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.

Please subscribe to our mailing list or join our IRC channel to keep up to date with meeting announcements.

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, 28th September 2010 at Wetherspoon's in Central Milton Keynes. Please come along and say hello.

Next Technical Meeting

Our next technical meeting will take place on Tuesday, 12th October 2010. More details will appear here soon.

Previous Meetings

Our thirteenth technical meeting took place on Tuesday, 15th June 2010 featuring the following talks:

• Introduction to CouchDB (Jon Allen)
• Catalyst::Engine::Stomp and MooseX::Workers (Paul Mooney)
• Using What I Learned From Previous Technical Meetings (Tony Edwardson)
• Lightning Talks:
  • The Android Scripting Environment (Benjamin Martin)

Our twelfth technical meeting took place on Tuesday, 9th February 2010 at the Open University:

• Practical Android Development - An Introduction (Ziya Suzen)
• conntrack, Netfilter, NetFlow and NAT under Linux (Oliver Gorwits)
• Lightning Talks:
  • Using HTTP::Async for Parallel HTTP Requests (Colin Bradford)
  • Do Repeat Yourself. Sometimes. (Tom Hukins)

Our eleventh technical meeting took place on Thursday, 15th October 2009 at the Open University:

• Teaching Perl - Experiences, Anecdotes and Vague Conclusions (Dave Cross)
• How I Maintain my CPAN Modules (Dave Cross)
• Load Balancing with Perlbal (Katherine Spice)
• Using Moose to Build Object Oriented Applications (Tony Edwardson)
• Lightning Talks:
  • A New User's Perspective on Catalyst (Benjamin Martin)
  • Creating Thumbnail Images with Catalyst (Jon Allen)

Our tenth technical meeting took place on Tuesday, 14th July 2009 at the Open University:

• Data Warehousing with Perl: Archiving and analysing large data sets from a popular online business (Colin Bradford)
• Using local::lib to let users manage modules without needing root access (Oliver Gorwits)
• The future of DBIx::Class, a database object relational mapper for Perl (Matt Trout) [slides]
• Lightning Talks:
  • Using WWW::Mechanize to automate interacting with Web sites, from the perspective of a non-Perl programmer (Ian Cameron)
  • Managing database queries with SQL::Library (Tony Edwardson)
  • Code, Comments and Commit Messages (Tom Hukins)

We held our ninth technical meeting at the Open University on Thursday, 16th April 2009:

• Distributed caching with memcached to improve performance and scale web applications (Colin Bradford)
• Developing cross platform GUI applications with WxWidgets (Peter Edwards)
• Moose - the new way to use Object orientation from Perl 5 (Tony Edwardson)
• Using CPAN's toolchain to improve your own code (Tom Hukins)

We held our eighth technical meeting at the Open University on Tuesday, 13th January 2009:

• Online Retail with Perl (Jon Allen from Penny's Arcade)
• Lightning Talks:
  • Specifying Module Versions with only.pm (Tony Edwardson)
  • Chart::Gnuplot (Rod Norfor)
  • memcached (Colin Bradford)
  • Creating PDF files with Catalyst (Jon Allen)
  • Exceptions (Peter Edwards)
  • Building Your Own Perl (Tom Hukins)

We held our seventh technical meeting at the Open University on Monday, 8th October 2008:

• Perl in RPM Land (Dave Cross)
• SQL and MySQL (Robbie Bow)
• Testing With Perl (Barbie)
• Lightning Talks:
  • Robbie's Little Helpers (Robbie Bow)
  • Logging with Perl (Tom Hukins)
  • The New CPAN Testers Report Site (Barbie)

Our sixth technical meeting took place at the Open University on Tuesday, 8th July 2008:

• An Introduction to DBIx::Class (Tom Hukins)
• Real Life Cross-Platform Testing (Peter Edwards)
• Source Filters (Tony Edwardson)
• What I Did On My Holidays (Oliver Gorwits)

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)

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 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)

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)

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)