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These are the meetings we've had since the Purdue Perl Mongers was restarted in 2006.

Technical Meeting, 6:00--7:30pm (NOTE UNUSUAL TIME), Tuesday, December 16 (NOTE UNUSUAL DAY), 2008 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, Tue Oct 14 2008 Mechanical Engineering 119 The meeting is looking good with lots of talks.

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

Technical Meeting, 6:30-8:00pm, Tue Jul 8 2008 Mechanical Engineering 119

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

Technical Meeting, 6:30-8:00pm, Tue Jun 10 2008 Mechanical Engineering 119

DougYatcilla?
jQuery & pQuery, RickWesterman
DaveJacoby if he can

Technical Meeting, 6:30-8:00pm, Tue May 13 2008 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, Tue Feb 12 2008 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, Tue Jan 8 2008 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, Tue Dec 11 2007 Mechanical Engineering 119

Data driven programming, RickWesterman
Perl 5.10, DaveJacoby

Technical Meeting, 5:30-7:00pm, Tue Nov 13 2007 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, Tue Oct 9 2007 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, Tue Sep 11 2007 Mechanical Engineering 119

Beginning Perl, MarkSenn

Social Meeting, 7:00pm, Tue Aug 28 2007 Cafe Royale

Technical Meeting, 6:00-7:30pm, Tue Aug 14 2007 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, Tue Jul 24 2007 Cafe Royale

Technical Meeting, 5:30-7:00pm, Tue Jul 10 2007 Mechanical Engineering 118 (note 118) (note time change to 5:30 instead of 6:00)

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, Tue Jun 26 2007 Cafe Royale

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

Technical Meeting, 6:00-7:30pm, Tue May 8 2007 Mechanical Engineering 119

Closed Subject, DaveJacoby
Clockwork Magick, DaveJacoby
PerlCritic?, RickWesterman

Update previous with up-to-date-information

Social Meeting, 7:00pm, Tue Apr 24 2007 Cafe Royale

Technical Meeting, 6:00-7:30pm, Tue Apr 10 2007 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, Tue Mar 27 2007 Cafe Royale

Technical Meeting, 6:00-7:30pm, Tue Mar 6 2007 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, Tue Feb 27 2007 Cafe Royale

Social Meeting, 7:00pm, Tue Jan 23 2007 Cafe Royale

Social Meeting, 7:00pm, Tue Dec 12 2006 Cafe Royale

Social Meeting, 7:00pm, Tue Nov 28 2006 Cafe Royale

Technical Meeting, 6:00-7:30pm, Tue Nov 14 2006 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, Tue Oct 24 2006 Cafe Royale

Technical Meeting, 5:30-7:00pm, Tue Oct 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, Tue Sep 26 2006 Cafe Royale

Technical Meeting, 5:30-8:00pm, Tue Sep 12 2006 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, Tue Aug 22 2006 Cafe Royale

Social Meeting, 7:00pm, Fri Aug 18 2006 Cafe Royale