From jtillman at bigfoot.com Thu Feb 6 18:52:06 2003 From: jtillman at bigfoot.com (James Tillman) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:37:57 2004 Subject: [Tallahassee-pm] Our first PerlMongers meeting! Message-ID: <1044579127.2654.16.camel@jacob.home> Hello, all. It's been some months since I last communicated with the folks on this list. Now that the holidays are well behind us, I'd like to propose that we have a meeting of the Tallahassee PerlMongers group, so we can meet face to face and discuss Perl-ish things. If you're game, please respond with your suggestion for a time and place. I've already communicated with one of our members, Hector Holguin, and he said weekdays after 6PM or perhaps a weekend day would work for him. My schedule is approximately the same. Does anyone have a recommendation for a place and time (a restaurant? a park? a library? I'm open-minded...) Please consult your calendars and let me know. We can try to keep the main part of the meeting short for those of us with little time. Also, any suggestions for topics are welcome, too. Scott Keller, another Tallahassee.pm member is interested in discussing his recent experiences with Perl/Tk for building a GUI application. Anyone else want to share something? I'm looking forward to our first meeting! jpt From jtillman at bigfoot.com Thu Feb 6 19:01:29 2003 From: jtillman at bigfoot.com (James Tillman) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:37:57 2004 Subject: [Tallahassee-pm] Oops. Forgot some news! Message-ID: <1044579690.2723.27.camel@jacob.home> I forgot to mention that I've signed up the Tallahassee PerlMongers with the O'Reilly User Group Program. This is a surprisingly cool program that O'Reilly runs to encourage user groups related to technologies that it publishes books about. Perl is one of their main subjects. So far, I have received 2 FREE books in the mail that we should consider to be owned by the Tally.pm group: Computer Science and Perl Programming, and Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason. Both of these are very recent books! If you're interested in borrowing either book from the previously non-existent "Tallahassee.pm Library", then please come to the first meeting and I'll have them on hand. In addition, O'Reilly is also giving away a free one year's subscription to their Safari Online Book program for one of our members who signs up for a trial subscription and writes a review of it (good or bad!) that we post on our web site. I propose that we have a drawing at the meeting to let all interested parties have a fair shot. If you have a better idea for a fair shake, let me know. I figured this news might get you more interested in coming to our first meeting!! jpt From ScottKeller at fdle.state.fl.us Fri Feb 7 07:37:53 2003 From: ScottKeller at fdle.state.fl.us (Keller, Scott) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:37:57 2004 Subject: [Tallahassee-pm] Oops. Forgot some news! Message-ID: <2265699E79C5D51197940002B31B4EDB04375550@exchange.fdle.gov> Jamie, That all sounds great! Have we decided when and where the first meeting is? FWIW, here's my Safari review: ____________________________________ The Safari e-book subscription service is just what the doctor ordered for developers that need comprehensive help yesterday. Having over 1000 books by O'Reilly, Addison-Wesley and other top name tech publishers available when and where you need them allows you to get up to speed quickly on virtually any development topic. The subscription is offered on an individual or corporate basis. The one problem I have with the individual subscription is that you can pay almost as much as a corporate subscriber (as I currently do, paying $30 a month versus a yearly corporate subscription that starts at a $35 equivalent), yet have to maintain a "personal library" of a certain number of books (my $30 level allows me to keep 30 books and change them out for other books in the Safari library 1 month after I subscribe to them). The corporate subscription, on the other hand, gives you unlimited access to the over 1000 books currently available. I've heard some say that they don't like to read books online. I can tell these folks haven't tried Safari. Certainly, I wouldn't read a book cover to cover online. The nature of programming; however, is that you often need only one or two key chapters in many different books. The Safari subscription allows you to easily find these key chapters by virtue of the search functions. In addition, any code samples can easily be copied and pasted for quick trial without worrying about loading a CD, etc. Finally, because it is on the web, all these books are available to you whereever you happen to be, as long as you have a display and a connection to the internet. That beats carrying around 50 pounds of books, only to find that you left the one you really needed back at the office. ____________________________________ Have a good one, Scott -----Original Message----- From: James Tillman [mailto:jtillman@bigfoot.com] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 8:01 PM To: tallahassee-pm@mail.pm.org Subject: [Tallahassee-pm] Oops. Forgot some news! I forgot to mention that I've signed up the Tallahassee PerlMongers with the O'Reilly User Group Program. This is a surprisingly cool program that O'Reilly runs to encourage user groups related to technologies that it publishes books about. Perl is one of their main subjects. So far, I have received 2 FREE books in the mail that we should consider to be owned by the Tally.pm group: Computer Science and Perl Programming, and Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason. Both of these are very recent books! If you're interested in borrowing either book from the previously non-existent "Tallahassee.pm Library", then please come to the first meeting and I'll have them on hand. In addition, O'Reilly is also giving away a free one year's subscription to their Safari Online Book program for one of our members who signs up for a trial subscription and writes a review of it (good or bad!) that we post on our web site. I propose that we have a drawing at the meeting to let all interested parties have a fair shot. If you have a better idea for a fair shake, let me know. I figured this news might get you more interested in coming to our first meeting!! jpt _______________________________________________ Tallahassee-pm mailing list Tallahassee-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/tallahassee-pm From jptillman at comcast.net Mon Feb 17 18:34:51 2003 From: jptillman at comcast.net (James Tillman) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:37:57 2004 Subject: [Tallahassee-pm] Meeting time proposal Message-ID: <1045528491.2362.1.camel@jacob.home> Hello all. Based on the input I've received offline and online from the few interested members, I think I have enough information to make a proposal for a time and place for our first PM meeting. It seems that a Thursday, around 6:30PM at the county library would be a good time and place. Considering the current date, I'd like to propose that we try for the last Thursday of the month, which would put our first meeting on the 27th of February. If this is not a good day for everyone who wants to come, please speak up now. We can always schedule a different Thursday evening. I welcome anyone who's interested to offer topics for us to discuss at our meeting. You already know about the Safari Demo/Review offer. That as well as a few other O'Reilly related items will take only about 15 minutes or so. I'd like to propose one topic of discussion that we might try first to get acquainted with each other: What we've used Perl for (past/present) and what we love & hate about Perl. If anyone wants to do a technical presentation, that would be fine, too. I figure we can shoot for 1 to 1 1/2 hours of time. Let me know what you think of all this. And please plan to come to the meeting if it's at all possible! jpt From mexnix at craonline.org Thu Feb 20 00:54:10 2003 From: mexnix at craonline.org (Ryan Carmelo Briones) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:37:57 2004 Subject: [Tallahassee-pm] The New Guy Message-ID: <001a01c2d8ac$dfcc2df0$d1068241@mexnix> Hello Perl Geeks, My name is Ryan Carmelo Briones. I recently signed up on the wiki and I got a personal email from James Tillman saying I should join the list as well and possibily introduce myself. Well, I live in Madison, FL, which is about 45mins East of Tally. I moved here from Tampa where I used to work full time for an ISP that specialized in Content Filtering. I'm the head, and practically only, developer working on a full-on Content Filtering Proxy server. I use Perl for everything on it. Well, everything that _I_ wrote :) Since I've been up here in Madison, the Fall ( I'm a student at North Florida CC ), I've been mostly doing contract work for the ISP and I have started doing websites with my girlfriend who is an amazing graphic designer. I've started leaning towards PHP for most of my web applications, but I do no waver otherwise. I really hope to be able to make it out to the meeting on, i think, the 27th. I was supposed to going to a concert in Jax, which might be cancelled, but we'll see. Hopefully one day I'll be able to share the joy that is POE with the pm group via presentation. [As an aside, I'm currently entertaining the thought of moving to Tally in the fall to continue education at TCC. If anybody knows of jobs openings for Unix/Linux/Perl/Web people, let me know.] Thanks for listening. Perl on! Ryan Carmelo Briones http://www.webxdesign.org http://www.mexnix.org From JamesTillman at fdle.state.fl.us Thu Feb 20 07:47:47 2003 From: JamesTillman at fdle.state.fl.us (Tillman, James) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:37:57 2004 Subject: [Tallahassee-pm] The New Guy Message-ID: <2265699E79C5D51197940002B31B4EDB06C00638@exchange.fdle.gov> Welcome aboard, Ryan. I actually work with a guy who used to live in Madison. I think he and yet another fellow down the hall both know the guy who runs the ISP you're working for :-) Based on your job description, I can see why you'd be using POE. It's a wonderful bit o' Perl. If you do end up being free on the 27th, please come on out. We're going to meet at the County Library. I can send directions if you need them. We'll be doing a drawing for a full year's subscription to O'Reilly's Safari. jpt > -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan Carmelo Briones [mailto:mexnix@craonline.org] > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 1:54 AM > To: tallahassee-pm@mail.pm.org > Subject: [Tallahassee-pm] The New Guy > > > Hello Perl Geeks, > > My name is Ryan Carmelo Briones. I recently signed up on the > wiki and I got > a personal email from James Tillman saying I should join the > list as well > and possibily introduce myself. > > Well, I live in Madison, FL, which is about 45mins East of > Tally. I moved > here from Tampa where I used to work full time for an ISP > that specialized > in Content Filtering. I'm the head, and practically only, > developer working > on a full-on Content Filtering Proxy server. I use Perl for > everything on > it. Well, everything that _I_ wrote :) Since I've been up > here in Madison, > the Fall ( I'm a student at North Florida CC ), I've been mostly doing > contract work for the ISP and I have started doing websites with my > girlfriend who is an amazing graphic designer. I've started > leaning towards > PHP for most of my web applications, but I do no waver otherwise. > > I really hope to be able to make it out to the meeting on, i > think, the > 27th. I was supposed to going to a concert in Jax, which > might be cancelled, > but we'll see. Hopefully one day I'll be able to share the > joy that is POE > with the pm group via presentation. > > [As an aside, I'm currently entertaining the thought of > moving to Tally in > the fall to continue education at TCC. If anybody knows of > jobs openings for > Unix/Linux/Perl/Web people, let me know.] > > Thanks for listening. Perl on! > > Ryan Carmelo Briones > http://www.webxdesign.org > http://www.mexnix.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Tallahassee-pm mailing list > Tallahassee-pm@mail.pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/tallahassee-pm > From JamesTillman at fdle.state.fl.us Fri Feb 21 14:05:41 2003 From: JamesTillman at fdle.state.fl.us (Tillman, James) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:37:57 2004 Subject: [Tallahassee-pm] Bad news :-( Message-ID: <2265699E79C5D51197940002B31B4EDB06C00654@exchange.fdle.gov> Bad news, folks, and it's all my fault. I screwed up the reservation with the County Library and we are apparently NOT booked for the 27th. What's worse, they're full up for weeks. I apologize for this stupid mistake. I'm fairly certain that everyone who was planning to come still has Thursday free, so I will be working on an alternative venue for this first meeting. However, I will also make darn sure our next meetings are scheduled and booked properly. Again, sorry for the confusion. I'll let you know when I get us a new location. I'll try to make it convenient for all. I should have one by tomorrow. jpt ------------------------------------ James Tillman Advanced Systems Design FDLE Webmaster 850-410-8415 JamesTillman@fdle.state.fl.us From jtillman at bigfoot.com Fri Feb 21 19:16:39 2003 From: jtillman at bigfoot.com (James Tillman) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:37:57 2004 Subject: [Tallahassee-pm] New meeting location for Thursday! Message-ID: <1045876600.7084.0.camel@jacob.home> Okay. I've given it some thought, and I think I've got a good option. There's a nice, quiet sandwich shop on Monroe called Hopkins' Eatery. Since we're scheduled to meet at 6:30PM, a time at which some of us might want to eat dinner, I think it might be an ideal place to meet this time. There will only be a few of us -- enough to sit around a table -- so it seems a good idea. Hopkins' is in the new Publix shopping center on the corner of Tharpe and North Monroe (The shopping center is across the street from Lake Ella). To get there from the Interstate, you take the Highway 27 exit South, and then look for Tharpe St. The shopping center will be on your right. Hopkins is next to Publix in the plaza. If this will create a problem for anyone, please let me know. I still feel bad about messing up our original booking. I'd hate to make it hard for anyone to come to the meeting. jpt From ScottKeller at fdle.state.fl.us Mon Feb 24 06:04:26 2003 From: ScottKeller at fdle.state.fl.us (Keller, Scott) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:37:57 2004 Subject: [Tallahassee-pm] New meeting location for Thursday! Message-ID: <2265699E79C5D51197940002B31B4EDB0437558E@exchange.fdle.gov> Jamie, That sounds good to me. Scott -----Original Message----- From: James Tillman [mailto:jtillman@bigfoot.com] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 8:17 PM To: tallahassee-pm@mail.pm.org Subject: [Tallahassee-pm] New meeting location for Thursday! Okay. I've given it some thought, and I think I've got a good option. There's a nice, quiet sandwich shop on Monroe called Hopkins' Eatery. Since we're scheduled to meet at 6:30PM, a time at which some of us might want to eat dinner, I think it might be an ideal place to meet this time. There will only be a few of us -- enough to sit around a table -- so it seems a good idea. Hopkins' is in the new Publix shopping center on the corner of Tharpe and North Monroe (The shopping center is across the street from Lake Ella). To get there from the Interstate, you take the Highway 27 exit South, and then look for Tharpe St. The shopping center will be on your right. Hopkins is next to Publix in the plaza. If this will create a problem for anyone, please let me know. I still feel bad about messing up our original booking. I'd hate to make it hard for anyone to come to the meeting. jpt _______________________________________________ Tallahassee-pm mailing list Tallahassee-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/tallahassee-pm From jtillman at bigfoot.com Tue Feb 25 21:00:27 2003 From: jtillman at bigfoot.com (James Tillman) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:37:57 2004 Subject: [Tallahassee-pm] Yet another change in venue Message-ID: <1046228427.2237.29.camel@jacob.home> A person of lesser enthusiasm might think this meeting was not meant to be, but I believe this change is a good thing. It turns out that Hopkins' new location isn't open yet! Again, it's my fault for not following up on things properly. But.... I have called and confirmed that The Black Dog, a nice little cafe right across the street from the Hopkins' location, will be open on Thursday night at 6:30. They serve the usual coffee house stuff: coffee, tea, and some pastries. They said they occasionally have soup. I'd recommend grabbing a bite before you come (or bringing something along) if that won't work for you. The cafe is actually right next on Lake Ella, and they have a nice deck we could use if it's not too cool. To get to The Black Dog from the Interstate, just travel South on North Monroe until you cross Tharpe St. and turn left onto Legion Drive (at the Western Sizzlin). The Black Dog is on your right just down the street. If you go too far and see the Lake, you can turn at the next left and circle around the lake until you see the Cafe, just before you come back to North Monroe. Coming up North Monroe, you can just take the first right after you see Lake Ella on your right. If anyone needs better directions, just let me know. I think this cafe will actually be a better place to meet. It's a nice, laid back place. Again, apologies for the change in plans! I hope to see you there. jpt From ScottKeller at fdle.state.fl.us Wed Feb 26 06:39:27 2003 From: ScottKeller at fdle.state.fl.us (Keller, Scott) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:37:57 2004 Subject: [Tallahassee-pm] Yet another change in venue Message-ID: <2265699E79C5D51197940002B31B4EDB04375592@exchange.fdle.gov> Jamie, Once again, this is fine with me. Scott -----Original Message----- From: James Tillman [mailto:jtillman@bigfoot.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 10:00 PM To: tallahassee-pm@mail.pm.org Subject: [Tallahassee-pm] Yet another change in venue A person of lesser enthusiasm might think this meeting was not meant to be, but I believe this change is a good thing. It turns out that Hopkins' new location isn't open yet! Again, it's my fault for not following up on things properly. But.... I have called and confirmed that The Black Dog, a nice little cafe right across the street from the Hopkins' location, will be open on Thursday night at 6:30. They serve the usual coffee house stuff: coffee, tea, and some pastries. They said they occasionally have soup. I'd recommend grabbing a bite before you come (or bringing something along) if that won't work for you. The cafe is actually right next on Lake Ella, and they have a nice deck we could use if it's not too cool. To get to The Black Dog from the Interstate, just travel South on North Monroe until you cross Tharpe St. and turn left onto Legion Drive (at the Western Sizzlin). The Black Dog is on your right just down the street. If you go too far and see the Lake, you can turn at the next left and circle around the lake until you see the Cafe, just before you come back to North Monroe. Coming up North Monroe, you can just take the first right after you see Lake Ella on your right. If anyone needs better directions, just let me know. I think this cafe will actually be a better place to meet. It's a nice, laid back place. Again, apologies for the change in plans! I hope to see you there. jpt _______________________________________________ Tallahassee-pm mailing list Tallahassee-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/tallahassee-pm From jptillman at comcast.net Fri Feb 28 21:50:34 2003 From: jptillman at comcast.net (James Tillman) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:37:57 2004 Subject: [Tallahassee-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, February 28] Message-ID: <1046490634.14342.126.camel@jacob.home> -----Forwarded Message----- From: Marsee Henon To: jtillman@bigfoot.com Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, February 28 Date: 28 Feb 2003 19:13:09 -0800 O'Reilly User Group Program Newsletter February 28, 2003 Please share this information with your members... 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Order Number: 2564 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba2/ ***A Quick Guide to vi Jaguar ships with a variety of text editors. Of these, many Unix users will prefer vi (Visual Editor), which is a powerful, feature-rich editor that is lean and mean. If you haven't had the vi experience yet, this article will help you get off to a great start. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/02/21/vi_intro.html Until next time-- Marsee From jptillman at comcast.net Fri Feb 28 21:58:53 2003 From: jptillman at comcast.net (James Tillman) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:37:57 2004 Subject: [Tallahassee-pm] Meeting was a success! Message-ID: <1046491133.14591.137.camel@jacob.home> I just wanted to take a moment and say that our first PerlMongers meeting at the Black Dog Cafe was a big success. Although only 3 of us attended: Me, Todd Cushard, and Hector Holguin, we had a series of great discussions and I found myself genuinely disappointed when the time came to leave. Todd won the drawing for the free year's subscription to Safari. Congratulations, Todd! --- I showed off the books from our "library" and the other 2 attendees decided to borrow them. Our most recent addition is "Linux Server Hacks". A very recently released book. We'll be putting a listing of the books on our Wiki site (link to it from http://tallahassee.pm.org) and keeping track of who has them on those pages. --- We also decided we'd like to start working on a Perl project together. It would be something we could all enjoy working on and learn something new. Please give some thought to what you'd like to learn and offer suggestions. To offer my own suggestion: I have a few open source Perl projects on Sourceforge.net, any one of which we could collaborate on if they end up being interesting to us all. I'll send a description of some of them in another message later. --- During the meeting, Todd also mentioned he'd like to know more about Perl 6 and how it will look. There's a constant status report coming from the Perl.com site that highlights developments. Here's a link to the latest one: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/02/p6pdigest/20030209.html I got on the email list from Perl.com a while back, so if you want regular updates, you can sign up, too. --- We didn't really decide how often or when to meet, but I'm thinking that unless someone disagrees, the last Thursday of each month would work. So let's assume for now that our next meeting will be the last Thursday of March. The Black Dog turned out to be an excellent location, but Hector mentioned meeting at our homes. That would be great, too. Let me know what your thoughts are on that. We can decide later on. Again, it was a great time. Thanks to the guys who made it. For those who didn't, don't despair, next time should be even better! jpt From jptillman at comcast.net Fri Feb 28 22:22:52 2003 From: jptillman at comcast.net (James Tillman) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:37:57 2004 Subject: [Tallahassee-pm] [Fwd: Special User Group Promotion from O'Reilly] Message-ID: <1046492573.14591.148.camel@jacob.home> Whilst re-reading the promotional email about the free Safari subscription, I just noticed that O'Reilly is doing giveaways for people who submit tips and comments about Safari. So I thought I should foward the whole email for our list members to see if they are interested in participating. jpt -----Forwarded Message----- From: Marsee Henon To: jtillman@bigfoot.com Subject: Special User Group Promotion from O'Reilly Date: 05 Feb 2003 17:38:21 -0800 Hello User Group Leader, Ever since we launched the first version of the O'Reilly Network Safari Bookshelf in Fall of 2001, user group leaders have wanted to test-drive it in order to report their experiences to their members. Until now, the best we could offer was a 14-day free trial. We're launching a great new Safari program for user groups called "Go On Safari." Here's how it works: -You post a 'Go On Safari' banner ad on your user group web site, and/or run an announcement for your members in a print or email newsletter or on your email discussion list. The banner ads are available at the Safari User Group Resource page at http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/safari -A member of your user group (you or someone you designate) reviews Safari. That person will get a free one-year subscription if they publish a review of Safari within 60 days of opening their account. (It can be published in your newsletter, on your website or email list, or in another publication altogether; please send reviews to me.) -We also have an introductory program just for user group members. To enter, any of your members who sign up for our Safari 14-day free trial email (including the official reviewer) send comments on their experiences, or tips and tricks for how they used Safari (it only needs to be 2 sentences long, but it may be longer) to safari_talk@oreilly.com. -Every week someone will be chosen from the tips or comments submitted to receive fun stuff from O'Reilly (T-shirts, book bags, other surprises). If a member of your user group is selected, your group receives free gifts, too. Whatever the individual member receives, your UG will get one, too, to give away at your next meeting, or use however you see fit. Recipients--and their comments--will be announced in the User Group Newsletter. -One lucky group will be selected for an onsite speaking visit from our fearless leader, Tim O'Reilly (http://tim.oreilly.com/). About the O'Reilly Network Safari Bookshelf: If you're not yet familiar with the O'Reilly Network Safari Bookshelf, it's worth a look. With Safari, you can access over 1,000 technical books from the top technical book publishers--O'Reilly (of course), Pearson, and Microsoft Press. There is an extremely cool search capability that allows you to search through all 1,000+ books for the answer you need--or even code samples--in minutes. Check it out at: http://www.oreilly.com/safari/ug Once you've chosen your Safari reviewer, please send me an email (marsee@oreilly.com), with the subject heading Safari Subscription, listing your reviewer's name, address, email, and user group. If someone other than your reviewer should receive the banner ad or announcement text, please include that in your email. Your reviewer will receive a Safari Welcome email containing their user name and password within a week. I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of the O'Reilly Network Safari Bookshelf. Thanks, Marsee