[columbus.pm] Notes, etc.
HOGUEJ at Nationwide.com
HOGUEJ at Nationwide.com
Thu Jan 9 08:54:53 CST 2003
Here are some notes from the organization meeting.
In attendance:
Jason Alexander
Jon Hogue
Len Jaffe
Charles Day
Brian King
We talked about how it would be neet to work on some perl projects as a
group. The two things suggested were...
A good webmail project. Others are difficult to setup, etc.
An irc bot. We could add different flavors to a standard one.
We talked about future speakers including,
Steve Romig from Ohio State has agreed to sometime in the future come and
talk. We have to figure out schedules.
A guy from the linux group was mentioned (I'll withold his name until
someone officially talks to him).
Also, a talk on bioinformatics would be interesting. A lot of people doing
bioinformatics code use perl.
Also, we talked about a membership drive, advertising in the following
places:
meetup.com
perl developer group at nationwide
secwog at campus
cis building - flyers
local newsgroups
osu newsgroups
cis newsgroups
Location, Location, Location
Scottie Macbean has a conference room that is free for non-profits.
Also suggested was a fun place with a conference room like
Speeds on Broad Street
Dave&Busters on the West Side
The only thing better than sitting around talking about Perl is sitting
around talking about Perl drinking a beer. I'll check into Speeds and
Dave&Busters
Meeting Time
January 21st, third Tuesday of Every Month - 6:00 PM
Since the meeting,
I have found a Presenter. He is an expert on the Development process, in
general. He is good at taking an idea, talking to the customer, and
developing a plan for building code. There is a lot that happens in the
application development process before any code is written, from
requirement gathering to hashing how the application is going to be
architected. He uses a component based approach that has been fined tuned
in the real world to be both easy and effective. Plus, he's interesting to
talk to. He's no Perl expert by any stretch of the imagination, but
provides insight into all the things that should happen before you even
drop down any code. I've talked with him a little bit about presenting. He
would take a hands on aproach and work with the group to develop some idea.
(For example, we could run with the webmail project).
If others are interested in Speeds or Dave&Busters, I'll get on the phones
and see if we can arrange something. I believe they usually charge for
something like this, however, we may be able to get it waved since we are
non-profit, and we'll surely be bringing business to whereever we go. Let
me know if I missed anything.
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From: Charles Day <Charles.Day at frontstep.com>
To: "'columbus-pm-list at pm.org'" <columbus-pm-list at pm.org>
Subject: Meeting
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 13:00:51 -0500
Scottie's was a good location for me. There's another one about 1 mile
north downtown Worthington. Looked smaller though.
Whoever's interested, send me your contact information (name, URL, company)
and I'll post it to the website.
There was some talk about a formal meeting with a speaker in 2 weeks.
Let's
get this thread going.
Len, that image/gif header idea worked out great. For those interested, we
were talking about banner ad apps. I wanted a script that could first
print
the banner, then do some database stuff. Was having problems getting
around
the header. Here's some of the code that does this nicely:
This goes on any html page:
<a href="http://www.s1te.com/cgi-bin/clicks.cgi?2"><img
src="http://www.s1te.com/cgi-bin/banners.cgi?2" border=0></a>
Here's part of the banners.cgi:
$image = "banners/$image";
if (open (IMAGE, "<" . $image))
{
$no_bytes = (stat ($image))[7];
print "Content-type: image/gif", "\n";
print "Content-length: $no_bytes", "\n\n";
print <IMAGE>;
}
else
{
&databaseerror("ID verified, but Cannot display image $image.");
}
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