Pittsburgh Perl Mongers

Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Meeting | Thursday Dec 13, 2007 at 7:00

* This months Technical Gathering 7:00 pm *

* Location *

Slaymaker Systems, Inc.
4914 Baum Blvd.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
slaysys.com

* Talks *

* Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 08 *

* Scripting Selenium for Dynamic Snapshots - Casey West *

So you have a rich Internet application? You Web 2.0? You Ajax? Of
course you are. "Give it a REST," you're thinking to yourself right now.
Now you've got a dilemma. Of course you're already writing functional
tests against the web interface - which degrades nicely because you love
humans - but you can't test the Ajax bits. You need a web browser for
that, and that means you need a human. Crap!

Not anymore! I'm going to show you how to use Selenium to interact with
a rich internet application. You can write tests this way and you can do
other things. I'll show you testing briefly, but once you can control
the browser - and with the help of Perl and CPAN - you can do quite a
few other things as well.

In particular, I'm going to show you how I build the Socialtext CSS Kit,
a static, downloadable rapid design tool which lets you redesign a
Socialtext Wiki without access to the server back-end and without having
to run any of the code. You can skin static views, but thanks to browser
control I can render a view of the wiki at almost any stage such as when
an editor is invoked, when a drop down list has been activated, etc.

I'll also run through all the Perl code to massage the HTML, download
all the referenced assets, and many other fun tricks. If we have time
we'll even design a new, attractive interface to Socialtext. We might as
well end with some eye candy and go for drinks feeling like a Web 2.0
Rock Str.

* This months Social Gathering 8:00 pm *

This months social we will meet up with the the Pittsburgh Coding Dojo,
http://pghcodingdojo.org/index.php/Main_Page.

The Church Brew Works
3525 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pa. 15201
412.688.8200
http://churchbrew.com

Yes there will be a Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2008. Subscribe to the
Workshop RSS feed at http://pghpw.org.

Meetings are held on the second Thursday of the month starting at 7:00pm.

Need more info you can call Robert Blackwell at 412.231.5501.
Subscribe to the mailing list for the most up to date information
http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pgh-pm.

This months Pittsburgh Perl Mongers meeting will be a meeting up with the DevHouse Pittsburgh #1.

When: Thursday, November 8, 2007, 6pm - midnight

Where: Rivers Club, One Oxford Centre, 301 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA

More information can be found here.

http://devhousepgh.org/

Hope to see you there.

Don't forget the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is this weekend.
All the details can be found on the website, http://pghpw.org. Hope
to see you there.
If you are planning on going it would be great if you could sign up
today.

*Social/Technical Gathering*

Our meetings are open to anyone interested in Perl, the talk topic,
beer, geekdom, etc. Please
join us.

*Location*

Professional/Amateur Pinball Association's (PAPA) World Headquarters
501 Keystone Dr.
Carnegie, PA 15106
Thursday, October 11th
19:00

We will be meeting on-site at the Professional/Amateur
Pinball Association's (PAPA) World Headquarters located in Carnegie,
PA. Meeting time will still
be at 7:00

For more information about PAPA, including driving directions, please
go to http://papa.org

Meeting Thursday Aug 9, 2007 at 7:00.

There will not be Technical Gathering this month only a social.

* This months Social Gathering 7:00 pm *

The Church Brew Works
3525 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pa. 15201
412.688.8200
http://churchbrew.com

Important dates:
Next Pittsburgh Perl Monger Meeting Thu, Sept 13, 2007 07:00
Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 07 Sat Oct 13 - Sun Oct 14

Subscribe to the Workshop rss feed at http://pghpw.org.

Our meets are open for anyone to enjoy. Please join us for one or
both of these gatherings.

Meetings are held on the second Thursday of the month starting at
7:00pm.

Meeting Thursday July 12, 2007 at 7:00

* This months Technical Gathering 7:00 pm *

* Location *

Slaymaker Systems, Inc.
4914 Baum Blvd.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
slaysys.com

* Talks *

* Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 07 - Robert Blackwell *

Update on the workshop this year. Your feedback is requested.

* Abuse Perl - Casey West *

Perl loves to be abused. You can beat it, kick it, and spit on it,
and Perl will always say "I'm sorry" first. Under most circumstances
we're taught to avoid abusing Perl. You know, just yell at it instead
of throwing it down the stairs. In this talk we're not taking no for
an answer, and we're going to pull your hair, Perl!

I'm going to show you a lot of ways to abuse Perl that you may
already know. What Perl doesn't want you to know is that you can use
these tricks to your benefit, for your own good! Shut up, Perl!

Learn how to make Perl answer these questions, wether it likes it or
not:

* how can we replace a base class of the package we're subclassing?
* how can I replace methods and functions in another object directly?
* how can I monitor what code does to my variable?
* how can I inject debugging in other code?
* how can I customize an open source project without touching any of
its code?

Go ahead, slap Perl around a little!

* This months Social Gathering 8:30 pm *

* Location *

TBD. Suggestions welcomed.

Important dates:
Next Pittsburgh Perl Monger Meeting Thu, Aug 9, 2007 07:00
Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 07 Sat Oct 13 - Sun Oct 14

Subscribe to the Workshop rss feed at http://pghpw.org.

Our meets are open for anyone to enjoy. Please join us for one or
both of these gatherings.

Meetings are held on the second Thursday of the month starting at
7:00pm.

Need more info you can call Robert Blackwell at 412.231.5501.
Subscribe to the mailing list for the most up to date information
http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pgh-pm.

Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Meeting | Thursday Feb 8, 2007

* This months Technical Gathering 7:00 pm *

* Location *

Slaymaker Systems, Inc.
4914 Baum Blvd.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
slaysys.com

* Talks *

* Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 07 Themes - Tom Moertel *

Tom will be going over possible designs for the Workshop this year. Your feedback is requested.

* Clean your GNU Screen with AJAX - Robert Blackwell *

GNU Screen is a great tool but a little AJAX and perl can really clean it up and release even more power.

In this talk I will show how to manipulate your screen environments with AJAX in the spirit of GTD, Getting Things Done.

* This months Social Gathering 8:30 pm *

* Location *

The Church Brew Works
3525 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pa. 15201
412.688.8200
churchbrew.com

Our meets are open for anyone to enjoy. Please join us for one or both of these gatherings.

Meetings are held on the second Thursday of the month starting at 7:00pm.

Dan Wright writes:

I'll be giving a talk this Wednesday at our PGH-PM meeting about the fastest growing sport in the U.S, Curling! And at the same time, I'll also be talking about how I use Perl to help me in my game.

12/13/06 7:00pm @ Slaymaker Systems -- Be there!

Bring books for the book giveaway we'll be doing, too! See you on Wednesday!

Welcome to the new home of the Pittsburgh Perl Mongers. We will be posting the details of our Annual December book giveaway very soon. It will be held on Wednesday, December 13th at our usual meeting place. Check back for details.