Milton Keynes Perl Mongers

2009 Technical talks

Our eleventh technical meeting took place on Thursday, 15th October 2009 at the Open University:

• Teaching Perl - Experiences, Anecdotes and Vague Conclusions (Dave Cross)
• How I Maintain my CPAN Modules (Dave Cross)
• Load Balancing with Perlbal (Katherine Spice)
• Using Moose to Build Object Oriented Applications (Tony Edwardson)
• Lightning Talks:
  • A New User's Perspective on Catalyst (Benjamin Martin)
  • Creating Thumbnail Images with Catalyst (Jon Allen)

Our tenth technical meeting took place on Tuesday, 14th July 2009 at the Open University:

• Data Warehousing with Perl: Archiving and analysing large data sets from a popular online business (Colin Bradford)
• Using local::lib to let users manage modules without needing root access (Oliver Gorwits)
• The future of DBIx::Class, a database object relational mapper for Perl (Matt Trout) [slides]
• Lightning Talks:
  • Using WWW::Mechanize to automate interacting with Web sites, from the perspective of a non-Perl programmer (Ian Cameron)
  • Managing database queries with SQL::Library (Tony Edwardson)
  • Code, Comments and Commit Messages (Tom Hukins)

We held our ninth technical meeting at the Open University on Thursday, 16th April 2009:

• Distributed caching with memcached to improve performance and scale web applications (Colin Bradford)
• Developing cross platform GUI applications with WxWidgets (Peter Edwards)
• Moose - the new way to use Object orientation from Perl 5 (Tony Edwardson)
• Using CPAN's toolchain to improve your own code (Tom Hukins)

We held our eighth technical meeting at the Open University on Tuesday, 13th January 2009:

• Online Retail with Perl (Jon Allen from Penny's Arcade)
• Lightning Talks:
  • Specifying Module Versions with only.pm (Tony Edwardson)
  • Chart::Gnuplot (Rod Norfor)
  • memcached (Colin Bradford)
  • Creating PDF files with Catalyst (Jon Allen)
  • Exceptions (Peter Edwards)
  • Building Your Own Perl (Tom Hukins)