From taulmarill at xgn.de Wed May 6 00:41:49 2009 From: taulmarill at xgn.de (taulmarill at xgn.de) Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 09:41:49 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Bielefeld-pm] Nachtrag zum Treffen Message-ID: <58536.88.198.157.42.1241595709.squirrel@webmail.xgn.de> Hallo, wie jedes mal hier mein Nachtrag zum letzten Treffen. Die Sourcecodes zu den verschiedenen Sudoku-Programmen habe ich zusammen mit dem Sudoku, welches ich zum Testen verwendet habe als Zip-Datei angehängt. Die Dateinamen sollten selbsterklärend sein. Eine Anleitung für Perl6 => .exe hat moritz hier im Forum gepostet: http://www.perl-community.de/bat/poard/message/121184 Eine gute Anleitung zum Installieren des aktuellen Rakudo findet man unter http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo Das Flash-Spiel auf das ich noch hinweisen wollte ist unter http://www.playauditorium.com/ zu finden. Einen guten Überblick darüber, was StarCraft ist und wie StarCraft II aussehen wird, bekommt man, wenn man sich die "Battlereports" anschaut. Das sind vollständige StarCraft II Partien die von Profis gespielt und kommentiert werden. Zu finden unter folgenden Links: http://www.starcraft2.com/features/battlereports/1.xml http://www.starcraft2.com/features/battlereports/2.xml Falls ich etwas vergessen haben sollte einfach nachfragen. Gruß, Jürgen -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit Binärdaten wurde abgetrennt... Dateiname : sudoku.zip Dateityp : application/x-zip Dateigröße : 5095 bytes Beschreibung: nicht verfügbar URL : From c.duehl at gmx.de Wed May 6 23:27:58 2009 From: c.duehl at gmx.de (c.duehl at gmx.de) Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 08:27:58 +0200 Subject: [Bielefeld-pm] Nachtrag zum Treffen In-Reply-To: <58536.88.198.157.42.1241595709.squirrel@webmail.xgn.de> References: <58536.88.198.157.42.1241595709.squirrel@webmail.xgn.de> Message-ID: <20090507062758.88770@gmx.net> Hallo Jürgen, vielen Dank! Gruß Christian -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Wed, 6 May 2009 09:41:49 +0200 (CEST) > Von: taulmarill at xgn.de > An: "Mailingliste der Bielefeld Perl Mongers" > Betreff: [Bielefeld-pm] Nachtrag zum Treffen > Hallo, > > wie jedes mal hier mein Nachtrag zum letzten Treffen. > > > Die Sourcecodes zu den verschiedenen Sudoku-Programmen habe ich zusammen > mit dem Sudoku, welches ich zum Testen verwendet habe als Zip-Datei > angehängt. Die Dateinamen sollten selbsterklärend sein. > > > Eine Anleitung für Perl6 => .exe hat moritz hier im Forum gepostet: > > http://www.perl-community.de/bat/poard/message/121184 > > Eine gute Anleitung zum Installieren des aktuellen Rakudo findet man unter > http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo > > > Das Flash-Spiel auf das ich noch hinweisen wollte ist unter > http://www.playauditorium.com/ zu finden. > > > Einen guten Überblick darüber, was StarCraft ist und wie StarCraft II > aussehen wird, bekommt man, wenn man sich die "Battlereports" anschaut. > Das sind vollständige StarCraft II Partien die von Profis gespielt und > kommentiert werden. Zu finden unter folgenden Links: > > http://www.starcraft2.com/features/battlereports/1.xml > http://www.starcraft2.com/features/battlereports/2.xml > > > Falls ich etwas vergessen haben sollte einfach nachfragen. > > > Gruß, > Jürgen From c.duehl at gmx.de Mon May 11 03:12:23 2009 From: c.duehl at gmx.de (c.duehl at gmx.de) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 12:12:23 +0200 Subject: [Bielefeld-pm] Fwd: O'Reilly News fuer User-Groups: Neues im April Message-ID: <20090511101223.64830@gmx.net> -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:32:58 +0200 (CEST) Von: ug at oreilly.de An: user_groups at oreilly.de Betreff: O\'Reilly News fuer User-Groups: Neues im April _________________________________________________ O'Reilly UserGroup News April 2009 Bitte an Ihre Mitglieder weiterleiten _________________________________________________ Liebe O'Reilly UserGroup-Vertreter! Zu Ostern schon wieder nur Schokolade bekommen? 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As you might or might not know we are developing an IDE for Perl in Perl called Padre. Among other things we would like to make it easily accessible to people who don't know English well. For that reason several people have been translating the GUI of Padre to other languages. Currently there are 15 translations at various levels of completeness. Recently we created a web page that allows us to easily see which languages are there and what is the level of completeness of the translation of Padre itself and that of the over 35 plugins. Currently there are 436 strings in Padre and and additional 150 string int the plugins that need translation. It would be of great help both to our project and hopefully to the local perl newbies to further improve the already existing translations and to translate Padre into other languages as well. You don't have to land all the translation at once, on the stats web page we can track the progress of a translation once it is in our repository. So if you are interested * Current status of the translations: http://www.perlide.org/translations/ * Instructions for translators: http://padre.perlide.org/wiki/TranslationIntro What you need to do is 1) Install Padre 2) Register on http://padre.perlide.org/ 3) check out Padre from SVN 4) Translate the first 50 strings 5) ask for a commit bit on #padre 6) Commit the first batch 7) Keep translating regards Gabor -- Request pm.org Technical Support via support at pm.org pm_groups mailing list pm_groups at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pm_groups From c.duehl at gmx.de Thu May 21 23:42:09 2009 From: c.duehl at gmx.de (c.duehl at gmx.de) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 08:42:09 +0200 Subject: [Bielefeld-pm] Fwd: UG News - Last Day to Register - O'Reilly Webcast: Twitter Power Tips Message-ID: <20090522064209.52120@gmx.net> -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Wed, 20 May 2009 11:37:51 -0700 Von: Marsee Henon An: c.duehl at gmx.de Betreff: UG News - Last Day to Register - O\'Reilly Webcast: Twitter Power Tips If you would like to view this information in your browser, click here: http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zuautui9iv9gvu5bnvuq5ujcfaklmbbc7ni24390 Join us for this free, live webcast: Twitter Power Tips Presented by Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein At first blush, Twitter appears to be an easy and friendly medium. 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Gruß Christian -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Mon, 25 May 2009 13:13:49 +0200 > Von: "Jürgen Peters" > An: Mailingliste der Bielefeld Perl Mongers > Betreff: [Bielefeld-pm] Treffen morgen > Hallo, > > damit ich da morgen nicht plötzlich alleine sitze, wollte ich mal > nachfragen, wer kommt. > > > Gruß, > Jürgen > _______________________________________________ > Bielefeld-pm mailing list > Bielefeld-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/bielefeld-pm From taulmarill at xgn.de Tue May 26 00:19:17 2009 From: taulmarill at xgn.de (taulmarill at xgn.de) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 09:19:17 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Bielefeld-pm] Treffen morgen In-Reply-To: <20090526062644.101490@gmx.net> References: <20090526062644.101490@gmx.net> Message-ID: <53262.88.198.157.42.1243322357.squirrel@webmail.xgn.de> Damit findet das Treffen auf jeden Fall statt. Falls noch jemand kurz entschlossen vorbeischauen möchte, man findet uns ab 19:00 Uhr im Alt Bielefeld. Gruß, Jürgen Am Di, 26.05.2009, 08:26, schrieb c.duehl at gmx.de: > Ich werde da sein! > > Es haben sich ja noch neue Leute auf der Liste eingetragen. Kommt noch > jemand? > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- >> Datum: Mon, 25 May 2009 13:13:49 +0200 >> Von: "Jürgen Peters" >> An: Mailingliste der Bielefeld Perl Mongers >> Betreff: [Bielefeld-pm] Treffen morgen > >> Hallo, >> >> damit ich da morgen nicht plötzlich alleine sitze, wollte ich mal >> nachfragen, wer kommt. From c.duehl at gmx.de Thu May 28 00:24:44 2009 From: c.duehl at gmx.de (c.duehl at gmx.de) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 09:24:44 +0200 Subject: [Bielefeld-pm] Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, May 27 Message-ID: <20090528072444.60650@gmx.net> uuuuh die Nachricht kam HTML-kodiert. 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