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<h1 class="title">Reconstructed History (1999-2005)</h1>
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<p class="date">1999-2005</p>
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<ul>
<li><a href="#the-boston-university-era-2004-04-27---2005-04-12"
id="toc-the-boston-university-era-2004-04-27---2005-04-12">The Boston
University era 2004-04-27 - 2005-04-12</a></li>
<li><a href="#section" id="toc-section">2005</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#april-12---federico-lucifredi---perlqt"
id="toc-april-12---federico-lucifredi---perlqt">April 12, - Federico
Lucifredi - PerlQT</a></li>
<li><a href="#february-10-thursday-social-meeting"
id="toc-february-10-thursday-social-meeting">February 10, Thursday,
Social Meeting</a></li>
<li><a
href="#february-8-tuesday-tech-meeting---bu-kenmore-classroom-building---room-103"
id="toc-february-8-tuesday-tech-meeting---bu-kenmore-classroom-building---room-103">February
8, Tuesday, Tech Meeting - BU Kenmore Classroom Building - room
103</a></li>
<li><a href="#january-19-wednesday-social-meeting"
id="toc-january-19-wednesday-social-meeting">January 19, Wednesday,
Social Meeting</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#section-1" id="toc-section-1">2004</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#december-14-tuesday-tech-meeting"
id="toc-december-14-tuesday-tech-meeting">December 14, Tuesday, Tech
Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="#november-9-tuesday-tech-meeting"
id="toc-november-9-tuesday-tech-meeting">November 9, Tuesday, Tech
Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="#october-2-2004-not-free-8-hours"
id="toc-october-2-2004-not-free-8-hours">October 2, 2004 (<em>NOT FREE 8
Hours</em>)</a></li>
<li><a href="#september-28-2004" id="toc-september-28-2004">September
28, 2004</a></li>
<li><a href="#september-22-2004" id="toc-september-22-2004">September
22, 2004</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#section-2" id="toc-section-2">2004</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-w-damian-conway-tuesday-july-13"
id="toc-tech-meeting-w-damian-conway-tuesday-july-13">Tech Meeting w/
Damian Conway, Tuesday, July 13</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-monday-june-14"
id="toc-tech-meeting-monday-june-14">Tech Meeting Monday, June
14</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-tues-may-18"
id="toc-tech-meeting-tues-may-18">Tech Meeting Tues, May 18</a></li>
<li><a href="#may-11---2d-tues-meeting-moved-because-red-sox-home-game"
id="toc-may-11---2d-tues-meeting-moved-because-red-sox-home-game">May 11
- 2d Tues meeting moved because Red Sox Home Game</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-tues-april-27"
id="toc-tech-meeting-tues-april-27">Tech Meeting Tues, April 27</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#the-boston.com-era-2001-02-13---2004-01-13"
id="toc-the-boston.com-era-2001-02-13---2004-01-13">The Boston.com era
2001-02-13 - 2004-01-13</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#january-13th-2004---dan-sugalski---parrot"
id="toc-january-13th-2004---dan-sugalski---parrot">January 13th, 2004 -
Dan Sugalski - Parrot</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#section-3" id="toc-section-3">2003</a>
<ul>
<li><a
href="#social-meeting-mon-dec-29---john-harvards-brewpub-harvard-sq."
id="toc-social-meeting-mon-dec-29---john-harvards-brewpub-harvard-sq.">Social
Meeting Mon, Dec 29 - John Harvard’s (brewpub) Harvard Sq.</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-tues-dec-9"
id="toc-tech-meeting-tues-dec-9">Tech Meeting Tues, Dec 9</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-tues-sep-30-w-damian-conway---perligata"
id="toc-tech-meeting-tues-sep-30-w-damian-conway---perligata">Tech
Meeting Tues, Sep 30 w/ Damian Conway - Perligata</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-tues-august-19---parrot"
id="toc-tech-meeting-tues-august-19---parrot">Tech Meeting Tues, August
19 - Parrot</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-tues-june-10---kevin-falcone---axkit"
id="toc-tech-meeting-tues-june-10---kevin-falcone---axkit">Tech Meeting
Tues, June 10 - Kevin Falcone - AxKit</a></li>
<li><a href="#social-meeting-wed-march-26th-w-schuyler-erle---cbc"
id="toc-social-meeting-wed-march-26th-w-schuyler-erle---cbc">Social
Meeting Wed March 26th w/ Schuyler Erle - CBC</a></li>
<li><a href="#social-meeting-thursday-march-6-bbw-fenway"
id="toc-social-meeting-thursday-march-6-bbw-fenway">Social Meeting
Thursday, March 6 BBW Fenway</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-jan-21---damian-conway"
id="toc-tech-meeting-jan-21---damian-conway">Tech Meeting, Jan 21 -
Damian Conway</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#section-4" id="toc-section-4">2002</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#december-10-2002" id="toc-december-10-2002">December 10,
2002</a></li>
<li><a
href="#november-21---social-meeting-village-smokehouse-brookline-village"
id="toc-november-21---social-meeting-village-smokehouse-brookline-village">November
21 - Social meeting, Village Smokehouse, Brookline Village</a></li>
<li><a href="#weds-october-23---tech-meeting"
id="toc-weds-october-23---tech-meeting">Weds, October 23 - Tech
Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-tues-sep-17"
id="toc-tech-meeting-tues-sep-17">Tech Meeting Tues, Sep 17</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-tues-aug-13"
id="toc-tech-meeting-tues-aug-13">Tech Meeting Tues, Aug 13</a></li>
<li><a href="#damian-conway-classes-july-1-3"
id="toc-damian-conway-classes-july-1-3">Damian Conway Classes July
1-3</a></li>
<li><a href="#damian-conway---special-tech-meeting-monday-july-1"
id="toc-damian-conway---special-tech-meeting-monday-july-1">Damian
Conway - Special Tech Meeting Monday July 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#sunday-june-30th-damian-conway-social"
id="toc-sunday-june-30th-damian-conway-social">Sunday June 30th, Damian
Conway Social</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-tues-june-11"
id="toc-tech-meeting-tues-june-11">Tech Meeting Tues, June 11</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-tues-may-14"
id="toc-tech-meeting-tues-may-14">Tech Meeting Tues, May 14</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-tues-apr-23"
id="toc-tech-meeting-tues-apr-23">Tech Meeting, Tues, Apr 23</a></li>
<li><a href="#social-meeting-tuesday-april-16---the-burren-in-davis-sq."
id="toc-social-meeting-tuesday-april-16---the-burren-in-davis-sq.">Social
Meeting Tuesday, April 16 - the Burren in Davis Sq.,</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-wed-mar-13"
id="toc-tech-meeting-wed-mar-13">Tech Meeting Wed, Mar 13</a></li>
<li><a href="#february" id="toc-february">February</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-jan-16-2002"
id="toc-tech-meeting-jan-16-2002">Tech Meeting, Jan 16, 2002</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#section-5" id="toc-section-5">2001</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-dec-11" id="toc-tech-meeting-dec-11">Tech
Meeting Dec 11</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-nov-13" id="toc-tech-meeting-nov-13">Tech
Meeting, Nov 13</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-oct-23" id="toc-tech-meeting-oct-23">Tech
Meeting, Oct 23</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-sep-11" id="toc-tech-meeting-sep-11">Tech
Meeting Sep 11</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-aug-14" id="toc-tech-meeting-aug-14">Tech
Meeting Aug 14</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-damian-conway-july-9th-perl-6"
id="toc-tech-meeting-damian-conway-july-9th-perl-6">Tech Meeting, Damian
Conway, July 9th, Perl 6</a></li>
<li><a
href="#social-july-8th-2001---uris-house---with-damian-conway-and-michael-schwern"
id="toc-social-july-8th-2001---uris-house---with-damian-conway-and-michael-schwern">Social
July 8th, 2001 - Uri’s house - with Damian Conway and Michael
Schwern</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-jun-5" id="toc-tech-meeting-jun-5">Tech
Meeting, Jun 5</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-tues-may-1"
id="toc-tech-meeting-tues-may-1">Tech Meeting Tues May 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#social-meeting---april-30---cbc"
id="toc-social-meeting---april-30---cbc">Social Meeting - April 30 -
CBC</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-apr-17---timeschedule---ronald-kimball"
id="toc-tech-meeting-apr-17---timeschedule---ronald-kimball">Tech
Meeting Apr 17 - Time::Schedule - Ronald Kimball</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-tues-march-13"
id="toc-tech-meeting-tues-march-13">Tech Meeting Tues March 13</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-tues-feb-13---first-meeting-at-boston.com"
id="toc-tech-meeting-tues-feb-13---first-meeting-at-boston.com">Tech
Meeting Tues Feb 13 - First meeting at Boston.com</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#the-focalex-inc-era-2000-03-06---2001-01-17"
id="toc-the-focalex-inc-era-2000-03-06---2001-01-17">The Focalex, Inc
Era 2000-03-06 - 2001-01-17</a>
<ul>
<li><a
href="#tech-meeting-wed-jan-17-2001---last-meeting-at-focalex-inc"
id="toc-tech-meeting-wed-jan-17-2001---last-meeting-at-focalex-inc">Tech
Meeting Wed, Jan 17, 2001 - Last meeting at Focalex, Inc</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#section-6" id="toc-section-6">2000</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-dec-12-2000"
id="toc-tech-meeting-dec-12-2000">Tech Meeting, Dec 12, 2000</a></li>
<li><a
href="#suburban-tech-meeting-wednesday-nov-5-at-nusphere-bedford-road-trip"
id="toc-suburban-tech-meeting-wednesday-nov-5-at-nusphere-bedford-road-trip">Suburban
Tech Meeting, Wednesday, Nov 5, at NuSphere Bedford ROAD TRIP</a></li>
<li><a href="#social-nov-3-or-4" id="toc-social-nov-3-or-4">Social Nov 3
or 4</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-oct-10" id="toc-tech-meeting-oct-10">Tech
Meeting, Oct 10</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-sept-12" id="toc-tech-meeting-sept-12">Tech
Meeting, Sept 12</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-aug-8" id="toc-tech-meeting-aug-8">Tech
Meeting, Aug 8</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-july-11" id="toc-tech-meeting-july-11">Tech
Meeting, July 11</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-tuesday-june-6"
id="toc-tech-meeting-tuesday-june-6">Tech Meeting, Tuesday June
6</a></li>
<li><a
href="#tech-meeting-monday-may-8---automated-poetry---ronald-kimball"
id="toc-tech-meeting-monday-may-8---automated-poetry---ronald-kimball">Tech
Meeting Monday! May 8 - Automated Poetry - Ronald Kimball</a></li>
<li><a href="#april-3" id="toc-april-3">April 3</a></li>
<li><a href="#monday-march-6---dbi"
id="toc-monday-march-6---dbi">Monday, March 6 - DBI</a></li>
<li><a href="#th-february-super-social---joy-of-winter---elaines"
id="toc-th-february-super-social---joy-of-winter---elaines">19th
February Super Social - Joy of Winter - Elaine’s</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#the-uris-attic-era-1999-01-25---2000-02-07"
id="toc-the-uris-attic-era-1999-01-25---2000-02-07">The Uri’s Attic Era
1999-01-25 - 2000-02-07</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#last-regular-tech-meeting-in-uris-attic-end-of-an-era"
id="toc-last-regular-tech-meeting-in-uris-attic-end-of-an-era">2000-02-07
Last regular tech meeting in Uri’s attic END OF AN ERA</a></li>
<li><a href="#social-dinner-sun-jan-16th-at-cbc---with-ziggy"
id="toc-social-dinner-sun-jan-16th-at-cbc---with-ziggy">Social Dinner,
Sun Jan 16th, at CBC - with ziggy</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-mon-january-10-2000"
id="toc-tech-meeting-mon-january-10-2000">Tech Meeting, Mon January 10,
2000</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#section-7" id="toc-section-7">1999</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#social-dinner-dec-26" id="toc-social-dinner-dec-26">Social
Dinner, Dec 26</a></li>
<li><a href="#social-fri-dec-17-elaines-happyfunhouse-happyfunholidayze"
id="toc-social-fri-dec-17-elaines-happyfunhouse-happyfunholidayze">Social,
Fri Dec 17, Elaine’s HappyFunHouse “HappyFunHolidayze”</a></li>
<li><a href="#monday-dec-6th-1999-in-uris-attic"
id="toc-monday-dec-6th-1999-in-uris-attic">Monday, Dec 6th, 1999, in
Uri’s Attic</a></li>
<li><a href="#antisocial--boston.pm-paintball-outing"
id="toc-antisocial--boston.pm-paintball-outing">1999-12-05 -
(anti)Social -Boston.pm paintball outing</a></li>
<li><a href="#nov-1999-socials-joseph-hall-and-randal-schwartz"
id="toc-nov-1999-socials-joseph-hall-and-randal-schwartz">Nov 1999
Socials – Joseph Hall and Randal Schwartz</a></li>
<li><a href="#tech-meeting-monday-nov-1-with-sockets"
id="toc-tech-meeting-monday-nov-1-with-sockets">Tech Meeting, Monday Nov
1, with Sockets!</a></li>
<li><a href="#discussion-list-moved-to-hfb.pm.org"
id="toc-discussion-list-moved-to-hfb.pm.org">1999-10-20 Discussion list
moved to hfb.pm.org</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#the-dark-ages-era-1998---oct-1999"
id="toc-the-dark-ages-era-1998---oct-1999">The Dark Ages era, 1998 - Oct
1999</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#uri-guttman-holds-a-haiku-contest-on-the-old-list"
id="toc-uri-guttman-holds-a-haiku-contest-on-the-old-list">1999-09 Uri
Guttman holds a haiku contest on the (old) list</a></li>
<li><a href="#cambridge.pm-is-founded"
id="toc-cambridge.pm-is-founded">1999-06-07 Cambridge.pm is
founded</a></li>
<li><a href="#boston.pm-hosts-a-party"
id="toc-boston.pm-hosts-a-party">1999-04-27 Boston.pm hosts a
party</a></li>
<li><a href="#ronald-kimball-takes-over-as-leader-of-boston.pm"
id="toc-ronald-kimball-takes-over-as-leader-of-boston.pm">1999-03 Ronald
Kimball takes over as leader of Boston.pm</a></li>
<li><a href="#first-regular-tech-meeting-held-in-uri-guttmans-attic"
id="toc-first-regular-tech-meeting-held-in-uri-guttmans-attic">1999-01-25
First regular tech meeting, held in Uri Guttman’s attic</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#the-innocent-era---prior-to-regular-meetings"
id="toc-the-innocent-era---prior-to-regular-meetings">1998 - The
Innocent Era - prior to regular meetings</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#first-of-many-social-meetings-at-elaine-ashtons-house"
id="toc-first-of-many-social-meetings-at-elaine-ashtons-house">1998-10-??
First of many social meetings at Elaine Ashton’s house</a></li>
<li><a href="#meeting-at-mit-with-randal-schwartz"
id="toc-meeting-at-mit-with-randal-schwartz">1998-09-?? Meeting at MIT
with Randal Schwartz</a></li>
<li><a href="#discussion-list-created"
id="toc-discussion-list-created">1998-02-01 Discussion list
created</a></li>
<li><a href="#boston.pm-founded-by-chris-nandor"
id="toc-boston.pm-founded-by-chris-nandor">1998-01-30 Boston.pm founded
by Chris Nandor</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
</nav>
<hr />
<p>Boston Perl Mongers history is divided into four parts.</p>
<p><a href="History-00.html">Key Highlights (annals)</a></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="History-01-Reconstructed-1999.html">Reconstructed Ancient
History 1999-2005</a> <strong><em>this file</em></strong></li>
<li><a href="History-02-Calendar.html">MIT Era pt i 2005-2016</a></li>
<li><a href="History-03-Email.html">MIT Era pt ii 2017-2020</a></li>
<li><a href="History-04-Virtual.html">Recent Plague/Virtual era
2020-present</a></li>
</ul>
<p>(<em>Note. This file is in <strong>Reverse</strong> chronological
order, most recent at the top. All start with a table of contents by
year.</em>)</p>
<p>Extracted 1999-Oct to 2004-Sep from mailing list archives, public and
Private, <a
href="https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/thrd3.html">Public
Archive</a> and for the first few months of 2005, from Wiki
Archives.</p>
<p>(<em>Narrator: kWiki served us well for several years, but the
frictionless registration meant it collected SEO spam, which eventually
got tiring. I even discovered one cluster in this 2d history
conversion!</em>)</p>
<h1 id="the-boston-university-era-2004-04-27---2005-04-12">The Boston
University era 2004-04-27 - 2005-04-12</h1>
<p>Thanks to Sean Quinlan (and other BU staff), we had use of a BU
classroom in BU’s Kenmore building for about a year.</p>
<p>Our schedule there was the second Tuesday of every month,
<em>except</em> when this would conflict with a Red Sox home game, when
we had to be flexible.</p>
<h1 id="section">2005</h1>
<h2 id="april-12---federico-lucifredi---perlqt">April 12, - Federico
Lucifredi - PerlQT</h2>
<p><strong>Federico Lucifredi</strong> gave a talk on the new
<strong>PerlQT</strong> bindings.</p>
<p><strong><em>END OF AN ERA - Last meeting in BU Kenmore Classroom
Building</em></strong></p>
<h2 id="february-10-thursday-social-meeting">February 10, Thursday,
Social Meeting</h2>
<p>The <strong><em>Cheesecake Factory</em></strong> Cambridgeside
Galleria <strong><em>brian d foy</em></strong> was the guest of
honor.</p>
<h2
id="february-8-tuesday-tech-meeting---bu-kenmore-classroom-building---room-103">February
8, Tuesday, Tech Meeting - BU Kenmore Classroom Building - room 103</h2>
<p><strong><em>brian d foy</em></strong> talked about
<strong><em>Automating Releases</em></strong>.</p>
<figure>
<img src="./images/P2080193.JPG" alt="Brian’s release problem" />
<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Brian’s release problem</figcaption>
</figure>
<p><code>brian</code> also answered questions about <strong><em>The Perl
Review</em></strong><br />
and had people pose for photos in <strong>Schwern’s famous
shirt</strong>.</p>
<figure>
<img src="./images/P2080209.JPG" style="width:50.0%"
alt="bdf in Schewern’s iconic shirt in front of Kenmore Square’s iconic sign in same color scheme" />
<figcaption aria-hidden="true">bdf in Schewern’s iconic shirt in front
of Kenmore Square’s iconic sign in same color scheme</figcaption>
</figure>
<figure>
<img src="./images/P2080212.v01.jpg" style="width:50.0%"
alt="Jimmy Fundy Jimmy wearing Schewern’s shirt, Fenway Park" />
<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Jimmy Fundy Jimmy wearing Schewern’s
shirt, Fenway Park</figcaption>
</figure>
<figure>
<img src="./images/P2080213.JPG" style="width:40.0%"
alt="Jimmy Fundy Jimmy wearing Schewern’s shirt, Fenway Park" />
<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Jimmy Fundy Jimmy wearing Schewern’s
shirt, Fenway Park</figcaption>
</figure>
<figure>
<img src="./images/Uri_shirt_P2080200.JPG" style="width:50.0%"
alt="Uri G’s preferred pose" />
<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Uri G’s preferred pose</figcaption>
</figure>
<h2 id="january-19-wednesday-social-meeting">January 19, Wednesday,
Social Meeting</h2>
<h3 id="fire-ice-harvard-square">Fire & Ice, Harvard Square</h3>
<p>15 people enjoyed dinner at <a href="http://www.fire-ice.com">Fire
& Ice</a> with Ben Tilly, known as tilly on <a
href="http://www.perlmonks.com">PerlMonks</a>.</p>
<h1 id="section-1">2004</h1>
<h2 id="december-14-tuesday-tech-meeting">December 14, Tuesday, Tech
Meeting</h2>
<h3 id="bu-kenmore-classroom-building-room-106-730pm">BU Kenmore
Classroom Building room 106, 7:30pm</h3>
<p>Only a few people showed up, so we went straight to Boston Beer Works
for drinks and food.</p>
<h2 id="november-9-tuesday-tech-meeting">November 9, Tuesday, Tech
Meeting</h2>
<h3 id="bu-physics-research-building-room-148">BU Physics Research
Building room 148</h3>
<p><em>Cool Uses for Perl: “Bring a fun script to show.”</em></p>
<p><strong>Bill Ricker</strong> started us off by presenting some
scripts he’s written for analyzing and creating cryptograms,
interspersed with interesting tidbits from the history of
cryptography.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald J Kimball</strong> followed with some scripts he’s
written for solving cryptograms. We also discussed some of the
shortcomings to his brute force approach, particularly the problem of
proper nouns. (<a
href="https://www.tamias.net/rjk/perl/ppt/">script</a>)</p>
<p><strong>Tim Kohl</strong> then reviewed a short script that finds
words whose digital sums add up to 666. (e.g. cat = 3+1+20 = 24) Except
it really looks for 111, because it multiplies the digital sum by 6,
because that’s what the TV evangelist who inspired this script did. We
had fun looking through the words that the script found.</p>
<p>After that people threw out a few questions for discussion. One was a
tab-delimited file transposition issue that was then discussed on the
list. Another was about recursively copying directories in Perl; the
File::NCopy module was suggested.</p>
<p>The pizza and soda were generously sponsored by monger <strong>Greg
London</strong>.<br />
Greg has two books available through his website, <http://www.Greg
London.com/>: <em>Impatient Perl</em> and <em>Hunger Pangs</em>, a
science fiction novel. Greg London also has inevitable options.</p>
<p>(PRB 148 is not our usual room, but is less than two blocks
away.)</p>
<h2 id="october-2-2004-not-free-8-hours">October 2, 2004 (<em>NOT FREE 8
Hours</em>)</h2>
<p><em>Perl 6 and Parrot with <strong>Dan Sugalski</strong>.</em></p>
<p>Lunch included. at MIT. Part of Fall, 2004 <strong>GBC/ACM
Professional Development Seminars</strong> <a
href="http://www.gbcacm.org" class="uri">http://www.gbcacm.org</a> for
registration and information</p>
<h2 id="september-28-2004">September 28, 2004</h2>
<p>Dinner with <strong><em>Randal L Schwartz</em></strong> <a
href="http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/"
class="uri">http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/</a> at Legal’s,
Framingham</p>
<h2 id="september-22-2004">September 22, 2004</h2>
<p>Extra-ordinary working meeting at <strong>Akamai, Cambridge</strong>
– a workshop to implement a <a
href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Kwiki"><strong>kWiki</strong></a> to be
<strong>Boston.pm.org</strong>.</p>
<p>Followed by Beer and Dinner at CBC with Randal L Schwartz <a
href="http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/"
class="uri">http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/</a> who somehow managed to
escape from his conference.</p>
<h1 id="section-2">2004</h1>
<p>##Tech Meeting Tuesday, August 3</p>
<p>We’ll have two presentations at tomorrow’s meeting.</p>
<p><strong>Ian Langworth</strong> will be giving a talk on <a
href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Kwiki"><strong>Kwiki</strong></a>, a Wiki
environment written in Perl.<br />
This will be an updated version of his talk from YAPC.</p>
<p>(<em>Narrator: This talk was the inspiration for Boston.PM getting
it’s on kWiki. And that kWiki provided a separate history. <strong>END
OF AN ERA</strong></em>)</p>
<p>Also, <strong>Uri Guttman</strong> will give a talk on
<strong>Parallel Sessions in Perl.</strong> Although I did not see this
talk when Uri presented it at OSCON last week, my understanding is that
it is <em>not</em> entirely about Stem.</p>
<p>In addition, we’ll hear about our own <strong>Dan Sugalski getting
hit in the face with a pie</strong> and other goings on at OSCON.</p>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-w-damian-conway-tuesday-july-13">Tech Meeting w/
Damian Conway, Tuesday, July 13</h2>
<p><strong>Damian Conway</strong> will be giving his <a
href=""><strong>Everyday Perl</strong></a> presentation at tonight’s
meeting. <a href="">http://damian.conway.org/Seminars/Everyday.html
404-archived</a> To allow him more time, we’ll be starting at 7pm
(instead of the usual 7:30pm).</p>
<p><strong>Greg London,</strong> longtime Boston.pm member and author of
<strong><em>Impatient Perl</em></strong>, will be sponsoring
refreshments at tonight’s meeting. At my suggestion, Greg will be
providing cookies, pretzels, and other snacks. Please make your own
arrangements for dinner.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>“Impatient Perl” => A GNU-FDL training manual for the hyperactive
Free HTML/PDF downloads at <a href="http://greglondon.com/iperl"
class="uri">http://greglondon.com/iperl</a> paperback/coil-bound
available for $8.50+s&h
<code>[GNU-FDL = GNU Free Document License]</code></p>
</blockquote>
<p>If you’d like to help decide which talk we’ll ask Damian to give,
check out the list at <a href="http://damian.conway.org/Seminars/"
class="uri">http://damian.conway.org/Seminars/</a> and then post to the
discussion list or send your choice to me. I recommend a vote for one of
the following talks: Everyday Perl, Sufficiently Advanced Technologies,
Time::Space::Continuum.</p>
<p>The pizza and beverage fund needs a (corporate) sponsor.</p>
<p>(<em>Damian now presents updated <a
href="http://damian.conway.org/Seminars/EverydayRaku.html"><strong>Everyday
Raku</strong></a> - Bill 2022</em>)</p>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-monday-june-14">Tech Meeting Monday, June 14</h2>
<p><strong>Greg London</strong> showed off his new book,
<strong>Impatient Perl,</strong> “a Perl training manual for the
hyperactive programmer”, and gave out review copies. <a
href="http://www.greglondon.com/"
class="uri">http://www.greglondon.com/</a> has more info, as well as
HTML and PDF versions of the book, and a link to the print-on-demand
publisher lulu.com from which you can purchase a nice bound hard copy of
the book.</p>
<p>I showed a short web script I’ve written for users of <a
href="http://www.ricochetrobot.com/"
class="uri">http://www.ricochetrobot.com/</a> , which is an online
version of the Ricochet Robot board game. If you enjoy board games and
puzzles, check out the site!</p>
<p>Ken highlighted some interesting Perl code in a project he’s working
on, leading to a discussion on methods for securely storing credit card
data.</p>
<p>We also discussed Tim Kohl’s templating needs and Chris Devers’s DBM
needs.</p>
<p>Afterwards, we went to Boston Beer Works, where we talked about board
games and puzzles, the upcoming remake of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate
Factory, 30-foot-tall houses of cards, and digital photography.</p>
<p>Many thanks to Ken for going to get his laptop in the middle of the
meeting, and to Tim for being the BU liaison this time around.</p>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-tues-may-18">Tech Meeting Tues, May 18</h2>
<p><strong>Uri</strong> will be giving his full presentation on <a
href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Sort::Maker"><strong>Sort::Maker</strong></a>,
a module that makes it easy to create powerful and efficient sorting
functions.</p>
<h2 id="may-11---2d-tues-meeting-moved-because-red-sox-home-game">May 11
- 2d Tues meeting moved because Red Sox Home Game</h2>
<p>This meeting will put us onto our new schedule of the second Tuesday
of every month, except when this would conflict with a Red Sox home
game.</p>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-tues-april-27">Tech Meeting Tues, April 27</h2>
<p>Yes, Virginia, there is a tech meeting! Next Tuesday, April 27, we
will have a meeting at Boston University, Kenmore Classroom Building,
565 Commonwealth Ave.</p>
<p>This will be our first meeting at BU; if it works out we may have
future meetings there as well.</p>
<p>The format for this meeting will be a series of short talks. (Like
lightning talks, but not necessarily limited to 5 minutes. :) So far,
<strong>Uri Guttman, Greg London, and Sean Quinlan</strong> will each be
speaking about projects they’re working on. I’ll (<em>Ronald
Kimball</em>) also be looking for an interesting obfuscation to present
for our amusement and/or bemusement.</p>
<p>If you’re interested in giving a short presentation at this meeting
(or a longer presentation at a future meeting), please let me know.</p>
<p>Thanks to <strong>Sean Quinlan</strong> for securing the meeting
space for us!</p>
<h1 id="the-boston.com-era-2001-02-13---2004-01-13">The Boston.com era
2001-02-13 - 2004-01-13</h1>
<p>Boston.com, the Boston Globe online property, used Perl for their
feeds in and out, and was happy to sponsor Boston.pm at their Seaport /
Fort-Point-Channel district offices. A couple sheets of plywood
converted the pool table into a casual conference table for (sponsored)
Pizza.</p>
<h2 id="january-13th-2004---dan-sugalski---parrot">January 13th, 2004 -
Dan Sugalski - Parrot</h2>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Sugalski"><strong>Dan
Sugalski</strong></a> (<em>former Boston.pm local, Perl 5 core dev and
chief architect for Perl 6 Parrot VM </em>) will be presenting a
tutorial on Parrot.<br />
Here is his description of the talk:</p>
<p>The talk is a run-through of an Introduction to Parrot tutorial
session I’m giving at the NordU conference later in January. It’s a
three hour (more or less) introduction to parrot, covering some history,
the reasons and driving principles, and the basic architecture. There’ll
be some demo programs, including a demo of my current work project (a
compiler for an old 4GL with integrated screen and DB handling–the demo
program is a screen-based DB data editor that’s entirely in parrot)</p>
<p>(<em>The <a href="http://www.parrot.org/">Parrot</a> VM was one of
the original Perl 6 platforms.</em>) (<em>Dan was a co-author of
<em>Perl 6 Essentials</em> (ISBN:<a
href="https://isbn.nu/0-596-00499-0">0-596-00499-0</a>, Allison Randal,
Dan Sugalski, Leopold Tötsch, 2003: O’Reilly & Associates.</em>)</p>
<p>Also, <strong>Darren Chamberlain</strong> will be giving away a copy
of his new O’Reilly book, <em>Perl Template Toolkit</em>. <a
href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perltt/"
class="uri">http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perltt/</a></p>
<p><strong>END OF AN ERA - Last Tech Meeting at Boston.com</strong></p>
<h1 id="section-3">2003</h1>
<h2
id="social-meeting-mon-dec-29---john-harvards-brewpub-harvard-sq.">Social
Meeting Mon, Dec 29 - John Harvard’s (brewpub) Harvard Sq.</h2>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-tues-dec-9">Tech Meeting Tues, Dec 9</h2>
<p><strong>Uri Guttman</strong> will be giving a short talk on his
<strong>File::Slurp</strong> module, which provides a convenient way to
read in an entire file.</p>
<p><strong>Bill Ricker</strong> will discuss solving word puzzles with
Perl one-liners, such as the RN puzzle from Nov 23 at <a
href="http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/"
class="uri">http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/</a> .</p>
<p>Free review copies of three new books from O’Reilly: one each of the
<em>Perl Cookbook</em> 2nd edition, <em>Learning Perl Objects,
References, and Modules</em>, and the <em>Regular Expression Pocket
Reference</em>. These will be given out on the condition of writing and
posting a review.</p>
<p>(Another presentation to be determined. Perhaps you have a neat
script you’ve written, or a favorite CPAN module you want to evangelize,
or an obfuscation to stump us with.)</p>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-tues-sep-30-w-damian-conway---perligata">Tech
Meeting Tues, Sep 30 w/ Damian Conway - Perligata</h2>
<p>Damian Conway will be giving his infamous <a
href="http://damian.conway.org/Seminars/Perligata.html">Perligata</a>
talk.<br />
Learn how to program Perl in Latin!</p>
<p><a
href="https://metacpan.org/dist/Lingua-Romana-Perligata/view/lib/Lingua/Romana/Perligata.pm">CPAN
Lingua::Romana::Perligata</a></p>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-tues-august-19---parrot">Tech Meeting Tues, August
19 - Parrot</h2>
<p><strong>Ronald J Kimball</strong> will be presenting an exclusive
look at (<em>former Boston.PM local</em>) <strong>Dan
Sugalski’s</strong> recent research in <strong>Parrot
development</strong>.<br />
(<em>The <a href="http://www.parrot.org/">Parrot</a> VM was one of the
original Perl 6 platforms.</em>)</p>
<p>We may hear from <strong>Kenneth Graves</strong> on his plan to port
CLU to Parrot.</p>
<p>I’ll also find an interesting <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_another_Perl_hacker">JAPH</a>
or obfuscation for us to dissect.</p>
<p>Also, <strong>O’Reilly</strong> recently sent us a review copy of two
different books, which I will give out at the meeting to Mongers who
agree to write reviews in exchange. (Sorry, I don’t have the books at
hand; you’ll just have to come to the meeting to find out the
titles!)</p>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-tues-june-10---kevin-falcone---axkit">Tech Meeting
Tues, June 10 - Kevin Falcone - AxKit</h2>
<p><strong>Kevin Falcone</strong> will be giving a talk on
<strong>AxKit</strong>:</p>
<p>AxKit - Moving beyond static content with taglibs and providers</p>
<p>When developers start working with AxKit, their first thoughts are
creating static XML pages and rejoicing in the separation of content and
display that the stylesheet pipeline provides. However, once developers
move beyond simple websites, AxKit provides two ways to aid in the
generation of dynamic content. Taglibs provide custom tagsets for use in
your pages, while providers are used to create modules that work like
mod_perl handlers. This talk will compare and contrast these two
approaches to dynamic content and provide examples of when each would be
most useful for a site.</p>
<p>If you are speaking at YAPC or TPC, and would like to present your
talk at this meeting, please let me know.</p>
<h2 id="social-meeting-wed-march-26th-w-schuyler-erle---cbc">Social
Meeting Wed March 26th w/ Schuyler Erle - CBC</h2>
<p><strong>Schuyler Erle</strong> is in Boston this week on business for
<strong>O’Reilly</strong> (<em>Perl etc publisher</em>), and he’d like
to hang out with us! We’ll be getting together tomorrow night
(Wednesday, March 26) at the Cambridge Brewing Company in Kendall
Square, Cambridge. 7pm to Whenever.</p>
<h2 id="social-meeting-thursday-march-6-bbw-fenway">Social Meeting
Thursday, March 6 BBW Fenway</h2>
<p>Boston Beer Works</p>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-jan-21---damian-conway">Tech Meeting, Jan 21 -
Damian Conway</h2>
<p><strong>Damian Conway</strong> will be talking on <a
href="http://damian.conway.org/Seminars/Life.html"><strong><em>Life, the
Universe, and Everything!</em></strong></a></p>
<p>Thanks to <strong>Uri Guttman</strong> for acting as Damian’s
liaison.</p>
<h1 id="section-4">2002</h1>
<h2 id="december-10-2002">December 10, 2002</h2>
<p>We should be getting a demo of the new Mac::Carbon module from
<strong>Chris Nandor</strong>.<br />
After that, we may head to a nearby social environment.<br />
Come to tomorrow’s tech meeting, where <em>you</em> can decide what
happens!</p>
<p>Hosted at offices of Boston.com in Seaport/Fort-Point-Channel
District.</p>
<p>Pizza and refreshments will be provided by Boston.com.</p>
<h2
id="november-21---social-meeting-village-smokehouse-brookline-village">November
21 - Social meeting, Village Smokehouse, Brookline Village</h2>
<h2 id="weds-october-23---tech-meeting">Weds, October 23 - Tech
Meeting</h2>
<p>Due to scheduling conflicts, there will not be a Tech Meeting this
week or next. Instead, the Tech Meeting will be on Wednesday, October
23. This is later in the month than usual, but it was the most workable
date for myself and our hosts at Boston.com.</p>
<p><strong>Uri Guttman</strong> will be presenting “A <a
href="https://metacpan.org/dist/Stem">Stem</a> Cell Cookbook”. This talk
will cover how easy it is to create working Stem Cells and how to
incrementally add features to make them more powerful.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Freeman</strong> will be presenting “A New Kind Of
Module”.</p>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-tues-sep-17">Tech Meeting Tues, Sep 17</h2>
<p><strong>Uri</strong> has arranged a couple lightning talks for
us.<br />
I (<strong><em>Ronald J Kimball</em></strong>) will be giving a
lightning talk on my proposal for a new syntax for
<code>L<></code> in POD, and I believe Uri will be giving a
lightning talk entitled “the ‘instant’ Stem cookbook”.</p>
<p><strong>Greg London</strong> will give a half hour talk on his new
module, <strong>EasyArgs</strong>, which makes using command line
arguments easier.</p>
<p>This leaves us with time for one more mid-length talk. Let me know if
you have something you’d like to present (whether it’s a module, a
script, an obfuscation, whatever), or a topic you’d like to have people
discuss at the meeting.</p>
<p>Also, I will be giving out a review copy of two new O’Reilly books
(which arrived the day after last month’s meeting :/ ), <em>Mastering
Regular Expressions</em> 2nd Ed and <em>Perl and LWP</em>.</p>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-tues-aug-13">Tech Meeting Tues, Aug 13</h2>
<p><strong>Federico Lucifredi</strong> will be giving a talk on
Perl<code><-></code>Qt Bindings. Here’s Federico’s abstract for
his talk:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The PerlQT bindings enable developers to create graphic applications
in the scripting language of choice within the OpenSource movement. The
author will initially cover all the Qt basics necessary to understand
how GUI programming is done ‘the Qt way’ as well as Perl module
programming fundamentals. After reviewing what changes in the Perl
bindings we will then proceed to simultaneously review PerlQt and C++/Qt
code showing the same functionality. This will conclude the presentation
by highlighting the shortcomings of the currently available release of
the bindings while at the same time providing a real world example of
their use.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Additionally, <strong>Uri</strong> has arranged a lightning talk to
begin the meeting. <strong>Jerrad Pierce</strong> will give a short talk
on his <a href="https://metacpan.org/dist/Text-FIGlet">figlet
module</a>. <strong>FIGlet</strong> is a program for drawing text in
fancy ASCII letters. <a href="http://www.figlet.org"
class="uri">http://www.figlet.org</a></p>
<h2 id="damian-conway-classes-july-1-3">Damian Conway Classes July
1-3</h2>
<p>monday-wednesday, july 1-3, are the 3 days of classes Damian will be
teaching. the location is now set and it will be in Davis sq. i will
mail directions to the registrants. remember, that students and the
currently unemployed can take any or all of the classes at 50% off! more
info can be found at <a href="http://stemsystems.com/class/"
class="uri">http://stemsystems.com/class/</a></p>
<p>uri</p>
<h2 id="damian-conway---special-tech-meeting-monday-july-1">Damian
Conway - Special Tech Meeting Monday July 1</h2>
<p>Our next tech meeting will be Monday, July 1, with Damian Conway!
Damian will be giving his infamous <a
href="http://damian.conway.org/Seminars/Extreme.html">Extreme Perl</a>
talk.<br />
This meeting will be free and open to anyone who wants to attend. Pizza
and refreshments will be provided by Boston.com. - Ronald</p>
<p>monday July 1 at 7pm is Damian’s free lecture to Boston.pm. it will
be at the usual meeting place in Boston.com’s place. Damian will be
talking about extreme perl. pizza and drinks will be generously provided
by Boston.com.</p>
<p>uri</p>
<p>(<em>Full title is “Extreme Perl – The Horror That Is
SelfGOL”.</em>)</p>
<h2 id="sunday-june-30th-damian-conway-social">Sunday June 30th, Damian
Conway Social</h2>
<p>Sunday June 30 at 3pm is the Boston.pm social. food (from
blueribbonbbq.com including veggie side dishes and salad) and beverages
are FREE!! and you are welcome to bring your own food. we will have a
grill to use. i need RSVP’s ASAP!! so far only 2 of you have said you
are coming. that is ridiculous for free BBQ and beer. so reply now or
lose out. i will email directions to my place soon.</p>
<p>uri</p>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-tues-june-11">Tech Meeting Tues, June 11</h2>
<p>This is great opportunity for people who will be presenting at YAPC
to try out their presentations and get feedback. Please email me if you
would like to give your YAPC talk at the tech meeting.</p>
<p><strong>Kevin Falcone</strong> will be presenting on
<strong>Mod_Parrot</strong>: embedding and extending the parrot virtual
machine. This talk will demonstrate the use of Parrot’s current
embedding interface, and how to create a custom PMC to communicate with
an external library.</p>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-tues-may-14">Tech Meeting Tues, May 14</h2>
<p>Andrew Langmead will give a presentation on the integration of Perl
and Zope.</p>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-tues-apr-23">Tech Meeting, Tues, Apr 23</h2>
<p>There’s no formal presentation scheduled for this meeting, but I’ll
work on one or two things to present. Also, if you have a piece of code
you’d like reviewed, this could be a good opportunity.</p>
<p>I presented cryptosolve.pl, a program I’d written that solves basic
cryptograms.</p>
<p>The program (and a bunch of input files) are now available at
http://thayer.dartmouth.edu/~rjk/perlwords/ (<em>404; modern URL:</em>)
<a href="https://www.tamias.net/rjk/perl/words/"
class="uri">https://www.tamias.net/rjk/perl/words/</a></p>
<p>Download it, play around with it, send me comments or questions! I’ve
made a few minor changes since the meeting, but haven’t worked on the
major suggestions yet.</p>
<h2
id="social-meeting-tuesday-april-16---the-burren-in-davis-sq.">Social
Meeting Tuesday, April 16 - the Burren in Davis Sq.,</h2>
<p>from 7pm until whenever. Under 21 welcome.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.burren.com/"
class="uri">http://www.burren.com/</a></p>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-wed-mar-13">Tech Meeting Wed, Mar 13</h2>
<p>Jon Gunnip will be unable to attend tomorrow night’s tech meeting.
Watch for his Ruby talk at a future meeting.</p>
<p>Instead, <strong>Mitchell Charity</strong> will give a short
presentation on Inline, from the point of view of “We should glue
orthogonal objects together using C APIs and Inline, instead of the
current practice of over-stuffing C extensions.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/inline/"
class="uri">http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/inline/</a></p>
<p>We’ll also have <strong>Dan Sugalski</strong>’s update on the status
of <strong>Perl6</strong>.</p>
<h2 id="february">February</h2>
<p>(<em>A social meeting may have happened. I can’t tell from the
mailing list archive if they ever agreed where & when.</em>)</p>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-jan-16-2002">Tech Meeting, Jan 16, 2002</h2>
<p><strong>Jon Gunnip</strong> has offered to give a short presentation
on Ruby, a language that shares many similarities to Perl.</p>
<p><strong>Dan Sugalski</strong> will give an update on the status of
Parrot, the future Perl6 interpreter.</p>
<h1 id="section-5">2001</h1>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-dec-11">Tech Meeting Dec 11</h2>
<p><strong>Jesse Vincent</strong> will be giving a presentation on
<strong>RT</strong>. Here’s his blurb:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>RT is an enterprise-grade ticketing system built in perl. It’s used
by a couple thousand sites around the world to track bugs, manage
customer service, manage a NOC and even track sales leads.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>I suspect that folks would be more interested in seeing how RT is put
together from the inside than that I rehash my “how to use the tool”
schpiel. It’s on the order of 25,000 lines of OO Perl. It’s got a CLI
frontend, an incoming mail gateway. It has a web UI written in
HTML::Mason. It’s got some automation to haul its dependencies down from
CPAN in a slightly smarter way than vanilla CPAN prereqs. It’s got a
plugin architecture so that local sites can drop in custom business
logic without having to modify the core codebase. Oh and it talks to an
SQL database using DBIx::SearchBuilder to abstract out almost all of the
database dependent behavior.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Afterwards, I’ll have an obfuscation or some such to share. -
Ronald</p>
<p>About 20 people attended the tech meeting at Boston.com last
night.</p>
<p><strong>Jesse Vincent</strong> presented RT, his enterprise-grade
ticketing system built in Perl. He gave an overview of the system,
showed it in use at rt.cpan.org, and discussed issues including module
dependencies, managing a large project, and dealing with spam to the
mail gateway.</p>
<p>For more on RT, go to <a href="http://www.fsck.com/projects/rt/"
class="uri">http://www.fsck.com/projects/rt/</a></p>
<p>I (<strong><em>Ronald</em></strong>) presented a JAPH of mine that
animates letters swapping around until they form the usual phrase. Tip:
if your script produces no output, check the line endings. ;)</p>
<p>You can see the JAPH on Perl Monks at <a
href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=77154"
class="uri">http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=77154</a></p>
<p>Thanks to everyone who attended, and to Boston.com for hosting. Next
month’s meeting will be on a Monday or Wednesday, to accommodate people
who haven’t been able to come to the Tuesday meetings.</p>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-nov-13">Tech Meeting, Nov 13</h2>
<p><strong>Greg London</strong> has offered to give a talk on his parser
and profiler modules, <strong><code>Parse::Nibbler</code></strong>. “The
last tweak on version 1.08 has it parsing verilog at 1140 lines per
second. The profiler is a module I wrote to attempt to track down
subroutine usage and timing in the parser.”</p>
<p>I’ve also found a very interesting obfuscation on Perl Monks for us
to enjoy.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Ronald</strong></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Greg London</strong> presented Parse::Nibbler, his parsing
module written in pure Perl. See his previously sent followup message
for more details.</p>
<p>I presented an obfuscation by Marcus Post. The code is a stereogram
which, when executed, rewrites itself to contain a new image! You can
find this obfuscation on Perl Monks:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=118799"
class="uri">http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=118799</a></p>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-oct-23">Tech Meeting, Oct 23</h2>
<p><strong>Dan Sugalski</strong> will be giving his presentation of
Parrot, originally scheduled for last month’s meeting. Parrot will be
the core of the Perl 6 interpreter. See <a
href="http://www.parrotcode.org/"
class="uri">http://www.parrotcode.org/</a> for more information about
Parrot.</p>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-sep-11">Tech Meeting Sep 11</h2>
<p>I don’t have an agenda for this meeting; if there’s something you’d
like to present or discuss, let me know. I will be sure to find an
interesting obfuscation to dissect; it’s been a while since we’ve done
that, I think.</p>
<p>(<em>Narrator: This meeting didn’t happen.</em>)</p>
<p><code>Tue Sep 11 10:41:07 CDT 2001</code></p>
<p>Tonight’s Boston.pm tech meeting has been Canceled. Best wishes to
everyone who has been affected by this morning’s tragedy.</p>
<ul>
<li>Ronald</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-aug-14">Tech Meeting Aug 14</h2>
<p><strong>Dan Sugalski</strong> will give his presentation on Perl6
internals.</p>
<p><strong>Elaine Ashton</strong> will give her talk on Grokking the
CPAN.</p>
<p><strong>Sean Quinlan</strong> will lead a discussion on getting
modules ready for distribution.</p>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-damian-conway-july-9th-perl-6">Tech Meeting, Damian
Conway, July 9th, Perl 6</h2>
<p>Okay, I’ve tabulated the votes for <strong>Damian</strong>’s
presentation. It looks like the practical won out over the fantastical
(although with Damian you’ll always get some of both) and the winning
topic is…</p>
<p><strong>Perl6!</strong></p>
<p><a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20011025001141/http://www.yetanother.org:80/damian/events/Perl6.html">http://www.yetanother.org/damian/events/Perl6.html</a></p>
<blockquote>
<p>Perl 6 Prospective This talk looks at what is known, surmised,
guessed, wished for, and dreaded about Perl 6. It discusses the history,
motivations, syntax, semantics, and likely idioms of the new Perl.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Damian will give his talk on Monday, July 9, at the offices of
Boston.com. The meeting will begin at 7:30. Pizza and refreshments will
be provided, as usual. Directions below.</p>
<p>As always, the tech meeting is free and open to everyone who wants to
come. Please RSVP to me if you plan on attending.</p>
<p>Ronald</p>
<p>P.S. Don’t forget to RSVP to Uri (uri at sysarch.com) if you want to
go to the social meeting on Sunday, July 8. Damian will be there
too!</p>
<p>–</p>
<p>Now that we’ve all had time to recover from <strong>Damian
Conway</strong>’s information-packed presentation at last Monday’s tech
meeting, here’s a followup on the meeting.</p>
<p>We had about 55 people, possibly our largest tech meeting ever. After
introductions (which take a lot longer with 55 people!), Damian spoke
for about three hours on the subject of Perl6. (With frequent threats to
talk even longer. :) For more on Perl6, check out <a
href="http://dev.perl.org" class="uri">http://dev.perl.org</a></p>
<p>Halfway through, there was a break to give away goodies. Joe Johnston
had brought several O’Reilly books, including the new XML book which he
coauthored. I managed to come up with a new and amusing way to give away
the books; each book went to the person who gave the best impression of
the animal on the cover! Here’s a quick summary:</p>
<p>CVS Pocket Reference (x4) Sheep Mastering Algorithms w/ Perl Wolf
Advanced Perl Programming Panther Perl for System Administration Otter
Programming Web Services w/ XML-RPC Jellyfish</p>
<p>There were also several copies of the Proceedings from last year’s
Perl Conference that Ranga Nathan had brought, and the Boston.com gang
gave out funny little packets of paper-like mints.</p>
<p>Thanks to Boston.com for hosting, to Damian for presenting, and to
everyone who showed up for being there.</p>
<h2
id="social-july-8th-2001---uris-house---with-damian-conway-and-michael-schwern">Social
July 8th, 2001 - Uri’s house - with Damian Conway and Michael
Schwern</h2>
<p>Sponsored by <strong>Damian Conway’s Advanced Object Oriented Perl
class</strong> July 10-11, arranged by <strong>Uri,</strong> which were
a paid event at <strong>Kendall Sq Marriott</strong>. <a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010813111827/www.sysarch.com/Perl/OOP_class.html"
class="uri">https://web.archive.org/web/20010813111827/www.sysarch.com/Perl/OOP_class.html</a></p>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-jun-5">Tech Meeting, Jun 5</h2>
<p><strong>Uri Guttman</strong> will give us a presentation on
<strong>Stem</strong>, his Perl-based general purpose networking
toolkit:</p>
<p>How to Use and Configure Stem</p>
<p>This is a practical guide to Stem. First it will cover the top level
architecture and design. Then configuration of Stem Cells will be shown
with many examples. Finally, the internal API which supports making Stem
Cells will be explored.</p>
<p>Uri will also be presenting Stem at YAPC.</p>
<h2 id="tech-meeting-tues-may-1">Tech Meeting Tues May 1</h2>
<p><strong>Kirrily “Skud” Robert</strong> and <strong>Shane
Landrum</strong> will be presenting <strong>Reefknot,</strong> a shared
calendaring project. An abstract of this talk is included below.</p>
<p>Also, <strong>Chris Nandor</strong> will tell us about the current
state of <strong>MacPerl</strong>. With the recent releases of both
perl5.6.1 and Mac OS X, there’s a lot going on!</p>
<p>Boston.com will be providing pizza and beverages.</p>
<p><strong>Reefknot: shared calendaring in Perl</strong></p>
<p><strong>Kirrily “Skud” Robert and Shane Landrum</strong></p>
<p>Have you ever wished your enterprise could do without MS Exchange?
Ever wanted to schedule events with other members of your club, family,
or organization? Do you use Perl? If so, you want to know about
Reefknot.</p>
<p>Reefknot is a project to build standards-compliant shared calendaring
tools in Perl. We want to make it easy for Perl programmers to build
calendaring clients and servers that speak iCalendar (RFC2445) and other
standard protocols.</p>
<p>The Reefknot project’s major work to date is a major revision of
Net::ICal; release 0.14 will be available soon on CPAN. We’ll talk about
the project’s goals, show some of our recent work, and discuss what
we’re working on next. Bring your ideas for how you want to use
calendaring tools.</p>
<p>See <a href="http://reefknot.sourceforge.net"
class="uri">http://reefknot.sourceforge.net</a> for more
information.</p>
<p>–</p>
<p>If you want to see what’s going on before the meeting, check out:</p>
<p><a href="http://macperl.sourceforge.net/"
class="uri">http://macperl.sourceforge.net/</a></p>
<p>Also see my development journal:</p>
<p><a href="http://use.perl.org/~pudge/"
class="uri">http://use.perl.org/~pudge/</a></p>
<blockquote>
<p>–<br />
Chris Nandor pudge at pobox.com http://pudge.net/<br />