This was sent to the mailing list and will also be on the GLOSSY meetup. I think we all can say that...

This was sent to the mailing list and will also be on the GLOSSY meetup.

I think we all can say that the #1 takeaway from last night's meeting is to never trust an HDMI cable. That's fine; I have a LONG one I can bring from home for next time.

I have an idea for a "ring Dave for entry" web-app that'd connect to me. I think it might work well with a QR code, except I generally think QR codes outside of very specialized environments are like "fetch" from Mean Girls; never going to happen.

Thanks to Joe Kline for showing us XPath-style HTML parsing with
XML::LibXML. I'm of at least three minds about parsing:

    * Much of my parsing is simply regular expressions in part
      because I want it now, I don't need it to last
    * I still have code subclassing HTML::Parser, and as long
      as it gets my xkcd and CommitStrip comics for me, I'm happy
    * I work enough with jQuery that using CSS selectors
      is my go-to for writing new code
    * Everybody should be exporting everything in JSON anyway

Four minds. I'm not schizophrenic, I'm quadrophenic! Still, using XPath is a reasonable way of doing it, too. Do you have example code we can look at, Joe?

Thanks to Mark Senn showing us some interesting parts of Perl 6, set for official release before this Christmas but available for testing now.
(http://ift.tt/1I5Buq2) I have it running thanks to rakudobrew, but haven't done much more than used Mark's rewrite of my password code on it.

Thanks also to Broc Seib for reserving the room and finding the one non-crappy HDMI cable in the MatchBox.

There are several open questions for next time:

Did the all-technical talk at MatchBox followed by social time with GLOSSY at LBC work for everybody? Should we stick with that or go back to WSLR?

Is there a topic anybody desperately wants to present for next time?

Is there a topic anybody desperately wants to hear about for next time?

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