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Future Dates:

• January 22, 2008 - City
  Simple Photo Processing and Web Display with Perl
  

  Kent will be talking about "Simple Photo Processing and Web Display with Perl". He has a small photo gallery on his website and shares some steps he used in creating a nearly automatic workflow of getting pictures from his camera to his gallery using Perl.

  Making an appearance in the discussion: Imager, MIME::Lite, Email::MIME::Attachment::Stripper, Image::ExifTool, Flickr, AJAX, and Chuck Norris.

  Kent is a software engineer and sometimes system administrator, presently plying his perl programming prowess at Performics in Chicago.

  He has a beautiful wife Lisa, a little black poodle/terrier mix named Spike, and two cats named Shadow and Butterscotch, all of which provide plenty of excuses to refine and hone his photography and photographic gallery chops.

  If you haven't been to a meeting before, please RSVP to jmcadams at performics dot com so that you won't get harassed by security at the door :)

• February 12, 2008 - Wheaton
  The JavaScript Renaissance Part 2: The Browser, by Frederick Polgardy
  

  What comes to mind when think of JavaScript? Broken web sites, browser incompatibilities, and brittle spaghetti code? It doesn't have to be this way anymore! Last time we learned about some powerful features of JavaScript, the language. In Part II of our exploration, we'll be focusing on JavaScript in its native habitat -- the Web browser. We'll look at the Document Object Model, and how it enables us to dynamically create and modify web page content. We'll learn about the DOM Event Model, and how it gives us the capability to capture and respond to user input. We'll also take a brief look at XMLHttpRequest, the technology that makes Ajax possible, and see how to communicate with the server without ever leaving the page. Along the way, we'll grapple with browser incompatibility issues, and see how libraries like Prototype and jQuery help us navigate the waters.

• February 26, 2008 - City
  

  Getting To Know Perl 5.10
  

  Late 2007 we saw the 20th anniversary of the release of Perl, as well as, the release of the latest stable version of Perl, Perl 5.10. Come hear about the new features that are available in Perl 5.10 and see some of them in action.

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Standard Meeting Locations

Wheaton
IIT - Rice Campus
201 East Loop Road
Wheaton, IL
Directions

These meetings are held in conjunction with Uniforum Chicago's Perl Special Interest Group (PerlSIG). We are grateful to Uniforum for obtaining the space for us.

After the meeting, come join us at CozyMel's for socializing.

City
Performics
180 North LaSalle, 12th Floor
Chicago, IL

To attend meetings at Performics, you must register in advance. Please see individual meeting announcements for reservation instructions.

For questions about this or any other upcoming meeting, please email Andy Lester at andy@petdance.com.

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Notes From Past Meetings

• The JavaScript Renaissance Part I: The Core Language: Frederick Polgardy (2008.01.08)
• Make Your Own CPAN: brian d foy (2007.10.23)
• Development Tool Roundup: Andy Lester, et al (2007.10.09)
• Development Process Lessons from Open Source: Andy Lester (2007.09.11)
• Writing Perl::Critic Policies: Josh McAdams (2007.08.28)
• Perl Unit and Functional Testing: Kent Cowgill (2007.08.14, 2007.09.25)
• Lightning Talks: Various (2007.07.31)
• WWW::Mechanize: Andy Lester (2007.07.10)
• Past meetings on the wiki (Jan-Jun 2007)
• Red Flags Code Review World Tour: Mark Jason Dominus (2006.02.06)
• Get To The Point: Ruby On Rails: John W. Long (2005.10.18)
• Lightning Talks: Various Perl Mongers
• Camelbones 101: Jim Thomason (2004.05.04)
• UniqueId: Alan De Smet (2004.04.06)
• Class::DBI: Jay Strauss (2004.03.02)
• The Perl Object Environment: Jonathan Steinert (2004.02.03)
• Module Building 101: Andy Lester (2004.01.06)
• Some Notes on Using the Perl Debugger: Steven Lembark (2003.12.02)
• A Field Guide to Perl Command Line Switches: Andy Lester (2003.11.04)
• Perl Blogging Techniques: Jason Gessner (2003.09.15) code samples
• Biometric Data Set Comparisons in Perl: Steven Lembark (2003.08.18)
• A Look at PerlPoint: Mike Fragassi (2003.07.21)
• Managing Your Resume With Perl: Brian Katzung (2003.06.16)
• Automated Testing With Perl: Testing Perl and Beyond: Andy Lester (2003.05.19)
• Introduction to SOAP: Ed Summers (2003.04.21)

Idea for a Tech Meeting

If you would like to share information on a particular topic at a chicago.pm meeting, or if you would like someone else to present information on a particular topic please join the discussion list and send us an email. You can also let us know on the wiki at Presentations Wanted.