Omaha Dynamic Language Users Group

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We're a bunch of dynamic language enthusiasts that love to get things done! Wonder why everyone is waxing poetic about Ruby, Python, Perl, Smalltalk, Lisp, Javascript, Io, Self, etc.? Join us and find out! Welcoming new members of all skill levels.

Meetings, Presentations

Tuesday April 13 2010, 7pm
UNO's Peter Kiewit Institute (PKI) map
Room PKI 276
1110 South 67th Street
Omaha, NE
Lost? Jay's mobile phone: 402-578-3976

Agenda for April 13 2010:

  • 19:00-19:10 Welcome! Announcements?
  • Food, drink sponsored by: --slot open--
  • Grab a yellow parking pass if you're not feeling rebellious.
  • Randal Schwartz is in town for Infotec, and has agreed to come talk at our little group too. -- SamuelTesla
  • Your presentation / suggestion / request here. Click 'edit'. NOW. :)
  • SIG-beer with Randal "merlyn" Schwartz!

Agenda for May 11 2010:

  • Sam Tesla presents GO and/or Haskell
  • Your presentation / suggestion / request here. Click 'edit'. NOW. :)

Check out our meeting history.

Wish List

Have a topic you wish someone would present on? Add it here.

  • XML manipulation. I'm always looking for cooler ways to read and manipulate large, complex XML documents. --Jhannah 05:47, 8 May 2008 (CDT)
  • Any application of graph theory. --Jhannah 05:47, 8 May 2008 (CDT)
  • Add your wish here!

Volunteers

What have you been working on recently? Willing to give a 5 minute talk on it? Longer? Great! Add yourself here.

  • Jay Hannah. Stuff I like that I've been working with recently (Perl / Bioinformatics):
    • ChemChains sandbox
    • Catalyst the elegant MVC framework, makes web development something you had never expected it to be: Fun, rewarding and quick.
    • DBIx::Class ORM (Object-Relational Mapper) database fanciness. From schemas to OO manipulation in 7 seconds.
    • Moose is a postmodern object system for Perl 5 that takes the tedium out of writing object-oriented Perl.
    • XML::Twig for low-pain XML I/O.
    • POE is a framework for creating event-driven cooperative multitasking programs.
      • An IRC-style chat server in < 50 lines of code.
      • POE + Stomp + Apache Active MQ (JMS (Java Messaging Service)) for complex message queue management.
    • Pick any CPAN package that interests you. I'll learn it and present it. :)
    • Intro to DNA sequence inspection and manipulation w/ BioPerl.
  • Matt Secoske Topics:
    • Languages: Groovy, Ruby [someday: lisp, Io, Javascript, Scala]
    • Web Frameworks in dynamic languages (*ails, etc)
    • Refactoring
    • Design
  • Stephen Haberman Topics
    • Scala hobby project, fakesdb, local/fake version of Amazon SimpleDB (longer)
    • Ruby hobby project, s3fsr, FUSE file system interface to Amazon S3 (shorter)
  • Bryan Roth Topics:
    • Languages: Ruby, JavaScript
    • Frameworks: Rails, Mojo, Prototype
    • Focusing on webOS development.
  • Add yourself here!

Lightning Talks

What is a lightning talk?

Here's the line-up (in no particular order) of people who have volunteered to give a 5 minute presentation on something that interests them.

  • Jay Hannah: recent CLAB, Perl projects.
  • Matt Secoske: ?
  • Corey Spitzer: ?

Alumni

These people rock, but have moved away from Omaha, so have been slid down here. :(

Version Control

We have git and Subversion (SVN) repositories: 

git
   browse
   git clone git://github.com/jhannah/odynug.git
   Then click "pull request" on github and I'll merge your changes in.

svn
   browse
   svn checkout https://clabsvn.ist.unomaha.edu/anonsvn/user/jhannah/dynamic_omaha
   Anonymous read/write is active.

Add your code samples (or whatever) for group discussion / collaboration.  :)

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