There were 11 people at Tuesday night's tech meeting.
I presented Ilmari Karonen's scripts for solving Sudoku puzzles using a regular expression, which he had posted to the FunWithPerl mailing list. The regex implements a brute force search for a solution, using the regex engine's backtracking to iterate through all the possibilities. <http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.fwp/3836> <http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.fwp/3838> I created a quick page with sample input, and samples of the regexes created by the scripts, but mostly did the explanation off the cuff. If you want to know more about how these work, feel free to ask on the list. <http://www.tamias.net/bostonpm/sudoku_regex/> (Here's the homepage for the FunWithPerl list: <http://www.technofile.org/depts/mlists/fwp.html>) We discussed YAPC::NA 2007, for which the Call For Proposals was recently posted. <http://news.perlfoundation.org/2006/05/call_for_venueyapcna2007.html> As you may know, our proposal for YAPC::NA 2006 lost out to Chicago. We'll be working on a new proposal to bring YAPC to Boston in 2007. If you'd like to participate, sign up for our YAPC volunteers list. <http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm-yapc-vol> We also looked over the Boston.pm wiki and had a quick introduction to Perl golf. Next month's meeting will be on Tuesday, June 13. Please email me if you'd like to give a presentation. For anyone presenting at YAPC, this would be a great opportunity to try out your talk! Don't forget our wiki page on suggested topics. Take inspiration from that page, or add your own suggestions! <http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?TechMeetingTopics> Ronald _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
