Technical Meetings

The technical meetings are a monthly event, that aims to provide the Birmingham Perl community with an educational night of talks. If you wish to attend, please feel free to come along and listen in.

Talks Wanted: If you would like to do a talk, whether a 5 minute lightning talk, a 15 minutes talk or longer, please let us know and we'll add you to the schedule. If we are unable to add you to the schedule for the next meeting, we will give you priority at a future meeting.

Guest Speakers: Are you visiting Birmingham at some point in the future, and would be willing to give a talk? Or are you based outside of the West Midlands, but would be willing to make a trek over to see us and present a talk? If so, then I'd love to hear from you. Drop me an email with details of when you are in Birmingham and the talk you would like to present. I'll then arrange a schedule and confirm.

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Schedule

22 June, 2005 - Birmingham.pm Technical Meeting
Time: 7pm - 9.30pm
Venue: O'Neills
Address: 90 Hurst Street, Birmingham, B5 4DT
Details: A selection of talks regarding Perl and related subjects. Entry is free, and newcomers are welcome. See our meetings page for further details.
Links: Technical Meetings

The Talks

Richard Clamp * - So I Was Trying To Be Lazy (Aggregation Hacks)

Abstract:

A look combining web scraping, RSS, and XPath. The talk will also touch on Atom, OPML, Class::DBI, and the Template Toolkit.

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Slides not available

Richard Dawe - strace & ltrace

Abstract:

What the tools are and what they can do.

Resources:

Slides not available

Barbie - Preparing For CPAN

Abstract:

When creating distributions for CPAN, it is very easy to catch obvious mistakes or popular misunderstandings if you know about them. A sizable proportion of failure reports from cpan-testers could be avoided, if there were a common set of known issues. This talk aims to list a few, and provide some answers.

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Slides

* = Guest Speaker