From autarch at urth.org  Thu Nov  8 09:07:19 2007
From: autarch at urth.org (Dave Rolsky)
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 11:07:19 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [Mpls-pm] [pm_groups] Perl mongers around the world, unite! (fwd)
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.0.9999.0711081107110.12854@urth.org>


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 17:05:26 +0000
From: Jos? Alves de Castro <jose at pm.org>
To: pm_groups at pm.org
Subject: [pm_groups] Perl mongers around the world, unite!

At least on LinkedIn, for now.

We just created a LinkedIn group for Perl Mongers.

Enjoy and join the group at http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/
40830/4971AC40763D.

Cheers!

jac

PS: Please do pass the message on to your pm groups.


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From peter at peknet.com  Wed Nov 14 06:52:58 2007
From: peter at peknet.com (Peter Karman)
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:52:58 -0600
Subject: [Mpls-pm] UMN pm
Message-ID: <473B0BCA.10504@peknet.com>

So I've been working at the U of M for a few months now, and I know there are
other perlmongers who work at the U.

Is there any kind of existing UMN subgroup of the mpls-pm, formal or informal?
Mostly I'm interested in finding out what other kinds of Perl projects folks
are working on at the U and what kinds of wheels folks have invented.

pek
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From matt at omega.org  Wed Nov 14 12:32:50 2007
From: matt at omega.org (Matthew Johnson)
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:32:50 -0600
Subject: [Mpls-pm] UMN pm
In-Reply-To: <473B0BCA.10504@peknet.com>
References: <473B0BCA.10504@peknet.com>
Message-ID: <780EB7EE-EC6B-4F76-A921-5D60B992E12E@omega.org>

I haven't heard from any other UofM employees recently, Peter.

I think the best way to find them is to put a call out as you are  
doing.  There is no need for a subgroup.  Our attendance is small  
enough to handle a boost!  Try the other local techie lists as well.

I know there is a Unix group that meets on campus, many you could  
learn of projects through them. Bob Hain may be able to give you more  
information.


  -Matt Johnson


On Nov 14, 2007, at 8:52 AM, Peter Karman wrote:

> So I've been working at the U of M for a few months now, and I know  
> there are
> other perlmongers who work at the U.
>
> Is there any kind of existing UMN subgroup of the mpls-pm, formal  
> or informal?
> Mostly I'm interested in finding out what other kinds of Perl  
> projects folks
> are working on at the U and what kinds of wheels folks have invented.
>
> pek
> -- 
> Peter Karman  .  peter at peknet.com  .  http://peknet.com/
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mpls-pm mailing list
> Mpls-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/mpls-pm


From matt at omega.org  Wed Nov 14 12:39:40 2007
From: matt at omega.org (Matthew Johnson)
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:39:40 -0600
Subject: [Mpls-pm] Coffee Meeting today? RSVP
Message-ID: <E0B88C12-7444-42A3-A3C4-AB210297FE33@omega.org>

Hi All:

My faithful google calendar has shown me today is the second  
wednesday of the month.  Is anyone up for a meeting?  With no  
technical topics planed we usually meet for coffee and swap stories,  
etc.

We meet at the Espresso Royale in downtown Minneapolis at 7pm.

Please RSVP(reply) to the list as I wont be coming down unless one  
other will be there.


  -Matt Johnson

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From cpj1 at visi.com  Wed Nov 14 12:53:43 2007
From: cpj1 at visi.com (Chris)
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:53:43 -0600
Subject: [Mpls-pm] Stupid peel question
Message-ID: <DBC299A6-5299-49C9-8784-6D1A0D793E6E@visi.com>

Let's say I have a 500mb file, and I want to use IO:File to write data  
to the middle of the file.

I used w+ mode, seeked a position, wrote my string, then seeked to the  
end of the file, but it was still truncated to the end of the last  
write.  My goal was to keep the file size constantly at 500mb.

Is there something I'm missing?  Will I have to resort to reading the  
entire file into memory?

--
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From ttausend at gmail.com  Wed Nov 14 19:55:11 2007
From: ttausend at gmail.com (Troy E. Hove Tausend)
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:55:11 -0600
Subject: [Mpls-pm] Stupid peel question
In-Reply-To: <DBC299A6-5299-49C9-8784-6D1A0D793E6E@visi.com>
References: <DBC299A6-5299-49C9-8784-6D1A0D793E6E@visi.com>
Message-ID: <200711142155.12204.ttausend@gmail.com>

  What you probably want is some variation of mmap.  A search on CPAN revealed 
several modules, mostly geared towards using anonymous mmap for shared 
interprocess memory.   Sys::Mmap looks promising as seems to be the latest 
derived from a predecessor just called Mmap, however the author admits that 
they are winging the XS implementation and it has some issues.

On Wednesday 14 November 2007 02:53 pm, Chris wrote:
> Let's say I have a 500mb file, and I want to use IO:File to write data
> to the middle of the file.
>
> I used w+ mode, seeked a position, wrote my string, then seeked to the
> end of the file, but it was still truncated to the end of the last
> write.  My goal was to keep the file size constantly at 500mb.
>
> Is there something I'm missing?  Will I have to resort to reading the
> entire file into memory?
>
> --
> Chris J
> Sent from my iPhone
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From kenahoo at gmail.com  Fri Nov 16 04:58:23 2007
From: kenahoo at gmail.com (Ken Williams)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:58:23 -0600
Subject: [Mpls-pm] Stupid peel question
In-Reply-To: <DBC299A6-5299-49C9-8784-6D1A0D793E6E@visi.com>
References: <DBC299A6-5299-49C9-8784-6D1A0D793E6E@visi.com>
Message-ID: <0FF5A55A-8BF9-438D-9E6B-2ADCCB5E4E8C@gmail.com>


On Nov 14, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Chris wrote:

> Let's say I have a 500mb file, and I want to use IO:File to write data
> to the middle of the file.
>
> I used w+ mode, seeked a position, wrote my string, then seeked to the
> end of the file, but it was still truncated to the end of the last
> write.  My goal was to keep the file size constantly at 500mb.

It should work fine:

% perl -le 'print "x"x79 for 1..5' > data
% perl -le 'open $fh, "+< data"; seek $fh, 80, 0; print $fh "y"x79'
% cat data
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
xxxxxxx
yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy 
yyyyyyy
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
xxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
xxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
xxxxxxx



> Chris J
> Sent from my iPhone

Is that why it's a "peel" question and not a perl question? =)

  -Ken


From ian at indecorous.com  Tue Nov 20 14:11:36 2007
From: ian at indecorous.com (Ian Malpass)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:11:36 -0600
Subject: [Mpls-pm] [Off-topic] PHP coding needed
Message-ID: <47435B98.8010007@indecorous.com>

[DISCLAIMER: Friends don't let friends code PHP.]

I have a friend who works for a company looking to migrate from an 
Access-based system to a PHP/MySQL webby system. I don't have much in 
the way of details, but if you're a PHPy person who wants some extra 
work, let me know and I can wave you in the right direction.

Ian

From lecar_red at yahoo.com  Thu Nov 29 12:22:02 2007
From: lecar_red at yahoo.com (Lee Carmichael)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:22:02 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Mpls-pm] Fw: Join us for MinneDemo on Dec 6!
Message-ID: <767631.11389.qm@web31402.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

For those interested. These are good events to see what young companies are doing in the cities.

Too bad there aren't any demos from Perl companies. Is anyone doing cool startup stuff in TC anymore? Or is it only in NYC and CA?

Take Care

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From: Luke Francl <look at recursion.org>
To: minnebar at groups.google.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 7:59:51 PM
Subject: Join us for MinneDemo on Dec 6!



MinneDemo, the Twin Cities' most fun tech networking and demo event, is
 
happening Thursday, December 6th. There will be cool demos, free beer,
 and 
good conversation. Please join us!

It's happening at O'Gara's Garage (164 Snelling Ave N, St.Paul).

Drinks and networking at 6:30pm; Demos start at 7:30. To RSVP, go to 
http://minnedemo.org.

Demoing their software this time are:

Zencoder - video transcoding system (Jon Dahl)
Valtira Online Marketing Platform - CMS/Personalization/more  (George
 Reese)
JRuby - the latest from this hot Ruby implementation (Charles Nutter)
Grapheety - A map-based social exploration site. (Gavin Quinn)
NTractive - Small business management hybrid web applicaiton (Dale
 Jensen)

In the spirit of the holiday season, we'll be collecting non-perishable
 
food for Second Harvest food bank. You can help those in need while 
helping yourself to free beer: FOOD DONATIONS = FREE BEER

Bring yourself, get a free drink. Brink a food item, get two free
 drinks. 
Bring two food items, get three drinks. Bring more than two food items,
 
get three drinks. We'll give drink tickets away until they're gone, so 
arrive early!

The drinks come courtesy of our sponsors. They are:

Kinetic Data - http://kineticdata.com
Split Rock Partners - http://splitrock.com
New Counsel - http://newcounsel.com
ipHouse - http://iphouse.com
Electric Pulp - http://electricpulp.com

Thanks and hope to see you there. Please sign up at
 http://minnedemo.org 
to let us know you're coming.

Luke Francl and Dan Grigsby

P.S.: Please forward this message to others you know who would be
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From craig at wavefront.net  Thu Nov 29 13:41:18 2007
From: craig at wavefront.net (Craig S. Wilson)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:41:18 -0600
Subject: [Mpls-pm] Fw: Join us for MinneDemo on Dec 6!
In-Reply-To: <767631.11389.qm@web31402.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <767631.11389.qm@web31402.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <474F31FE.8050505@wavefront.net>

Lee Carmichael wrote:
> For those interested. These are good events to see what young companies are doing in the cities.
> 
> Too bad there aren't any demos from Perl companies. Is anyone doing cool startup stuff in TC anymore? Or is it only in NYC and CA?

At 11 Below, we are one cooler, and a startup (last couple years) so we qualify by default.

We use Perl on the backend of http://caps.fool.com to do all of the scoring, calculations, and database updates.  Lots 
and lots of database updates.  Somewhere in the range of 7,000,000 database updates per hour, during market hours.

We also are working on a new site, that will be hitting private beta RSN.  Again, Perl doing the heavy lifting on the 
backend.

The problems of demonstrating what we do are:

1. the Perl is on the backend. no flash or graphics.
2. we are too busy doing, to tell people what we are doing.

However, if you know of anyone looking to implement a community intelligence site using web services and a large back 
end database, have them give me a call.


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