From william at knowmad.com Tue Feb 15 10:53:38 2005 From: william at knowmad.com (William McKee) Date: Tue Feb 15 10:53:52 2005 Subject: [Charlotte.PM] February Perl Mongers Meeting - Thursday, Feb 17th at 7pm Message-ID: <20050215185337.GD2666@knowmad.com> Charlotte Perl Mongers At our last time meeting, the group began a list of steps for performing code reviews. These will eventually be put onto the website once I get access to the new system and can get the wiki working again. Also, I've learned about a review program with Apress[1] and am getting us registered for free stuff. At the next meeting, we're going to borrow a page from OSCON and host lightning talks[2]. These are quick, informal discussions let you show the group what you've been doing with Perl or any other cool technologies. Right now, we have two talks on tap: Manipulating the Windows scheduler with Perl by Ian T Generating PDF's from a template by William M If you have something to talk about, let us know. As usual, we're still pleading for alternate meeting locations which can provide free parking, proximity to the University area and meeting space with a projector or large monitor. Finally, after a few delays, the Perl mongers websites were moved to a new host. I've recently requested access to the site in order to update it. See you at the meeting, William McKee [1] http://www.apress.com/ [2] http://perl.plover.com/lt/lightning-talks.html Meeting Topic: Lightning Talks Meeting Date and Times: >> Thursday, February 17th * General Meeting - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM * Discussion/Networking - 8:30 PM til Next Meeting: Thursday, March 17th ~ Topic to be announced Meeting Location: Jackson's Java, University Blvd. near UNCC see the link at http://charlotte.pm.org for a map -- Knowmad Services Inc. http://www.knowmad.com From phma at phma.hn.org Thu Feb 17 19:51:32 2005 From: phma at phma.hn.org (Pierre Abbat) Date: Thu Feb 17 19:51:54 2005 Subject: [Charlotte.PM] Hand coded Postscript protractors Message-ID: <200502172251.32240.phma@phma.hn.org> William and I were talking about this after he showed the PDF manipulating program. It's not Perl, but I thought you might be interested. phma -- Maintenant, j'ai besoin d'une loupe pour trouver mes lunettes! -Les Perles de la m?decine -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: protractor.ps Type: application/postscript Size: 2800 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/charlotte/attachments/20050217/4c84701d/protractor.ps From william at knowmad.com Fri Feb 18 06:13:42 2005 From: william at knowmad.com (William McKee) Date: Fri Feb 18 06:14:00 2005 Subject: [Charlotte.PM] Hand coded Postscript protractors In-Reply-To: <200502172251.32240.phma@phma.hn.org> References: <200502172251.32240.phma@phma.hn.org> Message-ID: <20050218141341.GN2666@knowmad.com> On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:51:32PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: > William and I were talking about this after he showed the PDF manipulating > program. It's not Perl, but I thought you might be interested. I'm impressed! A protractor in 100 lines of code. I never knew that postscript could actually be legible ;). William -- Knowmad Services Inc. http://www.knowmad.com From william at knowmad.com Tue Feb 22 10:27:15 2005 From: william at knowmad.com (William McKee) Date: Tue Feb 22 10:27:30 2005 Subject: [Charlotte.PM] Fwd: [UNCCLUG] Be there: The Effects of Software Patents on the Open Source Community Message-ID: <20050222182715.GL1369@knowmad.com> This looks like an interesting talk tomorrow. I plan to be there. Hope to see some of you. In case we haven't met, I'll be carrying a _Perl 6 Essentials_ book around with me (my current reading material). William ----- Forwarded message from "Spry, Brad" ----- > To: UNCCLUG@LISTSERV.UNCC.EDU > From: "Spry, Brad" > Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:29:31 -0500 > Subject: [UNCCLUG] Be there: The Effects of Software Patents on the Open > Source > Community > > The Office of Proposal Development, in coordination with the Office of > Technology Transfer, will present another session of its Spring Brown > Bag Series from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 23, in Reese > 211. > > Jim Wright, an attorney with Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman, will > discuss "The Effects of Software Patents on the Open Source Community." > > > He will address questions that open source developers may have on legal > issues related to software patents. Topics include how software patents > differ from regular patents and how software patents might affect the > way business is done in the future. > > Registration is not required, but we'd like to know if you're coming; > please register online at: > http://www.research.uncc.edu/registration/register.cfm?eventID=59 > > > -------- > > A good introduction to software patents can be found here: > http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/ > > > > Sincerely, > > > /\ > \===\/===/ Brad Spry > \====\ /====/ Library Webmaster > \===\ \__/ /===/ UNC Charlotte > \__/ http://library.uncc.edu > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Knowmad Services Inc. http://www.knowmad.com