BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20100314T020000 RDATE:20100314T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100901T231646Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100908T203000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100908T185300 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100901T231646Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100901T231646Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250459186 DESCRIPTION:speakers: chromatic and Michael Schwern \;\n \;\n This meeting will be two shorter presentations back-to-back. The Modern Perl talk is broadly targetted at beginners and everyday general usage concep ts while the Test::Builder 2 talk will delve much deeper into particular details of Perl's testing system. \;\n \;\nchromatic on Modern Pe rl \;\n Perl masters talk about strange subjects such as whipupitude\ , manipulexity\, context\, lexicals\, and linguistic principles. It may seem that you must be a wizard to apply these notions to your code and d exterously wield Perl's essential strengths. In truth\, these ideas and idioms are deceptively simple: you use them every day when you read or w rite plain English. \;\n Demystifying the linguistic concepts in Per l opens up the doors of Perl mastery. Come learn the philosophy behind P erl's design in order to understand Perl and how to use its unique isms to improve your code. \;\n \;\nSchwern on Test::Builder2 \;\nTe st::Builder is what most Test modules are written with these days. It le ts them quietly coordinate with each other and frees the authors from ha ving to worry about the details. It was written in 2001 and in that deca de there's been an explosion of testing modules. \;\n A decade later \, Test::Builder is starting to show its age and limitations. Its assump tions and biases are restraining the Perl testing community. Perl has mo ved on\, too. When Test::Builder was written\, testing was still a " \;new"\; thing. Now it's a given. We have a real object system now a nd a sophisticated community to take advantage. \;\n Enter Test::Bui lder2. A total rewrite of Test::Builder to remove its biases and let tes t authors do whatever they can dream up while still being the solid iron core of Perl testing and remaining compatible with Test::Builder. It ta kes advantage of things like Mouse (that's a small Moose)\, method wrapp ers and roles. Counter-intuitively\, it does less than Test::Builder doe s while providing more opportunities. \;\n Schwern has a grant for T est::Builder2 from the Perl Foundation and if he doesn't release somethi ng by October they'll break his legs. So he's hoping to generate some co ntributors by showing off the design and code! \;\n \;\nAs always \, the meeting will be followed by social hour at the Lucky Lab. \;\n \n\nTags: perl\, beginners\, testing\n\nImported from: http://calagator. org/events/1250459186 URL:http://pdx.pm.org SUMMARY:Portland Perl Mongers -- Modern Perl + Test::Builder 2 LOCATION:Free Geek: 1731 SE 10th Avenue\, Portland OR 97214 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR