Just some incomplete notes from the December Atlanta Perl Mongers meeting. If anyone has any additions for this post they are welcome to submit a pull request to my blog repo.

General pre-meeting discussion

Roofers and Contractors suck for various reasons
Central Git hosting solutions
- Gitlab - http://about.gitlab.com/features/
- Bitbucket
- Confluance http://www.atlassian.com/purchase/product/confluence
Commitmas 2015 http://github.com/commitmas/30-days-of-commitmas-2015

My Pseudo talk: Github Pages & Jekyll (The Coders Blog software)

Github pages
- Went over setting it up and options available
- Forgot to cover creating a Github Page for a specific repo/project.
  - Creating Project Pages
  - This is neat in my opinion; create an orphan branch and populate it with html and whatnot and it will just appear as http://username.github.io/repository.
Jekyll - Blogging engine for coders
- Using Jekyll with Pages
- I meant to include the below link in my talk. It shows the Repository metadata you can access via your Github page within Jekyll
  - Repository metadata on GitHub Pages
- Jekyll is pretty good on it’s own, even if you don’t want to use Github Pages.
- Stephen asked if any other libraries are used in Jekyll.
  - No, it’s very lightweight
  - Stephen went on to talk about Flexbox being interesting
    - A Guide to Flexbox
    - And CSS Tricks is a great resource.
There was some discussion about browsers and various feature support and the universal hatred of IE
- Went over the testing I’ve been doing in javascript
  - A short overview of the output of karma and what it does
  - Showed some of the unit tests written in Jasmine
  - Showed the code coverage output of karma
  - Some discussion around testing in general and last months talk and some of the positive effects that had.
- Some talk about the small book, Javascript: The Good Parts
- In expressing my frustration in javascript and testing some disparaging general remarks were made about various languages
- This fit the conversation at the time:

Scott asks a question about Perl training

Util suggested looking at http://learnxinyminutes.com/
- Perl 6 Intro is another resource (Scott liked that one better)
There ended up being some talk around Perl 5, Moose and Perl 6

Util Talks

Used Hunt the Wumpus code to go over a few features of Perl 6
- Stephen had a question about constants in Perl 6, this went on for a bit.
- I have to admit; I didn’t capture as much of this as I should have.
- Functional Programming: Variables don’t and Constants aren’t.
- prompt function
- repeat {} until $condition is fairly neat
- Util said some wrong stuff. Corrections were made. Apologies were offered. We grew closer as a group.
- Pick and Roll are not only functions, but they are fun to say.

Misc

MDW has a noisy phone.

Post Meeting Meal

A lengthy debate over display size and aspect ratio
A shorter debate over MacBook memory upgrade-ability
Perl 6 Docs was another resource Util suggested checking out.
- Greater content there in terms of Perl 5/Perl 6 code.
Some discussion about the Christmas release of Perl 6
Talked some about the Atom editor and it’s benefits
- extensible, CLI install of plugins, etc
If you don’t teach your child fun military acronyms, who will? (Scott… Scott will teach them.)
- ex.
  - WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT
  - FUBAR
  - SNAFU
  - ASS HOT
  - TANGO UNIFORM
Stephen asked Scott his opinion of FreeNAS vs OpenFiler
- Scott prefers FreeNAS as he’s not a fan of the system OpenFiler is based on
  - And he has had better personal experiences with FreeNAS
I suggested giving Bootstrap a look, good framework for site layouts (least from a non-designer perspective)
There was also some talk of the differences between jQuery and AngularJS
Elliot really did NOT like what he got for dinner, tasted good, but not worth the cost vs meat content.
Cable cards are a lot easier to get now a-days than they used to be…
It’s beginning to feel a lot like winter.