Tech talks by brian d foy and David Golden

Come and join us at MongoDB in Midtown for an evening of tech talks by two famous Perl programmers!

6 Things About Perl 6

brian d foy picks six things he likes about Perl 6. It's been almost a year since its first stable release last Christmas. How is Perl 6 doing this Christmas? What are you looking for in your Perl 6 holiday presents? At the same time, brian will talk about his experience with the Kickstarter campaign (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1422827986/learning-perl-6) he's using to fund the initial work on Learning Perl 6, the book.

One BSON to Rule Them All

David Golden will talk about his work on BSON (https://metacpan.org/pod/BSON), a Perl module and a binary encoded data format (http://bsonspec.org/) used by MongoDB, and the challenge of serializing strongly-typed data into and out of Perl.