From mswier at yahoo.com Tue Mar 1 06:29:21 2005 From: mswier at yahoo.com (Mike Swier) Date: Tue Mar 1 06:29:32 2005 Subject: [Chicago-announce] NWCLUG's next meeting 3/1/05 today Message-ID: <20050301142921.79048.qmail@web40904.mail.yahoo.com> Hi, NWCLUG's next meeting will be at Harper College in A238 at 7pm on Tuesday 3/1/05. for (a bit) more info see http://nwclug.harpercollege.edu/httpd/html/meetings.html#nextmtg mikie From andy at petdance.com Thu Mar 17 20:40:20 2005 From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester) Date: Thu Mar 17 20:40:36 2005 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Preventing Crisis: How to go from scapegoat to rock star Message-ID: <90a08a6e9e50114ba9e7fc97ab2e157f@petdance.com> The next Chicago Perl Mongers meeting is still getting worked on, but until then, you can come hear my new talk "Preventing Crisis," as I get it ready to go for this summer's soon-to-be-announced Open Source Conference in Portland. It'll be Tuesday, 3/22 at 7pm at the Uniforum meeting at College of DuPage. http://uniforum.chi.il.us/meetings/preventcrisis.html Embarrassing bugs, late-night phone calls and impossible schedules are all crises no one wants, but are all too common. Don't accept them as inevitable: Prevent them! Learn how to change from scapegoat to rock star, and bring back the joy of development. Crisis is always bad, even when you manage to solve the problem. Crisis always reflects poorly on you and your department. It's almost a truism that development crises happen, but you don't have to work in a Dilbertesque hellhole. Crisis prevention must be an integral part of everything you and your department do. You'll learn how to: * Keep management off your back so you can get real work done. * Make honest schedules everyone can live with. * Track your progress effectively to avoid 11th hour rushes. * Stop your project from stalling, or sliding backwards. * Handle change requests without stress. * Go from scapegoats to rock stars. These techniques have all been proven under fire, and draw from a number of methodologies. I hope to see some Mongers there! xoa -- Andy Lester => andy@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance From glim at mycybernet.net Sat Mar 19 11:56:00 2005 From: glim at mycybernet.net (glim@mycybernet.net) Date: Sat Mar 19 12:24:08 2005 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Yet Another Perl Conference, North America, 2005 Registration now open Message-ID: ----------> Yet Another Perl Conference, North America, 2005 Registration now open. Conference dates: Monday - Wednesday 27 - 29 June 2005 Location: 89 Chestnut Street http://89chestnut.com/ University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada Info at: http://yapc.org/America Direct registration: http://donate.perlfoundation.org/index.pl?node=registrant%20info&conference_id=423 Full registration fee $85 (USD) Book now for great deals on accommodations and ensure a space for yourself. Speaking slots are still open. If you would like to present at YAPC::NA 2005, see: http://yapc.org/America/cfp-2005.shtml Details of this announcement: http://yapc.org/America/registration-announcement-2005.txt <---------- More Details ============ Registration for YAPC::NA (Yet Another Perl Conference, North America) 2005 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is now open. The conference registration price is USD$85. This price includes admission to all aspects of the conference, respectable amounts of catering, several activities and a few conference goodies. The YAPC North America 2005 conference features... * Fantastic speakers + most are the core creators of the technology on which they present + many are professional IT authors, trainers and conference speakers * An excellent learning opportunity * A chance to meet Perl professionals from all over North America and the world + YAPC attendees tend to be very involved in Perl and so are another great way to learn more about what the language has to offer beyond just what the speakers have to say * Extra-curricular / after hours activities * A great location in downtown Toronto All this, and the price is more than an order of magnitude cheaper than what commercial conferences can offer. This is because YAPC is a 100% volunteer effort, both from its organizers and its speakers. Quality is *not* sacrificed to achieve this stunning level of affordability. YAPC provides the best value-for-dollar in IT conferences. And it's a ton of fun, too. The dates of the conference are Monday - Wednesday 27-29 June 2005. The location is 89 Chestnut Street in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Note that a different date block was previously announced; we moved the conference date to accommodate venue availability.) http://89chestnut.com/ -- a facility within the University of Toronto If you are at all interested in attending the conference... Book now! Book now! Book now! We have room for about 400 attendees and we hope to sell out well in advance of the late June conference date. However, the critical matter is that of hotels. The YAPC::NA 2005 organizers have made group arrangements with several facilities around the city to provide _excellent_ quality accommodations in _very_ convenient locations at _terrific_ prices for the _full_ capacity of conference attendees (around 400 people). (Finding, booking and paying accommodations is the responsibility of the attendees, but we will provide you with a list of the hotels and university dorms to try first based on our group arrangement with them when you register for the conference. Also, see the web site at http://yapc.org/America/accommodations-2005.shtml. More details will be up shortly. The dorm option will be approx. C$55/night, the hotel options will be more like C$90/night, and for slightly different prices there will be options for putting more than 1 person in a room. Exact details and how to book will be emailed directly to people who have registered for the conference as soon as they become available.) *The catch is -- book now!!* The group reservations will expire in early May, at which point in time the group rates will mostly still apply, but the rooms will be given out on an "availability basis". Which means that someone else outside of the YAPC group can book the rooms as well. Make no mistake -- the rooms *will* be sold. Toronto is a very active conference city in the summer and there will be _no_ guarantee of vacancies either at the facilities we made arrangements with or anywhere else in the city if you leave it to within 6 weeks of the conference date. So, if you want to save yourself the likely-fruitless headache of scrambling around looking for accommodations at the last minute, Book now! Book now! Book now! Have any questions? Email na-help@yapc.org for more details. Additionally, we are still welcoming submissions for proposals via: http://yapc.org/America/cfp-2005.shtml The close of the call-for-papers is April 18, 2005 at 11:59 pm (Toronto time). If you have any questions regarding the call-for-papers or speaking at YAPC::NA 2005 please email na-author@yapc.org We would love to hear from potential sponsors. Please contact the organizers at na-sponsor@yapc.org to learn about the benefits of sponsorship. From andy at petdance.com Sat Mar 19 12:23:58 2005 From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester) Date: Sat Mar 19 12:24:13 2005 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Yet Another Perl Conference, North America, 2005 Registration now open Message-ID: <20050319202358.GA14203@petdance.com> Registration for YAPC now open. I'm going, along with Amy & Quinn. Pete Krawczyk threatens to go as well. I expect I'll be giving a talk or two, although presentation deadline hasn't passed yet. It's $85 dollars. That's $85, not $850 or $8,500. At a price like that, you can't go wrong. xoxo, Andy ----------> Yet Another Perl Conference, North America, 2005 Registration now open. Conference dates: Monday - Wednesday 27 - 29 June 2005 Location: 89 Chestnut Street http://89chestnut.com/ University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada Info at: http://yapc.org/America Direct registration: http://donate.perlfoundation.org/index.pl?node=registrant%20info&conference_id=423 Full registration fee $85 (USD) Book now for great deals on accommodations and ensure a space for yourself. Speaking slots are still open. If you would like to present at YAPC::NA 2005, see: http://yapc.org/America/cfp-2005.shtml Details of this announcement: http://yapc.org/America/registration-announcement-2005.txt <---------- More Details ============ Registration for YAPC::NA (Yet Another Perl Conference, North America) 2005 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is now open. The conference registration price is USD$85. This price includes admission to all aspects of the conference, respectable amounts of catering, several activities and a few conference goodies. The YAPC North America 2005 conference features... * Fantastic speakers + most are the core creators of the technology on which they present + many are professional IT authors, trainers and conference speakers * An excellent learning opportunity * A chance to meet Perl professionals from all over North America and the world + YAPC attendees tend to be very involved in Perl and so are another great way to learn more about what the language has to offer beyond just what the speakers have to say * Extra-curricular / after hours activities * A great location in downtown Toronto All this, and the price is more than an order of magnitude cheaper than what commercial conferences can offer. This is because YAPC is a 100% volunteer effort, both from its organizers and its speakers. Quality is *not* sacrificed to achieve this stunning level of affordability. YAPC provides the best value-for-dollar in IT conferences. And it's a ton of fun, too. The dates of the conference are Monday - Wednesday 27-29 June 2005. The location is 89 Chestnut Street in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Note that a different date block was previously announced; we moved the conference date to accommodate venue availability.) http://89chestnut.com/ -- a facility within the University of Toronto If you are at all interested in attending the conference... Book now! Book now! Book now! We have room for about 400 attendees and we hope to sell out well in advance of the late June conference date. However, the critical matter is that of hotels. The YAPC::NA 2005 organizers have made group arrangements with several facilities around the city to provide _excellent_ quality accommodations in _very_ convenient locations at _terrific_ prices for the _full_ capacity of conference attendees (around 400 people). (Finding, booking and paying accommodations is the responsibility of the attendees, but we will provide you with a list of the hotels and university dorms to try first based on our group arrangement with them when you register for the conference. Also, see the web site at http://yapc.org/America/accommodations-2005.shtml. More details will be up shortly. The dorm option will be approx. C$55/night, the hotel options will be more like C$90/night, and for slightly different prices there will be options for putting more than 1 person in a room. Exact details and how to book will be emailed directly to people who have registered for the conference as soon as they become available.) *The catch is -- book now!!* The group reservations will expire in early May, at which point in time the group rates will mostly still apply, but the rooms will be given out on an "availability basis". Which means that someone else outside of the YAPC group can book the rooms as well. Make no mistake -- the rooms *will* be sold. Toronto is a very active conference city in the summer and there will be _no_ guarantee of vacancies either at the facilities we made arrangements with or anywhere else in the city if you leave it to within 6 weeks of the conference date. So, if you want to save yourself the likely-fruitless headache of scrambling around looking for accommodations at the last minute, Book now! Book now! Book now! Have any questions? Email na-help@yapc.org for more details. Additionally, we are still welcoming submissions for proposals via: http://yapc.org/America/cfp-2005.shtml The close of the call-for-papers is April 18, 2005 at 11:59 pm (Toronto time). If you have any questions regarding the call-for-papers or speaking at YAPC::NA 2005 please email na-author@yapc.org We would love to hear from potential sponsors. Please contact the organizers at na-sponsor@yapc.org to learn about the benefits of sponsorship. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Andy Lester => andy@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance From andy at petdance.com Mon Mar 21 20:15:41 2005 From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester) Date: Mon Mar 21 20:15:50 2005 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Tuesday's Uniforum meeting Message-ID: <10f8d22d4962e6c0527e881497eaa141@petdance.com> Please note that Tuesday's Uniforum meeting (my "How to run a sane software shop" talk) is NOT going to be at COD. It's close, but not at COD. It will be at the IIT Glen Ellyn campus. http://www.uniforum.chi.il.us/meetings/preventcrisis.html Also, I have so much swag saved up from the last couple of months (many Hacks books, issues of the new O'Reilly magazine Make, etc) there'll be lots of goodies to give away. See you there! -- Andy Lester => andy@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance From emorgan at nd.edu Tue Mar 29 07:03:52 2005 From: emorgan at nd.edu (Eric Lease Morgan) Date: Tue Mar 29 07:04:11 2005 Subject: [Chicago-announce] wanted: short-term Perl programmer Message-ID: The following is a want-ad for a short-term Perl programmer: Short-term Perl programmer The University Libraries of Notre Dame Libraries is seeking an expert Perl programmer to work on a short-term project for a professional salary. Description: The Libraries is involved in a national research and development activity. One of the activity's goals is to enhance an information retrieval system with a Find More Like This One feature. This feature will: 1. Allow users to identify a desirable record from a list of search results 2. Select characteristics from the record the user deems significant 3. Return those characteristics back to the system 4. The system will then use things like locally created dictionaries, WordNet, and/or other semantic tools to return additional searches to be applied against other internal or external indexes Requirements: The successful candidate must have exceptional skills in reading and writing object oriented Perl programs in a Unix/Linux environment. The position requires the candidate to be able document their code with comments as well as in the form of PODs. The positon requires the candidate to be able to work in a collaborative environment. Thus, the candidate must posess well-developed communication skills. Highly desireable: Applicants who demonstrate an understanding of relational database techniques, XML and Web Services, academia, as well as the principles of open source software will be given preference. Work environment: The University Libraries is located in Notre Dame, IN (just outside South Bend) about ninety miles east of Chicago. Because of the location, telecommuting is possible, but regular weekly site visits are necessary. Start date: Immmediately End date: No later than August 31, 2005 Salary: Starting at $24/hour and negotiable depending on qualifications, experience, and flexibility Application: Send cover letters, resumes, and questions to Eric Lease Morgan (developer@dewey.library.nd.edu). All inquires will be acknowledged. -- Eric Lease Morgan Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department University Libraries of Notre Dame