From estrabd at gmail.com Tue Jul 1 05:18:59 2014 From: estrabd at gmail.com (B. Estrade) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 07:18:59 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] YAPC talk - "Streamlining and simplifying your Perl code using Map, Grep, and Sort" Message-ID: This talk is very well done. I wish he'd had a 1 hour slot, but there is still a lot to get out of this even as a refresher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU-Yxn5hdzM&list=PLA9_Hq3zhoFy5jmj6_Fd2YMuOjsovaIh-&index=24 Brett From gwadej at anomaly.org Tue Jul 1 05:40:16 2014 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 07:40:16 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] Topic for meeting next week Message-ID: <20140701074016.6717caf4@cygnus> Well, thanks to Brett (and a few others) we have a list of potential topics at https://github.com/estrabd/houston-pm-topics-list but we still have no volunteer for next week's meeting. Let the list know if you are willing to present. Also let us know if you are interested in some of the listed topics. G. Wade -- Java is a DSL for taking large XML files and converting them to stack traces -- Bulat Shakirzyanov From gwadej at anomaly.org Sat Jul 5 08:26:25 2014 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 10:26:25 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] July Houston.pm Meeting Topic Message-ID: <20140705102625.134bc5c8@cygnus> Since no one has volunteered to present this month, I thought I would volunteer for a topic. Reading Perl Code: Code Smells I'll introduce the concept of Code Smells and go over a few general code smells. I will spend most of the time on Perl-specific code smells. If anyone wants to avoid this smelly presentation, feel free to suggest a topic. G. Wade -- Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. -- Laurence J. Peter From gwadej at anomaly.org Mon Jul 7 14:57:49 2014 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 16:57:49 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] July Houston.pm Meeting: Reading Perl Code: Code Smells Message-ID: <20140707165749.0a4c1040@cygnus> One important skill for every programmer is "reading code". In this presentation, I will cover some Code Smells that you might see in reading Perl code. We'll spend some time one code smells in general, but most of the time will be on individual smells. As usual, the meeting will begin at 7pm on Thursday (7/10) at cPanel at 3131 W Alabama St. We will meet in the lobby between 6:30pm and 7pm. We look forward to seeing you all there. G. Wade -- DON'T PANIC! I'm a trained professional, and far more qualified to panic in this situation than you are. From uri at stemsystems.com Mon Jul 7 16:00:55 2014 From: uri at stemsystems.com (Uri Guttman) Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 19:00:55 -0400 Subject: [pm-h] July Houston.pm Meeting: Reading Perl Code: Code Smells In-Reply-To: <20140707165749.0a4c1040@cygnus> References: <20140707165749.0a4c1040@cygnus> Message-ID: <53BB26A7.4030307@stemsystems.com> On 07/07/2014 05:57 PM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston wrote: > One important skill for every programmer is "reading code". In this > presentation, I will cover some Code Smells that you might see in > reading Perl code. > > We'll spend some time one code smells in general, but most of the time > will be on individual smells. i can smell you AND your texan code from boston!! :) and my nose is fried from all the bad code i have smelled in my career. uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com From gwadej at anomaly.org Mon Jul 7 18:33:13 2014 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 20:33:13 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] July Houston.pm Meeting: Reading Perl Code: Code Smells In-Reply-To: <53BB26A7.4030307@stemsystems.com> References: <20140707165749.0a4c1040@cygnus> <53BB26A7.4030307@stemsystems.com> Message-ID: <20140707203313.082d75fc@cygnus> On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 19:00:55 -0400 Uri Guttman via Houston wrote: > On 07/07/2014 05:57 PM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston wrote: > > One important skill for every programmer is "reading code". In this > > presentation, I will cover some Code Smells that you might see in > > reading Perl code. > > > > We'll spend some time one code smells in general, but most of the > > time will be on individual smells. > > i can smell you AND your texan code from boston!! :) > > and my nose is fried from all the bad code i have smelled in my > career. Well, Uri. The pleasant smell of Texan BBQed code can reach all the way to Boston apparently. G. Wade > uri -- A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. -- Alan Perlis From todd at rinaldo.us Mon Jul 7 18:36:46 2014 From: todd at rinaldo.us (Todd Rinaldo) Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 20:36:46 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] July Houston.pm Meeting: Reading Perl Code: Code Smells In-Reply-To: <20140707203313.082d75fc@cygnus> References: <20140707165749.0a4c1040@cygnus> <53BB26A7.4030307@stemsystems.com> <20140707203313.082d75fc@cygnus> Message-ID: On Monday, July 7, 2014, G. Wade Johnson via Houston wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 19:00:55 -0400 > Uri Guttman via Houston > wrote: > > > On 07/07/2014 05:57 PM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston wrote: > > > One important skill for every programmer is "reading code". In this > > > presentation, I will cover some Code Smells that you might see in > > > reading Perl code. > > > > > > We'll spend some time one code smells in general, but most of the > > > time will be on individual smells. > > > > i can smell you AND your texan code from boston!! :) > > > > and my nose is fried from all the bad code i have smelled in my > > career. > > Well, Uri. The pleasant smell of Texan BBQed code can reach all the way > to Boston apparently. > > G. Wade > > > uri > > See, I was thinking more dug the dog with"I can smell you!" http://youtu.be/UHEd87XHBBw -- Todd Rinaldo todd at rinaldo.us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From uri at stemsystems.com Mon Jul 7 20:04:40 2014 From: uri at stemsystems.com (Uri Guttman) Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 23:04:40 -0400 Subject: [pm-h] July Houston.pm Meeting: Reading Perl Code: Code Smells In-Reply-To: <20140707203313.082d75fc@cygnus> References: <20140707165749.0a4c1040@cygnus> <53BB26A7.4030307@stemsystems.com> <20140707203313.082d75fc@cygnus> Message-ID: <53BB5FC8.6000505@stemsystems.com> On 07/07/2014 09:33 PM, G. Wade Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 19:00:55 -0400 > Uri Guttman via Houston wrote: > >> On 07/07/2014 05:57 PM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston wrote: >>> One important skill for every programmer is "reading code". In this >>> presentation, I will cover some Code Smells that you might see in >>> reading Perl code. >>> >>> We'll spend some time one code smells in general, but most of the >>> time will be on individual smells. >> >> i can smell you AND your texan code from boston!! :) >> >> and my nose is fried from all the bad code i have smelled in my >> career. > > Well, Uri. The pleasant smell of Texan BBQed code can reach all the way > to Boston apparently. yeah. bbq code is causing all the smokers to choke on the smoke! uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com From boftx at hotmail.com Mon Jul 7 20:19:46 2014 From: boftx at hotmail.com (Jim Bacon) Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 20:19:46 -0700 Subject: [pm-h] July Houston.pm Meeting: Reading Perl Code: Code Smells In-Reply-To: <53BB5FC8.6000505@stemsystems.com> References: <20140707165749.0a4c1040@cygnus> <53BB26A7.4030307@stemsystems.com> <20140707203313.082d75fc@cygnus> <53BB5FC8.6000505@stemsystems.com> Message-ID: TROLL! :) On Jul 7, 2014, at 8:04 PM, Uri Guttman via Houston wrote: > On 07/07/2014 09:33 PM, G. Wade Johnson wrote: >> On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 19:00:55 -0400 >> Uri Guttman via Houston wrote: >> >>> On 07/07/2014 05:57 PM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston wrote: >>>> One important skill for every programmer is "reading code". In this >>>> presentation, I will cover some Code Smells that you might see in >>>> reading Perl code. >>>> >>>> We'll spend some time one code smells in general, but most of the >>>> time will be on individual smells. >>> >>> i can smell you AND your texan code from boston!! :) >>> >>> and my nose is fried from all the bad code i have smelled in my >>> career. >> >> Well, Uri. The pleasant smell of Texan BBQed code can reach all the way >> to Boston apparently. > > yeah. bbq code is causing all the smokers to choke on the smoke! > > uri > > -- > Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter > The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers > http://PerlHunter.com > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > Houston at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ From estrabd at gmail.com Mon Jul 7 21:11:05 2014 From: estrabd at gmail.com (B. Estrade) Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 23:11:05 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] July Houston.pm Meeting: Reading Perl Code: Code Smells In-Reply-To: References: <20140707165749.0a4c1040@cygnus> <53BB26A7.4030307@stemsystems.com> <20140707203313.082d75fc@cygnus> <53BB5FC8.6000505@stemsystems.com> Message-ID: Baked beans make you wicked smaaaaaat. Brettt On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Jim Bacon via Houston wrote: > TROLL! :) > > On Jul 7, 2014, at 8:04 PM, Uri Guttman via Houston wrote: > >> On 07/07/2014 09:33 PM, G. Wade Johnson wrote: >>> On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 19:00:55 -0400 >>> Uri Guttman via Houston wrote: >>> >>>> On 07/07/2014 05:57 PM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston wrote: >>>>> One important skill for every programmer is "reading code". In this >>>>> presentation, I will cover some Code Smells that you might see in >>>>> reading Perl code. >>>>> >>>>> We'll spend some time one code smells in general, but most of the >>>>> time will be on individual smells. >>>> >>>> i can smell you AND your texan code from boston!! :) >>>> >>>> and my nose is fried from all the bad code i have smelled in my >>>> career. >>> >>> Well, Uri. The pleasant smell of Texan BBQed code can reach all the way >>> to Boston apparently. >> >> yeah. bbq code is causing all the smokers to choke on the smoke! >> >> uri >> >> -- >> Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter >> The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers >> http://PerlHunter.com >> _______________________________________________ >> Houston mailing list >> Houston at pm.org >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston >> Website: http://houston.pm.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > Houston at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ From uri at stemsystems.com Mon Jul 7 21:53:54 2014 From: uri at stemsystems.com (Uri Guttman) Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 00:53:54 -0400 Subject: [pm-h] July Houston.pm Meeting: Reading Perl Code: Code Smells In-Reply-To: References: <20140707165749.0a4c1040@cygnus> <53BB26A7.4030307@stemsystems.com> <20140707203313.082d75fc@cygnus> <53BB5FC8.6000505@stemsystems.com> Message-ID: <53BB7962.6020007@stemsystems.com> On 07/08/2014 12:11 AM, B. Estrade via Houston wrote: > Baked beans make you wicked smaaaaaat. what do you call a texan with blue eyes? a quart low on shit! :) uri From estrabd at gmail.com Mon Jul 7 22:18:54 2014 From: estrabd at gmail.com (B. Estrade) Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 00:18:54 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] July Houston.pm Meeting: Reading Perl Code: Code Smells In-Reply-To: <53BB7962.6020007@stemsystems.com> References: <20140707165749.0a4c1040@cygnus> <53BB26A7.4030307@stemsystems.com> <20140707203313.082d75fc@cygnus> <53BB5FC8.6000505@stemsystems.com> <53BB7962.6020007@stemsystems.com> Message-ID: http://celebrities.findthebest.com/q/509/104/What-color-are-the-celebrity-Matt-Damon-s-eyes Brett :P On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Uri Guttman via Houston wrote: > On 07/08/2014 12:11 AM, B. Estrade via Houston wrote: >> >> Baked beans make you wicked smaaaaaat. > > > what do you call a texan with blue eyes? > > > > > > > > > > a quart low on shit! > > :) > > uri > > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > Houston at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ From uri at stemsystems.com Mon Jul 7 23:40:13 2014 From: uri at stemsystems.com (Uri Guttman) Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 02:40:13 -0400 Subject: [pm-h] July Houston.pm Meeting: Reading Perl Code: Code Smells In-Reply-To: References: <20140707165749.0a4c1040@cygnus> <53BB26A7.4030307@stemsystems.com> <20140707203313.082d75fc@cygnus> <53BB5FC8.6000505@stemsystems.com> <53BB7962.6020007@stemsystems.com> Message-ID: <53BB924D.8000204@stemsystems.com> On 07/08/2014 01:18 AM, B. Estrade wrote: > http://celebrities.findthebest.com/q/509/104/What-color-are-the-celebrity-Matt-Damon-s-eyes that is just more evidence to my comment. he is from cambridge MA and therefore isn't full of shit. :) uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com From gwadej at anomaly.org Tue Jul 8 06:06:30 2014 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 08:06:30 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] List commentary Message-ID: <20140708080630.68f7e81e@cygnus> I've never had to filter anything except excessive, off-topic job postings in the time we've had this list. I'd prefer not to start. Obviously, the list is for Perl programmers in Houston and we can discuss whatever we want, but personal abuse is not called for. I really don't want to end up with an exodus from the list because of a few messages. Thanks for understanding. G. Wade -- That's what I love about GUIs: They make simple tasks easier, and complex tasks impossible. -- John William Chambless, <39v25i$2rbc at whale.st.usm.edu> From estrabd at gmail.com Tue Jul 8 09:28:03 2014 From: estrabd at gmail.com (B. Estrade) Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 11:28:03 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] List commentary In-Reply-To: <20140708080630.68f7e81e@cygnus> References: <20140708080630.68f7e81e@cygnus> Message-ID: Thank you, Wade. I agree. I took it all more as an off topic job post than abuse, but what do I know being from down here? Makes me wonder why some people want to even bother with us as a potential employee/client pool. Maybe because we're too dumb to know the difference. Brett On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 8:06 AM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston wrote: > I've never had to filter anything except excessive, off-topic job > postings in the time we've had this list. I'd prefer not to start. > > Obviously, the list is for Perl programmers in Houston and we can > discuss whatever we want, but personal abuse is not called for. > > I really don't want to end up with an exodus from the list because of a > few messages. > > Thanks for understanding. > G. Wade > -- > That's what I love about GUIs: They make simple tasks easier, and > complex tasks impossible. > -- John William Chambless, <39v25i$2rbc at whale.st.usm.edu> > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > Houston at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ From gwadej at anomaly.org Sat Jul 12 22:03:32 2014 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 00:03:32 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] The write up for the July presentation is now up. Message-ID: <20140713000332.302fe74a@cygnus> The write-up for this month is now available at http://houston.pm.org/talks/2014talks/1407Talk/index.html The topic generated a lot of discussion, and a good time was had by all. G. Wade -- It's easier to port a shell than a shell script. -- Larry Wall From estrabd at gmail.com Sun Jul 13 05:58:31 2014 From: estrabd at gmail.com (B. Estrade) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 07:58:31 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] The write up for the July presentation is now up. In-Reply-To: <20140713000332.302fe74a@cygnus> References: <20140713000332.302fe74a@cygnus> Message-ID: Thanks, Wade. Great talk - sorry I couldn't be there. I added it to the archive, https://github.com/estrabd/houston-pm-topics-list If anyone would like to add talk ideas and don't feel like forking the repo, please email me off list or create an "issue" at github: https://github.com/estrabd/houston-pm-topics-list/issues Thanks! Brett On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 12:03 AM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston wrote: > The write-up for this month is now available at > http://houston.pm.org/talks/2014talks/1407Talk/index.html > > The topic generated a lot of discussion, and a good time was had by all. > > G. Wade > -- > It's easier to port a shell than a shell script. -- Larry Wall > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > Houston at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ From gwadej at anomaly.org Sun Jul 13 16:22:20 2014 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. 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Wade -- It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. -- Hofstadter's Law From mev412 at gmail.com Tue Jul 15 18:27:29 2014 From: mev412 at gmail.com (Mev412) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 20:27:29 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] Any volunteers for August? In-Reply-To: <20140715200106.28b4acd8@cygnus> References: <20140715200106.28b4acd8@cygnus> Message-ID: Hi, I'd like to bring up the idea again about a presentation on the BER encoding, used for encoding ASN.1 structures. A subset of this encoding, DER, is something I think a lot Perl programmers (or anyone who works with the web) will deal with often as this is used to encode X509 Certificates. The talk would be a walk through of the decoder I wrote. Some other things that would be covered along the way -Working with raw bytes and bits -pack/unpack -HTML parsing -Endianess -OIDs -Variable Length Quantity (VLQ) I've had a lot of fun writing this and I've learned a great deal about Perl and BER along the way. I hope others might be able to benefit from this experience as well. On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 8:01 PM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston wrote: > Now that the July write-up is on the website, it's time to start > thinking about August. The August meeting is on Thursday the 14th at > Hostgator. > > * Anybody have any ideas for presentations? > > * Any topics at https://github.com/estrabd/houston-pm-topics-list that > strike your fancy? > > * Any new topics for that list? > > Looking forward to hearing from anyone. > G. Wade > -- > It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account > Hofstadter's Law. -- Hofstadter's Law > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > Houston at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gwadej at anomaly.org Fri Jul 25 09:45:26 2014 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:45:26 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] brian d foy CPAN workshop next Thursday Message-ID: <20140725114526.565e146e@cygnus> I just got a message from brian d foy. He's in town and is volunteering to do a workshop on CPAN next Thursday night, if there is interest. This is a great opportunity if you don't yet do CPAN (much) and/or if you haven't seen brian speak. If you are interested, please email the list or reply to this email to see if we will have enough people to make it worth brian's time. G. Wade -- C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. -- Bjarne Stroustrup From mrallen1 at yahoo.com Fri Jul 25 09:52:33 2014 From: mrallen1 at yahoo.com (Mark Allen) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:52:33 -0700 Subject: [pm-h] brian d foy CPAN workshop next Thursday In-Reply-To: <20140725114526.565e146e@cygnus> References: <20140725114526.565e146e@cygnus> Message-ID: <1406307153.85776.YahooMailNeo@web142404.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> I would like to attend. On Friday, July 25, 2014 11:45 AM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston wrote: I just got a message from brian d foy. He's in town and is volunteering to do a workshop on CPAN next Thursday night, if there is interest. This is a great opportunity if you don't yet do CPAN (much) and/or if you haven't seen brian speak. If you are interested, please email the list or reply to this email to see if we will have enough people to make it worth brian's time. G. Wade -- C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.? ? -- Bjarne Stroustrup _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list Houston at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mrallen1 at yahoo.com Fri Jul 25 09:52:33 2014 From: mrallen1 at yahoo.com (Mark Allen) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:52:33 -0700 Subject: [pm-h] brian d foy CPAN workshop next Thursday In-Reply-To: <20140725114526.565e146e@cygnus> References: <20140725114526.565e146e@cygnus> Message-ID: <1406307153.85776.YahooMailNeo@web142404.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> I would like to attend. On Friday, July 25, 2014 11:45 AM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston wrote: I just got a message from brian d foy. He's in town and is volunteering to do a workshop on CPAN next Thursday night, if there is interest. This is a great opportunity if you don't yet do CPAN (much) and/or if you haven't seen brian speak. If you are interested, please email the list or reply to this email to see if we will have enough people to make it worth brian's time. G. Wade -- C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.? ? -- Bjarne Stroustrup _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list Houston at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From drzigman at drzigman.com Fri Jul 25 10:08:55 2014 From: drzigman at drzigman.com (Robert Stone) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:08:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [pm-h] brian d foy CPAN workshop next Thursday In-Reply-To: <1406307153.85776.YahooMailNeo@web142404.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <20140725114526.565e146e@cygnus> <1406307153.85776.YahooMailNeo@web142404.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <37796069.8721.1406308135827.JavaMail.zimbra@drzigman.com> Greetings, Exciting opportunity! Count me (as well as at least 2 other HostGator developers) in! I've also spoken with X and he has graciously offered to host and provide our Gator-tastic hospitality if the Houston PM's are interested. Really looking forward to this one and I hope we can put it together. Best Regards, Robert Stone ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Allen via Houston" To: "G. Wade Johnson" , "Houston Perl Mongers" , "Houston.pm located in Houston, TX." Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 11:52:33 AM Subject: Re: [pm-h] brian d foy CPAN workshop next Thursday I would like to attend. On Friday, July 25, 2014 11:45 AM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston wrote: I just got a message from brian d foy. He's in town and is volunteering to do a workshop on CPAN next Thursday night, if there is interest. This is a great opportunity if you don't yet do CPAN (much) and/or if you haven't seen brian speak. If you are interested, please email the list or reply to this email to see if we will have enough people to make it worth brian's time. G. Wade -- C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. -- Bjarne Stroustrup _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list Houston at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/ _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list Houston at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gwadej at anomaly.org Fri Jul 25 10:11:15 2014 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:11:15 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] August Houston.pm Technical meeting: Introduction to ASN.1 BER Encoding with Christopher Mevissen Message-ID: <20140725121115.7bf12e42@cygnus> Our next regularly scheduled technical meeting is August 14 at 7pm. We will be meeting at the Hostgator offices at 5005 Mitchelldale location. Christopher Mevissen will give an introduction to BER encoding and show a decoder written in Perl. This will explore how Perl works with binary formats and show an actual use case by decoding an X509 certificate. If you've wondered how to twiddle bits in Perl, this is probably the talk for you. Looking forward to seeing you there. G. Wade -- Any man can learn to learn from the wise once he can find them: but learn to learn from a fool and all the world?s your faculty. -- John Ciardi From boftx at hotmail.com Fri Jul 25 10:20:38 2014 From: boftx at hotmail.com (Jim Bacon) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:20:38 -0700 Subject: [pm-h] brian d foy CPAN workshop next Thursday In-Reply-To: <20140725114526.565e146e@cygnus> References: <20140725114526.565e146e@cygnus> Message-ID: Count me in! I?ll be in town next week. Jim On Jul 25, 2014, at 9:45 AM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston wrote: > I just got a message from brian d foy. He's in town and is volunteering > to do a workshop on CPAN next Thursday night, if there is interest. > > This is a great opportunity if you don't yet do CPAN (much) and/or if > you haven't seen brian speak. > > If you are interested, please email the list or reply to this email to > see if we will have enough people to make it worth brian's time. > > G. Wade > -- > C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but > when you do, it blows away your whole leg. -- Bjarne Stroustrup > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > Houston at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ From trac_t at swbell.net Fri Jul 25 10:21:45 2014 From: trac_t at swbell.net (Trac Taylor) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:21:45 -0700 Subject: [pm-h] brian d foy CPAN workshop next Thursday In-Reply-To: References: <20140725114526.565e146e@cygnus> Message-ID: <1406308905.19510.YahooMailNeo@web181302.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Yes I would be interested. Thanks Trac On Friday, July 25, 2014 12:20 PM, Jim Bacon via Houston wrote: Count me in! I?ll be in town next week. Jim On Jul 25, 2014, at 9:45 AM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston wrote: > I just got a message from brian d foy. He's in town and is volunteering > to do a workshop on CPAN next Thursday night, if there is interest. > > This is a great opportunity if you don't yet do CPAN (much) and/or if > you haven't seen brian speak. > > If you are interested, please email the list or reply to this email to > see if we will have enough people to make it worth brian's time. > > G. Wade > -- > C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but > when you do, it blows away your whole leg.? ? -- Bjarne Stroustrup > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > Houston at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list Houston at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From trac_t at swbell.net Fri Jul 25 10:21:45 2014 From: trac_t at swbell.net (Trac Taylor) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:21:45 -0700 Subject: [pm-h] brian d foy CPAN workshop next Thursday In-Reply-To: References: <20140725114526.565e146e@cygnus> Message-ID: <1406308905.19510.YahooMailNeo@web181302.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Yes I would be interested. Thanks Trac On Friday, July 25, 2014 12:20 PM, Jim Bacon via Houston wrote: Count me in! I?ll be in town next week. Jim On Jul 25, 2014, at 9:45 AM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston wrote: > I just got a message from brian d foy. He's in town and is volunteering > to do a workshop on CPAN next Thursday night, if there is interest. > > This is a great opportunity if you don't yet do CPAN (much) and/or if > you haven't seen brian speak. > > If you are interested, please email the list or reply to this email to > see if we will have enough people to make it worth brian's time. > > G. Wade > -- > C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but > when you do, it blows away your whole leg.? ? -- Bjarne Stroustrup > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > Houston at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list Houston at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gwadej at anomaly.org Fri Jul 25 12:18:28 2014 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:18:28 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] Workshop with brian and August meeting Message-ID: <20140725141828.79fbbb6c@cygnus> It has been pointed out to me that I did not do a very good job of communicating about this. The CPAN workshop with brian is an extra bonus meeting in addition to our regularly scheduled August meeting. Since the date he could be available is about halfway between our normal meetings, it made more sense to just have another meeting. G. Wade -- Reality is just a convenient measure of complexity. -- Alvy Ray Smith From john at nixnuts.net Fri Jul 25 13:23:09 2014 From: john at nixnuts.net (John Lightsey) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:23:09 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] brian d foy CPAN workshop next Thursday In-Reply-To: <20140725114526.565e146e@cygnus> References: <20140725114526.565e146e@cygnus> Message-ID: <1406319789.2065.20.camel@goat.lightspeed> I should be able to attend. On Fri, 2014-07-25 at 11:45 -0500, G. Wade Johnson via Houston wrote: > I just got a message from brian d foy. He's in town and is volunteering > to do a workshop on CPAN next Thursday night, if there is interest. > > This is a great opportunity if you don't yet do CPAN (much) and/or if > you haven't seen brian speak. > > If you are interested, please email the list or reply to this email to > see if we will have enough people to make it worth brian's time. > > G. Wade -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From will.willis at gmail.com Sat Jul 26 05:16:30 2014 From: will.willis at gmail.com (Will Willis) Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 07:16:30 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] brian d foy CPAN workshop next Thursday In-Reply-To: <20140725114526.565e146e@cygnus> References: <20140725114526.565e146e@cygnus> Message-ID: I would attend On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:45 AM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston < houston at pm.org> wrote: > I just got a message from brian d foy. He's in town and is volunteering > to do a workshop on CPAN next Thursday night, if there is interest. > > This is a great opportunity if you don't yet do CPAN (much) and/or if > you haven't seen brian speak. > > If you are interested, please email the list or reply to this email to > see if we will have enough people to make it worth brian's time. > > G. Wade > -- > C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but > when you do, it blows away your whole leg. -- Bjarne Stroustrup > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > Houston at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gwadej at anomaly.org Mon Jul 28 06:20:49 2014 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 08:20:49 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] CPAN Workshop with brian d foy - confirmed Message-ID: <20140728082049.52ca7e91@cygnus> I can now confirm that we will be having brian d foy doing his CPAN workshop at 3131 W. Alabama this Thursday (July 31) at 7pm. If you plan to be there, make certain that you create a PAUSE account ahead of time: https://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=request_id A PAUSE account is required to upload modules to CPAN and is the first step to becoming a CPAN author. -- A tautology is a thing which is tautological.