Remote Method Invocation

Speaker: Scott Smith
When: 6:30 PM Wednesday October 21st, 2009

Where:
4444 Forest Park Parkway
5th floor, room 5206
St. Louis, MO 63108 (Map) <http://tinyurl.com/6adol6>

Abstract:
Remote Method Invocation (RMI) is an approach to providing a developer to write software with the ability to access resources across process and networks while treating the resources as local. Scott Smith, the developer of the RMI package available on CPAN, will explain Remote Method Invocation and how to work with his modules.

About the Speaker:
Scott Smith is a long time Perl developer and member of the St. Louis Perl Mongers. He is the author of the RMI package and a coauthor of the UR package. Scott Smith currently works for the Washington University Genome Center where he manages a team of developers, helps architect software, writes code, and helps try to find the answers to the mysteries encoded in
our, and various animals', DNA.

About St. Louis Perl Mongers:
St. Louis Perl Mongers (STL-PM) is a group of programmers and programmer types in the St. Louis area that meet to talk about Perl, computing topics, and anything of interest at the time. STL-PM is associated with the international Perl Mongers association. We have one official meeting each month on the third Wednesday of the month and socials whenever someone remembers to schedule one. There is no fee to attend the meetings and they are open to anyone. STL-PM welcomes members of any level of knowledge of Perl, even no knowledge at all. To find out more about St. Louis Perl Mongers please consider joining this list and sending out a quick "hello" or visiting our website. If you don't know Perl we'll even try and help!

Lightning Talks

Speaker: YOU!
When: 6:30 PM Wednesday September 16th, 2009

Where:
4444 Forest Park Parkway
5th floor, room 5206
St. Louis, MO 63108 (Map)

Abstract:
Come out for some fun, short, hyperactive talks about interesting things.

About the Speaker:
The speaker is you (and me, and that guy)!

About St. Louis Perl Mongers:
St. Louis Perl Mongers (STL-PM) is a group of programmers and programmer types in the St. Louis area that meet to talk about Perl, computing topics, and anything of interest at the time. STL-PM is associated with the international Perl Mongers association. We have one official meeting each month on the third Wednesday of the month and socials whenever someone remembers to schedule one. There is no fee to attend the meetings and they are open to anyone. STL-PM welcomes members of any level of knowledge of Perl, even no knowledge at all. To find out more about St. Louis Perl Mongers please consider joining this list and sending out a quick "hello" or visiting our website. If you don't know Perl we'll even try and help!

Introduction to Functional Programming in Perl

Speaker: Bill Odom
When: 6:30 PM Wednesday August 19th, 2009

Where:
4444 Forest Park Parkway
5th floor, room 5206
St. Louis, MO 63108 (Map)

Abstract:
When people think of Perl there are many things that come to mind -- but elegant, functional programming is often not one of them. However, this represents a gross misunderstanding of the abilities of Perl. Bill Odom will be introducing us to many functional programming concepts in Perl and providing us with the resources to continue from there.

About Bill Odom:
Bill is a long time developer and well known member in the Perl community, and was president of The Perl Foundation from 2005 to 2007. He has worked in many languages for companies in the Midwest and both coasts, from ActionScript to XSLT, but keeps finding his way back to Perl.

About St. Louis Perl Mongers:
St. Louis Perl Mongers (STL-PM) is a group of programmers and programmer types in the St. Louis area that meet to talk about Perl, computing topics, and anything of interest at the time. STL-PM is associated with the international Perl Mongers association. We have one official meeting each month on the third Wednesday of the month and socials whenever someone remembers to schedule one. There is no fee to attend the meetings and they are open to anyone. STL-PM welcomes members of any level of knowledge of Perl, even no knowledge at all. To find out more about St. Louis Perl Mongers please consider joining this list and sending out a quick "hello" or visiting our website. If you don't know Perl we'll even try and help!

Videos from the UR Presentation

We recorded Wednesday's talk by Tony on Database Access with UR, so if you could not make it, check out the videos below.

Watch on Blip.tv: Part 1 | Part 2

If you'd just like the slides, they can be found in PDF format on our Google Groups page, in the "Files" section.

Database Access with UR

Speaker: Tony Brummett
When: 6:30 PM Wednesday June 17, 2009

Where:
4444 Forest Park Parkway
5th floor, room 5206
St. Louis, MO 63108 (Map)

Abstract:
As applications become increasingly data-centric simple ways to access complex information from databases through Perl becomes more important. Tony Brummett will be discussing how to use UR, an object-relational mapping tool developed by Washington University's Genome Center. He will explain everything from first starting a project to designing and building a large database dependent application.


About UR:
UR was originally designed and developed by Washington University's Genome Center. It is currently used as the workhorse for storing and accessing large quantities of genome data which has helped scientists better understand everything from cancer to songbird communication. It is available from CPAN.

About Tony Brummett:
Tony Brummett is a long time Perl developer. Tony has been working for the Genome Center for 4 1/2 years. During that time he has helped with the storing and analyzing of genetic information. While at the center he also worked as a lead developer on the UR project. Previous to that Tony worked for USRobotics (and then 3Com after the merger) developing automated tests in perl for their products.

February Meeting Video

My apologies for getting this out nearly four months after the fact, but I've uploaded video of David Dooling's presentation at the February meeting titled "Curing Cancer with Perl."

The videos are HD encodes so that you are able to read the slides from his talk.

View the video on blip.fm: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

List Serve Migration

The St. Louis Perl Mongers group is undergoing list serve migration. We are moving from a self hosted solution with rack space generously donated by Wash U GSC to a solution using Google Groups. If you would like to join the new list please pick which list you'd like to join and follow the link below:
STL-PM General Discussion
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