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'''Official homepage: http://odlug.org'''

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[[Meeting history]]

===Wish List===

Have a topic you wish someone would present on? Add it here. 

* XML manipulation. I'm always looking for cooler ways to read and manipulate large, complex XML documents. --[[User:Jhannah|Jhannah]] 05:47, 8 May 2008 (CDT)
* Any application of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory graph theory]. --[[User:Jhannah|Jhannah]] 05:47, 8 May 2008 (CDT)
* Add your wish here!

===Volunteers===

What have you been working on recently? Willing to give a 5 minute talk on it? Longer? Great! Add yourself here.

* [[User:Jhannah|Jay Hannah]]. Stuff I like that I've been working with recently (Perl / Bioinformatics):
** [[ChemChains sandbox]]
** [http://catalyst.perl.org/ Catalyst] the elegant MVC framework, makes web development something you had never expected it to be: Fun, rewarding and quick. 
** [http://search.cpan.org/~ash/DBIx-Class-0.08010/lib/DBIx/Class.pm DBIx::Class] ORM (Object-Relational Mapper) database fanciness. From schemas to OO manipulation in 7 seconds.
** [http://www.iinteractive.com/moose/ Moose] is a postmodern object system for Perl 5 that takes the tedium out of writing object-oriented Perl.
** [http://search.cpan.org/~mirod/XML-Twig-3.32/Twig.pm XML::Twig] for low-pain XML I/O.
** [http://poe.perl.org POE] is a framework for creating event-driven cooperative multitasking programs.
*** An IRC-style chat server in < 50 lines of code. 
*** POE + Stomp + [http://activemq.apache.org/ Apache Active MQ] (JMS (Java Messaging Service)) for complex message queue management.
** Pick any [http://cpan.org CPAN] package that interests you. I'll learn it and present it. :)
** Intro to DNA sequence inspection and manipulation w/ [http://www.bioperl.org BioPerl.]

* Matt Secoske Topics:
** Languages: Groovy, Ruby [someday: lisp, Io, Javascript, Scala]
** Web Frameworks in dynamic languages (*ails, etc)
** Refactoring
** Design

* Stephen Haberman Topics
** Scala hobby project, [http://github.com/stephenh/fakesdb fakesdb], local/fake version of Amazon SimpleDB (longer)
** Ruby hobby project, [http://github.com/stephenh/s3fsr s3fsr], FUSE file system interface to Amazon S3 (shorter)

* Bryan Roth Topics:
** Languages: Ruby, JavaScript
** Frameworks: Rails, Mojo, Prototype
** Focusing on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS webOS] development.
*** [http://developer.palm.com/webChannel/index.php?packageid=com.mojoapps.shoppinglist Shopping List] - current webOS project

* John Christopher Topics
** Languages: Ruby, JavaScript
** Server-side JS: Nodejs, CommonJS, Narwhal
** Client-side: Dojo, Prototype, jQuery, Flex, etc ... it's all just ECMAScript!

* Add yourself here!

===Lightning Talks===

[http://www.justanotherperlhacker.org/lightning/index.shtml What is a lightning talk?]

Here's the line-up (in no particular order) of people who have volunteered to give a 5 minute presentation on something that interests them. 

* Jay Hannah: recent [http://clab.ist.unomaha.edu CLAB], Perl projects.
* Matt Secoske: ?
* Corey Spitzer: ?

==Alumni==

These people rock, but have moved away from Omaha, so have been slid down here. :(

* [http://blog.blainebuxton.com/ Blaine Buxton]
* [http://blog.alieniloquent.com Samuel Tesla]

==Version Control==

 [http://github.com/jhannah/odlug/tree/master Browse]
 git clone git://github.com/jhannah/odlug.git

Add your code samples (or whatever) for group discussion / collaboration.  :)

To get your changes in, send me a pull request or email me (or the list) your github username and I'll add you as a co-maintainer. --[[User:Jhannah|jhannah]] 23:37, 11 May 2010 (UTC)