Agenda
On 14 October, 2004, the Israeli Perl Mongers held their regular monthly meeting. The program:
- 18:00-19:00 -- Assembly and light refreshments
- 19:00-20:15 -- Uri bruck will lecture about HTML::EP - a system for embedding Perl into HTML.
- 20:15-20:30 -- Break and refreshments
- 20:30-21:45 -- Gabor Szabo lectured about Installing Perl and CPAN Modules.
- As usual after the meeting we will go out to a nearby pub/coffee-shop/etc. for a post-meeting social gathering.
Location:
Report
- Gabor Szabo
- Kfir Lavi
- Meron Cohen
- Mikhael Goikhman
- Oded Resnik
- Offer Kaye
- Ran Eilam
- Sagiv Barhoom
- Shaul Karl
- Shlomi Fish
- Thomas Maier
- Uri Bruck
- Yishay Weiss
There were 13 people in the October meeting, but enough arguments for 26 people :-)
The first lecture was given by Uri Bruck and was about
HTML::EP.
Uri started by giving an introduction to HTML::EP, how it helps web developers and how
it helped him in a project he once did. Uri showed how HTML::EP code integrates into
the website's HTML code and how he used HTML::EP to build a website from the ground
up. Some of the people didn't like the similarity between HTML::EP and PHP, or the
fact that it is a pretty old module. In any case Uri did a good job introducing
us to another Perl based templating system, and certainly showed us a lot of code
examples. HTML::EP may not be perfect, but at least now I have a head-start if I ever
choose to use it. The slides can be found
here.
Next up was Gabor, who talked about
Installing Perl and CPAN Modules. Gabor's lecture was pretty long, because he actually
installed a brand new perl 5.8.5 during the lecture, followed by installation of CPANPLUS,
the all-dancing/singing wonder module which is supposed to replace CPAN.pm sometime in
the future...
Due to firewall problems Gabor couldn't show us in real time the process of submitting
module installation reports using CPANPLUS to the
CPAN Testers database, but he did explain the process to us, and told us about his
brand-new module, CPAN::Nargile.
After the technical meeting wrapped most of us continued the evening in a nearby
branch of Arcaffe, where
we had a great time discussing all kinds of Perl and Open-Source related stuff. Ran
Promised me he'd send the list an article about Aspect Oriented Programming, and
after a few days
he did.
This meeting summary was written by your ever cheerful Israel.pm PR person - Offer Kaye.