From rkleeman at energoncube.net Fri Jan 11 13:48:16 2008 From: rkleeman at energoncube.net (Bob Kleemann) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:48:16 -0800 Subject: [San-Diego-pm] Perl Job Message-ID: <20080111214816.GA21324@energoncube.net> If anybody is interested, contact Christy directly. ----- Forwarded message from "Becker, Christy" ----- Intuit's Systems Performance team is looking for a senior software engineer to join us in improving performance and reliability of our highly available, high volume systems. This is a visible position within our Consumer Tax Group and your efforts will impact the overall performance of our Turbo Tax business! This unique role will perform architectural and design reviews to prevent performance and reliability defects, analyze system requirements, develop test plans and test for load/stability/reliability and availability of our renowned tax processing systems. Responsibilities: * Work closely with software development, quality assurance, project management, product management, system administration and operations to understand systems requirements and develop and execute appropriate performance tests * Design and modify the system to support the expected capacity * Create test plans for clustered DB performance tests and reliability tests in which the test systems will be forced to fail over to and fail back from backup and contingency systems * Develop performance test methodologies that will exercise the application/system with production-like behavior * Analyze behavioral differences between the performance and production environments and make adjustments to close any gaps Qualifications: * BS or MS in Computer Science or related field * Experience in software engineering, performance engineering or quality engineering, recently with highly available large-scale client-server or web-based OLTP applications. * Proficiency with Perl, C, C++, Java, and shell scripting * Requirements, analysis and testing skills for distributed systems with a general understanding of n-tier application and web architecture * Strong understanding of system capacity, performance, reliability, availability and security issues * Strong knowledge of relational databases (Informix, Oracle and/or SQL Server) * Proficiency with Windows Performance Counters and SAR metrics * Knowledge of MS Windows, HPUX, Solaris and Linux Christy Becker | Talent Acquisition | Intuit, Inc. | direct 214.495.0169 | www.intuit.com/WeGetIt Intuit Recognized by FORTUNE(c) Magazine as one of the top companies to work for! ----- End forwarded message ----- From rkleeman at energoncube.net Fri Jan 11 15:48:54 2008 From: rkleeman at energoncube.net (Bob Kleemann) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:48:54 -0800 Subject: [San-Diego-pm] Meeting Monday! Message-ID: <20080111234854.GB21324@energoncube.net> Hey Fellow Mongers, We've got a normal monthly meeting on Monday, January 14. Come on by to the Panera Bread at Mira Mesa Blvd and I-15 around 7PM and we'll chat about this, that, and the other topics on our minds. One of the topics I'd like to discuss is upcoming talks. Whether they are tech talks, presentations, code reviews, or whatever else might be interesting, I'd like to know what people want. Also, while cleaning out the house over the holidays, I found a bunch of unclaimed Perl Mongers T-Shirts. If you ordered one and have not recieved it, let me know and I'll get it to you. Any unclaimed shirts by the end of the February meeting will made available to anybody that didn't get in on the orignal order. From rkleeman at energoncube.net Mon Jan 14 11:43:52 2008 From: rkleeman at energoncube.net (Bob Kleemann) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:43:52 -0800 Subject: [San-Diego-pm] Meeting tonight! Message-ID: <20080114194352.GB18526@energoncube.net> Just a reminder folks, there is our normal monthly meeting tonight. We'll be meeting about 7PM at the Panera Bread on Mira Mesa Blvd by the 15. Come on by with any questions or ideas you'd like to discuss and we'll talk about them. See you all tonight! From chris at chrisgrau.com Tue Jan 15 07:43:38 2008 From: chris at chrisgrau.com (Chris Grau) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:43:38 -0800 Subject: [San-Diego-pm] Jan 14, 2008 Meeting Follow Up Message-ID: <20080115154338.GB15372@chrisgrau.com> Morning, all. At last night's meeting, I promised to follow up with a few topics that may or may not be of any interest to the group. First, SCALE 6x. The Southern California Linux Expo will take place on February 8 - 10 (Fri - Sun) at the Westin Los Angeles Airport. http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/ The good folks at LosAngeles.pm have secured an exhibition booth and have kindly extended us an invitation to share in the excitement. http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/conference-info/exhibitions/Perl-Mongers/ http://tinyurl.com/257w2j I'm told we'll be exhibiting Misterhouse, a home automation system written in Perl, as well as a simple application demonstrating Parrot interfacing with SDL. http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net Also, just when you thought it couldn't get any better, attending SCALE will only cost half of what you thought it would. Use the promotional code "PMONG" to receive a 50% discount on registration. The schedule of sessions looks exciting (at least for Linux geeks such as myself), so I hope to see some of you there. Second, the Kernel-Panic Linux Programming Study Group (LPSG) has just started an informal study session. They will be working their way through MIT's popular course, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. MIT describes the course thusly, This course introduces students to the principles of computation. Upon completion of 6.001, students should be able to explain and apply the basic methods from programming languages to analyze computational systems, and to generate computational solutions to abstract problems. Substantial weekly programming assignments are an integral part of the course. This course is worth 4 Engineering Design Points. The course is taught with Scheme, but functional programming is in the blood of some Perl Mongers, so I'm sure there will be opportunities to subversively slip sigil-laden software into the discussion. http://www.kernel-panic.org/pipermail/kplug-lpsg/2008-January/007586.html http://tinyurl.com/3aqsn9 Finally, our February meeting is tentatively scheduled for the Qualcomm auditorium. We hope to have a presentation in February. Always exciting to have one of those. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks, Brian (elspicyjack at gmail dot com) Partial list of talking points for February's PM meeting: - GTK - TK - wx[Windows|GTK|Carbon] - ncurses - Win32::GUI