Presentations for 2009
January 2009
Topic:
Programming Editors for Perl
Presenter:
Robert Boone
Presenter:
Phil King
Presenter:
Todd Rinaldo
Presenter:
G. Wade Johnson
The topic this month was programming editors and IDEs for use
with Perl. Given the time required to become really proficient with one
of these tools, it is almost impossible for one person to provide a fair
treatment of more than one. To handle this problem, four of our members
presented aspects of different editors. The focus was mainly on emacs,
Eclipse, and vim, with other editors mentioned along the way.
February 2009
Topic:
RRDtool Tips and Traps
Presenter:
G. Wade Johnson
This month's topic was not directly related to Perl. G. Wade
Johnson described some of the tips and traps involved with using the
RRDtool software.
March 2009
Topic:
Discussion of Catalyst/MVC
Presenter:
Todd Rinaldo
Todd lead a discussion of the MVC
paradigm as related to the Catalyst web framework. The discussion ranged
from MVC to other topics in object oriented programming. The discussion
finished up with some thoughts on Moose Roles.
May 2009
Topic:
SVG from Perl
Presenter:
G. Wade Johnson
In this month's presentation, G. Wade Johnson describes the
SVG graphics format and techniques for generating SVG from Perl.
June 2009
Presenter:
Todd Rinaldo
At the end of the month, Todd was scheduled to give a presentation
at YAPC::NA 2009. He offered to give the group a preview of this
presentation for the June meeting.
July 2009
Topic:
Exception Handling in Perl
Presenter:
G. Wade Johnson
This month, Wade discussed error handling in general and
exceptions in particular. The talk focused on the trade-offs of using
exceptions and argued for having this technique in your bag-of-tricks.
August 2009
Topic:
The FUSE File System
Presenter:
Robert Boone
This month, Robert covered the FUSE filesystem. This tool
allows Unix-based OSes to do specialized filesystems without doing
kernel coding.
October 2009
Topic:
Higher Order Perl discussion: Recursion
Presenter:
Robert Boone
Robert lead a discussion on part of the first chapter of the
book Higher Order Perl.