From robertl at apnic.net Mon Aug 2 01:52:18 2004 From: robertl at apnic.net (Robert Loomans) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:25:51 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Still vacancies in Damian Conway Advanced OO Perl course Message-ID: <410DE4A2.7090404@apnic.net> There are still places remaining in the Advanced OO Perl course. It's only two weeks away, so please contact us ASAP if you are interested. Thanks, Rob -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Vacancies in Damian Conway Advanced OO Perl course From: Robert Loomans Organization: APNIC APNIC has booked Damian Conway for the "Advanced OO Perl" course. Primarily this course is being run for the benefit of APNIC employees, but we have limited space available for other people to attend, if they are interested. If you don't know who Damian Conway is... - he published the bible of Perl object-oriented programming: http://www.manning.com/Conway/ - has been active in producing really cool modules http://www.yetanother.org/damian/projects.html and http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/ - is Larry Wall's right hand man, defining the hows and whys of Perl 6 syntax and semantics http://www.perl.com/pub/au/Conway_Damian - oh, and he's a lecturer at Monash University http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/ Details of what's covered in the "Advanced Object-Oriented Perl" course are at: http://www.perltraining.com.au/aooperl.html It will be seminar-style so there will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions. The cost will be $1000 per attendee. The location will be the APNIC offices in Brisbane/QLD. The course is for two days and is booked for Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th of August. If you are interested and would like more information please email me directly ASAP. Cheers, Rob -- Robert Loomans, Programmer/Analyst Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) Tel: +61-7-3858-3100 http://www.apnic.net Fax: +61-7-3858-3199 From jarich at perltraining.com.au Mon Aug 2 20:43:06 2004 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:25:51 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Introductions Message-ID: <410EEDAA.4040000@perltraining.com.au> G'day Brisbane folk, I think it would be a great way to start conversation happening if everyone who still pays attention to this list were to introduce themselves. This has the added benefit that if I'm the only one who does this then I will know that Perl really is absent in Brisbane and that I can ship the PHP folk up there. :P So. I'm Jacinta Richardson. I'm the training coordinator for Perl Training Australia. I write Perl programs for a living, and write and run courses. We've just about finished our Perl Security course and will be presenting it in Brisbane in a few weeks at the SAGE-AU conference (16th - 20th Aug). If you'd like to meet up with Paul and I for some drinks or the like, please get in touch. I also helped kick-start Melbourne PM which has been going well ever since, I'm the programme chair for the Open Source Developers' Conference (1st - 3rd December 2004 in Melbourne) and I'm jarich on Perl Monks (http://www.perlmonks.org). I hope someone wants to meet up with us for drinks, it might even be a good excuse for hosting the inaugural meeting for 2004. We're going to be based out at The Bardon Centre, Bardon, Mt Coot-tha, Brisbane but I'm willing to taxi over to where the life of the party is. ;) All the best, Jacinta Richardson -- ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia | (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001 | _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | contact@perltraining.com.au | (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' | www.perltraining.com.au | From ken.cole at smiths-aerospace.com.au Mon Aug 2 21:38:50 2004 From: ken.cole at smiths-aerospace.com.au (Cole, Ken (ABRC)) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:39:37 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Introductions Message-ID: <05D93C443A23C844BD758D4A518C4576923356@sapwin2k.smiths-aerospace.com.au> I'm game :) I'm Ken and I am the IT Manager for the Asia Pacific region of a very large Worldwide company. We use Perl extensively in our web based business system written and maintained here in Brisbane. I am not involved in any way in the Perl community, if there is one, but would like to be. Therefore, I am very interested to see how many members there are on this list so don't be shy. Ken > -----Original Message----- > From: Jacinta Richardson [mailto:jarich@perltraining.com.au] > Sent: Tuesday, 3 August 2004 11:43 AM > To: brisbane-pm@pm.org > Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Introductions > > G'day Brisbane folk, > > I think it would be a great way to start conversation > happening if everyone who still pays attention to this list > were to introduce themselves. > > This has the added benefit that if I'm the only one who does > this then I will know that Perl really is absent in Brisbane > and that I can ship the PHP folk up there. :P > > So. I'm Jacinta Richardson. I'm the training coordinator > for Perl Training Australia. I write Perl programs for a > living, and write and run courses. We've just about finished > our Perl Security course and will be presenting it in > Brisbane in a few weeks at the SAGE-AU conference (16th - > 20th Aug). If you'd like to meet up with Paul and I for some > drinks or the like, please get in touch. > > I also helped kick-start Melbourne PM which has been going > well ever since, I'm the programme chair for the Open Source > Developers' > Conference (1st - 3rd December 2004 in Melbourne) and I'm > jarich on Perl Monks (http://www.perlmonks.org). > > I hope someone wants to meet up with us for drinks, it might > even be a good excuse for hosting the inaugural meeting for > 2004. We're going to be based out at The Bardon Centre, > Bardon, Mt Coot-tha, Brisbane but I'm willing to taxi over to > where the life of the party is. ;) > > All the best, > > Jacinta Richardson > -- > ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | > `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia | > (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001 | > _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | contact@perltraining.com.au | > (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' | www.perltraining.com.au | > > > _______________________________________________ > Brisbane-pm mailing list > Brisbane-pm@pm.org > http://www.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/brisbane-pm > From stuart.murnain at qca.org.au Mon Aug 2 22:32:23 2004 From: stuart.murnain at qca.org.au (Stuart Murnain) Date: Mon Aug 2 22:30:49 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Introductions Message-ID: Hello Perlmongers, I'm the IT dogsbody for a quasi-government organisation in Brisbane. I use Perl mainly for data munging these days (love a good regular expression!). We used to use Perl/CGI for our Intranet but have moved to ASP (not bad) with vbscript . Well... that's me - use Perl a bit, like it a lot. 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Cheers then, Geoff -----Original Message----- From: brisbane-pm-bounces@pm.org [mailto:brisbane-pm-bounces@pm.org] On Behalf Of Jacinta Richardson Sent: Tuesday, 3 August 2004 11:43 AM To: brisbane-pm@pm.org Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Introductions G'day Brisbane folk, I think it would be a great way to start conversation happening if everyone who still pays attention to this list were to introduce themselves. This has the added benefit that if I'm the only one who does this then I will know that Perl really is absent in Brisbane and that I can ship the PHP folk up there. :P So. I'm Jacinta Richardson. I'm the training coordinator for Perl Training Australia. I write Perl programs for a living, and write and run courses. We've just about finished our Perl Security course and will be presenting it in Brisbane in a few weeks at the SAGE-AU conference (16th - 20th Aug). If you'd like to meet up with Paul and I for some drinks or the like, please get in touch. I also helped kick-start Melbourne PM which has been going well ever since, I'm the programme chair for the Open Source Developers' Conference (1st - 3rd December 2004 in Melbourne) and I'm jarich on Perl Monks (http://www.perlmonks.org). I hope someone wants to meet up with us for drinks, it might even be a good excuse for hosting the inaugural meeting for 2004. We're going to be based out at The Bardon Centre, Bardon, Mt Coot-tha, Brisbane but I'm willing to taxi over to where the life of the party is. ;) All the best, Jacinta Richardson -- ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia | (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001 | _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | contact@perltraining.com.au | (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' | www.perltraining.com.au | _______________________________________________ Brisbane-pm mailing list Brisbane-pm@pm.org http://www.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/brisbane-pm From mcarthur at dstc.edu.au Mon Aug 2 23:53:10 2004 From: mcarthur at dstc.edu.au (Robert McArthur) Date: Mon Aug 2 23:55:17 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Introductions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <029801c47915$c955e420$99696682@vegeta> Hello, I'm a researcher at a private company (cum university research arm, cum industry research arm, cum... hey, it's a CRC :-). I use Perl regularly in everything from creating largish prototypes and proof of concept systems, down to writing one liners to munge data. We've recently migrated a prototype in OO Perl into its next incarnation (in C). I also do all my web CGI work in perl. I've been perl'ing since about 1989 when I used it to munge rainfall data looking at the history and prevalence of drought around Australia; it was as good and useful then as it is now :-) I also taught it, on the sly, at QUT for a few years when I worked there as a lecturer. There are some people I work with who are trying to lure me to the darkside (Python), but I've thus far resisted :-) I'm one of the perl gurus in the organisation (but in *no* way have that status outside where people know something). Cheers Robert McArthur DSTC P/L From davematt at netsecure.com.au Tue Aug 3 01:27:38 2004 From: davematt at netsecure.com.au (Dave Matthews) Date: Tue Aug 3 01:27:58 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Introductions In-Reply-To: <05D93C443A23C844BD758D4A518C4576923356@sapwin2k.smiths-aerospace.com.au> References: <05D93C443A23C844BD758D4A518C4576923356@sapwin2k.smiths-aerospace.com.au> Message-ID: <20040803062738.GB30966@answerz.com.au> Hi Guys, Nice idea Jacinta to intro and spread some perl joy. I'm self-employed - started off with perl as a academic sysadmin in the perl4 days - it was great for automating and web work and a lot faster than coding in C Turned my hand to IT contracting (networking, security, glorified sysadmin) where I continue to 'build up my toolbox' with nifty perl code/utils etc. It's fantastic for glueing disparate systems together - mostly I work on unix systems but when you have to automate something from Win32 land it's quite doable. The funniest perl experience I can remember is meeting Randal at a SANS conference then seeing him getting into Karaoke that night - I think he enjoys it more than his coding! Cheers, Dave On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:38:50PM +1000, Cole, Ken (ABRC) wrote: > I'm game :) > > I'm Ken and I am the IT Manager for the Asia Pacific region of a very > large Worldwide company. > > We use Perl extensively in our web based business system written and > maintained here in Brisbane. > > I am not involved in any way in the Perl community, if there is one, but > would like to be. > > Therefore, I am very interested to see how many members there are on > this list so don't be shy. > > Ken > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jacinta Richardson [mailto:jarich@perltraining.com.au] > > Sent: Tuesday, 3 August 2004 11:43 AM > > To: brisbane-pm@pm.org > > Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Introductions > > > > G'day Brisbane folk, > > > > I think it would be a great way to start conversation > > happening if everyone who still pays attention to this list > > were to introduce themselves. > > > > This has the added benefit that if I'm the only one who does > > this then I will know that Perl really is absent in Brisbane > > and that I can ship the PHP folk up there. :P > > > > So. I'm Jacinta Richardson. I'm the training coordinator > > for Perl Training Australia. I write Perl programs for a > > living, and write and run courses. We've just about finished > > our Perl Security course and will be presenting it in > > Brisbane in a few weeks at the SAGE-AU conference (16th - > > 20th Aug). If you'd like to meet up with Paul and I for some > > drinks or the like, please get in touch. > > > > I also helped kick-start Melbourne PM which has been going > > well ever since, I'm the programme chair for the Open Source > > Developers' > > Conference (1st - 3rd December 2004 in Melbourne) and I'm > > jarich on Perl Monks (http://www.perlmonks.org). > > > > I hope someone wants to meet up with us for drinks, it might > > even be a good excuse for hosting the inaugural meeting for > > 2004. We're going to be based out at The Bardon Centre, > > Bardon, Mt Coot-tha, Brisbane but I'm willing to taxi over to > > where the life of the party is. ;) > > > > All the best, > > > > Jacinta Richardson > > -- > > ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | > > `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia | > > (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001 | > > _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | contact@perltraining.com.au | > > (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' | www.perltraining.com.au | > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Brisbane-pm mailing list > > Brisbane-pm@pm.org > > http://www.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/brisbane-pm > > > > _______________________________________________ > Brisbane-pm mailing list > Brisbane-pm@pm.org > http://www.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/brisbane-pm From pjf at perltraining.com.au Tue Aug 3 01:56:36 2004 From: pjf at perltraining.com.au (Paul Fenwick) Date: Tue Aug 3 01:56:41 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Introductions In-Reply-To: <410EEDAA.4040000@perltraining.com.au> References: <410EEDAA.4040000@perltraining.com.au> Message-ID: <410F3724.20708@perltraining.com.au> Hi Everyone! My name's Paul, and I program in Perl. ;) I have about 10 years experience. I don't live in Brisbane, but I have been there to teach Perl to the Brisbane City Council, and I will be heading back in a couple of weeks time for the SAGE-AU conference (http://www.sage-au.org.au/), where I'm presenting a full-day tutorial on Perl Security. I work with Jacinta at Perl Training Australia (http://perltraining.com.au/). I also help run Melbourne Perl Mongers (http://melbourne.pm.org), I'm treasurer for OSDC (http://www.osdc.com.au/), and I'm an infrequent contributor to P5P. See http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3385381 for a brief moment of fame recently. I've had a few articles published in The Perl Journal back when I had more free time, and have a few more articles coming up for perl.com now that I don't. I'm seen infrequently on perlmonks. Between my many projects I'm working on Proc::UID, to implement a consistent and reliable way of manipulating Unix privileges in a cross-platform fashion. When I'm avoiding work I do silly things with HTML::Mason, such as http://hotornot.perltraining.com.au/ . I could easily be convinced to give a talk at Brisbane.PM while I'm in town for the SAGE-AU conference between the 16th and 20th of August. All the very best, Paul -- Paul Fenwick | http://perltraining.com.au/ Director of Training | Ph: +61 3 9354 6001 Perl Training Australia | Fax: +61 3 9354 2681 From admin at wenck.com.au Mon Aug 2 22:08:26 2004 From: admin at wenck.com.au (Phil Greenway) Date: Tue Aug 3 05:45:13 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Introductions Message-ID: > I am very interested to see how many members there are on this list so don't be shy. Hi, I'm Phil and I don't use perl. I use PHP :P - I'm just on this list, cos I've never been able to get off it - but as it's a quiet list I didn't overly care. Regards, Phil Greenway Systems Administrator From Chris.Hadgis at mincom.com Mon Aug 2 23:02:17 2004 From: Chris.Hadgis at mincom.com (Chris.Hadgis@mincom.com) Date: Tue Aug 3 05:45:50 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Introductions In-Reply-To: <410EEDAA.4040000@perltraining.com.au> Message-ID: Hi. I'm Chris. I guess you can see I work for Mincom =) I basically taught myself Perl when I started here and ended up writing a few scripts to actually benefit Mincom. I think the biggest thing I have written was a script to parse SendMail log files for a friend of mine who runs an ISP. I like Perl. I wish I had more to do with it. Cheers, Chris Hadgis A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station. -- This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender and delete the transmission. The contents of this e-mail are the opinion of the writer only and are not endorsed by the Mincom Group of companies unless expressly stated otherwise. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.pm.org/pipermail/brisbane-pm/attachments/20040803/fe29393f/attachment-0001.htm From karen_bearkley at yahoo.com Tue Aug 3 18:43:39 2004 From: karen_bearkley at yahoo.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?Karen=20Bearkley?=) Date: Tue Aug 3 18:43:47 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Introductions In-Reply-To: <410EEDAA.4040000@perltraining.com.au> Message-ID: <20040803234339.41941.qmail@web51708.mail.yahoo.com> Hi there, I've been coding in Perl for approx 8 years. I caught the Perl bug when was at CITEC and begged to be moved from a COBOL environment to help develop the first version of their Intranet. I then moved o/s and was lucky enough to score a two year contract with BBC Online. Lots of Perl there, and some other very cool stuff! Once my visa ran out I moved home and now work for Mincom in a Perl/ClearCase role. It's great to see the list coming to life again :) Cheers, Karen --- Jacinta Richardson wrote: > G'day Brisbane folk, > > I think it would be a great way to start > conversation happening if > everyone who still pays attention to this list were > to introduce themselves. > > This has the added benefit that if I'm the only one > who does this then I > will know that Perl really is absent in Brisbane and > that I can ship the > PHP folk up there. :P > > So. I'm Jacinta Richardson. I'm the training > coordinator for Perl > Training Australia. I write Perl programs for a > living, and write and > run courses. We've just about finished our Perl > Security course and > will be presenting it in Brisbane in a few weeks at > the SAGE-AU > conference (16th - 20th Aug). If you'd like to meet > up with Paul and I > for some drinks or the like, please get in touch. > > I also helped kick-start Melbourne PM which has been > going well ever > since, I'm the programme chair for the Open Source > Developers' > Conference (1st - 3rd December 2004 in Melbourne) > and I'm jarich on Perl > Monks (http://www.perlmonks.org). > > I hope someone wants to meet up with us for drinks, > it might even be a > good excuse for hosting the inaugural meeting for > 2004. We're going to > be based out at The Bardon Centre, Bardon, Mt > Coot-tha, Brisbane but I'm > willing to taxi over to where the life of the party > is. ;) > > All the best, > > Jacinta Richardson > -- > ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ | Jacinta > Richardson | > `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl > Training Australia | > (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 > 9354 6001 | > _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | > contact@perltraining.com.au | > (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' | > www.perltraining.com.au | > > > _______________________________________________ > Brisbane-pm mailing list > Brisbane-pm@pm.org > http://www.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/brisbane-pm > ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com From s1.brown at qut.edu.au Tue Aug 3 20:08:40 2004 From: s1.brown at qut.edu.au (Shane Brown) Date: Tue Aug 3 20:08:56 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Introductions In-Reply-To: <410EEDAA.4040000@perltraining.com.au> References: <410EEDAA.4040000@perltraining.com.au> Message-ID: <41103718.7060504@qut.edu.au> Ahoy mateys, I began using perl for text analysis purposes because there was a lack of tools that would play nice for me. I come from a social science background : the most complex programming I'd done in the past was on a Mac using hyperard. Oh the power! Now I've completed a text analysis package for use by the Australian tertiary sector, and am currently playing with a machine learning framework for automatic text categorization. My coding ambitions most likely outstrip my abilities by a fair degree, but hey .. it's perl, I can always find a way to do something - even if it's a dumb one. Cheers -- Shane Brown - Researcher School of Management, Queensland University of Technology s1.brown@qut.edu.au ph 07 3864 1387 CRICOS code 00213J From robertl at apnic.net Tue Aug 3 22:02:12 2004 From: robertl at apnic.net (Robert Loomans) Date: Tue Aug 3 22:02:20 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Introductions In-Reply-To: <410EEDAA.4040000@perltraining.com.au> References: <410EEDAA.4040000@perltraining.com.au> Message-ID: <411051B4.5070509@apnic.net> Hi all.... I found Perl about 10 years ago while still at uni, in Sydney. I have consequently used it in various roles as a programmer, web developer, and as a sysadmin. In 2000, I got a job with Netizen in Melbourne as a Perl trainer and developer. Netizen (in the form of Kirrily Robert) wrote the original training notes that Perl Training Australia now use and maintain for a few of their courses. After a bumpy year, Netizen folded and I moved back to Sydney to work for OptusNet as a Perl programmer. As you may have guessed from my previous post about the Perl training, I now work for APNIC, the bunch that allocate IP addresses for Asia Pacific. Perl is our standard for internal development whether it is web applications or internal tools. Being written in Perl is also a big plus when we're selecting external software (eg, RT2, TWiki, etc.). There are 4 other full-time Perl programmers besides myself, and the network operations team use it too. Strangely enough, I rarely code in anything other than Perl these days :) Rob -- Robert Loomans, Programmer/Analyst Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) Ph: +61-7-3858-3100 http://www.apnic.net Fax: +61-7-3858-3199 From djames at thehub.com.au Wed Aug 4 01:06:40 2004 From: djames at thehub.com.au (Damian James) Date: Wed Aug 4 01:06:22 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Introductions In-Reply-To: <410EEDAA.4040000@perltraining.com.au> Message-ID: <738B084A-E5DC-11D8-9142-000393CE1928@thehub.com.au> Hey all, I'm a sysadmin of about ten years, been using Perl as the major focus of what I do for the last 4 years or so. Apart from being a network-infrastructure-and-security-oriented sysadmin, I develop and maintain a web based system for managing ethics and safety approvals in a large research organisation, though we are currently engaged in discussions that will probably make that large organisations. Perl makes the bits that have to talk to everything. Perl is everywhere. If there were a perl shell, I'd be using it. I practically do already, with one liners and all. And in perl forums, I will always be "the other Damian". Hard to live that down, really. Oh, and I met Randal first time at the sage-au conf in adelaide a few years back, no karaoke but I seem to recall he did dance on a table at the conference dinner. Then there were all the rubber glove jokes... Ha, knew I could find it: http://groups.google.com/ groups?selm=m11yotsqhh.fsf%40halfdome.holdit.com Cheers, Damian On Tuesday, August 3, 2004, at 11:43 AM, Jacinta Richardson wrote: > G'day Brisbane folk, > > I think it would be a great way to start conversation happening if > everyone who still pays attention to this list were to introduce > themselves. > > This has the added benefit that if I'm the only one who does this then > I will know that Perl really is absent in Brisbane and that I can ship > the PHP folk up there. :P > > So. I'm Jacinta Richardson. I'm the training coordinator for Perl > Training Australia. I write Perl programs for a living, and write and > run courses. We've just about finished our Perl Security course and > will be presenting it in Brisbane in a few weeks at the SAGE-AU > conference (16th - 20th Aug). If you'd like to meet up with Paul and > I for some drinks or the like, please get in touch. > > I also helped kick-start Melbourne PM which has been going well ever > since, I'm the programme chair for the Open Source Developers' > Conference (1st - 3rd December 2004 in Melbourne) and I'm jarich on > Perl Monks (http://www.perlmonks.org). > > I hope someone wants to meet up with us for drinks, it might even be a > good excuse for hosting the inaugural meeting for 2004. We're going > to be based out at The Bardon Centre, Bardon, Mt Coot-tha, Brisbane > but I'm willing to taxi over to where the life of the party is. ;) > > All the best, > > Jacinta Richardson > -- > ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | > `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia | > (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001 | > _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | contact@perltraining.com.au | > (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' | www.perltraining.com.au | > > > _______________________________________________ > Brisbane-pm mailing list > Brisbane-pm@pm.org > http://www.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/brisbane-pm > From jarich at perltraining.com.au Wed Aug 4 01:30:13 2004 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson) Date: Wed Aug 4 01:30:26 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Introductions In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <41108275.3030702@perltraining.com.au> Phil Greenway wrote: > I'm Phil and I don't use perl. I use PHP :P - I'm just on this list, > cos I've never been able to get off it - but as it's a quiet list I > didn't overly care. Now that the list uses mailman rather than majordomo, you should find unsubscribing (if you want to) really easy. What do you use PHP for? Jacinta -- ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia | (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001 | _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | contact@perltraining.com.au | (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' | www.perltraining.com.au | From benjamins.boyle at gmail.com Tue Aug 3 07:40:23 2004 From: benjamins.boyle at gmail.com (Ben Boyle) Date: Wed Aug 4 05:54:53 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Introductions In-Reply-To: <410EEDAA.4040000@perltraining.com.au> References: <410EEDAA.4040000@perltraining.com.au> Message-ID: <5f37426b04080305401c8747c8@mail.gmail.com> Name's Ben, never posted much on this list (if ever). I work in Department of Education and the Arts. Use perl (version 5.0) to extend the limited OOTB functionality available in Interwoven TeamSite CMS (www.interwoven.com); mostly as a wrapper for running Windows command line tools (exe files) because that's the API provided with the product ... :] It's a shocking system, but I enjoy the perl coding. Have used perl on and off since 1998. My background is web/multimedia development so I primarily use it for CGI programming (apart from the above) and I like it's flexible style and string manipulation, and coding object-oriented. Don't mind a bit of PHP or other languages either. Different tools for different problems :) And that's that really :) cheers Ben From jarich at perltraining.com.au Thu Aug 5 02:18:09 2004 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson) Date: Thu Aug 5 02:18:20 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Wow Message-ID: <4111DF31.40300@perltraining.com.au> I must say, I had no idea my response would evoke such a reaction. I had gained the wrong impression, somehow, that the Brisbane PM list was effectively devoid of people paying attention to it. Wow. So how many of you lovely people want to get together on Friday 20th August for dinner? Paul will be busy at the speakers "wind-up" session until 7:30pm, but after that we'd be happy to meet up for dinner at 8 - 8:30. Jacinta -- ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia | (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001 | _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | contact@perltraining.com.au | (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' | www.perltraining.com.au | From ken.cole at smiths-aerospace.com.au Thu Aug 5 02:29:23 2004 From: ken.cole at smiths-aerospace.com.au (Cole, Ken (ABRC)) Date: Thu Aug 5 02:30:12 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Wow Message-ID: <05D93C443A23C844BD758D4A518C457692370F@sapwin2k.smiths-aerospace.com.au> I would normally but I will be working in our Singapore office over that period. I will keep lurking though waiting for the next opportunity. Ken > -----Original Message----- > From: Jacinta Richardson [mailto:jarich@perltraining.com.au] > Sent: Thursday, 5 August 2004 5:18 PM > To: brisbane-pm@pm.org > Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Wow > > I must say, I had no idea my response would evoke such a > reaction. I had gained the wrong impression, somehow, that > the Brisbane PM list was effectively devoid of people paying > attention to it. > > Wow. > > So how many of you lovely people want to get together on > Friday 20th August for dinner? Paul will be busy at the > speakers "wind-up" session until 7:30pm, but after that we'd > be happy to meet up for dinner at 8 - 8:30. > > Jacinta > > -- > ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | > `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia | > (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001 | > _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | contact@perltraining.com.au | > (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' | www.perltraining.com.au | > > > > _______________________________________________ > Brisbane-pm mailing list > Brisbane-pm@mail.pm.org > http://www.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/brisbane-pm > From stuart.murnain at qca.org.au Thu Aug 5 02:35:02 2004 From: stuart.murnain at qca.org.au (Stuart Murnain) Date: Thu Aug 5 02:33:29 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Wow Message-ID: >I must say, I had no idea my response would evoke such a reaction. I had gained the wrong impression, somehow, that the Brisbane PM list was effectively >devoid of people paying attention to it. We pay attention, we're just shy ;-) Has anyone been following the development of Perl 6? Any opinions? 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( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia | (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001 | _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | contact@perltraining.com.au | (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' | www.perltraining.com.au | From G.Fletcher at salford.ac.uk Thu Aug 5 05:39:28 2004 From: G.Fletcher at salford.ac.uk (Gordon Fletcher) Date: Thu Aug 5 06:14:57 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Introductions Message-ID: <41121C70.19283.1DE8D5D@localhost> Hi I will take up Jacinta's suggestion to post an introduction. I'm Gordon - I started this group a number of years ago. When I say started I mean I got the pm.org guys to set up a listserver. At the time I was working at Griffith University doing flexible learning development and writing Perl code - primarily CGI stuff. I moved onto the Gold Coast for a while and wrote a meta-search engine for a bunch of 'guys' in Surfers also mucked around with a number of mail hacks and a number of 'evil' robots (I can say that now). After that I went back to teaching at Uni and that's how I've ended up sending an email from Salford Uni (Manchester) where I now teach Java and torture my students by making them write biorhythm generators, bad poetry makers and text concordancers (some things never change). Apologies for not being able to make the get together. Gordon From mcarthur at dstc.edu.au Mon Aug 9 02:54:46 2004 From: mcarthur at dstc.edu.au (Robert McArthur) Date: Mon Aug 9 02:56:55 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Perl group dinner In-Reply-To: <4111DF31.40300@perltraining.com.au> Message-ID: <04c601c47de6$278e6510$99696682@vegeta> > So how many of you lovely people want to get together on Friday 20th > August for dinner? Paul will be busy at the speakers > "wind-up" session > until 7:30pm, but after that we'd be happy to meet up for > dinner at 8 - 8:30. I'm (very probably) in. I'm not a city-dinner person, so can't suggest anywhere there. If you're not in the city, let us know where you and Paul would be, and someone can probably suggest a good restaurant (I know Toowong and West End areas a bit). Robert From pjf at perltraining.com.au Mon Aug 9 03:47:12 2004 From: pjf at perltraining.com.au (Paul Fenwick) Date: Mon Aug 9 03:47:16 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Perl group dinner In-Reply-To: <04c601c47de6$278e6510$99696682@vegeta> References: <04c601c47de6$278e6510$99696682@vegeta> Message-ID: <41173A10.50700@perltraining.com.au> G'day Brisbane.PM, Robert McArthur wrote: > I'm (very probably) in. I'm not a city-dinner person, so > can't suggest anywhere there. If you're not in the city, > let us know where you and Paul would be, and someone can > probably suggest a good restaurant (I know Toowong and > West End areas a bit). I'll be at the SAGE-AU (www.sage-au.org.au) conference, which is being held at the Bardon Centre, which is in Bardon. I'm geographically challenged the best of times, let alone knowing the layout of cities other than my own, so I can't tell you where that is in relation to anything else. However it's apparently 6km from the Brisbane city centre. If it helps in making a decision as to where we should go for dinner, I'm rather partial to Indian food. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Fenwick | http://perltraining.com.au/ Director of Training | Ph: +61 3 9354 6001 Perl Training Australia | Fax: +61 3 9354 2681 From whynot at optusnet.com.au Wed Aug 4 14:40:29 2004 From: whynot at optusnet.com.au (Tony Obermeit) Date: Wed Aug 11 05:40:29 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Introductions Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.0.20040805053951.02a4c128@pop.compuserve.com> Hi, I first discovered perl in 1997 and used it to automate the Oracle DB build process for a large project at Brisbane City Council. Perl enabled me to take a process that took 1.5 days manually requiring the skills of a dba to become an hour long process requiring the skills of a junior DBA. Saving that sort of time made me fall in love with the language and I went on to develop a number cgi / oracle applications using perl. Then I tried to take one of those applications and package it for easy deployment on multiple platforms and I stopped using perl for applications development and started using Java. I still use perl occasionally for scripting and gluing together disparate applications. I no longer use perl for build process automation after discovering ant. I work at Oracle corporation in Brisbane on the Web ADI / Desktop Integration project. We use Java as our primary development language but do use perl for scripting and gluing. Even though I've switched to Java (and am still happy with the switch), I still think perl is a great language. cheers Tony From G.Fletcher at salford.ac.uk Wed Aug 11 05:37:30 2004 From: G.Fletcher at salford.ac.uk (Gordon Fletcher) Date: Wed Aug 11 05:40:30 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Changed/missing members Message-ID: <411A04FA.22042.20C3D1F7@localhost> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1018 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/brisbane-pm/attachments/20040811/e2b1604d/attachment.bin From jarich at perltraining.com.au Tue Aug 17 22:20:28 2004 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson) Date: Tue Aug 17 22:20:38 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Dinner on Friday night. Message-ID: <4122CAFC.7000202@perltraining.com.au> Currently it's Paul, Robert McArthur and I. Does anyone else want to join us (and maybe Jepri and a few other Australian PMers) for dinner on Friday? Knowing nothing about Brisbane except that Bardon doesn't look like it's too far away from things, can I request that you pick a place Robert (hopefully not on the other side of Brisbane from Bardon) and we'll meet you there at 8-8:30pm? Paul's mobile number is 0408 197 503. We'll have intermittent access to email so we should be able to keep abreast of things. Looking forward to meeting some of you, Jacinta Richardson -- ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia | (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001 | _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | contact@perltraining.com.au | (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' | www.perltraining.com.au | From robertl at apnic.net Wed Aug 18 03:59:19 2004 From: robertl at apnic.net (Robert Loomans) Date: Wed Aug 18 03:59:31 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Dinner on Friday night. In-Reply-To: <4122CAFC.7000202@perltraining.com.au> References: <4122CAFC.7000202@perltraining.com.au> Message-ID: <41231A67.4090600@apnic.net> Jacinta Richardson wrote: > Currently it's Paul, Robert McArthur and I. Does anyone else want to > join us (and maybe Jepri and a few other Australian PMers) for dinner on > Friday? Karen Bearkley & I will join you.... > Knowing nothing about Brisbane except that Bardon doesn't look like it's > too far away from things, can I request that you pick a place Robert > (hopefully not on the other side of Brisbane from Bardon) and we'll meet > you there at 8-8:30pm? If you're stuck, Picasso's Restaurant in the Carlton Crest Hotel (in the city) is really good... > Paul's mobile number is 0408 197 503. We'll have intermittent access to > email so we should be able to keep abreast of things. NP. > Looking forward to meeting some of you, Indeed. Cheers, Rob -- Robert Loomans, Programmer/Analyst Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) Ph: +61-7-3858-3100 http://www.apnic.net Fax: +61-7-3858-3199 From mcarthur at dstc.edu.au Wed Aug 18 23:50:40 2004 From: mcarthur at dstc.edu.au (Robert McArthur) Date: Wed Aug 18 23:52:54 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Dinner on Friday night. In-Reply-To: <4122CAFC.7000202@perltraining.com.au> Message-ID: <08c001c485a8$1737cf70$99696682@vegeta> > Currently it's Paul, Robert McArthur and I. Does anyone else want to > join us (and maybe Jepri and a few other Australian PMers) > for dinner on Friday? C'mon everyone...I'll offer a free regexp for the first 10 people ;-) > Knowing nothing about Brisbane except that Bardon doesn't > look like it's > too far away from things, can I request that you pick a place Robert > (hopefully not on the other side of Brisbane from Bardon) and > we'll meet > you there at 8-8:30pm? Well, sort of... If you're in where I think you are, then probably Paddington, Indooroopilly, Toowong or the city are the best. I know some eateries in the middle two, but not the others :-) If you are staying at a hotel in the city, then that's by far the best, and the suggestion for Picasso's is more than I can give. [thinking as I type] how about we do say the city, and Picasso's, given that most people will find it relatively easy to get to (on average)... Any advance on city+Picasso's? My number is 0410 583158. Rob From jarich at perltraining.com.au Thu Aug 19 19:57:41 2004 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson) Date: Thu Aug 19 19:57:52 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Dinner on Friday night. In-Reply-To: <41231A67.4090600@apnic.net> References: <4122CAFC.7000202@perltraining.com.au> <41231A67.4090600@apnic.net> Message-ID: <41254C85.40800@perltraining.com.au> Robert Loomans wrote: > Karen Bearkley & I will join you.... Wonderful! I'll be bringing some SAGE-AU geeks with us. > If you're stuck, Picasso's Restaurant in the Carlton Crest Hotel (in the > city) is really good... Let's do that, I'll make a booking under "brisbane perl mongers" for you 3, and however many of us I collect along the way. We'll meet at about 8pm at the restaurant. I'm hopeful that the reception here (Bardon) has some clue on where the Carlton Crest Hotel is and whether the local bus will go anywhere near it. All the best, Jacinta From djames at thehub.com.au Thu Aug 19 21:58:07 2004 From: djames at thehub.com.au (Damian James) Date: Thu Aug 19 21:58:19 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Dinner on Friday night. In-Reply-To: <41254C85.40800@perltraining.com.au> Message-ID: Hi, On Friday, August 20, 2004, at 10:57 AM, Jacinta Richardson wrote: > Robert Loomans wrote: > >> Karen Bearkley & I will join you.... > > Wonderful! I'll be bringing some SAGE-AU geeks with us. > > >> If you're stuck, Picasso's Restaurant in the Carlton Crest Hotel (in >> the city) is really good... > > Let's do that, I'll make a booking under "brisbane perl mongers" for > you 3, and however many of us I collect along the way. We'll meet at > about 8pm at the restaurant. > > I'm hopeful that the reception here (Bardon) has some clue on where > the Carlton Crest Hotel is and whether the local bus will go anywhere > near it. The Bardon bus will take you into the city, probably the Adelaide St side of King George Square. It's a short walk across the square to where the Crest is located at the end of Roma St. Sorry I won't make it along. Would have been at the sage conf also, if my schedule had permitted, this week. Busy, busy. Some other time, perhaps :) Cheers, Damian From derek.thomson at gmail.com Fri Aug 20 02:15:43 2004 From: derek.thomson at gmail.com (Derek Thomson) Date: Fri Aug 20 02:16:18 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Dinner on Friday night. In-Reply-To: <41254C85.40800@perltraining.com.au> References: <4122CAFC.7000202@perltraining.com.au> <41231A67.4090600@apnic.net> <41254C85.40800@perltraining.com.au> Message-ID: Hi all, On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:57:41 +1000, Jacinta Richardson wrote: > > Let's do that, I'll make a booking under "brisbane perl mongers" for you > 3, and however many of us I collect along the way. We'll meet at about > 8pm at the restaurant. It looks like I'll be able to make it, so if you can increment that count by one that would be good! > > I'm hopeful that the reception here (Bardon) has some clue on where the > Carlton Crest Hotel is and whether the local bus will go anywhere near it. > They should do. dt. From mcarthur at dstc.edu.au Sun Aug 22 18:49:42 2004 From: mcarthur at dstc.edu.au (Robert McArthur) Date: Sun Aug 22 18:52:02 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Dinner on Friday night. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <000e01c488a2$b5933720$99696682@vegeta> Sadly, I wasn't able to make it (sick). Hope everyone had a good time! Rob From jarich at perltraining.com.au Thu Aug 26 00:56:15 2004 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson) Date: Thu Aug 26 00:56:26 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Call for papers reviewers Message-ID: <412D7B7F.2080606@perltraining.com.au> Roll up, roll up! Melbourne PM needs your help! Hi everyone, I'm the programme committee chair for the Open Source Developers' Conference - which is being organised and run by Melbourne PM later this year. In order for us to review the huge number of Perl papers we've received we're going to need either 20 people with some time on their hands (to review up to 3 papers each) or 50 people with a little time on their hands (to review 1 paper each). I'm going to hope that we can get at least 20 reviewers, but I need you to contact me and volunteer. If you are happy to review one paper, or two, or three, please let me know and I'll add you to my list. If you're also experienced with Python or PHP and would be happy to review papers there, your help would be appreciated. We also plan to have papers covering: Mozilla's XUL, Lego Micromouse, MySQL, Embedded Linux, CVS and make in system administration, Docbook, Javascript and Firebird. If you have sufficient experience to be able to spot ommissions, errors and other issues with papers on these topics, please mention this when you volunteer. All the very best, and I look forward to hearing from you. Jacinta Richardson -- ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia | (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001 | _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | contact@perltraining.com.au | (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' | www.perltraining.com.au | From derek.thomson at gmail.com Thu Aug 26 03:03:15 2004 From: derek.thomson at gmail.com (Derek Thomson) Date: Thu Aug 26 03:03:51 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Introductions In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.0.20040805053951.02a4c128@pop.compuserve.com> References: <5.2.1.1.0.20040805053951.02a4c128@pop.compuserve.com> Message-ID: Hi all, I've finally gotten 'round to doing this ... Jacinata Richardson wrote: > I think it would be a great way to start conversation happening if > everyone who still pays attention to this list were to introduce themselves. I'm responsible in at least some respect for the following crimes against nature and good sense: http://sourceforge.net/projects/perlorb http://fnorb.org These are both CORBA object request brokers, one written in Perl, and one in Python. I learned Perl late 1994/early 1995 as I'd pushed "awk" to its limits and needed something more powerful. Then I quickly ran into the limits of Perl 4 :), and was greatly relieved when Perl 5 came out soon after. I've used Perl for all kinds of things, but mostly C/C++/Java code generation. I also do lots of Python - I think I'm the only person I know who uses Perl (or even knows Perl well) at the same time :) dt. From jarich at perltraining.com.au Thu Aug 26 20:33:41 2004 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson) Date: Thu Aug 26 20:33:55 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] New courses from Perl Training Australia Message-ID: <20040827013341.D5659A82CA@teddybear.perltraining.com.au> Dear Brisbane Perl Mongers, Perl Training Australia is pleased to announce the opening of bookings for our first ever publicly enrolable training courses by Dr Damian Conway. These are in addition to our first public run of our new Perl Security course, our new Database Programming with Perl course and our popular introductory courses. Dr Damian Conway is one of the world's leading Perl experts and is the author of numerous well-known Perl modules. Most of his time is currently spent working with Larry Wall (the creator of Perl) on the design of the new Perl 6 programming language. He is a highly sought after speaker and has been published on topics as diverse as emergent systems, declarative programming and nanoscale simulation. Key dates are: Melbourne ========= Introduction to Perl: 21st September - 22nd September 2004 Intermediate Perl: 23rd September - 24th September 2004 Perl Security: 8th October 2004 Database Programming with Perl: 5th November 2004 *Advanced Object Oriented Perl* 31st January - 1st February 2005 *Text Processing with Perl* 3rd February 2005 Sydney ====== Introduction to Perl: 26th October - 27th October 2004 Intermediate Perl: 28th October - 29th October 2004 Database Programming with Perl: 19th November 2004 Canberra ======== Perl Security: 12th November 2004 Places can be booked on these courses from our bookings page: http://www.perltraining.com.au/bookings.html *Advanced Object Oriented Perl* by Dr Damian Conway, starts with how and when to bless arrays and scalars (rather than just hashes), and ends with how to use multiple dispatch. Further information can be found at: http://www.perltraining.com.au/aooperl.html *Text Processing with Perl* by Dr Damian Conway, used to be called *Data Munging with Perl*. This course expands your knowledge of regular expressions and finishes with how to extract, process and generate simple natural language data. Further information can be found at: http://www.perltraining.com.au/textproc.html *Perl Security* is our newest developed course and covers how to program securely in Perl. It includes taint checking, the multi-argument versions of system, exec and open, safe temporary files and much more. Perl Security is focused on a Unix environment but includes information relevant to all operating systems. Further information can be found at: http://www.perltraining.com.au/perlsec.html *Database Programming with Perl* covers how to use Perl to talk to simple databases such as configuration files, DBM files and relational databases. It covers how to use DBI, transactions and exception handling, and discusses extensions to DBI such as DBD::Proxy which allows encryption and authentication for remote connections. Further information can be found at: http://www.perltraining.com.au/perldbi.html *Introduction to Perl* and *Intermediate Perl* are our popular introductory courses. They are hands-on courses with plenty of time devoted to practising the concepts covers. These two courses combined cover everything you need to get from being a Perl novice to coding up quite complex Perl applications and course content is applicable to Unix, Unix-like, Macintosh and MS Windows environments. Further information can be found at: http://www.perltraining.com.au/perlintro.html and http://www.perltraining.com.au/perlinter.html Group booking discounts apply for bookings of 3 or more people on the same course. The group booking discounts can be found on our bookings page: http://www.perltraining.com.au/bookings.html If you book and pay by the appropriate *early bird special date*, you will be entitled to one free Perl book (of your choice) per person, per course booking. You can see the available books at: http://www.perltraining.com.au/books.html As a further incentive to spread the word about these courses, we will give *you* one free Perl book (up to the value of $80 RRP) for every person who books on our course and mentions your name (one name per course booking). That means an average booking of 2 people from an organisation on both introductory courses gains your organisation *4* books^ and gives *you* 4 books as well! ^ - assuming payment by early bird special date. These courses are run as a first-come first-served basis. Places are limited so early booking is recommended. *Open Source Developers' Conference* Perl Training Australia is delighted to invite you to participate in the Open Source Developers' Conference taking place in Melbourne on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of December 2004. This conference has a huge Perl focus and will cover everything from using templates in Perl through to using Perl to talk to hardware. PHP, Python and other open source technologies will also be discussed. Dr Damian Conway will be opening and closing the conference with keynote speeches that will cover Perl 6 (OO Made Insanely Great) and module designs and interfaces which make Perl a "sufficiently advanced technology". Come along and experience first hand, why it is that everyone wants to hear Dr Damian Conway teach. Further information can be found on the conference website at http://www.osdc.com.au We look forward to seeing you on our courses. All the very best, Jacinta Richardson -- ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia | (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001 | _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | contact@perltraining.com.au | (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' | www.perltraining.com.au | -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/brisbane-pm/attachments/20040827/0c3e3ae5/attachment.htm From sez at storybridge.org Mon Aug 23 18:43:13 2004 From: sez at storybridge.org (Sarah Hollings) Date: Thu Sep 2 06:45:07 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Dinner on Friday night. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <412A8111.3000208@storybridge.org> Damian James wrote: > Hi, > > On Friday, August 20, 2004, at 10:57 AM, Jacinta Richardson wrote: > >> Robert Loomans wrote: >> >>> Karen Bearkley & I will join you.... >> >> >> Wonderful! I'll be bringing some SAGE-AU geeks with us. I was one of them - had a great time thanks! >> >> >>> If you're stuck, Picasso's Restaurant in the Carlton Crest Hotel (in >>> the city) is really good... I've just joined the Brisbane PM list and its great to know there's some Perl enthusiasts here - most of my friends are software engineers (as I am now) and have errmmm differing views on languages. :-) Mentioned to a couple of people that I had persuaded my work to open source some software I wrote for them in Perl - if anyones interested to have a look, the sourceforge site is here: http://le-survey.sourceforge.net/ Not too much to look at yet, but the screenshots page should give some idea of what it does. Rgds, Sarah From peterl at netlink.com.au Thu Aug 26 02:07:11 2004 From: peterl at netlink.com.au (Peter Lawrence) Date: Thu Sep 2 06:45:08 2004 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Re: [Melbourne-pm] Call for papers reviewers Message-ID: <200408260707.i7Q77Bdo012012@www.pm.org> At 03:56 PM 8/26/04 +1000, Jacinta Richardson wrote: . . . >If you have sufficient experience to be able to spot ommissions, errors >and other issues with papers on these topics, please mention this when >you volunteer. It's spelled "omissions". Sorry, couldn't resist it. PML. GST+NPT=JOBS I.e., a Goods and Services Tax (or almost any other broad based production tax), with a Negative Payroll Tax, promotes employment. See http://member.netlink.com.au/~peterl/publicns.html#AFRLET2 and the other items on that page for some reasons why.