This month,Doug Bell (preaction) () gave a talk about the Mojolicious web framework, the Yancy CMS, the PODViewer documentation renderer, and the Mojolicious export command.

Slides for the talk are available at Doug's website

This month,Jason A Crome (cromedome) () will be showing the work he's done on a Perl web client for the Parsely RPG system. Parsely games are much like the text adventures of yore. Jason will go over how Perl helped him build the client, and the modules and design decisions that went into the project.

RSVP on the Chicago.PM Meetup. Doors open at 6:30pm. Talk starts at 7:00pm.

This month, Doug Bell will be talking about a CSS feature newly-supported by browsers: The flexible box (flexbox). Flexboxes makes laying out rows or columns fast and easy. Simple things become much easier, and even complex layouts become simple and responsive for a variety of display devices like phones and tablets. If you haven't learned anything about CSS in the last few years, or if you know the pain of using CSS floats, come learn about flexbox!

Doug Bell has been developing websites since the time of table layouts and spacer GIFs (pronounced "jifs"). He's developed websites professionally for 10 years, and is the organizer of the #css support community on the Freenode IRC network.

This month is The Perl Conference (formerly YAPC). Because of this, we have to move our meeting to June 29th. At the meeting we'll discuss the talks and announcements from the conference over food and drinks! RSVP for the meeting on our Meetup page.

If you haven't already, be sure to join the Chicago Perl Mongers on Slack using http://chicagotechslack.com. We're in the #perl channel, and I'll be talking about the things I see at the conference.

This month's presentation will be on MySQL Database Performance:

Let's face it, when it comes to databases, developers and DBAs don't often see eye-to-eye. This talk will help bridge the gap using a common goal, "Database Performance".

If you're a developer, you've probably used a query that was performing poorly. Many times the solution is seeking help from a DBA. The DBA performs some magic behind a curtain, and all the sudden the query is running fast. Wouldn't it be nice to take a peek behind the curtain to see the magic being performed? During this talk, we'll discuss several aspects of the database that can affect performance. This includes schema design, indexes, and queries. We'll also look at some real life examples of slow performance and performance solutions.

Jeremy Glick is a MySQL Database Engineer at ZipRecruiter. Before that, he worked as a consultant for various technology companies with systems ranging from dozens to hundreds of database servers. Jeremy is also the organizer of the Chicago MySQL Meetup. He holds multiple MySQL certifications and is a RedHat RHCE.

RSVP on the Chicago.PM Meetup

Due to Joel and Doug being at the Perl Toolchain Summit, we have to cancel the Office Hours this month. We'll have Office Hours again next month.