Upcoming Presentations

November 2012

Parsing in Perl, or So You Want to Write a Compiler Tuesday, November 20, 2012

After getting the scary terms like "lexing" and "abstract syntax tree" out
of the way, segway into a comparison of Perl parsing strategies for a
simple Lisp-like language.  The presenter will make every attempt to
pretend to be a tenured professor of Computer Science, though he won't be
fooling anyone by the end.

December 2012

Rebuilding pages for mobile devices Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Rebuilding pages for mobile devices
   -- Making mountains into molehills

With the onslaught of mobile devices and the
web traffic they bring, any site which doesn't
address the interface issues that arise will
likely lose traffic.  There several possible
solutions to this issue; and many reasons
for choosing one.  I will be discussing a 
project where we chose to make minimal 
server side changes and implement large
changes at the client browser via javascript.

January 2013

Wing - A new way to make web services Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Have you ever had to make a web app, or a web service? Quite a pain in the ass right? Wing aims to change all that. Wing is a new way to make RESTful web services, and web apps using Perl, DBIx::Class, Moose, and Dancer. 

Madison Area Perl Mongers