From th.j.v.hoesel at gmail.com Mon Mar 3 07:23:06 2014 From: th.j.v.hoesel at gmail.com (Th. J. van Hoesel) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 16:23:06 +0100 Subject: [AmsterdamX-pm] Tweet: Amsterdam.pm gathering Message-ID: <6F438CC1-7476-4D4D-A2A0-4577BF81A8D9@gmail.com> Tweet, Re-Tweet and follow @PerlNL so little effort, but it really helps if you want your Perl Mongers group to become a vibrant gathering https://twitter.com/perlnl/status/440505621540904960 From xsawyerx at cpan.org Tue Mar 4 12:09:43 2014 From: xsawyerx at cpan.org (Sawyer X) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 21:09:43 +0100 Subject: [AmsterdamX-pm] Tweet: Amsterdam.pm gathering In-Reply-To: <6F438CC1-7476-4D4D-A2A0-4577BF81A8D9@gmail.com> References: <6F438CC1-7476-4D4D-A2A0-4577BF81A8D9@gmail.com> Message-ID: I wholeheartedly suggest following @PerlNL if you're on Twitter! It's mostly in English and keeps track of any Perl-related events going around in The Netherlands, which is mostly in the Amsterdam area. On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Th. J. van Hoesel wrote: > Tweet, Re-Tweet and follow @PerlNL > > so little effort, but it really helps if you want your Perl Mongers group > to become a vibrant gathering > > https://twitter.com/perlnl/status/440505621540904960 > _______________________________________________ > AmsterdamX-pm mailing list > AmsterdamX-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/amsterdamx-pm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From xsawyerx at gmail.com Wed Mar 5 07:35:05 2014 From: xsawyerx at gmail.com (sawyer x) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 16:35:05 +0100 Subject: [AmsterdamX-pm] March 18th: Damian Conway: Everything You Know About Regexes Is Wrong Message-ID: Damian Conway is an extraordinary speaker from Australia: not only his knowledge is renowned, he also tells an enthusiastic story on any subject like no other can. Twice a year, he travels around the World to teach and give seminars. We are lucky to have him visiting Holland for a few days. The Amsterdam and AmsterdamX Perl Mongers, and the NLUUG invite the Open Source community for a seminar on "Regular Expressions". Damian is tied into the Perl community, however this presentation is programming language independent. Find the abstract below. Tuesday 18 March 4pm till 6pm Theater "De Kleine Komedie", Amstel 56-58, 1017 AC Amsterdam Free entrance, registration not required. Sponsored by Booking.com, NLUUG & SPPN --- Abstract *** Everything You Know About Regexes Is Wrong *** For most programmers, regular expressions are a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma shrouded in line-noise. So most sensible programmers either don't use them at all (and are thereby forced to reinvent worse wheels...badly), or else they fall back on an "evolutionary programming" approach: find an existing regex that looks like it might do, then randomly permute its "genome" over and over again until it appears to work. In this talk we'll go back to basics and discover that regexes mostly aren't what you think they are, mostly don't work the way you were told they did, and mostly shouldn't be created the way everyone tells you to. More usefully, we'll also talk about what regexes really are, how they actually work, and see how normal programmers can make use of their existing software development skills to construct correct and efficient regexes...without selling their souls or losing their minds. --- About the presenter http://damian.conway.org/About_us/Bio_formal.html http://damian.conway.org/About_us/Bio_informal.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From xsawyerx at gmail.com Thu Mar 13 14:21:51 2014 From: xsawyerx at gmail.com (sawyer x) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 22:21:51 +0100 Subject: [AmsterdamX-pm] Next meeting - March 24th (Monday) Message-ID: Hey everyone, I am happy to inform that our next meeting will be on March 24th, a Monday. Expect an official invitation this coming Monday. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From xsawyerx at gmail.com Sun Mar 16 08:42:44 2014 From: xsawyerx at gmail.com (sawyer x) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 16:42:44 +0100 Subject: [AmsterdamX-pm] YAPC in Amsterdam (A.K.A. YAMSTERDAMPC) Message-ID: As you all know, we're keeping busy with events. Having monthly meetings[1], a hackathon[2], co-organizing Damien Conway's upcoming talk[3] and the Dutch Perl Workshop (NLPW)[4] - we figured out the next step would be to organize a YAPC. Hey, why not? The venue committee of the YAPC::Europe Foundation (YEF) has issues a call for venue for next year's YAPC::EU. We intend to submit a letter of intent to host YAPC in The Netherlands at 2015. Discussions will be held openly on this list so everyone can be a part of it. If the traffic will end up high, we could move to a new list of just organizers so we don't flood anyone's inbox. Good luck to us! :) [1] Next one will be on *March 24th*, Tuesday, next week! [2] http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2014/01/amsterdamxpm-hosting-a-perl-hackathon.html [3] *March 18th*, this Tuesday ( http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/amsterdamx-pm/2014-March/000078.html) [4] You did register, right? http://www.perlworkshop.nl/nlpw2014/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From smueller at cpan.org Sun Mar 16 09:46:36 2014 From: smueller at cpan.org (Steffen Mueller) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 17:46:36 +0100 Subject: [AmsterdamX-pm] AmsterdamX.pm Wants to Organize YAPC::EU 2015 Message-ID: <5325D56C.4040500@cpan.org> Dear all, on behalf of the AmsterdamX Perl Mongers group, I am very proud to announce that we intend to organize YAPC::EU 2015. The greater Amsterdam area was host to a YAPC in already 2001, in the early days of YAPC conferences. We believe that it is time to return to our roots and have YAPC::EU return to lovely Amsterdam in the center of Europe. We believe that we can organize an outstanding conference and will submit a comprehensive proposal later this year. We are already a nice-size group of people interested in making the event a raving success. Contact details of some of the organizers below. Best regards, Steffen SawyerX +31 (0)6 47955769 xsawyerx at cpan.org Abigail +31 6 52054606 yapc2015 at abigail.be Steffen Mueller +31 (0)6 21164103 smueller at cpan.org From xsawyerx at gmail.com Mon Mar 17 06:47:55 2014 From: xsawyerx at gmail.com (sawyer x) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:47:55 +0100 Subject: [AmsterdamX-pm] TOMORROW: Damian Conway: Everything You Know About Regexes Is Wrong Message-ID: *Date: Tuesday March 18th (Tomorrow)* *Time: 16:00-18:00* *Location: De Kleine Komedie, Amstel 56-58. 1017 AC Amsterdam* Damian Conway is an extraordinary speaker from Australia: not only his knowledge is renowned, he also tells an enthusiastic story on any subject like no other can. Twice a year, he travels around the World to teach and give seminars. We are lucky to have him visiting Holland for a few days. The Amsterdam and AmsterdamX Perl Mongers, and the NLUUG invite the Open Source community for a seminar on "Regular Expressions". Damian is tied into the Perl community, however this presentation is programming language independent. Find the abstract below. Tuesday 18 March 4pm till 6pm Theater "De Kleine Komedie", Amstel 56-58, 1017 AC Amsterdam Free entrance, registration not required. Sponsored by Booking.com, NLUUG & SPPN --- Abstract *** Everything You Know About Regexes Is Wrong *** For most programmers, regular expressions are a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma shrouded in line-noise. So most sensible programmers either don't use them at all (and are thereby forced to reinvent worse wheels...badly), or else they fall back on an "evolutionary programming" approach: find an existing regex that looks like it might do, then randomly permute its "genome" over and over again until it appears to work. In this talk we'll go back to basics and discover that regexes mostly aren't what you think they are, mostly don't work the way you were told they did, and mostly shouldn't be created the way everyone tells you to. More usefully, we'll also talk about what regexes really are, how they actually work, and see how normal programmers can make use of their existing software development skills to construct correct and efficient regexes...without selling their souls or losing their minds. --- About the presenter http://damian.conway.org/About_us/Bio_formal.html http://damian.conway.org/About_us/Bio_informal.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From theo at perlworkshop.nl Mon Mar 17 14:54:34 2014 From: theo at perlworkshop.nl (Theo vanHoesel) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 22:54:34 +0100 Subject: [AmsterdamX-pm] NLPW::2014::Utrecht Message-ID: <2184457E-D675-40FD-B51B-183AD025683D@perlworkshop.nl> in about 5 weeks time the Dutch Perl Workshop will be held in the beautiful city of Utrecht. Already a good group of people has decided to come. And even more important, some national and international speakers have proposed for a presentation. I know a few of the people of the AmsterdamX group have told to come and even a few people decided to give a presentation. Please do not hesitate to register and to submit your talk. In the past few months I have seen some wonderful talks at the Booking HQ, and I personally think that some of you should give that talk to a broader audiance. If you have any questions, feel free to contact SawyerX or Leon or me, or talk to one of us before or after the Damian Conway lecture. Theo # # Send-a-Newbie - YAPC::EU::2013 Kiev # proudly sponsored by the community # http://www.send-a-newbie.enlightenedperl.org # -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tobez at tobez.org Tue Mar 18 03:52:50 2014 From: tobez at tobez.org (Anton Berezin) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:52:50 +0100 Subject: [AmsterdamX-pm] [Venue] AmsterdamX.pm Wants to Organize YAPC::EU 2015 In-Reply-To: <5325D56C.4040500@cpan.org> References: <5325D56C.4040500@cpan.org> Message-ID: <20140318105250.GA54228@heechee.tobez.org> Steffen, On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 05:46:36PM +0100, Steffen Mueller wrote: > on behalf of the AmsterdamX Perl Mongers group, I am very proud to > announce that we intend to organize YAPC::EU 2015. This is to let you know that we have received your letter of intent. \Anton. > The greater Amsterdam area was host to a YAPC in already 2001, in the > early days of YAPC conferences. We believe that it is time to return to > our roots and have YAPC::EU return to lovely Amsterdam in the center of > Europe. We believe that we can organize an outstanding conference and > will submit a comprehensive proposal later this year. > > We are already a nice-size group of people interested in making the > event a raving success. Contact details of some of the organizers below. > > Best regards, > Steffen > > > SawyerX > +31 (0)6 47955769 > xsawyerx at cpan.org > > Abigail > +31 6 52054606 > yapc2015 at abigail.be > > Steffen Mueller > +31 (0)6 21164103 > smueller at cpan.org > _______________________________________________ > Venue mailing list > Venue at yapceurope.org > http://lists.yapceurope.org/mailman/listinfo/venue -- Our society can survive even a large amount of irrational regulation. -- John McCarthy From xsawyerx at gmail.com Tue Mar 18 06:48:53 2014 From: xsawyerx at gmail.com (sawyer x) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:48:53 +0100 Subject: [AmsterdamX-pm] Amsterdam eXpats Perl Mongers March meeting (March 24th, 18:30) Message-ID: This March we will hear about Rex and Plack! *In a nutshell:* Date: Monday, March 24th. Time: 18:30 - 20:30 (theoretically) Location: Booking.com, Herengracht 597, Beijing room on 5th floor. *Talks:* *Simon Bertrang - Automating Execution, Deployment and Configuration... with Perl!* In the DevOps world quite some noise is made around configuration management and deployment systems - Perl also has an option in this area: Rex. This talk presents how Rex works, shows a few use-cases, gives examples and ideas on how to solve recurring tasks by automating them away. * Sawyer X** - * *Perl and the Web - A Love Story * (this is the talk I was supposed to do in January) In the beginning of the great kingdom of the Internet, there was one ruler: Perl. With time, fallen from grace, the beautiful princess language lost its place on the throne, giving way to Ruby, Python, and to the dismay and horror of everyone in the kingdom, PHP. But all is not lost. While underground, Perl has schemed a plot to overthrow the competitors. That plan is Plack/PSGI. Interested in knowing more? Attend the talk, if you dare! *Lightning talks round!* Please let me know if you're interested in giving a short lightning talk (up to 5 minutes). *Unabridged:* You've probably heard of the Perl Mongers meetings, where fellow Perl (and non-Perl programmers) can get together to "talk shop", make fun of everything (including Perl) and have a good time. These meetings often have a few technical talks (which are usually light-hearted, and not necessarily - but likely - involve Perl). There are already the Amsterdam.pm meetings. This is not about those. This is about AmsterdamX.pm, which will have its next meeting on *March 24th*, at *18:30*, in the *Beijing room (5th floor)*at *Booking.com*, *Herengracht 597*. The talks can be a 5 minute tidbit about a cool module, or a 40 minute tutorial about some cool new (or old) software. *AmsterdamX.pm? *AmsterdamX.pm (Amsterdam eXpats Perl Mongers) is a new Perl Mongers group whose purpose is to optimize for expats. The major differences are: * use English; We might speak more than 50 languages, but we commonly speak only one. * Meeting early: we meet at 18:30, so you can come straight from work instead of having a long buffer time to the meeting. * Held at Booking.com, where most expats in Amsterdam already work. This isn't instead of Amsterdam.pm, but to provide an additional group. It is not meant to replace, but to supplement. There is no affiliation between Amsterdam.pm and AmsterdamX.pm. *Why should I attend? *Here are a few reasons which might appeal to you: * You will improve your knowledge of Perl (and most likely other technologies) through the knowledge and experience of others. It's like a free course, with snacks! * You could give a talk and share your knowledge and experience. If you're going to YAPC to give a talk, this is great practice. * It's a wonderful chance to socialize. *How many talks, and how long are they?* Usually there will be 2-3 talks, ranging between 5 minutes (lightning) and 40 minutes (tutorial). *Is it just for Booking.com?* No. This isn't Booking.pm, this is AmsterdamX.pm. (also, Sparta!) This means that everyone is invited! At first we would like people to *register* so we could have a good estimate of the people arriving. This will help with various things like optimized snack distribution, making sure reception knows of people arriving that don't have keys, making sure we get a proper room, etc. *Now I'm interested, what's the next step?* Please let us know by return email if you will be attending as well as the names of anyone you plan on bringing from outside of Booking.com. Then mark the date, time and place and show up! See you there! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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There are a few 40-minute slots left and some more 20-minute, which encourages you to condense your talk to the bare essentials. Remember when you said you have an idea for a talk? Now's the time. *Submit your talk!* :) * NLPW::2014::Utrecht needs you!* For more details, visit http://perlworkshop.nl (in English and in Dutch) and follow @PerlNL on Twitter. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hvo.pm at xs4all.nl Tue Mar 25 00:41:10 2014 From: hvo.pm at xs4all.nl (Henk van Oers) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:41:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [AmsterdamX-pm] Dutch Perl Workshop! (NLPW::2014::Utrecht) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, 24 Mar 2014, sawyer x wrote: [...] > Also, it is still possible to submit talks and presentations. There are a few 40-minute slots left and some more 20-minute, > which encourages you to condense your talk to the bare essentials. Remember when you said you have an idea for a talk? Now's the > time. Submit your talk! :) And if you are a speaker you don't have to pay :) > NLPW::2014::Utrecht needs you! > > For more details, visit http://perlworkshop.nl (in English and in Dutch) and follow @PerlNL on Twitter.