From peter at dragonstaff.com Sun Jun 8 04:47:45 2008 From: peter at dragonstaff.com (Peter Edwards) Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 12:47:45 +0100 Subject: Testing workshop Message-ID: <000501c8c95d$bb004e00$6401a8c0@DRAGON1> A quick reminder that we're meeting at Tony's house this afternoon at 2.00 for a Perl testing workshop. Details at: http://mkperl.scrubhole.org:8080/mkpm/events/first-testing-workshop We plan to improve Log::Dispatch testing and documentation: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Log::Dispatch And there is possibly a Barbie module (the B&Q variety, not the Brummie one) to be dynaloaded. Regards, Peter Dragonstaff Limited http://www.dragonstaff.com Business IT Consultancy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/miltonkeynes-pm/attachments/20080608/d17b8bb1/attachment.html From oliver.gorwits at oucs.ox.ac.uk Sun Jun 8 05:38:41 2008 From: oliver.gorwits at oucs.ox.ac.uk (Oliver Gorwits) Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:38:41 +0100 Subject: Testing workshop In-Reply-To: <000501c8c95d$bb004e00$6401a8c0@DRAGON1> References: <000501c8c95d$bb004e00$6401a8c0@DRAGON1> Message-ID: <484BD2D1.3090306@oucs.ox.ac.uk> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter Edwards wrote: | A quick reminder that we're meeting at Tony's house this | afternoon at 2.00 I think it's actually at 16:00 - see you then! - -- Oliver Gorwits, Network and Telecommunications Group, Oxford University Computing Services -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIS9LR2NPq7pwWBt4RAmViAKD1dDZPdG1NIGqr0KDroot4lIfJNACgqO4f QJzNA++rrY1uPyEeDEbtE6Q= =r8md -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From peter at dragonstaff.com Sun Jun 8 06:12:40 2008 From: peter at dragonstaff.com (Peter Edwards) Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 14:12:40 +0100 Subject: Testing workshop In-Reply-To: <484BD2D1.3090306@oucs.ox.ac.uk> References: <000501c8c95d$bb004e00$6401a8c0@DRAGON1> <484BD2D1.3090306@oucs.ox.ac.uk> Message-ID: <003101c8c969$6742f6d0$6401a8c0@DRAGON1> Oliver wrote: >Peter Edwards wrote: >| A quick reminder that we're meeting at Tony's house this afternoon at >| 2.00 > >I think it's actually at 16:00 - see you then! Yikes. Thanks for pointing that out. Nearly disturbed Tony's yorkshire pudding! Cheers, Peter From pm at gavinwestwood.co.uk Tue Jun 17 02:17:14 2008 From: pm at gavinwestwood.co.uk (Gavin Westwood) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:17:14 +0100 Subject: Meeting: Tuesday 24th June Message-ID: <4857811A.40609@gavinwestwood.co.uk> It's that time again! The MKLUG and Milton Keynes Perl Mongers social meet up will be held at the Wetherspoons pub, near the railway station (not the one in the snow dome), next door to Chiquitos: http://miltonkeynes.openguides.org/?J.D_Wetherspoon%2C_Central_Milton_Keynes Starting from 8pm, and going on till the last people stumble off home. Feel free to bring your laptop/Linux device along if you want a hand/to show off, but be aware we've had problems with using their Wifi recently... Hope to see you there! Gavin From tom at eborcom.com Thu Jun 19 01:58:21 2008 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:58:21 +0100 Subject: Technical Meeting: Tuesday 8th July 2008 Message-ID: <20080619085820.GA18612@eborcom.com> Milton Keynes Perl Mongers will hold our first technical meeting of 2008 on Tuesday 8th July at the Open University in the same room as last time. Please join us for the following talks: Source Filters (Tony Edwardson) Tony will explain what source filters are, how to use them, what they can be used for, examples of some popular modules which use them and some gotchas. What I Did on my Holidays (Oliver Gorwits) Oliver will tell us about patches submitted, documentation written, and a weeded allotment: a selection of interesting Perl modules and tools. An Introduction to DBIx::Class (Tom Hukins) Tom will show how DBIx::Class builds on Perl's DBI interface to databases, translating records to and from Perl objects. Arrive at the OU for 7pm. Here's how to find us: First, find the OU campus as described at http://www3.open.ac.uk/contact/ Enter the campus (signposted Open University, not Open University East), via Brickhill Street (V10). Take the middle lane past Security (on the left), through the barriers, and then turn right on to Ring road East. Ahead you will see the road narrows to single lane on your side of the road, where there are no entry signs. Just prior to this is the entrance to a car park on the left (marked East parking extension on the campus map). Take this left turn and head to the top right (North West on the campus map) of the car park. The meeting is in Venables Building, specifically the section marked South East on the campus map. Take the path (marked in yellow on the campus map) East from the car park toward the centre of campus. Take a right under an archway in to the courtyard area bound by Venables South, East, and South East, keeping right (heading North East on the campus map), behind the building section marked South East. You will find a double door on your right, which is the entrance to the South East section of Venables Building. We'll see you there, as these are usually access controlled doors, so you will probably need to be let in. See you on the 8th, Tom From peter at dragonstaff.com Thu Jun 19 04:05:27 2008 From: peter at dragonstaff.com (peter at dragonstaff.com) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:05:27 +0100 Subject: Milton Keynes City Of Dreams Message-ID: <20080619120527.hr1w8lptcsc4cock@webmail.dragonstaff.com> http://www.balconyshirts.co.uk/Mens-Retro-Clothes/Retro-T-Shirts/British-Towns-and-Cities-T-Shirts/p219_sc1300.aspx Heh ;) Regards, Peter From robbie at robbiebow.co.uk Thu Jun 19 06:25:44 2008 From: robbie at robbiebow.co.uk (Robbie Bow) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:25:44 +0100 Subject: Milton Keynes City Of Dreams In-Reply-To: <20080619120527.hr1w8lptcsc4cock@webmail.dragonstaff.com> References: <20080619120527.hr1w8lptcsc4cock@webmail.dragonstaff.com> Message-ID: <973296c20806190625x7e5e9428lf79e7ba6a13dc5a4@mail.gmail.com> Class! On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:05 PM, wrote: > > http://www.balconyshirts.co.uk/Mens-Retro-Clothes/Retro-T-Shirts/British-Towns-and-Cities-T-Shirts/p219_sc1300.aspx > > Heh ;) > > Regards, Peter > > _______________________________________________ > MiltonKeynes-pm mailing list > MiltonKeynes-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/miltonkeynes-pm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/miltonkeynes-pm/attachments/20080619/0c9ac984/attachment.html From pm at gavinwestwood.co.uk Tue Jun 24 08:14:50 2008 From: pm at gavinwestwood.co.uk (Gavin Westwood) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:14:50 +0100 Subject: Meeting: Tuesday 24th June In-Reply-To: <4857811A.40609@gavinwestwood.co.uk> References: <4857811A.40609@gavinwestwood.co.uk> Message-ID: <48610F6A.9070106@gavinwestwood.co.uk> Just to remind people that this is tonight - see some of you there. :-) Gavin On 17/06/08 10:17, Gavin Westwood wrote: > It's that time again! > > The MKLUG and Milton Keynes Perl Mongers social meet up will be held at > the Wetherspoons pub, near the railway station (not the one in the snow > dome), next door to Chiquitos: > > http://miltonkeynes.openguides.org/?J.D_Wetherspoon%2C_Central_Milton_Keynes > > Starting from 8pm, and going on till the last people stumble off home. > Feel free to bring your laptop/Linux device along if you want a hand/to > show off, but be aware we've had problems with using their Wifi recently... > From tom at eborcom.com Wed Jun 25 04:23:19 2008 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:23:19 +0100 Subject: Technical Meeting: Tuesday 8th July 2008 In-Reply-To: <20080619085820.GA18612@eborcom.com> References: <20080619085820.GA18612@eborcom.com> Message-ID: <20080625112319.GA90076@eborcom.com> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 09:58:21AM +0100, Tom Hukins wrote: > Milton Keynes Perl Mongers will hold our first technical meeting of 2008 on > Tuesday 8th July at the Open University in the same room as last time. Please > join us for the following talks: We have an additional talk: Real Life Cross-Platform Testing (Peter Edwards) I think this gives us a good mix of talks: I wonder if we can manage to get more than 10 people show up. Tell your friends, particularly those who don't use Perl yet! I counted 14 people at our meeting with the LUG last night, and there was port stout. Yum. I'm already looking for talks for some time in September or October, so let me know if you have anything to tell us about. It doesn't matter how advanced or technical, and you can even tak for just 5 minutes if you like. Tom From pm at gavinwestwood.co.uk Wed Jun 25 05:13:40 2008 From: pm at gavinwestwood.co.uk (Gavin Westwood) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:13:40 +0100 Subject: Technical Meeting: Tuesday 8th July 2008 In-Reply-To: <20080625112319.GA90076@eborcom.com> References: <20080619085820.GA18612@eborcom.com> <20080625112319.GA90076@eborcom.com> Message-ID: <48623674.5040209@gavinwestwood.co.uk> On 25/06/08 12:23, Tom Hukins wrote: > > > I think this gives us a good mix of talks: I wonder if we can manage > to get more than 10 people show up. > Well, you can count me in. :-) Gavin (wondering if this is the start of a "me too!" thread). From barbie at missbarbell.co.uk Fri Jun 27 03:19:01 2008 From: barbie at missbarbell.co.uk (Barbie) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:19:01 +0100 Subject: Testing workshop In-Reply-To: <000501c8c95d$bb004e00$6401a8c0@DRAGON1> References: <000501c8c95d$bb004e00$6401a8c0@DRAGON1> Message-ID: <20080627101901.GI2976@smtp.blueyonder.co.uk> On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 12:47:45PM +0100, Peter Edwards wrote: > A quick reminder that we're meeting at Tony's house this afternoon at 2.00 > for a Perl testing workshop. > Details at: > http://mkperl.scrubhole.org:8080/mkpm/events/first-testing-workshop > We plan to improve Log::Dispatch testing and documentation: > http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Log::Dispatch How did this go? Is there a write up or anything about the event in a blog post or something? Funnily enough I saw Dave Rolsky last week :) > And there is possibly a Barbie module (the B&Q variety, not the Brummie one) Oi, that's the Cheshire one thank you ;) Brummie indeed! Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers Memoirs Of A Roadie From oliver.gorwits at oucs.ox.ac.uk Fri Jun 27 03:24:52 2008 From: oliver.gorwits at oucs.ox.ac.uk (Oliver Gorwits) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:24:52 +0100 Subject: Testing workshop In-Reply-To: <20080627101901.GI2976@smtp.blueyonder.co.uk> References: <000501c8c95d$bb004e00$6401a8c0@DRAGON1> <20080627101901.GI2976@smtp.blueyonder.co.uk> Message-ID: <4864BFF4.5070300@oucs.ox.ac.uk> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Barbie wrote: | How did this go? Is there a write up or anything about the event in a | blog post or something? It went very well. I was meaning to do a use.perl.org journal post about it, but didn't :-/ Maybe this weekend! - -- Oliver Gorwits, Network and Telecommunications Group, Oxford University Computing Services -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIZL/02NPq7pwWBt4RAqIiAJ4sEMoRE4p6ib5PO6mkMOOWTXlbBwCfUVYP dIjOj8WPqL4aU3QaaDZnQ9s= =p1Cp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From tom at eborcom.com Sat Jun 28 15:19:32 2008 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:19:32 +0100 Subject: Testing workshop In-Reply-To: <4864BFF4.5070300@oucs.ox.ac.uk> References: <000501c8c95d$bb004e00$6401a8c0@DRAGON1> <20080627101901.GI2976@smtp.blueyonder.co.uk> <4864BFF4.5070300@oucs.ox.ac.uk> Message-ID: <20080628221932.GD51320@eborcom.com> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:24:52AM +0100, Oliver Gorwits wrote: > Barbie wrote: > | How did this go? Is there a write up or anything about the event in a > | blog post or something? > > It went very well. I was meaning to do a use.perl.org journal post about > it, but didn't :-/ Yeah, me too. I've been up North the past few days - even further north than Glossop - to escape from life, but the four of us who showed up enjoyed it. I felt a bit unhappy in that I'd hoped we could bring in some newcomers to the cult of Perl and Testing, whereas the four of us who showed up already had fair experience of both. But we can try again and see what happens next time. I wonder why those who planned to show up didn't, and why those who thought it wouldn't interest them thought it wouldn't, at least for those of you in or near to MK. I'd especially like to hear from people who thought it might be too scary, clever or difficult, because the intention was to give newcomers a gentle introduction to Perl. It was a lovely, warm, sunny day though. Too nice to stay indoors doing computers. Tom From pm at gavinwestwood.co.uk Sun Jun 29 02:12:05 2008 From: pm at gavinwestwood.co.uk (Gavin Westwood) Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:12:05 +0100 Subject: Testing workshop In-Reply-To: <20080628221932.GD51320@eborcom.com> References: <000501c8c95d$bb004e00$6401a8c0@DRAGON1> <20080627101901.GI2976@smtp.blueyonder.co.uk> <4864BFF4.5070300@oucs.ox.ac.uk> <20080628221932.GD51320@eborcom.com> Message-ID: <486751E5.2080903@gavinwestwood.co.uk> On 28/06/08 23:19, Tom Hukins wrote: > I wonder why those who planned to show up didn't, and why those who > thought it wouldn't interest them thought it wouldn't, at least for > those of you in or near to MK. > > I'd especially like to hear from people who thought it might be too > scary, clever or difficult, because the intention was to give > newcomers a gentle introduction to Perl. It was a lovely, warm, sunny > day though. Too nice to stay indoors doing computers. Well you already know what happened to me (bloody flu) - I was rather looking forward to trying to get my head around Perl and understand how the testing units are laid out and would normally have really enjoyed a BBQ (unfortunately, I felt like I was one instead...) Gavin