From casey at geeknest.com Tue Feb 3 08:48:10 2004 From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:58 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Feb meeting Message-ID: <20040203144810.GB71131@geeknest.com> I've got one talk for this month. Adam Foxson is writing a talk on releasing code to the CPAN and one of us will be giving that talk. If you'd like to talk on anything (even Haskell :-). We're an open group of minds. Casey West -- "As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications." --Dave Parnas From casey at geeknest.com Tue Feb 3 17:11:44 2004 From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:58 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] [jobs-admin@perl.org: [Perl Jobs] Database Programmer (onsite), United States, PA, Pittsburgh] Message-ID: <20040203231144.GD71131@geeknest.com> Just a heads up. ----- Forwarded message from Perl Jobs ----- Date: 3 Feb 2004 21:24:08 -0000 Message-ID: <20040203212408.66740.qmail@onion.perl.org> From: Perl Jobs To: jobs@perl.org Subject: [Perl Jobs] Database Programmer (onsite), United States, PA, Pittsburgh Online URL for this job: http://jobs.perl.org/job/1070 To subscribe to this list, send mail to jobs-subscribe@perl.org. To unsubscribe, send mail to jobs-unsubscribe@perl.org. Posted: February 3, 2004 Job title: Database Programmer Company name: Grant Street Group Internal ID: DataBase Location: United States, PA, Pittsburgh Travel: 0% Terms of employment: Hourly employee Length of employment: 3-6 Months, possible permanent Hours: Full time Onsite: yes Description: Grant Street Group creates and maintains customized Web sites for auctions and other transactions of financial securities and instruments that serve the particular needs of Banks, Broker-Dealers, Financial Advisors, Government Sponsored Enterprises, Institutional Investors, State and Local Governments, and Municipal Lease Originators and Brokers. Grant Street Group is seeking a Database Programmer to work on: - data collection from disparate data feeds and formats - parsing and loading data into various databases - database administration - database performance tuning and optimization This will require strong Perl programming skills, as well as strong database programming and administration skills. Responsibilities will include programming, developing functional specifications, data modeling, documentation, and quality assurance. Required skills: - Minimum three years of Perl programming in a Unix environment. - Expertise in Perl DBI, relational databases, SQL and database administration. - Proficiency with Apache and mod_perl. - Excellent organizational, decision-making, and communication skills. Desired skills: Experience with any of the following is helpful: - Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MySQL - CVS - HTML, JavaScript and CSS - Numerical and financial calculations - Production Web environments - Linux server system administration and troubleshooting URL for more information: https://www.grantstreet.com/ Contact information: Interested applicants should send resumes by email to Careers@GrantStreet.com. EOE ----- End forwarded message ----- Casey West -- "So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" -- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer. From chris at cwinters.com Tue Feb 3 20:25:40 2004 From: chris at cwinters.com (Chris Winters) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:58 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Feb meeting In-Reply-To: <20040203144810.GB71131@geeknest.com> References: <20040203144810.GB71131@geeknest.com> Message-ID: <6CCE5BEF-56B9-11D8-8D4A-000A95DBDB3A@cwinters.com> On Feb 3, 2004, at 9:48 AM, Casey West wrote: > I've got one talk for this month. Adam Foxson is writing a talk on > releasing code to the CPAN and one of us will be giving that talk. If > you'd like to talk on anything (even Haskell :-). We're an open group > of minds. Along the CPAN vein I can talk about mock objects in general -- Test::MockObject plus some general theory -- and DBD::Mock in particular. (It should be on CPAN by next Wednesday, just a few more tests...) Maybe ~20 minutes? Chris -- Chris Winters Creating enterprise-capable snack systems since 1988 From casey at geeknest.com Wed Feb 4 10:18:24 2004 From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:58 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Feb meeting In-Reply-To: <6CCE5BEF-56B9-11D8-8D4A-000A95DBDB3A@cwinters.com> References: <20040203144810.GB71131@geeknest.com> <6CCE5BEF-56B9-11D8-8D4A-000A95DBDB3A@cwinters.com> Message-ID: <20040204161824.GJ71131@geeknest.com> It was Tuesday, February 03, 2004 when Chris Winters took the soap box, saying: : On Feb 3, 2004, at 9:48 AM, Casey West wrote: : >I've got one talk for this month. Adam Foxson is writing a talk on : >releasing code to the CPAN and one of us will be giving that talk. If : >you'd like to talk on anything (even Haskell :-). We're an open group : >of minds. : : Along the CPAN vein I can talk about mock objects in general -- : Test::MockObject plus some general theory -- and DBD::Mock in : particular. (It should be on CPAN by next Wednesday, just a few more : tests...) Maybe ~20 minutes? Tom Moertel is indeed going to talk about Haskell, so that brings us to our limit of two talks. Can I put this on the March (10th) schedule? Casey West -- Good Idea: Having breakfast served to you in bed. Bad Idea: Having tennis balls served to you in bed. From chris at cwinters.com Wed Feb 4 12:30:47 2004 From: chris at cwinters.com (Chris Winters) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:58 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Feb meeting In-Reply-To: <20040204161824.GJ71131@geeknest.com> References: <20040203144810.GB71131@geeknest.com> <6CCE5BEF-56B9-11D8-8D4A-000A95DBDB3A@cwinters.com> <20040204161824.GJ71131@geeknest.com> Message-ID: <40291882-5740-11D8-BDB2-000A95DBDB3A@cwinters.com> On Feb 4, 2004, at 11:18 AM, Casey West wrote: > Tom Moertel is indeed going to talk about Haskell, so that brings us to > our limit of two talks. Can I put this on the March (10th) schedule? Gladly! Chris -- Chris Winters Creating enterprise-capable snack systems since 1988 From casey at geeknest.com Wed Feb 4 23:57:06 2004 From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:58 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Mac User Group Meeting Message-ID: <20040205055706.GE21830@geeknest.com> http://wplug.org:8080/pipermail/wplug/2004-February/009523.html http://www.monroevillelibrary.org/screens/cowmug.html Who knew this existed? I think I'm going to go. Sadly, I'm the same distance from monroeville that pittsburgh is, in the opposite direction. I won't be able to drive anybody. Is anyone interested, and could make it? It could be fun. Plus I'll promote the Perl Mongers. Casey West -- Good Idea: Taking a deep breath before jumping into a swimming pool. Bad Idea: Taking a deep breath after jumping into a swimming pool. From casey at geeknest.com Thu Feb 5 15:25:46 2004 From: casey at geeknest.com (casey@geeknest.com) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:58 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Meeting | 02.11.2004 Message-ID: <20040205212546.6F6531034A@caseywest.com> *Technical Gathering* Two excellent talks. *Location* Agnew Moyer Smith, Inc. 3700 South Water Street Suite 300 http://amsite.com 02.11.2004 19:00 Directions: Directions and other: http://amsite.com/exchange/exchange.html *Talks* *Adam Foxson* Writing CPAN Distributions *Tom Moertel* Haskell for Perl Hackers -- Casey West (via automation) From casey at geeknest.com Fri Feb 6 21:45:36 2004 From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:58 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] ShortestWikiContest Message-ID: <20040207034536.GH51734@geeknest.com> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ShortestWikiContest So, they're looking for solutions in any language. I spent too much time fooling with this, but if you have the desire to golf (in any language), have at it. Here is my current best entry, which is also winning. #!/usr/bin/perl -0777itextarea use CGI':all';$;='$f"),print F$t;sub r{open F,pop;escapeHTML}print header,$e?start_form." <$^I name=t>${\r$e}$i=hidden name=f value=$e>".submit:do{$_="$f".r( $f).p grep r($_)=~$f,<*>;s!{(.+?)}!ul$1!egs;s!http:\S+!a{-href,$&},$&!eg;s![\r ]{4,}!p!eg;s!^@ !
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    $;e=$f>?:$_"} Casey West -- Shooting yourself in the foot with Pascal The compiler won't let you shoot yourself in the foot. From casey at geeknest.com Tue Feb 10 21:17:25 2004 From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:58 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Meeting Tomorrow Message-ID: <20040211031725.GL51734@geeknest.com> Just a reminder. Cool talks on Haskell and making CPAN distributions, and of course, food and drink after the talks. See you there! Casey West -- Shooting yourself in the foot with Perl You stab yourself in the foot repeatedly with an incredibly large and very heavy Swiss Army knife. From casey at geeknest.com Tue Feb 17 12:17:08 2004 From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:58 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Group Wiki Message-ID: <20040217181707.GL31649@geeknest.com> In the interest of being hip and having a place to throw information into, I've setup a wiki for our group. http://pgh.pm.org/cgi-bin/wiki Actually, this was in response to Tom Moertel, who requested it. See, I brought up this idea that maybe we want to branch out from Perl and embrace Software Development on the whole. I think this would enhance the group quite a lot. Since I can't be trusted with timely aggregation of ideas, the wiki can do it for me. I'd really like to hear what you think about making the mongers a sort of sub-group of a larger group. Casey West -- If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside. -- Robert Cringely/InfoWorld From casey at geeknest.com Thu Feb 19 23:34:26 2004 From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:58 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Emergency Dinner Meetup 2004-02-21 Message-ID: <20040220053426.GA90583@geeknest.com> Michael Schwern is in town and wants to be social, I think we can acommidate. Speak up if you'd like to come on Saturday, so we have an idea of who to look for. Thanks! 7:00 PM Original Hot Dog Shop in Oakland 3901 Forbes Ave Pgh, Pa 15213 687-8327 Casey West -- "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895. From afoxson at pobox.com Fri Feb 20 01:03:33 2004 From: afoxson at pobox.com (Adam J.Foxson) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:58 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Emergency Dinner Meetup 2004-02-21 In-Reply-To: <20040220053426.GA90583@geeknest.com> References: <20040220053426.GA90583@geeknest.com> Message-ID: On Feb 20, 2004, at 12:34 AM, Casey West wrote: > Michael Schwern is in town and wants to be social, I think we can > acommidate. Speak up if you'd like to come on Saturday, so we have an > idea of who to look for. Thanks! As some of you might not be aware, Michael Schwern is--among many other things--the pumpking of Perl 1, Perl 5 Porter, Perl 6 Quality Chair, a CPAN contributor/maintainer of 42 distributions (several of which are in the perl core), YAPC/TPC/O'Reilly Open Source Convention presenter, and a reviewer/contributor of several perl books. I, for one, will be there. I wouldn't miss it for the world. Personally, I'd recommend you do the same; He's not often in our neck of the woods. :-) --- Adam J. Foxson From robertblackwell at yahoo.com Fri Feb 20 17:32:56 2004 From: robertblackwell at yahoo.com (robertblackwell) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:58 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Emergency Dinner Meetup 2004-02-21 In-Reply-To: References: <20040220053426.GA90583@geeknest.com> Message-ID: <40369928.3060803@yahoo.com> Adam J.Foxson wrote: > On Feb 20, 2004, at 12:34 AM, Casey West wrote: > >> Michael Schwern is in town and wants to be social, I think we can >> acommidate. Speak up if you'd like to come on Saturday, so we have an >> idea of who to look for. Thanks! > > > As some of you might not be aware, Michael Schwern is--among many > other things--the pumpking of Perl 1, Perl 5 Porter, Perl 6 Quality > Chair, a CPAN contributor/maintainer of 42 distributions (several of > which are in the perl core), YAPC/TPC/O'Reilly Open Source Convention > presenter, and a reviewer/contributor of several perl books. > > I, for one, will be there. I wouldn't miss it for the world. > Personally, I'd recommend you do the same; He's not often in our neck > of the woods. :-) > > --- > Adam J. Foxson > > _______________________________________________ > pgh-pm mailing list > pgh-pm@mail.pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pgh-pm > I will be there. From chris at cwinters.com Sat Feb 21 14:11:34 2004 From: chris at cwinters.com (Chris Winters) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:58 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Emergency Dinner Meetup 2004-02-21 In-Reply-To: <20040220053426.GA90583@geeknest.com> References: <20040220053426.GA90583@geeknest.com> Message-ID: <25976F7B-64AA-11D8-8435-000A95DBDB3A@cwinters.com> On Feb 20, 2004, at 12:34 AM, Casey West wrote: > Michael Schwern is in town and wants to be social, I think we can > acommidate. Speak up if you'd like to come on Saturday, so we have an > idea of who to look for. Thanks! I'd really like to make it tonight but other plans are up. Have fun! Chris -- Chris Winters Creating enterprise-capable snack systems since 1988 From robertblackwell at yahoo.com Mon Feb 23 17:14:47 2004 From: robertblackwell at yahoo.com (robertblackwell) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:58 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] If you liked Tom M's talk ... Message-ID: <403A8967.7000108@yahoo.com> For those at the Feb meeting that saw Tom Moertel's Haskell talk. (and it interested you) You might like to have some fun with this http://search.cpan.org/~lbrocard/Language-Functional-0.03/Functional.pm Robert From robertblackwell at yahoo.com Mon Feb 23 18:20:28 2004 From: robertblackwell at yahoo.com (robertblackwell) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:34:58 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Perl work day? Message-ID: <403A98CC.1090406@yahoo.com> All, I was wondering ... Would anyone be interested in a "perl work day"? I was looking at http://qa.perl.org/phalanx/. It looks there is still much to be done. The http://qa.perl.org/phalanx/status.html list seems short compared to http://qa.perl.org/phalanx/distros.html. Maybe pgh.pm could plan some "perl work day" to get some of these done. Anyone up for it? Robert