Last night Boston.pm had a tech meeting at Boston University. This was our first meeting at this location. We had about 30 people present. The room worked out very well, and we are planning to use it for future meetings (see below).
Greg London presented his module Parse::Native, which will be an alternative to Parse::RecDescent, geared towards handling large grammars (specifically Verilog) and long input files. Aaron Sherman reviewed Apocalypse 12, covering Perl6's object syntax. http://dev.perl.org/perl6/apocalypse/A12.html Sean Quinlan presented a solution he has developed for detecting WD repeats in amino acid sequences based on probability matrixes. It is significantly faster than existing approaches, and is, of course, implemented in Perl. See his recent posts for more. As it was getting late, Uri did a summary of his two topics: a simple client-server package with a middle layer that sends a single client request to multiple servers; and the Sort::Maker module, which constructs complicated sort functions from simple descriptions. Thanks to Sean for arranging the location, and to everyone who attended! We will plan to have future meetings on the second Tuesday of the month, except when that would coincide with a Red Sox home game. (Parking was a pain last night!) Next month's meeting will be on Tuesday, May 11, at the same location. Boston University, Building 39, Room 106, 565 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA If you would like to give a presentation at this meeting, or one in the future, please contact me. This is a good opportunity for practicing your conference talks. Ronald _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
