1.1 Pittsburgh Perl Mongers The {link:Pittsburgh Perl Mongers|http://pgm.pm.org/} group is a fantastic bunch of friendly software developers who meet monthly to discuss interesting developments in the Perl, software, technical, and beverage worlds. Truly, the kind of folks that serious yet fun-loving developers ought to seek out. I have given a few talks for the Perl Mongers: - [Talks/Fun with Numbers – R and Perl (and IMDB data)]. An introduction to the R statistics system and how to use it (with Perl) to analyze IMDB ratings data. - [Talks/Testing Tips with LectroTest]. Some great tips on using LectroTest to make your programming life better. - [Talks/Embedding an XHTML-template language into Perl]. A quick talk about embedded domain-specific languages. Uses Perl and a tiny XML-construction language as subjects. - [Talks/Ruby and Ruby on Rails ? A Perlish First Impression]. My first impressions of Ruby and RoR after a one-month project. - [Talks/Fun with AutoCurry]. A quick talk on a module I hacked up to give Perl currying-like function call semantics. - [Talks/Radio VCR plus iPod equals NPR to Go]. How I used an old radio and some otherwise idle server time to build up an archive of NPR broadcasts, which I then "podcast" to my iPod for later listening. - [Talk - Free Unit Tests In Perl with LectroTest]. In this talk I introduced an automated, specification-based testing tool for Perl that I have been working on. This talk, and LectroTest itself are also in the [LectroTest] portion of the site. - [Talk - Fun with Asterisk and Perl]. In this talk I set up a small network of VoIP telephones using the open-source Asterisk PBX system. Then I showed how you can do some amazing stuff with this simple setup and a little Perl code. - [Talk - Haskell for Perl Hackers]. One of my favorite programming languages is Haskell. The Perl Mongers, being open-minded folks, asked me to tell them why I like it. This talk was my attempt to do just that. - Talk - Functional Templates in Perl. I like functional programming, and I like Perl. Here's a talk in which I showed how you could put the two together to yield a simple, powerful template system. The idea is that you can use a simple transformation to turn templates inside-out, which yields things that look a lot like functions. Then, using the functional-programming idea of currying, we can combine these "functional templates" in a way that lets us easily build the kind of complex templates that many modern web sites require. 2007-06-22 11:35:08.526 2004-03-25 23:26:11.272