From john.beppu at gmail.com  Tue Sep  8 13:44:24 2009
From: john.beppu at gmail.com (John Beppu)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 13:44:24 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] (no subject)
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Hello from Japan, la.pm:

I'm going to be giving a talk at YAPC::Asia tomorrow on the COMET server I
wrote, and I was wondering if you guys could do a quick beta test of the new
demo I wrote for it.

I just uploaded Stardust-0.04, so you'll probably want to get miyagawa's
cpanf to install it straight out of CPAN's upload queue.

http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/App-CPAN-Fresh/

Alternatively, you could go to the github repo and install Stardust from
there.

http://github.com/beppu/stardust/tree/master

Do whatever works for you.

********

After you get the latest Stardust installed, type:

*stardust.pl --demo*

and try out the Colorful Boxes demo.

If it fails horribly, let me know.  However, for the time being, I don't
care whether it works in IE or not.  ;)

--beppu

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Ben Tilly <btilly at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Christopher
> Nielsen<christopher.nielsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> August LA.PM meeting is tomorrow, Thursday August 27 at 7pm. See you
> then.
> >
> >> Our two speakers will be:
> >> * John Beppo
> >>    John will be talking about a COMET server he wrote in Perl, and
> >>    integration into existing web applications.
> >> * Aran Deltac (bluefeet)
> >>    Aran presents: Destination Moose
> >
> > This sounds great, how did it go?
>
> It was good.  And not just the prepared talks and fun and games
> afterwards.  We had digressions on things from JavaScript-influenced
> Perl coding styles to what roles were.
>
> On the subject of co-routines I mentioned that my favorite paper on
> the subject was how they are implemented in C (!) in PuTTY.  That
> paper is http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html<http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Esgtatham/coroutines.html>
> .
> I really like the bit of it which says:
>
>  Any coding standard which insists on syntactic
>  clarity at the expense of algorithmic clarity should be
>  rewritten. If your employer fires you for using this
>  trick, tell them that repeatedly as the security staff
>  drag you out of the building.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
> _______________________________________________
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> Losangeles-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm
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From christopher.nielsen at gmail.com  Tue Sep  8 14:50:48 2009
From: christopher.nielsen at gmail.com (Christopher Nielsen)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 14:50:48 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] (no subject)
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> Hello from Japan, la.pm:

> I'm going to be giving a talk at YAPC::Asia tomorrow on the COMET server I
> wrote, and I was wondering if you guys could do a quick beta test of the new
> demo I wrote for it.

6:44am Wednesday (JST) - ow... :)  (ohaio, my sympathies)

> After you get the latest Stardust installed, type: stardust.pl --demo
> and try out the Colorful Boxes demo.
>
> If it fails horribly, let me know.? However, for the time being, I don't
> care whether it works in IE or not.? ;) --beppu

It works great on Firefox 3.5.2 and SuSE Linux 11:

    - I was able to send message to it with curl, and get them to show
up on the page
    - Make the boxes turn color from green to blue by mousing over.
    - I don't know if it counts but:
        * sometimes it skipped a box if I moved the mouse too fast
        * I wasn't able to change the color of the boxes if i changed
the #aabb letters
          (or maybe i misunderstood)

Best of luck at YAPC::Asia!  Break a leg! (hopefully not yours)

-Chris

-- 
christopher.nielsen at gmail.com
http://rhythm.com/

From john.beppu at gmail.com  Tue Sep  8 16:07:08 2009
From: john.beppu at gmail.com (John Beppu)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:07:08 -0700
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On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Christopher Nielsen <
christopher.nielsen at gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for giving it a test drive.  I appreciate it.


>    - Make the boxes turn color from green to blue by mousing over.
>    - I don't know if it counts but:
>        * sometimes it skipped a box if I moved the mouse too fast
>        * I wasn't able to change the color of the boxes if i changed
> the #aabb letters
>          (or maybe i misunderstood)
>
>
Your understanding was correct.  Changing the hex colors in the input box is
supposed to change the color you apply when mousing over the squares.  I'm
surprised that didn't work.  Did you give it a proper hex color?  ("#"
followed by 3 or 6 hex digits)


> Best of luck at YAPC::Asia!  Break a leg! (hopefully not yours)
>
>
Thanks.

--beppu

PS:  For the lazy and impatient, I'll have it running on
http://bavl.org:8888/demo/ for a few days.
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From john.beppu at gmail.com  Tue Sep  8 16:09:02 2009
From: john.beppu at gmail.com (John Beppu)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:09:02 -0700
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>
> PS:  For the lazy and impatient, I'll have it running on
> http://bavl.org:8888/demo/ for a few days.
>
>
>
*sigh* murphy's law just kicked my ass.  hopefully I can fix whatever i
broke.

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From john.beppu at gmail.com  Tue Sep  8 16:11:17 2009
From: john.beppu at gmail.com (John Beppu)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:11:17 -0700
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Try the one on port 5742 instead.  I stupidly left some hard coded URLs in
my demo.

http://bavl.org:5742/demo/



On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:09 PM, John Beppu <john.beppu at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>> PS:  For the lazy and impatient, I'll have it running on
>> http://bavl.org:8888/demo/ for a few days.
>>
>>
>>
> *sigh* murphy's law just kicked my ass.  hopefully I can fix whatever i
> broke.
>
> --beppu
>
>
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From christopher.nielsen at gmail.com  Tue Sep  8 16:24:39 2009
From: christopher.nielsen at gmail.com (Christopher Nielsen)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:24:39 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] (no subject)
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> Your understanding was correct.? Changing the hex colors in the input box is
> supposed to change the color you apply when mousing over the squares.? I'm
> surprised that didn't work.? Did you give it a proper hex color?? ("#"
> followed by 3 or 6 hex digits)

Oh, my mistake.  I was pressing enter, which reloaded the page I
think.  It works great on my browser.

> PS:? For the lazy and impatient, I'll have it running on
> http://bavl.org:8888/demo/ for a few days.

It's kinda freaky watching other people change my pretty blue-color
blocks into orange.  No! that one was mine! :)

-Chris

-- 
christopher.nielsen at gmail.com
http://rhythm.com/

From agrangaard at rubiconproject.com  Wed Sep  9 13:46:06 2009
From: agrangaard at rubiconproject.com (Andrew Grangaard)
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 16:46:06 -0400
Subject: [LA.pm] (no subject)
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Cute!

I was hitting enter too, now I see how it works.  Change string, the highlight boxes. It would feel more intuitive to me if there was a colored box next to the input field that changed to the current color as I updated the field.

The curl commands page uses localhost instead of bavl.org as the host in the URLs.

Andrew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: losangeles-pm-bounces+agrangaard=rubiconproject.com at pm.org
> [mailto:losangeles-pm-bounces+agrangaard=rubiconproject.com at pm.org] On
> Behalf Of Christopher Nielsen
> Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 4:25 PM
> To: John Beppu
> Cc: Los Angeles Perl Mongers
> Subject: Re: [LA.pm] (no subject)
> 
> > Your understanding was correct.? Changing the hex colors in the input
> box is
> > supposed to change the color you apply when mousing over the
> squares.? I'm
> > surprised that didn't work.? Did you give it a proper hex color?
> ("#"
> > followed by 3 or 6 hex digits)
> 
> Oh, my mistake.  I was pressing enter, which reloaded the page I
> think.  It works great on my browser.
> 
> > PS:? For the lazy and impatient, I'll have it running on
> > http://bavl.org:8888/demo/ for a few days.
> 
> It's kinda freaky watching other people change my pretty blue-color
> blocks into orange.  No! that one was mine! :)
> 
> -Chris
> 
> --
> christopher.nielsen at gmail.com
> http://rhythm.com/
> _______________________________________________
> Losangeles-pm mailing list
> Losangeles-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm

From cnk at caltech.edu  Wed Sep  9 13:55:44 2009
From: cnk at caltech.edu (Cynthia Kiser)
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 13:55:44 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] (no subject)
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Message-ID: <20090909205544.GA15622@inky.caltech.edu>

Quoting Andrew Grangaard <agrangaard at rubiconproject.com>:
> > > PS:? For the lazy and impatient, I'll have it running on
> > > http://bavl.org:8888/demo/ for a few days.

I resemble that remark! Thanks for leaving a zero work option for
trying it out. Very nice. I actually found how the app behaves very
intuitive - perhaps because I happened to mouse over a box with in one
second of the page loading. 

From john.beppu at gmail.com  Thu Sep 10 20:02:29 2009
From: john.beppu at gmail.com (John Beppu)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:02:29 +0900
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On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Andrew Grangaard <
agrangaard at rubiconproject.com> wrote:

Thanks for taking a look.


> I was hitting enter too, now I see how it works.  Change string, the
> highlight boxes. It would feel more intuitive to me if there was a colored
> box next to the input field that changed to the current color as I updated
> the field.
>

This seems to be a common thing people try.  I've added a bit of javascript
to disable the form submission, and eventually I'll put a proper color
picker on it.


> The curl commands page uses localhost instead of bavl.org as the host in
> the URLs.
>
>
The thing is...  I actually want people to run those curl commands from the
same host that the server happens to be on.  Although the server does not
implement any security features, I plan to take measures to block untrusted
hosts from posting arbitrary comet messages in the near future.  I'm still
thinking about how I want to do this, though.

--beppu
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From john.beppu at gmail.com  Thu Sep 10 20:04:19 2009
From: john.beppu at gmail.com (John Beppu)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:04:19 +0900
Subject: [LA.pm] (no subject)
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That's what I was hoping for.  I figured it would be easy enough for people
to unintentionally mouse over the boxes and notice the changing colors.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Cynthia Kiser <cnk at caltech.edu> wrote:

> I resemble that remark! Thanks for leaving a zero work option for
> trying it out. Very nice. I actually found how the app behaves very
> intuitive - perhaps because I happened to mouse over a box with in one
> second of the page loading.
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From agrangaard at rubiconproject.com  Sun Sep 13 14:44:52 2009
From: agrangaard at rubiconproject.com (Andrew Grangaard)
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:44:52 -0400
Subject: [LA.pm] ANNOUNCE: Wed 9/23 -- September Perl Mongers
Message-ID: <A8A3340A1D68D94CB65744935483C8770113C187@BE38.exg3.exghost.com>

Greetings Mongers,

 

What: Los Angeles Perl Mongers Meeting 

When: 7-9pm Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 

Where: The Rubicon Project HQ - 1925 S. Bundy, 90025 

Theme: Perl! 

Food: Pizza and beverages provided. 

RSVP: Responses always appreciated.

 

See you all in a week-and-a-half! Please let me know if you are
interested in presenting!

 

Our website[1] has been updated with the current info as well as titles
of past talks.

 

I haven't recovered enough from the previous meeting to write up a
recap, but it was definitely off-the-hook.  We ranged from co-routines
to Moose to Jaeger shots, with the last guests stumbling off at 1:30am
after the poker game.

 

Thanks,

Andrew

 

1: http://losangeles.pm.org/

 

 

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From jennifer at pricegrabber.com  Mon Sep 14 13:20:34 2009
From: jennifer at pricegrabber.com (Jennifer Maness)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:20:34 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LA.pm] PriceGrabber - Hiring a Lead Perl Developer for our SEM team
Message-ID: <789A5280BADD4185A344A6EABC4AF1D1@Internal.PriceGrabber.com>

If qualified and interested, please contact Jennifer at PriceGrabber.com with
your resume.

 

Thanks!

 

Responsibilities:

*	Define software architecture in a LAMP / Linux, Apache, MySql,
Oracle, and Perl / PHP framework for the next generation of highly
automated applications
*	Collaborate on and contribute to a growing codebase of Search
Marketing products and tools that serve to manage millions of dollars in
revenue per month
*	Come up with bleeding-edge solutions in a highly competitive and
ever-evolving SEM landscape
*	Coach, manage, mentor, and lead a team of 5 software engineers
dedicated to Search Engine Marketing into the next frontier of
development. 
*	Have a "can-do" attitude and work closely with other bright
engineers as well as a team of highly-motivated analysts and statisticians

Required skills:

*	Serious Perl skills
*	MySQL or other relevant RDBMS experience, preferably with exposure
to optimizing queries for large-scale data sets
*	Fluency in Linux or other *nix flavor (Visual programming?  Not
here!) 
*	Experiencing leading and growing a team
*	Ability to work collaboratively in a shared code environment
*	Application development fundamentals, including but not limited to
object-oriented programming, test-driven development and automation
*	SVN/CVS experience

Nice-to-haves:

 

*	B.S. (or M.S.) in Computer Science         
*	Experience developing SEM products on the client-facing side (i.e.
major online retailer, agency, CSE, etc.); experience in the financial
sector specific to yield-based optimization is also great
*	Previous development of automated bidding systems
*	Familiarity with working in an Agile/Scrum project management
environment
*	Frontend development using PHP in a LAMP paradigm
*	User interface design for interactive web-based applications
*	Working with offshore teams in a collaborative environment

 

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From daveviner at yahoo.com  Tue Sep 15 19:40:49 2009
From: daveviner at yahoo.com (Dave Viner)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:40:49 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] Cool new event: DealMaker Workshop
Message-ID: <9a39b88d0909151940t5dd3b207jb8e92b2ba46693c3@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

Just wanted to pass the word on a cool new event coming up.  It's a
workshop put on my the DealMaker team which also brings you the
Strategy Series and Startonomics.  I've been to several of these
events, and I have to say that they are really, really good - very
high signal-to-noise ration.  Here's the next big thing they are
putting on here in LA.

Details are below.  Enter "STARTUP LA" in the ""how did you hear about
The Workshop" and get $20 off!

Seats are limited, and from the speaker/mentor list, this event
promises to sell out fast!  Check it out!
https://undertheradar.wufoo.com/forms/apply-to-attend-the-workshop/

== official release ==

THE WORKSHOP: October 6, 2009. 1:00pm ? 6:00pm
This hands-on "workshop-style" event will allow entrepreneurs to drill
down on the key issues we face when laying the foundation to build and
fund their company. http://dealmakermedia.com/the_workshop.html

The Workshop is your chance to get your hands on actual cap charts and
term sheets.
Ask questions, get answers.

Tuesday October 6, 2009 | 1:00pm - 6:00pm
Microsoft LA | 333 S. Grand Ave. 33rd Floor, Suite 3300 | Los Angeles, CA 90071
Parking: Joe's Auto Parts: 220 So. Hope (Microsoft will validate)


WORKSHOP MENTORS:
* Charles Halloran, Attorney, KPPB
* Dan Gould, VP Technology, Fox Interactive Media
* Dave McClure, Founders Fund
* Daniel C. Burnham, Partner, Strategic Law Partners
* Frank Addante, CEO, Rubicon Project
* Jason Nazar, CEO, DocStoc
* John Babcock, Partner, Rustic Canyon Partners
* John Suh, CEO, Legal Zoom
* Kent Goldman, Principal, First Round Capital
* Jeff Tinsley, CEO, Mylife
* Mark Suster, Partner, GRP Partners
* Richard Wolpert, Partner, The Mailroom Fund
* Seth Sternberg, CEO, meebo
* William Quigley, Partner, Clearstone Ventures

SESSIONS ? What You'll Learn:

Romancing the Deal: Getting to "I do" And Getting What You Want
Only fools rush in to venture money, and for good reason ?
underestimate the bargaining power of your target investor, and you
may just end up with a broken heart. Before you jump in, you need to
understand the strategies and tactics of negotiating a funding round
and it starts with the first date. Get tips from successful founders,
lawyers, and VC's on the moves that lead to "Mr. or Mrs. Right Money".

Determining Need vs. Greed
We've all heard the horror stories of taking too much funding and
diluting your value. This session will help you determine how much
financing you actually need, explore alternative financing options
every entrepreneur should consider, understand the investor's math,
and protect your (ass)ets along the way.

Equity Structure
Equity structure is one of the most important and most misunderstood
factors of starting a company. With numerous legal, investment, and
strategic impacts, implementing a solid equity structure is a
prerequisite to success. How should you divide equity among employees,
and even more importantly, how can your equity structure affect your
legal rights, venture outlook and exit?

Team, Board, & Advisor Compensation
How can you determine the right combination and levels of compensation
plans for your team, board and advisers? What are the legal landmines
and loopholes you should know about? How have VCs' successful
portfolio companies structured compensation packages? We'll help you
understand the ins and outs of incentive plans and choose the right
mix for your start-up.

Term Sheet Negotiation
Think you've mastered the term sheet? Think again. In this session
you'll get to walk through an actual term sheet with a VC,
entrepreneur, and lawyer to find the quick sand and learn how to get
around it.

Working with Investors, Advisors & your Board: What to Watch Out For
In the beginning, everything is happy-go-lucky...until something goes
wrong. What could you have done in the beginning to protect against
explosions, and how much leeway to you really have? We'll discuss how
to structure investor and adviser relationships so you have maximum
control, as well as how to effectively manage your investors and
advisors in the good times, and bad.

APPLY TO ATTEND!
Tickets are limited. Entrepreneurs will be given priority access to tickets.
https://undertheradar.wufoo.com/forms/apply-to-attend-the-workshop/

Dave Viner

From agrangaard at rubiconproject.com  Sun Sep 20 19:15:56 2009
From: agrangaard at rubiconproject.com (Andrew Grangaard)
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:15:56 -0400
Subject: [LA.pm] Presenter needed, Wed, 9/23
Message-ID: <A8A3340A1D68D94CB65744935483C8770118893C@BE38.exg3.exghost.com>

Hi All,

 

I've just heard from Kenny, he has a medical emergency and won't be able
to present on Wednesday.  This is your chance for perl fame, come
present your pet project to the LA perl mongers!  Otherwise, I'll see
what I can pull together...

 

Andrew

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From agrangaard at rubiconproject.com  Wed Sep 23 13:01:06 2009
From: agrangaard at rubiconproject.com (Andrew Grangaard)
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:01:06 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] LA.PM TONIGHT! Wed 9/23 at 7pm
Message-ID: <4ABA7E82.1080006@rubiconproject.com>

I'm Looking forward to seeing you tonight at 7.
1925 S. Bundy, LA, CA, 90025.

I'll be your speaker tonight, as our originally planned speaker has an 
injury and can't make it.  I've put together a presentation and a Q&A 
discussion.

Presentation:
* Accessing the JIRA SOAP api using JIRA::Client.
JIRA::Client is a thin wrapper around SOAP::Lite that provides a few 
additional convenience methods.  I'll compare and contrast a perl and 
ruby implementation of a simple script to query bug counts.


Discussion:
* Care and feeding of third party Perl modules at work -- how do you do it?
I've asked a few of you this question, and heard a variety of answers. 
I think it'll be interesting to discuss the various strategies that are 
out there.  How is this not a  solved problem that everyone knows? (Or 
am I just out of the loop?)

I have blog posts on both of these, if you'd care to comment before the 
meeting:
http://www.lowlevelmanager.com/2009/09/access-jira-api-from-perl-with.html
http://www.lowlevelmanager.com/2009/09/care-and-feeding-of-third-party-modules.html

Info, directions and parking map:
   http://losangeles.pm.org/

Thanks,
Andrew