From sonali at technozant.com Wed May 3 06:28:24 2006 From: sonali at technozant.com (Sonali Nimbagiri) Date: 3 May 2006 09:28:24 -0400 Subject: APM: Perl Position Message-ID: <29949108.1146662903988.JavaMail.cfservice@webserver11> Hello, We are an organization that represents a select group of companies that use us to identify, separate, isolate, and weed out top talent throughout Texas. We are looking for a Perl Programmer for one of our clients in Austin. This is a contract to hire position and below given is the job description. Please let me know if any of you would be interested in this position or if you can refer someone you know. Thanks Sonali Technozant 773-693-0147 sonali at technozant.com www.technozant.com Our client is looking for an experienced Perl programmer to maintain and develop software for our high availability, high traffic web applications. If you are a Senior level Engineer with a ?do-what-it-takes? attitude, and you thrive on making a difference then this is the place for you. Based in Austin, Texas, Our client supports and develops full-service shipping technologies for Fortune 100 companies, and major European carriers. This position will give you the opportunity to work closely with our local development team as well as with other groups in the US and Europe. We combine the advantages of a dynamic, high-energy start-up environment in a small team locally with the perks of a large multi-national parent corporation with financial stability and great employee benefits. Your key responsibilities will include: ? Designing and developing software used by thousands of users a day according to functional and technical design specifications ? Maintaining software currently used by major corporations and carriers ? Working closely with various teams- business, QA, operations, development to design and develop new products ? Brainstorming with other brilliant people to change the future of online shipping ? Enjoying your job and having fun at work Skills required: ? 3-5 years programming experience with an emphasis on web based applications ? Advanced knowledge of Perl combined with strong Javascript experience ? Familiarity with Unix/Linux environment and SQL ? Solid, demonstrated problem solving skills ? Excellent written and verbal communication skills ? The ability to multi-task and meet deadlines in a fast-paced, dynamic environment ? Must have a strong work ethic and be a fast learner/self starter Experience desired: ? Some Java is desirable but not required ? Some experience/familiarity with Mason or emb Perl ? Knowledge of XML technologies/languages and APIs for processing XML ? Knowledge of client technologies including XHTML/CSS ? Experience with Apache/Tomcat, mod_perl, CVS, AJAX ? Some project lead experience highly desired What we offer to our employees: ? Competitive compensation including base salary and bonus potential ? Excellent benefits including medical, dental, vision and life insurance ? 401(k) plan with generous matching and no vesting requirement ? Dynamic, cohesive work environment with people who enjoy working with each other ? Small startup company environment plus a stable, profitable parent company ? Opportunity to work with diverse group of people in Europe as well as the US ? Convenient nearly downtown office ? Free breakfast tacos every Friday! Our client is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, M/F/D/V. Must be eligible for employment in the United States as a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. Local candidates strongly preferred although relocation can be considered for the perfect candidate. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/austin/attachments/20060503/4e423de1/attachment.html From ian at remmler.org Fri May 5 07:51:06 2006 From: ian at remmler.org (Ian Remmler) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:51:06 -0500 Subject: APM: Meeting topic Message-ID: <20060505145106.GB4244@localhost> Howdy, At the last meeting when we talked about a topic for this month, I said I could talk a bit about some lesser-known yet nifty programming paradigms and idioms and how they can be used with Perl. So, do you guys think that would actually be useful, or is there something else you'd rather do for the meeting? I think David mentioned something CRUDy Wayne is working on. Another possibility is to just bring problems in and have the group try to help fix them. We did that at least once before, and I think it actually worked out pretty well. I'm happy to do my thing -- just thought I'd see what folks thought. - Ian. -- "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -- Douglas Adams From tmcd at panix.com Fri May 5 08:19:44 2006 From: tmcd at panix.com (tmcd at panix.com) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 10:19:44 -0500 (CDT) Subject: APM: Meeting topic In-Reply-To: <20060505145106.GB4244@localhost> References: <20060505145106.GB4244@localhost> Message-ID: On Fri, 5 May 2006, Ian Remmler wrote: > I said I could talk a bit about some lesser-known yet nifty > programming paradigms and idioms and how they can be used with > Perl. I like the idea. I recently saw the "inside-out classes" notion and thought it was very interesting, and I'm wondering what other idioms / modules might have sprung up. -- Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com From ian at remmler.org Sat May 6 12:38:40 2006 From: ian at remmler.org (Ian Remmler) Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 14:38:40 -0500 Subject: APM: Meeting topic In-Reply-To: <20060505145106.GB4244@localhost> References: <20060505145106.GB4244@localhost> Message-ID: <20060506193840.GA5367@localhost> On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 09:51:06AM -0500, Ian Remmler wrote: > At the last meeting when we talked about a topic for this month, > I said I could talk a bit about some lesser-known yet nifty > programming paradigms and idioms and how they can be used with > Perl. OK, due to lack of violent opposition I'll talk about that stuff. And just for something a bit different, I'd like to propose having the pre-meeting meal at Top Notch, a great burger/fried chicken/etc. joint a couple of miles south of ARL on Burnet. Violently oppose (or just suggest something) if you'd rather do elsewise. - Ian. -- "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -- Douglas Adams From jeremy at msc.tamu.edu Mon May 8 14:02:04 2006 From: jeremy at msc.tamu.edu (Jeremy Fluhmann) Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 16:02:04 -0500 Subject: APM: Coming to Austin Message-ID: <0EFEDF9D507FF6409CE7B4D24B20E7BF0120D2D2@xchng.msc.tamu.edu> Hey guys, I'm not sure if any of you have been playing with what's been coined 'Ajax', but I'm headed to Austin for an Adaptive Path workshop on Wednesday (the 10th)( http://www.adaptivepath.com/events/2006/may/). Is anyone from the Austin PM group going to be there? Jeremy Brazos Valley Perl Mongers http://brazosvalley.pm.org Jeremy Fluhmann Programmer/Analyst Memorial Student Center Texas A&M University 979-845-8893 jeremy at msc.tamu.edu This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail transmission in error, please notify me by telephone or via return e-mail and delete this e-mail from your system. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/austin/attachments/20060508/c123b1be/attachment.html From dbii at interaction.net Tue May 9 09:27:18 2006 From: dbii at interaction.net (David Bluestein II) Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 11:27:18 -0500 Subject: APM: Meeting topic In-Reply-To: <20060505145106.GB4244@localhost> References: <20060505145106.GB4244@localhost> Message-ID: <932a694d15bd126ea9ac490809065ae1@interaction.net> Sounds good to me. I don't know the status of Wayne's project, he'll have to chime in there. I know Sam was working on something too, but I forget what. In any case, if you're up for that, have Sam update the website with details for next week. David On May 5, 2006, at 9:51 AM, Ian Remmler wrote: > Howdy, > > At the last meeting when we talked about a topic for this month, > I said I could talk a bit about some lesser-known yet nifty > programming paradigms and idioms and how they can be used with > Perl. So, do you guys think that would actually be useful, or > is there something else you'd rather do for the meeting? > > I think David mentioned something CRUDy Wayne is working on. > Another possibility is to just bring problems in and have the > group try to help fix them. We did that at least once before, > and I think it actually worked out pretty well. > > I'm happy to do my thing -- just thought I'd see what folks > thought. > > - Ian. > > -- > "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly > by." > -- Douglas Adams > _______________________________________________ > Austin mailing list > Austin at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David H. Bluestein II President & Lead Developer dbii at interaction.net ii, inc. http://www.interaction.net -- Specializing in Interactive, Database Driven Websites -- From kh at greenshire.com Tue May 9 15:24:25 2006 From: kh at greenshire.com (Keith Howanitz) Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 17:24:25 -0500 (CDT) Subject: APM: Meeting topic In-Reply-To: <20060506193840.GA5367@localhost> References: <20060505145106.GB4244@localhost> <20060506193840.GA5367@localhost> Message-ID: A couple suggestions for future meeting topics (after the current one) if anyone is working on something like this... I feel pretty comfortable with web & command line interfaces to my programs, but am interested in: 1) Curses type interface 2) GUI (native Gnome preferred, or something that will do well in gnome... glade2???) -Keith From peterbotros at yahoo.com Mon May 15 04:39:50 2006 From: peterbotros at yahoo.com (Peter botros) Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 04:39:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: APM: Austin Digest, Vol 28, Issue 8 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20060515113950.5688.qmail@web52211.mail.yahoo.com> I need to get a web crawler, go to a web page "url" and get some info by using a criteria like what follows a "word:" Thanks __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From CaptNemo at Austin.rr.com Mon May 15 09:18:37 2006 From: CaptNemo at Austin.rr.com (CaptNemo) Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 11:18:37 -0500 Subject: APM: Anyone know Lab View? Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20060515111729.01e6d2f0@pop-server.austin.rr.com> Is there anyone out there that can write a testing program in Lab View? We have some Chroma electronic loads (with a NI GPIB interface) and need a program written to automatically load and read the output voltage of power supplies. Contact me off list plz. From CaptNemo at Austin.rr.com Mon May 15 10:58:30 2006 From: CaptNemo at Austin.rr.com (CaptNemo) Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 12:58:30 -0500 Subject: APM: Sorry, forgot the "OT:" Re: Anyone know Lab View? In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20060515111729.01e6d2f0@pop-server.austin.rr.com > References: <6.1.2.0.2.20060515111729.01e6d2f0@pop-server.austin.rr.com> Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20060515125739.01cb6ec0@pop-server.austin.rr.com> >Is there anyone out there that can write a testing program in Lab View? > >We have some Chroma electronic loads (with a NI GPIB interface) and need a >program written to automatically load and read the output voltage of power >supplies. > >Contact me off list plz. From ian at remmler.org Mon May 15 11:48:33 2006 From: ian at remmler.org (Ian Remmler) Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 13:48:33 -0500 Subject: APM: May meeting Message-ID: <20060515184833.GB32481@localhost> Hi, The May Austin Perl Mongers meeting is this Wednesday, 7:00 PM at ARL as per usual. Directions to ARL are at http://austin.pm.org. I'll be talking about: A look at some interesting programming idioms and paradigms and how you can use them with Perl ...or somesuch. This month we'll try having the pre-meeting dinner at Top Notch, just to try something different (and because I think they make a tasty burger!). Top Notch is at 7525 Burnet, a couple miles south of ARL. It's on the east side of the street just a bit south of Northcross Mall. Dinner is at 5:45-ish. And I just remembered that Top Notch is *CASH ONLY*, so you'll have to bring some of those old fashioned green pieces of paper with numbers on them. See you there. - Ian. -- "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -- Douglas Adams From ian at remmler.org Wed May 17 06:56:52 2006 From: ian at remmler.org (Ian Remmler) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 08:56:52 -0500 Subject: APM: Reminder: Meeting tonight Message-ID: <20060517135651.GA21938@localhost> Hi, Just a reminder that we have a meeting tonight at 7:00 PM at ARL. The website has not been updated as of yet (Wayne or Sam?). Directions to ARL are at http://austin.pm.org. The topic is: A look at some interesting programming idioms and paradigms and how you can use them with Perl Pre-meeting dinner is at Top Notch this time at 5:45. Top Notch is at 7525 Burnet. Top Notch is *CASH ONLY*. So bring some if you want to eat. See you there. - Ian. -- "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -- Douglas Adams From kh at greenshire.com Thu May 18 08:52:01 2006 From: kh at greenshire.com (Keith Howanitz) Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 10:52:01 -0500 (CDT) Subject: APM: OT: converting video to small devices Message-ID: This is that article on transferring video from MythTV to small devices I mentioned at the meeting last night. (Don't know if it is actually useful - have not put together a Myth box, yet.) http://www.torrentocracy.com/blog/archives/2006/05/streaming_mytht_1.shtml -Keith From kh at greenshire.com Fri May 19 07:55:04 2006 From: kh at greenshire.com (Keith Howanitz) Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 09:55:04 -0500 (CDT) Subject: APM: spamassassin learning Message-ID: I have a couple of questions I have been meaning to ask since the lecture on Spamassassin (It was great btw - thanks again.) If I understood you correctly, you said you keep _all_ of your spam for teaching the baysian filter.... 1) Is there a benefit to teaching a filter on items it marked as spam and autolearned from? 2) I both rewrite the header, and use the "report_safe" feature - would I need to prefilter those things out of email before giving it to sa-learn? If so - is there a tool to do so? 3) On one mail system, I currently use spamassassin as a proxy filter before mail goes to its final destination on another server. I have set up a mail box for users to forward false negatives (and another for the few false positives) and run sa-learn on those items once a week. Should I be stripping headers that are added by their email clients before using sa-learn on these messages? TIA, -Keith From parkerm at pobox.com Fri May 19 08:11:27 2006 From: parkerm at pobox.com (Michael Parker) Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 08:11:27 -0700 Subject: APM: spamassassin learning In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <446DE01F.2060003@pobox.com> Keith Howanitz wrote: > I have a couple of questions I have been meaning to ask since the lecture > on Spamassassin (It was great btw - thanks again.) > > If I understood you correctly, you said you keep _all_ of your spam for > teaching the baysian filter.... Not just for bayes, for training and scoring as well which requires a large corpus of messages. > > 1) Is there a benefit to teaching a filter on items it marked as spam and > autolearned from? SA will not re-learn a message, so once it has been marked and autolearned there is no benefit to trying to learn it again. > > 2) I both rewrite the header, and use the "report_safe" feature - would I > need to prefilter those things out of email before giving it to sa-learn? > If so - is there a tool to do so? > As long as SA did the filtering and marking then when you attempt to learn it should strip out the marking for you. One thing to watch out for are additional headers your system might add, look at the bayes_ignore_header (or something like that) config option for details on not learning on those. > 3) On one mail system, I currently use spamassassin as a proxy filter > before mail goes to its final destination on another server. I have set > up a mail box for users to forward false negatives (and another for the > few false positives) and run sa-learn on those items once a week. Should I > be stripping headers that are added by their email clients before using > sa-learn on these messages? You should have them forward as an attachment and then strip out the attached message and learn from that. Learning the raw forward can cause issues. Check out the SA wiki for more information in this area. Michael > > TIA, > -Keith > _______________________________________________ > Austin mailing list > Austin at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin > From sonali at technozant.com Fri May 19 10:06:34 2006 From: sonali at technozant.com (Sonali Nimbagiri) Date: 19 May 2006 13:06:34 -0400 Subject: APM: Perl Position Message-ID: <21659951.1148058394705.JavaMail.cfservice@WEBSERVER22> Hello, We are an organization that represents a select group of companies that use us to identify, separate, isolate, and weed out top talent throughout Texas. One of our clients in Austin is looking to hire couple of senior perl programmers. These are contract to hire positions and below given is the job description. Please let me know if any of you would be interested in this position or if you can refer someone you know. Thanks Sonali Technozant 773-693-0147 sonali at technozant.com www.technozant.com Our client is looking for an experienced Perl programmer to maintain and develop software for our high availability, high traffic web applications. If you are a Senior level Engineer with a ?do-what-it-takes? attitude, and you thrive on making a difference then this is the place for you. Based in Austin, Texas, Our client supports and develops full-service shipping technologies for Fortune 100 companies, and major European carriers. This position will give you the opportunity to work closely with our local development team as well as with other groups in the US and Europe. We combine the advantages of a dynamic, high-energy start-up environment in a small team locally with the perks of a large multi-national parent corporation with financial stability and great employee benefits. Your key responsibilities will include: ? Designing and developing software used by thousands of users a day according to functional and technical design specifications ? Maintaining software currently used by major corporations and carriers ? Working closely with various teams- business, QA, operations, development to design and develop new products ? Brainstorming with other brilliant people to change the future of online shipping ? Enjoying your job and having fun at work Skills required: ? 3-5 years programming experience with an emphasis on web based applications ? Advanced knowledge of Perl combined with strong Javascript experience ? Familiarity with Unix/Linux environment and SQL ? Solid, demonstrated problem solving skills ? Excellent written and verbal communication skills ? The ability to multi-task and meet deadlines in a fast-paced, dynamic environment ? Must have a strong work ethic and be a fast learner/self starter Experience desired: ? Some Java is desirable but not required ? Some experience/familiarity with Mason or emb Perl ? Knowledge of XML technologies/languages and APIs for processing XML ? Knowledge of client technologies including XHTML/CSS ? Experience with Apache/Tomcat, mod_perl, CVS, AJAX ? Some project lead experience highly desired What we offer to our employees: ? Competitive compensation including base salary and bonus potential ? Excellent benefits including medical, dental, vision and life insurance ? 401(k) plan with generous matching and no vesting requirement ? Dynamic, cohesive work environment with people who enjoy working with each other ? Small startup company environment plus a stable, profitable parent company ? Opportunity to work with diverse group of people in Europe as well as the US ? Convenient nearly downtown office ? Free breakfast tacos every Friday! Our client is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, M/F/D/V. Must be eligible for employment in the United States as a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. Local candidates strongly preferred although relocation can be considered for the perfect candidate. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/austin/attachments/20060519/6e445460/attachment-0001.html From kh at greenshire.com Fri May 19 11:40:47 2006 From: kh at greenshire.com (Keith Howanitz) Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 13:40:47 -0500 (CDT) Subject: APM: Perl Position In-Reply-To: <21659951.1148058394705.JavaMail.cfservice@WEBSERVER22> References: <21659951.1148058394705.JavaMail.cfservice@WEBSERVER22> Message-ID: On Fri, 19 May 2006, Sonali Nimbagiri wrote: > Hello, > We are an organization that represents a select group of companies that use us to identify, separate, isolate, and weed out top talent throughout Texas. [SNIP] You may wish to reword this first paragraph - it sounds like you are planning to exterminate programmers.... It sounds like a Terminator movie. Unless of course that is what you are planning. (I'm the bottom of the barrel - promise!) ;-) -Keith