Re: [Philadelphia-pm] Monday Meeting?

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

Sounds great, but I'm afraid my cold/allergies have gotten the best of
me today. I'm too sniffley to meetup tonight. I'll be heading right
home after I'm done at work.

Walt

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 06:03:37PM +0000, Mark Dominus wrote:
> 
> Maybe I should say what my talk will be about.
> 
>       Red Flags
> 
>       About ten years ago I was working on a second book:
> 
>       	    Most programmers write the first code that comes into
>       	    their heads. It's pretty bad code. If you add a second
>       	    phase, in which you edit the code, tighten it up, and trim
>       	    out the unnecessary stuff, the result is much better. This
>       	    book will teach you how to do that.
> 
>       I would get a PM group to send me some code samples, then I
>       would make their code better and write a talk about it, and go
>       visit them and give the talk.
> 
>       The book didn't get published.  Tonight I'll show a detailed
>       example of how to clean up a Perl module written by someone
>       else.  Then I'll tell a sad story, and I'll make a surprising
>       announcement.
> 
> 
> The book web site is at http://perl.plover.com/flagbook/ if anyone is
> interested in seeing what didn't come to pass.
> 
> 
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