From ikeith at earthlink.net  Wed Sep  1 17:09:11 2010
From: ikeith at earthlink.net (keith tarbell)
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 20:09:11 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
Subject: [Buffalo-pm] OT: Tech Writers' Workshop @ Hackerspace (Buffalo Lab)
Message-ID: <9209553.1283386151689.JavaMail.root@elwamui-polski.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

Tech Writers' Workshop

Are you writing technical material?  Not being helped by the wannabe novelists and poetry writers at the local bookstore?

If you are writing a technical article, paper, book (what's that?), manual or proposal and you are looking for help from like-minded writers, this is the workshop for you!  Come to this open forum to discuss, review and critique each others work, in a safe, non-competitive environment.

The first meeting will be this Sunday at 3PM. We will discuss the needs of the group and the directions we may follow. 

Bring your writing (or not)!

When:  Sundays @ 3PM
Cost:  "free"
Where:  Buffalo Hackerspace, 4th floor, 701 Seneca Street, Buffalo NY (sign in at the Guard's Desk).

Questions?
Contact Keith Tarbell, 716 632 8640, keithtarbell at engineering.com


From magnachef at gmail.com  Thu Sep  2 13:11:34 2010
From: magnachef at gmail.com (Dan Magnuszewski)
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:11:34 -0400
Subject: [Buffalo-pm] Fwd: You can now pay for PPW
In-Reply-To: <4C7FFE0B.1050706@robertblackwell.com>
References: <4C7FFE0B.1050706@robertblackwell.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=mV5RZBfvVv4gJCtVfCOeoUwodjpoy5y1nhHsg@mail.gmail.com>

FYI

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Robert Blackwell <robert at robertblackwell.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:42 PM
Subject: You can now pay for PPW
To: ppw-announce at googlegroups.com


 You can now purchase your event ticket for PPW.
http://pghpw.org/ppw2010/purchase

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From tmlems2000 at yahoo.com  Tue Sep  7 07:03:02 2010
From: tmlems2000 at yahoo.com (thomas lems)
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 07:03:02 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Buffalo-pm] (no subject)
Message-ID: <437175.44809.qm@web80504.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Good morning All,
I'm new to this list ...I'm new to perl and would like to learn as much as i could.....

Thank u all


      

From tmlems2000 at yahoo.com  Tue Sep  7 07:17:13 2010
From: tmlems2000 at yahoo.com (thomas lems)
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 07:17:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Buffalo-pm] (no subject)
Message-ID: <923253.494.qm@web80505.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Good morning All,
I?m new to Perl, and i used  Perl to create a table with five columns and 30 rows.  I was able to save the output to a text file, but I?m struggling on how to keep the data in the text file cause every time I run the script I lose the previous data.
I believe the issue it?s in the Sub Save Data procedure.
Here is my Sub SaveData procedure:
sub SaveData {
  my ($file_name,$data,$rows,$cols) = @_;

  open(DATA,">$file_name") or die "$0 ERROR: write $file_name - $!"; 
  for (my $i=0;$i<$rows;$i++)
  {
    for (my $j=0;$j<$cols;$j++)
    {
      printf DATA ("<%s> ",$data->{"$i,$j"});
    }
    print DATA "\n";
  }
  close DATA;
  exit;
}
Please help!
Thanks



      

From bennymack at gmail.com  Tue Sep  7 07:57:03 2010
From: bennymack at gmail.com (Ben. B.)
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 10:57:03 -0400
Subject: [Buffalo-pm] (no subject)
In-Reply-To: <923253.494.qm@web80505.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <923253.494.qm@web80505.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTikCQj9EL0P_yR9Yqzjpq=yGDo7veysiyt6niBfz@mail.gmail.com>

Here's some free code to chew on. The thing to takeaway is that serializing
moderate amounts of data in Perl just require Data::Dumper and the do()
function. There's a lot of other stuff going on as well. E.g. the current
run() method will overwrite the data with what's in the __DATA__ section
every time. It would probably be more useful to have it pull in and build
off what's already in your data file.

# In a file called DataStuff.pm
# perl DataStuff.pm to run
package DataStuff;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

__PACKAGE__->run if not caller;

sub run {
    my( $class ) = @_;
    my( $dump ) = do { local $/; <DATA>; };
    my $data1 = eval $dump or die $@;
    $data1->{bum} = 42;
    push @{ $data1->{aref} }, 11;
    $class->save_data( 'foo.pl', $data1 );
    my $data2 = $class->get_data( 'foo.pl' );
    print Dumper( $data2 );
}

sub save_data {
    my( $class, $file_name, $data ) = @_;
    local $Data::Dumper::Terse = 1;
    open my $DATA, '>', $file_name or die "$0 ERROR: write $file_name - $!";
    print $DATA Dumper( $data );
}

sub get_data {
    my( $class, $file_name ) = @_;
    return do $file_name;
}

1;

__DATA__

{
    foo => 1,
    bar => "baz",
    aref => [ 1 .. 10 ],
};


On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:17 AM, thomas lems <tmlems2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Good morning All,
> I?m new to Perl, and i used  Perl to create a table with five columns and
> 30 rows.  I was able to save the output to a text file, but I?m struggling
> on how to keep the data in the text file cause every time I run the script I
> lose the previous data.
> I believe the issue it?s in the Sub Save Data procedure.
> Here is my Sub SaveData procedure:
> sub SaveData {
>  my ($file_name,$data,$rows,$cols) = @_;
>
>  open(DATA,">$file_name") or die "$0 ERROR: write $file_name - $!";
>  for (my $i=0;$i<$rows;$i++)
>  {
>    for (my $j=0;$j<$cols;$j++)
>    {
>      printf DATA ("<%s> ",$data->{"$i,$j"});
>    }
>    print DATA "\n";
>  }
>  close DATA;
>  exit;
> }
> Please help!
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Buffalo Perl Mongers Homepage
> http://buffalo.pm.org
>
> Buffalo-pm mailing list
> Buffalo-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/buffalo-pm
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From magnachef at gmail.com  Tue Sep  7 17:37:58 2010
From: magnachef at gmail.com (Dan Magnuszewski)
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 20:37:58 -0400
Subject: [Buffalo-pm] PPW Talks Announced
Message-ID: <AANLkTik=06YJgrzTZVLMoBsWTU8fd_VKwj==QYw2MhJE@mail.gmail.com>

Here's the list of talks that will be given during the Pittsburgh Perl
Workshop. Does anyone else plan on attending?

http://pghpw.org/ppw2010/schedule

-Dan
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From dmagnuszewski at yahoo.com  Wed Sep  8 13:08:13 2010
From: dmagnuszewski at yahoo.com (Daniel Magnuszewski)
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 13:08:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Buffalo-pm] Fw: [Pdx-pm] Meeting tonight: Modern Perl /
	Test::Builder 2
Message-ID: <602684.52067.qm@web33302.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Looks like Randal may be streaming tonight's Portland Perl Mongers meeting for 
those interested

<merlyn_email>

With the permission of the speakers, I'll be there livecasting this too.

Very likely at http://ustre.am/p0/, but watch http://twitter.com/merlyn
in case it ends up somewhere else.


</merlyn_email>


----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Seven till Seven <enobacon at gmail.com>
To: Portland Perl Mongers <pdx-pm-list at pm.org>
Sent: Wed, September 8, 2010 12:21:49 PM
Subject: [Pdx-pm] Meeting tonight:  Modern Perl / Test::Builder 2


  Wed. September 8th, 6:53pm at FreeGeek -- 1731 SE 10th Ave.

          Modern Perl / Test::Builder2
                    with
           chromatic and Michael Schwern 

This meeting will be two shorter presentations back-to-back. The Modern 
Perl talk is broadly targetted at beginners and everyday general usage 
concepts while the Test::Builder 2 talk will delve much deeper into 
particular details of Perl's testing system.



      chromatic on Modern Perl
      --------------------------
      http://modernperlbooks.com

Perl masters talk about strange subjects such as whipupitude, 
manipulexity, context, lexicals, and linguistic principles. It may seem 
that you must be a wizard to apply these notions to your code and 
dexterously wield Perl's essential strengths. In truth, these ideas and 
idioms are deceptively simple: you use them every day when you read or 
write plain English. 

Demystifying the linguistic concepts in Perl opens up the doors of Perl 
mastery. Come learn the philosophy behind Perl's design in order to 
understand Perl and how to use its unique isms to improve your code. 




      Schwern on Test::Builder2
      --------------------------
      http://github.com/schwern/test-more/blob/Test-Builder2/
                                           lib/Test/Builder2/Design.pod

Test::Builder is what most Test modules are written with these days. It 
lets them quietly coordinate with each other and frees the authors from 
having to worry about the details. It was written in 2001 and in that 
decade there's been an explosion of testing modules. 

A decade later, Test::Builder is starting to show its age and 
limitations. Its assumptions and biases are restraining the Perl 
testing community. Perl has moved on, too. When Test::Builder was 
written, testing was still a "new" thing. Now it's a given. We have a 
real object system now and a sophisticated community to take advantage. 

Enter Test::Builder2. A total rewrite of Test::Builder to remove its 
biases and let test authors do whatever they can dream up while still 
being the solid iron core of Perl testing and remaining compatible with 
Test::Builder. It takes advantage of things like Mouse (that's a small 
Moose), method wrappers and roles. Counter-intuitively, it does less 
than Test::Builder does while providing more opportunities. 

Schwern has a grant for Test::Builder2 from the Perl Foundation and if 
he doesn't release something by October they'll break his legs. So he's 
hoping to generate some contributors by showing off the design and 
code! 



As always, the meeting will be followed by social hour at the Lucky Lab.
-- 

        http://pdx.pm.org
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Pdx-pm-list mailing list
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From magnachef at gmail.com  Wed Sep  8 22:42:22 2010
From: magnachef at gmail.com (Dan Magnuszewski)
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 01:42:22 -0400
Subject: [Buffalo-pm] (no subject)
In-Reply-To: <437175.44809.qm@web80504.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <437175.44809.qm@web80504.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTimJL9+Cvw_-qW0Ms_WJmFe1mpx5Eup3_FHp9hmA@mail.gmail.com>

Welcome to the group! If you're learning Perl, I'd encourage you to check
out the following post so that you learn/practice the good habits :-)

http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2010/07/a-checklist-for-writing-maintainable-perl.html

-Dan


On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:03 AM, thomas lems <tmlems2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Good morning All,
> I'm new to this list ...I'm new to perl and would like to learn as much as
> i could.....
>
> Thank u all
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Buffalo Perl Mongers Homepage
> http://buffalo.pm.org
>
> Buffalo-pm mailing list
> Buffalo-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/buffalo-pm
>
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From mikecanzoneri at gmail.com  Fri Sep 24 05:49:19 2010
From: mikecanzoneri at gmail.com (Mike Canzoneri)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:49:19 -0400
Subject: [Buffalo-pm] Our next meeting
Message-ID: <AANLkTimGeYHiUCHLmMYAXAfYkMa=u-_M-VE_RybRZfHn@mail.gmail.com>

Hello everyone!

It's been a while since we had our regular meetings.  I would like to
try and start that up again.  I am sure the last couple years have
yielded some interesting projects and experiences for us that we can
share.  Normally we meet on the second Tuesday of the month so let's
set up October 12th for the next meeting.  Do we have anyone who can
get our old room in Bell or do we need to find another place?

Mike Canzoneri
BPM President

From eye at buffalo.edu  Fri Sep 24 06:00:27 2010
From: eye at buffalo.edu (Eye, Kevin)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:00:27 -0400
Subject: [Buffalo-pm] Our next meeting
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimGeYHiUCHLmMYAXAfYkMa=u-_M-VE_RybRZfHn@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <C8C2192B.73A3%eye@buffalo.edu>

I think I can get access to Bell. I'll look into it, unless a more social meetup like last time at Santoras, or a change of venue in general is desired.

 - Kevin


On 9/24/10 8:49 AM, "Mike Canzoneri" <mikecanzoneri at gmail.com> wrote:

Hello everyone!

It's been a while since we had our regular meetings.  I would like to
try and start that up again.  I am sure the last couple years have
yielded some interesting projects and experiences for us that we can
share.  Normally we meet on the second Tuesday of the month so let's
set up October 12th for the next meeting.  Do we have anyone who can
get our old room in Bell or do we need to find another place?

Mike Canzoneri
BPM President
_______________________________________________
Buffalo Perl Mongers Homepage
http://buffalo.pm.org

Buffalo-pm mailing list
Buffalo-pm at pm.org
http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/buffalo-pm


--
Kevin Eye
Web Applications Developer
University Communications
University at Buffalo
330 Crofts Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260
eye at buffalo.edu
phone (716) 645-4579




From magnachef at gmail.com  Fri Sep 24 07:55:59 2010
From: magnachef at gmail.com (Dan Magnuszewski)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:55:59 -0400
Subject: [Buffalo-pm] Our next meeting
In-Reply-To: <C8C2192B.73A3%eye@buffalo.edu>
References: <AANLkTimGeYHiUCHLmMYAXAfYkMa=u-_M-VE_RybRZfHn@mail.gmail.com>
	<C8C2192B.73A3%eye@buffalo.edu>
Message-ID: <AANLkTinodoTsbRwd+ukEFxB2k0A16r2jWdtZLag1MirW@mail.gmail.com>

Bell is alright with me. With that said, I wouldn't hate the idea of having
it at Hackerspaces, as they seem to have a bunch of other meetups there
(PHP, iPhone devs, etc) and could open the group up to others.

Just an FYI that Pittsburgh Perl Workshop will be held the previous weekend
(8th - 10th). Is anyone planning on going? I am.

-Dan

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Eye, Kevin <eye at buffalo.edu> wrote:

> I think I can get access to Bell. I'll look into it, unless a more social
> meetup like last time at Santoras, or a change of venue in general is
> desired.
>
>  - Kevin
>
>
> On 9/24/10 8:49 AM, "Mike Canzoneri" <mikecanzoneri at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone!
>
> It's been a while since we had our regular meetings.  I would like to
> try and start that up again.  I am sure the last couple years have
> yielded some interesting projects and experiences for us that we can
> share.  Normally we meet on the second Tuesday of the month so let's
> set up October 12th for the next meeting.  Do we have anyone who can
> get our old room in Bell or do we need to find another place?
>
> Mike Canzoneri
> BPM President
> _______________________________________________
> Buffalo Perl Mongers Homepage
> http://buffalo.pm.org
>
> Buffalo-pm mailing list
> Buffalo-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/buffalo-pm
>
>
> --
> Kevin Eye
> Web Applications Developer
> University Communications
> University at Buffalo
> 330 Crofts Hall
> Buffalo, NY 14260
> eye at buffalo.edu
> phone (716) 645-4579
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Buffalo Perl Mongers Homepage
> http://buffalo.pm.org
>
> Buffalo-pm mailing list
> Buffalo-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/buffalo-pm
>
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From ikeith at earthlink.net  Wed Sep 29 18:07:01 2010
From: ikeith at earthlink.net (keith tarbell)
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:07:01 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
Subject: [Buffalo-pm] Our next meeting
Message-ID: <13695893.1285808821851.JavaMail.root@mswamui-billy.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

I second the motion (such as it was) for hackerspace (Buffalo Lab).

It doesn't have that "Holiday Inn conference room" feel.
Check the calendar <http://www.meetup.com/hackerspaces/calendar/> and find a time slot.  I can schedule the event for you.
</keith>


-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan Magnuszewski <magnachef at gmail.com>
>Sent: Sep 24, 2010 10:55 AM
>To: Buffalo Perl Mongers <buffalo-pm at pm.org>
>Subject: Re: [Buffalo-pm] Our next meeting
>
>Bell is alright with me. With that said, I wouldn't hate the idea of having
>it at Hackerspaces, as they seem to have a bunch of other meetups there
>(PHP, iPhone devs, etc) and could open the group up to others.
>
>Just an FYI that Pittsburgh Perl Workshop will be held the previous weekend
>(8th - 10th). Is anyone planning on going? I am.
>
>-Dan
>
>On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Eye, Kevin <eye at buffalo.edu> wrote:
>
>> I think I can get access to Bell. I'll look into it, unless a more social
>> meetup like last time at Santoras, or a change of venue in general is
>> desired.
>>
>>  - Kevin
>>
>>
>> On 9/24/10 8:49 AM, "Mike Canzoneri" <mikecanzoneri at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone!
>>
>> It's been a while since we had our regular meetings.  I would like to
>> try and start that up again.  I am sure the last couple years have
>> yielded some interesting projects and experiences for us that we can
>> share.  Normally we meet on the second Tuesday of the month so let's
>> set up October 12th for the next meeting.  Do we have anyone who can
>> get our old room in Bell or do we need to find another place?
>>
>> Mike Canzoneri
>> BPM President
>> _______________________________________________
>> Buffalo Perl Mongers Homepage
>> http://buffalo.pm.org
>>
>> Buffalo-pm mailing list
>> Buffalo-pm at pm.org
>> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/buffalo-pm
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kevin Eye
>> Web Applications Developer
>> University Communications
>> University at Buffalo
>> 330 Crofts Hall
>> Buffalo, NY 14260
>> eye at buffalo.edu
>> phone (716) 645-4579
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Buffalo Perl Mongers Homepage
>> http://buffalo.pm.org
>>
>> Buffalo-pm mailing list
>> Buffalo-pm at pm.org
>> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/buffalo-pm
>>


From jkeen at verizon.net  Wed Sep 29 19:18:07 2010
From: jkeen at verizon.net (James E Keenan)
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:18:07 -0400
Subject: [Buffalo-pm] Our next meeting
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinodoTsbRwd+ukEFxB2k0A16r2jWdtZLag1MirW@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTimGeYHiUCHLmMYAXAfYkMa=u-_M-VE_RybRZfHn@mail.gmail.com>
	<C8C2192B.73A3%eye@buffalo.edu>
	<AANLkTinodoTsbRwd+ukEFxB2k0A16r2jWdtZLag1MirW@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <41E6F2AD-C31E-40B2-A395-C8F2608E7988@verizon.net>


On Sep 24, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Dan Magnuszewski wrote:

> Bell is alright with me. With that said, I wouldn't hate the idea  
> of having it at Hackerspaces, as they seem to have a bunch of other  
> meetups there (PHP, iPhone devs, etc) and could open the group up  
> to others.

I can't be there, but I endorse this line of thinking.  But,  
regardless of *where* you hold the meeting, holding meetings on a  
*regular* basis is key.

Jim Keenan