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On Thursday, March 3rd, the Israeli Perl Mongers will hold their regular monthly meeting. The program:

• 18:00-18:45 -- Gabor Szabo: "Introduction to Web development using Perl"
• 18:45-19:15 -- Assembly and light refreshments
• 19:15-21:45 -- Gabor Szabo will lecture about "Code Review - A review of 2 Web based projects" Read more
• As usual after the meeting we will go out to a nearby pub/coffee-shop/etc. for a post-meeting social gathering.

The event will take place in the Dapey Zahav building, 23 Abba Hillel St., Ramat Gan.
Attendance is free, but a 10 NIS donation to help buy the bourekas will be welcome.

Special Note: The 18:00-18:45 lecture is a "beginner's level" lecture, a new feature of our meetings which was motivated by the success of the "Beginner's Track" of YAPC::Israel::2005 . Perl beginners are incouraged to come, learn and participate. Regular mongers of course are also welcome, but please note the new start time for the regular technical lecture - 19:15 (instead of 19:00 as in the past).

On Wednesday, December 29th, the Jerusalem Perl Mongers will hold their regular monthly meeting. The program:

• 18:00-18:05 -- Assembly and light refreshments
• 18:05-18:35 -- Zach Kessin : 'Introduction to XSLT'
• 18:35-18:45 -- Break and refreshments
• 18:45-19:15 -- Issac Goldstand: 'Online Payments'
• 19:15-19:30 -- Raffles

The event will take place in the Exlibris offices, Malcha Technology Park, Building 9, 4th floor. Attendence is free.
For more information, see http://jerusalem.perl.org.il/ or contact Eitan.

On Thursday, December 2nd, the Israeli Perl Mongers will hold their regular monthly meeting. The program:

• 19:00-19:30 -- Offer Kaye will lecture about "Syntax Highlighting for Fun and Profit" - How to add colored code to your presentations and live through the ordeal (hint - it's easy :-))
• 19:30-20:00 -- Uri Bruck will lecture about "Speaking in Perl" - Perl's appeal to a language professional
• 20:00-20:15 -- Break and refreshments
• 20:15-21:45 -- Shlomo Yona will lecture about "A Gentle Introduction to Automatic Classification"
• As usual after the meeting we will go out to a nearby pub/coffee-shop/etc. for a post-meeting social gathering.

The event will take place in the Dapey Zahav building, 23 Abba Hillel St., Ramat Gan.
Attendence is free, but a 10 NIS donation to help buy the bourekas will be welcome.

On Sunday, November 28th, the Jerusalem Perl Mongers will hold their regular monthly meeting. The program:

        * 18:00-18:15 -- Eitan Schuler: 'Forks & Signals'
        * 18:15-18:45 -- Issac Goldstand: 'GD and Imagemaps: Dynamic Web Imagery'
        * 18:45-19:00 -- Motke Keshet: 'Invoking External Functions (Unknown at Compile Time)'
        * 19:00-19:15 -- Motke Keshet: 'Towers of Hanoi - Again'

The event will take place in the Exlibris offices, Malcha Technology Park, Building 9, 4th floor. Attendence is free.
For more information, see http://jerusalem.perl.org.il/ or contact Eitan (eitan AT perl.org.il).

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Offer Kaye

Saw this today in the CPAN uploads window:
IO-Toolkit-1.0.00010

00010 ?! I mean, really, isn't that over-doing it a bit?
Versioning is generally a Good Thing, but I think that the above is a perfect example of how anything can be over-done.

On Thursday, November 4th, the Israeli Perl Mongers will hold their regular monthly meeting. The program:

• 18:00-19:00 -- Assembly and light refreshments
• 19:00-20:00 -- David Baird will lecture about the STAF test framework - an open source automated test framework from IBM.
• 20:00-20:20 -- Break and refreshments
• 20:20-21:20 -- Ran Eilam will lecture about "Intro to XUL-Node"
• As usual after the meeting we will go out to a nearby pub/coffee-shop/etc. for a post-meeting social gathering.

The event will take place in the Dapey Zahav building, 23 Abba Hillel St., Ramat Gan.
Attendence is free, but a 10 NIS donation to help buy the bourekas will be welcome.

On Wednesday, October 27th, the Jerusalem Perl Mongers will hold their regular monthly meeting. The program:

• 18:00-18:30 -- Motke Keshet: 'Reinventing dates'
• 18:30-18:45 -- Motke Keshet: 'Charsets to utf - the Perl way'
• 18:45-19:00 -- Break and refreshments
• 19:00-20:00 -- Zach Kessin: 'An introduction to Web Services' (in English)

The event will take place in the Exlibris offices, Malcha Technology Park, Building 9, 4th floor. Attendence is free.
For more information, see http://jerusalem.perl.org.il/ or contact Eitan.

The next Jerusalem.pm meeting is coming up, and we still need speakers. As this is becoming the norm rather than the exception, we've decided to try a new strategy to get speakers: we're going to offer incentive.

At the December Jerusalem.pm meeting, in 2 months or so, we will be raffling off a copy of Komodo 3.0 Professional Edition (http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/). Entries to the raffle will be based on people who give talks. Each lightning talk (5-20 minutes) is
worth one entry, 30-60 minutes is worth 2 entries and 90 minutes is worth three entries!

You don't need to give a talk before the raffle to participate, you need only to commit to a set lecture on a set date. Good luck to everyone!

For more information, contact Eitan at eitan@perl.org.il

PS - Non-Jerusalemites are welcome to participate too!

On Thursday, October 14th, the Israeli Perl Mongers will hold their regular monthly meeting. The program this week:

• 18:00-19:00 -- Assembly and light refreshments
• 19:00-20:15 -- Uri Bruck will lecture about HTML::EP - a system for embedding Perl into HTML.
• 20:15-20:30 -- Break and refreshments
• 20:30-21:30 -- Gabor Szabo will lecture about Installing Perl and CPAN Modules. In this presentation we'll spend some time installing a new version of perl from source, then installing CPANPLUS and starting to send out test reports to the CPAN Testers.
• As usual after the meeting we will go out to a nearby pub/coffee-shop/etc. for a post-meeting social gathering.

The event will take place in the Dapey Zahav building, 23 Abba Hillel St., Ramat Gan.
Attendence is free, but a 10 NIS donation to help buy the bourekas will be welcome.