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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Portland Perl Mongers -- h2xs is da bomb + dzil Pod::Weaver</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2012-09-13T18:53:00" datetime="2012-09-13T18:53:00">Thursday, September 13, 2012 from 6:53</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2012-09-13T20:30:00" datetime="2012-09-13T20:30:00">8:30pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202389965'><span class='fn org p-name'>Free Geek</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">1731 SE 10th Avenue</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=1731%20SE%2010th%20Avenue,%20Portland%20OR%2097214%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>speaker: Ian Dees + Joshua Keroes</p> <h2>Ian...</h2> <p> ➜ will cover what it's like for n00bs learning how to create a new Perl module, including:</p> <ul> <li>Where rookies look for "Getting Started" information</li> <li>Which tools we can readily find for the job</li> <li>What kinds of questions we have about namespaces</li> </ul> <p>What Ian would like to do to help:</p> <ul> <li>Listen to your answers</li> <li>Format them into some kind of guide (or supplement an existing one)</li> <li>Hand it to a Perl expert to post in the right place</li> <li>Commit to checking in a couple of times a year to keep the information current</li> </ul> <p> You will be vastly enlightened, or horrified.</p> <h2>Joshua...</h2> <p> ➜ will continue down the Dist::Zilla path of Automated Enlightenment and speak on Pod::Weaver.</p> <p> In July, Duke Leto gave Portland an introduction to Dist::Zilla, demonstrating how it can help write, package, test, and release your modules; automating the boring stuff like figuring out prerequisites, automatically inserting and updating $VERSION's, getting rid of all those meta files and generating them automatically; all good ways to focus on the important stuff: the code.</p> <p> This month, Joshua will show how Pod::Weaver can help automate the boring parts of writing documentation so you can avoid getting bogged down by boilerplate and focus on the important stuff there: the docs.</p> <p>As always, the meeting will be followed by social hour at the Lucky Lab.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://pdx.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?September2012Meeting">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>