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WLUG are pleased to announce that Paul Fenwick and his wife Jacinta Richardson will both be giving talks at the Waikato Uni |
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Who: Paul Fenwick and his wife Jacinta Richardson |
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When: 7pm-9pm 12th Feb 2009 |
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Where: SG01 at the Waikato University in Hamilton. [map|http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?S] |
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__The Art of Klingon programming__ - _Paul Fenwick_ |
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A good programmer needs many qualities: intelligence, foresight, |
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dedication, and the ability to fight off a hundred angry targh armed |
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only with your bat'leth. On Qo'noS, software developers undertake an |
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intensive course in combat programming before they are cleared for |
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active duty. The tlhIngan traditions have long known one truth holds |
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true for both glory in battle and software development: |
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bIlujDI' yIchegh()Qo'; yIHegh()! |
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It is better to die() than to return() in failure. |
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For too long, Perl has been a pujwI', and unsuitable for use by true |
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warriors. In this talk we will show how the new autodie pragma can help |
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you to code with batlh! |
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__On Speaking__ - _Jacinta Richardson_ |
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You've been to *those* talks. The kind where the title first drew your |
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attention, the abstract made you go wow, and you were so excited you |
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took afront seat. Then the speaker went to their first slide and it was |
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so full of text (15 bullet points!) and you just knew they were going to |
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spend the next ten minutes talking about what you've just read in two. |
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Worse, being up the front, you can't easily leave and it'd be rude to |
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pull out your laptop... |
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Don't be one of those speakers. No matter how technically brillant your |
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talk, it's worth nothing at all if you can't keep your audience |
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interested. This (short) talk will cover a whole bunch of tricks you |
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can use to get your audience's attention and keep it. Better yet, if |
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you use these ideas there's a good chance people will remember *what* |
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you spoke about and will attend your future talks as well. |
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There is room for up to 80 people, so feel free to invite anyone else who may be interested. |
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Paul Fenwick is well known for his work with perl - you can find out about him here http://pjf.id.au/ |
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Jacinta Richardson is Pauls wife, and also winner of the 2008 White Camel award for contributions to the Perl |
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