Hackathon SPEAKERS: Joel Berger, Tommy Butler, Yanick Champoux, Bruce Gray, Tim King How fast can Perl find duplicate files on a 100 GB file system? That's the question the Dallas/Fort Worth Perl Monger's Winter 2013

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday

Tom will post a fuller description shortly ... the meeting is at usual time and place, modulo the usual seasonal room swaps. Next meeting January 14, 2014 TOPIC: Tom Metro, Hackathons DATE: January 14 TIME: 7:00 – 10:00 PM (talk 7:30) ROOM: E51-37*2* *NOTE we're back in the squarish room 372 for

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting - benchmarking Perl5 vs Perl6 (Boston-pm Digest, Vol 126, Issue 7)

On 12/13/2013 10:17 AM, Morse, Richard E.MGH wrote: On Dec 12, 2013, at 9:03 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: you wish to publish all my probing questions, witty comments and general gibberish? i want major royalties!! In that case, I think I want lieutenant royalties. (Or, even

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting - benchmarking Perl5 vs Perl6

Production ready is hard to define, much like quality. Yeah, but 1000 times slower is objective and pretty definitive. Bill Ricker wrote: Tuesday December 10, 2013 E51-376 Tim King - Benchmarking Perl6 vs Perl5 * Perl 6's suitability for production. (Your definition may vary.) *

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting - benchmarking Perl5 vs Perl6

Tom Metro tmetro+boston...@gmail.com writes: From a coder's perspective, will p6 code be elegant? Are the sorts of modules I need available? Will new p6 version break the code I write today? Will it be fast enough? I was trying to understand better Tim's example where he tried to use a sub

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting - benchmarking Perl5 vs Perl6

The lexical-scope approach makes it possible for a compiler to inline functions and optimize leaf calls, because it knows they don't need to be visible externally. It also means the owner of the module is free to change their implementation without people whining about functionality that was

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting - benchmarking Perl5 vs Perl6 (Boston-pm Digest, Vol 126, Issue 7)

On 12/12/13 2:01 AM, Tom Metro wrote: Bill Ricker wrote: Tuesday December 10, 2013 E51-376 Tim King - Benchmarking Perl6 vs Perl5 * Perl 6's suitability for production. (Your definition may vary.) * Experiences of the state and stability of Rakudo. * Benchmarks of my favorite P6 features. *

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday

Weather sounds ichy but not outright too dangerous to meet. Consider your trip home before deciding whether to come. I'm guessing we will NOT have PIZZA delivery, however, so grab your own supper. NWS says WHILE MOST ROADWAYS WILL LIKELY REMAIN WET...ANTICIPATE SLICK AND SLIPPERY CONDITIONS ON

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday

Tuesday December 10, 2013 E51-376 Tim King - Benchmarking Perl6 vs Perl5 * Perl 6's suitability for production. (Your definition may vary.) * Experiences of the state and stability of Rakudo. * Benchmarks of my favorite P6 features. * Lines of P6 code from everyday life. * Some comparisons of P6

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday

On 12/06/2013 09:25 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: Tuesday December 10, 2013 E51-376 Tim King - Benchmarking Perl6 vs Perl5 * Perl 6's suitability for production. (Your definition may vary.) * Experiences of the state and stability of Rakudo. * Benchmarks of my favorite P6 features. * Lines of P6 code

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: A new object system for the Perl 5 core

Bill Ricker wrote: Tuesday November 12, 2013 E51-376 Stevan Little - A new object system for the Perl 5 core. If you missed this, there is an embedded YouTube video of a shorter version of this same talk given for the NY Perlmongers added to our calendar page:

[Boston.pm] tech meeting Blog Review Tuesday Oct 8 FIRST FLOOR E51-145

Tuesday October 8, 2013 First Floor, E51-145 (flat, seats 67, tables and chairs, video projector) Subject - *Review and Discussion of recent Perl blog topics*. Presenter - Bill and G(r)eek Chorus NOTE First Floor, different room, this month only. No refreshments. Targets of opportunity (or

[Boston.pm] Tech meeting preview - Perl and Java, together at last ?

Tuesday, July 9, 2013, E51-376 7pm-10pmspeaker William Cox and David Larochelletopic Using Inline::Java with Perl This talk is a report on inquiry begun on the [ mailing list http://www.mail-archive.com/boston-pm@mail.pm.org/index.html#07176 ] Talk begins at 7:30. Refreshments in the hallway

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting parse::gnaw Tuesday, May 14

Right now, I'm about 60% likely to attend. ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting parse::gnaw Tuesday, May 14

Let's keep those RSVPs coming ... On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: GREG LONDON, re-writing and using parse::gnaw Location MIT E51-376 (MITDirectionshttp://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections ) Talk begins at 7:30. Refreshments in the

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting parse::gnaw Tuesday, May 14

On 05/13/2013 11:27 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: Let's keep those RSVPs coming ... i am gnawing at the bit to show up! uri ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting parse::gnaw Tuesday, May 14

GREG LONDON, re-writing and using parse::gnaw Location MIT E51-376 (MITDirectionshttp://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections ) Talk begins at 7:30. Refreshments in the hallway prior, gather 7ish *note* back in room E51-37*6* this term. -- bill -- please

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Embedded Perl with Federico

Greg London wrote: ...it would seem to me that the right bit of hardware hooked directly to [the drive head] would be the best way to wipe a drive. If you drive random data onto the data wire and slowly work the head from the inside to the outside track, you would wipe out formatting data,

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Embedded Perl with Federico

On Apr 11, 2013, at 12:02 AM, Bob Rogers rogers-...@rgrjr.dyndns.org wrote: From: Greg Londonem...@greglondon.com Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:18:12 -0400 I have no idea what the signaling looks like on that 4wire connector between the platters and controller electronics, but it would

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Embedded Perl with Federico

From: Greg London em...@greglondon.com Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:14:20 -0500 There's a simpler way to do this: Sandpaper. I think the exercise was akin to lockpicking: yes a crowbar will do the same job, but that wasn't the point. Can it be done without physical

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday Apr 9th, Embedded Perl with Federico, 7, MIT E51-376

Federico Lucifredi continues his quest to build a hardware-assisted automagic hard-drive wiper, using perl in an embedded device. *Shiny hardware! Demo! Code*! Federico, It was getting late, so I didn't want to throw in another tangent for how to write your code. But I was thinking you could

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday Apr 9th, Embedded Perl with Federico, 7, MIT E51-376

Greg London wrote: ...replace your printline() function with a closure. Instead of doing this over and over: printline($var1,\$y,text,font,$size); You could take $y and put it inside a lexical block... To me this looks like an example of where we suffer by not having OO truly baked into the

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday Apr 9th, Embedded Perl with Federico, 7, MIT E51-376

Greg London wrote: ...replace your printline() function with a closure. Instead of doing this over and over: printline($var1,\$y,text,font,$size); You could take $y and put it inside a lexical block... To me this looks like an example of where we suffer by not having OO truly baked into

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Embedded Perl with Federico

Federico Lucifredi continues his quest to build a hardware-assisted automagic hard-drive wiper, using perl in an embedded device. Federico, You showed some slides explaining why drive erasure is important, and also mentioned that this task isn't a job responsibility, but you never quite

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday Apr 9th, Embedded Perl with Federico, 7, MIT E51-376

Greg London wrote: I've pasted an OO version and the closure version of my script below. They're nearly identical. they both take about the same amount of lines of code. Nice that you fleshed out the examples a bit further. Meh. I don't blame that on perl's lack of builtin OO. The problem

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday Apr 9th, Embedded Perl with Federico, 7, MIT E51-376

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Tom Metro tmetro+boston...@gmail.com wrote: Greg London wrote: [...] Perl's bolt-on version of classes can fix this about as easily as perl's closure stuff can fix it. The closure version doesn't scale. You can't stick it in a library and call it from

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday Apr 9th, Embedded Perl with Federico, 7, MIT E51-376

But that's my point. The default, especially with a short script, becomes procedural. Well, I assume it varies from person to person, and the reason my default is procedural is because I've got about two decades of procedural programming under my belt, and only 5 or 10 of the last years has

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday Apr 9th, Embedded Perl with Federico, 7, MIT E51-376

I do not agree with this assertion. I've seen closure based solutions and OO versions both scale, and both fail. They are appropriate for different problems, and different designs. But as long as you know what they are (and aren't) good at, you can choose either. I'd agree. I've done quite

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Embedded Perl with Federico

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Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Embedded Perl with Federico

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Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday Apr 9th, Embedded Perl with Federico, 7, MIT E51-376

Checked my calendar. I'll be there. Greg Have a speaker, one RSVP, and me so far. Who else is coming? On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: *Tuesday, April 9, 2013, MIT E51-376 7pm-10pm* Embedded Perl with Federico Federico Lucifredi continues his

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday Apr 9th, Embedded Perl with Federico, 7, MIT E51-376

Bill Ricker wrote: Who else is coming? please RSVP for refreshments. I plan to. (But don't add me to the refreshment count.) I'll forward the announcement to the BLU Hardware Hacking list: http://blu.wikispaces.com/Hardware+Hacking where there should be an overlap of interest. -Tom --

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting, DEC 11th 7pm Scott Mattocks - 'treat your code like a member of the dev team'

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Scott Mattocks sc...@crisscott.comwrote: Thanks again for letting me talk tonight. Here's a link to the presentation for anyone that is interested: http:// talks.crisscott.com/bostonpm/ Thank you ! You said you used reveal.js (with node.js for projection

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting, DEC 11th 7pm Scott Mattocks - 'treat your code like a member of the dev team'

how many more? On 12/10/12, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: speaker Scott Mattocks topic “treat your code like a member of the dev team.” “You expect your developers to communicate well; you should expect your code to communicate well. You expect your developers to continue working

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting, DEC 11th 7pm Scott Mattocks - 'treat your code like a member of the dev team'

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: how many more? I am planning on coming, although I will be a little late due to another meeting that ends around 7. Mike ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting, DEC 11th 7pm Scott Mattocks - 'treat your code like a member of the dev team'

I'm spending the day at MIT finishing up a write-up. If I finish within early enough I'm wondering over to Perl Mongers. -- David On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Mike Williams drumm...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: how many

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting, Scott Mattocks - 'treat your code like a member of the dev team'

Bill Ricker wrote: speaker Scott Mattocks topic “treat your code like a member of the dev team.” You expect your developers to communicate well; you should expect your code to communicate well. You expect your developers to continue working when things go slightly wrong; you should expect

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting, DEC 11th 7pm Scott Mattocks - 'treat your code like a member of the dev team'

speaker Scott Mattocks topic “treat your code like a member of the dev team.” “You expect your developers to communicate well; you should expect your code to communicate well. You expect your developers to continue working when things go slightly wrong; you should expect your code t'o continue

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting, DEC 11th 7pm Scott Mattocks - 'treat your code like a member of the dev team'

On 12/10/2012 04:05 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: speaker Scott Mattocks topic “treat your code like a member of the dev team.” “You expect your developers to communicate well; you should expect your code to communicate well. You expect your developers to continue working when things go slightly

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting - Perl Data Language - Tuesday 11th MIT 7pm

Count me as 1/2. I have a bit of a sore throat, am not sure if I'll be up to coming, but was looking forward to some coverage of PDL! ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting - Perl Data Language - Tuesday 11th MIT 7pm

i am attending. uri ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting - Perl Data Language - Tuesday 11th MIT 7pm

Next Meeting Tuesday, September 11, 2012, E51-372 7pm-10pm Adam Russell, PDL - The Perl Data Language PDL is the Perl Data Language, a perl extension that is designed for scientific and bulk numeric data processing and display. It extends perl's syntax and includes fully vectorized,

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting, July 10th 7pm MIT - YAPC reprise

If the Boston.pm'ers who when to YAPC or other can reprise their talks or favorite talks attended, or if not, we'll review the slides online. please RSVP for refreshments. Our WIKI http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/ * Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT (directions

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Plack/PSGI Tuesday, May 8, 2012, MIT E51-372 7pm

Last call for refreshments RSVP in an hour ... seen so far : BR UG REM DL EG BG bill On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: Next Meeting Tuesday, May 8, 2012, E51-372 *Rick Morse : Getting Started with Plack/PSGI* This talk will be a short overview of

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