From ceeshek at gmail.com  Sat Jun  3 16:56:00 2006
From: ceeshek at gmail.com (Cees Hek)
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 19:56:00 -0400
Subject: [kw-pm] YAPC::NA
In-Reply-To: <49d805d70605312111r364c211cg60d5aabd0e050efb@mail.gmail.com>
References: <49d805d70605312111r364c211cg60d5aabd0e050efb@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <fd8e28ef0606031656q54241bfasc09515e444457668@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

Just wondering if anyone is looking to car pool down to Chicago?  So
far it is Richard Dice and myself heading down (both of us are from
Toronto PM), but there is room for more (I've got a minivan with loads
of space).  We are heading down a bit early, and heading home a bit
late, so that we can partake in some of the hack-a-thons that are
planned around the conference.

The plan so far is to leave late Friday night on the 23rd, and to head
back Friday afternoon on the 30th.

Richard and I will be getting together with some of the guys from the
CGI::Application mailing list / IRC channel to hack on some code
before the conference (if anyone is interested feel free to come along
to that), and we are staying around for the pugs hack-a-ton after the
conference.

Even if you are only interested in a one way trip (either there or
back), let me know.

Cheers,

Cees Hek

On 6/1/06, Joshua McAdams <joshua.mcadams at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there fellow Perl Mongers.  I'm writing to remind you all that
> YAPC::NA is only a few weeks away.  The conference will be held in
> Chicago June 26th through 28th and will feature four simultaneous
> sessions of Perl talks for three days in addition to a job fair,
> banquet, and auction.  After the conference Damian Conway, Randal
> Schwartz, and brian d foy will be sticking around and conducting
> professional training classes and extremely reduced prices.
>
> This email is a little spammy (sorry about that), but I just wanted to
> remind you all about the conference and also ask for your help in
> promoting it so that we can fill up the few spots that are remaining.
>
> For more information check out http://www.yapcchicago.org.
>
> We invite you to put up posters:
>
>   http://yapcchicago.org/yapc_poster.pdf
>   http://yapcchicago.org/yapc_poster_white.pdf
>
> Or maybe a web banner:
>
>   http://www.yapcchicago.org/yapc_banner_wide.jpg
>   http://www.yapcchicago.org/yapc_banner_narrow.jpg
>
> Thank you for your help in making YAPC a success once again,
>
> Josh McAdams
> _______________________________________________
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> kw-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kw-pm
>

From daniel at coder.com  Thu Jun  8 11:10:17 2006
From: daniel at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen)
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:10:17 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [kw-pm] discount on O'Reilly Books
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0606081345060.984-100000@matrix2.coder.com>

The user-group discount now makes books on-par or better priced than
amazon.ca (if you buy two). Amazon is 24-34% off list.  Chapters seems to
be 33% off list.

I'm not sure if O'Reilly charges shipping to Canada.  Anyway, worth
looking into, if you want to support the publisher.

-Daniel

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From dcarr at sdf.lonestar.org  Mon Jun 12 17:14:33 2006
From: dcarr at sdf.lonestar.org (lloyd carr)
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:14:33 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [kw-pm] Meeting
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0606130009020.214@sdf.lonestar.org>

Zookrick,

Is there a meeting Thursday night, there seems to be a pizza list?

- Lloyd

From daniel at coder.com  Tue Jun 13 05:10:48 2006
From: daniel at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen)
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:10:48 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [kw-pm] Meeting
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0606130009020.214@sdf.lonestar.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0606122055340.984-100000@matrix2.coder.com>

There is indeed a kw-pm meeting this week.

Title: "Enough Talk: Perl6 Code You Can Take to the Money Bank."

Description:
Actual, running Perl6. fishbot installs Parrot+Pugs, and writes a
working program in Perl6. No slides, no theory, just running code.

Date: Thursday, June 15, 2006 at 7pm.  Yes, this Thursday.
Location: U of Waterloo, DC 3323

This month, pizza is sponsored by an anonymous donor.  To get your name
on the pizza list, please visit: http://kw.pm.org/wiki/index.cgi?PizzaList

See our FAQ for more information:
http://kw.pm.org/faq.html

-Daniel

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, lloyd carr wrote:

> Zookrick,
>
> Is there a meeting Thursday night, there seems to be a pizza list?
>
> - Lloyd
> _______________________________________________
> kw-pm mailing list
> kw-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kw-pm
>



From dmagnuszewski at mandtbank.com  Wed Jun 14 12:28:12 2006
From: dmagnuszewski at mandtbank.com (DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:28:12 -0400
Subject: [kw-pm] Buffalo Perl Mongers - June Meeting - Randal Schwartz
Message-ID: <s4902b19.022@comrcm01intgwia.mandtbank.com>

All,

I have some news which may be of interest. Randal Schwartz will be in
Buffalo next week and he is willing to give a talk at this month's
meeting (Tuesday, June 20th). 

He has two talks for us to choose from:

1) Perl Best Practices
(http://www.samag.com/documents/s=10086/sam0607h/a8.htm)

2) Inside Out Objects
(http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9979/sam0603g/0603g.html)

If you plan on attending, please vote for the talk that you would like
to see by replying to me - I will keep the tally. Seeing as the meeting
is less than a week away, I ask that you reply ASAP! The voting will end
around 5 PM on Friday, so that I can give him a heads up on the topic.

For more details on the meeting (including location, directions, etc)
check out our website: 

http://buffalo.pm.org/#meet

Thanks!

-Dan



From da at coder.com  Thu Jun 15 06:59:40 2006
From: da at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:59:40 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [kw-pm] Meeting reminder
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0606122055340.984-100000@matrix2.coder.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0606150957020.984-100000@matrix2.coder.com>

Hope to see you tonight!

Reminder: if you're coming and want pizza, please put your name on:
http://kw.pm.org/wiki/index.cgi?PizzaList


On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Daniel R. Allen wrote:

> There is indeed a kw-pm meeting this week.
>
> Title: "Enough Talk: Perl6 Code You Can Take to the Money Bank."
>
> Description:
> Actual, running Perl6. fishbot installs Parrot+Pugs, and writes a
> working program in Perl6. No slides, no theory, just running code.
>
> Date: Thursday, June 15, 2006 at 7pm.  Yes, this Thursday.
> Location: U of Waterloo, DC 3323
>
> This month, pizza is sponsored by an anonymous donor.  To get your name
> on the pizza list, please visit: http://kw.pm.org/wiki/index.cgi?PizzaList
>
> See our FAQ for more information:
> http://kw.pm.org/faq.html
>
> -Daniel
>
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, lloyd carr wrote:
>
> > Zookrick,
> >
> > Is there a meeting Thursday night, there seems to be a pizza list?
> >
> > - Lloyd
> > _______________________________________________
> > kw-pm mailing list
> > kw-pm at pm.org
> > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kw-pm
> >
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> kw-pm mailing list
> kw-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kw-pm
>


From eric at uc.org  Thu Jun 15 07:38:06 2006
From: eric at uc.org (fishbot)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:38:06 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [kw-pm] Meeting reminder
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0606150957020.984-100000@matrix2.coder.com>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0606150957020.984-100000@matrix2.coder.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.50.0606151015280.22878-100000@iran.unitycode.org>


Please indicate any preferences you have - in particular if you
don't eat meat or a particular genus of meat.  I'll likely get a
'Canadian', a 'spicy chicken' and a 'Hawaiian' again, unless
instructed otherwise.  All of those have the meatness.  All
reasonable requests entertained.

If anyone has a specific question about p6+pugs, send me an email
offlist, and I will try to include something on that in the talk
tonight.  I can try to answer real-time questions tonight too,
but that's always iffy.

See you all tonight.

---- original message : 2006-06-15 9:59am : Daniel R. Allen ----

Hope to see you tonight!

Reminder: if you're coming and want pizza, please put your name on:
http://kw.pm.org/wiki/index.cgi?PizzaList


On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Daniel R. Allen wrote:

> There is indeed a kw-pm meeting this week.
>
> Title: "Enough Talk: Perl6 Code You Can Take to the Money Bank."
>
> Description:
> Actual, running Perl6. fishbot installs Parrot+Pugs, and writes a
> working program in Perl6. No slides, no theory, just running code.
>
> Date: Thursday, June 15, 2006 at 7pm.  Yes, this Thursday.
> Location: U of Waterloo, DC 3323
>
> This month, pizza is sponsored by an anonymous donor.  To get your name
> on the pizza list, please visit: http://kw.pm.org/wiki/index.cgi?PizzaList
>
> See our FAQ for more information:
> http://kw.pm.org/faq.html
>
> -Daniel
>
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, lloyd carr wrote:
>
> > Zookrick,
> >
> > Is there a meeting Thursday night, there seems to be a pizza list?
> >
> > - Lloyd
> > _______________________________________________
> > kw-pm mailing list
> > kw-pm at pm.org
> > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kw-pm
> >
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> kw-pm mailing list
> kw-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kw-pm
>

_______________________________________________
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From da at coder.com  Thu Jun 15 12:03:07 2006
From: da at coder.com (Daniel Allen)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:03:07 -0400
Subject: [kw-pm] Fwd: K/W Ruby Users Group
In-Reply-To: <e71f4bea0606151119i6494dc2re54968891bea5fa2@mail.gmail.com>
References: <e71f4bea0606151119i6494dc2re54968891bea5fa2@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <aa2cdde20606151203p606ar2039f4db3a4bb8be@mail.gmail.com>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bill Traynor <wmat at naoi.ca>
Date: Jun 15, 2006 2:19 PM
Subject: [kwlug disc.] K/W Ruby Users Group
To: kwlug-disc at kwlug.org, Toronto Ruby Users Group Mailing List
<trug at lists.sewm.org>


Announcing the formation of a Kitchener/Waterloo Ruby User Group.
This group is dedicated to the study and application of the Ruby
language and Ruby based technologies, such as RubyonRails.

The Group will be found online at www.kwrug.ca (once the DNS entry
propagates).  There are no physical meetings scheduled at present, but
one will be scheduled in the near future, on a Tuesday (naturally).

IRC:  #kwrug on Freenode

There is one mailing list (for now):
talk at kwrug.ca

Subscribe by sending an email to talk-request at kwrug.ca with the word
subscribe in the body of the email.

For anyone interested, here's an offer from Manning regarding their
recent Rails book:

> Three offers from Manning:
> 1. We are promoting our recently published "Ruby for Rails" to Ruby
> user groups and offering 40% off on orders placed at our website.
> 2. We are running a Ruby contest with a grand prize of a $100
> Manning.com gift certificate and other prizes.
> 3. We are offering to UGs a free review copy of this book for any
> group willing to write and post a review within 30 days.
>
> We have posted a copy of the Contest Offer and Special Discount
> flyer in the Manning Sandbox. It contains contest rules and the discount code
> for the 40% off. Would you please extend these offers to your group? Download
> the flyer here:
> http://www.manning-sandbox.com/entry!default.jspa?categoryID=229&externalID=3896

Cheers
Bill Traynor
_______________________________________________
KWLUG-Disc mailing list
KWLUG-Disc at kwlug.org
http://listserv.kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc

From daniel at coder.com  Thu Jun 15 20:02:43 2006
From: daniel at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:02:43 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [kw-pm] wrapup: perl6 talk
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0606152253280.984-100000@matrix2.coder.com>

A big thanks to Eric for his perl6 talk. Interesting content, both for the
talk and the discussion about what people like and also don't like about
the changes in perl6.  Lots of both.  Though, more exposure may change my
opinions about some things (say, the ~ operator, and the new -> which just
seems weird to me now).  No doubt, perl5 will continue strong (either
standalone or as perl6 emulation).  And who knows what weirdnesses people
will come up with that will be possible only in p6.

Since it was billed as a topic with no slides, we have no slides for the
website, but I expect we can probably put up fish's perl6 code.

We've not comfirmed next month's talk topic, but we were tossing around
ideas after drinking.  We'll announce that here when there's something
definite.

Thanks for the good meeting, all;

-Daniel


From dcarr at sdf.lonestar.org  Sat Jun 17 07:18:36 2006
From: dcarr at sdf.lonestar.org (lloyd carr)
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:18:36 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [kw-pm] huffman
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0606171409330.9955@sdf.lonestar.org>

As usual I am happily distracted from doing anything useful by one of 
fishbot's talks :)

How do you read a file one bit at a time? Can you without going to some 
obscure low level stuff???

- Lloyd

From dcarr at sdf.lonestar.org  Sat Jun 17 19:36:44 2006
From: dcarr at sdf.lonestar.org (lloyd carr)
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 02:36:44 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [kw-pm] huffman
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0606171409330.9955@sdf.lonestar.org>
References: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0606171409330.9955@sdf.lonestar.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0606180201410.17943@sdf.lonestar.org>

> As usual I am happily distracted from doing anything useful by one of
> fishbot's talks :)
>
> How do you read a file one bit at a time? Can you without going to some
> obscure low level stuff???

http://michael.dipperstein.com/bitlibs/index.html

The answer is to let someone else do it for you. I know it's C, but I now 
have my getbit() function and can use it thus

while ( 1==1 ) {

 	if ( getbit() )

 	{

             if ( getbit() )

             {

                         if ( getbit() )

                         {

                                     printf( "D" );

                         } else {

                                     printf( "C" );

                         }

             } else {

                         printf( "B" );

             }

 	} else {

             if ( getbit() )

             {

                         printf( "A" );

             } else {

                         break;

             }

 	}

}

From marko at isfoundhere.com  Sun Jun 18 14:13:07 2006
From: marko at isfoundhere.com (Marko Vidberg)
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 17:13:07 -0400
Subject: [kw-pm] Frustrating problem
Message-ID: <d033acf80606181413l1ad78bf9t1312894ddbcd47ad@mail.gmail.com>

Hey there, I am having a bit of problem with a client that has a perl
script that has been running for a number of years with no problems.
Last week, it started just giving the following error:

-----
Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or
misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

 Please contact the server administrator to inform of the time the
error occurred and of anything you might have done that may have
caused the error. More information about this error may be available
in the server error log.
----

I've checked everything I know to check, the .cgi file permissions and
ownership and apache conf settings.  The error logs in /var/log say
nothing.  I've made sure the file is putting out "Content-type:
text/html\n\n" as the first thing.  The cgi DOES run fine from the
command line, just not via http.  The same thing happens with a simple
hello_world.cgi perl script.  I deal mostly with php myself and
haven't been to "into" perl for quite some time... can anybody give me
any advice?  Thanks.

-marko

From abez at abez.ca  Sun Jun 18 14:17:31 2006
From: abez at abez.ca (abez)
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 17:17:31 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [kw-pm] Frustrating problem
In-Reply-To: <d033acf80606181413l1ad78bf9t1312894ddbcd47ad@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0606181717080.28690-100000@tsunami.abez.ca>


Read your suexec.log it usually gives the reason.

abram

On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Marko Vidberg wrote:

> Hey there, I am having a bit of problem with a client that has a perl
> script that has been running for a number of years with no problems.
> Last week, it started just giving the following error:
> 
> -----
> Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or
> misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
> 
>  Please contact the server administrator to inform of the time the
> error occurred and of anything you might have done that may have
> caused the error. More information about this error may be available
> in the server error log.
> ----
> 
> I've checked everything I know to check, the .cgi file permissions and
> ownership and apache conf settings.  The error logs in /var/log say
> nothing.  I've made sure the file is putting out "Content-type:
> text/html\n\n" as the first thing.  The cgi DOES run fine from the
> command line, just not via http.  The same thing happens with a simple
> hello_world.cgi perl script.  I deal mostly with php myself and
> haven't been to "into" perl for quite some time... can anybody give me
> any advice?  Thanks.
> 
> -marko
> _______________________________________________
> kw-pm mailing list
> kw-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kw-pm
> 

-- 
abez ------------------------------------------
http://www.abez.ca/ Abram Hindle (abez at abez.ca)
------------------------------------------ abez


From eric at uc.org  Sun Jun 18 16:29:39 2006
From: eric at uc.org (fishbot)
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:29:39 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [kw-pm] huffman
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0606171409330.9955@sdf.lonestar.org>
References: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0606171409330.9955@sdf.lonestar.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.50.0606181917220.22878-100000@iran.unitycode.org>


Without anything obscure or low level?  Reading a bit at a time
is pretty obscure, at least in Perl-land.

I didn't read the file a bit at a time, I actually pulled it in
several kbytes at a time, then iterated over the bits with vec(),
like so:

      for ( 0 .. $bits )
      {
         $treeloc = vec( $buff, $_, 1 ) ?
                     $treeloc->{Left} :
                     $treeloc->{Right};

         if ( $treeloc->{Term} )
         {
            print $fhout $treeloc->{Char};
            $treeloc = $htree;
         }
      }

Where $buff was my filebuffer, and the rest is fairly
self-documenting-ish.

vec() is quite efficient, but looping over the bits in a
multi-mbyte file is pushing perl's limits.

If you are looking to handle something other than text IO in
Perl, you likely need pack(), unpack() or vec(), or some
combination thereof.  Though ultra-powerful, they are also the
posterchildren for obscure low level.

fishbot


---- original message : 2006-06-17 2:18pm : lloyd carr ----

As usual I am happily distracted from doing anything useful by one of
fishbot's talks :)

How do you read a file one bit at a time? Can you without going to some
obscure low level stuff???

- Lloyd
_______________________________________________
kw-pm mailing list
kw-pm at pm.org
http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kw-pm

From akohlsmith-pm at benshaw.com  Mon Jun 19 07:14:20 2006
From: akohlsmith-pm at benshaw.com (Andrew Kohlsmith)
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:14:20 -0400
Subject: [kw-pm] Frustrating problem
In-Reply-To: <d033acf80606181413l1ad78bf9t1312894ddbcd47ad@mail.gmail.com>
References: <d033acf80606181413l1ad78bf9t1312894ddbcd47ad@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <200606191014.20246.akohlsmith-pm@benshaw.com>

On Sunday 18 June 2006 17:13, Marko Vidberg wrote:
> Hey there, I am having a bit of problem with a client that has a perl
> script that has been running for a number of years with no problems.
> Last week, it started just giving the following error:
>
> -----
> Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or
> misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

That's always fun to diagnose.  Ensure that you are running the script from 
the command line as the same user and in the same directory as what the web 
server is.  If need be, redirect stderr to a file in the script and examine 
the file.  Obviously something has changed, you just don't know what yet.  
Have any system upgrades happened (automatic updates are the work of the 
devil) recently, does the problem go away if the web server's restarted...  
lots of things to investigate.

-A.

From abez at abez.ca  Mon Jun 19 07:57:58 2006
From: abez at abez.ca (abez)
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:57:58 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [kw-pm] Frustrating problem (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0606191056220.28690-100000@tsunami.abez.ca>

Did you change your docroot? Is it executable? Do you know what you've
set your docroot to?

What about using .htaccess:
Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .pl

-- 
abez ------------------------------------------
http://www.abez.ca/ Abram Hindle (abez at abez.ca)
------------------------------------------ abez

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 17:31:02 -0400
From: Marko Vidberg <marko at isfoundhere.com>
To: abez <abez at abez.ca>
Subject: Re: [kw-pm] Frustrating problem

Thanks, there it was in suexec.log, "command not in docroot".  So,
this is saying the cgi file is not in document root I assume?  The
httpd.conf is setup (as far as I can tell by looking at it) to run cgi
file within each virtual domains cgi-bin directory, which is where the
file currently is.  I copied it over to /var/www/cgi-bin as well, just
to see if it works.  Still giving the same error.  The thing I mostly
don't understand is how this was working so well for so long and then
suddenly just stopped.  Must have been an update to apache or
something that was recently done... probably just have something in
the httpd.conf configured wrong.  Either that or plesk (yes, they
insist on having a control panel) has done something stupid.. which
wouldn't be the first time I've seen a system running plesk mess
something up seemingly on its own.


On 6/18/06, abez <abez at abez.ca> wrote:
>
> Read your suexec.log it usually gives the reason.
>
> abram
>
> On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Marko Vidberg wrote:
>
> > Hey there, I am having a bit of problem with a client that has a perl
> > script that has been running for a number of years with no problems.
> > Last week, it started just giving the following error:
> >
> > -----
> > Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or
> > misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
> >
> >  Please contact the server administrator to inform of the time the
> > error occurred and of anything you might have done that may have
> > caused the error. More information about this error may be available
> > in the server error log.
> > ----
> >
> > I've checked everything I know to check, the .cgi file permissions and
> > ownership and apache conf settings.  The error logs in /var/log say
> > nothing.  I've made sure the file is putting out "Content-type:
> > text/html\n\n" as the first thing.  The cgi DOES run fine from the
> > command line, just not via http.  The same thing happens with a simple
> > hello_world.cgi perl script.  I deal mostly with php myself and
> > haven't been to "into" perl for quite some time... can anybody give me
> > any advice?  Thanks.
> >
> > -marko
> > _______________________________________________
> > kw-pm mailing list
> > kw-pm at pm.org
> > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kw-pm
> >
>
> --
> abez ------------------------------------------
> http://www.abez.ca/ Abram Hindle (abez at abez.ca)
> ------------------------------------------ abez
>
>


From rdice at pobox.com  Mon Jun 19 15:58:54 2006
From: rdice at pobox.com (Richard Dice)
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:58:54 -0400
Subject: [kw-pm] Damian Conway talks in Toronto, July 3, 4 and 5!
Message-ID: <44972C2E.6030201@pobox.com>

Hi everyone,

By random fortune (and a flurry of last minute, behind-the-scenes emails),
I have something special to announce.  Damian Conway will be back in
Toronto again this summer... in only 2 weeks!

Damian has visited Toronto in the summers of each of 2001, 2002 and 2004, 
and they're always high points in Perl culture in the city.  His talks are
highly informative and highly entertaining.  (Wednesday's talk will be 
especially weighted to entertaining.)  This summer we have 3 events planned.

////////////////////////////////////////////////

What:   Perl 6 Update
When:   Monday July 3 (Canada Day stat holiday)
        1:00 - 5:00 pm
Where:  2 Bloor Street West (CIBC Tower, our usual TPM meeting spot),
        which is at the corner of Yonge & Bloor in downtown Toronto
        Room # and Floor # as yet to be determined.  More details later.
        Note that building access could be tightly controlled, as will
        elevator access, so we'll have to work according to a system of 
        pre-planned pick-up times as well as phone calls up via cellphone
        to get the ferryman to pick you up.
Other:  Dinner & beer follows, 5:30 pm - ??
        Location:  as yet unknown... we'll just pick a place in the
        neighbourhood to go following the talk.

////////////////////////////////////////////////

What:   Toronto BarCamp DemoCamp
        Damian will give a 15 minute demonstration of the Perl 6 language
        (That's right -- Perl 6, now!)  (4 other presenters each have a 
        chunk of time there too)
When:   Tuesday July 4
        6:30 - 8:00 pm
Where:  see more/full details at: http://barcamp.org/TorCampDemoCamp7

////////////////////////////////////////////////

What:   "Fun With Dead Languages"
         http://damian.conway.org/Seminars//DeadLanguages.html
When:   Wednesday July 5
        6:30 - 9:00 pm
Where:  Not yet fully determined, likely somewhere at U. of Toronto
        Bahen Centre... but details to follow as they are finalized.

    Watch in mesmerized terror as Damian hacks code in five unrelated
    languages (none of them Perl). Along the way, you'll also learn
    about modern archaeological techniques, bidirectional cross-
    dressing, Ancient Greeks hackers, improbable romances, the real Club
    Med, why programmers shouldn't frequent casinos, the language of
    moisture vaporators, C++ mysticism, conversational Latin, state
    machines on steroids, feeding the dog the old-fashioned way, the
    shocking truth about anime, programming without variables or
    subroutines, the Four Voids of the Apocalypse, Microsoft's new
    advertising campaign, what the Romans used instead of braces,
    drunken stonemasons, the ancient probabilistic wisdom of bodkins,
    how to kill a language with a single byte, and the price of fish.

////////////////////////////////////////////////

Fundraising
-----------
There are some costs associated with his trip here.  (E.g. hotel, 
potentially a venue for Wed. night if a free one can't be secured.)
I am taking up a collection to cover the costs.  Any additional
money raised will be given to Damian as an honorarium, in support
of such an active Perl community member who has supported us so much
whenever we use Perl.  In fact, I aim for there to be such a surplus
so that we can help Damian out while he tours North America this
summer.  If you can and would like to donate please email me.

Please note that all of Damian's public talks are free and that he's
committed to all of them, regardless of funds raised.  All are 
encouraged to attend -- the more, the merrier!

////////////////////////////////////////////////

About Damian
----------------
For those who don't know Damian, he's from Melbourne, Australian, a 
professor of Computer Science at Monash University who has taken a
more-or-less indefinite leave of absence so that he can work on the
Perl 6 effort.  (He's Larry Wall's #2 man in the design of the Perl
6 language.)  He's also an active contributor to Perl 5, authoring
more CPAN modules than you can comfortably shake a stick at, some
being ridiculous (Coy, Acme::Bleach) while others are profound
(Parse::RecDescent, Regexp::Common, Text::Balanced).

He's a regular speaker at Perl and other IT conferences around the
world, and a crowd favourite.

His Perl books:

   "Perl Best Practices"   http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlbp/
   "Object Oriented Perl"  http://www.manning.com/conway/

//////////////////////////////////

Any questions, comments, etc. -- just email me!

Cheers,
Richard



From kw-pm at datademons.com  Mon Jun 19 16:11:51 2006
From: kw-pm at datademons.com (Justin Wheeler)
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:11:51 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [kw-pm] Damian Conway talks in Toronto, July 3, 4 and 5!
In-Reply-To: <44972C2E.6030201@pobox.com>
References: <44972C2E.6030201@pobox.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606191906430.31164@trinity.dpeople.ca>

This is a talk I am definitely interested in, and as such, will definitely 
be attending (the 3rd).  The same offer goes out to anyone who may wish to 
hitch a ride to TO with me as the last trip out that way -- first come, 
first served.  I'll likely be driving to the Islington Subway station in 
Etobicoke, and just taking the subway downtown.. makes things easier.

I am also considering the 5th, if at least one other person from KW goes 
(just so I know someone), but I won't be able ot give anyone a ride *to* TO 
on the 5th since I work out that way anyway, but will happily drive anyone 
who requires it a drive back.

Let me know,
Justin

  On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Richard Dice wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> By random fortune (and a flurry of last minute, behind-the-scenes emails),
> I have something special to announce.  Damian Conway will be back in
> Toronto again this summer... in only 2 weeks!
>
> Damian has visited Toronto in the summers of each of 2001, 2002 and 2004,
> and they're always high points in Perl culture in the city.  His talks are
> highly informative and highly entertaining.  (Wednesday's talk will be
> especially weighted to entertaining.)  This summer we have 3 events planned.
>
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////
>
> What:   Perl 6 Update
> When:   Monday July 3 (Canada Day stat holiday)
>        1:00 - 5:00 pm
> Where:  2 Bloor Street West (CIBC Tower, our usual TPM meeting spot),
>        which is at the corner of Yonge & Bloor in downtown Toronto
>        Room # and Floor # as yet to be determined.  More details later.
>        Note that building access could be tightly controlled, as will
>        elevator access, so we'll have to work according to a system of
>        pre-planned pick-up times as well as phone calls up via cellphone
>        to get the ferryman to pick you up.
> Other:  Dinner & beer follows, 5:30 pm - ??
>        Location:  as yet unknown... we'll just pick a place in the
>        neighbourhood to go following the talk.
>
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////
>
> What:   Toronto BarCamp DemoCamp
>        Damian will give a 15 minute demonstration of the Perl 6 language
>        (That's right -- Perl 6, now!)  (4 other presenters each have a
>        chunk of time there too)
> When:   Tuesday July 4
>        6:30 - 8:00 pm
> Where:  see more/full details at: http://barcamp.org/TorCampDemoCamp7
>
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////
>
> What:   "Fun With Dead Languages"
>         http://damian.conway.org/Seminars//DeadLanguages.html
> When:   Wednesday July 5
>        6:30 - 9:00 pm
> Where:  Not yet fully determined, likely somewhere at U. of Toronto
>        Bahen Centre... but details to follow as they are finalized.
>
>    Watch in mesmerized terror as Damian hacks code in five unrelated
>    languages (none of them Perl). Along the way, you'll also learn
>    about modern archaeological techniques, bidirectional cross-
>    dressing, Ancient Greeks hackers, improbable romances, the real Club
>    Med, why programmers shouldn't frequent casinos, the language of
>    moisture vaporators, C++ mysticism, conversational Latin, state
>    machines on steroids, feeding the dog the old-fashioned way, the
>    shocking truth about anime, programming without variables or
>    subroutines, the Four Voids of the Apocalypse, Microsoft's new
>    advertising campaign, what the Romans used instead of braces,
>    drunken stonemasons, the ancient probabilistic wisdom of bodkins,
>    how to kill a language with a single byte, and the price of fish.
>
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////
>
> Fundraising
> -----------
> There are some costs associated with his trip here.  (E.g. hotel,
> potentially a venue for Wed. night if a free one can't be secured.)
> I am taking up a collection to cover the costs.  Any additional
> money raised will be given to Damian as an honorarium, in support
> of such an active Perl community member who has supported us so much
> whenever we use Perl.  In fact, I aim for there to be such a surplus
> so that we can help Damian out while he tours North America this
> summer.  If you can and would like to donate please email me.
>
> Please note that all of Damian's public talks are free and that he's
> committed to all of them, regardless of funds raised.  All are
> encouraged to attend -- the more, the merrier!
>
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////
>
> About Damian
> ----------------
> For those who don't know Damian, he's from Melbourne, Australian, a
> professor of Computer Science at Monash University who has taken a
> more-or-less indefinite leave of absence so that he can work on the
> Perl 6 effort.  (He's Larry Wall's #2 man in the design of the Perl
> 6 language.)  He's also an active contributor to Perl 5, authoring
> more CPAN modules than you can comfortably shake a stick at, some
> being ridiculous (Coy, Acme::Bleach) while others are profound
> (Parse::RecDescent, Regexp::Common, Text::Balanced).
>
> He's a regular speaker at Perl and other IT conferences around the
> world, and a crowd favourite.
>
> His Perl books:
>
>   "Perl Best Practices"   http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlbp/
>   "Object Oriented Perl"  http://www.manning.com/conway/
>
> //////////////////////////////////
>
> Any questions, comments, etc. -- just email me!
>
> Cheers,
> Richard
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> kw-pm mailing list
> kw-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kw-pm
>

From rdice at pobox.com  Tue Jun 20 10:45:50 2006
From: rdice at pobox.com (Richard Dice)
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:45:50 -0400
Subject: [kw-pm] Damian donations -- now paypal enabled
Message-ID: <4498344E.6090408@pobox.com>

Hi everyone,

Our esteemed Fulko Hew has set up a Paypal donation system to help out
with Damian's trip to Toronto in two weeks.  If Paypal is your bag and
you'd like to help out please visit: http://www.hew.ca/

Cheers,
Richard