From tim at consultix-inc.com Fri Dec 8 11:09:53 2006 From: tim at consultix-inc.com (Tim Maher) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 11:09:53 -0800 Subject: SPUG: Reviews of Minimal Perl: Summaries & Solicitations Message-ID: <20061208190953.GA17570@jumpy.consultix-inc.com> SPUGsters, As you may have heard by now, my "Minimal Perl" book is currently available from all major book sellers. What you might /not/ know is that reviewers are saying nice things about it too! So, to help you make informed gift-purchasing decisions during this holiday season :-), I've collected together summarizes of the book's reviews below. Of course, these reviewers only represent a small portion of the vast JAPHly population, so if you would like to write your own review, we'd be delighted to have you do so. And if you're reasonably well known in the UNIX, Linux, or Perl community--or affiliated with a web site that is--the publisher (contact: oldi at manning.com) may help you out by sending you a free copy of the book. Best wishes, -Tim Maher ************************************************************************ Reviews of Minimal Perl: for UNIX and Linux People by Tim Maher author at MinimalPerl.com http://MinimalPerl.com http://manning.com/maher >From the book's back cover: Damian Conway, Author of Object Oriented Perl: * You could have chosen no better primer than this book. Dan Sanderson, Software Developer, Amazon.com: * No-nonsense and practical, yet with wit and charm. A joy to read. Jon Allen, Maintainer, perldoc.perl.org: * Brilliant, never tedious--highly recommended! >From Amazon.com Jeremy Mates, Programmer/Analyst, Amazon.com * Great Unix Data Wrangling Cookbook and Reference * I consider myself adept on the Unix command line, though I learned several new commands and best practices from this text. * Recommended to those who do, or want to, spend time wrangling data on Unix. * may obviate the need for 'Learning Perl' or a similar introductory Perl text. William Julien, HPC UNIX Performance Analyst, at a Fortune 100 Company * Perl is a powerful language. [but] It provides little guidance on how the programmer can effectively make well-written programs. The goal of the book is to teach an effective programming approach. * clear and concise writing style * the book leverages on the reader's capabilities * Minimal Perl provides survival skills that one needs to meet office deadlines as well as techniques to improve even the most experienced Perl programmer >From The Perl Review, December, 2006 Peter Scott, author of Perl Medic * Minimal Perl shows how to construct numerous useful programs without even having to open an editor; it's the ultimate homage to the one-liner. * unique value: listing useful clusters of options so you don't have to learn the rules of how they should be ordered. * If you want to know about Perl's paragraph mode, this is the place to come. * items I found of special value: + Coverage of the author's Shell::POSIX::Select [a Perl implementation of the POSIX shell's select loop]; + advice to put the main program in a naked block of its own; + using -i.$SECONDS on the command line to avoid clobbering your only backup. * That last example is one of many in this book of a synergy between Perl and the shell that you will not find elsewhere. * Bottom line: + shell veterans will find an easy bridge to Perl that speaks to them in their own language; + shell neophytes will find a tour de force road map for getting useful stuff done. *-------------------------------------------------------------------* | Tim Maher, PhD (206) 781-UNIX (866) DOC-PERL (866) DOC-UNIX | | tim at ( Consultix-Inc, TeachMePerl, or TeachMeUnix ) dot Com | *-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-* | Seattle Classes; 12/11 Shell Prog. 12/14: UNIX/Linux Utilities | | * Download free chapters from my new book at MinimalPerl.com * | *-------------------------------------------------------------------* From sbaylis at gmail.com Fri Dec 15 13:53:26 2006 From: sbaylis at gmail.com (Steve Baylis) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:53:26 -0800 Subject: SPUG: December Meeting Message-ID: Unfortunately, you should all get this message a *lot*. Colin can't post due to power outages. Tried to register a new account and got moderator blocked. I tried to send it for him from my work address which is apparently moderator blocked. I'm pretty sure this address is good to go. So, with hopefully no further ado, please see the message below from Colin. ---- This coming Tuesday (12/19) is the scheduled date for our regular monthly meeting. There is no speaker arranged for this month's meeting. Instead, like last month, we can have a get together for chats and hacks. Please respond if you will attend a meeting next Tuesday. If at least three other people will attend, then I will host the meeting (at Whitepages, like usual). -Colin. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/spug-list/attachments/20061215/301f624e/attachment.html From sbaylis at whitepages.com Fri Dec 15 13:50:57 2006 From: sbaylis at whitepages.com (Steve Baylis) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:50:57 -0800 Subject: SPUG: December meeting Message-ID: <33B47F69A0CC444CA074864F04A3E1361E98C1@mail.corp.w3data.com> This coming Tuesday (12/19) is the scheduled date for our regular monthly meeting. There is no speaker arranged for this month's meeting. Instead, like last month, we can have a get together for chats and hacks. Please respond if you will attend a meeting next Tuesday. If at least three other people will attend, then I will host the meeting (at Whitepages, like usual). -Colin. ( via Steve since power outages prevent Colin from posting to the list. ) The information contained in this message may be privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure. 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From tim at consultix-inc.com Fri Dec 15 19:38:54 2006 From: tim at consultix-inc.com (Tim Maher) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:38:54 -0800 Subject: SPUG: December Meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20061216033854.GA26705@jumpy.consultix-inc.com> I plan to be there--disastrous weather permitting! 8-} -Tim *-------------------------------------------------------------------* | Tim Maher, PhD (206) 781-UNIX (866) DOC-PERL (866) DOC-UNIX | | tim at ( Consultix-Inc, TeachMePerl, or TeachMeUnix ) dot Com | *-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-* | Seattle Classes; 12/11 Shell Prog. 12/14: UNIX/Linux Utilities | | * Download free chapters from my new book at MinimalPerl.com * | *-------------------------------------------------------------------* On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 01:53:26PM -0800, Steve Baylis wrote: > Unfortunately, you should all get this message a *lot*. Colin can't post > due to power outages. Tried to register a new account and got moderator > blocked. I tried to send it for him from my work address which is > apparently moderator blocked. I'm pretty sure this address is good to go. > So, with hopefully no further ado, please see the message below from Colin. > > ---- > > This coming Tuesday (12/19) is the scheduled date for our regular monthly > meeting. > > There is no speaker arranged for this month's meeting. Instead, like last > month, we can have a get together for chats and hacks. > > Please respond if you will attend a meeting next Tuesday. If at least three > other people will attend, then I will host the meeting (at Whitepages, like > usual). > > -Colin. > _____________________________________________________________ > Seattle Perl Users Group Mailing List > POST TO: spug-list at pm.org > SUBSCRIPTION: http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/spug-list > MEETINGS: 3rd Tuesdays > WEB PAGE: http://seattleperl.org/ From ppcook at gmail.com Fri Dec 15 22:31:47 2006 From: ppcook at gmail.com (Paul Cook) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:31:47 -0800 Subject: SPUG: December Meeting In-Reply-To: <20061216033854.GA26705@jumpy.consultix-inc.com> References: <20061216033854.GA26705@jumpy.consultix-inc.com> Message-ID: me too On 12/15/06, Tim Maher wrote: > > I plan to be there--disastrous weather permitting! 8-} > > -Tim > *-------------------------------------------------------------------* > | Tim Maher, PhD (206) 781-UNIX (866) DOC-PERL (866) DOC-UNIX | > | tim at ( Consultix-Inc, TeachMePerl, or TeachMeUnix ) dot Com | > *-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-* > | Seattle Classes; 12/11 Shell Prog. 12/14: UNIX/Linux Utilities | > | * Download free chapters from my new book at MinimalPerl.com * | > *-------------------------------------------------------------------* > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 01:53:26PM -0800, Steve Baylis wrote: > > Unfortunately, you should all get this message a *lot*. Colin can't > post > > due to power outages. Tried to register a new account and got moderator > > blocked. I tried to send it for him from my work address which is > > apparently moderator blocked. I'm pretty sure this address is good to > go. > > So, with hopefully no further ado, please see the message below from > Colin. > > > > ---- > > > > This coming Tuesday (12/19) is the scheduled date for our regular > monthly > > meeting. > > > > There is no speaker arranged for this month's meeting. Instead, like > last > > month, we can have a get together for chats and hacks. > > > > Please respond if you will attend a meeting next Tuesday. 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URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/spug-list/attachments/20061215/b1d28aeb/attachment.html From andrew at sweger.net Sat Dec 16 16:59:26 2006 From: andrew at sweger.net (Andrew Sweger) Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 16:59:26 -0800 (PST) Subject: SPUG: list moderation Message-ID: This message is an indirect response to Steve's mention of recent messages being moderated on the SPUG list. For a long time, the SPUG mailing list has only permitted subscribers to post messages to the list. This was done for various reasons. Probably the biggest was to help stop unwanted or irrelevant messages from going to the list subscribers. Then, a while back (maybe early this year), I set the option that marks all new subscribers to the list to have their posts moderated. I did this in response to a few instances where one would subscribe to the list to simply start sending their recruiting messages to the list subscribers without consulting (or possibly circumventing) the member policy on job advertising. When a new member makes their first post to the list now, it will be moderated. If I approve the message, I also clear that member's moderation flag so that any future submissions will go through without delay. So far, I don't think I have let any message (that would be approved) sit in the moderation queue for more than six hours. I never made the change public (I don't think I did) and I'm not aware of any problems that have been created as a result of the policy change. If any one is worried about the timely delivery of messages from new subscribers, I would be happy to add other established and respected members to the moderator's list. Since I enabled this new-subscriber moderation feature, I have only had to moderate about 20 messages. Of those, about half were approved to the list. Of the other half, maybe one was rejected outright and the rest were notified about how they can successfully get their message to the SPUG subscribers. (Oh, and "Hi!" to everyone. My apologies for dropping out of sight. All work and no play make Homer something something...) -- Andrew B. Sweger -- The great thing about multitasking is that several things can go wrong at once. From cmeyer at helvella.org Tue Dec 19 10:10:03 2006 From: cmeyer at helvella.org (Colin Meyer) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:10:03 -0800 Subject: SPUG: [CANCELED] Re: December Meeting In-Reply-To: References: <20061216033854.GA26705@jumpy.consultix-inc.com> Message-ID: <20061219181003.GB6678@funpox.helvella.org> I offered to host the meeting if three other people said that they'd attend. Only two responded, so I'm going to cancel. Sorry about that. Let's regroup in January. I'd like to get some hacking sessions going, so let's plan on meeting monthly, whether or not there is a speaker arranged. Happy holidays, -Colin. On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 10:31:47PM -0800, Paul Cook wrote: > me too > > On 12/15/06, Tim Maher wrote: > > > >I plan to be there--disastrous weather permitting! 8-} > > > >-Tim From jerry.gay at gmail.com Tue Dec 19 10:22:36 2006 From: jerry.gay at gmail.com (jerry gay) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:22:36 -0800 Subject: SPUG: [CANCELED] Re: December Meeting In-Reply-To: <20061219181003.GB6678@funpox.helvella.org> References: <20061216033854.GA26705@jumpy.consultix-inc.com> <20061219181003.GB6678@funpox.helvella.org> Message-ID: <1d9a3f400612191022l2197bfd7j7a48a07598d38abb@mail.gmail.com> On 12/19/06, Colin Meyer wrote: > Let's regroup in January. I'd like to get some hacking sessions > going, so let's plan on meeting monthly, whether or not there is a > speaker arranged. > +1 i'm looking forward to hacking with spug in '07. happy happy ~jerry From ppcook at gmail.com Tue Dec 19 10:56:12 2006 From: ppcook at gmail.com (Paul Cook) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:56:12 -0800 Subject: SPUG: [CANCELED] Re: December Meeting In-Reply-To: <20061219181003.GB6678@funpox.helvella.org> References: <20061216033854.GA26705@jumpy.consultix-inc.com> <20061219181003.GB6678@funpox.helvella.org> Message-ID: Did you get my (I'll be there) response? I think I sent mine via the list, and it bounced.....err, rather it was moderated, and I don't know if it made it to the list. On 12/19/06, Colin Meyer wrote: > > I offered to host the meeting if three other people said that they'd > attend. Only two responded, so I'm going to cancel. Sorry about that. > > Let's regroup in January. I'd like to get some hacking sessions > going, so let's plan on meeting monthly, whether or not there is a > speaker arranged. > > Happy holidays, > -Colin. > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 10:31:47PM -0800, Paul Cook wrote: > > me too > > > > On 12/15/06, Tim Maher wrote: > > > > > >I plan to be there--disastrous weather permitting! 8-} > > > > > >-Tim > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/spug-list/attachments/20061219/02a1a315/attachment.html From ppcook at gmail.com Tue Dec 19 10:57:24 2006 From: ppcook at gmail.com (Paul Cook) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:57:24 -0800 Subject: SPUG: [CANCELED] Re: December Meeting In-Reply-To: References: <20061216033854.GA26705@jumpy.consultix-inc.com> <20061219181003.GB6678@funpox.helvella.org> Message-ID: oops....i see you were responding to MY message. never mind! On 12/19/06, Paul Cook wrote: > > Did you get my (I'll be there) response? I think I sent mine via the > list, and it bounced.....err, rather it was moderated, and I don't know if > it made it to the list. > > On 12/19/06, Colin Meyer wrote: > > > > I offered to host the meeting if three other people said that they'd > > attend. Only two responded, so I'm going to cancel. Sorry about that. > > > > Let's regroup in January. I'd like to get some hacking sessions > > going, so let's plan on meeting monthly, whether or not there is a > > speaker arranged. > > > > Happy holidays, > > -Colin. > > > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 10:31:47PM -0800, Paul Cook wrote: > > > me too > > > > > > On 12/15/06, Tim Maher wrote: > > > > > > > >I plan to be there--disastrous weather permitting! 8-} > > > > > > > >-Tim > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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