Assuming the snow lets up and we dig out ...
Tues, Feb 14th, 2017, 7ish Room E51-376 Ricky Morse, Digital pack-ratting
for Tumblr (and XKCD): a legally hypothetical discussion of how to
time-shift Tumblr data I’m a bit of a digital packrat, so I will be showing
a tool that I developed to help me hoard Tumblr meme posts. As a bonus,
just for this talk I wrote something in Perl 6 that does a similar task for
XKCD.
(So if you're looking for ways to capture unstructured (no API) data from
the web with Perl, this talk is for you.)
Ricky Morse has been using Perl for various things since the late 90s.
(Note that Feb 14th is Valentines Day ... and also the latest 2nd Tuesday
falls, so both this month and next the BLU.org 3rd Wednesday Linux/Unix
meeting will fall the day after Boston.PM, twice since not a leap year.)
Boilerplate details
Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave.
(directions http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions usually
plenty of free parking with good highway access but T is better in snow ...
).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.
(NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 second door, not the squarish
372 first door that we had some terms.)
IN CASE OF WEATHER CANCELLATION ... WATCH the boston-pm-announce list and
twitter @BostonPM
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