From gwadej at anomaly.org Sat Apr 1 09:19:13 2006 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 11:19:13 -0600 Subject: [pm-h] Device::USB is on CPAN Message-ID: <20060401111913.2a4ff23a@sovvan> The new version of this module, based on the work we've been doing over the past few months, is now up at CPAN. G. Wade -- There are trivial truths and there are great Truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is obviously false. The opposite of a great Truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr From gwadej at anomaly.org Sun Apr 9 19:32:54 2006 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 21:32:54 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] April Meeting Message-ID: <20060409213254.711f6d01@sovvan> This is a quick reminder for the April Houston.pm meeting. As usual, the meeting will be on Tuesday night at the HAL-PC headquarters. This month, I will be trying something a bit different. The topic is "What every Perl programmer should know: tips, tricks, and common knowledge." I'll bring the beginnings of the presentation on Tuesday, and we will fill in more information as the meeting progresses. This will be an opportunity to talk about useful tips or tricks you have discovered as well as items that I have identified. More than most, this will be an interactive presentation. The more input from the group, the better the result. I hope to see a good turnout. I am working to have something for beginners, intermediate Perl programmers, and experts. See you all there, G. Wade -- Contrary to popular opinion, the plural of 'anecdote' is not 'fact'. From tigger at io.com Tue Apr 11 12:40:48 2006 From: tigger at io.com (Paul Archer) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:40:48 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [pm-h] tips tonight Message-ID: <20060411143816.M27558@eris.io.com> I'm not going to be able to make it tonight as I've got a stomach bug. I've got a tip that hopefully someone will mention at the meeting: 'use diagnostics'. For a good example of what it does for you, try this: perl -e 'use diagnostics;print @var[2];' Paul -------------------------------------------- Never ascribe to malice what can perfectly well be explained by stupidity. -Anonymous -------------------------------------------- From gwadej at anomaly.org Wed Apr 12 19:03:58 2006 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:03:58 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] April Presentation Message-ID: <20060412210358.20762f30@sovvan> The April presentation is now up on the website. For those who missed it, this was definitely a livelier discussion than most of the presentations I have given. The meeting was much more interactive. The presentation materials on the website should give some idea as to why. Bill Dillon also had an interesting suggestion about trying to get video from some Perl presentation at a conference to try to show at one of our meetings. I plan to try to put some time into this, but if someone else stumbles across something like this let me know either directly or through the list. G. Wade -- "Very sad life. Probably also have sad death. But at least there is symmetry." -- Zathras From gwadej at anomaly.org Wed Apr 12 19:08:49 2006 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:08:49 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] Group Leadership Message-ID: <20060412210849.00d84072@sovvan> The pm.org admins mailing list brought up an important topic a short while back about PM groups that just drop off the radar. A suggestion was made that often the group contact becomes unavailable or loses interest and there is no way to contact the group. We had a similar problem in the early years of this group. The conclusion of the people on the admin list was that each group contact should have a deputy/second/co-lead or something. Basically a second person who is wiling to be available if the other person is not. So, I'm opening it up to the group. Would anyone like to be second? Would anyone like to be lead contact? (I'll gladly take second for a while.) G. Wade -- There are trivial truths and there are great Truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is obviously false. The opposite of a great Truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr From mikeflan at earthlink.net Fri Apr 14 04:55:25 2006 From: mikeflan at earthlink.net (Mike Flannigan) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 06:55:25 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] The Perl Journal References: <20060412210849.00d84072@sovvan> Message-ID: <443F8DAD.719B6791@earthlink.net> I just got word that the Perl Journal is no more. I got the magazine for a year and stopped the subscription about 6 months ago. It was pretty good, but I chose not to get it beyond the first year. I know it took a lot of work to put that thing together. I would like to get a Perl magazine, but I don't know of any others that would fit my need. Mike Flannigan +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The Perl Journal passes away | | posted by brian_d_foy on Thursday April 13, @16:02 (User Journal)| | http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/13/1942216 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ CMP decided to stop publishing [0]The Perl Journal, which they has recently moved to a completely HTML form. I'll certainly miss TPJ. Jon published my first two Perl articles, and the magazine certainly did a lot for the community. Discuss this story at: http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=06/04/13/1942216 Links: 0. http://www.tpj.com/ From will.willis at gmail.com Fri Apr 14 05:12:02 2006 From: will.willis at gmail.com (Will Willis) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:12:02 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] The Perl Journal In-Reply-To: <443F8DAD.719B6791@earthlink.net> References: <20060412210849.00d84072@sovvan> <443F8DAD.719B6791@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <6ee1e6090604140512s12c98a73k98902488eb30d05b@mail.gmail.com> The Perl Review is still around... http://theperlreview.com/ If I'm not mistaken, brian_d_foy, quoted below, is the publisher of The Perl Review. -Will On 4/14/06, Mike Flannigan wrote: > > > I just got word that the Perl Journal is no more. I got the > magazine for a year and stopped the subscription about > 6 months ago. It was pretty good, but I chose not to get > it beyond the first year. I know it took a lot of work to put > that thing together. > > I would like to get a Perl magazine, but I don't know of > any others that would fit my need. > > > Mike Flannigan > > > +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | The Perl Journal passes away | > | posted by brian_d_foy on Thursday April 13, @16:02 (User Journal)| > | http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/13/1942216 | > +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > CMP decided to stop publishing [0]The Perl Journal, which they has > recently moved to a completely HTML form. > > I'll certainly miss TPJ. Jon published my first two Perl articles, and > the magazine certainly did a lot for the community. > > Discuss this story at: > http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=06/04/13/1942216 > > Links: > 0. http://www.tpj.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > Houston at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/mailman/private/houston/attachments/20060414/67de00c9/attachment.html From mikeflan at earthlink.net Fri Apr 14 06:23:15 2006 From: mikeflan at earthlink.net (Mike Flannigan) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 08:23:15 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] The Perl Journal References: <20060412210849.00d84072@sovvan> <443F8DAD.719B6791@earthlink.net> <6ee1e6090604140512s12c98a73k98902488eb30d05b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <443FA243.AE3172DA@earthlink.net> Oops, my mistake. The Perl Review is the magazine I got. So sorry. I may get that magazine again - just not now. Mike Will Willis wrote: > The Perl Review is still around... http://theperlreview.com/ > > If I'm not mistaken, brian_d_foy, quoted below, is the publisher of > The Perl Review. > > -Will > On 4/14/06, Mike Flannigan wrote: > > > I just got word that the Perl Journal is no more. I got the > > magazine for a year and stopped the subscription about > 6 months ago. It was pretty good, but I chose not to get > it beyond the first year. I know it took a lot of work to > put > that thing together. > > I would like to get a Perl magazine, but I don't know of > any others that would fit my need. > > > Mike Flannigan > > > + > -------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > | The Perl Journal passes > away | > | posted by brian_d_foy on Thursday April 13, @16:02 (User > Journal)| > | http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/13/1942216 > | > +-------------- > -----------------------------------------------------+ > > CMP decided to stop publishing [0]The Perl Journal, which > they has > recently moved to a completely HTML form. > > I'll certainly miss TPJ. Jon published my first two Perl > articles, and > the magazine certainly did a lot for the community. > > Discuss this story at: > http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=06/04/13/1942216 > > Links: > 0. http://www.tpj.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > Houston at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > Houston at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/mailman/private/houston/attachments/20060414/6db18190/attachment.html From gwadej at anomaly.org Fri Apr 14 06:51:19 2006 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 08:51:19 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] Perl Magazines Message-ID: <20060414085119.39699cb8@sovvan> I actually got the Perl Journal for years before CMP decided not to publish it as a separate magazine. Not only did it have good articles on Perl, but the magazine showed a great sense of humor. They poked fun at themselves and practically everything else. For a while, it was published as a supplement in SysAdmin Magazine. Then, it became a PDF-only magazine. Once it became HTML only, I stopped bothering with it. The Perl Review started out a couple of years ago as PDF-only and has moved up to PDF and hardcopy distribution. There are not as many articles each issue as the old Perl Journal, but the quality of the articles seems good. More importantly, the sense of humor is there. G. Wade -- If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made. -- Otto von Bismarck From mikeflan at earthlink.net Sun Apr 16 05:03:02 2006 From: mikeflan at earthlink.net (Mike Flannigan) Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 07:03:02 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] Soduku puzzle module References: <20060412210849.00d84072@sovvan> <443F8DAD.719B6791@earthlink.net> <6ee1e6090604140512s12c98a73k98902488eb30d05b@mail.gmail.com> <443FA243.AE3172DA@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <44423276.14A776BD@earthlink.net> I see there is now a Soduku puzzle module: [8]Games-Sudoku-Lite-0.41 -- Fast and simple Sudoku puzzle solver There are quite a few on CPAN also, like Sudoku version 0.06. Mike From gwadej at anomaly.org Thu Apr 27 05:30:37 2006 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:30:37 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] Any More Tips? Message-ID: <20060427073037.5793907e@sovvan> The list has been pretty quiet recently, so I thought I'd throw in a challenge. At the May meeting, we'll be finishing up the tips and tricks topic. What is your favorite Perl tip or trick? G. Wade -- Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't. From mikeflan at earthlink.net Fri Apr 28 04:34:50 2006 From: mikeflan at earthlink.net (Mike Flannigan) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:34:50 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] Brian Foy going to Dallas References: <20060427073037.5793907e@sovvan> Message-ID: <4451FDDA.1DFFD8C@earthlink.net> It doesn't happen often, but Dallas is showing us up: The [0]Dallas/Fort Worth Perl Mongers are pleased to announce that brian d foy will presenting at the technical meeting on May 23rd. It will be held at [1]nerdbooks.com, [2]1681 Firman Drive, Richardson, TX 75081 and will begin at 6:30 pm. brian will be presenting the chapter entitled "The Magic of Tied Variables" from his upcoming book [3]"Mastering Perl". A social will more than likely be held afterwards at a seperate location (to be announced). Discuss this story at: http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=06/04/27/027251 Mike From gwadej at anomaly.org Fri Apr 28 05:08:31 2006 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:08:31 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] Brian Foy going to Dallas In-Reply-To: <4451FDDA.1DFFD8C@earthlink.net> References: <20060427073037.5793907e@sovvan> <4451FDDA.1DFFD8C@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <20060428070831.2b8a078f@sovvan> On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:34:50 -0500 Mike Flannigan wrote: > > It doesn't happen often, but Dallas is showing us up: > > > The [0]Dallas/Fort Worth Perl Mongers are pleased to announce that brian > d foy will presenting at the technical meeting on May 23rd. It will be > held at [1]nerdbooks.com, [2]1681 Firman Drive, Richardson, TX 75081 and Much as I hate to agree with this, the DFW Perl Mongers group does appear to be much more active than ours. If anyone has any ideas on how to improve this situation, feel free to let the group know. G. Wade -- If there's no problem, there's no solution. -- Rick Hoselton From jeremy at msc.tamu.edu Fri Apr 28 12:24:58 2006 From: jeremy at msc.tamu.edu (Jeremy Fluhmann) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:24:58 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] Brian Foy going to Dallas Message-ID: <0EFEDF9D507FF6409CE7B4D24B20E7BF0120D298@xchng.msc.tamu.edu> >> It doesn't happen often, but Dallas is showing us up: > > Much as I hate to agree with this, the DFW Perl Mongers group does appear > to be much more active than ours. If anyone has any ideas on how to > improve this situation, feel free to let the group know. Have any of the Texas PM Groups proposed hosting the YAPC::NA? I have no idea what all is involved (I know hosting a conference is a big job. I've only recently started learning about conference planning and there are a lot of little details), but it would sure put a group out there. Or, what about starting a YAPC::NA::Texas conference? Just a thought (or is it a request? Hmmm...). Venue Req's: http://www.yapc.org/venue-reqs.txt Previous Venues: 2005 - University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2004 - University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. 2003 - Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.A. 2002 - Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. 2001 - McGill University, Montr?al, Qu?bec, Canada 2000 - Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. 1999 - Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. From Wayne.A.Haufler at boeing.com Fri Apr 28 12:56:25 2006 From: Wayne.A.Haufler at boeing.com (Haufler, Wayne A) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:56:25 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] Brian Foy going to Dallas (Wayne Haufler) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: No kidding. I was a member of DFW PM a few years ago and was honored and pleased to attend a couple of talks by a Perl Monger I much admire and respect, Damian Conway. I was also honored to win one of the door prizes: an autographed copy of his book on OO Design with Perl, for asking the most interesting question. The talks were quite mind-blowing. Here is a transcript of the notice and abstracts. Damian Conway Perl guru extraordinaire will be here for two days this month! Wednesday::June 27, 2001 Damian will give his notorious talk on: Quantum::Superpostions (sik) (should be "Superpositions) This talk explains how to adapt the Perl programming language to quantum computing and vice versa, with applications for prime generation, list membership testing, maxima and minima detection, string comparison, and winning the office football pool, all in constant time without loops or recursion. Along the way, we'll also touch on the physics of chocolate, parallel programming, motor racing, the Scottish vegan movement, ancient Latin, Mick Jagger's love life, winter sports, the secret of the humble potato, fashion modelling, anagrammatic encryption, modern German, cruelty to animals, and the antics of the 1930's chapter of Copenhagen.pm (Dr. Conway first delivered this talk at the 2000 YAP Conference. ...) Thursday::June 28, 2001 Damian will give his talk on: Extreme Perl In this talk I dissect the SelfGOL program: an obfuscated, self-aware, viral quine that can: * self-replicate * rewrite other Perl programs to allow them to self-replicate, * detect un-rewritable Perl programs, * execute itself or other Perl programs as cellular automata of arbitrary size (to play Conway's "Game of Life"), * animate any short text as a cycling marquee banner. SelfGOL accomplishes these feats in under 1000 bytes of standard Perl, without importing any modules, and without using a single if, unless, while, until, for, foreach, goto, next, last, redo, map, or grep. To do all that in under 1K of code, it relies on some extreme programming techniques, and on many of the obscure backwaters of the Perl syntax. This talk explores both. In other words, it's everything you never wanted to know about Perl, and would have been afraid to ask. I took copious notes, but couldn't hope to duplicate those talks. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- Wayne A. Haufler Senior Software Engineer (SE) In Space Shuttle Program (SSP) Backup Flight System (BFS) Tools Group Boeing, NASA Systems, Houston Voice: 281-226-8626 , Cubicle: 1C23 E-mail: wayne.a.haufler at boeing.com Skills : Unix,C,C++,Perl,SQL,QNX,X-Windows (Disclaimer: The comments and opinions expressed are my own and do not represent the view of Boeing, United Space Alliance, JSC, or NASA.) -----Original Message----- From: houston-request at pm.org [mailto:houston-request at pm.org] Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 2:00 PM To: houston at pm.org Subject: Houston Digest, Vol 17, Issue 8 Send Houston mailing list submissions to houston at pm.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to houston-request at pm.org You can reach the person managing the list at houston-owner at pm.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Houston digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Brian Foy going to Dallas (Mike Flannigan) 2. Re: Brian Foy going to Dallas (G. Wade Johnson) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:34:50 -0500 From: Mike Flannigan Subject: [pm-h] Brian Foy going to Dallas To: "Houston.pm located in Houston, TX." Message-ID: <4451FDDA.1DFFD8C at earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii It doesn't happen often, but Dallas is showing us up: The [0]Dallas/Fort Worth Perl Mongers are pleased to announce that brian d foy will presenting at the technical meeting on May 23rd. It will be held at [1]nerdbooks.com, [2]1681 Firman Drive, Richardson, TX 75081 and will begin at 6:30 pm. brian will be presenting the chapter entitled "The Magic of Tied Variables" from his upcoming book [3]"Mastering Perl". A social will more than likely be held afterwards at a seperate location (to be announced). Discuss this story at: http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=06/04/27/027251 Mike ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:08:31 -0500 From: "G. Wade Johnson" Subject: Re: [pm-h] Brian Foy going to Dallas To: "Houston.pm located in Houston, TX." Message-ID: <20060428070831.2b8a078f at sovvan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:34:50 -0500 Mike Flannigan wrote: > > It doesn't happen often, but Dallas is showing us up: > > > The [0]Dallas/Fort Worth Perl Mongers are pleased to announce that > brian d foy will presenting at the technical meeting on May 23rd. It > will be held at [1]nerdbooks.com, [2]1681 Firman Drive, Richardson, TX > 75081 and Much as I hate to agree with this, the DFW Perl Mongers group does appear to be much more active than ours. If anyone has any ideas on how to improve this situation, feel free to let the group know. G. Wade -- If there's no problem, there's no solution. -- Rick Hoselton ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list Houston at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston End of Houston Digest, Vol 17, Issue 8 ************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/mailman/private/houston/attachments/20060428/60e1fc55/attachment.html