From casey at geeknest.com Fri Aug 1 12:08:37 2003 From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:57 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] August Meeting Message-ID: <20030801170837.GJ20565@geeknest.com> We need talks! Haven't given one before? Give one now! It's easy, it can be 15 minutes, it can be 5! Let me know if you'd like to speak. Otherwise, you get me ranting about something tha I find interesting. ;-) Casey West -- Shooting yourself in the foot with VM/CMS IBM shoots you in the foot. From chris at cwinters.com Mon Aug 4 11:38:18 2003 From: chris at cwinters.com (Chris Winters) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:57 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] I'm giving a talk? In-Reply-To: <20030731224421.GA13705@birthday.local.> References: <20030731224421.GA13705@birthday.local.> Message-ID: <3F2E8BFA.1040506@cwinters.com> David Hand wrote: > ... > And you (yes, you!) can choose what it's on! (erm, "...on what it is!") > > Here are your choices: > > 1. Parsing JavaScript with JavaScript::Parser (Risky) >... > 2. Dr. Weakref >... > 3. Writing extentions for Regexp::Common >... FWIW I vote for 2 and 3. Especially if 'Dr. Weakref' is performed to the tune of the Motley Crue 'Dr. Feelgood' :-) Chris -- Chris Winters (chris@cwinters.com) Building enterprise-capable snack solutions since 1988. From afoxson at pobox.com Mon Aug 4 11:51:12 2003 From: afoxson at pobox.com (Adam Foxson) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:57 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] I'm giving a talk? In-Reply-To: <3F2E8BFA.1040506@cwinters.com> References: <20030731224421.GA13705@birthday.local.> <3F2E8BFA.1040506@cwinters.com> Message-ID: <20030804165112.GA6739@magnonel.guild.net> On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:38:18PM -0400, Chris Winters wrote: > And you (yes, you!) can choose what it's on! (erm, "...on what it is!") Personally, I put my vote in for you doing a talk entitled: "Extending CGI::FormBuilder to support HTML::Mason" *grin* -- Adam J. Foxson From davidhand at davidhand.com Mon Aug 4 22:41:37 2003 From: davidhand at davidhand.com (David Hand) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:57 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] I'm giving a talk? In-Reply-To: <20030731224421.GA13705@birthday.local.> References: <20030731224421.GA13705@birthday.local.> Message-ID: <20030805034137.GA4044@birthday.local.> On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:44:21PM -0400, David Hand wrote: > 1. Parsing JavaScript with JavaScript::Parser (Risky) > 2. Dr. Weakref > -- or -- > How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Circular Referneces > 3. Writing extentions for Regexp::Common Right! So! There was one vote for #2, one for #3, and Casey added a second vote to #3, so #2 and #3 it is. Fun! -- David "cogent" Hand From davidhand at davidhand.com Mon Aug 4 23:25:06 2003 From: davidhand at davidhand.com (David Hand) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:57 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] I'm giving a talk? In-Reply-To: <3F2E8BFA.1040506@cwinters.com> References: <20030731224421.GA13705@birthday.local.> <3F2E8BFA.1040506@cwinters.com> Message-ID: <20030805042506.GA4097@birthday.local.> On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:38:18PM -0400, Chris Winters wrote: > FWIW I vote for 2 and 3. Especially if 'Dr. Weakref' is performed to > the tune of the Motley Crue 'Dr. Feelgood' :-) Aaaugh! No! Mein Fuerer! I can walk! -- David "cogent" Hand From casey at geeknest.com Wed Aug 6 13:35:26 2003 From: casey at geeknest.com (casey@geeknest.com) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:57 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Meeting | 08.13.2003 Message-ID: <20030806183526.96AB310186@caseywest.com> *Technical Gathering* Several talks are scheduled for this technical meeting. After the talks we will depart for food. *Location* Agnew Moyer Smith, Inc. 3700 South Water Street Suite 300 http://amsite.com 08.13.2003 19:00 Directions: Directions and other: http://amsite.com/exchange/exchange.html *Talks* *Regexp::Common* by David Hand 30 Minutes Extending Regexp::Common by building regular expression collections. *My CPAN Toolkit* by Casey West 30 Minutes What I use to get 80% of my jobs done. *Dr. Weakref* by David Hand 15 Minutes How I learned to love circular references. *PSA: What to expect from 5.8.1* 5 Minutes Changes introduced in 5.8.1 are outlined. -- Casey West (via automation) From casey at geeknest.com Wed Aug 6 16:01:52 2003 From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:57 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] [info@pghgeeks.org: Geek Night 30: Thurs. 8/14 at Valhalla!] Message-ID: <20030806210152.GS14073@geeknest.com> I'm currently planning to attend this, for the purposes of whoring the Pittsburgh Perl Mongers, of course! I would gladly accept companions. ----- Forwarded message from Info and Announcement for PGH Geeks ----- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 15:34:03 -0400 Message-ID: <000f01c35c52$9be64920$bd011bac@CKLaptop> From: "Info and Announcement for PGH Geeks" Organization: Pittsburgh Geeks To: "Info and Announcement for PGH Geeks" Cc: "Info and Announcement for PGH Geeks" Subject: Geek Night 30: Thurs. 8/14 at Valhalla! Geek Night 30 will be Thursday, August 14 at Valhalla. Note the change in place and date! We've had a fun hiatus here at Geek Night World Headquarters. We sang songs, climbed mountains, cured diseases, and opened new frontiers. We saved the manatees. We laughed, we cried, we became better people. Well, technically, we just wrote a lot of code and watched Daily Show reruns. But all that other stuff is what's going on our resumes. Now we're bored with the hiatus thing, but the Foundry, unfortunately, is closed indefinitely. Therefore, we're pleased to announce that Geek Night is moving to Valhalla. Geek Night is a highly informal gathering of people in the Pittsburgh high-tech industry. There's no dress code, and no cover charge. Show up anytime after 5:00pm, and leave when you feel like it. For August ONLY, Geek Night will be on the second Thursday, which is August 14. Warn your fellow geeks! After this, we'll back on our regular schedule of the first Thursday of every other month. Valhalla is located in the Strip District at 1150 Smallman St., between the Convention Center and the History Center. It'll cost you $3.00 to park for the evening in the big parking lot on Smallman St., but there's a limited amount of street parking available. We'll have the entire upstairs. Smoking will be outside ONLY, but that includes the comfy upstairs balcony. If you plan on coming, please send email to rsvp@pghgeeks.org so we can maintain a reasonably accurate headcount. Please mention how many heads you're bringing, who told you about us, and your preferred email address if you would like to be added to the Geek Night mailing list. -- Geek Night is brought to you by Chris Keslar, Sam Robb, Vanessa Fine, and Christina Schulman http://www.pghgeeks.org ----- End forwarded message ----- Casey West -- "Bite the wax tadpole." --Coca-Cola as originally translated into Chinese From casey at geeknest.com Thu Aug 7 09:41:56 2003 From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:57 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Pittsburgh.pm Library Revealed in August Message-ID: <20030807144156.GA39371@geeknest.com> The Pittsburgh Perl Mongers Library will be Revealed at the August meeting. As with any good library, books may be borrowed and returned at the subsequent meeting. This library is currently being funded by the good folks at O'Reilly. Come to the next meeting to get your chance at taking home a good book. Casey West -- "Eat a live toad first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day" --Unknown From pgunn at dachte.org Wed Aug 13 09:51:34 2003 From: pgunn at dachte.org (Pat Gunn) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:57 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Carpool? Message-ID: <200308131451.h7DEpYSp020282@dachte.org> Hey all, For tonight's mtg, I live in Squirrel Hill, and any of you who live nearby who'd like a ride are welcome. --- Pat Gunn mod: csna, bmcm, bmco, cooa, cona, clpd comod: coom http://dachte.org "Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box." --Italian Proverb From casey at geeknest.com Fri Aug 15 12:51:22 2003 From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:57 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] September Social Meeting Options Message-ID: <20030815175122.GM47440@geeknest.com> There have been requests for two social meetings in particular: A) Pittsburgh Pirates Game B) Paintball Both of these options will cost money. The Paintball will be more expensive than the game. Please tell me what you would like to do. If you don't like any of these options and have a better idea, please tell me that too. If I hear nothing, I'll assume the listed options are no good and choose something else. Casey West -- The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it. From david at hewettfamily.org Fri Aug 15 12:56:37 2003 From: david at hewettfamily.org (David Hewett) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:58 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] September Social Meeting Options In-Reply-To: <20030815175122.GM47440@geeknest.com> Message-ID: On Friday, August 15, 2003, at 01:51 PM, Casey West wrote: > There have been requests for two social meetings in particular: > > A) Pittsburgh Pirates Game > > B) Paintball I put my vote in for Paintball... Here is the web site for everyone reference of the place near me. http://www.trpaintball.com/ David (hewtec) Hewett From casey at geeknest.com Wed Aug 20 10:38:42 2003 From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:58 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Turn anything into a JAPH Message-ID: <20030820153842.GY47440@geeknest.com> Yesterday I was asked if my girl can write JAPHs yet. I responded, sadly, but admitting she can only manage wild slapping of the keyboard. Then I thought, "Hey, those could be JAPHs too!" http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Acme::JAPH Last night my girl wrote her first JAPH, at 1.5 years old. :-) Casey West -- Shooting yourself in the foot with Minix You learn how to shoot yourself in the foot with a Saturday Night Special. From casey at geeknest.com Fri Aug 22 10:04:41 2003 From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:58 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] YAPC 2004 in Buffalo Message-ID: <20030822150441.GB79105@geeknest.com> http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1457214&mode=thread&tid=25 Just a 3.5 hour drive, I should see *all* of you there. :-) Casey West -- Shooting yourself in the foot with Fortran You shoot yourself in each toe, iteratively, until you run out of toes; then you shoot the sixth bullet anyway since no exception processing was anticipated. From casey at geeknest.com Tue Aug 26 13:12:13 2003 From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:58 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Meeting | 09.02.2003 Message-ID: <20030826181213.GQ79105@geeknest.com> http://pgh.pm.org/m/20030902.html *Bricolage by David Wheeler* David Wheeler, author of the highly acclaimed CMS application Bricolage, presents for the Pittsburgh Perl Mongers. *Location* Agnew Moyer Smith, Inc. 3700 South Water Street Suite 300 http://amsite.com 09.02.2003 10:00 Directions and Other Information: http://amsite.com/exchange/exchange.html *Sponsors* David Wheeler and the Pittsburgh Perl Mongers would like to thank our sponsors for this event. *Agnew Moyer Smith* http://amsite.com AMS is hosting the event at their office on the South Side. *pair Networks* http://pair.com pair is supplying us with catered food. *Abstract* Content management is a huge issue for organizations of all sizes, addressed by products ranging from simple in-house solutions to multi-million dollar commercial applications. Bricolage, an enterprise-class open-source content management system powered by Apache/mod_perl and PostgreSQL, aims to bridge the gap between these extremes by offering an intuitive interface with powerful capabilities. This presentation offers a practical introduction to Bricolage. As an open-source product with commercial-class features such as document type definition, granular access control, flexible templating, and platform-independent content distribution, Bricolage enables a deep and comprehensive organizational content management workflow. Following a brief review of its history, we'll focus on the essentials needed to start using Bricolage. The topics covered include: * Foundation and Architecture (yes, it's 100% Perl). * Document type analysis. * Document type modeling. * Templating Architecture and fundamentals. * Mason template development. * Document Editing. Bricolage has gained wide adoption from organizations as diverse as the World Health Organization, The Register, and Macworld Magazine. Its power and ease of use led to its being named "Most Impressive" of 2002 by eWeek. Join Bricolage maintainer and lead developer David Wheeler to learn what the fuss is about, and to discover how to put Bricolage to work in your organization. *About Bricolage* Bricolage is a full-featured, enterprise-class content management and publishing system. It offers a browser-based interface for ease-of use, a full-fledged templating system with complete HTML::Mason and HTML::Template support for flexibility, and many other features. It operates in an Apache/mod_perl environment, and uses the PostgreSQL RDBMS for its repository. A comprehensive, actively-developed open source CMS, Bricolage has been hailed as "Most Impressive" in 2002 by eWeek. Learn more about Bricolage and download it from the Bricolage home page, http://bricolage.cc/. *About Pittsburgh Perl Mongers* Pittsburgh.pm is just a small part of the Perl Mongers organization. We hold informal gatherings from time to time to discuss Perl and other interesting, geeky stuff. We encorage people from all walks of life to attend. You don't have to be an expert and there will be no ritualistic COBOL programming at any time (unless it relates to Perl). For more information please see our website, http://pgh.pm.org. Casey West -- "Everything that can be invented has been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899. From chris at cwinters.com Tue Aug 26 13:08:51 2003 From: chris at cwinters.com (Chris Winters) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:58 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Meeting | 09.02.2003 In-Reply-To: <20030826181213.GQ79105@geeknest.com> References: <20030826181213.GQ79105@geeknest.com> Message-ID: <3F4BA233.8020409@cwinters.com> Casey West wrote: > ... > David Wheeler, author of the highly acclaimed CMS application Bricolage, > presents for the Pittsburgh Perl Mongers. > > *Location* > > Agnew Moyer Smith, Inc. 3700 South Water Street Suite 300 > http://amsite.com > 09.02.2003 > 10:00 I think that should be '19:00' -- 10 is early, even for Perl :-) Chris -- Chris Winters (chris@cwinters.com) Building enterprise-capable snack solutions since 1988. From casey at geeknest.com Tue Aug 26 13:30:52 2003 From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:58 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Meeting | 09.02.2003 In-Reply-To: <3F4BA233.8020409@cwinters.com> References: <20030826181213.GQ79105@geeknest.com> <3F4BA233.8020409@cwinters.com> Message-ID: <20030826183052.GU79105@geeknest.com> It was Tuesday, August 26, 2003 when Chris Winters took the soap box, saying: : Casey West wrote: : > ... : >David Wheeler, author of the highly acclaimed CMS application Bricolage, : >presents for the Pittsburgh Perl Mongers. : > : >*Location* : > : > Agnew Moyer Smith, Inc. 3700 South Water Street Suite 300 : > http://amsite.com : > 09.02.2003 : > 10:00 : : I think that should be '19:00' -- 10 is early, even for Perl :-) Yes, yes it should. :-/ Casey West -- Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three hours of usenet.