From dcmertens.perl at gmail.com Wed Oct 3 04:06:46 2012 From: dcmertens.perl at gmail.com (David Mertens) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 06:06:46 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] Upcoming Project Night In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I appreciate all the progress we made on App::Prima::REPL last round, but I've not had enough round tuits lately to pull in all of Joel's work. Even more contributions would be a bad idea right now as they would mostly go unmerged for a while, I fear. Personally, a project I'd like to push on is Joel's Alien::Base. Project night would include a deep dive to finally tackle the Mac conundrum, an edit of the docs, and maybe even the creation of a few derived Alien modules. So I guess I'm nominating Joel. :-) What projects do others have in mind? David On Sep 28, 2012 12:39 AM, "Doug Bell" wrote: > First I want to thank Sean for giving a presentation, and everyone who > came out. There was some excellent side-discussion on logging and how to > build CPAN dists, and I learned that the Salt Stack exists, which is an > interesting project. > > We have a project night coming up in two weeks. Does someone have a > project they want to get some assistance on (I know I've got a couple)? > Would people be interested in working on some CPAN module bug lists? Should > we stick with App-Prima-REPL and get it polished up more? > > Gabor Szabo also recently announced the Perl Maven Competition ( > http://perlmaven.com), which I think would be great for us to participate > in. It's a short, 48-hour code marathon with the goal of producing an > end-user product. It's running December 15-16, so we have plenty of time to > prepare ourselves. We need 4 people total. > > Doug Bell > madcityzen at gmail.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago-talk mailing list > Chicago-talk at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago-talk > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From joel.a.berger at gmail.com Tue Oct 9 06:10:25 2012 From: joel.a.berger at gmail.com (Joel Berger) Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 08:10:25 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] Upcoming Project Night In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I know its a little late notice, but I am happy to accept David's nomination of Alien::Base as a focus of this week's Chicago/WindyCity.pm project night. I waited this long to reply because I had a deal of work that I needed to do to get it to a usable state. That said, I would be overjoyed to have this opportunity. Alien::Base is a project which aims to take one of the most difficult tasks in the CPAN sphere: creating an Alien:: module (one which provides a C library to Perl modules via CPAN) and abstract all the difficulty, making it one of the easiest. After my last code sprint, it seems that it is passing its tests on Linux and Mac and I have anecdotal evidence for Windows. That said its real tests are how well it can provide these libraries, how flexible and robust the configuration options are and how well it can be employed. Therefore I invite you all to come this Thursday with a C library of your choosing in mind (if you don't have one, I can help you find one) and I will attempt to walk us through writing an Alien:: module for it. Of course, if this does not interest you, you are still encouraged to attend! Project night is open to all people and all projects! Cheers and I hope to see you there! Joel Berger P.S. we normally coordinate through meetup, but I don't see this event posted yet. Here is the link to the meetup group, I will send another email when the organizers make a post for this specific event. http://www.meetup.com/Windy-City-Perl-mongers-Meetup/ On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 6:06 AM, David Mertens wrote: > I appreciate all the progress we made on App::Prima::REPL last round, but > I've not had enough round tuits lately to pull in all of Joel's work. Even > more contributions would be a bad idea right now as they would mostly go > unmerged for a while, I fear. > > Personally, a project I'd like to push on is Joel's Alien::Base. Project > night would include a deep dive to finally tackle the Mac conundrum, an edit > of the docs, and maybe even the creation of a few derived Alien modules. So > I guess I'm nominating Joel. :-) > > What projects do others have in mind? > > David > > On Sep 28, 2012 12:39 AM, "Doug Bell" wrote: >> >> First I want to thank Sean for giving a presentation, and everyone who >> came out. There was some excellent side-discussion on logging and how to >> build CPAN dists, and I learned that the Salt Stack exists, which is an >> interesting project. >> >> We have a project night coming up in two weeks. Does someone have a >> project they want to get some assistance on (I know I've got a couple)? >> Would people be interested in working on some CPAN module bug lists? Should >> we stick with App-Prima-REPL and get it polished up more? >> >> Gabor Szabo also recently announced the Perl Maven Competition >> (http://perlmaven.com), which I think would be great for us to participate >> in. It's a short, 48-hour code marathon with the goal of producing an >> end-user product. It's running December 15-16, so we have plenty of time to >> prepare ourselves. We need 4 people total. >> >> Doug Bell >> madcityzen at gmail.com >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago-talk mailing list >> Chicago-talk at pm.org >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago-talk From madcityzen at gmail.com Tue Oct 9 09:24:35 2012 From: madcityzen at gmail.com (Doug Bell) Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 11:24:35 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] Project Night - Thursday October 11, 6:30 pm Message-ID: <-8403063090897143025@unknownmsgid> It's time for another project night! This month's project is Joel Berger's Alien::Base module. This module is a framework that smoothes over the OS complexities and mundanities when adding third-party dependencies like C libraries that CPAN modules depend on. Joel recently released a beta version, and is asking for feedback, test installs, and some consuming modules. I've been waiting for this to try to add ExtJS to the CPAN, and there is an interesting library called PhantomJS that sounds like it would be useful to have on CPAN. Project Nights are BYO Beverage, though anything left in the office fridge from the last meeting will be available (probably Sprite and Diet Coke). The meeting will be at 540 W Madison. The mobile internet seemed to work pretty well, so we'll go with it until it doesn't. RSVP on the Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Windy-City-Perl-mongers-Meetup/events/86184842/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sean at blanton.com Wed Oct 10 07:59:15 2012 From: sean at blanton.com (Sean Blanton) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:59:15 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] Upcoming Project Night In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I want to belated thank everyone at my talk who all gave important feedback, like how un-cool it is to pre-register module names on CPAN. Seriously, it was great feedback. Regards, Sean Sean Blanton sean at blanton.com On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Doug Bell wrote: > First I want to thank Sean for giving a presentation, and everyone who > came out. There was some excellent side-discussion on logging and how to > build CPAN dists, and I learned that the Salt Stack exists, which is an > interesting project. > > We have a project night coming up in two weeks. Does someone have a > project they want to get some assistance on (I know I've got a couple)? > Would people be interested in working on some CPAN module bug lists? Should > we stick with App-Prima-REPL and get it polished up more? > > Gabor Szabo also recently announced the Perl Maven Competition ( > http://perlmaven.com), which I think would be great for us to participate > in. It's a short, 48-hour code marathon with the goal of producing an > end-user product. It's running December 15-16, so we have plenty of time to > prepare ourselves. We need 4 people total. > > Doug Bell > madcityzen at gmail.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago-talk mailing list > Chicago-talk at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago-talk > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From joel.a.berger at gmail.com Wed Oct 10 08:45:48 2012 From: joel.a.berger at gmail.com (Joel Berger) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:45:48 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] Perl Mongers Project Night In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Joe, We would love to have you. The meeting place is only a few blocks from Union Station if a train could keep your costs down. As to parking, that I'm not as sure about (since I always take the train). There are some websites that let you search for parking; I know we used one a few weeks ago for a wedding, and I don't remember if this http://www.chicagoparkingmap.com/map_static.jsp is it or not. I am going to forward this to the list, perhaps other people will know better than I. Cheers, Joel On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Joe Wright wrote: > Hi Joel, > > I'd like to attend Perl Mongers one of these days; I'm out in the > southwestern suburbs, so I'd be driving in. Do you know what's > available for parking at the location? I'd like to avoid spending $30 > for parking, if possible: that makes PM pretty expensive ;) > > > Thanks, > > Joe Wright From joel.a.berger at gmail.com Wed Oct 10 08:47:44 2012 From: joel.a.berger at gmail.com (Joel Berger) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:47:44 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] Perl Mongers Project Night In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Actually I think this was it: http://en.parkopedia.com/free/chicago/parking/ On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Joel Berger wrote: > Hi Joe, > > We would love to have you. The meeting place is only a few blocks from > Union Station if a train could keep your costs down. As to parking, > that I'm not as sure about (since I always take the train). There are > some websites that let you search for parking; I know we used one a > few weeks ago for a wedding, and I don't remember if this > http://www.chicagoparkingmap.com/map_static.jsp is it or not. > > I am going to forward this to the list, perhaps other people will know > better than I. > > Cheers, > > Joel > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Joe Wright wrote: >> Hi Joel, >> >> I'd like to attend Perl Mongers one of these days; I'm out in the >> southwestern suburbs, so I'd be driving in. Do you know what's >> available for parking at the location? I'd like to avoid spending $30 >> for parking, if possible: that makes PM pretty expensive ;) >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Joe Wright From JJacobus at PonyX.com Thu Oct 18 09:34:51 2012 From: JJacobus at PonyX.com (Jim Jacobus) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:34:51 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] Reading extended ASCII characters from a text box Message-ID: <20121018163501.C92A62E8A81@xx1.develooper.com> On our website we have a HTML text box so that customers can insert a product description. Problem is when they do a copy and paste from a Word or other document format that has extended ASCII charcters (like inch marks, foot marks, greek characters and even latin-1 characters), the characters get translated to nulls and such. Is there a way to read the contents in the raw form using Perl so I can translate it? Or is the an HTML issue? From shlomif at shlomifish.org Thu Oct 18 12:42:14 2012 From: shlomif at shlomifish.org (Shlomi Fish) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:42:14 +0200 Subject: [Chicago-talk] Reading extended ASCII characters from a text box In-Reply-To: <20121018163501.C92A62E8A81@xx1.develooper.com> References: <20121018163501.C92A62E8A81@xx1.develooper.com> Message-ID: <20121018214214.1f1ce3bb@lap.shlomifish.org> Hi Jim, On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:34:51 -0500 Jim Jacobus wrote: > > On our website we have a HTML text box so that customers can insert a > product description. Problem is when they do a copy and paste from a > Word or other document format that has extended ASCII charcters (like > inch marks, foot marks, greek characters and even latin-1 > characters), the characters get translated to nulls and such. > Is there a way to read the contents in the raw form using Perl so I > can translate it? Or is the an HTML issue? > That sounds like an encoding problem. See: * http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html * http://perldoc.perl.org/perlunitut.html * http://www.unicode.org/faq/unicode_web.html If you're still running into problems, it would help to get a reproducing example. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ My Aphorisms - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour.html Chuck Norris doesn?t make mistakes. (Su?Shee) He corrects God. (Shlomi Fish) Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . From madcityzen at gmail.com Tue Oct 23 17:24:28 2012 From: madcityzen at gmail.com (Doug Bell) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:24:28 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] Presentation: Scripting Git with Perl - Thursday, October 23, 6:30pm Message-ID: <3C4A9F6C-C27D-4DD0-BFE1-904AF4F5C1AF@gmail.com> Greetings everyone! This month's presentation will be Scripting Git with Perl, given by me. I'm going to cover the different ways I've used the Git::Repository module and git's plumbing and porcelain to create an automated release system, and a release repository using git submodules. The meeting is at our usual location, 540 W Madison St, 9th floor. Please RSVP on the meetup to get into the building. Pizza and beverages will be provided. Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Windy-City-Perl-mongers-Meetup/events/85508372/ Doug Bell madcityzen at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Pizza and beverages will be provided. > > Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Windy-City-Perl-mongers-Meetup/events/85508372/ > > > > Doug Bell > madcityzen at gmail.com > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Andy_Bach at wiwb.uscourts.gov Sat Oct 27 11:53:01 2012 From: Andy_Bach at wiwb.uscourts.gov (Andy_Bach at wiwb.uscourts.gov) Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:53:01 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] 2013 Midwest Perl/Moose training? Message-ID: Forwarded message below. On Oct 25, 2012, at 5:23 PM, Jay Hannah wrote: > [Full disclosure: In addition to being the Omaha.pm group leader for 10 years now, I am also an Infinity Interactive employee nowadays.] > > Hello, > > Infinity Interactive (the Moose cabal, among other things) is putting together an east coast training tour for 2013. One day, intensive hands-on training on Modern Perl, Moose, etc, with the guys who wrote the actual code. > > I'm bummed out that the current plan is east coast big city only. I'd love to see the tour also come to the midwest! > > Do you or your company have a Perl training budget for 2013? If we can get II folks sponsored in your city then I believe they also do low cost (free?) presentations to the local Perl Monger group. > > If you deem this appropriate could you please forward to your mailing list? I'm fishing for interest. > > I'd love to get these guys out here to the midwest, especially for folks that don't make it out to YAPC and other Perl events. > > (BTW, if you're not familiar with Infinity, our site at http://iinteractive.github.com/summarizes a lot of the Open Source/Free Software work we've done and our other community contributions.) > > Thanks for your time, > > Jay Hannah > Omaha.pm > 402-598-7782 > http://iinteractive.github.com/ > > > ---------------------- Andy Bach Systems Mangler Internet: andy_bach at wiwb.uscourts.gov Voice: (608) 261-5738, Cell: (608) 658-1890 "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." Robert Sewell. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: