From duffyd at kokorice.org Mon Oct 5 02:32:42 2009 From: duffyd at kokorice.org (Tim Knapp) Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:32:42 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Kiwi PyCon Media Statement - "How a programming language is changing the Web" Message-ID: <1254735162.6169.584.camel@monty> NEW ZEALAND PYTHON USER GROUP Media Statement October 5, 2009 IMMEDIATE RELEASE "How a programming language is changing the Web" The main keynote speaker at Kiwi PyCon 2009, Joel Burton, an internationally recognised trainer and presenter, will explain how the programming language Python is becoming the language of choice for developing websites due to its simplicity and flexibility. The conference will be held at the Canterbury Innovation Incubator in Christchurch on November 7th and 8th. Other tracks at the conference will include: GUI, Science & Math, Game, and Applications. The conference will also have a dedicated Web track, which will include presentations about many Python web technologies, such as: Django, Twisted, Zope 3, Grok, and Plone. The conference has attracted a lot of interest from many universities throughout the country and staff and students from Auckland, Massey, Canterbury, and Otago universities will be presenting regarding how they've used Python in their research. ?As Christchurch has the reputation of being the Silicon Valley of New Zealand, its been really great to see a number of electronics companies in Christchurch support the event?, said Tim Knapp, the conference Director. Tait Electronics, a radio communications manufacturer, is a Gold sponsor for the event. ?The positive response we've received from the IT community in New Zealand has been really encouraging? commented Mr. Knapp. ?Really, no matter what industry your business is in, this conference will be of benefit to you.? Registration closes on October 23rd and registrations are limited. For more information visit nz.pycon.org. -------------------------------Ends------------------------------- For media or conference enquiries please contact: Tim Knapp, NZ Python User Group Vice President and Event Director Phone: 021 156 6405 Email: kiwipycon at nzpug.org Website: nz.pycon.org From grant at mclean.net.nz Wed Oct 7 21:41:24 2009 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:41:24 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting Next Tuesday Message-ID: <1254976884.5068.8.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Hi Mongers The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is Next Tuesday - October 13th. Usual time and place: 6:00pm Tuesday October 13th Level 3, Catalyst House 150 Willis Street Wellington http://wellington.pm.org/ At this stage we have two talks lined up: * Tim Goddard - Using memcached, nginx and Perl for fast sites * Mark Kirkwood - On Being Prepared (prepared statements in Postgres) There may be room in the schedule for another short talk so if you want to book a slot, let me know. Cheers Grant From sam at vilain.net Thu Oct 8 16:01:23 2009 From: sam at vilain.net (Sam Vilain) Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:01:23 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting Next Tuesday In-Reply-To: <1254976884.5068.8.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> References: <1254976884.5068.8.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: <1255042883.3144.28.camel@denix> On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 17:41 +1300, Grant McLean wrote: > At this stage we have two talks lined up: > > * Tim Goddard - Using memcached, nginx and Perl for fast sites > * Mark Kirkwood - On Being Prepared (prepared statements in Postgres) > > There may be room in the schedule for another short talk so if you want > to book a slot, let me know. Anyone interested in seeing "Scripting your window manager with Perl: Part II: the third dimension" aka "It's not fiddling with my WM, it's Human-Computer Interaction Research!" ? :) From grant at mclean.net.nz Thu Oct 8 16:21:55 2009 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:21:55 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting Next Tuesday In-Reply-To: <1255042883.3144.28.camel@denix> References: <1254976884.5068.8.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> <1255042883.3144.28.camel@denix> Message-ID: <1255044115.10947.4.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 12:01 +1300, Sam Vilain wrote: > On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 17:41 +1300, Grant McLean wrote: > > At this stage we have two talks lined up: > > > > * Tim Goddard - Using memcached, nginx and Perl for fast sites > > * Mark Kirkwood - On Being Prepared (prepared statements in Postgres) > > > > There may be room in the schedule for another short talk so if you want > > to book a slot, let me know. > > Anyone interested in seeing "Scripting your window manager with Perl: > Part II: the third dimension" Sure! It sounds interesting + it's got Perl. Double win. Cheers Grant From grant at mclean.net.nz Mon Oct 12 13:38:39 2009 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:38:39 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting This Evening Message-ID: <1255379919.17681.10.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Hi Mongers The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is this evening (October 13th). The projector we normally use on level 3 is kaput so we'll move our meeting to the boardroom on level 6. Usual start time: 6:00pm Tuesday October 13th Level 6, Catalyst House 150 Willis Street Wellington http://wellington.pm.org/ Three talks are lined up this month: * Tim Goddard - Using memcached, nginx and Perl for fast sites * Mark Kirkwood - On Being Prepared (prepared statements in Postgres) * Sam Vilain - Scripting your desktop See you there! Cheers Grant From ewen at naos.co.nz Tue Oct 13 01:42:25 2009 From: ewen at naos.co.nz (Ewen McNeill) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:42:25 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Perlbal In-Reply-To: Message from Grant McLean of "Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:38:39 +1300." <1255379919.17681.10.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: <20091013084225.BFB531126C7@wat.la.naos.co.nz> That LiveJournal-originated web server front end I was talking about tonight is Perlbal: http://www.danga.com/perlbal/ It's one of the last bits that Brad Fitzpatrick (coder behind much of the LJ infrastructure) wrote before leaving LJ (he's now working at Google). It's another event based webserver, with the option for serving static files directly. It also has the option for prioritising request with a cookie (eg, "user has paid" type cookie) As you can probably guess from the name, it's written in Perl. Ewen From grant at mclean.net.nz Tue Oct 13 20:12:24 2009 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:12:24 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Roundup of last night's meeting Message-ID: <1255489944.13874.12.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Hi Mongers Thanks to our speakers Tim, Mark and Sam for a bunch of interesting presentations. And thanks to all participants for the usual lively debate. The slides are up on the web site now: http://wellington.pm.org/archive/ The final technical meeting for 2009 will be on November the 10th. It's great to have two talks lined up already (thanks to Finlay and Tobi). There may be room for another short talk - let me know if you'd like to book a slot. Cheers Grant From michael at diaspora.gen.nz Tue Oct 13 20:16:34 2009 From: michael at diaspora.gen.nz (michael at diaspora.gen.nz) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:16:34 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] YSlow Message-ID: During the discussions last night about the performance of certain sites that shouldn't be named, I mentioned YSlow, a toolkit for suggesting performance improvements to your web page, and Ewen said he hadn't heard of it before. It's a plugin for Firebug, which in turn is a plugin for Firefox; see http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/. Popular local sites score for their home page: http://www.stuff.co.nz/ -- Grade E, 59/100 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ -- Grade D, 61/100 http://trademe.co.nz/ -- Grade C, 72/100 For comparison, news.google.com gets a B with 86/100, and news.yahoo.com gets 88/100. Other interesting statistics; stuff has 1999 DOM elements on the home page; Trademe has 1061. Stuff has 7 stylesheets; Trademe has 3; Granny has 1. There's lots more mocking I could do about how the various sites are coded (why does Granny Herald feel that a complete list of regions for their weather forecast should be coded into the text of a script block on the homepage, instead of being served from a JS file?), but I won't. Michael. From jarich at perltraining.com.au Sun Oct 18 03:33:56 2009 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson) Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:33:56 +1100 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Submit your talk to the Open Programming Languages Mini-conf, LCA2010 Message-ID: <4ADAEF14.8010006@perltraining.com.au> G'day folk, So far the only Perl proposal the Open Programming Languages Mini-conf has received has been Grant's. I know that Paul and I clearly need to get our acts into gear, but perhaps you'd like to submit something too! Our CFP can be found here: http://blogs.tucs.org.au/oplm/cfp/ and we've extended the deadline until this Friday 23rd October. Please submit. If you want help putting together a proposal, send it through to this list and we can talk ideas, wording etc. Ideas I'd be very happy to see: * A tour of CPAN (my [your] favourite 10 modules) * Your Perl build chain to make it easy to install your application * An introduction to [your favourite module] * How to create [something cool] in [some small number] lines of Perl. (for example 2-d barcodes) * How Perl made [hard problem] easy. As things stand right now, we have more PHP talks than all non-PHP talks combined, this can't be right. Please submit more Perl talks! All the best, J From olly at survex.com Sun Oct 18 04:44:14 2009 From: olly at survex.com (Olly Betts) Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:44:14 +0100 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Roundup of last night's meeting In-Reply-To: <1255489944.13874.12.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> References: <1255489944.13874.12.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: <20091018114414.GO13904@survex.com> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 04:12:24PM +1300, Grant McLean wrote: > The final technical meeting for 2009 will be on November the 10th. It's > great to have two talks lined up already (thanks to Finlay and Tobi). > There may be room for another short talk - let me know if you'd like to > book a slot. I'll be back in NZ then, and can talk about "How search.gmane.org works" if there's time and interest. I'd guess it would take about 20 minutes. 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Talks vary from introductory pieces through to the deeply technical. OSDC 2009 will be held at the Bardon Conference Center in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia from the 25th to the 27th of November, 2009. Our programme includes a great array of good speakers, and can be viewed here: http://2009.osdc.com.au/programme Prices: Early bird $275, standard price $300. Early bird ends the 30th of October. You can register for the conference at http://2009.osdc.com.au/register ---- If you're going to be in Brisbane on the 24th of November, you might wish to attend Upstarta Camp: a picnic in the park. A workshop follows a barbecue in the afternoon and while there's no firm cap on numbers at the moment, you'd best register early to ensure you get a place. More info and registration: http://upstarta.biz/Main/UpstartaCamp When: Tuesday 24 November (afternoon before first OSDC day), 12pm-5pm Where: Brisbane, Mt Coot-Tha / Bardon area (near OSDC venue) Cost: $10 for members, $20 for non-members ---- For more information, please feel free to contact us on conference at osdc.com.au