From grant at mclean.net.nz Tue Aug 2 13:44:22 2011 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:44:22 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting next Tuesday Message-ID: <1312317862.6700.7.camel@putnam> Hi Mongers The August meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is next Tuesday (the 9th). Nigel McNie has kindly volunteered to talk about Continuous Deployment. There is room in the schedule for another talk so if you'd like to speak, or to suggest a topic, please let me know. 6:00pm Tuesday 9 August 2011 Catalyst House 150 Willis Street Wellington http://wellington.pm.org/ At this stage it's not clear which room we'll be using for the meeting (probably level 7) look out for signs on the day. See you there Grant From grant at mclean.net.nz Mon Aug 8 15:05:42 2011 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:05:42 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting tonight! Message-ID: <1312841142.9734.14.camel@putnam> Hi Mongers The August meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is tonight at 6:00pm at Catalyst. We'll be meeting on level 7 unless I change my mind - look for the signs. 6:00pm Tuesday 9 August 2011 Level 7, Catalyst House 150 Willis Street Wellington http://wellington.pm.org/ We have two speakers tonight: Nigel McNie is going to talk about Continuous Deployment. It's about deployment strategies and his experiences - it's not Perl-specific. Martyn Smith is going to talk about something else. Who knows what? Certainly not me. Come along and find out. Other News ========== Issue 2 of the new Perl Weekly is out: http://perlweekly.com/archive/2.html The future of Perl 5 - Jesse Vincent (Perl 5 Pumpking) has published the slides from his OSCON talk: http://perlbuzz.com/2011/08/the-future-of-perl-5.html http://www.slideshare.net/obrajesse/oscon-2011-perl-516-and-beyond Regards Grant From andychilton at gmail.com Mon Aug 8 15:25:23 2011 From: andychilton at gmail.com (Andrew Chilton) Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 10:25:23 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting tonight! In-Reply-To: <1312841142.9734.14.camel@putnam> References: <1312841142.9734.14.camel@putnam> Message-ID: On 9 August 2011 10:05, Grant McLean wrote: > Martyn Smith is going to talk about something else. ?Who knows what? > Certainly not me. ?Come along and find out. Something to do with HTTP::CDN. But it might be a s3kr1t - don't tell him I said that. Andy -- contact: Andrew Chilton website: http://www.chilts.org/blog/ From nigel at mcnie.name Tue Aug 9 08:44:39 2011 From: nigel at mcnie.name (Nigel McNie) Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:44:39 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting tonight! In-Reply-To: <1312841142.9734.14.camel@putnam> References: <1312841142.9734.14.camel@putnam> Message-ID: I've written a followup to the talk, which includes links to the slides and my notes. http://nigel.mcnie.name/blog/continuous-deployment-a-better-software-deployment-strategy Almost not sure if slides were so useful - I think we could have had just as interesting a conversation if I'd have simply stood up and said "deploying every commit is the best speed to work at" and sat down again :). Thanks everyone, Nigel On 9 August 2011 10:05, Grant McLean wrote: > Hi Mongers > > The August meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is tonight at 6:00pm at > Catalyst. We'll be meeting on level 7 unless I change my mind - look > for the signs. > > 6:00pm Tuesday 9 August 2011 > Level 7, Catalyst House > 150 Willis Street > Wellington > http://wellington.pm.org/ > > We have two speakers tonight: > > Nigel McNie is going to talk about Continuous Deployment. It's about > deployment strategies and his experiences - it's not Perl-specific. > > Martyn Smith is going to talk about something else. Who knows what? > Certainly not me. Come along and find out. > > Other News > ========== > > Issue 2 of the new Perl Weekly is out: > > http://perlweekly.com/archive/2.html > > > The future of Perl 5 - Jesse Vincent (Perl 5 Pumpking) has published the > slides from his OSCON talk: > > http://perlbuzz.com/2011/08/the-future-of-perl-5.html > http://www.slideshare.net/obrajesse/oscon-2011-perl-516-and-beyond > > Regards > Grant > > _______________________________________________ > Wellington-pm mailing list > Wellington-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm > -- Regards, Nigel McNie http://nigel.mcnie.name/ | +64 27 469 6038 | http://twitter.com/nigelmcnie | http://about.me/nigel My latest blog post: http://nigel.mcnie.name/blog/continuous-deployment-a-better-software-deployment-strategy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From grant at mclean.net.nz Thu Aug 11 03:11:30 2011 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:11:30 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Roundup of this week's meeting In-Reply-To: <1312841142.9734.14.camel@putnam> References: <1312841142.9734.14.camel@putnam> Message-ID: <1313057490.3209.30.camel@hoiho> Hi Mongers Thanks very much to Nigel and Martyn our speakers on Tuesday night. I've linked to Nigel's blog post with slides and notes from our archive page: http://wellington.pm.org/archive/ Hopefully I'll be able to put Martyn's slides up when he works out how to "share" them with me. I'm also looking forward to the new version of his code appearing here: https://github.com/martynsmith/HTTP-CDN Thanks also to Matt who kindly stepped in to do the meeting room cleanup on Wednesday morning - much appreciated. As mentioned, next month we'll take a break from the technical meetings and have a social meetup instead on Sept 13th. No firm plan yet, but the "Beer at JJ Murphys followed by Curry at Little India" plan has worked well for us in the past. Cheers Grant From Chelsea.Hughes at dia.govt.nz Sun Aug 14 17:47:56 2011 From: Chelsea.Hughes at dia.govt.nz (Chelsea Hughes) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:47:56 +0000 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Mix and Mash competition is open! Message-ID: Hello Perl Mongers! Just wanted to let all of you know the Mix and Mash competition for 2011 is now open. Mix and Mash is a competition, organised by DigitalNZ (a service of the National Library of New Zealand), that encourages the use of NZ government data and NZ digital content. Full details are available on our website: http://mixandmash.org.nz. The competition will run until 9pm on Thursday 15 September, and we hope you'll all consider entering this year! Here's a quick overview of the data mashup categories in this year's competition: Open government data mashup: $2000 will be awarded to the application that best encourages government transparency, access and insight into government information or services. Environment data mashup: $2000 will be awarded to the application that best contributes to New Zealand's environmental well-being. Sport and recreation data mashup: $2000 will be awarded to the application that best encourages New Zealanders' participation in sport and recreation. Canterbury earthquake recovery data mashup: $2000 will be awarded to the application that best supports the Canterbury earthquake recovery. This could relate to specific parts of the recovery including community well-being, culture and heritage, the built environment, the natural environment, and economic recovery, or any mix of these. Anything goes data mashup: $2000 will be awarded to the application that best demonstrates the use of NZ data in a creative way. This section is for entries that don't fit into any other specific categories. We also have a few special awards: $4000 award for an outstanding data mashup Best newbie data mashup award and the prize of all prizes: $10,000 award for the supreme data mashup for the data mashup that best shows the value of open NZ data and content, is well designed, and is insanely great. There is support available for newbie developers in the form of a Beginner's Guide to Data Mashups, written by Tim McNamara and sponsored by the Charities Commission: http://www.mixandmash.org.nz/the-competition/mashup-guide/getting-started-with-an-api. We've also set up a google group for asking and answering mashup related questions: https://groups.google.com/group/mix-and-mash-data-mashups. 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URL: From chilts at appsattic.com Mon Aug 15 20:43:14 2011 From: chilts at appsattic.com (Andrew Chilton) Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:43:14 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Gauging interest for a Go! User Group in Wellington Message-ID: Hi everyone, Firstly, sorry for spamming the PerlMongers list, you can smack me at next month's social. :) Recently I've been getting more and more interested in learning, playing with and using Go! (http://golang.org/) for real projects. Not the board game, but the open source language released by Google a couple of years ago. Hence, I'm looking to start a Go User Group here in Wellington and would like to gauge interest from anyone who may or may not turn up. If you are interested, I'd be keen on hearing suggestions on any and all of the following. Hell, even if you're not interested you can still reply (so long as your reasons are constructive) and we may be able to figure something out to make it better. Answers/Suggestions to any of the following is greatly appreciated: 1) Are you interested in attending? Yes/No/Maybe and why? 2) Which (day of week, week of month) combination suits you best? What other user groups must we avoid clashes with? 3) What kind of format would you prefer? Presentations, chats or both? Any other suggestions? 4) Any other lists I should spam ... erm ... ask (or please forward this to them for me, thanks)? Also, I'd be looking for any offerings of office space or suggestions of meeting places which might be suitable since I don't have my own offices (yet). Remember, it'd be nice to keep going to the same place for a longish time rather than having to chop and change places every month. Cheers, Andy P.S. Please reply just to me off list. I can post the results if you'd like. -- Andrew Chilton e: chilts at appsattic.com w: http://www.appsattic.com/ p: +64 21 891 681 From tim at emergetec.com Thu Aug 25 03:43:09 2011 From: tim at emergetec.com (Tim Knapp - Emerge Technology) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:43:09 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] CodeWars at Kiwi PyCon 2011 Message-ID: <1314268989.2766.32.camel@monty> Hi all, CodeWars is on tomorrow night at 6pm at Kiwi PyCon 2011 - to sign up for the event, please head over to http://kiwipycon11codewars.eventbrite.com/ N.B. this event is free & open to everyone (any programming language can be used) - no Kiwi PyCon ticket required. The competition will consist of four rounds of differing programming challenges. We guarantee there won't be mind twisting problems for algorithm heads and you can compete with whatever language you want. It will help to have a team with a mix of skills, a clever and/or intimidating team name and a vocal cheer squad. However the only thing your team must bring is a single laptop with a VGA connector running in 1024x768 mirrored mode. Thanks, Tim Knapp