Milton Keynes Perl Mongers

Welcome to Milton Keynes Perl Mongers. This group exists for anyone in or near to Milton Keynes to have fun learning about the Perl computer programming language.

It doesn't matter how much experience you have with Perl: the group exists for everyone from complete beginners to experienced developers.

Mailing List

Please join our mailing list and introduce yourself to others. You can read the list's archives online.

IRC

If you use IRC, join us at #miltonkeynes.pm on irc.perl.org.

Forthcoming Meetings

We hold social meetings on the last Tuesday of every month where we get together in a pub and talk about various Perl and non-Perl things along with members of the Milton Keynes Linux User Group.

We have a Google Calendar of our events with an iCal feed available.

If you're visiting Milton Keynes and would like to meet up with us, or if you'd like to arrange an impromptu meeting for any reason, please introduce yourself on the mailing list or IRC.

Next Social Meeting

Our next social meeting will take place on Tuesday, 27th May 2008 at Wetherspoon's in Central Milton Keynes. Please come along and say hello.

Next Technical Meeting

We plan to hold another evening of talks in early 2008. Let us know if you would like to present a talk.

Previous Meetings

We held our first technical meeting on Tuesday, 14th March 2006 at SpiraHellic Multimedia featuring the following talks:

• Databases and Perl (Dave Cross)
• Gathering information from the Web with WWW::Mechanize (Tom Hukins)
• Testing Legacy Code (Nik Clayton)
• Integrating Data Sets to Bespoke Applications via XML::Twig (Rod Norfor)

We held our second technical meeting on Tuesday 13th June 2006 at SpiraHellic Multimedia, featuring a the following talks:

• Writing a perl/swig interface to the C++ CLucene search engine [slides as HTML or Powerpoint] (Peter Edwards)
• Beautiful and Unique Snowflakes (Matt Trout)
• Better Living Through Perl (Michael Lush)
• Tracing Code with Aspect.pm (Tom Hukins)
• Perl and the secrets of life (Paul Mooney)

Our third technical meeting took place on Tuesday, 10th October 2006 at SpiraHellic Multimedia featuring the following talks:

• Doing something useful with the secrets of life: structural bioinformatics (Lee Larcombe)
• Playing Games (Robbie Bow)
• What I learned at YAPC Europe (Tom Hukins)
• Using the SVK version control system (Nik Clayton)

Our fourth technical meeting took place at the Open University on Monday, 2nd April 2007:

• Desperately Seeking a Lightweight Perl web Framework (Peter Edwards)
• Testing When You Don't Have Time (Tom Hukins)
• Selenium - An Introduction to Web testing (Barbie)

Our fifth technical meeting took place at the Open University on Thursday, 15th November 2007:

• An Introduction to the Template Toolkit (Dave Cross)
• Projects at the National Museum of Computing (Adam Lowe)
• Notes on Network Monitoring (Oliver Gorwits)