Houston.pm

G. Wade Johnson presented his impressions about being a professional Ruby programmer for the last 2.5 years, contrasted with his experience as a Perl programmer.

Julian Brown presented the results of his look into the Bedrock project. This project builds a distributed database on top of SQLite.

Julian Brown ran a session where the attendees worked on the initial design brainstorming for a project. We started with an idea proposed by Michael Davis for a PSGI package that would set up a web service with minimal configuration.

Three different people demonstrated different approaches to developing a web application. One showed a Dancer-based note taking app. Another showed how mod_perl has different trade-offs than a framework. The last showed a simple single page CGI script. Then, we saw info about an attack on suid. The final presentation talked about Perl's minimum perfect hashes.

Robert Stone describes the troubleshooting techniques he used to reverse engineer a game to see if he could automate some of the boring parts of the game.

Todd Rinaldo has been working on the guts of Perl recently as part of the Perl compiler project at cPanel. This talk covers some of what he has learned about working with the internals of perl.

JD Lightsey suggested that the group make an attempt at the Perl Programming challenge that OC.pm proposed for their May 2017 meeting. Eveyone was suggested to make an attempt.

The goal this meeting was to do some code reviews as a group. The idea was that we would learn from each other's techniques and knowledge.

Todd Rinaldo discussed the p5hack hack-a-thon this year in Amsterdam. He described the purpose of the meeting and some of the decisions that came out of the meeting.

Jim Bacon, Robert Stone, and Jocelyn Kirby gave short presentations on health topics that can apply to developers.

Robert Stone delves into the cipher used by the Zodiac Killer in his newspaper announcements. He describes substitution ciphers and then shows how a homophonic substitution cipher fixes many of its problems. He ends by describing how the Zodiac Killer's cipher was solved.

Reini Urban gave a presentation highlighting several of the features of the cperl fork of the perl programming language.

Mark Allen discusses the way doing functional programming in Erlang has changed how he approaches problems. He then introduced how to use some of this insight in Perl.