This just in from the local Perl Mongers. If you don't know Randal Schwartz, pick up a copy of O'Reilly's "Learning Perl" See Randal's Wikipedia entry . 

Randal Schwartz (Merlyn) will be a special guest speaker for the 28 August 2008 Atlanta Perl Mongers meeting. He will be giving a talk titled "Perl Second-Best Practices" (synopsis below).

NOTE: You must RSVP to attend this event.

Details are on our web site:
 http://atlanta.pm.org/schwartz-talk.html

RSVP form:
 http://atlanta.pm.org/rsvp.html

Perl Second-Best Practices

So, you don't have time to read Damian Conway's "Perl Best Practices" book, to understand his "256 guidelines on the art of coding to help you write better Perl code"? Hear Randal Schwartz provide the executive summary, including pointing out where Randal disagrees with Damian, and why. This high-speed overview will help you understand "code layout, naming conventions, choice of data and control structures, program decomposition, interface design and implementation, modularity, object orientation, error handling, testing, and debugging". But using shorter words.

This arrived in my inbox today from a Jeremy Sands:

We would appreciate it if you would spread the word among your members.   We have an wiki setup up to help in the monumental task of getting such an event organized.  It is located here:

http://www.southeastlinuxfest.com/wiki/

Thanks!