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02/16/2006 Archived Entry: "February 28, 2006: Perl IDEs Head to Head"

Post-Meeting Update:Joe Brenner's Emacs code is available. His slides will be up shortly, at the same location. Thanks to everyone for making this a successful meeting. :)

For Thai food, RSVP to qw@sf.pm.org (and bring cash!)

There's been a lot of talk about Perl IDEs on and off, and it's not hard to see why. Our editors mediate our hacking experience; they have the power to make it rough as sandpaper or smooth as silk.

In this talk, three speakers will present three IDEs for Perl, explaining how they aid in development:

• Matisse Enzer will present Eclipse, with an eye towards Extreme Programming.
• Josh Berkus will present ActiveState's Komodo.
• Joe Brenner will present Emacs plus perlnow.el, an excellent extension he wrote to create boilerplate and automate testing. (Of course, I'm biased, because I use it daily. ;) )

I will order Thai food from BKK (both vegetarian and non-). RSVP so I know how much to order, and please bring some cash to pitch in.

PS: I am bringing some O'Reilly books to give away: Regular Expression Reference (by frequent SF.pm speaker Tony Stubblebine) and Learning Perl (the revamped fourth edition). Also, ActiveState has sent some schwag.

Time and place details follow...

When: February 28, 2006, 8:00 p.m.
Where: Perpetual Entertainment
Fifth floor, 149 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA
RSVP: qw@sf.pm.org