Meetings

Factoring 101

Rick Hoselton & Burke Gallagher

Tuesday February 8th 2005 at 7:00pm
Wheaton, Illinois Institute of Technology - Rice Campus, Room 103

Abstract

Factoring has been at the center of every programming initiative since before dinosaurs, like when Rick and Burke started programming. Programmers spend most of their time dealing with the consequences of structure. Factoring is the method by which that structure is defined. Rick and Burke are going to go over why factoring is important, how to recognize badly factored code and how to refactor it. How to implement factoring and code reuse in Perl, and how Perl modules fit into this scheme.

Speaker Bio

Rick Hoselton has been a programmer for 35 years. He spent 17 of those years building and maintaining a large online systems, including Telescan, Wall Street City, and CNBC.com. Rick is a partner with H&H Consulting of Houston TX, and is currently on assignment at a hedge fund here in Chicago. Burke Gallagher, has been programming professionally for 30 years. Over that time he has used most major languages, methodologies, and styles and several minor ones. He has been working with Perl for 7 years. He currently uses Perl to maintain data for a large downtown hedge fund.

Getting to the meeting

The next PerlSIG meeting of UniForum Chicago will be:

        IIT Rice Campus
        Room 103
        201 East Loop Road
        Wheaton, IL 60187-8489

Directions to IIT - Rice Campus in Wheaton
The 19-acre campus is located just northeast of the intersection of Naperville and Butterfield roads in sou th Wheaton's Danada development. The campus is three miles west of the Butterfield Road interchange of the N orth-South Tollway (I-355) and two miles north of the Naperville Road interchange of the East-West Tollway ( I-88).

From the North or South: From I-355 (North-South Tollway), exit westbound at Rt.56/Butterfield Road and proceed west 3 1/2 miles on B utterfield Road to East Loop Road. Turn right onto East Loop Road (Phillip's 66 Gas Station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building. Room 103 is the first room inside the north enterance.

From the I-294 (Tri-State Tollway), take the I-88 (East-West Tollway) westbound and follow directions "From the East or West" below.

From the East or West: From I-88 (East-West Tollway), take the Naperville Road exit. At the traffic light, turn left onto Naperville Road and continue north for 1\275 miles to Rt. 56/Butterfield Road. Turn right onto Rt. 56/Butterfield Road and proceed 1/4 mile to the first traffic light (East Loop Road). Turn left on to East Loop Road, ( Phillip's 66 Gas station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building.

Room 103 is the first room inside the north enterance.

Contact Scott Nemec at president@UniforumChicago.org for additional information about the meeting.