San Francisco Perl Mongers

San Francisco Perl Mongers (SFPUG*) is the first San Francisco Bay Area Perl Users' Group! We had our first meeting on June 9, 1998. Were you there? Come join us for food, drink, and discourse with the Bay Area's Premier Perl Hacker Community

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Past events

  • Boom! Lightning Talks!

    Wed, 28 Mar 2012, 02:00 - 04:00 in San Francisco, United States

    Lightning talks coming up, next meeting, Tuesday, March 27, 2012.Hit us with your ideas... no idea too small.  Location forthcoming.Mark Jason Dominus on Lightning Talks: can you say in five minutes?Why my favorite module / add-on package is X.I want to do cool project X. Does anyone want to help?Successful Project: I did project X. It was a success. Here's howyou could benefit.Failed Project: I did project X. It was a failure, and here's why.

  • Brewing Perl

    Mon, 26 Sep 2011, 18:00 - 20:00 in San Francisco, United States

    We'll have a speaker on App::Perlbrew and how you can develop with multiple Perl versions.  Details forthcoming.

  • Perl and Python and Ruby

    Wed, 27 Apr 2011, 02:00 - 04:00 in San Bruno, United States

    I would love to have a talk about cross comparison among Perl, Python, and Ruby. [email protected]. Rahul.

  • Mason 2: Templating for the web and beyond

    Wed, 23 Mar 2011, 02:00 - 04:00 in San Francisco, United States

    The SF Perl Mongers next meeting will be on Tuesday March 22nd, at 7pm. Jonathan Swartz will be introducing Mason 2.0.Mason is a Perl-based templating framework for generating web pages and other dynamic content. Over the past decade it has been used to generate thousands of web sites large and small, including Amazon.com, Target.com, Salon.com and del.icio.us.Version 2.0 of Mason was released last month, twelve years after its initial incarnation.

  • Learn Python The Hard Way

    Wed, 23 Feb 2011, 03:00 - 05:00 in San Francisco, United States

    Zed Shaw will turn the tables on our usual Perl centric meetings by giving us a few lessons in learning Python the hard way. Zed is a well known software developer who is noted for developing the Ruby webserver Mongrel, the successor Mongrel2, the Lua based framework Tir, and autho.me.Learn Python the Hard Way - | | | | | | | Shaw - | | | | | | | posted via App::PM::Announce

  • Hudson for Everybody Else

    Wed, 23 Jun 2010, 02:00 - 04:00 in San Francisco, United States

    Joe McMahon will be talking about Hudson on June 22nd at 7pm, at the office of Mother Jones."Continuous integration" sounds like a great idea: you automatically run your build on every checkin, so you know very soon after you've committed if you make a mistake or checked in a bug. However, like anyproperly lazy Perl programmer, the last thing you want to do is write more code; you want to take advantage of work that's already done: that's Hudson.

  • PL/Parrot, a DSL construction kit for PostgreSQL

    Wed, 26 May 2010, 02:00 - 04:00 in San Francisco, United States

    What do you get when you cross a parrot with an elephant? Find out! PL/Parrot is a DSL construction kit for PostgreSQL, and much, much more. Stay tuned for more details. David Fetter will give us the ins and outs of PL/Parrot.This meeting will take place on Tuesday, May 25th at 7pm at Six Apart World Headquarters.Parrot home page: on GitHub: Fetter's home page: posted via App::PM::Announce

  • HTML::FormHandler, a Moose based form rendering and validation framework

    Wed, 28 Apr 2010, 02:00 - 04:00 in San Francisco, United States

    As the second talk in a series of talks on form handling, Bryan Beeley will be presenting a talk on the HTML::FormHandler, a Moose based form rendering and validation framework, on April 27th, 2010 at Six Apart World Headquarters.HTML::FormHandler is an object oriented framework for form-specific data model, HTML rendering and data validation code.

  • Emergency Social

    Fri, 9 Apr 2010, 02:00 - 04:00 in San Francisco, United States

    An emergency social will be held at our favorite venue for buffet, Naan and Curry.Luis Motta Campo is in the area from one of the UK.pm's, so we'll get together to talk about Perl.

  • Simple form validation with Data::FormValidator

    Wed, 24 Mar 2010, 02:00 - 04:00 in San Francisco, United States

    As the first talk in series of talks on form validation, Fred Moyer will present an overview of Data::FormValidator. Real world code examples will be presented, and you'll see how you can use Data::FormValidator to implement form validation for legacy codebases as well as new code. Data::FormValidator is a loosely coupled, highly flexible, and easy to use form validation module written by Mark Stosberg.

  • Why you should create CPAN distros

    Wed, 24 Feb 2010, 03:00 - 05:00 in San Francisco, United States

    Jeff Thalhammer will speak on why you should create CPAN distros, even for proprietary code. He has worked on worked on several projects where all the private code was organized into CPAN-style distros, and then injected into a local copy of CPAN. They then used the CPAN tool chain to manage the entire build, test, and release process.Jeff Thalhammer's CPAN page: posted via App::PM::Announce

  • Writing CPAN Modules

    Wed, 27 Jan 2010, 03:00 - 05:00 in San Francisco, United States

    Happy New Year! Our January meeting will take place on TuesdayJanuary 26 at Six Apart World Headquarters."Writing CPAN Modules" by Joseph BrennerA talk in three parts:(1) how-to for beginners(2) portability problems(3) ExtUtils::MakeMaker vs. Module::Build vs. Module::InstallIn the first part, we will emphasize how easy it is, in the second part,we will demonstrate that we were lying in the first part, and in the

  • Perlmongers Dinner

    Wed, 23 Dec 2009, 03:00 - 05:00 in San Francisco, United States

    We'll be having a group dinner for the December meeting, and have a few drinks after to wrap up the year. The date for this meeting is December 22th at 7pm. "Naan-N-Curry" at 336 O'Farrell Street, between Mason and Taylor. This place has moved around a few times, and has many satellite locations now, so look at that address carefully. This is across the street from the Hilton, and next to the entrance to a large parking garage.

  • Plack - Modern Perl Framework Superglue

    Wed, 25 Nov 2009, 03:00 - 05:00 in San Francisco, United States

    Tatsuhiko Miyagawa will be presenting a talk on Plack on Tuesday, November 24th, 7pm at Six Apart World Headquarters. Plack is a set of PSGI reference server implementations and helper utilities for Web application frameworks, exactly like Ruby's Rack. It supports Standalone, CGI, FCGI, Apache, AnyEvent, Coro, Danga::Socket and many other server environments. This will be the last talk of the year for SF.pm, we will be having a social in December instead of a speaker.

  • ApacheCon mod_perl and SF.pm Social

    Wed, 4 Nov 2009, 03:00 - 05:00 in Oakland, United States

    Come join us at a joint mod_perl and SF.pm meeting during ApacheCon 2009 on Tuesday November 3rd at approximately 7pm. The exact time is flexible, I'll be trying to round up mod_perl folks after the hackathon on Tuesday. The suggested venue is Luka's in Oakland, where we can enjoy some appetizers, drinks, shoot some pool, and do some mod_perl hacking. Hope to see you there! I'll bring some of the newest Perl books as giveaways. Announcement posted via App::PM::Announce

  • Lightning Talks!

    Wed, 23 Sep 2009, 02:00 - 04:00 in San Francisco, United States

    Lightning Talks! The September SF.pm meeting will feature lightning talks. The SF.pm Lightning talk style differs from OSCON. The Geoffrey Avery style is 5 minutes. We do a variation, 5 minutes target, but with a 2 minute extension allowed. We also allow questions, and we prefer slides up on the web or USB drives to avoid laptop juggling... Announcement posted via App::PM::Announce

  • Non Relational Databases

    Fri, 4 Sep 2009, 02:30 - 04:30 in San Francisco, United States

    Kristina Codorow of 10gen is working on the perl driver for "MongoDB", a documented-oriented database: Location: Cellspace, 2050 Bryant Street (between 18th and 19th st), Mission district. Transit info: Closest BART station is "16th St & Mission". Cellspace is the same distance from BART as Six Apart (0.6 miles): walk along 16th St towards the Victoria theater at the corner of Capp St. Cellspace is also on the 27 bus line, which stops at 18th & Bryant.

  • Oops! I i18n'd your app

    Wed, 26 Aug 2009, 02:00 - 04:00 in San Francisco, United States

    "Localizing legacy code, automating the process, and how to work with your translators"Jeff Goff (DrForr) will be talking about his experience with localizing alarge and hugely successful mission critical legacy perl application.The meeting will take place at 7 pm PST on Tuesday August 25th at Six Apart World Headquarters. posted via App::PM::Announce

  • Continuous Integration of Perl Code

    Wed, 29 Jul 2009, 02:00 - 04:00 in San Francisco, United States

    Jeff Thalhammer returns to speak on "Continuous Integration of Perl Code"

  • SF.pm Booth at OSCON 2009

    Wed, 22 Jul 2009, 17:00 - 19:00 in San Jose, United States

    We're going to be running an SF Perl Mongers table at the July 2009 OSCON Expo at the San Jose Convention Center, and we're looking for volunteers to help staff the table.Essentially, we need coverage by 2 or 3 people at all times to hang around the table answering questions -- typically these range from very simple ("When is Perl 6?") to really interesting ("Is perl any good for natural language processing?").

  • Mojomojo - a Catalyst based Wiki

    Wed, 1 Jul 2009, 02:00 - 04:00 in San Francisco, United States

    Dan Dascalescu will be returning to give a talk on the Catalyst based Mojo application. /

  • Introduction to Catalyst

    Wed, 3 Jun 2009, 02:00 - 04:00 in San Francisco, United States

    Dan Dascalescu will give an introduction to the Catalyst framework.

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