Upcoming Meetings & Topics:

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 - 7:00pm @ Mangia Pizza

Topic:

Open discussion:
Lots of random things discussed... Ian said something about Perl 6. Wayne talked about the virtues of Ruby... the usual.

Location:

Mangia Pizza Gracy Farms location at 12001 Burnet Rd.

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007 - 7:00pm @ Mangia Pizza

Topic:

Nested Sets:
Nested sets with MySQL as the storage engine by Mark Lehmann. Feel free to bring your "interesting" brain twisters and maybe the group can help you out.

Location:

Mangia Pizza Gracy Farms location at 12001 Burnet Rd.

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 - 7:00pm @ Mangia Pizza

Topic:

Open discussion
The meeting topics have been pushed forward until next month because of scheduling conflicts. We will be having a informal open discussion at Mangia Pizza instead.

Location:

Mangia Pizza Gracy Farms location at 12001 Burnet Rd.

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007 - 7:00pm @ Mangia Pizza

Topic:

Discuss Meeting Topics :)
More consumption of pizza and beverages at Magia Pizza while discussing future topics. Also discussion about YAPC 2007 and the guy coming from Houston in February to present planning/helping with the conference.

Location:

Mangia Pizza Gracy Farms location at 12001 Burnet Rd.

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 - 7:00pm @ Mangia Pizza

Topic:

Holiday Celebration
We shall celebrate the holiday season with the traditional consumption of pizza and beverages. To be followed by the the feats of strength. A Festivus for the rest of us!
(They have a happy hour until 7:00 PM if you feel like getting there a bit early)

Location:

Mangia Pizza Gracy Farms location at 12001 Burnet Rd.

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 - 7:00pm @ B.B. Rover's

Topic:

Consumption of solid and liquid refreshments and discussion of Perl and Perl-related topics (and probably non-Perl-related topics).

Location:

B.B. Rover's at 12101 Jollyville Rd.

Directions:

(Gratuitously stolen from bbrovers.com)

B.B. Rovers is on the north side of Austin in the North Brook Center, just off the southbound frontage road of U.S. 183, roughly half way between the Arboretum (183 @ Loop 360) and Lakeline Mall (183 @ FM 620.)

From South:

As you're heading north on 183 (Research Blvd.) Take either the Duval or the Oak Knoll Exit, under the freeway, then turn right (north) on Jollyville Road. Look to your right, about 1/2 mile north of Oak Knoll, for North Brook Center just past First Hand Car Wash & Krispy Kreme Donuts.

From North:

Take the McNeil/Spicewood exit and follow the frontage road thru the intersection, continuing to the North Brook Center on your right. Turn right into the center and continue through the parking lot, ALMOST to Jollyville Rd. We occupy a portion of the square building in the middle of the complex.

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 - 7:00pm @ gNumber

Topic:

HTML::Template
David will talk about HTML::Template and show how he has used it in a few projects.

Presenters:

David Bluestein

Location:

gNumber

Dinner:

5:45 PM at Pok-E-Jo's on Great Hills Trail

Tee Shirts:

If you ordered a tee shirt, they have arrived! Pick yours up at the meeting.

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006 - 7:00pm @ ARL

Topics:

MySQL and Perl
Mark will talk about using MySQL with Perl.

Presenters:

Mark Lehmann

Location:

ARL

Dinner:

5:45 PM at Double Dave's on Metric

Wednesday, August 8th, 2006 - 7:00pm @ ARL

Topics

Free for all 2: Electric Boogaloo
No presentation this month. Bring your tough Perl questions, and we'll see if the Mongers have the answers.

Location:

ARL

Dinner:

5:45 PM at Pok-e-Jo's on Great Hills Trail

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006 - 7:00pm @ ARL

Topics

Free for all
No presentation this month. Bring your tough Perl questions, and we'll see if the Mongers have the answers.

Location:

ARL

Dinner:

5:45 PM at Double Dave's on Metric.

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006 - 7:00pm @ Curra's

Topics

Summer Social Soirée
Dinner, Drinks, and Perl at Curra's on Burnet. Here's a map.
¡Hay más que una forma para hacerlo!

Location:

Curra's

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006 - 7:00pm @ ARL

Topics

Extending Apache SpamAssassin Using Plugins
The plugin architecture in Apache SpamAssassin allows for near unlimited growth in SpamAssassin's capabilities. This session will discuss some of the common plugin hooks and how to create and use plugins with Apache SpamAssassin. In addition, we'll cover some example plugins to tackle existing problems or feature requests people are having today.

Presenters

Michael Parker

Location:

ARL

Dinner:

5:45pm at Pok-e Jo's on Great Hills Trail behind Macaroni Grill

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006 - 7:00pm @ ARL

Topics

Ruby - Intro and an Old Ex Perl Hacker's Viewpoint
An introduction to programming in Ruby, followed by Wayne Walker's views on Ruby versus Perl. Wayne has been a Perl zealot for 14 years (since perl 4.0pl7) and recently has become a glassy eyed Ruby monk.

Presenters

Wayne Walker and Jim Freeze from ARCTAN (Austin Ruby Coders Texas Area Network)

Location:

ARL

Dinner:

6:00pm at Pok-e Jo's on Great Hills Trail behind Macaroni Grill

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006 - 7:00pm @ Servergraph

Topics

PUGS - the Perl6 Interpreter
Review of the existing/new functionality of PUGS, the Perl 6 interpreter written in Haskell that lets you dabble in Perl6 today, rather that in 2039 when the real Perl6 may be rumored to release (alpha version).

Presenters

Ian Remmler

Location:

Servergraph

Dinner:

6:00pm at Pok-e Jo's on Great Hills Trail behind Macaroni Grill

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005 - 7:00pm @ ARL

Topics

Eclipse EPIC Perl Plugin
Review of the existing/new functionality of the Eclipse EPIC Perl Plugin. Covering refactoring tools, POD viewing, syntax highlighting, completion, etc.

Presenters

Heath Malmstrom

Location:

Servergraph

Dinner:

6:00pm at Pok-e Jo's on 5th

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005 - 7:00pm @ ARL

Topics

SQL/MySQL/DBI and Perl

Presenters

TBD

Location:

Applied Research Lab

Dinner:

Double Dave's at 11900 Metric Blvd., Ste. F., at 5:45pm

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005 - 7:00pm @ ARL

Topics

Creating Graphics with Perl (Part II)

Presenters

Mark Lehmann

Location:

Applied Research Lab

Dinner:

Double Dave's at 11900 Metric Blvd., Ste. F., at 5:45pm

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005 - 7:00pm @ ARL

Topics

Java.pm, Catalyst

Presenters

Bill Raty, David Bluestein,

Location:

Applied Research Lab

Dinner:

Double Dave's at 11900 Metric Blvd., Ste. F., at 5:45pm

This month we'll have a split topic with 2 presenters:

• Bill Raty: Java.pm (and how to call Java using a Perl interface)
• David Bluestein: Catalyst (Perl's answer to Ruby on Rails and AJAX)

Wednesday, June 15th, 2005 - 7:00pm @ ARL

Topics

Log4Perl, Java.pm, Acme::*, Catalyst

Presenters

Ezra Pagel, Bill Raty, Ian Remmler, David Bluestein,

Location:

Applied Research Lab

Dinner:

Double Dave's at 11900 Metric Blvd., Ste. F., at 5:45pm

This month we'll have a split topic with 4 presenters.

• Ezra Pagel: Log::Log4perl
• Bill Raty: Java.pm (and how to call Java using a Perl interface)
• Ian Remmler: Acme::* (and a secret program demo to be revealed live at the meeting)
• David Bluestein: Catalyst (Perl's answer to Ruby on Rails and AJAX) [Time Permitting]

We'll also discuss a joint meeting with the MySQL users group where we show off how perl works with Mysql.

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005 - 7:00pm @ ARL

Topic

Perl Debugging Techniques

Presenter

Mark Lehmann

Location:

Applied Research Lab

Dinner:

Double Dave's at 11900 Metric Blvd., Ste. F.

Postponed from last month, Mark Lehmann will be speaking (again) about Perl Debugging Techniques, including remote debugging. Also using the EPIC Eclipse Module.

Wednesday, April 20th, 2005 - 7:00pm @ ARL

This meeting was postponed till May

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005 - 7:00pm @ ARL

Topic

Creating an Asterisk Gateway Interface

Presenter

Wayne Walker, Chris Tooley

Location:

Applied Research Lab

Dinner:

Double Dave's at 11900 Metric Blvd., Ste. F.

Wayne Walker and Chris Tooley will talk about creating an Asterisk Gateway Interface for Asterisk (a VOIP related application). They'll walk through the process of creating a button on a webpage that accepts 2 phone numbers, and bridges a phone call between them.

January 19th, 2005 - 7:00pm @ ARL

Topic

Maypole

Presenter

Ian Remmler

Location:

Applied Research Lab

Dinner:

5:45 at Pok-e Jo's in the Arboretum.

December 15th, 2004 - 6:30pm

Location: Kerbey Lane on Research Blvd

• Join us for dinner at Kerbey Lane Cafe. If there's interest, we can move on to Dave & Busters afterwards.

November 16th, 2004 - 6:45pm Location: Alamo Drafthouse (downtown)

• Uber Goober

  A documentary that looks at the practitioners of what could possibly be the most misunderstood pop culture phenomenon of the late 20th/early 21st century: "gamers" (as in Dungeons and Dragons and Magic, tabletop, wargames, LARP, etc.) See the alamo site for more details.

  Alamo drafthouse has food, so we'll eat during movie (no pre-movie eating plans), and they also have wireless in all theaters, so you can bring your laptop too. If people have questions, we'll answer Perl questions BEFORE the movie starts (to show we are the uber-geeks among those attending). Tickets are available online, or at box office. I called and there were LOTS of tickets available yesterday, but I make no guarantees. If you are going to show up, drop me an email so I have a headcount and we'll try to save a couple of rows in the theater.

  We will have Ian presenting on Maypole at our next regularly scheduled meeting (December or January, depending on when 3d Wed of Dec is).

October 20th, 2004 - 7:00pm Location: Applied Research Lab

• Webmin - by Michael Parker
  
  We'll write a new Webmin module from scratch during the presentation - which will provide an overview of the web-lib.pl library of functions, the architecture of Webmin, and hopefully bring a few new Webmin module developers into existence
  
  Presenter details:
  Joe Cooper is author of "The Book of Webmin"

September 15, 2004 - 7:00pm @ ARL

• YAML - by Ian Remmler
• SQL::Abstract and related modules - by David Bluestein

August 18, 2004 - 7:00pm @ ServerGraph

• Microsoft Exchange <-> Linux/Apache
  • Jeremy Brooks
  • What the modules do & how to use them
  • Module development and preparation for CPAN

March 17, 2004

• Perl 6 - Current State of Development
  • Ian Remmler

May 19, 2004

• Cutting and Pasting between Windows and Linux
  • Heath Malmstrom

Unscheduled

• Graphics Processing Part 2 - Ted Paone

Unscheduled

• Graphics Processing Part 3 - Ted Panoe