Meetings

POE and Perl

Joshua McAdams

Tuesday Sept 12th 2006 at 7:00pm
Wheaton, Illinois Institute of Technology - Rice Campus, Room 103

Abstract

POE is a framework for creating multitasking programs in Perl. POE's flexible event system lets applications perform several tasks at once, simulating the effect of threaded or multi-process applications. With hooks at several different levels in the system, POE is amazingly flexible and adaptable to a wide range of projects. The core system comes equipped with a large number of components useful for task coordination and networking. There are also scores of pre-built modules hosted on CPAN.

Josh will present on the basics of POE and give examples of POE driving event-based and networked systems.

Speaker Bio

Josh McAdams has been a Perl programmer for almost ten years. He is an active member of the Chicago Perl Mongers and recently hosted YAPC North America 2006. He currently works at Performics, a Perl shop in downtown Chicago. We're hiring. He is also the host of Perlcast, the Perl podcast. He recently won a White Camel award at OSCON 2006 for contributions to the Perl community.

Getting to the meeting

The next PerlSIG meeting of UniForum Chicago will be at:

        IIT Rice Campus
        Room 103
        201 East Loop Road
        Wheaton, IL 60187-8489

Directions to IIT - Rice Campus in Wheaton
The 19-acre campus is located just northeast of the intersection of Naperville and Butterfield roads in south Wheaton's Danada development. The campus is three miles west of the Butterfield Road interchange of the N orth-South Tollway (I-355) and two miles north of the Naperville Road interchange of the East-West Tollway ( I-88).

From the North or South: From I-355 (North-South Tollway), exit westbound at Rt.56/Butterfield Road and proceed west 3 1/2 miles on Butterfield Road to East Loop Road. Turn right onto East Loop Road (Phillip's 66 Gas Station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building. Room 103 is the first room inside the north entrance.

From the I-294 (Tri-State Tollway), take the I-88 (East-West Tollway) westbound and follow directions "From the East or West" below.

From the East or West: From I-88 (East-West Tollway), take the Naperville Road exit. At the traffic light, turn left onto Naperville Road and continue north for 1\275 miles to Rt. 56/Butterfield Road. Turn right onto Rt. 56/Butterfield Road and proceed 1/4 mile to the first traffic light (East Loop Road). Turn left on to East Loop Road, ( Phillip's 66 Gas station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building.

Room 103 is the first room inside the north entrance.

Contact Deborah Vose at vosedj@yahoo.com for additional information about the meeting.