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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">PLUG Advanced Topics: Perl 5 & 6 Gems</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2010-06-16T19:00:00" datetime="2010-06-16T19:00:00">Wednesday, June 16, 2010 from 7</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2010-06-16T21:00:00" datetime="2010-06-16T21:00:00">9pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202391197'><span class='fn org p-name'>Roots Organic Brewing [Out of business. *Sigh*]</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">1520 SE 7th</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97214</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1520%20SE%207th,%20Portland%20OR%2097214%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>Perl 5 & 6: What you've missed in the last $n years by Eric Wilhelm and Paul Fenwick</p> <p><a href="http://www.scratchcomputing.com">http://www.scratchcomputing.com</a> <a href="http://www.perltraining.com.au">http://www.perltraining.com.au</a></p> <p>We are honored to have local Perl expert and OSCON presenter Eric Wilhelm and visiting OSCON keynote presenter Paul Fenwick talk about gems you may have been missing in Perl 5 and 6.</p> <p>Eric will present an overview of the Perl 6 project, a snapshot of recent development, how to install Rakudo Perl 6, and samples of what you can do with Rakudo Perl 6 now.</p> <p>Paul writes: Awesome things have been happening in Perl recently; so many that even if you've been paying close attention, you may have missed a few. In this talk we'll examine some of the coolest recent technologies for Perl programmers, including:</p> <ul> <li><p>Overhauling Perl's Object Oriented framework with Moose.</p></li> <li><p>Making everything a first-class object with autobox.</p></li> <li><p>Slashing your error handling code with autodie.</p></li> <li><p>Building fast, readable and reusable regular expressions with Perl 5.10.</p></li> <li><p>Bundling and building stand-alone applications using PAR, the Perl Archiver.</p></li> <li><p>Astonishingly good profiling with Devel::NYTProf.</p></li> <li><p>Playing MineSweeper automatically with App::SweeperBot.</p></li> </ul> <p>Contact Michael Dexter for information: <a href="mailto:dexter@linuxfund.org">dexter@linuxfund.org</a> 503-789-8978</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://pdxlinux.org">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>