Boston.PM Calendar
Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT (directions).
The schedule can also be found at http://itinfo.mit.edu/usergroup.
If a meeting was posted to Boston.PM Announce list but not posted here, paste it in!
Next
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 E51-376
Nick Patch will present some of Ingy döt Net's recent Acmeist projects, TestML and JSYNC, and his experience porting them to Perl 6 with Ingy. Detailed abstract to follow. for now see Ingy's
Future
2nd Tuesday, further ...
One of -
- Federico "Dtracing Perl"
- rakudo\* install meeting - how to - cross-invites, big room
- debate inside out objects and various Class modules
- our standing default topic is now Config::Std workshop.
- Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT (directions). Our usual room is reserved 7-10pm thru May 2010.
Past
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 E51-376
- Steve S (hercynium) 'Getting out of CPAN dependency hell, and staying out.'
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 E51-376
Postponed to July
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 E51-376
- Federico doing disk clear with Perl and hardware
Tuesday, April 13 E51-376
- Adam - Enlightenment gui api in Perl
- Quick Enlightenment window manager and library introduction (http://www.enlightenment.org/ )
- Binding the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries to Perl With XS and Why XS Wasn't as Scary As I Thought (http://search.cpan.org/dist/EFL/ )
- Cutting Corners With Dist::Zilla and Releasing to CPAN (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Dist-Zilla/ )
Tuesday, March 9 E51-376
- Bill and ensemble - maintaining a CPAN module
Boston.pm acting through Bill Ricker with Tom Metro as backup have adopted Damian Conway's module Config::Std, which has a long RT bug queue most of which are fixed in cpan but not closed, some documentation gaps, and a few real bugs. Bill will report on what steps are needed to enable that, and we'll see progress as a demo.
folks are encouraged to bring a laptop preferably with git or a diff capable of creating patch files so you can contribute to fixing perldoc.
Tuesday, February 9 E51-376
Controling git with Perl. Steve S
the conclusion of our source / revision control series. With added Perl goodness !
* gitolite * gitweb
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 E51-376
- mvhub, web directory of social services
- perl some modules launchpad bzr for ngo See: *http://launchpad.net/mvhub *http://northshoreport.org
- Modules to touch on:
- Devel::Cover
- WWW::Mechanize
- HTML::Template
- CGI::Application
- Lingua::Stem::En
- Presenters
- Dan MacNeil, Lee Goodrich, Steve S ???
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 E51-376
- * Topic - Stone Soup / Lightning talks / or the dreaded PowerPointKaraoke
- list of good perl stuff on that page remains available for filler talks
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 E51-376
- RT 3.8 end Extensions
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 E51-3
- Using Benchmark.pm for comparing two templates.
- Steve S & Uri G
Tuesday, Sept 8th, 2009, 7:15 E51-376
- Open Street Map and Perl
Tuesday is a day early this week, and the 8th is as early as the Boston Perl Mongers can fall. After the as late as possible Labor Day, this is about pessimal. However we do it anyway. We have our usual room for fall.
Our speakers are Shankar Viswanathan and Lars Ahlzen from the Open Street Map project.
http://www.osm.org
Tuesday, July 14 7:15 E51-376
- YAPC recap
Tuesday, June 9 7:15 E51-376
- a survey of Perl IDE tools.
- Uri suggests Emacs perl mode.
- a survey of all IDE/editor options -
- who wants to present Eclipse? Padre? Komodo?
May 12, 7:15 PM - MIT E51-376
- perl as an aid in developing embedded systems software
- a domain specific language
- Jonathan Finger
April 14, 7:15 PM - MIT E51-376 back in our home room
- Git primer and workshop
- Steve Scaffidi
My idea is pretty simple - I would like to do a tutorial-style workshop where people can follow along on their laptops to use git and see it in action.
I would cover the following:
- Core concepts (~15 min)
- Getting started (~25 min)
- Working alone with git (~20 min)
- Working with others with git, the traditional way (~20 min)
March 10, 2009, 7:15 ROOM E51-335 on other hallway
* Hacking the WD Mybook 2 with Perl
* Federico Lucifredi
o Building a cheap and very compact Linux NAS appliance
o Polishing it with Perl glue
"I am using Perl glue to put together a cheap and small Linux NAS from the Western Digital Mybook II - there are a bunch of hackers doing this, but I wanted mine to have a certain "detail" and so some scripting here and there was required to make it happen - obviously in Perl.
"It may be too optimistic, and certainly smaller in scale, but the WDMBII is starting to spawn a little community movement similar to the Linksys WRT54G."
February 10, 2009 7:15 room E51-335 on other hallway
- Parse::Gnaw - *
Greg London*
- how to create grammars
- how the internals actually work
"I should have a fairly stable version of Parse::Gnaw by (then)."
- NOTE _new larger room for Feb/Mar
January 13, 2009 7:15 room E51-376 one last time
- Table Driven Testing - Uri
As seen in Sort::Maker
"and i keep saying i will also be covering template::simple's compiled template features. between that and the table driven testing, i can waste^Wfill up plenty of time." - uri
Social Meeting - Tuesday December 9 @ Redbones
The votes are in.
> RedBones++
RedBones Wins. No meeting at MIT this month. Meet at RedBones, usual 7-7:15 time, near Davis Sq T. there is public parking metered lots but plan to circle for a while.
55 Chester St Somerville, MA 02144 (617) 628-2200
November 18, 2008, 7:15 E51-376
- Note date - week late since 2nd Tuesday is a Holiday
- Advent Calendar PSA / Jerrad gave a public service announcement on the Advent Calendar project. Volunteer! get writing! http://advent.pm.org
- time_t, magic numbers, old school bit-hacks, and Perl.
BillRicker gave a talk meandering through un/pack(), time_t, magic numbers, and old skul bit-banging entitled "Magic Numbers & Un/Pack / a use.perl.org magical mystery tour". Slides are posted at (remove spaces) http : / / world . std . com / ~wdr / x / pm/magic/magic_pack_tour.pdf This Free-software generated PDF (OOo 2.3) should be viewed with a genuine Adobe reader as Evince and Xpdf get the overlays wrong. Perl scripts are in same directory as the html as is a tarball.
To answer the Question from the floor, Ilya'o'clock willbe just before Solstice and just before our normal date for January.
ILYA Sat Dec 20 02:32:33 2008 GMT . Fri Dec 19 21:32:33 2008 ET Ilya Tue Jan 13 11:22:09 2009 GMT . Tue Jan 13 06:22:09 2009 ET
Uri has volunteered for December, Greg for January, so we are now talking reservations for Feb.
Refreshments provided by our kind sponsor CIDC.com ; be Sure to mention Boston.PM when you send them a resume.
October 14, 2008, 7:15 E51-149
- Note different room., E51-149 First floor.
- Topic - Stone Soup / Lighning talks / or the dreaded PowerPointKaraoke
- c2fit and fitnesse
- Parse::!RecDescent to validate config syntax or complex parse legacy data]
- Global banking crisis
We didn't wind up forcing PowerPointKaraoke on anyone, so the list of good perl stuff on that page remains available for filler talks
September 9, 2008, 7.15 Tech Meeting E51-376
- CIDC, refreshment sponsor, wants your resume. Tell 'em Boston.PM sent you if you oblige.
- Easy cryptanalysis with tr, s, and /usr/dict/word. BillRicker
August 12, 2008, Tech Meeting E51-376
Jerrad Pierce
- Topic (1) Perl Module Advent Calendar authors http://perladvent.pm.org/
- Topic (2) Data::JavaScript code review / repair-a-thon http://search.cpan.org/search?query=Data-JavaScript&mode=module
July 15, 2008, Tech Meeting E51-376 (*3*rd Tuesday)
- Topic: Ack-athon
- Uri and Bill have been working on Andy Lester's ACK tool, and this will be a collaborative redesign of the inner loop.
- Due to 4th of July holiday weekend being popular for straddling vacations, and the 8th being earliest possible 2nd Tuesday, we're pusing out a week.
July 8, 2008, SOCIAL at TBD – see emails
June 10, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7:15pm
Uri Guttman will present a quiz exploring people's thoughts on programming.
May 13, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7:15pm
Bob Rogers gave a talk on Advanced Control Structures in Parrot.
April 8, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7:15pm
Ronald Kimball gave a presentation on doing a weighted shuffle.
February 12, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7:15pm
Martin Owens presented XML::Validate::XSD.
January 8, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7:15pm
Mitchell Charity gave a brief presentation on his idea to quickly bootstrap a Perl 6 implementation via Ruby.
Ronald Kimball led a long discussion of new features in 5.10.
Bernardo Rechea presented his CD-ripping program that uses some of the new 5.10 features.
November 13, Tuesday, Social Meeting
Boston Beer Works, Fenway, 7:30pm
Technical recruiting firm JohnGalt Staffing bought us a round of drinks.
October 9, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-372, 7:15pm
Ronald Kimball presented several fun obfuscations found on PerlMonks.
Jerrad Pierce discussed the upcoming Perl Advent Calendar for 2008.
September 11, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-372, 7:15pm
Ronald Kimball gave an overview of ack.
Sean Quinlan gave an introductory talk on HTML::Mason.
We had open discussions on several topics, including Perl job opportunities, academic interest in Perl, and the state of Perl 6.
August 21, Tuesday, Social Meeting
Cambridge Brewing Company, 7:30pm
The appetizers for this meeting were sponsored by JohnGalt Staffing , a technical recruiting firm that is looking for talented Perl programmers to fill positions with its clients.
July 10, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-372, 7:15pm
Kee Hinckley gave a presentatione titled "Object Oriented Design on the Fly - OR- Programming Without a Net"
It's the wrong way to work, but what techniques can you use to build a reusable object framework when the schedule gives you no time to design one up front?
June 12, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-372, 7:15 pm
Ronald Kimball gave an introductory talk on Toolkit::Template, based on his experience using it over the past month.
Uri Guttman gave an informal presentation on his CMS::Simple and Template::Simple modules.
Ronald Kimball also offered a quick look at LOLCode.
This was our first tech meeting sponsored by Cambridge Interactive Development Corp! (Sean Quinlan began the meeting by talking about what CIDC does and the Perl positions they're looking to fill.) Thanks CIDC!
May 8, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7:15 pm
Greg London gave a talk based on his book, Bounty Hunters (Metaphors for Fair Intellectual Property Laws). http://www.greglondon.com/bountyhunters/
The metaphors we use to describe the abstract concept of intellectual works bring along their own set of baggage. The metaphor of "property" automatically invokes the idea of "owner" and "theft" and "pirate". But some metaphors describe reality better than others. This book introduces the metaphor of authors and inventors as Bounty Hunters. The public offers a bounty to any individual willing to create some as-yet- undiscovered work. Creators provide a "service" in the same vein as a Bounty Hunter provides a service of catching bad guys.
April 10, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7:15 pm
Guillermo Roditi gave talk entitled WebApps using Perl and Reaction: "A showcase of the Reaction MVC system through an example application, Prefab. The Presentation will focus on harnessing emerging technologies (Moose, Catalyst, DBIx::Class) to create a smart framework that allows developers to quickly develop complex, security aware web-based applications. The talk will include no mention of Ajax or Web 2.0 type stuff, instead focusing on the technologies driving the server-side and the methodologies and design decisions behind them."
Jason McIntosh gave a presentation on Volity: "Volity is an open platform for online multiplayer games. Volity itself is a set of language-independent protocols based on Jabber, but much of its current implementation relies on Perl. There are also libraries on CPAN that let you create new Volity game parlors with Perl."
March 13, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7:15 pm
Jesse Vincent gave his intro to Jifty talk. OSCON session description
Sean Quinlan give a presentation on using AJAX and mod_perl handlers.
February 13, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7:15 pm
Ronald Kimball presented Linux Genuine Advantage.
Uri Guttman gave an overview of his new CMS::Simple module.
We finished with a discussion about the state of Perl 6.
January 16, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7:15 pm
Jerrad Pierce gave a review of his 2006 Perl Advent Calendar.
John Norton presented his Logo interpreter in Perl.
December 12, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7:15 pm
Uri Guttman presented his mail filtering system, which uses Mail::Procmail, whitelisting, and some simple spam filtering.
Our YAPC volunteer committee presented their plans for the [New England Perl Workshop NEPW], to be held March 10, 2007 at Northeastern University.
November 16, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7:15 pm
Uri Guttman gave a presentation on writing plug-ins in Perl.
Jerrad Pierce recruited volunteers for this year's Perl advent calendar.
Kenneth Graves followed up on his presentation from last month, with a script that solves a puzzle of putting unique 3-digit perfect squares (100, 121, etc.) into a crossword-style grid.
October 10, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7:15 pm
Kenneth Graves walked us through his three versions of a Kokuro solver. starting with a simple but inefficient brute force approach and ending with one with optimizations and heuristics to make it nice and speedy.
Bill Ricker showed us his script for solving doublets, aka word ladders.
September 25, Monday, Special Tech Meeting
MIT E51-315, 7:15 pm
Damian Conway gave his opentalk 2.0 and The DaVinci Codebase talks!
Uri Guttman organized a foil hat contest, so the audience could protect themselves from Damian's mind-warping influence.
Damian2006Mementos has more details about this exciting meeting, including a fun video of the judging of the foil hat contest and pictures of the winners.
September 12, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7:15 pm
Jeff Barr from Amazon.com talked to us about Amazon Web Services.
August 8, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7:15 pm
RonaldJKimball presented his Pachinko JAPHs, comparing the verbose code to the golfed code.
Uri Guttman talked about some things he's working on, including packaging Tiny Template and several projects involving event loops.
July 11, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7:15 pm
Audrey Tang presented her YAPC Chicago talk, Deploying Perl 6
June 13, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7:15 pm
David Golden present Eversion 101: An Introduction to Inside-Out Objects.
Inside-out objects offer intriguing advantages over traditional Perl objects, but at the cost of substantial complexity. This talk reviews pros and cons of inside-out objects and teaches the basics of how they work. It includes three core concepts, four ways to make them and five pitfalls to avoid. This presentation is adapted from the "What's All the Fuss?" tutorial given at Perl Seminar NY in January 2006 and is being previewed for YAPC::NA 2006.
May 9, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7:15 pm
RonaldJKimball dissected Ilmari Karonen's script that solves Sudoku puzzles using a regular expression.
April 28, Friday, Social Meeting
Jasper White's Summer Shack, Cambridge, 7 pm
brian d foy was here!
April 11, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7:15 pm
Bill Ricker showed us how he does GD-on-Map overlays and aligns points/lines on top of GD Charts.
Drew Taylor discussed a web-based timeline project that uses Catalyst, Class:DBI, JSON, and JavaScript.
Refreshments for this meeting were sponsored by Boston.pm member Greg London.
March 14, Tuesday, Tech and Social Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7 pm
Duane Bronson presented some small scripts he has written.
Then we adjourned to Cambridge Brewing Company around 8pm
February 15, Wednesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7:15 pm
Graphing with Perl We had presentations on differerent ways of creating graphs with Perl, including GD::Graph and gnuplot. We also learned about Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, PDL, and Edward Tufte's work on information design concepts.
January 10, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7:15pm
Personal Tools Potluck Bring a tool you've written that you'd like to share!
Ronald: Simple photo gallery script; Uri: tiny but powerful template library; Alex: handy webform processing script
December 13, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7:15pm
Ian Langworth presented Class::Agreement, a behavioral contract system for Perl. Jerrad Pierce presented the Perl Advent Calendar 2006.
November 8, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7pm
Fun with text animation! John Norton's Spiro JAPH and Uri's maze solver.
October 26, Wednesday, Special Tech Meeting
MIT E51-145, 7pm (usual building, different room)
Damian Conway gave his Small Miracles talk!
October 20, Thursday, Social Meeting
RedBones in Davis Sq, Somerville, 8pm
brian d foy was the guest of honor.
October 11, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7pm
RonaldJKimball's Ricochet Robot solver. YAPCBostonExploration update.
September 13, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7pm
YAPCBostonExploration brainstorming session.
August 9, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
MIT E51-376, 7pm
Phil Mitchell led a discussion of a project that he is working on: a new kind of social software called Reef – an ecosystem for content. Reef integrates key ideas from wiki, structured blogging, BBS, social nets, and RSS, and is built on top of Catalyst, an MVC web application framework. Reef will serve as the foundation for 2people.org, a community site devoted to sustainability.
May 4, Wednesday, Social Meeting
Owen O'Leary's in Natick, 7pm
Randal Schwartz was the guest of honor.
Directions at http://www.owenolearys.com/natickdirections.htm
April 12, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
BU Kenmore Classroom Building room 103, 7:30pm
Federico Lucifredi gave a talk on the new PerlQT bindings.
February 10, Thursday, Social Meeting
The Cheesecake Factory in Cambridgeside Galleria, 7pm
brian d foy was the guest of honor.
February 8, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
BU Kenmore Classroom Building room 103, 7:30pm
brian d foy talked about Automating Software Releases.
brian also answered questions about The Perl Review and had people pose for photos in Schwern's shirt.
January 19, Wednesday, Social Meeting
Fire & Ice, Harvard Square
15 people enjoyed dinner at Fire & Ice with Ben Tilly, known as tilly on PerlMonks.
December 14, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
BU Kenmore Classroom Building room 106, 7:30pm
Only a few people showed up, so we went straight to Boston Beer Works for drinks and food.
November 9, Tuesday, Tech Meeting
BU Physics Research Building room 148
Cool Uses for Perl: "Bring a fun script to show."
BillRicker started us off by presenting some scripts he's written for analyzing and creating cryptograms, interspersed with interesting tidbits from the history of cryptography.
RonaldJKimball followed with some scripts he's written for solving cryptograms. We also discussed some of the shortcomings to his brute force approach, particularly the problem of proper nouns.
TimKohl then reviewed a short script that finds words whose digital sums add up to 666. (e.g. cat = 3+1+20 = 24) Except it really looks for 111, because it multiplies the digital sum by 6, because that's what the TV evangelist who inspired this script did. We had fun looking through the words that the script found.
After that people threw out a few questions for discussion. One was a tab-delimited file transposition issue that was then discussed on the list. Another was about recursively copying directories in Perl; the File::NCopy module was suggested.
The pizza and soda were generously sponsored by monger GregLondon. Greg has two books available through his website, http://www.greglondon.com/: Impatient Perl and Hunger Pangs, a science fiction novel.
(PRB 148 is not our usual room, but is less than two blocks away.)
October 2, 2004 NOT FREE 8 Hours
Perl 6 and Parrot with Dan Sugalski
Lunch included. at MIT. Part of Fall, 2004 GBC/ACM Professional Development Seminars http://www.gbcacm.org for online registration and information. Questions: 781-862-1181
September 28, 2004
Dinner with Randal L Schwartz at Legal's, Framingham
September 22, 2004
Extra-ordinary meeting at Akamai, Cambridge – a workshop to implement this kWiki. Followed by Beer and Dinner at CBC with Randal L Schwartz who somehow managed to escape from his conference SD Best Practices.