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Julian in the land of NoSQL 🔗 1534809600  

August 2018
Topic: Julian in the land of NoSQL
Presenter: Julian Brown
Julian Brown explores the usage of the Arangodb NoSQL database as used a website he's working on.

Using Perl to Learn a Foreign Language 🔗 1532131200  

July 2018
Topic: Using Perl to Learn a Foreign Language
Presenter: Mark Allen
Mark Allen decided to cut back on his Twitter use. Since he now needed a new smartphone activity, he turned to DuoLingo and began studying Russian. This lead to the construction of a Perl module to handle declining Russian pronouns, adjectives, and nouns.

Floccus, an adventure in Ecmascript 8 🔗 1529539200  

June 2018
Topic: Floccus, an adventure in Ecmascript 8
Presenter: Julian Brown
Julian Brown described attempting to add a feature to a tool for synchronizing bookmarks. In the process, he learned about ECMAScript 8. This presentation explores what he learned.

Threat Modeling 🔗 1526860800  

May 2018
Topic: Threat Modeling
Presenter: J. D. Lightsey
J. D. Lightsey gave a quick overview of the concept of Threat Modeling and demonstrated approaches for doing threat modeling.

Comparison of Rails and Dancer2 🔗 1524268800  

April 2018
Topic: Comparison of Rails and Dancer2
Presenter: G. Wade Johnson
G. Wade Johnson demonstrates a simple web application built in both Ruby on Rails and Dancer2 on Perl.

AWStats Flaws and Making a Cute Robot with Perl 🔗 1521590400  

March 2018
Topic: AWStats Flaws and Making a Cute Robot with Perl
Presenter: JD Lightsey and Mark Gardner
This month was a pair of presentations. Mark Gardner described building a robot project for a GEMS conference. JD Lightsey followed up with a dive into security flaws in the AWStats program.

Ruby for Perl Programmers 🔗 1519171200  

February 2018
Topic: Ruby for Perl Programmers
Presenter: G. Wade Johnson
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.

A Look at Bedrock, a Distributed SQLite DB 🔗 1516492800  

January 2018
Topic: A Look at Bedrock, a Distributed SQLite DB
Presenter: Julian Brown
Julian Brown presented the results of his look into the Bedrock project. This project builds a distributed database on top of SQLite.

Design Hack 🔗 1508544000  

October 2017
Topic: Design Hack
Presenter: Julian Brown
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.

Web Framework Comparisons 🔗 1505952000  

September 2017
Topic: Web Framework Comparisons
Presenter: Various
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.

Gray-ish Hat Adventures In Automating Mobile Game Play: Why Tap When You Could Automate? 🔗 1503273600  

August 2017
Topic: Gray-ish Hat Adventures In Automating Mobile Game Play: Why Tap When You Could Automate?
Presenter: Robert Stone
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.

Getting gutsy with perl5 🔗 1500595200  

July 2017
Topic: Getting gutsy with perl5
Presenter: Todd Rinaldo
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.

OC.pm Coding challenge 🔗 1498003200  

June 2017
Topic: OC.pm Coding challenge
Presenter: Various
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.

Live Code Reviews 🔗 1495324800  

May 2017
Topic: Live Code Reviews
Presenter: Various
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.

p5hack 🔗 1492732800  

April 2017
Topic: p5hack
Presenter: Todd Rinaldo
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.

Maintaining Developer Mental and Physical Health 🔗 1490054400  

March 2017
Topic: Maintaining Developer Mental and Physical Health
Presenter: Various
Jim Bacon, Robert Stone, and Jocelyn Kirby gave short presentations on health topics that can apply to developers.

Homophonic Substitution Cipher: Cracking the Code of a Killer 🔗 1487635200  

February 2017
Topic: Homophonic Substitution Cipher: Cracking the Code of a Killer
Presenter: Robert Stone
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.

cperl 🔗 1484956800  

January 2017
Topic: cperl
Presenter: Reini Urban
Reini Urban gave a presentation highlighting several of the features of the cperl fork of the perl programming language.

How Functional Programming Made Me Better at Perl 🔗 1477008000  

October 2016
Topic: How Functional Programming Made Me Better at Perl
Presenter: Mark Allen
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.

The Read Copy Update Pattern in the Linux Kernel 🔗 1474416000  

September 2016
Topic: The Read Copy Update Pattern in the Linux Kernel
Presenter: Julian Brown
Continuing with the lock-free architecture topic Julian introduced at an earlier meeting, he covered the Read-Copy-Update strategy.

A Set of Short Talks 🔗 1471737600  

August 2016
Topic: A Set of Short Talks
Presenter: Various
This month's meeting features a group of 4 short talks by some of our long-time members. Robert Stone discusses connecting objects by reference versus indirectly by some ID. Julian Brown talked about lock-free architectures. J. D. Lightsey demonstrated another SQL injection attack using sqlmap. And, Todd Rinaldo rounds out the talks with a discussion of a Perl vulnerability related to @INC.

Reconstructing an SQL injection from its fix 🔗 1466467200  

June 2016
Topic: Reconstructing an SQL injection from its fix
Presenter: John Lightsey
John Lightsey shows how to use a diff of changes made to fix an SQL injection attack to create an attack against the unpatched code. He shows the use of the sqlmap tool to automatically generate useful attacks.

Binary Tree Serialization Techniques 🔗 1463788800  

May 2016
Topic: Binary Tree Serialization Techniques
Presenter: Chris Mevissen
Chris Mevissen gave a report on the research he has been doing on serializable binary trees. He describes the basics of binary tree data structures and descibes a basic implementation in Perl. He works his way through showing how a binary tree can be serialized in a form that can be easily reloaded.

FlexSC: Exception-Less System Calls 🔗 1461196800  

April 2016
Topic: FlexSC: Exception-Less System Calls
Presenter: Julian Brown
Julian Brown covered a presentation describing a method for doing system calls while reducing context switching overhead. The paper the presentation was based on covered an academic project to implement this method and the research showing its effectiveness.

Algorithmic Complexity Made Simple 🔗 1458518400  

March
Topic: Algorithmic Complexity Made Simple
Presenter: G. Wade Johnson
G. Wade Johnson introduced the idea that analyzing the complexity of algorithms is more than just an academic exercise. He shows how to do relatively simple analysis for quick wins.
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