[Bielefeld-pm] Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, April 15
"Christian Dühl"
c.duehl at gmx.de
Fre Apr 16 04:44:48 CDT 2004
Hi,
> Hi,
>
> Den Safari Account würd ich nehmen...
Kannst Du haben, wenn es für die anderen ok ist. Dann musst Du allerdings
auch dieses geforderte Review innerhalb von 60 Tagen schreiben...
> Kennt sich von euch jemand zufällig mit Bonobo aus?
> Ich bin grad dabei Gnome2::PanelApplets zum laufen
> zu bringen, hab aber noch ein paar kleine Probleme.
Hmmm nö, aber vielleicht kennst Du ein paar Gnome.Hacks für O'Reilly (siehe
anderes Posting)?
> Christian Dühl wrote:
>
> >Hallo,
> >
> >ich reiche den Newsletter von O'Reilly mal an alle weiter...
> >
> >Gruß Christian.
> >
> >P.S. Nächstes Treffen ist am 27.04. ... tut sich schon irgendwas an der
> >Mobilisierungsfront? ;)
> >
> >
> vielleicht bin ich bis dahin ja wieder gesund...
urgs, Du bist krank?
gute Besserung!
> >Themen: Perl6, Perl-Community-Treffen in München (da fahr ich heute
> >Nachmittag hin, geht bis Sonntag Abend), ...
> >
> >(weitere Vorschläge?)
> >
> >
> Ihr könnt euch was wünschen:
>
> - Class::DBI und SQLite (Nie wieder SQL schreiben)
> - WWW::Curl::Lite (Undokumentierte tricks, wie das wiederaufnehmen von
> abgebrochenen downloads, callbacks etc.)
> - Parrot Erweiterungen mit C/PIR/NCI
schick :)
Vielleicht brauchen wir doch irgendwann man einen Meetingraum mit Rechner
und Beamer?
Woher nehmen? ...
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> >Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:00:16 -0700
> >From: marsee at oreilly.com
> >To: c.duehl at gmx.de
> >Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, April 15
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