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Melbourne Perl Mongers/Meeting History 2008
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Wednesday, January 9th 2008
Wednesday, February 13th 2008
Scott's talk notes - NOTE: These are only slide notes, so not 100% useful.
- http://scott.dd.com.au/wiki/S5
- http://scott.dd.com.au/wiki/Why_I_Love_Java
- http://scott.dd.com.au/wiki/ModPerl_Filters
- http://scott.dd.com.au/wiki/Evil_Perl
- http://scott.dd.com.au/wiki/OLPC_Introduction
- http://scott.dd.com.au/wiki/OLPC_Perl_Parrot
Wednesday, March 12th 2008
Social catch-up at Redback Brewery in North Melbourne
Wednesday, April 9th 2008
EPIC - A Perl development environment for the Eclipse IDE (Hamish Carpenter)
"All your exceptions suck", using autodie.pm in Perl 5.10.x (Paul Fenwick)
Wednesday, May 14th 2008
How awesome is git? (Toby Corkindale)
After discovering that all revision control software sucks, Linus Torvalds, inventor of Linux, created the git source control system. Supporting distributed development, incredible branching tools, amazing support tools, and more distribution mechanisms that you can poke a stick at. Git is not only used for source control of the Linux project, but also the new source control system for the Perl 5 core.
Toby will reveal the secrets of how git solved his source control headaches, toned his muscles, and gave him a full head of hair!
Wednesday, June 11th 2008
Moose - A postmodern object system for Perl 5 (Myf White)
Moose is a postmodern object system for Perl 5 that takes the tedium out of writing object-oriented Perl. It borrows all the best features from Perl 6, CLOS (LISP), Smalltalk, Java, BETA, OCaml, Ruby and more, while still keeping true to its Perl 5 roots.
Wednesday, July 9th 2008
Preparing for a possible Win32 port (David Dick)
Wednesday, August 13th 2008
Beyond ASCII (Stephen Edmonds)
Slides as presented: http://popcorn.cx/talks/beyond-ascii/
References:
- Perl documentation:
- From Juerd Waalboer:
- Wikipedia:

