From Daniel.Sherer at healthnet.com Thu Jul 6 08:27:59 2006 From: Daniel.Sherer at healthnet.com (Daniel.Sherer at healthnet.com) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 08:27:59 -0700 Subject: [Thousand-oaks-pm] July Perl Mongers Meeting? (scheduled for 7/12) Message-ID: Hey folks, It's about a week until our regular, monthly, meeting. So I just thought I'd send out a reminder. I won't be able to attend this month, so I need to know if we can meet at ValueClick? Or, if we should look for another location? (or if there will be a meeting at all). What does YOUR calendar look like? Daniel Sherer Manager, ITG Data Warehouse Health Net (818) 676-7592 This message,together with any attachments, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. It may contain information that is confidential and prohibited from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination or copying of this message or any attachment is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the original sender immediately by telephone or by return e-mail and delete this message, along with any attachments, from your computer. Thank you. From Daniel.Sherer at healthnet.com Thu Jul 6 09:14:38 2006 From: Daniel.Sherer at healthnet.com (Daniel.Sherer at healthnet.com) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 09:14:38 -0700 Subject: [Thousand-oaks-pm] Damian Conway, Guest Presenter at TO.pm Message-ID: This coming Wednesday, July 12th, ValueClick Inc. has sponsored Dr. Damian Conway to speak at the Thousand Oaks Perl Mongers. Damian is a prominent member of the Perl community and exponent of object-oriented programming, and the author of several books, including (Embedded image moved to file: pic15573.jpg)(Embedded image moved to file: pic05097.jpg)(Embedded image moved to file: pic16512.jpg). Here is an overview of the talk that Damian will be conducting: ------------------- Extreme Perl ? The Horror That Is SelfGOL In this talk Damian dissects the SelfGOL program: an obfuscated, self-aware, viral quine that can: self-replicate, rewrite other Perl programs to allow them to self- replicate, detect un-rewritable Perl programs, execute itself or other Perl programs as cellular automata of arbitrary size (to play Conway's "Game of Life"), animate any short text as a cycling marquee banner. SelfGOL accomplishes these feats in under 1000 bytes of standard Perl, without importing any modules, and without using a single if, unless, while, until, for, foreach, goto, next, last, redo, map, or grep. To do all that in under 1K of code, it relies on some extreme programming techniques, and on many of the obscure backwaters of the Perl syntax. This talk explores both. In other words, it's everything you never wanted to know about Perl, and would have been afraid to ask. ------------------- The talk is scheduled for 7pm to 9pm. Bring your appetite, as pizza and drinks will be provided. More information about the event can be found on our site: http://thousand-oaks-perl.org/. Directions to the ValueClick office may be found here: http://thousand-oaks-perl.org/bin/view/Main/ValueClick. If you live in the LA basin please attend the event ? WestLake is closer to LA than Thousand Oaks and the drive up here will be well worth it. Please RSVP to adeltac at valueclick.com if you plan on attending so that we get enough food and chairs for everyone! Thanks, TO.pm ------------------- More about Damian: Damian Conway holds a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science. A widely sought-after speaker and trainer, he is also the author of numerous well-known software modules including: Parse::RecDescent (a sophisticated parsing tool), Class::Contract (design-by-contract programming in Perl), Lingua::EN::Inflect (rule-based English transformations for text generation), Class::Multimethods (multiple dispatch polymorphism), Text::Autoformat (intelligent automatic reformatting of plaintext), Switch (Perl's missing case statement), NEXT (resumptive method dispatch), Filter::Simple (Perl-based source code manipulation), Quantum::Superpositions (auto-parallelization of serial code using a quantum mechanical metaphor), and Lingua::Romana::Perligata (programming in Latin). All of this software is available free from your local CPAN mirror. A well-known member of the international Perl community, Damian was the winner of the 1998, 1999, and 2000 Larry Wall Awards for Practical Utility. The best technical paper at the annual Perl Conference was subsequently named in his honour. He is a member of the technical committee for The Perl Conference, a keynote speaker at many Open Source conferences, a former columnist for "The Perl Journal", and author of the books "Object Oriented Perl" and "Perl Best Practices". In 2001 Damian received the first "Perl Foundation Development Grant" and spent 20 months working on projects for the betterment of Perl. This message,together with any attachments, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. It may contain information that is confidential and prohibited from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination or copying of this message or any attachment is strictly prohibited. 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This is your chance for 2006/2007. (Unless you'd rather go it alone, of course. -grin-) Details: http://omaha.pm.org/shirts.shtml If you think your group might be interested please let me know. Once your groups' order is set send me the list and your mailing address (Federal Express). I can't track dozens of local individuals per group, so I'll be counting on group leaders for all local footwork. If you want a shipping quote let me know and I'll try to chase one down for you based on some estimated order size... Order cut off is August 8th, 1 month from today. Be the shwankiest geeks in your area! :) Cheerio, j -- Request pm.org Technical Support via support at pm.org pm_groups mailing list pm_groups at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pm_groups -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/thousand-oaks-pm/attachments/20060708/979e790e/attachment.html From adeltac at valueclick.com Mon Jul 10 06:53:06 2006 From: adeltac at valueclick.com (Aran Deltac) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 06:53:06 -0700 Subject: [Thousand-oaks-pm] Damian Conway, Guest Presenter at TO.pm Message-ID: This coming Wednesday, July 12th, ValueClick Inc. has sponsored Dr. Damian Conway to speak at the Thousand Oaks Perl Mongers. Here is an overview of the talk that Damian will be conducting: ------------------- Extreme Perl - The Horror That Is SelfGOL In this talk Damian dissects the SelfGOL program: an obfuscated, self-aware, viral quine that can: * self-replicate, * rewrite other Perl programs to allow them to self- replicate, * detect un-rewritable Perl programs, * execute itself or other Perl programs as cellular automata of arbitrary size (to play Conway's "Game of Life"), * animate any short text as a cycling marquee banner. SelfGOL accomplishes these feats in under 1000 bytes of standard Perl, without importing any modules, and without using a single if, unless, while, until, for, foreach, goto, next, last, redo, map, or grep. To do all that in under 1K of code, it relies on some extreme programming techniques, and on many of the obscure backwaters of the Perl syntax. This talk explores both. In other words, it's everything you never wanted to know about Perl, and would have been afraid to ask. ------------------- The talk is scheduled for 7pm to 9pm. Bring your appetite, as pizza and drinks will be provided. More information about the event can be found on our site: http://thousand-oaks-perl.org/. Directions to the ValueClick office may be found here: http://thousand-oaks-perl.org/bin/view/Main/ValueClick. If you live in the LA basin please attend the event - WestLake is closer to LA than Thousand Oaks and the drive up here will be well worth it. Please RSVP to adeltac at valueclick.com if you plan on attending so that we get enough food and chairs for everyone! Thanks, TO.pm ------------------- More about Damian: Damian Conway holds a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science. A widely sought-after speaker and trainer, he is also the author of numerous well-known software modules including: Parse::RecDescent (a sophisticated parsing tool), Class::Contract (design-by-contract programming in Perl), Lingua::EN::Inflect (rule-based English transformations for text generation), Class::Multimethods (multiple dispatch polymorphism), Text::Autoformat (intelligent automatic reformatting of plaintext), Switch (Perl's missing case statement), NEXT (resumptive method dispatch), Filter::Simple (Perl-based source code manipulation), Quantum::Superpositions (auto-parallelization of serial code using a quantum mechanical metaphor), and Lingua::Romana::Perligata (programming in Latin). All of this software is available free from your local CPAN mirror. A well-known member of the international Perl community, Damian was the winner of the 1998, 1999, and 2000 Larry Wall Awards for Practical Utility. The best technical paper at the annual Perl Conference was subsequently named in his honour. He is a member of the technical committee for The Perl Conference, a keynote speaker at many Open Source conferences, a former columnist for "The Perl Journal", and author of the books "Object Oriented Perl" and "Perl Best Practices". In 2001 Damian received the first "Perl Foundation Development Grant" and spent 20 months working on projects for the betterment of Perl. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Verbal directions: * From LA, take 101 North. * Take the Lindero Canyon exit. * Turn right on to Lindero Canyon. * Pass the first Russel Ranch Rd, stay on Lindero. * Turn right on the second Russel Ranch Rd. * Turn right at the first driveway after the Costco parking lot. * Find a parking space as close to the big "Perl Meeting" sign which will be out front. The doors will be propped open. * Follow the signs. More information about this event can be found at: http://thousand-oaks-perl.org/ Aran -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If there is interest in this topic beyond this, when I find something applicable I shall post the results of the research. Much thanks. Regards, Christian Bryant Configuration Management Engineer Digital Insight Corporate Headquarters 26025 Mureau Road Calabasas, CA 91302 Web: http://www.digitalinsight.com Phone: 818-878-6734 Cell: 818-519-1880 Operator: 888-344-4674 Fax: 818-878-7555 E-mail: Christian.Bryant at digitalinsight.com