We had a pretty good turnout last night. David, Jonathan, Tim, Derek, Stephen, and myself hung out and actually chatted about perl for a while.
Some items that came up were: * David Nicol showed us his work on Macrame.pm. It's a source filter (not a pragma!) that allows one to define macros that will be expanded to chunks of perl code. Once again, he managed to really stretch our abilities to understand more advanced perl. * Straw poll results: almost everyone agrees that it's (still) nice to have local job postings on the list as well as at jobs.perl.org. I'll make a web page that encourages recruiters and potential employers to post to jobs.perl.org and tells them how they can contact one of us to forward the posting on to the list if it's appropriate. Doug Ledbetter has tentatively agreed to volunteer for this spot. I think it's a position we should pass around occasionally, much as we should the "moderator" spot. * I mentioned the "perl program repair shop" that Chicago-pm was doing last night <http://rakudo.org/chicago-pm/index.cgi?perl_program_repair_shop>, which seems to have worked well for them. Some people expressed interest in this kind of "interactive code review and refactoring". I'll try to get a separate mail out to the list about this soon. * motorcycles, ham radios, and all kinds of other stuff. Great turn out last night; a good time was had by all. I'll see you guys again on July 10th! -Andy _______________________________________________ kc mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc
