We had a very good meeting on Tuesday. 12 people came for our personal tools potluck.
I started things off with my script for creating simple photo galleries. As it uses HTML::Template, we also had a brief introduction to that module. Duane Bronson was inspired to show us his own photo gallery design, which does some clever things with preview images. Next, Alex Brelsfoard presented his versatile email form processing script. The behavior can be controlled almost entirely via hidden form inputs, which makes it easy for non-programmers to deploy. (Alex also mentioned that one coworker built a web-based adventure game with it!) Finally, Uri Guttman demonstrated his tiny template module. It's less than 50 lines of code but is powerful enough to satisfy most templating needs. Hopefully we'll see it soon on CPAN! The tip from this meeting: Avoid using ampersand on subroutine calls. In particular, &mysub (ampersand but no parentheses) passes the current @_ to mysub(), which can be problematic if you're not expecting it. Thanks to everyone who came to the meeting! Next month we'll be talking about creating graphs with Perl. (I'm planning on having it Wednesday, Feb 15; I'm waiting on confirmation from MIT.) Ronald _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
