How to Lie Like a Geek speaker: Michael Schwern

Geeks have a special relationship with The Truth. Nothing is more important than correcting a falsehood, no matter how small, and nothing is more odious than not telling The Truth. Unfortunately, in speaking The Whole Truth and Nothing But The Truth, the meaning is often mangled and the end result is the opposite, a lie.

We’ll examine some ways geeks lie while telling The Truth, to themselves and to others, and hopefully achieve better communications, easier to understand interfaces and maybe some personal enlightenment.

Some examples include: Lies by omission, lies by precision, lies by irrelevancy, lies by design, lies with statistics and that most dangerous of words “should” as in “the user should have realized”.

There will be cake. http://tinyurl.com/mermtx

As always, the meeting will be followed by social hour at the LuckyLab

The plan is to have a series of Lighting talks around the topic of "Worst Useful Hack".

Though our only scheduled speaker has come down with the sick so it might just end up being social hour... though if you have any ideas you would like to share please feel free to bring them up on the mailing list or on irc.

Mailing List info: http://pdx.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MailingList

IRC info:

pdx.pm on irc.perl.org

More info on the wiki: http://pdx.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?February2011Meeting

topic: Mock::Quick speaker: Chad 'Exodist' Granum

Mock::Quick: (CPAN, Github) Is a modern mocking library taking advantage of modern Perl interface design.

Topics include: * Quickly throwing together a minimum object to shove somewhere * Mocking a quick, but strict object * Takeover an already loaded class redefining and restoring specific methods * Generate a mocked class that prevents the real one from loading * Anonymous package mocking for a reusable mock * Collecting usage data * Brief overview of internals (the more you know! -=*

Mailing List info: http://pdx.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MailingList

IRC info:

pdx.pm on irc.perl.org

More info on the wiki: http://pdx.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?February2011Meeting

7th-ish Annual-ish Michael G Schwern pdx.pm Presentation

Presentation details to be determined. (Rumored to be about small, furry creatures with antlers aka OOSE.)

As usual, the meeting will be followed by social hour at the Lucky Lab.

"what is this perl5i thing?" MichaelSchwern talks about perl5i with possible hackathon to follow.

As usual, the meeting will be followed by social hour at the Lucky Lab Brew Pub.