Due to the holiday schedule, our last meeting of the year will be Office Hours on December 11, starting at 6:30pm.

RSVP on the Chicago.PM Meetup to talk about Perl, code, and anything that comes up!

Due to the holiday schedule, this month we will be having Office Hours, with no meeting on Thanksgiving.

RSVP on the Chicago.PM Meetup to talk about Perl, code, and anything that comes up!

This month's presentation will be on modern Perl OO and the tools to make object-oriented code easy.

Topics will include

• Simple objects
• Inheritance and roles
• Method modifiers
• Type checking and coercion
• Meta classes

CPAN modules covered:

• Moo
• Role::Tiny
• Type::Tiny
• Moose

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

Update: Slides are available on the talks page

This month, we're doing lightning talks on the topic of "My Dev Environment". Lightning talks are 5-10 minute, informal presentations. Bring your development environment (editor, IDE, operating system, shell, and otherwise) and tell us the most useful parts.

This is not strictly a Perl talk, so if you know someone who'd like to hear some tips, or would like to give some tips, bring them along.

If you'd like to present your dev environment, leave a comment on the ChicagoPM Meetup page.

Office Hours will be on Thursday the 11th. RSVP for Office Hours on the ChicagoPM Meetup page.

This month, brian d foy will be giving a workshop on How to Become a CPAN Author:

Have you wanted to upload a Perl module to CPAN but haven't been sure how to get started? In this workshop, brian d foy (blog, twitter, github) will lead you through the entire process as you upload a real module to CPAN. You'll create a new module, upload it to Github, make some changes, and upload it to CPAN. You'll break your module, upload the broken distribution, then work with others in the class to fix it by sending and merging Github pull requests. Finally, you'll upload the fixed module. By the end of the class you'll probably see your module on MetaCPAN, automatically announced in various places, and you might even get CPAN Testers reports. At every step of the way you'll have someone helping, and you'll even add some comaintainers.

The workshop will be held on Thursday, August 14, just in time for CPAN Day (August 16th).

RSVP for Become a CPAN Author on the Chicago.PM Meetup

With this, we are moving Office Hours to August 28th. Additionally, since having Office Hours on Wednesday has been more confusing than helpful, we will change our meeting schedule from "2nd Wednesday and 4th Thursday" to "2nd and 4th Thursdays".

RSVP for this month's Office Hours on the Chicago.PM Meetup