From arocker at Vex.Net  Wed Jan  3 17:31:59 2024
From: arocker at Vex.Net (arocker at Vex.Net)
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2024 20:31:59 -0500
Subject: [tpm] A look at the history of Unix
Message-ID: <2845dfb46241e39494bb5337326b2be3.squirrel@webmail.vybenetworks.com>


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HADp3emVABg


From arocker at Vex.Net  Wed Jan 10 11:10:58 2024
From: arocker at Vex.Net (arocker at Vex.Net)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 14:10:58 -0500
Subject: [tpm] An attraction in Las Vegas
Message-ID: <13ea7160c99c0d8618421124786f4cbc.squirrel@webmail.vybenetworks.com>

For the 2024 conference; rides in the Loop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRZi_v2yvh0


From talexb at gmail.com  Thu Jan 11 12:37:32 2024
From: talexb at gmail.com (Alex Beamish)
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 15:37:32 -0500
Subject: [tpm] January meeting
Message-ID: <CANgc-ay4bMVHDUyovbhG5_wS+b36yRyGk2fWF8SYmE2yVEaWOQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

I'm going to be hosting the January meeting of the Perl Mongers -- I've
just sent out the announcement from meetup.com. We'll be meeting January
25th, the last Thursday of the month.

I'll be joining from a cattle ranch two hours drive South of Calgary, but
they have Internet, so everything should Just Work.

Hope you've all had a lovely Christmas and/or Holiday season. See you in
about two weeks time.

Cheers,

Alex

-- 
Alex Beamish

Software Developer / https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alex-beamish-5111ba3
Speaker Wrangler / Toronto Perlmongers / http://to.pm.org/
Chair, The Perl and Raku Conference 2023 / Toronto, Ontario / http://tprc.to
Baritone / Toronto Northern Lights, 2013 Champions /
www.northernlightschorus.com
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From jkeenan at pobox.com  Thu Jan 11 12:58:01 2024
From: jkeenan at pobox.com (James E Keenan)
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 15:58:01 -0500
Subject: [tpm] January meeting
In-Reply-To: <CANgc-ay4bMVHDUyovbhG5_wS+b36yRyGk2fWF8SYmE2yVEaWOQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CANgc-ay4bMVHDUyovbhG5_wS+b36yRyGk2fWF8SYmE2yVEaWOQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <954a61b6-f733-4b32-be45-c45169d2e744@pobox.com>

On 1/11/24 15:37, Alex Beamish wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm going to be hosting the January meeting of the Perl Mongers -- I've 
> just sent out the announcement from meetup.com <http://meetup.com>. 
> We'll be meeting January 25th, the last Thursday of the month.
> 
> I'll be joining from a cattle ranch two hours drive South of Calgary, 
> but they have Internet, so everything should Just Work.
> 

Oh, to be two hours outside of Calgary at the end of January!  Therein 
lies a tale ...

jimk


From talexb at gmail.com  Thu Jan 11 13:17:57 2024
From: talexb at gmail.com (Alex Beamish)
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:17:57 -0500
Subject: [tpm] January meeting
In-Reply-To: <954a61b6-f733-4b32-be45-c45169d2e744@pobox.com>
References: <CANgc-ay4bMVHDUyovbhG5_wS+b36yRyGk2fWF8SYmE2yVEaWOQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <954a61b6-f733-4b32-be45-c45169d2e744@pobox.com>
Message-ID: <CANgc-ax9=Q3-Quf3VrJd2dtUZgMwP3-LK9Lwm09vzKk2p7HZiA@mail.gmail.com>

We can discuss it at the meeting .. but I imagine the conversation might be

Oh, you're going to Calgary? Great, so .. for Stampede, in July?
No, I'm going this month.
You're going to .. Calgary in January? Is it .. an emergency?
Nope, just a visit to family.
You know it gets cold there, right? Not Toronto cold, but down when Celsius
and Fahrenheit meet cold?
Yup. Why not, right?
(Shivers)


We'll be driving into Farm country -- farmers help each other. It should be
an adventure. :)

Alex


On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 3:58?PM James E Keenan <jkeenan at pobox.com> wrote:

> On 1/11/24 15:37, Alex Beamish wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm going to be hosting the January meeting of the Perl Mongers -- I've
> > just sent out the announcement from meetup.com <http://meetup.com>.
> > We'll be meeting January 25th, the last Thursday of the month.
> >
> > I'll be joining from a cattle ranch two hours drive South of Calgary,
> > but they have Internet, so everything should Just Work.
> >
>
> Oh, to be two hours outside of Calgary at the end of January!  Therein
> lies a tale ...
>
> jimk
>
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-- 
Alex Beamish

Software Developer / https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alex-beamish-5111ba3
Speaker Wrangler / Toronto Perlmongers / http://to.pm.org/
Chair, The Perl and Raku Conference 2023 / Toronto, Ontario / http://tprc.to
Baritone / Toronto Northern Lights, 2013 Champions /
www.northernlightschorus.com
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From talexb at gmail.com  Tue Jan 30 07:28:15 2024
From: talexb at gmail.com (Alex Beamish)
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 10:28:15 -0500
Subject: [tpm] February meeting -- correct date is February 29, 2024
Message-ID: <CANgc-axiewoOkY408YyDo+D+GoF12Q=fKiwMFPA96SbxAFMAKg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

I have updated the date of our February meeting on meetup.com and sent out
the announcement. It appears that the system still doesn't quite get the
'last Thursday in the month' setting. Perhaps it's challenging because
we're meeting on the leap day.

And I'm reminded of the algorithm in K&R that showed how you could chain
together multiple tests to get a result ..

  leap = year%4 && year%100 != 0 && year%400 == 0;  /* [1] */

The text around this code doesn't even stop to explain this algorithm --
they just assume that everyone knows the leap year rule. The tests are also
ordered from most likely to least likely, since the compiler will
short-circuit the result at the first failure.

Very terse, very elegant. Also, a great interview question.

I have to admit, writing code with variables that don't have sigils is a
little alarming .. but this is from a book that I bought when I could still
part my hair.

Cheers,

Alex

1. Page 104, The C Programming Language, Kernighan & Ritchie, 1978.

-- 
Alex Beamish

Software Developer / https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alex-beamish-5111ba3
Speaker Wrangler / Toronto Perlmongers / http://to.pm.org/
Chair, The Perl and Raku Conference 2023 / Toronto, Ontario / http://tprc.to
Baritone / Toronto Northern Lights, 2013 Champions /
www.northernlightschorus.com
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From talexb at gmail.com  Wed Jan 31 15:29:42 2024
From: talexb at gmail.com (Alex Beamish)
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 18:29:42 -0500
Subject: [tpm] Meetup referral about a coder job in Toronto
Message-ID: <CANgc-ayjwD97CXU+Xg3P6LsxBTd=QtnCFacz58TfOCi_mhb2Xg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

As the contact for the Toronto Perl Mongers on meetup.com, I received the
following message this evening:

Hi Alex, My company is looking for a GTA-based per coder in case anyone in
the group here is interested. https://jobs.perl.org/job/21993


Just in case anyone is looking.

Alex

-- 
Alex Beamish

Software Developer / https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alex-beamish-5111ba3
Speaker Wrangler / Toronto Perlmongers / http://to.pm.org/
Chair, The Perl and Raku Conference 2023 / Toronto, Ontario / http://tprc.to
Baritone / Toronto Northern Lights, 2013 Champions /
www.northernlightschorus.com
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