From andy at petdance.com Tue Jun 1 09:55:34 2004 From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:27:41 2004 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Tonight's meeting: Hiring tips and career planning for programmers Message-ID: <20040601145534.GA16931@petdance.com> Don't forget tonight's Perl Mongers meeting at WDI. I'll be presenting my talk on getting hired and career planning. This is the same talk I'll be giving at YAPC and OSCON in June and July, respectively. Anyone wanting to meet at the burrito place on Rt. 60 beforehand, I'll be there about 6:00-6:10. Oh, and all sorts of swell new books to give away! xoa -- Andy Lester => andy@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance From vosede at lidp.com Mon Jun 7 07:18:35 2004 From: vosede at lidp.com (vosede@lidp.com) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:27:41 2004 Subject: [Chicago-announce] (FWD) UniForum: CamelBones 101 Message-ID: <20040607121835.GA99208@lidp.com> PerlSIG meeting -- Hope you can join us. ------------------------------------------------------------------- CamelBones 101 Jim Thomason Tuesday, June 8th, 2004, 7-9pm College of DuPage, Building SRC, Room 1450AB Abstract -------- With the advent of OS X, Apple Computer has a truly excellent computing platform. Excellent BSD-based underpinnings with a pretty GUI on top of it. But, alas, Perl programmers live on the command line and don't get to experience it. No more! By using the open-source CamelBones framework, Perl developers can quickly and easily build graphical interfaces to their perl applications. Jim Thomason will provide a quickstart approach to building your applications and pointers to quickly learn more. Speaker Bio ----------- Jim Thomason has been working as a perl programmer in the Chicago area for the last 6 years and has been fortunate enough to always have that as his primary job responsibility. Of course, he's also been a Macintosh user for the past 10 years, and developing for that platform is a great source of enjoyment as well. Items you may recognize him from are Mail::Bulkmail, Text::Flowchart, or Carp::Notify (all on CPAN), the Basset framework, or Fish Bowl for OS X. All you could ever possibly want to know about Jim is at http://www.jimandkoka.com Getting There ------------- The next meeting of the UniForum Chicago Perl Special interest group will be from 7:00 pm to 9:00 PM on Tuesday, June 8, 2004 at the College of DuPage. The address of the meeting facility is: College of DuPage Building SRC, Rm 1450a&b 22nd and Lambert Glen Ellyn, IL 60137-6599 Take 355 to Butterfield Rd (Rt 56). Butterfield West to Lambert Rd. Lambert Rd North to first right after College Road. Park in lots 7 or 8 and walk to SRC building. Rooms 1450a&b are on the first floor of the SRC building, and are entered through the cafeteria at the South of the building. All UniForum Chicago Perl SIG meetings are open to the public free of charge. For additional information contact Deborah Vose at (630)829-7033 or visit the UniForum Chicago web site at: http://www.uniforum.chi.il.us/ -- Deborah Vose LIDP Consulting, Inc. Phone: 1 630 829 7033 e-mail: vosede@lidp.com From andy at petdance.com Thu Jun 10 15:50:46 2004 From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:27:41 2004 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Next meeting, July 6: Lightning Talks Message-ID: <20040610205046.GA7712@petdance.com> Here's a gentle reminder that next month's meeting will be lightning talks. LTs are 5-minute talks from anyone about anything. Here's the lineup so far (although maybe not in this order) Benchmarking Regular Expressions Pete Krawczyk An Update On The Phalanx Project Andy Lester Data::FormElements Jason Gessner Basset Blog Jim Thomason LiveJournal and six degrees of separation Pete Krawczyk YAML Greg Fast WWW::Mechanize and the public library Leland Johnson Knit 1, Purl 1: Cellular-Automata Knitting Using Perl Elizabeth Cortell TBD John Amundsen TBD Jason Crome See http://chicago.pm.org/meetings/ for more details about how to do a lightning talk, and with ideas on how YOU can participate. Deadline for signing up is July 2nd, and I have to have all your materials (slides if any) by end of July 5th so I can get them on the laptop. Thanks, Andy -- Andy Lester => andy@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance