From magog at the-wire.com  Tue Oct 10 19:49:43 2006
From: magog at the-wire.com (Michael Graham)
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:49:43 -0400
Subject: [kw-pm] Andy Lester Oct 26 Talk Details
Message-ID: <20061010224943.23e8c9eb@caliope>


(These details are also on the TPM web site: http://to.pm.org/)

 Speaker:   Andy Lester

    Date:   Thursday 26 Oct 2006

    Time:   6:45pm

   Where:   2 Bloor Street West (NW corner of Yonge/Bloor, skyscraper
            with the CIBC logo on top) Floor/Classroom TBA

  ===================================================================

Talk Details:

   Andy Lester has used Perl for over a decade, has written or maintains
   a number of modules you probably use every day, and works on public
   relations for the Perl Foundation.  But for his double-header talk
   for October 26th, Perl is barely a mention.

   First up, Andy will speak on technical debt and how to get out of it.
   Technical debt is that nasty condition companies get into where  the
   codebase is crufty, poorly documented, and hard to test, and everyone
   is terrified of changing anything.  Just like financial  debt, it's
   the compound interest on technical debt that snowballs  until you can
   no longer effectively do projects: technical  bankruptcy. Come learn
   how to pay down your biggest debts before that  happens.

   Second, Andy discusses pragmatic job hunting for technical people.
   He'll talk about how finding and landing a job isn't a matter of
   luck, and how to make yourself stand out in a sea of job applicants.
   Come ready to unlearn the conventional wisdom about all aspects of
   the job hunt, from where to find jobs, how to write a resume, and
   what to do in an interview.  "In my years of hiring programmers, I've
   seen some pretty awful mistakes, and some awfully funny ones," he
   says.  Come learn how to avoid the mistakes and get the job you want.

   This evening of talks is of general interest to programmers,
   sysadmins and other technical people, not just Perl Mongers.  Tell
   your friends!


  ===================================================================

  Note:

            The elevators in the building are "locked down" after 5:30pm
            to people without building access cards.  Leading up to the
            meeting someone will come down to the main floor lobby every
            few minutes to ferry people upstairs.  There will be a
            number of scheduled trips:

                17:30
                18:00
                18:30
                18:45
                19:00

            After 19:00, you can reach the access-card-carrying guy via
            a cell phone number that we'll leave with security in the
            front lobby.  The room and floor numbers will be left with
            security too.

            If any latecomers call up there will be a final group
            elevator run at 19:10.  After that, access will be ad-hoc;
            call up from security and somebody will try to come down and
            let you up.




-- 
Michael Graham <magog at the-wire.com>

From eric at uc.org  Tue Oct 17 10:26:53 2006
From: eric at uc.org (fishbot)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:26:53 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [kw-pm] October Meeting is this Thursday
Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.50.0610171252330.12762-100000@iran.unitycode.org>


It's that time again: our monthly meeting is at 7pm this
Thursday, October 19th, at our normal location.

Agenda
======

Two shorter talks this month, with the theme "Beyond Perl":

-> XS is EAsY
   presenter: fishbot

XS is a meta-language for mapping C/C++ functions to Perl
subroutines.  Despite the relative complexity of Perl internals,
getting XS to do basic things is pretty... basic.

-> OCaml Intro
   presenter: abez

abez gives an intro talk to OCaml.  You thought that there was
only one multi-paradigmic language with a link to Camels?

Pizza:
======

As usual, add your name to the list if you want pizza:
http://kw.pm.org/wiki/index.cgi?PizzaList
so I know how much to buy.  I'm happy to get a vegetarian pizza,
but I won't unless asked.

As usual, social follows.

Looking forward to seeing everyone then.
fishbot

From daniel at coder.com  Thu Oct 19 19:39:42 2006
From: daniel at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:39:42 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [kw-pm] Thanks Eric and Abram!
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0610192232040.590-100000@matrix2.coder.com>

Thanks fish & abez, for the great presentations this evening.

For anyone interested in /Going Beyond Perl: XS is EaSY and an Intro to
OCaml/ who couldn't make the meeting, there will be slides on kw.pm.org.

(I can say that definitively, because I have fish's slides, and I think I
can get abez's too.  So there.)

Thanks, also to Anonymous++ for the pizza.  :)

-Daniel


From abez at abez.ca  Thu Oct 19 20:02:39 2006
From: abez at abez.ca (abez)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:02:39 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [kw-pm] Thanks Eric and Abram!
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0610192232040.590-100000@matrix2.coder.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0610192301330.27726-100000@tsunami.abez.ca>


My slides for the presentation can be found here:

http://churchturing.org/w/ocaml-presentation

abram

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Daniel R. Allen wrote:

> Thanks fish & abez, for the great presentations this evening.
> 
> For anyone interested in /Going Beyond Perl: XS is EaSY and an Intro to
> OCaml/ who couldn't make the meeting, there will be slides on kw.pm.org.
> 
> (I can say that definitively, because I have fish's slides, and I think I
> can get abez's too.  So there.)
> 
> Thanks, also to Anonymous++ for the pizza.  :)
> 
> -Daniel
> 
> _______________________________________________
> 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 da at coder.com  Fri Oct 20 07:58:09 2006
From: da at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen)
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:58:09 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [kw-pm] Thanks Eric and Abram!
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0610192301330.27726-100000@tsunami.abez.ca>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0610201057380.590-100000@matrix2.coder.com>

...and now they're on kw.pm/talks as well.
-Daniel

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, abez wrote:

>
> My slides for the presentation can be found here:
>
> http://churchturing.org/w/ocaml-presentation
>
> abram
>
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Daniel R. Allen wrote:
>
> > Thanks fish & abez, for the great presentations this evening.
> >
> > For anyone interested in /Going Beyond Perl: XS is EaSY and an Intro to
> > OCaml/ who couldn't make the meeting, there will be slides on kw.pm.org.
> >
> > (I can say that definitively, because I have fish's slides, and I think I
> > can get abez's too.  So there.)
> >
> > Thanks, also to Anonymous++ for the pizza.  :)
> >
> > -Daniel
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > 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
>
> _______________________________________________
> kw-pm mailing list
> kw-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kw-pm
>


From magog at the-wire.com  Mon Oct 23 07:29:33 2006
From: magog at the-wire.com (Michael Graham)
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:29:33 -0400
Subject: [kw-pm] Reminder - Andy Lester speaking in Toronto this Thursday
	Oct 26
Message-ID: <20061023102933.50a6094f@caliope>


Just a reminder that Andy Lester is coming to Toronto and will be
speaking at the Toronto Perl Mongers meeting this Thursday.  

His topics:  

  * Get Out of Technical Debt Now!
  * The Open Source Programmer's Guide to Getting a Great Job
  
These talks aren't just for Perl mongers - they will be of general 
interest to programmers, sysadmins and other technical people.  All
are welcome - invite your friends!  


Details:

(This info is also on the Toronto Perl Mongers site: http://to.pm.org/)

 Speaker:   Andy Lester

    Date:   Thursday 26 Oct 2006

    Time:   6:45pm

   Where:   2 Bloor Street West (NW corner of Yonge/Bloor, skyscraper
            with the CIBC logo on top) Floor/Classroom TBA

  ===================================================================

Talk Details:

   Andy Lester has used Perl for over a decade, has written or maintains
   a number of modules you probably use every day, and works on public
   relations for the Perl Foundation.  But for his double-header talk
   for October 26th, Perl is barely a mention.

   First up, Andy will speak on technical debt and how to get out of it.
   Technical debt is that nasty condition companies get into where  the
   codebase is crufty, poorly documented, and hard to test, and everyone
   is terrified of changing anything.  Just like financial  debt, it's
   the compound interest on technical debt that snowballs  until you can
   no longer effectively do projects: technical  bankruptcy. Come learn
   how to pay down your biggest debts before that  happens.

   Second, Andy discusses pragmatic job hunting for technical people.
   He'll talk about how finding and landing a job isn't a matter of
   luck, and how to make yourself stand out in a sea of job applicants.
   Come ready to unlearn the conventional wisdom about all aspects of
   the job hunt, from where to find jobs, how to write a resume, and
   what to do in an interview.  "In my years of hiring programmers, I've
   seen some pretty awful mistakes, and some awfully funny ones," he
   says.  Come learn how to avoid the mistakes and get the job you want.

   This evening of talks is of general interest to programmers,
   sysadmins and other technical people, not just Perl Mongers.  Tell
   your friends!


  ===================================================================

  Note:

    The elevators in the building are "locked down" after 5:30pm
    to people without building access cards.  Leading up to the
    meeting someone will come down to the main floor lobby every
    few minutes to ferry people upstairs.  
    
    After 19:00, you can reach the access-card-carrying guy via
    a cell phone number that we'll leave with security in the
    front lobby.  The room and floor numbers will be left with
    security too.


-- 
Michael Graham <magog at the-wire.com>

From magog at the-wire.com  Tue Oct 24 08:05:44 2006
From: magog at the-wire.com (Michael Graham)
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:05:44 -0400
Subject: [kw-pm] Room Info for Andy Lester's TPM talk (Thurs, Oct 26)
Message-ID: <20061024110544.3216889c@caliope>


Andy will be speaking in classroom 15 on the 8th floor.

Full Announcement:
------------------
Just a reminder that Andy Lester is coming to Toronto and will be
speaking at the Toronto Perl Mongers meeting this Thursday.  

His topics:  

  * Get Out of Technical Debt Now!
  * The Open Source Programmer's Guide to Getting a Great Job
  
These talks aren't just for Perl mongers - they will be of general 
interest to programmers, sysadmins and other technical people.  All
are welcome - invite your friends!  


Details:

(This info is also on the Toronto Perl Mongers site: http://to.pm.org/)

 Speaker:   Andy Lester

    Date:   Thursday 26 Oct 2006

    Time:   6:45pm

   Where:   2 Bloor Street West (NW corner of Yonge/Bloor, skyscraper
            with the CIBC logo on top) 8th floor, classroom 15

  ===================================================================

Talk Details:

   Andy Lester has used Perl for over a decade, has written or maintains
   a number of modules you probably use every day, and works on public
   relations for the Perl Foundation.  But for his double-header talk
   for October 26th, Perl is barely a mention.

   First up, Andy will speak on technical debt and how to get out of it.
   Technical debt is that nasty condition companies get into where  the
   codebase is crufty, poorly documented, and hard to test, and everyone
   is terrified of changing anything.  Just like financial  debt, it's
   the compound interest on technical debt that snowballs  until you can
   no longer effectively do projects: technical  bankruptcy. Come learn
   how to pay down your biggest debts before that  happens.

   Second, Andy discusses pragmatic job hunting for technical people.
   He'll talk about how finding and landing a job isn't a matter of
   luck, and how to make yourself stand out in a sea of job applicants.
   Come ready to unlearn the conventional wisdom about all aspects of
   the job hunt, from where to find jobs, how to write a resume, and
   what to do in an interview.  "In my years of hiring programmers, I've
   seen some pretty awful mistakes, and some awfully funny ones," he
   says.  Come learn how to avoid the mistakes and get the job you want.

   This evening of talks is of general interest to programmers,
   sysadmins and other technical people, not just Perl Mongers.  Tell
   your friends!


  ===================================================================

  Note:

    The elevators in the building are "locked down" after 5:30pm
    to people without building access cards.  Leading up to the
    meeting someone will come down to the main floor lobby every
    few minutes to ferry people upstairs.  
    
    After 19:00, you can reach the access-card-carrying guy via
    a cell phone number that we'll leave with security in the
    front lobby.  The room and floor numbers will be left with
    security too.




-- 
Michael Graham <magog at the-wire.com>
	

From daniel at coder.com  Wed Oct 25 17:07:57 2006
From: daniel at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen)
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:07:57 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [kw-pm] Thanks Eric and Abram!
In-Reply-To: <77f3972e0610232015g300ca244i2c596a252b962c12@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0610240931070.4519-100000@matrix2.coder.com>

(hm, somehow this was stuck in my postponed-messages file)

Yes, I meant kw.pm.org/talks .... wishful thinking on my part.

-Daniel

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Quantum Mechanic wrote:

> On 10/20/06, Daniel R. Allen <da at coder.com> wrote:
> >
> > ...and now they're on kw.pm/talks as well.
> > -Daniel
>
>
> Did you mean kw.pm.org/talks? (404's popping up all over :)
>