Boston.pm will have a tech meeting on Tuesday, November 14, at MIT, in building E51, room 376 (directions below), starting at 7:15pm.
Uri Guttman will be giving a short presentation on writing plugin modules with Perl - modules that share common APIs that can replace each other as needed. He'll compare basic techniques and show some actual examples from CPAN. Earlier this week, there was a big discussion on the perl5-porters list about whether the Perl installation process and accompanying documentation are sufficiently accessible to the average user. Michael Schwern made this suggestion: As an exercise, try sitting down with a casual Perl programmer and have them install Perl. Don't say anything, just watch. Maybe you can do it at your next Perl Mongers meeting. Have all the experts gagged and sit on their hands. Let the other guys do the installation. I'm quite serious, try it. I think this would be an interesting exercise, and could also provide useful information for the people developing perl. Do we have any casual Perl programmers coming to the meeting who would like to volunteer to install Perl while everyone else observes? Let me know! Here's the start of the thread if you want to see the whole discussion: <http://beta.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/11/msg117947.html> For those of you who ordered Perl Mongers T-shirts and haven't received them yet, I will be bringing the shirts to the meeting. RSVP to me if you're planning to attend - rjk-bostonpm(at)tamias.net. Pizza and soda will be provided. Ronald For more information about Boston Perl Mongers, or to subscribe to one of our mailing lists, visit our website at http://boston.pm.org/ Directions to MIT, Building E51: Building E51 (the Tang Center) is located at the corners of Amherst and Wadsworth Streets in Cambridge. http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=e51 Directions by T: Take the Red Line to Kendall. Building E51 is right around the corner from the T stop. From the Inbound side, facing into Main Street, turn right (toward Boston) and walk down the block. Turn right on Wadsworth Street and walk to the corner of Amherst Street. Building E51 is the building across the street directly in front of you with the metal canopy. Directions by Car: General directions provided by MIT: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?section=directions The Boston Linux and Unix user group also meets at E51, so you may find their directions helpful as well (keeping in mind that we will be meeting in room 376, not room 315): http://www.blu.org/directions/mit/e51-315.php Parking Information: MIT's Amherst Street Lot is adjacent to the building: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=P4&Parking=go Officially, a sticker is required to park in the lot. However, we've been told unofficially that there is no enforcement after 3pm weekdays, nor on the weekends. Chances are very slim that cars will be ticketed. Nonetheless, parking in the lot is at your own risk. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
