Modern Perl

Live Video-stream for the 23 April 2012 Perl / Moose Meetup at Shutterstock!

The revolution will be broadcasted!

Our IT group has managed to setup a public broadcast feed for next week's meetup (which I have announced and discussed previously.)

Let me first say how much I hope this news doesn't discourage people from attending in person.  My goal here is to have a rocking house full of Perlers drinking free beer and eating free pizza.  However, if you can't come and would rather watch other people eat and drink for free, here's a link to the live feed to be:  http://www.livestream.com/shutterstockpublic

I'll also be embedding the link in a post a few days closer to the event.

This live feed is a big experiment for us, we are pretty excited about it, but like all first time things it could go wrong, so again if you want to see the presentation and can come please sign up today!

 

New Version of Catalyst-Authentication-Plugin on the way to CPAN

There's a new version of Catalyst-Authentication-Plugin heading for CPAN.  Version 0.10019 makes some changes to silence some warnings you might see if using a Moose based Catalyst.  It also adds a new included credential called 'NoPassword' which allows you to easily force authentication for a user (handy for creating administrative backdoors).

This is a small change that should not break your existing code.  Please shout out if you have any problems!

I want to thank the Catalyst community on IRC for helping me prep and promote this to CPAN.

Update on Perl / Moose Meetup, celebrity attendees

Just FYI, Stevan Little (the godfather of Moose) has graciously agreed to attend the meetup I spoke of in an earlier post.  So there's another great reason for you to attend.

I also invited Yehuda Katz, who is someone of importance in the Ruby community.  I did so after readying this blog about why I shouldn't invite him.   He hasn't gotten back to me yet.

Did I say you should come and bring you dog?  

Meetup is 23 April 2012 (just a handful of days away!)

Shutterstock hosting a Perl Meetup Monday, 23 April 2012

...And I will be giving a talk on Moose, on all the things I've learned using it, and you will get the chance to see some of my most embarrassing code (and get a good laugh at me).  Additionally I will quote Tolkien and demonstrate the relationship between the the quest to destroy the Ruling Ring and software development. 

Here's the meetup linkage: http://www.meetup.com/The-New-York-Perl-Meetup-Group/events/59990662/

We've hosted a few Meetups here at Shutterstock in the past quarter and they've gone really well.  We even hired someone at the last, so bring your resume!

And regarding spreading the word about this talk: I'd appreciate all the help I can get to let people know about this and encourage people to show up.  Bring yourself!  Bring your children!  Bring your dog!  The last two meetups we had here at Shutterstock covered Javascript projects, and we had good attendance, which has resulted in all the people playing with node.js walking around and gloating about how much more popular node.js is over Perl.  So help me shut them up!  We have 60 people at the last and I am serious about packing the house in support of Modern Perl and Moose.  We will have food, beer, a hiring manager and special bonus awards for whoever comes from the furthest point on Earth, as well as whoever brings the most people.  Plus, I think I'm an awesome presenter, so you have a reasonable chance of learning something, and a very high probability of being entertained.

I'm aiming this talk both at people that know and already praise Perl, as well as people that work at companies that need to support Perl but might not be feeling the love.  So spread the word around!