Damian Conway in Toronto 2009 July 27, 2009

Damian Conway, world-class Perl programming expert and extremely fun and energetic presenter, will be giving a free public talk in Toronto in

about 2 weeks, on the evening of Monday 27 July.  If you can fit it into your schedule I'm sure you'll enjoy the experience.  Here are the details:


Presenter:  Dr. Damian Conway, the Mad Scientist of Perl

            http://damian.conway.org/About_us//Bio_formal.html

            http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=damian+conway&type=1


Talk Title: The Missing Link


Details:    What do watching trees grow, debugging debuggers,

            Greek mythology, code that writes code that writes code

            that writes code, the hazards of LaTeX, successful failures,

            the treacherous Vorta, objective syntax, anti-stacks,

            Danish mind-control, active null statements, synthetic standup,

            and the prospect of certain death all have in common?

            Watch as Damian weaves them together into a new and improbably

            useful module that demonstrates the awesome power and beauty

            of Perl 5.10.


Date:       Monday 27 July 2009


Time:       7pm - 9pm

            show up early to get a seat, find place to park if you're

            driving, etc.


Location:   Bahen Centre for IT

            Room 1160 (i.e. the major lecture theater on the ground floor)

            University of Toronto St. George (downtown) campus

            40 St. George Street

            (just North of College on the West side of St. George)


Parking:    See the following URL for information about parking on

            UofT St. George campus

            http://tinyurl.com/u-of-t-parking

            Looks like there is an underground lot directly beneath

            Bahen Centre (marker #17).  I also find it convenient to

            park on King's College Circle (marker #13).


Transit:    St. George subway Stn, St. George St. exit,

            walk south approx. 7 minutes

            _or_ Queen's Park subway Stn., walk west approx. 5 minutes

            _or_ College streetcar westbound from either College Stn

            or Queen's Park Stn (but walking may be faster than waiting

            for a car, especially if you're at Queen's Park Stn)


Hope to see you there!