Where: ETC, Canton

When: Thursday, July 15th 6:30 PM

What: Perl + Beer

Alan will be giving a talk on some of the P2P work he’s been doing.  Mike might also put together a short talk on what he learned at YAPC::NA 2010.  Baltimore.PM is going to invade CPOSC this year, manning a table for The Perl Foundation.  We’ll present this idea to the group, and probably use the next meeting to sign people up for the table.

Spread the word!

When: Thursday, June 17th 6:30 PM

Where:

Emering Technology Center in Canton
2400 Boston Street
Baltimore, MD 21224

Format is Lightning Talks.  I’ll be doing a talk about Perl Install and Management through a System Configuration Engine like Puppet and cfEngine.

UPDATE: PerlManagement Slides uploaded.

When: Thursday, April 15th 6:30 PM

Where:

Emering Technology Center in Canton
2400 Boston Street
Baltimore, MD 21224

Speaker: Mike Barry  of Refworks / COS

Talk: “What is Modern Perl?”

Please try to make this meeting as we’ll be discussing moving the group to meetup.com or another group scheduling app and new directions for getting Baltimore Area Perl Mongers together in a room.  Drinks at a local watering hole are probable.

If you can’t attend, help get the word out.  This has been a long time coming!

I finally started to use my Twitter account. I’ve noticed the majority of tweets regarding Perl refer to it as torturous or antiquated or both. These tweets are not coming from the Perl echo-chamber of Perl Monks, Perl Mongers, and Perl Conference attendees, but from programmers exposed to Perl against their will. This leaves a bad taste in their mouth, and when they hear “Perl,” their frame of reference is sadly the Matt’s Scripts Era of Perl Development.

I’m using TweetDeck, and I’ve created a search column for “perl.” It gets a decent amount of traffic everyday. I don’t have the time to respond to or even read every tweet about Perl, but I skim them maybe 4 or 5 times a day to find people with Perl problems or Perl frustration and point them in a better direction. If you’re comfortable providing this type of assistance, I’d recommend TweetDeck with the “perl” Search Column as an interesting way to proselytize for Perl. It does mean you’ll be subjected to the occasional teen ranting about “Perl Jam,” and of course you’ll likely writhe in agony at the number of times you see Perl referred to as “PERL.” But if enough of the echo chamber is inundating the Twitterverse with intelligent, modern Perl advice, we might gain even more traction in the Social Media arena.

If you do tweet about Perl, follow HashTags and tag your tweet with “#perl“.

Just a thought, as I haven’t been able to hack in Perl in a few weeks due to other more pressing issues.

I entered myself today.  The goal is blog about Perl atleast once a week.  As I’m splitting my development time between a Catalyst Project and a number of POE projects, I expect my posts to be along those lines.  I’ll eventually share my DBIx::Class scripts as well.  There should be something for everyone, especially @strcpy!  (He loves my Perl blogging).

Look for code related stuff early next week!

Then this weekend, the data center that hosts this server exploded. The site is back up and running now, but there should be a few more hours of downtime on the horizon as they install and integrate a permanent electrical infrastructure to the data center.

Also, I’ve been selected to speak at the Linux World Expo in San Fransisco this year! My talk is “Network Introspection with Open Source Tools.” If you’re going, please stop by and heckle me!

I may start updating this blog at some point.

I’ll be continuing my Proxy Evasion series as soon as I get a chance to put together some screen shots for the tutorial part of the article.

Hopefully that article will be completed relatively soon.

Hope everyone had a great holiday season.

Pick up a copy of this book:

ZeFrank on Terrorism

I can honestly say that they got their money’s worth within just a few presentations. I also met a lot of cool people that were genuinely interested in my work. This is encouraging me to start writing more as well as refactor my code and start a real open source project that currently is unnamed.

I’ll be providing a write up of my notes in a series of YAPC::NA installments. I know it’s nearly a month after, but I was so excited, I spent my time actually implementing new things at work based on what I learned.

I’m a security professional by trade (or so they tell me), and programmer by choice. Expect ramblings on Perl, Security, Programming, Policy, and Management.

It should be fun.