Here are the notes from the June meeting of the Atlanta Perl Mongers. I make no claims as to completion or accuracy. Updates welcome.

Pre-Meeting

  • I was talking about a CRUD-ish website I’ve had to fix.
  • Scott is here!
  • The police can use your fingerprints to unlock your phone without a warrant.
  • pathogen - vim package manager

DB Change Tracking

Basically the classic problem of how to track changes to a database.

  • I went over my ‘home grown’ solution
    • ‘ChangeLog’ table in database
      • as SQL files are run their filenames are added to the ‘ChangeLog’ table.
      • SQL files have one or more command
      • script checks to see if file has already been run or not
    • MDW does something similar but they use date/times for in their filenames
    • The group helped me make some improvements to my script.
    • Here is a Github Repo with my code. Contributions welcome!
  • Scott and Eye mentioned: activerecord / rake
  • MDW mentioned squitch - a Perl solution

Git Discussion

Ansible/Puppet Discussion

  • Scott likes Puppet over Ansible and will likely give a talk on it in the near future.

Apache / Nginx

  • Some have dumped Apache for Nginx due to speed issues
  • Nginx doesn’t handle CGI; but great as a proxy

Round Table - Cool Perl Tricks

  • Eye
    • Have a module, ‘use testing;’ that when used causes any following modules ‘used’ to be pulled from the DEV path.
    • uses the users-id to determine which path to look for modules; can be overwritten
  • MDW
    • RapidApp
      • A way to quickly get a CRUD site up
  • Yehuda
    • When you do a single capture in Perl (regex); instead of $1 or \1 if you can use the below $vars
    • $& is the match ($1)
    • $" gives you everything after the match
    • $` gives you before the match
    • if you do this once in code every regex will support it
    • Seen in ‘Perl One Liners’
  • Scott
    • Is unabale to contribute.
  • Eye
    • If you use environment variable PERL5OPT is sets commandline switches for every perl command run
    • PerlRun
  • Woody
    • Along the lines of RapidApp; just not exitPerl specific
    • Bitnami Dreamfactory
      • Can interface to database and produce a RESTful interface right away
      • Has free/nonfree parts
      • I’ve played around with it some; seems neat

  • MS forcing Windows 10 upgrade sucks.

  • Eye
  • Scott
    • Anyone using Gitlab?
    • Github like but can be self-hosted.

Dinner Chat

  • MDW sold at least one laptop for Lenovo; I’m considering one as well.
  • Talked about the virtues of Postgresql
    • It has native replication as of last Christmas
  • Talked about git; multiple master repos/mirrors.
    • I need to look up info on git mirror push…
  • There was some continued discussion around systems like Puppet.