From talexb at gmail.com  Mon Apr  2 19:45:36 2018
From: talexb at gmail.com (Alex Beamish)
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 22:45:36 -0400
Subject: [tpm] Thanks for keeping these meetings going!
Message-ID: <CANgc-aw625a9DAzYpVjNJi15wMn+bKSXax0Voh0JJGFmE2H2Nw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

My thanks to Dave Doyle for his talk on Kubernetes, the amazing software
solution that has multiple issues. :)

Although I believe we usually take June off (because it can be reportage on
YAPC::NA), we still need talks for April and May, so if you have an idea,
let me know.

Scott Sullivan also suggested an approach that TLUG did recently, which was
have people through out a bunch of questions, and people come to the
meeting with their solutions. (And maybe Scott can elaborate on my clumsy
explanation.)

The last Thursday this month is April 26, so I will make arrangements with
TEK, and I'll update the meetup.com site. Soon.

-- 
Alex Beamish

Software Developer / https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alex-beamish-5111ba3
Speaker Wrangler, Toronto Perlmongers / http://to.pm.org/
Baritone, Board Member, Toronto Northern Lights, 2013 Champions /
www.northernlightschorus.com
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From dave.s.doyle at gmail.com  Wed Apr  4 06:42:40 2018
From: dave.s.doyle at gmail.com (Dave Doyle)
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 09:42:40 -0400
Subject: [tpm] Thanks for keeping these meetings going!
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Also, for those that weren't there, Scott Sullivan of GTALUG had a really
cool thing.

Hardware Password bank. Pretty cool. Mooltipass:
https://www.themooltipass.com/

This was an indiegogo campaign.  Basically, it's a device you can plug into
your tablet/phone/computer with plugins for various browsers. It appears as
a keyboard.  There's a chip card with a pin. Passwords encrypted on device,
3 failed attempts to unlock and the chip card is wiped (and you can have
many cards as backup). The chip card pin never goes online.

I thinks I may get me one. :)



--
dave.s.doyle at gmail.com

On 2 April 2018 at 22:45, Alex Beamish <talexb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> My thanks to Dave Doyle for his talk on Kubernetes, the amazing software
> solution that has multiple issues. :)
>
> Although I believe we usually take June off (because it can be reportage
> on YAPC::NA), we still need talks for April and May, so if you have an
> idea, let me know.
>
> Scott Sullivan also suggested an approach that TLUG did recently, which
> was have people through out a bunch of questions, and people come to the
> meeting with their solutions. (And maybe Scott can elaborate on my clumsy
> explanation.)
>
> The last Thursday this month is April 26, so I will make arrangements with
> TEK, and I'll update the meetup.com site. Soon.
>
> --
> Alex Beamish
>
> Software Developer / https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alex-beamish-5111ba3
> Speaker Wrangler, Toronto Perlmongers / http://to.pm.org/
> Baritone, Board Member, Toronto Northern Lights, 2013 Champions /
> www.northernlightschorus.com
> Certified Contest Administrator, Barbershop Harmony Society /
> www.barbershop.org
>
>
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From talexb at gmail.com  Wed Apr 11 06:17:24 2018
From: talexb at gmail.com (Alex Beamish)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 09:17:24 -0400
Subject: [tpm] April meeting / TEK Systems is unavailable on our usual day
Message-ID: <CANgc-ax_DjJZR+g4CMSa-65CSCNETEkuwE2UmAUkTOX-Og0Uxw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

I just heard from my contact at TEK Systems that the company will be closed
on the last Thursday of the month, which is our usual meeting day.

Also, I don't have a speaker for April yet, but as Scott has suggested, we
could do the Questions and Answers thing -- throw a bunch of questions
together, folks could come up with answers, and we could have a general
discussion about that. There are many interesting dark corners in both Perl
and Linux that would be neat to share.

So, please reply to this thread on your thoughts about
1. Topic/Speaker for April (your own, or the Q&A thing);
2. Alternative location just for this month, assuming we stick with
Thursday April 26; and
3. Alternative date just for this month -- perhaps Wednesday April 25.
(I'll follow up and see if TEK is available on that day.)

The last week of the month is just two weeks away, so we need to move
quickly. Thanks all!

-- 
Alex Beamish

Software Developer / https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alex-beamish-5111ba3
Speaker Wrangler, Toronto Perlmongers / http://to.pm.org/
Baritone, Board Member, Toronto Northern Lights, 2013 Champions /
www.northernlightschorus.com
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From talexb at gmail.com  Tue Apr 24 07:44:27 2018
From: talexb at gmail.com (Alex Beamish)
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 10:44:27 -0400
Subject: [tpm] April meeting in two day's time
Message-ID: <CANgc-azGWG5JeQX8ornHF-way-JKvH=ofK6vgoDUZNgwcCgcFA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

I updated the meetup.com description but neglected to post to the mailing
list -- so here's my announcement for this month:

We do not have a scheduled speaker this month, so I am planning to do
something a little different. We all know LAMP stands for Linux, Apache,
MySQL and Perl/Python/PHP .. at this meeting, I'd like to poll each
attendee and get their three or four best questions (and expected answers)
as an interviewer for a LAMP position.

This isn't a chance to show off hilariously obscure bits of knowledge, but
perhaps a simple question that might end up having a simple answer, with
much more detail possible. I plan to take notes and circulate the
questions, answers and discussion to the mailing list.

So, to reiterate, this is about finding a few questions that will let you
find out if the person you're talking to knows how to set up a LAMP system,
and perhaps gauge the level of their knowledge. For instance, I know enough
Apache to have it run Perl CGIs, but know virtually nothing about how to
set up nginx.

Feel free to share a few questions of your own on this mailing list over
the next few days -- see you Thursday!

Alex

PS And feel free to volunteer for a talk in May!

-- 
Alex Beamish

Software Developer / https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alex-beamish-5111ba3
Speaker Wrangler, Toronto Perlmongers / http://to.pm.org/
Baritone, Board Member, Toronto Northern Lights, 2013 Champions /
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From talexb at gmail.com  Thu Apr 26 21:50:52 2018
From: talexb at gmail.com (Alex Beamish)
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 00:50:52 -0400
Subject: [tpm] Review of LAMP meeting / April 2018
Message-ID: <CANgc-aw7fa=yEiyF=nicRyBFCWfFEJK2wbruotxM3Aa9TnXvtw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

Thanks to the folks who came out for this month's meeting, and to Adam
Prime who volunteered OANDA to host this month.

My original plan when no speaker came forward was, "Cool, I get to pick a
topic!" My enthusiasm waned when I realized that haven't really done
anything that could be called cutting edge lately.

So then I hit on that somewhat amorphous idea of "What questions would you
ask someone for a LAMP position?"

Having prepared some notes about what Linux / Apache / MySQL and
Perl/Python/PHP/Ruby points might be relevant, I was intrigued to find my
preparation mostly useless as Mike Stok talked about how his work mostly
deals with deploying code to AWS as a platform, using Erlang Cowboy
(similar to Starman) or nginx as the webserver, Amazon's RDS as the
database (their version of PostgreSQL), and developing code in Elixir
(apparently distantly related to Ruby on Rails -- see
https://elixir-lang.org/ for more information).

Part of what Amazon provides is load-balancing goodness, along with the
ability to have a single machine handle 500K to 1M connections -- since AWS
processes are really, really lightweight. We also talked about how AWS was
flexible in ramping up necessary cores for increased demand, as well as
more or less following demand around the planet as the day progresses. it
sounds like a pretty awesome platform, if gigantically complicated. (There
was also talk of how East-1 goes down every six months.)

We also discussed Perl 6, NQP and the MoarVM, and the challenges of snytax
highlighting Perl 6 -- since you can re-define the syntax on the fly,
that's hard for an editor to highlight properly.

There was also some discussion about Web Assembly (wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly), and we talked about using
Elixir for Inline programming in Perl; we discussed how there might be
challenges exchanging data objects, but Google protocol buffers -- or just
sockets -- could be used to communicate.

We need a speaker for the May meeting, tentatively scheduled for May 31
back at Tek Systems. Please contact me!

Thanks,

Alex

-- 
Alex Beamish

Software Developer / https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alex-beamish-5111ba3
Speaker Wrangler, Toronto Perlmongers / http://to.pm.org/
Baritone, Board Member, Toronto Northern Lights, 2013 Champions /
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From arocker at Vex.Net  Fri Apr 27 06:42:32 2018
From: arocker at Vex.Net (arocker at Vex.Net)
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:42:32 -0400
Subject: [tpm] Review of LAMP meeting / April 2018
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Thanks to Alex for organising all that, especially having to arrange an
alternative venue as well.

From fulko.hew at gmail.com  Fri Apr 27 06:47:22 2018
From: fulko.hew at gmail.com (Fulko Hew)
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:47:22 -0400
Subject: [tpm] Review of LAMP meeting / April 2018
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 9:42 AM, <arocker at vex.net> wrote:

>
> Thanks to Alex for organising all that, especially having to arrange an
> alternative venue as well.
>

?Yes, thank you, I enjoyed hearing 'how the other half' live/program.
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