Re: Reminder -- Mark's Red Flags talk TONIGHT

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

Another reminder in case you missed it -- Mark's talk is tonight.

Walt

On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 09:32:29PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> Just a reminder that Mark Dominus's Red Flags Tour will be rolling
> into Philadelphia Tuesday night.  We'll be meeting at 7 PM in our
> usual spot at ISI, but we'll be meeting on Tuesday instead of Monday
> like we usually do.
> 
> Mark already has enough code samples for his talk, but here's the
> announcement we sent out last month to give you an idea of what this
> is all about.
> 
> Walt
> 
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 03:20:05PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > As you may have heard, Mark is writing a new book on refactoring
> > Perl.  To help him prepare material for his book, he's doing a talk at
> > a different Perl Mongers group each month this year.
> > 
> > His "Red Flags Tour" rolls into Philadelphia next month.  He'll be
> > speaking at phl.pm on March 21.  Note that this is a *Tuesday* and not
> > our more typical Monday night meeting time.
> > 
> > The reason we're announcing this so early is that Mark is doing a
> > fresh talk each month based on code submitted by the local groups, and
> > so he needs time to prepare.  He asks that you send him code by
> > February 28, so have 3 weeks to work on it.
> > 
> > Can someone at ISI make sure the room is available on March 21?
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Walt
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Forwarded message from Mark Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com> -----
> > 
> > To: Walt Mankowski <walt@cs.drexel.edu>
> > Subject: Please schedule and announce
> > Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 14:14:16 -0500
> > From: Mark Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>
> > Subject: Please help me write my new book!
> > 
> > Dear Mongers,
> > 
> > I'm writing a new book, which I hope will be published in 2007.  It's
> > about code review and refactoring in Perl.  (For more complete
> > information, please see http://perl.plover.com/flagbook/ .)
> > 
> > To do this right, I need real examples of real code that other people
> > wrote.  I'll review the code and fix it up, and explain in the book
> > what I did and why.
> > 
> > I have about half the examples that I need.  I hope that the Perl
> > community can provide the other half.
> > 
> > For rest of the year, I'll be travelling around speaking to Perl
> > Mongers groups about this.  I'd like to give about one talk each month
> > for the rest of the year.
> > 
> > Each month, I prepare to give a talk for a different PM group.  Some
> > of the group members send me some example code ahead of time.  Then I
> > read over the code, write up a talk about how I think it could be
> > improved, and come visit the group and give the talk.  Afterwards, I
> > write up a book chapter about the code, incorporating the points that
> > the PM group raised when I gave the talk.
> > 
> > My talk schedule wouldn't be complete without a visit to my home group
> > in Philadelphia.  Walt has scheduled my talk for Tuesday, 21 March, 2006.
> > I need your contributions by Tuesday, 28 February.
> > 
> > Full details about what I need are at:
> > 
> >         http://perl.plover.com/flagbook/contribute.html
> > 
> > To contribute, send code to:
> > 
> >         mjd@plover.com
> > 
> > Questions?   Send them to:
> > 
> >         mjd@plover.com
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
>

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