From grant at mclean.net.nz Thu May 3 20:21:02 2007 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 15:21:02 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting next Tuesday Message-ID: <1178248862.14830.10.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Hi Mongers I meant to send this out earlier in the week but ... The May meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is on next Tuesday (May 8th) at the usual place and time: 6:00pm Tuesday 10 April 2007 Level 2, Eagle Technology House 150 Willis Street Wellington http://wellington.pm.org/ This month's speakers: * Dan Jacka - Win32::OLE * Paul Chilton - SiteLife ( http://www.sitelife.org/ ) Hopefully some of you will already be thinking about what you can volunteer to speak about next month. See you there. Grant From grant at mclean.net.nz Thu May 3 20:35:35 2007 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 15:35:35 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting next Tuesday In-Reply-To: <1178248862.14830.10.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> References: <1178248862.14830.10.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: <1178249735.14830.12.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 15:21 +1200, Grant McLean wrote: > Hi Mongers > > I meant to send this out earlier in the week but ... > > The May meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is on next Tuesday (May 8th) > at the usual place and time: > > 6:00pm Tuesday 10 April 2007 Bah, cut, paste, disengage brain. Forget April it's history. May is the present and the future! Cheers Grant From grant at mclean.net.nz Mon May 7 17:29:12 2007 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 12:29:12 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Perl Mongers meeting tonight Message-ID: <1178584152.21981.3.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Hi Mongers The May meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is tonight. 6:00pm Tuesday 8 May 2007 Level 2, Eagle Technology House 150 Willis Street Wellington http://wellington.pm.org/ This month's speakers: * Dan Jacka - Win32::OLE * Paul Chilton - SiteLife ( http://www.sitelife.org/ ) See you there. Grant From grant at mclean.net.nz Tue May 8 19:22:11 2007 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 14:22:11 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Roundup of last night's meeting Message-ID: <1178677332.5016.25.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Hi Mongers Thanks to Dan and Paul for their talks last night and thanks to everyone else for asking lots of questions. The links to the slides are now up on the archive page: http://wellington.pm.org/archive/ In Dan's defence, it turns out that the source code for his presentation was appropriately indented on his machine but the translation to HTML broke that due to a disagreement between his source and my script as to the meaning of a tab character :-) Moral: don't use tabs. Alternate moral: don't use Grant's scripts. The next meeting is scheduled for the 12th of June. James Jones is threatening to talk about some Perl stuff he did with second life. Andy Chilton is threatening to talk about something as-yet-unspecified. I'm keen to hear from anyone ready to commit. Cheers Grant From andychilton at gmail.com Wed May 9 01:03:22 2007 From: andychilton at gmail.com (Andrew Chilton) Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 20:03:22 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Roundup of last night's meeting In-Reply-To: <1178677332.5016.25.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> References: <1178677332.5016.25.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: Yep, I'm happy to speak, so you can call that a commit if you like. I have a couple of ideas and not sure which to go for at the moment. It's a toss-up between: 1) OpenID Consumer (either using it for Comments and/or Sign On) 2) Something FUSE related using Perl as a puppet between more than one entity It may depend on how much I can get done and how successful I am with either. It also means that by saying this here, I'll _have_ to do it :-) Cheers, Andy -- contact: Andrew Chilton website: http://kapiti.geek.nz/ From andychilton at gmail.com Wed May 9 01:03:22 2007 From: andychilton at gmail.com (Andrew Chilton) Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 20:03:22 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Roundup of last night's meeting In-Reply-To: <1178677332.5016.25.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> References: <1178677332.5016.25.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: Yep, I'm happy to speak, so you can call that a commit if you like. I have a couple of ideas and not sure which to go for at the moment. It's a toss-up between: 1) OpenID Consumer (either using it for Comments and/or Sign On) 2) Something FUSE related using Perl as a puppet between more than one entity It may depend on how much I can get done and how successful I am with either. It also means that by saying this here, I'll _have_ to do it :-) Cheers, Andy -- contact: Andrew Chilton website: http://kapiti.geek.nz/ From james at virtualrealmsoftware.com Wed May 9 04:27:59 2007 From: james at virtualrealmsoftware.com (James Jones) Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 23:27:59 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Roundup of last night's meeting In-Reply-To: <1178677332.5016.25.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: <20070509113041.EQYS23336.fep03.xtra.co.nz@jamesdad0c5ae5> I would be happy to show off some stuff, as long you guys promise not laugh at my code. It is more proof of concept then production. -----Original Message----- From: wellington-pm-bounces+james=virtualrealmsoftware.com at pm.org [mailto:wellington-pm-bounces+james=virtualrealmsoftware.com at pm.org] On Behalf Of Grant McLean Sent: Wednesday, 9 May 2007 2:22 p.m. To: Wellington Perl Mongers (Perl user group) Subject: [Wellington-pm] Roundup of last night's meeting Hi Mongers Thanks to Dan and Paul for their talks last night and thanks to everyone else for asking lots of questions. The links to the slides are now up on the archive page: http://wellington.pm.org/archive/ In Dan's defence, it turns out that the source code for his presentation was appropriately indented on his machine but the translation to HTML broke that due to a disagreement between his source and my script as to the meaning of a tab character :-) Moral: don't use tabs. Alternate moral: don't use Grant's scripts. The next meeting is scheduled for the 12th of June. James Jones is threatening to talk about some Perl stuff he did with second life. Andy Chilton is threatening to talk about something as-yet-unspecified. I'm keen to hear from anyone ready to commit. Cheers Grant _______________________________________________ Wellington-pm mailing list Wellington-pm at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.6.6/794 - Release Date: 8/05/2007 2:23 p.m. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.6.6/794 - Release Date: 8/05/2007 2:23 p.m. From jarich at perltraining.com.au Sat May 12 19:22:28 2007 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson) Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 12:22:28 +1000 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Open Source Developers' Conference 2007 - Brisbane - Call for Papers Message-ID: <46467664.3060301@perltraining.com.au> (please feel free and encouraged to redistribute the text of this email anywhere you feel appropriate) Call for Papers --------------- Open Source Developers' Conference 2007 - Brisbane "Success in Development & Business" OSDC is a grass-roots conference providing Open Source developers with an opportunity to meet, share, learn, and of course show-off. OSDC focuses on Open Source developers building solutions directly for customers and other end users, anything goes as long as the code or the development platform is Open Source. Last year's conference attracted over 180 people, 60 talks, and 6 tutorials. Entry for delegates is kept easy by maintaining a low registration fee (approx $300), which always includes the conference dinner. This year OSDC will be held in Brisbane from the 26th to the 29th of November, with an extra dedicated stream for presentations on Open Source business development, case studies, software process, and project management. The theme for this year's conference is "Success in Development & Business". If you are an Open Source maintainer, developer or user we would encourage you to submit a talk proposal on the open-source tools, solutions, technologies, or languages you are working with. Previous years have included numerous talks on topics such as: - FOSS Software Development Tools, Software Process and Project Management - Languages/Platforms: C/C++, Java, C#/Mono/OSS.Net - Scripting: Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby - Databases - Education - Web Technologies - Emerging Technologies and Innovation For more details and to submit your proposal(s), see http://osdc.com.au/papers/cfp.html If you have any questions or require assistance with your submission, please don't hesitate to ask! We recognise the increasing importance of Open Source in providing a medium for collaboration between individuals, researchers, business and government. In recognition of this, we offer optional peer-review for those members of our community who desire it. We are still finalising our review board, in addition to which those requesting peer-review will be asked to contribute reviews for up to three papers. OSDC 2007 Brisbane - Key Program Dates -------------------------------------- 30 Jun - Proposals deadline 31 Jul - Proposal acceptance 31 Aug - Submission deadline 15 Sep - Peer-review response (optional) 30 Sep - Final version for proceedings 26 Nov - OSDC 2007 Tutorials 27-29 Nov - OSDC 2007 Main Conference! For all information, contacts and updates, see the OSDC conference web site at http://osdc.com.au/ Sponsorship ----------- We gratefully acknowledge the following companies for their early commitment in sponsoring OSDC 2007: - Apress (http://apress.com/) - Common Ground (http://commongroundgroup.com/) - Google (http://google.com.au/) - OpenGear (http://opengear.com.au/) Interested in sponsoring also? 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