From don at gamma.net.nz Wed Jun 8 15:03:28 2011 From: don at gamma.net.nz (Don Jones) Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 10:03:28 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Free Software Pub Quiz Message-ID: Hi Mongers Next Tuesday the 14th June Wellington Perl Mongers[1] will be hosting a Free & Open Source Software Pub Quiz[2]. The format will be familiar to anyone who has attended a pub quiz. The questions will not be Perl specific, the quiz has been designed to not give any undue advantage to Perl people over fans of other open source languages. There will be questions related to free and open source software, languages, licences, the history of FLOSS and the Internet. There will also be a smattering of general geek questions covering topics like movies, comics, books and games. Teams are encouraged and should have a maximum of four people. Don't worry if you don't have a team lined up, we will assign you on the night. The quiz will be held on L4 of Catalyst House at 150 Willis St. [3] The event starts at 6pm, try to get here just before as the doors are locked after this, there will be a note on the door with a cellphone number for latecomers. Looking forward to seeing you there Donovan [1] http://wellington.pm.org/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pub_quiz [3] Bonus Question: What does the venue have to do with Shane Cole?[4] [4] Bonus Bonus Question: What ISP did he start? From grant at mclean.net.nz Mon Jun 13 16:47:49 2011 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:47:49 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Reminder: Quiz Night Tonight Message-ID: <1308008869.3784.3.camel@putnam> Hi all Wellington Perl Mongers is hosting a Geek Quiz Night tonight! Start time is 6:00pm. Location is Level 4 Catalyst House, 150 Willis Street. More info here: http://wellington.pm.org/ You can form a team in advance or just turn up and we'll hook you up with a team. Regards Grant From grant at mclean.net.nz Tue Jun 14 18:47:41 2011 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:47:41 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Round-up of last night's meeting Message-ID: <1308102461.3784.52.camel@putnam> Hi Mongers I think we can all agree that Donovan did a great job on preparing and hosting last night's quiz - thanks Donovan! (And thanks Anna for putting together the score sheets). It was also good to hear Martyn volunteer to do the job next year - we're all looking forward to it already. Congratulations to the winning team "The Bobs" who demonstrated a near-encyclopaedic knowledge of Open Source personalities, licenses, dead programming languages and obscure numbers (but showed an embarrassing lack of networking knowledge). For posterity, the results from last night ... The Bobs - 47pts * Andy Chilton * Chris Cormack * Fran?ois Marier * Michael Hudson Old Ladies from Picton - 44pts * Grant McLean * Martyn Smith * Matt Hunt * Nigel McNie Team Leftfield - 39pts * Lee Begg * Matthew Gray * Richard Hector * Richard Mansfield Team Cabbage - 37 Pts * Brett Wilkins * Heiko Wanning * Hugh Davenport * Garth Williamson The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is 4 weeks away on the 12th of July. Matthew Gray is lined up to talk about Aspect Oriented Programming and I think Lenz Gschwendtner is also lined up to talk about the tech behind iwantmyname.com (right Lenz?) See you there. Cheers Grant From lenz at gschwendtner.eu Tue Jun 14 20:32:27 2011 From: lenz at gschwendtner.eu (Lenz Gschwendtner) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:32:27 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Round-up of last night's meeting In-Reply-To: <1308102461.3784.52.camel@putnam> References: <1308102461.3784.52.camel@putnam> Message-ID: <8AC52621-AE49-4ACF-B2A5-FA675596E331@gschwendtner.eu> ... and another meeting missed ... how embarrassing. On 15/06/2011, at 1:47 PM, Grant McLean wrote: > The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is 4 weeks away on the 12th > of July. Matthew Gray is lined up to talk about Aspect Oriented > Programming and I think Lenz Gschwendtner is also lined up to talk about > the tech behind iwantmyname.com (right Lenz?) if there is interest, i am happy to talk a bit about iwmn. as you all know iwmn is a catalyst app and there is a fair amount of custom stuff in there. redis based session handling, multiple domains, couchdb based configuration and so on. cheers lenz From grant at mclean.net.nz Thu Jun 16 14:35:44 2011 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:35:44 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Round-up of last night's meeting In-Reply-To: <8AC52621-AE49-4ACF-B2A5-FA675596E331@gschwendtner.eu> References: <1308102461.3784.52.camel@putnam> <8AC52621-AE49-4ACF-B2A5-FA675596E331@gschwendtner.eu> Message-ID: <1308260144.5125.0.camel@putnam> On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 15:32 +1200, Lenz Gschwendtner wrote: > On 15/06/2011, at 1:47 PM, Grant McLean wrote: > > > The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is 4 weeks away on the 12th > > of July. Matthew Gray is lined up to talk about Aspect Oriented > > Programming and I think Lenz Gschwendtner is also lined up to talk about > > the tech behind iwantmyname.com (right Lenz?) > > if there is interest, i am happy to talk a bit about iwmn. as you all > know iwmn is a catalyst app and there is a fair amount of custom stuff > in there. redis based session handling, multiple domains, couchdb > based configuration and so on. Of course we're interested! :-) Cheers Grant From nigel at mcnie.name Thu Jun 16 14:52:01 2011 From: nigel at mcnie.name (Nigel McNie) Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:52:01 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Round-up of last night's meeting In-Reply-To: <1308260144.5125.0.camel@putnam> References: <1308102461.3784.52.camel@putnam> <8AC52621-AE49-4ACF-B2A5-FA675596E331@gschwendtner.eu> <1308260144.5125.0.camel@putnam> Message-ID: I'm interested too, am also building a product using catalyst, so would be interesting to compare notes :) On 17 June 2011 09:35, Grant McLean wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 15:32 +1200, Lenz Gschwendtner wrote: > > On 15/06/2011, at 1:47 PM, Grant McLean wrote: > > > > > The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is 4 weeks away on the 12th > > > of July. Matthew Gray is lined up to talk about Aspect Oriented > > > Programming and I think Lenz Gschwendtner is also lined up to talk > about > > > the tech behind iwantmyname.com (right Lenz?) > > > > if there is interest, i am happy to talk a bit about iwmn. as you all > > know iwmn is a catalyst app and there is a fair amount of custom stuff > > in there. redis based session handling, multiple domains, couchdb > > based configuration and so on. > > Of course we're interested! :-) > > Cheers > 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/nz-red-cross-website-performance -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andychilton at gmail.com Thu Jun 16 15:11:05 2011 From: andychilton at gmail.com (Andrew Chilton) Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:11:05 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Simple Slide Thingy Message-ID: Hi everyone, In lieu of all the comments from people talking about how they generate slides, I'm wondering if anyone would be interested in me making some code available that I used in a slideshow back in January. I was just messing around with HTML5 (some new tags), CSS3 (gradients, shadows and OMG rounded corners!) and jQuery at the time. Basically, it's just one file which has a
for each slide. The normal keypresses work (Space, Return, PgUp, PgDn, Backspace, RightArrow, LeftArrow). You can also press UpArrow to show the contents slide, then DownArrow to go back to the slide you were on. Directory structure * index.html - contains all your slides * some css files for reset and styles * jQuery (whatever version) * a jQuery plugin (hack) which I called 'slideshow' * and no images An example of a slideshow is here: * http://cdn.appsattic.com/slides/20110110/index.html If there are any takers I'll put it on GitHub or Gitorious. Cheers, Andy -- contact: Andrew Chilton website: http://www.chilts.org/blog/