From will at coleda.com Tue Sep 11 16:39:19 2007 From: will at coleda.com (Will Coleda) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:39:19 -0400 Subject: [albany-pm] Fwd: [yapc] Frozen Perl 2008 Workshop Announcement & CFS References: Message-ID: <93F209E5-9B77-4B57-92AC-7263D66ADFC0@coleda.com> Two upcoming mini-cons.. One in Pennsylvania, http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/ "The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is a low-cost technical conference held at the University Center on Carnegie Mellon University's Oakland Campus. The workshop will be held on October 13?14 2007. You can sign up for the announcement mailing list at Google Groups." And one in Minnesota. Begin forwarded message: > From: Dave Rolsky > Date: September 11, 2007 12:33:22 PM EDT > To: yapc > Subject: [yapc] Frozen Perl 2008 Workshop Announcement & CFS > > Hi, folks, > > We're having a one-day Perl workshop in Minneapolis on February 16, > 2008, > and I hope some of you can attend. We're also working on a > hackathon the > day after and an Intro to Perl class taught by brian d foy on the day > before, which will be announced on our website once we have more > details. > Our site is at http://www.frozen-perl.org/ > > We've also opened our call for speakers, and we'd love to have your > submissions. You can view the CFS at > http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2008/cfs.html > > > Thanks, > > Dave Rolsky > Minneapolis Perl Mongers > _______________________________________________ > yapc mailing list > yapc at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/yapc > -- Will "Coke" Coleda will at coleda.com From will at coleda.com Tue Sep 11 17:29:25 2007 From: will at coleda.com (Will Coleda) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:29:25 -0400 Subject: [albany-pm] Meeting? Message-ID: Meeting... OR IS IT!? MUAHAHAAHAHA! It's my semi-annual attempt to setup a meeting, and you're invited! =-) Anyone who wants to get together and talk about all things perl, let me know when a good time for you is. Just generic days and times. I'll start out by saying I'd prefer something during the week after 5pm; =-) Feel free to mail me privately, and I'll try to come up with two days; we can try both, even. I know there are many other local user's groups we compete with for your time, please mention any specific ones in your email that you'd like to avoid a conflict with, I'll accommodate if I can. We can meet at/near a school to help out with students. We can do coffee or stronger. (We've had our best luck at Professor Java's in the past, but I know that's not convenient for a lot of people.) Downtown can work, depending on the venue & the time... Hell, one PM group meets at the zoo occasionally to check out the camels. Possible topics: -- If you're like me, a perl hacker who earns a living doing something else, we can talk about sanity-saving strategies (like trying to organize a perl mongers meeting!!), and whether it makes sense to introduce perl into the workplace or find your perlian satisfaction after hours. -- Do you use perl at work regularly? Do you have coding standards, reviews? Do you write your tests in perl, even if your code is in another language? -- Have you ever tried to use POE? (perhaps you can explain it to me, then.) -- Interested in hacking on something perly? I have a module on CPAN with some pending feature requests, patches welcome. =-) [http:// search.cpan.org/~coke/] I'm looking forward to having a meet & greet. Once we have a social or two under our belts, I'll plan a technical with an actual presentation on something based on feedback gathered during the social. Other PMs have done this alternation with some success. I'd like to shoot for monthly meetings. I'd also be happy to have just the occasional face to face, and have technical conversations on the list; As always, feel free to ask technical questions on the list, or let us know about some cool new perl thing you've discovered! Regards. -- Will "Coke" Coleda will at coleda.com From will at coleda.com Tue Sep 11 17:39:52 2007 From: will at coleda.com (Will Coleda) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:39:52 -0400 Subject: [albany-pm] Perl Buzz! Message-ID: <03E1962E-C24B-4244-9B0E-FAD88D459A10@coleda.com> From the website: http://perlbuzz.com/; 3 RSS feeds that will keep you up to date on all the latest perl news. -- Why PerlBuzz? We hear it all the time: "Is Perl still around? I thought that everyone moved on to (PHP, Ruby, whatever)" In fact, Perl 5 is alive and kicking, and plenty of people are using it, creating new cool stuff all the time. There's constant activity, but it doesn't get as much mindshare as some of the newer sexy languages out there. That's a shame, and we're here to fix that. Perl's crown jewel, the CPAN, a massive archive of over 10,000 freely available Perl modules, is thriving. Keeping track of what's available is daunting, so our CPAN Watch watches the CPAN so you don't have to. [ http://perlbuzz.com/cpan-watch/ ] Even between releases to the CPAN, dozens of Perl projects are humming with activity, and Project Hum tracks them. [ http://perlbuzz.com/project-hum/ ] The core Perl Buzz blog is a general news feed of information about the Perl world, and Perl-related projects. We pull in news from everywhere. [ http://perlbuzz.com/ ] Your Perl Buzz editors Andy and Kirrily want to bring you news about what you care about, as well as some you didn't even know existed: Projects, sites, people, events... wherever the buzz is. PerlBuzz won't be the only Perl blog you read, but we hope it will be the best. -- Will "Coke" Coleda will at coleda.com From will at coleda.com Tue Sep 11 17:53:44 2007 From: will at coleda.com (Will Coleda) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:53:44 -0400 Subject: [albany-pm] Perlcast Message-ID: An all-perl podcast that has news read by Randal L. Schwartz (http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal_Schwartz), as well as interviews conducted by Josh McAdams (who helped organize the 2006 YAPC::Chicago) http://www.perlcast.com/ You can also get at it through iTunes at: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast? id=73329980&s=143441 Enjoy! -- Will "Coke" Coleda will at coleda.com