Agenda
On 14 August, 2003, the Israeli Perl Mongers held their regular monthly meeting. The program:
- 18:00-19:00 -- Assembly and light refreshments
- Shlomi Fish: "Finding the Graham Function"
- Ran Eilam: "A Project I did for Dapey Zahav"
- Itzik Lerner: "YAPC::EU::2003 Experiences"
Location:
Report
- Itzik Lerner
- Kfir Lavy
- Mikhael Goikhman
- Oded Reznik
- Pinhas Nisanov
- Ran Eilam
- Ronen Kfir
- Shlomi Fish
- Thomas Maier
We met at Dapey Zahav at around 18:00. At the beginning there was
only Ran Eilam, Mikhael Goikhman and I. After a while Ronen Kfir
came and afterwards other people. We talked outside on various
subjects including holding a persistent connection on HTTP/1.1,
Subversion and Freecell.
There were some problems in getting the laptop to do demonstrations.
While the web worked fine, we could not get SSH and Telnet to work
(apparently, the ports were blocked by the firewall). Eventually,
Itzik Lerner brought a laptop of his own, which had perl installed
on it, which solved our problems.
I started with a lecture about finding the Graham Function. It involved
some concepts from Number Theory and Linear Algebra, so I don't know
how much people understood. But I think it went pretty well. Some interesting
issues were left to be investigated, like what is the length of the maimal
Graham series.
Then, Ran Eilam came and gave us a longish lecture about a project he
did for Dapey Zahav to analyze the results that were retrieved by the
searches. It covered several distinct aspects of the project, and he
talked about testing and good coding style extensively. We saw an
instance of a relatively funky code (a chained data structure access
with some ||=), which I'll let him paste here.
Afterwards, Itzik Lerner took the stage, and talked about his experiences
in YAPC::EU::2003. It was a fun talk, and he brought many interesting
and funny anecdotes.
This meeting summary was written by Shlomi Fish.