Internals of Perl Core Modules Tutorial

[mjd-perl-pm@plover.com]

This year I'll be doing new tutorials on the Perl Whirl.  One is
called `Internals of Perl Core Modules'.  I need to practice this
before I go on the cruise, so I'll be giving the tutorial in
Philadelphia next month.  If you were to attend on the cruise, you
would pay a whole buncha money.  But you can come to my practice
session for $5.  Any money I have left over after expenses will be
donated to the Free Software Foundation.

The tutorial will be at 6 PM on Thursday, 25 May at the University of
Pennsylvania Literacy Center at 3910 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia.
It will end around 9:30 or 10:00 PM.

(Note that this is *not* the same tutorial that I am giving at the same
place at the same time on a different day.  That other tutorial is
`Advanced Programming Techniques'.)

Here's the brochure description:

        Prerequisites: Some perl experience, basic familiarity with
                       packages, objects, references, and modules.

        This class will be aimed at intermediate Perl users. We will
        look at important and commonly used perl modules like
        Exporter, File::Find, DBI, Search::Dict, CGI, Time::Local,
        AutoLoader, Carp, and others. Each of these is commonly used,
        and I'll show briefly what it is good for and how to use it,
        including surprising applications and little-known but
        valuable features. But the important part of this class is
        that we'll also go inside the code and see how these powerful
        but poorly-understood modules work on the inside. Each one was
        written by a master Perl programmer and can provide many
        insights into valuable Perl strategies and tactics. 

You must make an advance reservation; I have room for only 30 people.
To reserve, please send an email message to

        mjd-perl-practice@plover.com

I'd like it if this notice could be circulated to other groups that
might be interested, so to give it a chance to circulate, I'm going to
disregard any mail I receive asking for a reservation unless it
arrives after 9AM tomorrow.  Please circulate this message widely to
anyone you think might be interested.  (Adam, please send it to PLUG;
David, please send it to NY.pm.  Thanks.)

If I get more than 30 requests for reservations, articipants will
be selected by me based on some combination of:

         * Promptness of response  (ignoring responses that arrive before 9AM)
         * Random drawing
         * Blatant favoritism

I wanted to say that I hoped to see lots and lots of people there, but
unfortunately we only have room for 30.


My grateful thanks to Steve Linberg and to the Penn Literacy Center
for providing the space and AV equipment for my talk.


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