It's that time of the month again. Time for the regular gathering of the slightly irregular Perl Mongers in San Diego.
People will begin descending on Panera Bread in Mira Mesa on Monday, 11 June 2007 at 7:00pm (and generally stay until they've had enough, or 9:00pm, whichever comes first). We've had a great turnout all year, so feel free to join us. You're guaranteed to have a great time. And, if you don't, you'll receive a full refund of your membership dues[0]. Directions and such can be found on our web site, SanDiego.pm.org.
Sadly, I won't be able to attend this month's meeting. My day job is sending me to Toronto for training. I'll be in our #SanDiego.pm channel on Freenode, attending the meeting remotely. Hopefully a few of my camel compatriots will keep me up to date on all the happenings.
[0] Membership dues for the San Diego chapter of the Perl Mongers is $0.00 per annum.
Re:welcome..
cgrau on 2007-06-12T11:58:19
Thank you for the welcome.
:-) I'm hoping to squeeze out enough time to see more of the city; maybe visit a few pubs downtown.
Unfortunately, I'm only in Toronto until Friday the 15th. Next time I'll try to get my company to schedule my trip around the Toronto Perl Mongers meeting.
As promised, I didn't make it to the meeting. However, my one loyal friend and fellow Perl Monger, Dan, did attend and dutifully logged into our IRC channel, #SanDiego.pm on Freenode.
18:54:58 * sirhc hopes someone logs in from the meeting
19:52:44 -!- drisse [n=dan@64.241.37.140] has joined #SanDiego.pm
19:52:51 <@sirhc> hey!
19:52:57 < drisse> howdy!
19:53:04 <@sirhc> i didn't think anyone was going to log on
19:53:28 < drisse> hehe, I was a bit late is all, and waited until I finished eating
19:53:56 <@sirhc> probably a good call
19:54:01 <@sirhc> greasy keyboards suck
19:54:19 <@sirhc> so how's the meeting?
19:54:56 < drisse> it's pretty interesting
19:55:05 <@sirhc> cool
19:55:11 < drisse> There are 6 of us here, 3 of which I've never seen before
19:55:16 <@sirhc> nice
19:56:30 <@sirhc> what's being discussed?
19:57:03 <@sirhc> apparently every bar in canada has hoegaarden on tap
19:57:07 <@sirhc> i'm very happy here
19:57:31 < drisse> a few strange issues with sending messages not using the from address but using the userid of the current process
19:57:55 <@sirhc> that's typical when using sendmail or what-not
19:58:04 <@sirhc> need to pass a flag to read the headers from stdin
19:58:06 < drisse> Bar Camp, which is some sort of open conference that happened last week
19:58:26 < drisse> no, it was using SMTP via some standard CPAN module
19:58:37 <@sirhc> ah
20:01:22 < drisse> I found a bug with Readonly today
20:01:40 <@sirhc> what's the bug?
20:01:51 < drisse> This doesn't make the variable Readonly correctly:
20:03:23 < drisse> Readonly my $foo_rh => { a => 1 };
20:04:52 <@sirhc> tricky
20:05:01 <@sirhc> i bet you couldn't assign a new reference to $foo_rh
20:05:46 < drisse> yeah, that was my guess too
20:05:59 < drisse> that it wasn't a deep readonly, just a single level one
20:06:11 <@sirhc> but it breaks entirely?
20:06:38 < drisse> Not breaks, as much as doesn't break
20:06:52 < drisse> This runs without throwing errors:
20:07:03 < drisse> Readonly my $foo_rh => { a => 1 };
20:07:12 < drisse> $foo_rh->{a} = 2;
20:08:55 <@sirhc> i'd expect as much. does 2 get assigned?
20:09:07 < drisse> I actually figured out how to patch it and correct it already and sent a patch of the.pm file and the .t file, so with luck it will be fixed shortly
20:09:20 <@sirhc> nice
20:14:07 < drisse> Now we're talking about ways to resize images
20:14:26 <@sirhc> ImageMagick is great for that
20:14:28 < drisse> Image::Magick doesn't seem to work efficiently.
20:14:38 <@sirhc> in what way?
20:14:53 < drisse> Someone thought it would be worth exploring using PDL instead
20:14:53 <@sirhc> i've had some success with Imager, but haven't used it much
20:37:55 <@sirhc> well, it's late here and i have another late morning, so i'm going to crash
20:38:05 <@sirhc> enjoy the rest of the meeting. say hi for me
20:38:07 < drisse> alright
20:38:14 < drisse> talk to you later
20:38:17 <@sirhc> see ya
20:43:21 < drisse> you are being mocked mercilessly for going to bed early
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