From japh at cos.agilent.com Mon Jun 3 12:34:11 2002 From: japh at cos.agilent.com (Tim Chambers) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:18:12 2004 Subject: Perl lunch this Thursday Message-ID: <008001c20b24$dfd71c20$80441d82@TC5570P> Mark your calendars now. WHAT: monthly Pikes Peak Perl Mongers lunch WHERE: TBD WHEN: Thursday, 6/6, at 11:30 WHY: food and geekly conversation Any suggestions for where to meet? <>< Tim From pwdrhound at pcisys.net Mon Jun 3 15:15:55 2002 From: pwdrhound at pcisys.net (pwdrhound@pcisys.net) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:18:12 2004 Subject: Perl lunch this Thursday Message-ID: <200206032115.g53LFrKK011661@leo.pcisys.net> > Mark your calendars now. > > WHAT: monthly Pikes Peak Perl Mongers lunch > WHERE: TBD > WHEN: Thursday, 6/6, at 11:30 > WHY: food and geekly conversation I will be unable to attend this month. Greg Walters --------------------------------------------- This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ From japh at cos.agilent.com Tue Jun 4 13:57:05 2002 From: japh at cos.agilent.com (Tim Chambers) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:18:12 2004 Subject: Fw: O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Call for Participation Message-ID: <001e01c20bf9$9f266110$80441d82@TC5570P> Date:Mon, 3 Jun 2002 17:33:06 -0700 (PDT) From:"Marsee Henon" marsee@oreilly.com Subject: O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Call for Participation Hello User Group leaders, Can you pass this information along to your members? O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Call for Participation-- Proposals Due June 14, 2002 O'Reilly & Associates invites the submission of tutorial and session proposals for the first-ever O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference, taking place at the Westin Santa Clara in Santa Clara, CA from September 30 to October 3, 2002. We're looking for proposals that bring state-of-the-art Mac OS X content to programmers, developers, technical staff, and power users from Mac, Java, Web, and open source communities. Topics include migration issues, must-have tools, servers and networking, wireless, Project Builder, Apache, PHP, Perl, Terminal application, databases, languages, Development Frameworks, and iApps. Submitting Proposals Proposals need not be works of art--a thoughtful summary or abstract of the talk you plan to give is sufficient for consideration. We prefer outlines for tutorials. The proposal is what the conference committee uses to select speakers, so give the committee enough information to understand the topic you're covering. Individuals and companies interested in making presentations, giving a tutorial, or participating in panel discussions are invited to submit proposals using this form: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2002/create/e_sess Proposals will be considered in two categories: tutorials and conference presentations (sessions). Important Dates: Proposals Due: June 14, 2002 Speaker Notification: June 20, 2002 For Mac OS X Conference information see: http://conferences.oreilly.com/macosxcon/ Thanks for your help, Marsee From japh at cos.agilent.com Thu Jun 6 11:00:47 2002 From: japh at cos.agilent.com (Tim Chambers) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:18:12 2004 Subject: Perl lunch TODAY (Thursday, 6/6) Message-ID: <000701c20d73$533ad580$80441d82@TC5570P> The replies were underwhelming. So let's just meet at Panda Express. There's not much seating there, but that doesn't seem as if it will be a problem this month. It's tasty, fast, and moderately priced ($5-$8 not including beverage). <>< Tim WHAT: monthly Pikes Peak Perl Mongers lunch WHERE: Panda Express (in the cluster of restaurants on the northwest corner of Garden of the Gods Rd and Centennial) WHEN: TODAY (Thursday, 6/6), at 11:30 WHY: food and geekly conversation From japh at cos.agilent.com Thu Jun 6 14:04:01 2002 From: japh at cos.agilent.com (Tim Chambers) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:18:12 2004 Subject: SUMMARY: first technical PPPM meeting Message-ID: <00ad01c20d8c$ebf093f0$80441d82@TC5570P> Attendees: Tim Chambers, Bob Gattis, Don Johnson Location: Panda Express Don asked us for help solving a memory problem he's having. He uses a system called Information Architecture (IA) to organize documents. It uses a structural DTD in XML to describe document structure. The IA also handles document content. The system converts the XML documents to HTML for access from a web browser. It works alright up to about 10,000 documents. But the process runs out of memory (4Gb) on a collection of 25,000 documents. Don brought his laptop and demonstrated the system to us. It's released under the GPL. He said he'd send it to me for our PPPM Web site. He gave me permission to nag him to get it done. (Don, this is your first nag. :-) # # # You all might not realize it, but we haven't had a "technical" PPPM meeting before today. You might say that Eric Raymond's talk (jointly sponsored by the PPPM and Pikes Peak Linux Users Group) counts, but he didn't talk about Perl. So I'd like to take this opportunity to encourage all members to send me ideas for future meetings. FYI, I talked with Rob Nagler of bivio.net (Boulder), who is on our list. Bivio has a Perl-based Web technology you can check out for yourself at www.bivio.net. He's also currently finishing up work on a new book. (Care to share any details, Rob? I don't want to announce anything specific without your consent.) He and I agreed to touch base again in the fall. I bring this up because I consider Rob's book and Bivio's technology to be fodder for future PPPM meetings, too. <>< Tim From hierophant at pcisys.net Thu Jun 6 14:20:38 2002 From: hierophant at pcisys.net (Keary Suska) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:18:12 2004 Subject: SUMMARY: first technical PPPM meeting In-Reply-To: <00ad01c20d8c$ebf093f0$80441d82@TC5570P> Message-ID: on 6/6/02 1:04 PM, japh@cos.agilent.com purportedly said: > Don brought his laptop and demonstrated the system to us. It's released > under the GPL. He said he'd send it to me for our PPPM Web site. He gave me > permission to nag him to get it done. (Don, this is your first nag. :-) I would definitely be interested in such a thing. It's rather applicable the work I am doing. Sorry I couldn't make the luncheon--it always seems to sneak up on me too fast, and I realize too late that I've missed it :-( Keary Suska Esoteritech, Inc. "Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet" From drj826 at acm.org Thu Jun 6 02:28:06 2002 From: drj826 at acm.org (Don Johnson) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:18:12 2004 Subject: SUMMARY: first technical PPPM meeting References: <00ad01c20d8c$ebf093f0$80441d82@TC5570P> Message-ID: <3CFF0F06.6090503@acm.org> Wow - Fast nag! Once again (my problem in a nutshell) I'm looking for is a way to understand what's in the perl memory heap because on very large publishing projects perl tries to use the memory on all computers in a 50 mile radius :-) I've got a website set up at http://iadev.org/ (short for "Information Architecture Development") that has a little more information about what I've been working on. I'm afraid a lot of the material is somewhat out of date, but given sufficien nagging, I'm sure I could be prodded into updatine it! - Don Tim Chambers wrote: >Attendees: Tim Chambers, Bob Gattis, Don Johnson >Location: Panda Express > >Don asked us for help solving a memory problem he's having. He uses a system >called Information Architecture (IA) to organize documents. It uses a >structural DTD in XML to describe document structure. The IA also handles >document content. The system converts the XML documents to HTML for access >from a web browser. > >It works alright up to about 10,000 documents. But the process runs out of >memory (4Gb) on a collection of 25,000 documents. > >Don brought his laptop and demonstrated the system to us. It's released >under the GPL. He said he'd send it to me for our PPPM Web site. He gave me >permission to nag him to get it done. (Don, this is your first nag. :-) > ># # # > >You all might not realize it, but we haven't had a "technical" PPPM meeting >before today. You might say that Eric Raymond's talk (jointly sponsored by >the PPPM and Pikes Peak Linux Users Group) counts, but he didn't talk about >Perl. > >So I'd like to take this opportunity to encourage all members to send me >ideas for future meetings. > >FYI, I talked with Rob Nagler of bivio.net (Boulder), who is on our list. >Bivio has a Perl-based Web technology you can check out for yourself at >www.bivio.net. He's also currently finishing up work on a new book. (Care to >share any details, Rob? I don't want to announce anything specific without >your consent.) He and I agreed to touch base again in the fall. I bring this >up because I consider Rob's book and Bivio's technology to be fodder for >future PPPM meetings, too. > ><>< Tim > > > > -- Don Johnson drj826@acm.org http://donjohnson.net/ From hierophant at pcisys.net Thu Jun 6 15:42:59 2002 From: hierophant at pcisys.net (Keary Suska) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:18:12 2004 Subject: SUMMARY: first technical PPPM meeting In-Reply-To: <3CFF0F06.6090503@acm.org> Message-ID: on 6/6/02 1:28 AM, drj826@acm.org purportedly said: > Once again (my problem in a nutshell) I'm looking for is a way to > understand what's in the perl memory heap because on very large > publishing projects perl tries to use the memory on all computers in a > 50 mile radius :-) perlguts.pod (and maybe the XS docs) will tell you about Perl internals, and perhaps with a memory mapper you could see what is going on. If you are keeping everything in memory, I imagine that could get pretty big, especially since XML::Parser and the XSLT modules I have heard of keep a lot of redundant and meta- data. Other issues could be circular references, which prevent proper garbage collection. If you are amenable to sending your source code, I wouldn't mind taking a look at it ;-) Keary Suska Esoteritech, Inc. "Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet" From japh at cos.agilent.com Mon Jun 10 13:20:03 2002 From: japh at cos.agilent.com (Tim Chambers) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:18:12 2004 Subject: Fw: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, June 7 Message-ID: <000d01c210ab$71292890$80441d82@TC5570P> From: Marsee Henon Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 19:38:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, June 7 Message-Id: <200206080238.g582cbF20767@smtp.oreilly.com> O'Reilly User Group Program NEWSLETTER May 7, 2002 Hello User Group Leaders, I will be out of the office next week, from June 10-14. 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