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Brett Estrade will tour the book Object Oriented Perl: A Comprehensive Guide to Concepts and Programming Techniques by Damien Conway. The book shows the old approach to OO in Perl.

James Keenan gives an introduction to the upcoming Perl 7 release. This is a chance to continue evolving Perl into the future, while providing a point to disconnect from some legacy behavior.

For this month's remote meeting, Todd Rinaldo will give a summary of where Perl stands today. We'll go on from there to a more general discussion among the teams.

A group of us hang out on Zoom and talk about whatever comes to mind.

We'll hear from Evan Carroll about a project he's working on, and any other subjects we think to discuss.

Julian Brown covers the basics of SQL in this fundamentals talk.

Making the best use of Perl includes understanding and using its data structures. G. Wade Johnson will present the major Perl data structures, dipping slightly into implementation, but focusing mostly on the effective use of those structures.

John Lightsey will present an early version of a talk he has scheduled for The Perl and Raku Conference this year. The talk will cover using fuzzing in analysis of the Perl interpreter. If you have interest in security, Perl, or fuzz testing, this will be the talk for you.

Except in the case of simple standalone scripts, Perl applications usually consist of multiple modules and the perl executable. In this discussion, we want to cover some of the ways you can deploy a Perl application to any environment.

Evan Carroll covers another aspect of testing in Perl by mocking constants.

Wade gives a different regular expression talk, focusing on how to use them instead of focusing on the syntax.

Evan Carroll covers some of the reasons for using an Object Oriented paradigm when programming. He shows how Perl and a few other languages implement the appropriate concepts.

Instead of a presentation, this is more of a question and answer session about Object Oriented Programming.

Wade starts with some unit testing basics, introduces some of the Perl unit test frameworks, and then focuses on concepts and tricks to help you get more from your unit tests. While not attempting to cover the whole subject of unit testing, there should be something here for most.