>>>>> "BR" == Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com> writes:
BR> ALSO - SAVE THE DATE Social meeting with Randall 'merlyn' Schwartz, 5/17. BR> (Uri, our socialist secretary & president for vice, will provide details BR> soon,) as soon as i can figure out something. it will likely involve beer and food. any suggestions other than the usual joints (redbones, CBC, etc?) BR> Tuesday, May 10th, at MIT E51-376 BR> convene 7pm ish, talk starts 7:30 pm BR> Uri presents Perl Code Generation Techniques, aka BR> when perl begat perl BR> or BR> the bible on code generation just to expand on that, this talk will cover the evilness and blessedness of using eval STRING. the most powerful and also the most dangerous perl function. i will cover its dangers, when not to use it, when to use it, a classic simple good use and then some heavy duty use of it from a couple of my modules: Sort::Maker and the recently released version .04 of Template::Simple which uses eval to compile templates for speed. and yes, i should have slides this time. i have much of the content written and i need to slide them up. and there will be some interesting code to look at and grok. hell, i may not be able to figure out some of it myself! :) so come on out to this talk. you will definitely learn something interesting no matter what your perl skill level is. and all code heckling is welcome! finally, i would like to borrow a laptop for the talk. mine is too crappy to take along and i don't know if its wireless will work there. something which has wireless proven to work in our room is needed. i will try to remember to bring my real usb mouse as i like that over track pads. i will have my slides and code on the net in public places (the code is all on cpan). take a sneak peak at the code to see some of what i will be covering. thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman ------ u...@stemsystems.com -------- http://www.sysarch.com -- ----- Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support ------ --------- Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix ---- http://bestfriendscocoa.com --------- _______________________________________________ Boston-pm-announce mailing list Boston-pm-announce@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm-announce
