Presentations for 2010

Will presented an introduction to Perl for complete beginners, assuming no prior knowledge of Perl.

Wade continued the introductory Perl theme with more information about the Perl community and Perl documentation. He also walked the group through solving a (mostly) real-world problem.

Robert did a quick overview, with example code, of some of the web development frameworks available to Perl programmers.

Todd introduced Object Oriented programming in Perl using the Moose library. Unlike most Moose talks, Todd targeted people with less OO experience, teaching Moose without an assumption of familarity with Perl OO Programming.

Wade introduced a few of the major programming paradigms and explained how they relate to Perl. There were a few examples and a fair bit of discussion.

Wade previewed the talk he will present at YAPC::NA 2010. This lead to a lively discussion about the capabilities of the SVG image format. Todd Rinaldo asked for help on the Net::Ident module.

Erin demonstrated some of the low-level code needed to work with MIDI and WAV files in Perl. In the process, he demonstrated some of the basics of generating sound with Perl.

This was a much more entry-level presentation, aimed at introducing computer-savvy individuals to basic programming. Wade walked through the process of automating a few repetitive tasks with a little relatively simple code.

Todd gave a short presentation showing how Dist::Zilla simplifies the maintainence of CPAN-compatible modules. Afterward, we applied the experience and skills of the group to solving a problem presented by one of the attendees.

Erin describes the new Filesys::POSIX module that provides a POSIX-compliant virtual file system in Perl.