This month, William Lindley will be giving a talk on Imager, an image manipulation library for Perl. Easier to install than Image::Magick, Imager has grown into a rich set of tools, including some overlooked features that turn it into a robust solution.
This month, Doug Bell will give a talk on Graphite, a scalable time-series database. He'll go over a quick installation and setup, how to add your metrics using Perl, and how to display your metrics using the Grafana charting dashboard.
EDIT: Slides for Collecting Metrics with Graphite are now available on the Talks page
We've got a couple short talks scheduled for this month, and we've got a new venue, generously provided by ServerCentral.
Joel Berger is going to give a talk on testing any PSGI application with Test::Mojo, Mojolicious's excellent web testing library.
And, Doug Bell is going to give a talk on some simple websocket tricks with Mercury, a WebSocket message broker, Mojolicious and Mojo::UserAgent.
Due to the holidays, our meeting will be on December 10. RSVP on the Chicago.PM Meetup
(EDIT: Slides from the simple WebSocket tricks talk are now available)
This month Doug Bell will be giving a talk on
Git internals, and how they effect how you use Git
commands like commit, merge, pull, and rebase. The presentation
will go over some common errors and explain what they mean, and how
resolving them will affect the internal data of your repository.
This month, Eric Johnson (kablamo) will be giving a talk exploring the Perl testing ecosystem, including how to write tests in Perl, using prove to run tests, TAP (the Test-Anything Protocol), and an exploration of CPAN test libraries including: