From ehs at pobox.com Fri Apr 2 17:14:55 2004 From: ehs at pobox.com (Ed Summers) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:27:41 2004 Subject: [Chicago-announce] NEXT MTG: Alan de Smet on UniqueID (2004.04.06) Message-ID: <20040402231455.GA4974@chloe.inkdroid.org> UniqueID - or - How I learned to stop worrying and love the bless. 2004.04.06 @ 7PM The UniqueID identifier number software [1] started life as a trivial experiment in Perl and CGI programming for Alan De Smet in the mid-90s. As Alan's understanding of programming and Perl have grown and been refined, so has that software grown and been refined. Alan's plan is talk about how his fascination with unique ids took hold, the UniqueId project, and what Perl has taught one hacker over the years. Alan [2] will be travelling down from Wisconsin where he currently works on the Condor Project [3] at wisc.edu. Please join us in "the pit" at BDI at 7PM next Tuesday. New folks are welcome, and directions are available on the website [4]. There should be some books to give away as well. [1] http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/numbers/ [2] http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/ [3] http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/ [4] http://chicago.pm.org/wdi-directions.html From ehs at pobox.com Sat Apr 3 13:30:59 2004 From: ehs at pobox.com (Ed Summers) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:27:41 2004 Subject: [Chicago-announce] SVN talk in Chicago Tuesday April 6th @ 6:00 Message-ID: <20040403193059.GB16519@chloe.inkdroid.org> Same day as our meeting, but figured it was worth passing along. //Ed -- The Chicago Cocoa and WebObjects User Group (CAWUG) is holding our next meeting this Tuesday, April 6th at 6:00 PM at the Apple Store on Michigan Ave. Please note the time & location --- 6:00 PM @ Apple Store. Agenda: - Introductions & Announcements - Subversion, Future Directions, & Mac OS X - Q & A Website: http://www.cawug.org/ When: Tuesday, April 6th, 6:00 PM Where: Apple Store Michigan Avenue 679 North Michigan Ave. (at the corner of Huron & Michigan Ave.) Chicago, IL 60611 1) Subversion by Brian Fitzpatrick Subversion is an Open Source Version Control System whose mission is "To provide a "compelling replacement for CVS." Subversion reached version 1.0 in February, 2004. Brian Fitzpatrick will talk about the features of Subversion, differences between Subversion and CVS, and possible directions for Subversion's future development. He will also discuss how Subversion handles Mac OS X specific problems (Bundled directories, etc). Brian Fitzpatrick is a Senior Software Engineer at CollabNet, Inc http://www.collab.net/ working full-time on the Subversion project. He is also a co-author of the book "Version Control with Subversion" to be released in June by O'Reilly and Associates. 2) all the other stuff We will, as usual, also have Q & A, a discussion of future meeting topics and dates. We are very thankful to Kiwi Internet Group for the list-serve, and other resources they have provided to support this group. As special thank you to Jonathan Rentzsch for updating and hosting the groups website ( http://www.cawug.org/ ). We also wish to thank the folks who run the theater space at the Apple store for letting us have our meetings there. Since there are no eating facilities at the store, we will not bring in food. However, given the store's good location, it should be easy to continue the discussion at a local eatery or pub like Timothy O'Toole's at 622 Fairbanks (2 blocks east of the store) which worked out very well last month. Kiwi Internet Group: http://www.king.net/ Also, thanks to Alex Johnson, the CAWG calendar is available as an iCal: http://ical.mac.com/alex27/CAWUG (view on the web) webcal://ical.mac.com/alex27/CAWUG.ics (subscribe to in iCal) Lastly, if you are working on a project and would like to talk about it briefly / promote it, I think it would be fun for people to hear about other people's projects. Please email me off line and you can talk at a future meeting. Our next meeting is on May 4th. -Bob From ehs at pobox.com Wed Apr 7 16:12:20 2004 From: ehs at pobox.com (Ed Summers) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:27:41 2004 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Pattern Languages of Programming (PLoP 2004) Message-ID: <20040407211220.GA11271@chloe.inkdroid.org> Fairly nearby: Pattern Languages of Programming (PLoP) http://hillside.net/plop/2004/ The pre-PLoP bootcamp sounds kinda interesting. Till May 1st to submit papers, June 1st to register, and the conference isn't until September...so plenty o' time. //Ed From vosede at lidp.com Mon Apr 12 08:04:24 2004 From: vosede at lidp.com (vosede@lidp.com) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:27:41 2004 Subject: [Chicago-announce] UniForum: Perl Debugger Message-ID: <20040412130424.GB579806@lidp.com> Hope you can join us. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Confessions of a ytpist. or A short summary of the Perl Debugger. Steven Lembark Tuesday, April 13, 2004, 7:00-9:00pm College of DuPage, Bldg OCC, Room 128B Abstract -------- The perl debugger is a beautiful thing to behold. From afar. Up close it is quite functional and useful, but looks enough like gdb to scare most people away. Which is too bad, because its syntax is rather well adapted to dealing with the realities of programming in Perl. Notwithstanding a recent O'Reilly pocketbook guide, the debugging documentation is a bit sketchy -- limited to the Camel and Nutcase book's syntax chapters. The debugger is also a handy tool for testing Perl syntax and profiling your code. Being written in Perl, you can use it from within your programs (this is where the $DB::single = 1 lines in modules come from). Setting programatic breakpoints or switching tracing within your code lets Perl do the work. Letting your code debug itself is the height of lazyness -- and good coding. Also, the "ptkdb" module now offers a GUI experience for those who don't enjoy wallowing in mud... er, the command line. The talk will give a short introduction to dealing with the debugger, debugging with $DB::single, installing and using ptkdb and the Profiler. Speaker Bio ----------- Steve Lembark is a Systems Architect and Perl hacker. On occasion he has been known to type something correctly, at which point the debugger is still useful. Getting There ------------- The next meeting of the UniForum Chicago Perl Special interest group will be from 7:00 pm to 9:00 PM on Tuesday, April 13, 2004 at the College of DuPage. The address of the meeting facility is: College of DuPage Building OCC, Rm 128B Fawell Boulevard and Lambert Rd. Glen Ellyn, IL 60137-6599 Take 355 to Butterfield Rd (Rt 56). Butterfield West to Lambert Rd. Lambert Rd North to Fawell Boulevard (formerly 22nd St.). West on Fawell Boulevard to Lot 9 or 10 entrance. South into lot 9 or 10. Park in lot 9 or 10 and walk to the OCC (Open Campus Center) building. The meeting room is 128B which is towards the west end of the building. All UniForum Chicago Perl SIG meetings are open to the public free of charge. For additional information contact Deborah Vose at (630)829-7033 or visit the UniForum Chicago web site at: http://www.uniforum.chi.il.us/ -- Deborah Vose LIDP Consulting, Inc. Phone: 1 630 829 7033 e-mail: vosede@lidp.com From ehs at pobox.com Fri Apr 16 13:30:50 2004 From: ehs at pobox.com (Ed Summers) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:27:41 2004 Subject: [Chicago-announce] LAMP developer [livetext] Message-ID: <20040416183050.GA32120@chloe.inkdroid.org> Nice lookin' Chicago/Perl job from jobs.perl.org //Ed -- Posted: April 16, 2004 Job title: LAMP developer Company name: LiveText Inc Location: United States, IL, Chicago Travel: 0% Terms of employment: Salaried employee Hours: Full time Onsite: yes Description: Chicago based company in search of a web developer to design/develop/maintain a web-based content management system, and other support tools for our users in a LAMP environment. Candidates should be highly self-motivated individuals who possess a strong understanding and working knowledge of Perl, MySql, Linux RedHat, Apache, mod_perl, PHP, Java, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, XML, and UML. Candidates should also demonstrate a willingness to learn new languages and technologies as needed. Required skills: - Perl, mod_perl, PHP - Apache + SSL - SQL Database design, DBI, MySql - solid OO design, UML - XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML - Strong communications skills - Self motivated - Detail oriented Desired skills: - Linux administration experience - MySql administration experience URL for more information: http://college.livetext.com/ Contact information: Please send resume with salary requirements to jobs at livetext dot com From ehs at pobox.com Thu Apr 22 17:10:33 2004 From: ehs at pobox.com (Ed Summers) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:27:41 2004 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Uniforum 2004.04.27 : Objective C and Cocoa Message-ID: <20040422221033.GA25319@chloe.inkdroid.org> If this looks interesting don't forget about Jim's presentation about CamelBones for chicago-pm on May 5th. -- Programming Mac OS X: Objective-C and Cocoa Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch Tuesday April 27th 2004 at 7:00-9:00pm College of DuPage Bldg OCC Rm 128 B Abstract -------- Cocoa is Mac OS X's built-in object-oriented application framework. Written in Objective-C, it is perhaps the most mature and advanced desktop application framework in existence. You can think of it as OpenStep: The Next Generation. Cocoa isn't magic and Objective-C isn't a super-language. Far from it. Together, we'll step through an introduction of Objective-C, the language, highlighting its pros and cons. For the second part, we'll explore the Cocoa itself, both from the framework level and the toolkit level (Xcode and Interface Builder). Speaker Bio ----------- Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch (http://rentzsch.com) runs Red Shed Software (http://redshed.net), a small local software boutique. He also leads PSIG (http://rentzsch.com/psig), a suburban Mac programmer group and cohosts CAWUG (http://cawug.org), a downtown Mac & WebObjects programmer group. Getting There ------------- The next general meeting of UniForum Chicago will be from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm on Tuesday April 27, 2004 at the College of DuPage. The address of the meeting facility is: College of DuPage Building OCC, Rm 128B Fawell Blvd. and Lambert Rd. Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 Take 355 to Butterfield Rd (Rt 56). Butterfield West to Lambert Rd. Lambert Rd North to 22nd St. West on Fawell Boulevard (formerly 22nd St.) to Lot 9 or 10 entrance. South into lot 9 or 10. Park in lot 9 or 10 and walk to the OCC (Open Campus Center) building. The meeting room is 128B which is towards the west end of the building. All UniForum Chicago general meetings are open to the public free of charge. For additional information contact David Young at (630) 357-5963 or visit the UniForum Chicago web site at: http://www.uniforum.chi.il.us/ -- Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Announcements Mailing List http://luni.org/mailman/listinfo/luni-announce -- Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion http://luni.org/mailman/listinfo/luni ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Ed Summers aim: inkdroid web: http://www.inkdroid.org The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. [Richard Feynman]