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These are most the meetings (forgot to record some of them) we've had since the Purdue Perl Mongers was restarted in 2006.

Technical Meeting, noon–1:00 pm, Tuesday, May 17, 2011 in Whistler 116

Desktop Programming with Sikuli, DaveJacoby
A Perl 6 Grammar for TEZ (TEZ is a domotics, home automation, etc. agent), MarkSenn

Technical Meeting, noon–1:00 pm, Tuesday, April 19, 2011 in Whistler 116

Perl 6 Operators, MarkSenn

Technical Meeting, noon–1:00 pm, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 in Whistler 116

Google Pipes, DaveJacoby

Technical Meeting, noon–1:00 pm, Tuesday, December 21, 2010 in Whistler 116

Technical Meeting, noon–1:00 pm, Tuesday, November 16, 2010 in Whistler 116

Data Presentation, RickWesterman. Look at http://lab.genomics.purdue.edu/~westerm/PMDB to see the setup for this problem plus a simple solution to it. Being a 'how to present data to people' problem, there are many possible methods. Not all may have anything to do with Perl.

Technical Meeting, noon–1:40 pm, Tuesday, October 26, 2010 in Whistler 116

Beginning Perl, MarkSenn

Technical Meeting, noon–1:40 pm, Tuesday, October 19, 2010 in Whistler 116

Technical Meeting, noon–1:40 pm, Tuesday, September 21, 2010 in Whistler 116

Technical Meeting, 11:30–1:30 pm, Tuesday, August 17, 2010 in Whistler 116

Inkscape open source scalable vector graphics editor Lightning Talk, JoeKline
Taverna Workflow Management System, DerrickKearney?
Home Automation using Rakudo Perl 6 on Fedora Linux 13 mini-Lightning Talk, MarkSenn

The current challenge problem is 'data presentation'. Look at http://lab.genomics.purdue.edu/~westerm/PMDB to see the setup for this problem plus a simple solution to it. Being a 'how to present data to people' problem there are many possible methods. Not all might have anything to do with Perl.

Technical Meeting, 11:30am–1:30pm, Tuesday, July 20, 2010 in Whistler 116

YAPC::2010 Summary, JoeKline
Galaxy, RickWesterman
Installing Rakudo Perl 6 on Fedora Linux 13 Lightning Talk, MarkSenn

The current challenge problem is 'data presentation'. Look at http://lab.genomics.purdue.edu/~westerm/PMDB to see the setup for this problem plus a simple solution to it. Being a 'how to present data to people' problem there are many possible methods. Not all might have anything to do with Perl.

Technical Meeting, 11:30am–1:30pm, Tuesday, June 15, 2010 in Whistler 116

"Presenting user information on web pages" challenge problem announcement, RickWesterman
Nanohub, DerrickKearney?
Galaxy, RickWesterman

Technical Meeting, 11:30 am–1:30 pm, Tuesday, January 19, 2010 in Whistler 116

Rewind presentation: The switch statement (10 minutes) RickWesterman
Perl 6 switch statement (5 minutes) MarkSenn
Mark's short programming problem -- everyone!

(Rewind presentations are ones that were done previously but are worth a fresh look;
in the above case the 'switch statement' talk was given two years ago in January 2008.)

Technical Meeting, 11:30 am–1:30 pm, Tuesday, November 17, 2009 in Whistler 116

jBiff -- DaveJacoby
First look at Google Wave -- RickWesterman
Perl 6 -- MarkSenn

Technical Meeting, 6:00–7:30pm (note unusual time), Tuesday, December 16 (note unusual day), 2008 in Mechanical Engineering 119

The meeting will be a comparison of MVC frameworks -- Catalyst by DaveJacoby and Titanium (aka, CGI::Application) by RickWesterman. The comparison should take up most if not all of the meeting time of 90 minutes.

Technical Meeting, 6:30–8:00pm, Tuesday, October 14, 2008 in Mechanical Engineering 119

MOOSE -- object orientation -- RickWesterman (20 minutes).
[[Report_on_OSCON_2008?]] -- JoeKline
DaveJacoby gave a short talk.

Technical Meeting, 6:30–8:00pm, Tuesday July 8, 2008 in Mechanical Engineering 119

Arranging Input, MarkSenn
Yet Another Perl Conference::North America 2008 trip report, MarkSenn

Technical Meeting, 6:30-8:00pm, Tuesday, June 10, 2008 in Mechanical Engineering 119

DougYatcilla?
jQuery & pQuery, RickWesterman
DaveJacoby if he can

Technical Meeting, 6:30–8:00pm, Tuesday, May 13, 2008 in Mechanical Engineering 119

Does YAML::SYCK really S*CK?, RickWesterman. 20 minutes
A year later the dark side has seduced me. RickWesterman, 5 minutes
Installing and Testing Perl 6, MarkSenn, 10 minutes.

Technical Meeting, 5:30–7:00pm, Tuesday, February 12, 2008 in Mechanical Engineering 119

Perl 6 Objects Not Supported?, MarkSenn, 10 minutes
Web scraping, PhillipSanmiguel?, 15 minutes
Template Toolkit, RickWesterman, 20 minutes (or how I have ruined my Perl skills)
a tree grows in the basement, DaveJacoby, 10 minutes.

Technical Meeting, 5:30–7:00pm, Tuesday, January 8, 2008 in Mechanical Engineering 119

Perl 5.10 grep performance, MarkSenn
Perl 5.10 readpipe(), DaveJacoby
Perl 5.10 smackdown -- Dave "The Bruiser" Jacoby speaking on "Be smart about switching" versus Rick "The Crusher" Westerman speaking on "The switch statement: syntactic sugar overload. The mechanism behind the switch statement: syntactic sugar oo-la-la!".

Technical Meeting, 5:30–7:00pm, Tuesdy, December 11, 2007 in Mechanical Engineering 119

Data driven programming, RickWesterman
Perl 5.10, DaveJacoby

Technical Meeting, 5:30–7:00pm, Tuesday, November 13, 2007 in Mechanical Engineering 119

Perl test beds. RickWesterman
No longer using the pro languague to prepare Perl input. MarkSenn
Book review: The Laws of Simplicity,. MarkSenn

Technical Meeting, 5:30–7:00pm, Tuesday, October 9, 2007 in Mechanical Engineering 119

Perl Threads, 10 minutes. MarkSenn, threads.pro (a preprocessor reads this and outputs Perl), argfile, output
Securely Using Passwords on the Web: A Discussion, 15 minutes. DaveJacoby slides

Technical Meeting, 5:30–7:00pm, Tuesday, September 11, 2007 in Mechanical Engineering 119

Beginning Perl, MarkSenn

Social Meeting, 7:00pm, Tuesday, August 28, 2007 in Cafe Royale

Technical Meeting, 6:00–7:30pm, Tuesday, August 14, 2007 in Mechanical Engineering 119

Mathematica 6.0.1 [5 minutes, MarkSenn, topic suggested by DaveJacoby]
The pro file processor [10 minutes, MarkSenn]
Review of 'Mastering Perl' [25 minutes, RickWesterman]
Review of 'Beautiful Code' [20 minutes, DaveJacoby]

Social Meeting, 7:00pm, Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at Cafe Royale

Technical Meeting, 5:30–7:00pm (note unusual time), Tuesday, July 10, 2007 in Mechanical Engineering 118 (note unusual location)

A Perl::Critic Complaint, MarkSenn
Perl on Win32 , DaveJacoby
Regex Speedups, MarkSenn
Issues from Perl Blogs , DaveJacoby
Using CGI::AJAX, RickWesterman
Loading Code From Elsewhere, DougYatcilla?

Social Meeting, 7:00pm, Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at Cafe Royale

Social Meeting, 7:00pm, Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at Cafe Royale

Technical Meeting, 6:00–7:30pm, Tuesday, May 8, 2007 in Mechanical Engineering 119
Closed Subject, DaveJacoby
Clockwork Magick, DaveJacoby
PerlCritic?, RickWesterman

Update previous with up-to-date-information

Social Meeting, 7:00pm, Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at Cafe Royale

Technical Meeting, 6:00–7:30pm, Tuesday, April 10, 2007 in Mechanical Engineering 119

Logging, DougYatcilla?
Unneeded Complexity, MarkSenn
How using BioPerl? made my program run 250 times slower, GregZiegler? HOP to it! A review of the "Higher Order Perl" book, RickWesterman
How improving my program made it 54,000% faster, MarkSenn

Social Meeting, 7:00pm, Tuesday, March 27, 2007 at Cafe Royale]

Technical Meeting, 6:00–7:30pm, Tuesday, March 6, 2007 in Mechanical Engineering 119

Take a Memo, DaveJacoby
Hash slices, PhillipSanMiguel?
Statement Modifiers, MarkSenn
Zen and the Art of Match Variables, RickWesterman
Handling many subroutine parameters, RickWesterman
Perl 6: Grammars , MarkSenn

Social Meeting, 7:00pm, Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at Cafe Royale

Social Meeting, 7:00pm, Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at Cafe Royale

Social Meeting, 7:00pm, Tuesday, December 12, 2006 at Cafe Royale

Social Meeting, 7:00pm, Tuesday, November 28, 2006 at Cafe Royale

Technical Meeting, 6:00–7:30pm, Tuesday, November 14, 2006 in Forney Hall G124

Statement Alignment, MarkSenn
Bioinformatics and Perl, PhillipSanMiguel?
C <-> Perl, DerrickKearney?
Five Things I Wish I Knew Earlier, DougYatcilla?
Crossing the Client/Server barrier with AJAX and JSON, DaveJacoby

Social Meeting, 7:00pm, Tuesday, October 24, 2006 at Cafe Royale

Technical Meeting, 5:30&ndsh;7:00pm, Tuesday, October 10, 2006 Mechanical Engineering 119

Data-driven Programming, MarkSenn
Perl 6: Reading Web Pages Programmatically, MarkSenn
Getting Options from the Command Line, DaveJacoby
Aimless Matrices, Rimless Salamis and other things found in a Pre-Christmas Sale, DaveJacoby
Five Things I Wish I Had Learned Earlier, RickWesterman

Social Meeting, 7:00pm, Tuesday, September 26, 2006 at Cafe Royale

Technical Meeting, 5:30&ndsh;8:00pm, Tuesday, September 12, 2006 in Mechanical Engineering 119

Introduction, RickWesterman
The power of Perl -- Regular Expressions, DerrickKearney?
Parsing with Perl, DougYatcilla?
Five Things I Wish I'd Known Earlier, DaveJacoby
Brace Styles, RickWesterman (note: powerpoint did not do a good job of transcribing this to the web; maybe I'll get time to do it manually ... some day)
Stupid Web Agents, DaveJacoby
Perl 6: Operators, MarkSenn

Social Meeting, 7:00pm, Tuesday, August 22, 2006 at Cafe Royale

Social Meeting, 7:00pm, Friday, August 18, 2006 at Cafe Royale