Presentations for 2019

Nicolas Rochelemagne gave a little retrospective of 2018. He included a best of section and some lessons he learned concerning DistZilla and XS.

J. D. Lightsey describes how he has used Ansible as a workflow system to automate processes for some personal servers.

G. Wade Johnson has been maintaining the Houston.pm website for years. Over time, he wrote a bit of code to make maintaining the site easier. In this presentation, he explains that code.

Read the documentation, we're told, but there's always more to learn. When I started working with Dancer2, DBIx::Class, and Template Toolkit last fall, I'd seen the basics, but I found out very quickly that there's much more to learn. The capabilities of this stack can influence application design from the ground up database tables, all the way to the final frameworks you might choose to use on the frontend, and not all of those repercussions are immediately clear from merely reading the documentation! In this talk, we'll learn about some of the strengths of these modules and demonstrate how their capabilities can be leveraged to help you work faster and write great web-based applications.

Robert Stone will do a demo of OpenShift, showing some of the high points of functionality.

Julian Brown will be exploring the usage of the Arangodb NoSQL database as used a website he's working on.

Julian Brown describes his experiences with the Test::Spec unit testing framework.

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.

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

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.

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.

Debbie presents a short introduction to how Core.org teaches kids of any age to think about programming.