LinuxSA April 2008 - Awesome Things You've Missed in Perl

  Hi all,

  Time for the April meeting announcement (it's this Tuesday)...

  The usual details:

   When:   6:30pm-8:30pm on Tuesday, 21st April, 2009
   Where:  Room G05/G06 Gerard Innovation Centre
           Prince Alfred College
           Capper Street, Kent Town SA
   Cost:   FREE
   Who:    Anyone and everyone.
           No pre-registration necessary.

  Presentation:

   Paul Fenwick will be presenting "Awesome Things You've Missed in
   Perl":

     Awesome things have been happening in Perl recently; so many that
     even if you've been paying close attention, you may have missed a
     few. In this talk we'll examine some of the coolest recent
     technologies for Perl programmers, including:

     - Overhauling Perl's Object Oriented framework with Moose.
     - Making everything a first-class object with autobox.
     - Slashing your error handling code with autodie.
     - Building fast, readable and reusable regular expressions with
       Perl 5.10.
     - Bundling and building stand-alone applications using PAR, the
       Perl Archiver.
     - Astonishingly good profiling with Devel::NYTProf.
     - Playing MineSweeper automatically with App::SweeperBot.

     Knowledge of Perl is nice, but not essential to appreciate the
     contents of this talk.

   Paul Fenwick is the managing director of Perl Training Australia,
   internationally acclaimed speaker, and long time contributor to 
   Perl. He's an author for The Perl Journal and The Perl Review,
   technical editor of Perl Best Practices, and co-managers the very
   popular Perl Tips newsletter.

   In his spare time, Paul's interests include security, mycology,
   cycling, coffee, scuba diving, and lexically scoped user pragmata.

  Getting to the Venue:

   Prince Alfred College faces Dequetteville Terrace, but access to
   Room G05/G06 is only available from Capper Street; there is no
   access to these rooms from any other entrances in the College.  On
   Capper Street, Room G05/G06 is closer to The Parade West than to
   Dequetteville Terrace.

   Parking is available on-street or maybe off-street (adjacent to the
   Sports Centre). Look for the two storey stone fronted building with
   the sign "Gerard Innovation Centre". Enter through the double doors,
   first room on the right hand side of corridor (ground floor). The
   external door automatically locks at night. Should it not be propped
   open please be ready to knock loudly.

   There are buses that go along Dequetteville Terrace, with a stop
   adjacent to Capper Street. The 143, 145, and 146 buses leave from
   North Terrace, and the 141 and 142 buses leave from Currie Street
   and Grenfell street.

   If you are in the city, you could also catch the 99C bus to East
   Terrace, then take a 10-15 minute walk to the College.

  Pizza:

   After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
   Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
 
  For more information:

   Email:        organisers@linuxsa.org.au
   Web Page:     http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
   Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
   IRC:          #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net

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