From tobert at gmail.com  Mon May  1 10:22:37 2006
From: tobert at gmail.com (Al Tobey)
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 13:22:37 -0400
Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] Perl job posting in Traverse City
Message-ID: <5ac7acb10605011022q70054d59l689c459864632500@mail.gmail.com>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Anne Rix <anne at oneupweb.com>
Date: May 1, 2006 11:35 AM
Subject: Web Programmer
To: tobert at gmail.com

Al,

I am the Human Resources Manager for an online marketing firm located
in Traverse City, Michigan.  We have a full-time position as a Web
Programmer here in Lake Leelanau, Michigan and are looking for someone
who is proficient in Perl; someone directed me to the GR Perl Chapter.
 I've included a job description for this position below.  If you
could get this information to your chapter members, I would appreciate
it or feel free to contact me at the number listed below for any
additional information regarding this position.  Individuals can send
their resume and salary requirements to our jobs website
jobs at oneupweb.com.  See our website www.oneupweb.com for more
information about our company and position.

PERL PROGRAMMER

Oneupweb seeks a creative programming genius who can collaborate with
developers & non-technical people, within an object-oriented Perl/
mod_Perl/Apache environment.  Four years developing web-based systems
using Perl (not just Perl scripting) running in a Unix environment and
strong html skills including multi-platform support CSS and
JavaScript, required.  Must be proficient in Perl with experience with
source control systems a plus.

Again, I am not sure you are the person for this request, if not;
please forward to the most appropriate individual(s).   I thank you in
advance for your assistance.

Anne Rix
 Human Resources Manager | oneupweb
 *  anne at oneupweb.com
 > 231.256.9811 x128  phone
 > 231.256.9877 fax
 8  www.oneupweb.com

..............................................

 oneupweb| Integrated Online Marketing

..............................................

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BtoB's Who's Who!

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From tobert at gmail.com  Fri May  5 06:19:14 2006
From: tobert at gmail.com (Al Tobey)
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:19:14 -0400
Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] O'Reilly UG Program News: DSUG Discount
	Changes
Message-ID: <5ac7acb10605050619u40d89195w4cb50d3a25d365b2@mail.gmail.com>

I figured this is worth sending on.    A 30-35% discount is worth a
little email.

-Al Tobey

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 From: Marsee Henon <marsee at oreilly.com>
 To: albert.tobey at priority-health.com
 Subject: O'Reilly UG Program News: DSUG Discount Changes
 Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 12:16:34 -0700 Hello,

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From tobert at gmail.com  Mon May 22 07:36:49 2006
From: tobert at gmail.com (Al Tobey)
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 10:36:49 -0400
Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] May Perl Mongers: Text Magic with Perl
	Regular Expressions
Message-ID: <5ac7acb10605220736k287870ffif6c2393816af1fb5@mail.gmail.com>

The Grand Rapids Perl Mongers will be meeting this Friday, May 26 at
11:30am at the Priority Health Conference Center.    Lunch will be
provided to those that RSVP to <tobert at gmail.com>.    There is usually
plenty of pizza for everybody, but we do count  RSVP's to estimate how
much to order.

In addition to Joe Wright's talk on RE's, we are starting to
experiment with some new additions to the meeting agenda.   This
month, I will introduce the first which is a quick overview of what
has happened in the Perl community in the past month.    Starting next
month, we will have a 5-minute book review using a book donated by
O'Reilly that the reviewer gets to keep.   I think Intermediate Perl
is still up for grabs for July.

$abstracts{2006}->{May} << EOA;

Text Magic with Perl Regular Expressions

Perl gives you the power to make difficult tasks easy and regular
expressions are one of Perl's most powerful features, giving you the
power to find, manipulate, slice and dice text just the way you need
it.  This month's Perl Mongers meeting will focus on regular
expressions: how to write and tune them to get the results you need,
how to use the tools Perl offers, and future developments in Perl
regular expressions.

This month's presenter, Joe Wright, is a consultant at Priority Health
who spent 6 years wielding Perl for tool development and system
administration at BT (formerly Control Data) in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Under the guise of Just Wright Communications he also does freelance
writing and training in technical and presentation skills.

EOA

Directions:
Priority Health Conference Center, 3111 Leonard St. NE (49525)

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=3111+Leonard+St.+NE+49525&ll=42.984495,-85.593023&spn=0.029636,0.102825&om=1

See you there!
-Al Tobey

From tobert at gmail.com  Tue May 30 11:05:06 2006
From: tobert at gmail.com (Al Tobey)
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 14:05:06 -0400
Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] Fwd: UG News--Good. Fast. Cheap. O'Reilly
	Launches PDF Guides
In-Reply-To: <LYRIS-6191372-31129-2006.05.30-11.07.22--tobert#gmail.com@newsletter.oreilly.com>
References: <LYRIS-6191372-31129-2006.05.30-11.07.22--tobert#gmail.com@newsletter.oreilly.com>
Message-ID: <5ac7acb10605301105o4ef077b7h3e8b528f2a8a334e@mail.gmail.com>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Marsee Henon <marsee at oreilly.com>
Date: May 30, 2006 2:07 PM
Subject: UG News--Good. Fast. Cheap. O'Reilly Launches PDF Guides
To: tobert at gmail.com


Hello,

Can you share this news with your members? Let me know if you want
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Thanks!

Marsee



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From mheusser at charter.net  Wed May 31 05:47:38 2006
From: mheusser at charter.net (mheusser at charter.net)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 5:47:38 -0700
Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] Call for Speakers
Message-ID: <907042895.1149079658044.JavaMail.root@fepweb02>


The Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference (GLSEC) will be October 25/26 at the Prince Conference Center at Calvin College.

More information is available at www.glsec.org.  (Speaker info form is on the website)

If you are about software development and want to make a difference in west michigan, why not put in a application to speaker?

-heusser

Call for Speakers
To submit a presentation for consideration, fill out the Speaker Information Form and email to program at glsec.org

Proposals are due by Tuesday, July 31, 2006, and should fit one of the following broad categories:

Software Development
Management, Analysis, Process
QA and Testing
Special Topics

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Gathering and writing requirements 
White-box/unit testing 
Black-box/functioning testing 
Programming tutorials?Perl, C#, Ruby, etc. 
Test driven development 
Open-source solutions to programming problems 
Web development with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl) 
SQL?Intermediate, advanced, performance tuning, etc. 
Database design and data modeling 
Extreme programming 
Agile software development 
People issues in software development 
Software performance?from requirements to testing 
Exploratory testing 
Refactoring 
Design patterns 
Use cases 
Project scheduling 
Metrics 
Object-oriented development 
Reviews, walkthroughs and inspections 
Presenter Benefits
One complimentary conference registration will be given for each accepted track presentation. Additionally, a small stipend is available for tutorials. Track speakers also receive a 50 percent discount on tutorials.

Presentation Format
GLSEC 2006 will have four different presentation formats:

Full-day tutorial: A 6-hour presentation 
Half-day tutorial: A 3-hour presentation 
Track session: A 45-minute session, including 10 minutes for questions 
Lightning talks: A 5-minute presentation 
Tutorial slots can also be used for workshops which are more interactive, group-learning exercises.

Requirements
Tutorial instructors should provide a tutorial guide (it may correspond to the slides used in the presentation).

Notes on Submitting Presentations
To submit a presentation for consideration, fill out the Speaker Information Form and email to program at glsec.org or send paper to:

GLSE Conference
C/O Atomic Object
941 Wealthy SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49506 

The contact information you provide on this form will be used for future correspondence and should reflect a location where you can be reached throughout the conference planning period. Please notify us if your contact information changes. Applicants will by notified of acceptance in June of 2006.

Important Dates for Speakers
Submission Deadline: July 31, 2006 
Notification Date: Aug 15, 2006 
Speaker Materials Due Date: September 1, 2006 
Conference Dates: October 25-26, 2006


--
Matthew Heusser, www.xndev.com
mheusser at charter.net

From mheusser at charter.net  Wed May 31 06:10:32 2006
From: mheusser at charter.net (mheusser at charter.net)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 6:10:32 -0700
Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] Call for Speakers
Message-ID: <276714870.1149081032275.JavaMail.root@fepweb02>


Thank goodness this is perl mongers. Please forgive the typos in my one-off intro. :-)

--heusser
---- mheusser at charter.net wrote: 
> 
The Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference (GLSEC) will be October 25/26 at the Prince Conference Center at Calvin College.

More information is available at www.glsec.org.  (Speaker info form is on the website)

If you are about software development and want to make a difference in west michigan, why not put in a application to speaker?

-heusser

Call for Speakers
To submit a presentation for consideration, fill out the Speaker Information Form and email to program at glsec.org

Proposals are due by Tuesday, July 31, 2006, and should fit one of the following broad categories:

Software Development
Management, Analysis, Process
QA and Testing
Special Topics

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Gathering and writing requirements 
White-box/unit testing 
Black-box/functioning testing 
Programming tutorials?Perl, C#, Ruby, etc. 
Test driven development 
Open-source solutions to programming problems 
Web development with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl) 
SQL?Intermediate, advanced, performance tuning, etc. 
Database design and data modeling 
Extreme programming 
Agile software development 
People issues in software development 
Software performance?from requirements to testing 
Exploratory testing 
Refactoring 
Design patterns 
Use cases 
Project scheduling 
Metrics 
Object-oriented development 
Reviews, walkthroughs and inspections 
Presenter Benefits
One complimentary conference registration will be given for each accepted track presentation. Additionally, a small stipend is available for tutorials. Track speakers also receive a 50 percent discount on tutorials.

Presentation Format
GLSEC 2006 will have four different presentation formats:

Full-day tutorial: A 6-hour presentation 
Half-day tutorial: A 3-hour presentation 
Track session: A 45-minute session, including 10 minutes for questions 
Lightning talks: A 5-minute presentation 
Tutorial slots can also be used for workshops which are more interactive, group-learning exercises.

Requirements
Tutorial instructors should provide a tutorial guide (it may correspond to the slides used in the presentation).

Notes on Submitting Presentations
To submit a presentation for consideration, fill out the Speaker Information Form and email to program at glsec.org or send paper to:

GLSE Conference
C/O Atomic Object
941 Wealthy SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49506 

The contact information you provide on this form will be used for future correspondence and should reflect a location where you can be reached throughout the conference planning period. Please notify us if your contact information changes. Applicants will by notified of acceptance in June of 2006.

Important Dates for Speakers
Submission Deadline: July 31, 2006 
Notification Date: Aug 15, 2006 
Speaker Materials Due Date: September 1, 2006 
Conference Dates: October 25-26, 2006


--
Matthew Heusser, www.xndev.com
mheusser at charter.net
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