From scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk Sun Mar 1 15:42:46 2009 From: scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk (Scott McWhirter) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 15:42:46 -0800 Subject: [Van-pm] Tech Meeting, 12th March 2009 @ Sophos In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi all, I've just updated the Vancouver.pm wiki with details of the 12th March 2009 meeting. We still need to finalize some details. https://www.socialtext.net/vanpm/index.cgi?meeting_march_12th_2009 Agenda: Confirmed * Luke Closs - Git, perl and OCaml - backup utility Possible * Robin Clark - Catalyst in use * Jerome Pimmel - Behaviour Driven Development Lightning Talks * Scott McWhirter - Varnish, HTTP caching and acceleration * Scott McWhirter - Introduction to AWS Lightning Talks are only 5 minutes long and give a brief introduction to a subject matter. I would like at least 3 more people to volunteer for lightning talks about anything they fancy talking about. Looking forward to it! -- -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 16:11, Scott McWhirter wrote: > Hi all! > > Thanks to all who made it to the February meeting and I hope that you > enjoyed it. > > Currently I have Luke Closs lined up to do the talk he was wanting to > present at the February meeting. Kevin Jones has also suggested that > he do a talk on Shindig. There were a few other suggestion came out in > terms of things people would be interested in hearing about. Jerome > Pimmel has suggested talking about BDD (Behavioural Driven > Development), I suggested perhaps talking about the Varnish caching > server. > > There also seemed to be some discussion around mod_perl and best > practices, reducing overhead, performance, etc. Would folks be > interested in a talk on the subject? > > If anyone else has anything they would like to talk on, even if it's > just a 5 minute "Lightning Talk", please let me know. > > Let the discussion ensue! > > > -- > -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- > From scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk Sun Mar 1 15:51:29 2009 From: scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk (Scott McWhirter) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 15:51:29 -0800 Subject: [Van-pm] Tech Meeting, 12th March 2009 @ Sophos In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hey All, Chris Simmons has just offered to do a lightning talk on "lean development". Still looking for more lightning talkers however! thanks, -- -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 15:42, Scott McWhirter wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just updated the Vancouver.pm wiki with details of the 12th March > 2009 meeting. We still need to finalize some details. > > https://www.socialtext.net/vanpm/index.cgi?meeting_march_12th_2009 > > Agenda: > > Confirmed > * Luke Closs - Git, perl and OCaml - backup utility > > Possible > * Robin Clark - Catalyst in use > * Jerome Pimmel - Behaviour Driven Development > > Lightning Talks > * Scott McWhirter - Varnish, HTTP caching and acceleration > * Scott McWhirter - Introduction to AWS > > Lightning Talks are only 5 minutes long and give a brief introduction > to a subject matter. I would like at least 3 more people to volunteer > for lightning talks about anything they fancy talking about. > > Looking forward to it! > > > -- > -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 16:11, Scott McWhirter > wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> Thanks to all who made it to the February meeting and I hope that you >> enjoyed it. >> >> Currently I have Luke Closs lined up to do the talk he was wanting to >> present at the February meeting. Kevin Jones has also suggested that >> he do a talk on Shindig. There were a few other suggestion came out in >> terms of things people would be interested in hearing about. Jerome >> Pimmel has suggested talking about BDD (Behavioural Driven >> Development), I suggested perhaps talking about the Varnish caching >> server. >> >> There also seemed to be some discussion around mod_perl and best >> practices, reducing overhead, performance, etc. Would folks be >> interested in a talk on the subject? >> >> If anyone else has anything they would like to talk on, even if it's >> just a 5 minute "Lightning Talk", please let me know. >> >> Let the discussion ensue! >> >> >> -- >> -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- >> > From scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk Sun Mar 1 19:31:09 2009 From: scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk (Scott McWhirter) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 19:31:09 -0800 Subject: [Van-pm] Tech Meeting, 12th March 2009 @ Sophos In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hey All, Robin Clarke confirmed that he'll be doing an Introduction to Catalyst at the next meeting (15-20 minute talk). Thanks Robin! -- -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 15:51, Scott McWhirter wrote: > Hey All, > > Chris Simmons has just offered to do a lightning talk on "lean > development". Still looking for more lightning talkers however! > > thanks, > > > -- > -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 15:42, Scott McWhirter > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've just updated the Vancouver.pm wiki with details of the 12th March >> 2009 meeting. We still need to finalize some details. >> >> https://www.socialtext.net/vanpm/index.cgi?meeting_march_12th_2009 >> >> Agenda: >> >> Confirmed >> * Luke Closs - Git, perl and OCaml - backup utility >> >> Possible >> * Robin Clark - Catalyst in use >> * Jerome Pimmel - Behaviour Driven Development >> >> Lightning Talks >> * Scott McWhirter - Varnish, HTTP caching and acceleration >> * Scott McWhirter - Introduction to AWS >> >> Lightning Talks are only 5 minutes long and give a brief introduction >> to a subject matter. I would like at least 3 more people to volunteer >> for lightning talks about anything they fancy talking about. >> >> Looking forward to it! >> >> >> -- >> -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- >> >> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 16:11, Scott McWhirter >> wrote: >>> Hi all! >>> >>> Thanks to all who made it to the February meeting and I hope that you >>> enjoyed it. >>> >>> Currently I have Luke Closs lined up to do the talk he was wanting to >>> present at the February meeting. Kevin Jones has also suggested that >>> he do a talk on Shindig. There were a few other suggestion came out in >>> terms of things people would be interested in hearing about. Jerome >>> Pimmel has suggested talking about BDD (Behavioural Driven >>> Development), I suggested perhaps talking about the Varnish caching >>> server. >>> >>> There also seemed to be some discussion around mod_perl and best >>> practices, reducing overhead, performance, etc. Would folks be >>> interested in a talk on the subject? >>> >>> If anyone else has anything they would like to talk on, even if it's >>> just a 5 minute "Lightning Talk", please let me know. >>> >>> Let the discussion ensue! >>> >>> >>> -- >>> -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- >>> >> > From tech at tool.de Mon Mar 2 09:31:18 2009 From: tech at tool.de (Andreas Hernitscheck) Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:31:18 +0100 Subject: [Van-pm] Tech Meeting, 12th March 2009 @ Sophos In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <49AC17E6.30300@tool.de> Hello all, I could also talk about something, what is maybe interesting; Recently I programmed a RPC-Server with memory consistent objects, using fork, semaphores and signals. The challenge here is; how to read from a socket and give incomming requests to existing objects. Would anyone be interested in? (ca. 20 minutes) Question; Is there a PC (with PDF viewer) and a Beamer? -- Andreas Hernitscheck E-mail: tech at tool.de Gertrud-B?umer-Str. 10 80637 Munich, Germany Phone: +49 176 210 16 397 Facsimile: +49 180 5976300671 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From simmons.chris at gmail.com Mon Mar 2 10:23:25 2009 From: simmons.chris at gmail.com (Chris Simmons) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:23:25 -0800 Subject: [Van-pm] Tech Meeting, 12th March 2009 @ Sophos In-Reply-To: <49AC17E6.30300@tool.de> References: <49AC17E6.30300@tool.de> Message-ID: <625b0a180903021023n140189f3oef310b4cc4f12455@mail.gmail.com> Hi Andreas, There is a projector, and someone can probably let you borrow their computer. You'll probably want to arrange with them ahead of time to get the pdf on there, as there is no internet access. Any volunteers for sharing a machine? -chris On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Andreas Hernitscheck wrote: > Hello all, > > I could also talk about something, what is maybe interesting; Recently I > programmed a RPC-Server with memory consistent objects, using fork, > semaphores and signals. The challenge here is; how to read from a socket and > give incomming requests to existing objects. Would anyone be interested in? > (ca. 20 minutes) > > Question; Is there a PC (with PDF viewer) and a Beamer? > > > -- > Andreas Hernitscheck > > E-mail: tech at tool.de > > Gertrud-B?umer-Str. 10 > 80637 Munich, Germany > > Phone: +49 176 210 16 397 > > Facsimile: +49 180 5976300671 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Vancouver-pm mailing list > Vancouver-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/vancouver-pm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kozure at gmail.com Mon Mar 2 10:42:12 2009 From: kozure at gmail.com (Chris Anthony) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:42:12 -0800 Subject: [Van-pm] Tech Meeting, 12th March 2009 @ Sophos In-Reply-To: <625b0a180903021023n140189f3oef310b4cc4f12455@mail.gmail.com> References: <49AC17E6.30300@tool.de> <625b0a180903021023n140189f3oef310b4cc4f12455@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: I could bring in a mac book (if OS X is ok) for Andreas to use. If you email me the pdf before hand I'll make sure its on the laptop. .chris On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Chris Simmons wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > There is a projector, and someone can probably let you borrow their > computer. You'll probably want to arrange with them ahead of time to get the > pdf on there, as there is no internet access. > > Any volunteers for sharing a machine? > > -chris > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Andreas Hernitscheck wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> I could also talk about something, what is maybe interesting; Recently I >> programmed a RPC-Server with memory consistent objects, using fork, >> semaphores and signals. The challenge here is; how to read from a socket and >> give incomming requests to existing objects. Would anyone be interested in? >> (ca. 20 minutes) >> >> Question; Is there a PC (with PDF viewer) and a Beamer? >> >> -- >> Andreas Hernitscheck >> >> E-mail: tech at tool.de >> >> Gertrud-B?umer-Str. 10 >> 80637 Munich, Germany >> >> Phone: +49 176 210 16 397 >> >> Facsimile: +49 180 5976300671 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Vancouver-pm mailing list >> Vancouver-pm at pm.org >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/vancouver-pm > > > _______________________________________________ > Vancouver-pm mailing list > Vancouver-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/vancouver-pm > -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Nolite te bastards carborundorum --Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood From simmons.chris at gmail.com Mon Mar 2 12:03:21 2009 From: simmons.chris at gmail.com (Chris Simmons) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 12:03:21 -0800 Subject: [Van-pm] Tech Meeting, 12th March 2009 @ Sophos In-Reply-To: References: <49AC17E6.30300@tool.de> <625b0a180903021023n140189f3oef310b4cc4f12455@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <625b0a180903021203n15079b16r78820d5646e5e8de@mail.gmail.com> Andreas has found a machine. Thanks everyone for the offers. On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Chris Anthony wrote: > I could bring in a mac book (if OS X is ok) for Andreas to use. > If you email me the pdf before hand I'll make sure its on the laptop. > > .chris > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Chris Simmons > wrote: > > Hi Andreas, > > > > There is a projector, and someone can probably let you borrow their > > computer. You'll probably want to arrange with them ahead of time to get > the > > pdf on there, as there is no internet access. > > > > Any volunteers for sharing a machine? > > > > -chris > > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Andreas Hernitscheck > wrote: > >> > >> Hello all, > >> > >> I could also talk about something, what is maybe interesting; Recently I > >> programmed a RPC-Server with memory consistent objects, using fork, > >> semaphores and signals. The challenge here is; how to read from a socket > and > >> give incomming requests to existing objects. 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URL: From mcli at brc.ubc.ca Tue Mar 3 09:04:20 2009 From: mcli at brc.ubc.ca (Vincent Li) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:04:20 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Van-pm] Convert MS Access form to Perl Web App? Message-ID: <40732.137.82.2.253.1236099860.squirrel@sparc.brc.ubc.ca> Hello, I have MS Access app http://colonymanagement.jax.org/ for mouse colony management. I have already converted the MS access database to MySQL database, the mouse colony MS Access app could link to MySQL database and works fine. I would like to also convert the MS Access app form to web based Perl app, Has anyone done such migration before? Is there any current Perl web frame work I can start on? Thanks -- Vincent Li Biomedical Research Center, UBC From scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk Fri Mar 6 13:54:16 2009 From: scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk (Scott McWhirter) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 13:54:16 -0800 Subject: [Van-pm] Reminder: Tech Meeting, 12th March 2009 @ Sophos Message-ID: Hi all, Thanks to all for the awesome response to talk requests, it looks like it's going to be a great meeting, I'm really looking forward to it! Since the meeting is coming up on Thursday, here's a quick reminder along with some updates. There are 3 talks lined up: * Luke Closs - "Git backed up" Using git, Perl and OCaml to develop a backup solution. * Robin Clarke - "An introduction to Catalyst" Catalyst is a powerful MVC (Model, View, Controller) web framework which has allowed our team to work better in parallel and more effectively on our web application development. * Andreas Hernitscheck - "Object-Oriented XML-RPC Server on Linux with Perl" A description of a possible way how to build a server for XML-RPC communication, especially how to solve the problem of keeping objects in memory and access them again by further calls from a client. We also have several lightning talks lined up: * Scott McWhirter - "Intro to Varnish" * Scott McWhirter - "Intro to AWS" * Chris Simmons - "Intro to Lean Development" * Luke Closs - "Intro to webhooks" * Luke Closs - "Hacking the Van.pm wiki" * Orlando Vazquez - "Distributed blender rendering with perl" If anyone feels like doing a lightning talk about any topic at all, please feel free to add yourself to the lineup on the wiki or drop me an email and I'll add you. Sophos have graciously offered space for our meeting. Their office is at 580 Granville Street in downtown Vancouver (Google map: http://xrl.us/beco9t). Sophos is on the North Eastern corner of the Dunsmuir and Granville intersection. Their offices are above the shoppers drug mart, with the entrance to the left of the building. After-meeting drinks: Elephant and Castle is on the north western corner of the intersection at West Hastings St at Burrard St. (Google Map: http://xrl.us/behyq9). Please feel free to suggest alternate locations. Background on speakers: Luke - Local Vancouver perl hacker and juggler at large. Luke develops software for wiki group Socialtext and is active with groups such as Vancouver hackspace, FreeGeek and is the maintainer for the perl bindings for Selenium RC. Luke also organizes impromtu "super happy dev house" hacking sessions (more on that when we hear from him). Robin - Hailing from Ireland and after spending some time in Germany, has moved to Vancouver. Robin works as a software engineer working with Perl/MySQL in online marketing. Andreas - "I am just a developer, 33 years old from Munich and a guest to Vancouver for some days." Other details: The Vancouver.pm wiki is available at http://www.socialtext.net/vanpm/ please feel free to edit away. Thanks to Luke Closs and Socialtext for hosting it for us. I am in the process of transferring http://vancouver.pm.org over to point at the wiki. I have also set up a LinkedIn Vancouver Perl Mongers group available here: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1756057 thanks, -- -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- From scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk Wed Mar 11 14:03:43 2009 From: scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk (Scott McWhirter) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:03:43 -0700 Subject: [Van-pm] Reminder: Tech Meeting, 12th March 2009 @ Sophos In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hey all, Just a reminder that our March meeting is tomorrow night at 7pm at Sophos (location details on the wiki). We have three 20 minute talks being given and six lightning talks, so it looks like it's going to be a good night. See you all tomorrow night! -- -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Scott McWhirter wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks to all for the awesome response to talk requests, it looks like > it's going to be a great meeting, I'm really looking forward to it! > Since the meeting is coming up on Thursday, here's a quick reminder > along with some updates. > > There are 3 talks lined up: > > * Luke Closs - "Git backed up" > ? ?Using git, Perl and OCaml to develop a backup solution. > > * Robin Clarke - "An introduction to Catalyst" > ? ?Catalyst is a powerful MVC (Model, View, Controller) web framework > which has allowed our team to work better in parallel and more > effectively on our web application development. > > * Andreas Hernitscheck - "Object-Oriented XML-RPC Server on Linux with Perl" > ? ?A description of a possible way how to build a server for XML-RPC > communication, especially how to solve the problem of keeping objects > in memory and access them again by further calls from a client. > > We also have several lightning talks lined up: > > * Scott McWhirter - "Intro to Varnish" > * Scott McWhirter - "Intro to AWS" > * Chris Simmons - "Intro to Lean Development" > * Luke Closs - "Intro to webhooks" > * Luke Closs - "Hacking the Van.pm wiki" > * Orlando Vazquez - "Distributed blender rendering with perl" > > If anyone feels like doing a lightning talk about any topic at all, > please feel free > to add yourself to the lineup on the wiki or drop me an email and I'll add you. > > Sophos have graciously offered space for our meeting. Their office is at 580 > Granville Street in downtown Vancouver (Google map: http://xrl.us/beco9t). > Sophos is on the North Eastern corner of the Dunsmuir and Granville > intersection. Their offices are above the shoppers drug mart, with the > entrance to the left of the building. > > After-meeting drinks: > > Elephant and Castle is on the north western corner of the intersection > at West Hastings St at Burrard St. (Google Map: http://xrl.us/behyq9). > Please feel free to suggest alternate locations. > > Background on speakers: > > Luke - Local Vancouver perl hacker and juggler at large. Luke develops > software for wiki group Socialtext and is active with groups such as > Vancouver hackspace, FreeGeek and is the maintainer for the perl bindings > for Selenium RC. Luke also organizes impromtu "super happy dev house" > hacking sessions (more on that when we hear from him). > > Robin - Hailing from Ireland and after spending some time in Germany, > has moved to Vancouver. Robin works as a software engineer working > with Perl/MySQL in online marketing. > > Andreas - "I am just a developer, 33 years old from Munich and a guest > to Vancouver for some days." > > Other details: > > The Vancouver.pm wiki is available at http://www.socialtext.net/vanpm/ > please feel free to edit away. Thanks to Luke Closs and Socialtext for > hosting it for us. I am in the process of transferring > http://vancouver.pm.org over to point at the wiki. > > I have also set up a LinkedIn Vancouver Perl Mongers group available here: > http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1756057 > > thanks, > > > -- > -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- > From lukecloss at gmail.com Thu Mar 12 00:34:56 2009 From: lukecloss at gmail.com (Luke Closs) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:34:56 -0700 Subject: [Van-pm] Reminder: Tech Meeting, 12th March 2009 @ Sophos In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hey, I'd like to withdraw one of my lightning talks (hacking the van.pm wiki), so if anyone else wants to jump in with something HTTP related please do! Or we could chat about comet, long polling and PTTH. Luke On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Scott McWhirter wrote: > Hey all, > > Just a reminder that our March meeting is tomorrow night at 7pm at > Sophos (location details on the wiki). > > We have three 20 minute talks being given and six lightning talks, so > it looks like it's going to be a good night. > > See you all tomorrow night! > > > -- > -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Scott McWhirter > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Thanks to all for the awesome response to talk requests, it looks like >> it's going to be a great meeting, I'm really looking forward to it! >> Since the meeting is coming up on Thursday, here's a quick reminder >> along with some updates. >> >> There are 3 talks lined up: >> >> * Luke Closs - "Git backed up" >> ? ?Using git, Perl and OCaml to develop a backup solution. >> >> * Robin Clarke - "An introduction to Catalyst" >> ? ?Catalyst is a powerful MVC (Model, View, Controller) web framework >> which has allowed our team to work better in parallel and more >> effectively on our web application development. >> >> * Andreas Hernitscheck - "Object-Oriented XML-RPC Server on Linux with Perl" >> ? ?A description of a possible way how to build a server for XML-RPC >> communication, especially how to solve the problem of keeping objects >> in memory and access them again by further calls from a client. >> >> We also have several lightning talks lined up: >> >> * Scott McWhirter - "Intro to Varnish" >> * Scott McWhirter - "Intro to AWS" >> * Chris Simmons - "Intro to Lean Development" >> * Luke Closs - "Intro to webhooks" >> * Luke Closs - "Hacking the Van.pm wiki" >> * Orlando Vazquez - "Distributed blender rendering with perl" >> >> If anyone feels like doing a lightning talk about any topic at all, >> please feel free >> to add yourself to the lineup on the wiki or drop me an email and I'll add you. >> >> Sophos have graciously offered space for our meeting. Their office is at 580 >> Granville Street in downtown Vancouver (Google map: http://xrl.us/beco9t). >> Sophos is on the North Eastern corner of the Dunsmuir and Granville >> intersection. Their offices are above the shoppers drug mart, with the >> entrance to the left of the building. >> >> After-meeting drinks: >> >> Elephant and Castle is on the north western corner of the intersection >> at West Hastings St at Burrard St. (Google Map: http://xrl.us/behyq9). >> Please feel free to suggest alternate locations. >> >> Background on speakers: >> >> Luke - Local Vancouver perl hacker and juggler at large. Luke develops >> software for wiki group Socialtext and is active with groups such as >> Vancouver hackspace, FreeGeek and is the maintainer for the perl bindings >> for Selenium RC. Luke also organizes impromtu "super happy dev house" >> hacking sessions (more on that when we hear from him). >> >> Robin - Hailing from Ireland and after spending some time in Germany, >> has moved to Vancouver. Robin works as a software engineer working >> with Perl/MySQL in online marketing. >> >> Andreas - "I am just a developer, 33 years old from Munich and a guest >> to Vancouver for some days." >> >> Other details: >> >> The Vancouver.pm wiki is available at http://www.socialtext.net/vanpm/ >> please feel free to edit away. Thanks to Luke Closs and Socialtext for >> hosting it for us. I am in the process of transferring >> http://vancouver.pm.org over to point at the wiki. >> >> I have also set up a LinkedIn Vancouver Perl Mongers group available here: >> http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1756057 >> >> thanks, >> >> >> -- >> -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- >> > _______________________________________________ > Vancouver-pm mailing list > Vancouver-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/vancouver-pm > From scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk Fri Mar 13 18:48:04 2009 From: scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk (Scott McWhirter) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:48:04 -0700 Subject: [Van-pm] Reminder: Tech Meeting, 12th March 2009 @ Sophos In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi All, Thanks to all who came out last night! I believe that last nights meeting was the largest meeting that Vancouver.pm has ever had, so hopefully it'll keep getting better. Next months theme is "tools", development tools, tools that let you do your work or tools for productivity. There is an open call for lightning talks and space for a full 20 minute talk. I'd like some volunteers for lightning talks, and I believe Andy volunteered to do one about data crunching astronomy data for UBC. Some things from last night: Vancouver tech calendar: http://cal.wikrad.com/ Vancouver C++ Users Group, March 19, 2009 @ Sophos: http://vancpp.org/index.php Vancouver Hack Space: http://vancouver.hackspace.ca/doku.php Varnish: http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/ Amazon Web Services: http://aws.amazon.com/ Blender: http://www.blender.org/ Catalyst: http://www.catalystframework.org/ Thanks all! -- -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- From simmons.chris at gmail.com Mon Mar 16 13:11:17 2009 From: simmons.chris at gmail.com (Chris Simmons) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:11:17 -0700 Subject: [Van-pm] Books from last week's talk Message-ID: <625b0a180903161311m8509817i202821ba74df632@mail.gmail.com> Hi all, During my talk on Lean Development (and afterwards at the pub) I mentioned a few books relevant to Lean Software Development, Agile techniques, and management in general. 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We?re aiming to connect people across projects, languages and experience and would love to have members of the Vancouver perl community involved as speakers and participants. Details about the conference are included below. Bridge isn?t a typical conference. It?s entirely volunteer-run, by developers, for developers. Session tracks are technology agnostic, based instead around shared community experiences and focused on similarities between projects, not differences. Plus, we?ll be running a 24-hour hacker lounge for code sprints, bug bashes, bouncing ideas, starting new projects or just mingling. We?d be delighted it if you could mention Open Source Bridge at your user group meetings, post this email to your mailing list, and get us in touch with others in your community interested in participating. Our call for proposals is closing on March 31st, so please pass this information on as soon as possible. We don?t expect something for nothing, so we?re giving all of your user group members a discounted registration rate of $150. That?s $25 off the Early Bird rate, and $100 off our regular registration. User groups are very important to the chairs of our conference ? that?s how they both got started in the open source community. We?re also offering a free conference pass to give away to a member of your group. If you?re interested in more ways to promote the conference, let us know! Thank You! Reid Beels Open Source Bridge reid at opensourcebridge.org http://opensourcebridge.org/ CONFERENCE PASS RAFFLE INFORMATION: You get one free conference pass to raffle off to a member of your group! We?ve found the most successful raffles tend to follow these conditions: 1) Let all of your members know about the conference, dates, and URL: http://opensourcebridge.org/ 2) Allow anyone in the group to sign up for the raffle. 3) Draw the winner at random, preferably at a public meeting. When you have selected a winner, email usergroups at opensourcebridge.org, CC the winner, and we?ll register them for you. DETAILS TO SHARE WITH YOUR GROUP?S MEMBERS: Open Source Bridge http://opensourcebridge.org Open Source Bridge is a new conference for developers working with open source technologies. It will take place June 17-19 in Portland, OR, with five tracks connecting people across projects, languages and experience to explore how we do our work and why we participate in open source. The conference structure is designed to provide developers with an opportunity to learn from people they might not connect with at other events. Open Source Bridge is run entirely by volunteers who believe in the need for an open source conference that focuses on the culture of being an open source citizen, regardless of where in the stack you choose to code. All proceeds from conference registration and sponsorship go directly to the costs of the conference. Our sessions and events will share in-depth knowledge about using, creating and contributing to open source as citizens of a greater community. You?ll find relevant information whether you write web apps for the cloud, tinker with operating system internals, create hardware, run a startup, or blog about technology. We?re still seeking session proposals, so submit yours by the end of March 31st. Some examples of our proposals so far: Brian Aker on Drizzle, a reboot of MySQL designed ?for the cloud?; Linux Kernel hacker Greg K-H about how Linux manages development; Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki, about what?s next in collaboration; Amber Case, an anthropologist living in both the physical and virtual worlds, about Cyborg Citizenship. (You can view all current proposals at http://opensourcebridge.org/proposals/) In addition to regular conference sessions, we will hold an unconference day for free-form sessions, and host a 24-hour dedicated ?hacker lounge? at the top of the Portland Hilton. In addition to hosting the hacker lounge, the Hilton has offered Open Source Bridge attendees steeply discounted room rates, starting at $139/night. Visit http://opensourcebridge.org/ to learn more about the conference, see our session proposals, and register to attend. Thanks! PS: Interested in taking advantage of the user group discount code that will allow user group members to register for $150? Enter ?osb4228? when you register to receive the discount. -- -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- From scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk Tue Mar 24 14:27:32 2009 From: scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk (Scott McWhirter) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:27:32 -0700 Subject: [Van-pm] YAPC::NA - Last day of special conference price Message-ID: Hey all, Just to let you know... anyone who's planning on attending YAPC::NA, today is the last day of the anniversary special discount for the conference entrance. http://use.perl.org/~rblackwe/journal/38696 Both myself and Luke Closs are heading along as the Vancouver.pm contingent. If anyone else is planning to go along, just let us know and we can see about travelling as a group. Thanks, -- -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- From scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk Fri Mar 27 11:07:17 2009 From: scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk (Scott McWhirter) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:07:17 -0700 Subject: [Van-pm] Tech Meeting, 9th April 2009 @ Gossamer Threads, 7pm Message-ID: Hi all, Thanks to all who made it to the last meeting. The turnout was great and I believe everyone had an informative and enjoyable evening. Next we have our "Tools" topic night. NB: We're at a different venue this time, the details are below. Thanks muchly to Alex Krohn and the guys at Gossamer for use of their space. I must also ask people to remember that the meeting is at 7pm and that late arrivals can be very distracting to speakers. Can we please try to arrive as close to 7pm as possible (thanks). There are 3 talks lined up: * Luke Closs - "Introduction Git" NB: Luke requests that people bring their laptops with git installed * Jerome Pimmel - "Behaviour Driven Development" * Kevin Jones - "Introduction to Shindig" We also have several lightning talks lined up: * Michael Nachbaur - "Test::A8N for human-readable system tests" * Michael Nachbaur - "Using Git post-update hooks for live site deployments" * Scott McWhirter - "What is a lightning talk?" << I believe Andy @ UBC offered to do a lightning talk, but I haven't been able to get a hold of his email, can you drop me a line if you get this in time, Andy? >> If anyone feels like doing a lightning talk about any topic at all, please feel free to add yourself to the lineup on the wiki or drop me an email and I'll add you. !!! DIFFERENT VENUE !!! Gossamer Threads have graciously offered space for our meeting. Their office is located on the west side of Granville St close to the intersection with West Pender St on the 5th Floor of 455 Granville St. (Google map: http://xrl.us/bekhbb) After-meeting drinks: I would like to try somewhere different again this month, but don't have any suggestions. It's open to the floor. Background on speakers: Luke - Local Vancouver perl hacker and juggler at large. Luke develops software for wiki group Socialtext and is active with groups such as Vancouver hackspace, FreeGeek and is the maintainer for the perl bindings for Selenium RC. Kevin - Local Vancouver perl hacker. Kevin works with Luke and several of the other Vancouver.pm members at Socialtext. Jerome - [TBF - will update when he's got the data] Other details: YAPC::NA It turns out that quite a few van.pm-ers are going to be attending the conference this year. If anyone else wishes to come along and travel as a group we'd be more than happy to share arrangements. Current details are on the wiki at http://xrl.us/bemtkc The Vancouver.pm wiki is available at http://www.socialtext.net/vanpm/ or available through http://vancouver.pm.org I have also set up a LinkedIn Vancouver Perl Mongers group available here: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1756057 thanks, -- -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- From christie.a.wilson at gmail.com Fri Mar 27 12:12:17 2009 From: christie.a.wilson at gmail.com (Christie Wilson) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:12:17 -0700 Subject: [Van-pm] Tech Meeting, 9th April 2009 @ Gossamer Threads, 7pm In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1765d6cb0903271212x848fc84wf17c52ce2f2ec081@mail.gmail.com> How sad! I will have to miss this next meeting! Please try to have fun without me, somehow. (p.s. Chris I still owe you a beer) On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Scott McWhirter wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks to all who made it to the last meeting. The turnout was great and I > believe everyone had an informative and enjoyable evening. Next we have our > "Tools" topic night. > > NB: We're at a different venue this time, the details are below. Thanks > muchly > to Alex Krohn and the guys at Gossamer for use of their space. > > I must also ask people to remember that the meeting is at 7pm and that late > arrivals can be very distracting to speakers. Can we please try to arrive > as > close to 7pm as possible (thanks). > > There are 3 talks lined up: > > * Luke Closs - "Introduction Git" > NB: Luke requests that people bring their laptops with git installed > > * Jerome Pimmel - "Behaviour Driven Development" > > * Kevin Jones - "Introduction to Shindig" > > We also have several lightning talks lined up: > > * Michael Nachbaur - "Test::A8N for human-readable system tests" > * Michael Nachbaur - "Using Git post-update hooks for live site > deployments" > * Scott McWhirter - "What is a lightning talk?" > > << I believe Andy @ UBC offered to do a lightning talk, but I haven't > been able to get a hold of his email, can you drop me a line if you get > this in > time, Andy? >> > > If anyone feels like doing a lightning talk about any topic at all, > please feel free > to add yourself to the lineup on the wiki or drop me an email and I'll add > you. > > !!! DIFFERENT VENUE !!! > > Gossamer Threads have graciously offered space for our meeting. Their > office > is located on the west side of Granville St close to the intersection with > West > Pender St on the 5th Floor of 455 Granville St. > (Google map: http://xrl.us/bekhbb) > > After-meeting drinks: > > I would like to try somewhere different again this month, but don't have > any > suggestions. It's open to the floor. > > Background on speakers: > > Luke - Local Vancouver perl hacker and juggler at large. Luke develops > software for wiki group Socialtext and is active with groups such as > Vancouver hackspace, FreeGeek and is the maintainer for the perl bindings > for Selenium RC. > > Kevin - Local Vancouver perl hacker. Kevin works with Luke and several of > the other Vancouver.pm members at Socialtext. > > Jerome - [TBF - will update when he's got the data] > > Other details: > > YAPC::NA > It turns out that quite a few van.pm-ers are going to be attending the > conference this year. If anyone else wishes to come along and travel > as a group we'd be more than happy to share arrangements. > Current details are on the wiki at http://xrl.us/bemtkc > > The Vancouver.pm wiki is available at http://www.socialtext.net/vanpm/ > or available through http://vancouver.pm.org > > I have also set up a LinkedIn Vancouver Perl Mongers group available here: > http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1756057 > > thanks, > > > -- > -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- > _______________________________________________ > Vancouver-pm mailing list > Vancouver-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/vancouver-pm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: