June 2013 Archives

Perl Mongers Meetings via Google Hangout

This past Thursday we tried something new at Toronto.pm We decided to try having our in-person meeting also available online via Google Hangout. So far all feedback has been positive and it allowed us to have a meeting of 15 people rather than just the 10 who made the trip to our usual location. We had participants from as far as Texas and Alberta as well as some local mongers who weren't able to make it to the location but were still interested in the topic being presented.

We're going to make a few tweaks to the setup in the actual meeting room in order to let the online particip…

Ab(Using) the MetaCPAN API for Fun and Profit v2013

I'll be speaking about using (and abusing) the MetaCPAN API on day 2 of YAPC::NA. If you think you might be attending (or even if you're not), I thought I'd post some links to some helpful info. No, you don't need to do any prep for this talk, but for those who are interested, this is just some background info that will help you get your head around MetaCPAN.

This talk will touch on and expand on some of the points I discussed last year, so you could have a quick look at ="http://www.slideshare.net/oalders/abusing-the-metac…

About Olaf Alders

user-pic I hack on MetaCPAN, CPAN modules and other fun stuff.