From grant at mclean.net.nz Mon Oct 1 18:56:28 2007 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:56:28 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting Next Tuesday (Oct 9th) Message-ID: <1191290188.15917.3.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Hi Mongers The October meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is next Tuesday (October 9th) at the usual place and time: 6:00pm Tuesday 9 October 2007 Level 2, The building formerly known as Eagle Technology House 150 Willis Street Wellington http://wellington.pm.org/ The theme this month is multi-threading/processing with four short talks lined up: * Grant McLean - case study of a daemon using select() * Srdjan Jankovic - case study of using Perl threads * Evan Giles - Using Event.pm * Sam Vilain - Coro and STM See you there. Cheers Grant From grant at mclean.net.nz Mon Oct 1 23:51:15 2007 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:51:15 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, September 21] Message-ID: <1191307875.25611.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Marsee Henon > Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, September 21 > Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:46:20 -0700 > > ================================================================ > O'Reilly News for User Group Members > September 21, 2007 > ================================================================ > --------------------------------------------------------------- > New Releases--Books, Short Cuts, and Rough Cuts > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Get 35% off from O'Reilly, No Starch, Paraglyph, PC Publishing, > Pragmatic Bookshelf, Rocky Nook, SitePoint, or YoungJin books > you purchase directly from O'Reilly. > > Just use code DSUG when ordering online or by phone 800-998-9938. > > > Free ground shipping on orders of $29.95 or more. > For more details, go to: > > > Did you know you can request a free book or PDF to review for your > group? 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Message-ID: <4704D2AA.7040508@perltraining.com.au> Registration for the Open Source Developers' Conference 2007 is now open. http://osdc.com.au/registration/ For non-presenters, the earlybird price is $275 (until October 14th), after that the full conference price is $325. All regular tickets include the conference dinner! Cool & affordable, right? Memory jogger: the OSDC 2007 conference dates are 26-29 November; location: Brisbane, Queensland. Peruse the overview of confirmed sessions at http:// www.cgpublisher.com/conferences/107/web/session_descriptions.html You simply must be there, otherwise you're just not cool, and evil geckos will eat your undies. Cheers, Arjen. -- Arjen Lentz, Owner @ Open Query (http://openquery.com.au/) Based in Brisbane, Australia - ph. +61-7-3103 0809 Open Source Experts, MySQL Specialists Organising Committee, Open Source Developers Conference (http:// osdc.com.au/) Brisbane QLD Australia, 26-29 November 2007 From brenda at wallace.net.nz Sun Oct 7 22:03:15 2007 From: brenda at wallace.net.nz (Brenda Wallace) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 18:03:15 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] New Zealand PostgreSQL Users' Group Message-ID: <200710081803.16183.brenda@wallace.net.nz> Monday 8th October 2007 - Announcing the New Zealand PostgreSQL Users' Group NZ PostgreSQL Users' Group (NZPGUG) will bring together NZ's PostgreSQL users to discuss the world's best database server. PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness. NZPGUG is open to professionals, students, and enthusiasts. Activities include a mailing list, local meetings with technical presentations, and probably beer. PostgreSQL is in use within many systems in New Zealand, including: websites, education systems, telecommunications, and mapping. Even the New Zealand electoral roll is stored in PostgreSQL. The first meeting will be held in Wellington, on Tuesday the 6th of November at 6pm, hosted by Catalyst IT, 150 Willis Street. Subscribe to the mailing list for more information. For more information, visit http://pgug.org.nz or email contact[at]pgug.org.nz From grant at mclean.net.nz Mon Oct 8 16:06:03 2007 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:06:03 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting This Evening Message-ID: <1191884763.21464.10.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Hi Mongers The October meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is next this evening at the usual place and time: 6:00pm Tuesday 9 October 2007 Level 2, The building formerly known as Eagle Technology House 150 Willis Street Wellington http://wellington.pm.org/ The theme this month is multi-threading/processing with four short talks lined up: * Grant McLean - case study of a daemon using select() * Srdjan Jankovic - case study of using Perl threads * Evan Giles - Using Event.pm * Sam Vilain - Coro and STM Srdjan may be unable to attend due to family commitments so if anyone else wants to do an impromptu spot on "How Perl threads saved my life" then you may get your chance. See you there. Cheers Grant From grant at mclean.net.nz Mon Oct 8 18:40:06 2007 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:40:06 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting This Evening In-Reply-To: <1191884763.21464.10.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> References: <1191884763.21464.10.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: <1191894006.21464.16.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> By the way, the automatic doors at the main entrance to our building are still not adjusted for daylight savings time so they will lock off at 5:00pm. You should be able to come in after that time by waiting form someone to come out but feel free to TXT me if you get stuck waiting. My number will be on a notice at the door. Cheers Grant On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 12:06 +1300, Grant McLean wrote: > Hi Mongers > > The October meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is next this evening at > the usual place and time: > > 6:00pm Tuesday 9 October 2007 > Level 2, The building formerly known as Eagle Technology House > 150 Willis Street > Wellington > http://wellington.pm.org/ > > The theme this month is multi-threading/processing with four short talks > lined up: > > * Grant McLean - case study of a daemon using select() > * Srdjan Jankovic - case study of using Perl threads > * Evan Giles - Using Event.pm > * Sam Vilain - Coro and STM > > Srdjan may be unable to attend due to family commitments so if anyone > else wants to do an impromptu spot on "How Perl threads saved my life" > then you may get your chance. > > See you there. > > Cheers > Grant > > > _______________________________________________ > Wellington-pm mailing list > Wellington-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm From grant at mclean.net.nz Tue Oct 9 14:52:23 2007 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:52:23 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Roundup of last night's meeting Message-ID: <1191966743.21464.37.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Hi Mongers Nice to see a couple of new faces last night. Thanks to Evan and Sam for their talks on Event.pm, Coro and STM. And thanks to everyone for smiling and nodding politely as I revealed the full extent of the insanity that is bcvi. The slides are up on the archive page now: http://wellington.pm.org/archive/ **** IMPORTANT **** I haven't heard from any volunteers to speak next month, so please let me know if you'd like to do a talk or if there's a subject you'd like to hear about. Cheers Grant From srdjan at catalyst.net.nz Tue Oct 9 16:56:04 2007 From: srdjan at catalyst.net.nz (Srdjan) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:56:04 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Roundup of last night's meeting In-Reply-To: <1191966743.21464.37.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> References: <1191966743.21464.37.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: <470C1514.4040100@catalyst.net.nz> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Would be a pity to waste those slides that I've made, so if you're still interested... Srdjan Grant McLean wrote: > Hi Mongers > > Nice to see a couple of new faces last night. > > Thanks to Evan and Sam for their talks on Event.pm, Coro and STM. And > thanks to everyone for smiling and nodding politely as I revealed the > full extent of the insanity that is bcvi. > > The slides are up on the archive page now: > > http://wellington.pm.org/archive/ > > **** IMPORTANT **** > > I haven't heard from any volunteers to speak next month, so please let > me know if you'd like to do a talk or if there's a subject you'd like to > hear about. > > Cheers > Grant > > _______________________________________________ > Wellington-pm mailing list > Wellington-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHDBUUZtcHxCitRpgRAp9yAJ9K5JdGMqIcNFiBAQTIoRU+EKXW7wCgowSB k31USjAm1LjE4fyeSukcRx0= =zf1H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From grant at mclean.net.nz Tue Oct 9 18:09:01 2007 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:09:01 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Roundup of last night's meeting In-Reply-To: <470C1514.4040100@catalyst.net.nz> References: <1191966743.21464.37.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> <470C1514.4040100@catalyst.net.nz> Message-ID: <1191978542.21464.52.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 12:56 +1300, Srdjan wrote: > Would be a pity to waste those slides that I've made, so if you're > still interested... > > Srdjan Of course we're still interested. So that's one speaker. More volunteers needed. Regards Grant From lenz at gschwendtner.eu Tue Oct 9 23:13:28 2007 From: lenz at gschwendtner.eu (lenz) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:13:28 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Roundup of last night's meeting In-Reply-To: <1191978542.21464.52.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> References: <1191966743.21464.37.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> <470C1514.4040100@catalyst.net.nz> <1191978542.21464.52.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: <7BB8526E-7233-478C-B90E-444131554C71@gschwendtner.eu> On 10/10/2007, at 2:09 PM, Grant McLean wrote: > So that's one speaker. More volunteers needed. > well, i did some larger projects with the forking daemon type that got mentioned the last time as "the less fancy way". i could give a short review of the shiny moments and the dark sides of this approach. greets lenz From grant at mclean.net.nz Wed Oct 10 00:49:40 2007 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:49:40 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Roundup of last night's meeting In-Reply-To: <7BB8526E-7233-478C-B90E-444131554C71@gschwendtner.eu> References: <1191966743.21464.37.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> <470C1514.4040100@catalyst.net.nz> <1191978542.21464.52.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> <7BB8526E-7233-478C-B90E-444131554C71@gschwendtner.eu> Message-ID: <1192002580.5315.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 19:13 +1300, lenz wrote: > On 10/10/2007, at 2:09 PM, Grant McLean wrote: > > > So that's one speaker. More volunteers needed. > > > > well, i did some larger projects with the forking daemon type that > got mentioned the last time as "the less fancy way". i could give a > short review of the shiny moments and the dark sides of this approach. Excellent. That's two speakers. So if someone else wanted to contribute something short then there's room for one more. Cheers Grant From finlay at catalyst.net.nz Wed Oct 10 13:46:08 2007 From: finlay at catalyst.net.nz (Finlay Thompson) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:46:08 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] ICFP Result: "Perl is a fine tool for many applications" Message-ID: <1192049168.7161.1.camel@localhost> Hi Everyone The report is in from the ICFP contest. It seems that a Perl team from South Africa came in with second place! http://www.cs.uu.nl/research/techreps/repo/CS-2007/2007-029.pdf Finlay From jarich at osdc.com.au Wed Oct 10 22:41:22 2007 From: jarich at osdc.com.au (jarich at osdc.com.au) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:41:22 +1000 (EST) Subject: [Wellington-pm] OSDC 2007 Program is available Message-ID: <20071011054122.BA39AA934B@teddybear.perltraining.com.au> Dear Wellington PM members, Registrations are open for the Open Source Developers' Conference 2007: http://www.osdc.com.au/registration/index.html Book before THIS SUNDAY - 14th October to save $50 and get a free conference t-shirt! Key information: 14th October - Early bird date 26th November - Tutorials 27th - 29th November - Technical program 28th November - Google Conference Dinner Royal on the Park Hotel Cnr Alice & Albert Streets Brisbane CBD Queensland The Open Source Developers' Conference is an Australian conference covering talks about software development for open source languages and projects; regardless of operating system. There will be 3-4 streams of talks over the three days of technical program, with combined keynotes at the start of each day. Morning and afternoon teas, and lunch will be provided. The Google Conference Dinner will be held on the night of the 28th November (each full registration includes one ticket (until sold out)). Talks this year include: * "Packaging Perl Applications: From CPAN To Your Project" by Kirrily Robert * "Integrating PHP and Active Directory" by Scott Barnett * "Commercial Open Source with Python: Experiences from the Trenches: Developing a Commercial Python Open Source Project" by Juergen Brendel * "Why would a Java Shop want to use Ruby?" by Keith Pitty * "Unfair advantage - Taking on .net with a world-beating open source stack" by Stuart Guthrie To see more and view the program please visit: http://www.cgpublisher.com/conferences/107/web/program-detail.html Conference keynote presenters include Rusty Russell (opening), Rasmus Lerdorf, Paul Fenwick (dinner), Kimberlee Weatherall, Nat Torkington (closing), and plenaries by Ian Clatworthy and Melissa Draper! You can help us make this conference be the best developers' conference this year just by turning up and participating! We look forward to sharing this great conference with you. If your business would like to benefit from exposure to many of Australia's best open source developers then perhaps you should consider sponsorship. We have a wide range of sponsorship options, to find out more information please visit: http://www.osdc.com.au/sponsors/index.html Many thanks go to our sponsors: Apress, Brisbane PHP, BuilderAU, Common Ground, Google, Linux Magazine, Opengear, Open Query, Red Hat, realestate.com.au, Sun Microsystems, Trolltech, Woodslane, Zac-Ware/Freeway. Jacinta Richardson OSDC Publicity Officer PS: There will be a total of 4 of these messages from me over the next month and a bit. If this is unacceptable, please let me know and I won't send the others to you. 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Check out his web site for more info. > > > > ***Barbara Brundage?s Top 10 Elements Tips > Here's a sneek preview from author Barbara Brundage of her upcoming > book "Photoshop Elements 6: The Missing Manual." > > > > ***FileMaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual ScreenCasts > When reading isn't enough, try a screencast narrated by the authors > themselves.The latest batch is from Geoff Coffey, author of "Filemaker > Pro 9: The Missing Manual." > > > > ***The Worldwide Lexicon: Adding Collaborative Translation to Your Site > The Worldwide Lexicon is an open source project that has recently > published a suite of collaborative translation tools that enable readers > to create, edit and share translations to and from almost any human > language. This article explains how you can use WWL to make your site or > content accessible in many languages. > > > > ***Makers and Crafters, it's time to enter our 2nd annual ghoulishly fun > Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere, can enter all or just some of the > contests. Entering is easy: just upload your photos to the DIY HALLOWEEN > Flickr photo pool and tag them "DIYHALLOWEEN." Or email them to > make.magazine at gmail.com, or put them on Instructables in the MAKE group > with a tag "DIYHALLOWEEN"--and we'll upload them to the Flickr pool. The > lists of contests includes Hack-o'-Lantern, Costume, Decorations, > Haunted house and gadgets, Food, and Trick-or-Treat. Have your entries > in before Sunday, November 4, 2007, at 1:59 pm EST. > > > > ***Sitepoint's Ruby on Rails book is now free to Download > For the next 60 days, Patrick Lenz's Ruby on Rails beginners' book is > available to download. > > > > ***Learn to Love Complaining Clients > Who loves client complaints? You should! In this groundbreaking article, > Brendon explains the true value of client complaints and, with his > step-by-step guide to complaint resolution, shows you how to make > complaining clients a part of your competitive edge. > > > > For more articles, go to: > > > --------------------- > Blogs > ------------------- > ***Facebook, the Quant Fund Meltdown, and the Techmeme Leaderboard > > > ***Head First Labs: More voices==better books > > > ***7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails > > > ***YAPC::Europe 2007 Organization Post-Mortem > > > ***On the Road to Leopard > > > ***Windows Mobile Weekly Roundup > > > ***Color Me Accurate > > > ***A Logical Editing Process > > > ***Does your bad Java code need help? (from Rules and Flow) > > > ***After Struts what? > > > > Until next time-- > > Marsee Henon > > > ================================================================ > O'Reilly > 1005 Gravenstein Highway North > Sebastopol, CA 95472 > http://ug.oreilly.com/ http://ug.oreilly.com/creativemedia/ > ================================================================ From jarich at perltraining.com.au Wed Oct 24 20:08:19 2007 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (jarich at perltraining.com.au) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:08:19 +1000 (EST) Subject: [Wellington-pm] OSDC 2007's Tutorial Program Message-ID: <20071025030819.EEA4FA8BC2@teddybear.perltraining.com.au> Dear Wellington PM members, Registrations are open for the Open Source Developers' Conference 2007: http://www.osdc.com.au/registration/index.html The early bird has been partially extended. Book before October 31st to save $30, and to get your free t-shirt. No t-shirts will be available after the 31st October! Key information: 31st October - Extended almost-early bird date 26th November - Tutorials 27th - 29th November - Technical programme 28th November - Google Conference Dinner Royal on the Park Hotel Cnr Alice & Albert Streets Brisbane CBD Queensland The Open Source Developers' Conference is an Australian conference covering talks about software development for open source languages and projects; regardless of operating system. There will be 3-4 streams of talks over the three days of technical programme, with combined keynotes at the start of each day. Morning and afternoon teas, and lunch will be provided. The Google Conference Dinner will be held on the night of the 28th November (each full registration includes one ticket (until sold out)). Tutorial attendance will include a tea break, lunch and printed reference material. Tutorials cost $250 each. Our tutorial program is included below: Room 1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 9:00am "MySQL Optimisation by Design" by Arjen Lentz 12:30pm Lunch 1:30pm "Advanced SQL for Developers (PostgreSQL)" by Evan Leybourn 5:00pm End --------------------------------------------------------------------- Room 2 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 9:00am "Test Driven Development" by Kirrily Robert 12:30pm Lunch 1:30pm "Getting Started with Bazaar" by Ian Clatworthy 5:00pm End --------------------------------------------------------------------- Room 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 9:00am "Incident Response using PyFlag - the Forensic and Log Analysis GUI" by Dr Michael Cohen 12:30pm Lunch 1:30pm "Groovy Tutorial" by Dr Paul W King 5:00pm End --------------------------------------------------------------------- A tea break will occur roughly half way through each tutorial. For more information on what each tutorial covers, please follow the links from the schedule: http://www.cgpublisher.com/conferences/107/web/program-detail.html Prices and information on how to register can be found at: http://www.osdc.com.au/registration/index.html You can help us make this conference be the best developers' conference this year just by turning up and participating! We look forward to sharing this great conference with you. If your business would like to benefit from exposure to many of Australia's best open source developers then perhaps you should consider sponsorship. We have a wide range of sponsorship options, to find out more information please visit: http://www.osdc.com.au/sponsors/index.html Many thanks go to our sponsors: Apress, Brisbane PHP, BuilderAU, Common Ground, Google, Linux Magazine, Opengear, Open Query, Red Hat, realestate.com.au, Sun Microsystems, Trolltech, Woodslane, Zac-Ware/Freeway. Jacinta Richardson OSDC Publicity Officer From grant at mclean.net.nz Thu Oct 25 15:26:00 2007 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:26:00 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] [Fwd: Open Source Symposium 2008 Call For Participation] Message-ID: <1193351160.4318.20.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> May be of interest to anyone planning to be in Texas next April ... -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Jeremy Fluhmann > To: pm_groups at pm.org > Subject: [pm_groups] Open Source Symposium 2008 Call For Participation > Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:51:18 -0500 > > Hello, > > I am pleased to announce the official Call For Participation for the > Open Source Symposium 2008! http://www.texasoss.org/cfp > > The Open Source Symposium invites anyone interested in presenting a > topic about anything open source related to submit a presentation > proposal. Since one of the goals of the symposium is to expose open > source to those that may not be familiar with it, we would like to see > submissions related to introductory material, as well as more advanced > topics. The Open Source Symposium will be April 25-26, at the C J > Davidson Conference Center located on the Angelo State University > campus, in San Angelo, Texas. Submission deadline is December 15th, > 2007. > > The Open Source Symposium is an inexpensive two-day conference > offering talks on various aspects of open source, such as software, > development, and best practices. Some topics expected to be covered > include Ajax, Perl, Ruby, Ubuntu, MySQL, and Python (the list could > go on and on). Through the generosity of our sponsors and open source > community members, we are able to keep attendance costs low and event > quality high. > > We are looking for presentations to fill either a 20-minute > (preferably) or 50-minute time slot. If you have an idea for a > workshop or tutorial that you would like to offer and require more > time, please feel free to submit your idea for review (the earlier, > the better, as we would need to book an additional room). > > To submit a proposal, please e-mail submissions at texasoss.org with the > following information: > Your Name > Your Email > [optional] Short Bio > Presentation Title > Presentation Abstract > [optional] Links to your presentation > > Please visit http://www.texasoss.org/cfp for more information. > > Thanks, > Jeremy Fluhmann > Open Source Symposium 2008 > http://www.texasoss.org/ > -- > 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