I am very happy to announce the resurrection of TampaBay Perl Mongers. My name is Christian Brink and I have been granted honor of
starting TampaBay.PM back up again. I was heavily involved in starting up PDX.PM (Portland,OR) again and helped it grow into a
strong and very active Perl Monger group. I hope to do the same here in Tampa.
We have a new website located at http://tampabay.pm.org . Please feel free to stop by and sign up. We post meetings, schedules,
general information there and we already have some articles for your perusal. In addition to the website we have an IRC Channel
#tampabay.pm on irc.freenode.net and our mailing list at http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/tampa-pm
If you are at all interested, definitely sign up on the mailing list - It's low-volume and you'll get all the meeting announcements.
Our first meetings are this month. Later on we will be adding training classes to help starting Perl programmers. But our biggest
goal is to be a service to all the Perl programmers in the Tampa Bay area. FYI we will be switching between Tampa and St. Pete
venues every month.
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Social Meeting for April 2009
Date: 04-09-2009 - Tomorrow!
Time: 6:30pm
City: Tampa
Location: Dubliner Pub http://www.thedublineririshpub.com/
Our first social gathering of the new Tampa Bay Perl Mongers. There will be plenty of beverage (beer and otherwise). All ages are
welcome. Just relax with some fellow perl people.
We'll be outside in the back area. It should be quite impossible to not figure out who we are :)
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Technical Meeting
Date: 04-30-2009
Time: 7:00pm
City: St. Pete
Location: R-Stream 2220 34th St. S, St.Pete
Details: http://tampabay.pm.org/about/April_2009_Technical_Meeting
-- Presentation 1 --
Self-Documenting Code - the 80/20 of refactoring
Presented by: Christian Brink
We've all seen it, code that can only illicit the a thunderous 'WTF'. Unfortunately a lot of it is our old code. What do you do
about it?
The first step in refactoring is Self-Documenting Code. It's also the easiest and will often get you big gain in maintainability.
Whether you write in Perl, Python, Ruby,... Self-Documenting code will save you the pain as you revisit your old code, be it a
month or a year. It's more than a good habit to get into it will actually lead to better factored code in the first place.
Although this talk will be focusing on Perl, it is meant for any high level language and all developers are welcome.
-- Presentation 2 --
Perl's Modern Object System - using Moose with MooseX::Declare - Lots 'o Sugar
Presented by: Dylan Hardison
With MooseX::Declare you can to think more about what you want to do and less about the mechanics of OOP.
* Be dazzled by an easy, clean, declarative, but powerful way to define your classes.
* Marvel at the benefits of using Roles to shrink you inheritance hierarchy.
* Feel the goosebumpily joy of creating accessors and mutators with type constraints on-the-fly.
* Drink with all the extra time you will have.
-- Christian Brink cbrink@christianbrink.com http://tampabay.pm.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
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