[singapore-pm] Singapore Perl Mongers meetup this month?

[Gaurav Vaidya]

Hey everybody,

Would you be interested in a Singapore.pm meetup sometime in the next
two weeks? I figure we could just meet up somewhere central for food,
say Hi to one another and see if there's any interest for regular
meetups or other Singapore.pm-ish events. We could also piggyback onto
any other events which are happening around this time: I've already
met some of you at the post-SLMG dinners! Picking an arbitrary date,
I'd suggest Saturday, August 1st - this gives me plenty of time to
spread the news on other mailing lists, but isn't too far in the future.

Let me know what you think.

cheers,
Gaurav
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[Patrick Haller]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 01:04:45AM +0800, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
> Hey everybody,
>
> Would you be interested in a Singapore.pm meetup sometime in the next
> two weeks? I figure we could just meet up somewhere central for food,
> say Hi to one another and see if there's any interest for regular
> meetups or other Singapore.pm-ish events. We could also piggyback onto
> any other events which are happening around this time: I've already met
> some of you at the post-SLMG dinners! Picking an arbitrary date, I'd
> suggest Saturday, August 1st - this gives me plenty of time to spread the
> news on other mailing lists, but isn't too far in the future.
>
> Let me know what you think.

I'm in. I'll spread the word to the other perl hackers at work.

Patrick

[Mayukh Datta Roy]

Hi
   Count me in as well.

Just a short introduction:
  I am a technology analyst at (erstwhile) Merrill Lynch. We are mainly C#/.NET Microsoft shop.
  I started experimenting with Perl and discovered to my pleasant surprise how much fun Perl programming is.
  Slowly but surely i have been pushing both Perl and better Perl programming practices in my organization.

--
Cheers

Mayukh
http://sites.google.com/site/mayukhdattaroy/

Registered Linux user #448577
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[Gaurav Vaidya]

Hi Mayukh,

On Jul 19, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Mayukh Datta Roy wrote:
> Just a short introduction:
> I am a technology analyst at (erstwhile) Merrill Lynch. We are
> mainly C#/.NET Microsoft shop.
> I started experimenting with Perl and discovered to my pleasant
> surprise how much fun Perl programming is.
> Slowly but surely i have been pushing both Perl and better Perl
> programming practices in my organization.

That's brilliant! :) How's the push going?

On that subject, by the way, I'm interested in making a list of
companies who use Perl - it'll allow us to attack the myth that Perl
isn't relevant any more and help Perl companies and Perl programmers
find each other.

Suggestions and company information welcome!

cheers,
Gaurav

[Mayukh Datta Roy]

Well in more than six months i have managed to release three applications, one for the local dev teams, one for  Honk Kong users and a web application for Singapore users. Not too bad, hey :) I also did a short talk on Perl programming(Mostly Damian Conway's Perl Best Practices verbatim )
 
These applications are neither very large/ nor overtly complex  though. I think my enthusiasm for Perl is because of  the fact i could deliver things much faster.

 Well i can say one thing, Perl is definitely not dead. We have lots of legacy code in Perl. However there seems to be some reluctance to accept it as the mainstream development platform.

As far as Company Information is considered, i see that Bank of America(Our parent company now) is already listed on http://jobs.perl.org/  as companies using Perl.  I would be more than happy to broadcast the fact that we use Perl, let me just run it past the  communications team at work.

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Gaurav Vaidya <gau...@ggvaidya.com> wrote:

Hi Mayukh,

On Jul 19, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Mayukh Datta Roy wrote:

Just a short introduction:
 I am a technology analyst at (erstwhile) Merrill Lynch. We are mainly C#/.NET Microsoft shop.
 I started experimenting with Perl and discovered to my pleasant surprise how much fun Perl programming is.
 Slowly but surely i have been pushing both Perl and better Perl programming practices in my organization.

That's brilliant! :) How's the push going?

On that subject, by the way, I'm interested in making a list of companies who use Perl - it'll allow us to attack the myth that Perl isn't relevant any more and help Perl companies and Perl programmers find each other.

Suggestions and company information welcome!

cheers,
Gaurav