Wed, Sept 13th, 6:53pm at FreeGeek -- 1731 SE 10th Ave., Portland, OR A machinist, a writer, and a hacker walk into a Perl Mongers meeting...
We're doing a panel on craftsmanship for the September meeting of the Portland Perl Mongers. I'm throwing these difficult questions to a panel of three craftsmen (all of whom have done a fair amount of work with software.) o In a world of rough carpentry, does craftsmanship matter? o The bottom line is important, but which one? o What effect does open-source have? More info: http://pdx.pm.org/kwiki/ Of course the venue implies that there will be a "with regard to Perl" bent to the discussion, but 2/3 of the panel doesn't know too much Perl, so there will also be a healthy dose of "with regard to software in general" involved. Before you get out your flamethrowers and pitchforks, let me explain why I think you rubyists and closet smalltalkers might want to come out for this one :-) Actually, feel free to bring your flames to the meeting, but it might get crowded and pointy if everyone brings a pitchfork. o SciFi, Guitars, WebApps o Perl is (like ruby) a dynamic language. o CPAN (rubyforge) -- how "good" are your dependencies? o Many of Portland's own are working on large systems in Perl. o No, not Perl4. o Moose, jifty, etc are bringing metaprogramming and DSL's to perl. o Pragmatism takes on perfection in an epic battle. o We go out for beer afterwards. Join us for an evening of mixed metaphors about all things Craftsmanship, possibly some answers, and beer at the end. --Eric -- The opinions expressed in this e-mail were randomly generated by the computer and do not necessarily reflect the views of its owner. --Management --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com --------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ PDXRuby mailing list [email protected] IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
