Perl Help Session

Since we didn't really have a topic lined up for this month, we opened the meeting to any questions, problems, or topics people wanted to discuss. The discussion wandered over a number of topics, including:

• Questions about working with SQL
• Discussion of Andy Lester's ack tool
• Discussion of the magical e option on the substitute operator (s///e) that executes the replacement text.
• POE
• A short discussion of DBIx::Class, including the example of App::TimeTracker that uses it.
• A short discussion on command line tools and gui interfaces lead to finding App::Wack the wisual ack
• A quick walk through on Catalyst with the DBI model.