SpugMeetings
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Meetings
Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month at various locations.
Pre-Meeting
If you are so inclined, please come to the pre-meeting at the Elephant & Castle pub on 5th & Union. We'll be there from 5-6:19PM.
Meeting Location
Pizza and Beer will be provided at the meeting.
Marchex 413 Pine St, Suite 500 Seattle, WA 98101
The building is just south of Westlake Center. Enter on 4th Avenue, near Pine street. The entry is near the Dog In The Park hotdog stand.
Due to all of the shopping around us there is plenty of parking available in garages, but it can be hard to find street parking in the evening.
We look forward to seeing you!
February 17, 2009, - Making Heat Maps With Perl
Topic: Making Heat Maps With Perl Speaker: Trevor Hall Meeting Date: Tuesday, 16 February 2009 Meeting Time: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Location: Marchex - 4th & Pine
Cost: Admission is free and open to the public Info: http://seattleperl.org/
This month's talk features the exciting adventures of making eye-popping heat maps using the Perls and the edge-of-your-seat development experience that brought Image::Heatmap (not yet released) to the internets for downloading over the File Transfer Protocol [editor: may also be available by http]. In other words, I will tell you how I made this: http://trevor.bluecorral.com/spug/heat/ and what caused me to lose more hair over making it. Free pizza and beer will be provided I hope.
About Trevor
"You can just use this: http://goldenguru.com/team/trevor.html as Ihate talking about myself."
Previous Meetings
January 15, 2008 - Perl Frameworks
Topic: Perl Frameworks Speaker: Various Meeting Date: Tuesday, 15 January 2008 Meeting Time: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Location: Terrace Room at The Harbor Steps
Cost: Admission is free and open to the public Info: http://seattleperl.org/
1. CGI::Application => Andy Sweger 2. HTML::Template => Stephen Blum 3. Template Toolkit => Ingy 4. Mason => Gryphon Shafer 5. DBIx::Class => Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes 6. Catalyst => Colin Meyer 7. Squeak => Josh Jore 8. Moose => Jerry Gay
December 18, 2007 - Perl's 20th birthday
Topic: one( q(Gryphon and Colin give Randal's talk), q(Coder Wars) ) Speaker: Either Gryphon and Colin or a free for all Meeting Date: December 18, 2007 Meeting Time: 6:30 - 8:30 Location: Terrace Room at The Harbor Steps
Cost: Admission is free and open to the public Info: htttp://seattleperl.org/
There will be drinking and food beforehand at Pike Place Brewery under the SPUG party. Also, there will be cake.
November 20, 2007 - Perl 5 Virtual Machine
Topic: Perl 5 Virtual Machine Speaker: Josh Jore Meeting Date: Tuesday, 20 November 2007 Meeting Time: 6:30 - ... Location: Whitepages.com offices, downtown Seattle
Cost: Admission is free and open to the public Info: htttp://seattleperl.org/
Slides are available at http://diotalevi.isa-geek.net/~josh/Presentations/Perl%205%20VM/.
August 21, 2007 - OCD Hacks for Successful Remote Teams
Topic: OCD Hacks for Successful Remote Teams Speaker: J. Gryphon Shafer Meeting Date: Tuesday, 21 August 2007 Meeting Time: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Location: Whitepages.com offices, downtown Seattle
Cost: Admission is free and open to the public Info: http://seattleperl.org/
Learn how to use obsessive compulsiveness to lead or participate in a successful remote team. Hacks include managing distance and culture issues, useful technical tools, hiring standards and practices, style guides and code reviews, and more. Learn how to build a successful remote team and pitch telecommuting to entrenched leadership.
Gryphon Shafer is the Director of Technology for Petfinder, part of Animal Planet, Discovery Communications. He leads his department as a fully-telecommute organization spread across the country and works out of his home in Port Orchard.
July 17, 2007 - New Features in Perl 5.10
Topic: New Features in Perl 5.10 Speaker: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes Meeting Date: Tuesday, 17 July 2007 Meeting Time: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Location: Whitepages.com offices, downtown Seattle
Cost: Admission is free and open to the public Info: http://seattleperl.org/
This month, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes will be describing what's new in Perl 5.10. It promises to be an interesting, informational and even entertaining discussion.
March 20, 2007 -- The New Kwiki
Topic: The New Kwiki Meeting Date: Tuesday, 20 March 2007 Meeting Time: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Location: Whitepages.com offices, downtown Seattle
Cost: Admission is free and open to the public Info: http://seattleperl.org/
Please join us this coming Tuesday evening on the 20 of March 2007 at the regular monthly meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group. This month Ingy (http://ingy.net) will be telling us all about the new Kwiki (http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/Kwiki). Thanks, Ingy!
So, come one and all! Bring your favorite JAPH! Or perhaps even better, bring a NON-JAPH!....No, wait that can't better....Anyway, just bring 'em! And help become a part of all things SPUG.
February 20, 2007 -- Hacking Session
Time: 1830-2030 Location: Whitepages.com offices, downtown Seattle
Please join us Tuesday evening on the 20 February 2007 at the regular monthly meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group. This month will be a hacking session (for real this time!). The goal is to create a few simple tools to automate the SPUG meeting announcements (e.g. sending a message to the list and updating the web page).
January 20, 2007 -- Hacking Session
Please join us Tuesday evening on the 16 January 2007 at the regular monthly meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group. This month we'll have an informal get together, to discuss our current projects and have a hacking session.
Past Meetings
- February 17th, 2009: Creating Heatmaps With Perl
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006

