From cba at groundworkopensource.com Thu Aug 2 13:43:13 2007 From: cba at groundworkopensource.com (Chris Barton Anderson) Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:43:13 -0700 Subject: [oak perl] BayLISA Monitoring SIG: Extra-Special LinuxWorld Activities: Tues August 7 and Weds August 8 Message-ID: <1186087393.9486.19.camel@peterX20> Hi: The BayLISA Monitoring SIG is proud to offer this fantastic lineup of people and activities in conjunction with LinuxWorld Expo next week: These activities are centered around the visits of these illustrious Project Leads: Alex Russell ? Dojo, http://dojotoolkit.org/ Ethan Galstad ? Nagios, http://www.nagios.org/ Howard Jones ? php-Weathermap, http://www.network-weathermap.com/ Ian Berry ? Cacti, http://www.cacti.net/ (and the rest of the Cacti Development Team) Matt Massie ? Ganglia, http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/ Remo Rickli ? NeDi, http://nedi.sourceforge.net/ Scott Parris ? Monarch, http://sourceforge.net/projects/monarch/ Taylor Dondich ? Fruity, http://fruity.sourceforge.net/ Tobi Oetiker - RRDtool, MRTG, and Smokeping, http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/ Register for a free exhibits pass in advance (to avoid long lines) at: http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/ (Use GroundWork's Priority Code N0170 to see if that gets you anything extra.) ================================================================== The activities are: 1) "Ask the Expert" presentations Tuesday and Wednesday 2) IT Monitoring BoF Tuesday, Aug 7, 6PM Here are details of the events: ================================================================== 1) "Ask the Expert" presentations Here's your chance to learn about your favorite tools direct from the project leads, and to ask them questions one-on-one about their projects. Tuesday and Wednesday, August 7, 8: "Ask the Expert" Q&A presentations at booth 501 in Exhibits Hall. Tentative schedule: Tuesday, August 7: 11-Noon Remo Rickli - NeDi 1-2 Taylor Dondich - Fruity 2-3 Tobi Oetiker - RRDtool, MRTG, Smokeping 3-4 Ian Berry - Cacti 4-5 Howard Jones - php-Weathermap Wednesday, August 8: 11-Noon Alex Russell - Dojo Toolkit 1-2 Scott Parris - Monarch 2-3 Ethan Galstad - Nagios 3-4 Remo Rickli - NeDi 4-5 Tobi Oetiker - RRDtool, MRTG, Smokeping ================================================================== 2) IT Monitoring BoF Tuesday, 6PM (BOF5) BOF5: IT Monitoring Tips and Tricks 08/07/2007, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM A freeform Q&A session where you can take advantage of the assembled wisdom to tackle your thorniest (or most basic) monitoring issues. Featuring the project leads for Ganglia, Cacti, RRDtool, MRTG, NeDi, Sendpage and Smokeping. Also on hand: members of the SF-Bay Area- local BayLISA Monitoring SIG, which has been meeting regularly to develop, document, and disseminate best practices with regards to IT monitoring. http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO07A/conference/tracksessions//QMONYB001HW5 ================================================================== Questions? Email Peter Mui, pmui at groundworkopensource.com Hope to see you (multiple times) next week! From george at metaart.org Fri Aug 10 22:07:48 2007 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:07:48 -0700 Subject: [oak perl] Review Completed: Beautiful Web Design Message-ID: <200708102207.48120.george@metaart.org> link to review: http://www.metaart.org/opug/reviews/sitepoint_design1.html Hi All, On our site, there's a review of "The Principles of Beautiful Web Design" (published by Sitepoint). Comments and corrections would be most appreciated. Skoal, George From george at metaart.org Wed Aug 15 18:53:54 2007 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:53:54 -0700 Subject: [oak perl] Next Meeting - date: Sat. Sep. 8; time: 1pm-3pm Message-ID: <200708151853.54913.george@metaart.org> hi all, since we don't [currently] meet each month, this is an early reminder for our next meeting. cutting and pasting from our home page: September technical meeting date: Sat. 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Until next time-- Marsee Henon ================================================================ O'Reilly 1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA 95472 http://ug.oreilly.com/ http://ug.oreilly.com/creativemedia/ ================================================================ ------------------------------------------------------- From george at metaart.org Sun Aug 26 14:01:21 2007 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:01:21 -0700 Subject: [oak perl] Review of Ruby Pocket Reference Message-ID: <200708261401.21961.george@metaart.org> hi all, there's a review of 'ruby pocket reference' on our site at: http://www.metaart.org/opug/reviews/rubypr.html should you wish to take a look at it. if you have comments or corrections, great. - george From skolupae at sonic.net Mon Aug 27 00:58:23 2007 From: skolupae at sonic.net (Steve K) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:58:23 -0700 Subject: [oak perl] Review of Ruby Pocket Reference In-Reply-To: <200708261401.21961.george@metaart.org> References: <200708261401.21961.george@metaart.org> Message-ID: <1188201503.5474.16.camel@claire.clearday.com> On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 14:01 -0700, George Woolley wrote: > hi all, > there's a review of 'ruby pocket reference' > on our site at: http://www.metaart.org/opug/reviews/rubypr.html > should you wish to take a look at it. > > if you have comments or corrections, > great. > - george > > _______________________________________________ > Oakland mailing list > Oakland at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/oakland > George, A couple of small comments about your review. And I am in no way competent to criticize reviews, never having sold any. Perhaps my thoughts echo some you have already considered. a) I know a good bit of Ruby, but not all. When I want a good reference,I get the 1st edition of the Pickaxe book. The 2nd edition (Thomas, Fowler, Hunt) lacks the tightness of the first edition (Thomas & Hunt). b) Did the pocket reference explain Ruby Iterators? That was the single feature which sold me on Ruby, as soon as I began to understand it. The Pickaxes did a poor job on them, and they are very important. c) Did the pocket reference resolve the question of how to test files? Ie: is this a file or a directory. What is its permission and filedate. The early pickaxe made it foggily clear there were several ways to do these tests, but offered little guidance on which methods to use. Neither Pickaxe has done that adequately, in my opinion. Steve K PS: I'm thinking about making Moose my favorite Perl module. It implements perl objects with a clean new syntax that hides the instance hashes and reference/dereference fog generators. Hard as heck to get it installed, but very pleasing one you get it in. Steve Kolupaev From george at metaart.org Mon Aug 27 17:14:24 2007 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:14:24 -0700 Subject: [oak perl] Review of Ruby Pocket Reference In-Reply-To: <1188201503.5474.16.camel@claire.clearday.com> References: <200708261401.21961.george@metaart.org> <1188201503.5474.16.camel@claire.clearday.com> Message-ID: <200708271714.24289.george@metaart.org> On Monday 27 August 2007 00:58, Steve K wrote: > On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 14:01 -0700, George Woolley wrote: > > hi all, > > there's a review of 'ruby pocket reference' > > on our site at: http://www.metaart.org/opug/reviews/rubypr.html > > should you wish to take a look at it. > > > > if you have comments or corrections, > > great. > > - george > > ================================== > George, > > A couple of small comments about your review. And I am in no way > competent to criticize reviews, never having sold any. Perhaps my > thoughts echo some you have already considered. > > a) I know a good bit of Ruby, but not all. When I want a good > reference,I get the 1st edition of the Pickaxe book. The 2nd edition > (Thomas, Fowler, Hunt) lacks the tightness of the first edition (Thomas > & Hunt). > > b) Did the pocket reference explain Ruby Iterators? That was the > single feature which sold me on Ruby, as soon as I began to understand > it. > The Pickaxes did a poor job on them, and they are very important. > > c) Did the pocket reference resolve the question of how to test files? > Ie: is this a file or a directory. What is its permission and filedate. > The early pickaxe made it foggily clear there were several ways to do > these tests, but offered little guidance on which methods to use. > Neither Pickaxe has done that adequately, in my opinion. > > Steve K > > > PS: I'm thinking about making Moose my favorite Perl module. It > implements perl objects with a clean new syntax that hides the instance > hashes and reference/dereference fog generators. Hard as heck to get > it installed, but very pleasing one you get it in. > > Steve Kolupaev ================================= hi steve, thanks for the comments and for explicitly marking them a), b) and c). i'll respond with the same markings. a) if someone wants a longer reference, i suggest seriously considering the pickaxe book. if anyone doesn't find language pocket references useful, i'd not get the ruby pocket reference. b) re the matter brought up in this point, the ruby pocket reference contains: * a general description of each in the glossary. * a number of descriptions of each type methods in the various method lists * descriptions of many other methods that might be viewed as iterators. does the pocket reference explain iterators? not as i'd expect a pocket guide, a tutorial or a full reference to. c) there is a subsection on file inquiries. it explains wiith examples the tests you mention plus some others. - george p.s. i hope to hear more about moose at the september meeting. p.p.s. i thought what you said about the pickaxe books was quite interesting. is there any chance you'd write a review of the first edition? <<< From george at metaart.org Tue Aug 28 19:19:58 2007 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:19:58 -0700 Subject: [oak perl] Fwd: [conspire] RMS Bay area speaking engagements, Sept 6-13 Message-ID: <200708281919.58536.george@metaart.org> ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [conspire] RMS Bay area speaking engagements, Sept 6-13 Date: Tuesday 28 August 2007 14:36 From: "Steve Bibayoff" To: conspire at linuxmafia.com Hello, Just giving everyone a heads that Richard Stallman of Free Software fame will be coming to the bay are next week and giving various talks/speeches around the area. All of his talks are open to the public (and they are encouraged to attend), slight exception is when he is speaking at Berkley on Wed, Sept 12, you must RSVP(I believe it's a room space situation). All info below(I'm not positive about the times, I'll update if they change). Thursday, Sept 6 noon-12:45pm @ Sonoma State University, Darwin Hall, room 102. Titled "The Free Software Movement". More info: http://www.fsf.org/events/ssu20070906/view Monday, Sept 10 12:30-2:30pm @ Stanford University, 559 Nathan Abbott Way(I believe this is the Crown Quadrangle), room 208A. Titled "GPLv3". Info: http://www.fsf.org/events/stanford20070910/view Tuesday, Sept 11 3:00-5:00pm @ San Jose State University, Student Union Building (One Washington Square, San Jose, CA), "Umunhum Room", Floor 2. Titled "The Free Software Movement". Info: http://www.fsf.org/events/sjsu20070911/view ****This event at Berkley is strongly requested that you RSVP**** Wednesday, Sept 12 4:00-5:00pm @ UC Berkeley School of Information, South Hall, Room 110, Berkeley, CA 94720. Titled "Copyright vs. Community". Info: http://www.fsf.org/events/berkeleyischool20070912/view The following event are on Thursday in San Francisco, but details haven't been finalized yet. Thursday, Sept 13 12:20-1:20pm @ University of San Francisco, Harney Science Center, Kudlick Classroom (Room 235). Subject of talk is still pending. More info: http://www.fsf.org/events/usfca20070913/view Thursday, Sept 13 5:30-7:00pm @ San Francisco State University. More precise location details will be forthcoming. Talk titled "Copyright vs. Community" and more info: http://www.fsf.org/events/sfsu20070913/view I repost this info again closer to the dates. Hopefully w/ all the details filled in. Any questions, please forwarded them to either RMS assistant Jeanne, rms-assist at gnu.org, or me (Steve Bibayoff) bibayoff at gmail.com. Please forward this announcement to anybody/group who may be interested. Thank You, Steve ps. Richard may need a ride up to Sonoma from the Bay. I don't have the exact details yet, but if anyone interested who could help, please shoot me(or Jeanne, rms-assist at gnu.org) an email. TIA. _______________________________________________ conspire mailing list conspire at linuxmafia.com http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire -------------------------------------------------------