[volunteers] Bill Ward to speak at SVLUG - Oct 01, 2008 - confirmed

[Aniruddha Mulay]

Hello everyone,

I had written to Bill Ward seeing if he would be available
to do a presentation at SVLUG tomorrow and he has agreed.

Information about the presentation is included below.

Can someone please update the website and send a meeting
announcement at your earliest convenience?

Regards,

(Ani)ruddha Mulay
volunteer, SVLUG
www.svlug.org

--- On Tue, 9/30/08, Bill Ward wrote:

> OK, I'll do it.  I don't really have a lot to say about Ruby
> or Haskell or even Python though; I'm pretty monolingual when
> it comes to scripting languages. You can use this description/bio
> to promote the event:

Abstract:

> If you find yourself performing rote tasks on a large number of files,
> consider writing a script to do your work for you. Whether you're
> updating a directory full of symbolic links or making bulk edits to
> a group of text files, or any other tedious manual task, there is a
> myriad of opportunities on Linux for automation via scripting in
> languages such as Perl. In this talk Bill will review some useful
> tips and basic Perl scripting techniques for automating tasks under
> Linux, revealing key aspects of the Perl language, and features such
> as regular expressions, along the way. Learn how to identify and
> install Perl modules, including using your Debian or RPM packaging
> system to keep them up to date. No prior Perl knowledge is required.

Speaker Bio:

> Bill Ward has been programming in Perl since 1993 in the system
> administration and Web development fields. He has been teaching Perl
> since the late 1990's, first at De Anza College and later as his own
> company, Bay View Training <http://www.bayview.com/>. He also works
> at Oracle as a software architect in the Infrastructure Systems
> Development group. He was the founder of PenLUG in 2003. His company
> is offering Perl training classes open to the public in October in
> Sunnyvale, CA, and in November in Plano, TX, and he is available for
> private Perl coaching or on-site training classes.