From mongers at bsod.net Tue Aug 3 09:44:01 2004 From: mongers at bsod.net (Pete Krawczyk) Date: Tue Aug 3 09:44:07 2004 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Meeting tonight, August 3rd at 7 PM Message-ID: Greetings! Tonight at 7 PM, our beloved chicago.pm shall meet in Vernon Hills at WDI. Our featured presenter will be Andy Lester giving a talk on security with Perl using -T! Topics of discussion will include using tainting checks within programs, secure use of DBI, and ways to secure your CGI and mod_perl scripts. Meetings page: http://chi.pm.org/meetings/ Directions: http://chi.pm.org/wdi-directions.html Beforehand, some of us will meet at El Famous Burrito around 6pm. It's just a half mile or so from WDI. For you Mapquesters, it's at 230 Hawthorn Village Comm, Vernon Hills, IL. September's meeting will be the last that we can have at WDI. We thank them for the use of their facilities this past year. If anyone has some space that they'd love to volunteer for future meetings, please let Andy know. -Pete K From vosedj at yahoo.com Mon Aug 9 08:29:35 2004 From: vosedj at yahoo.com (Deborah Vose) Date: Mon Aug 9 08:29:38 2004 Subject: [Chicago-announce] UniForum: Perl Tainting Message-ID: <20040809132935.32100.qmail@web53401.mail.yahoo.com> For those of you who missed Andy's talk at the last PM meeting here is another chance. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Perl Tainting Andy Lester Tuesday, August 10th, 2004, 7-9pm College of DuPage, Building SRC, Room 1450AB Abstract -------- Perl's tainting feature is critical in building secure applications, especially on the web. Most security holes are caused by using untrusted data from an outside source. Learn how to ensure that you only operate on safe data, and to test your applications and assumptions effectively. Speaker Bio ----------- Andy Lester has been a professional programmer for eighteen years and a Perl evangelist for a decade. By day, he manages programmers for Follett Library Resources in McHenry, IL. By night, he spreads the gospel of automated testing and maintains over a dozen CPAN modules. Andy also writes for The Perl Journal, and three of his hacks have been published in Spidering Hacks by O'Reilly. 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, August 10, 2004 at the College of DuPage. The address of the meeting facility is: College of DuPage Building SRC, Rm 1450a&b 22nd and Lambert Glen Ellyn, IL 60137-6599 Take 355 to Butterfield Rd (Rt 56). Butterfield West to Lambert Rd. Lambert Rd North to first right after College Road. Park in lots 7 or 8 and walk to SRC building. Rooms 1450a&b are on the first floor of the SRC building, and are entered through the cafeteria at the South 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/ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/chicago-announce/attachments/20040809/a276507a/attachment.htm From andy at petdance.com Wed Aug 18 21:04:06 2004 From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester) Date: Wed Aug 18 21:04:07 2004 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Next meeting: Monster Perl Garage Message-ID: <20040819020405.GA1871@petdance.com> This month's Chicago Perl Mongers meeting, September 7 at 7pm will be a get-your-hands-dirty test-suite workshop that we call "Monster Perl Garage", or "This Old Module". We'll be the very first Perl Mongers group to overhaul a module's test suite for the Phalanx Project, which was started to improve the testing and quality of commonly-used Perl modules in anticipation of Perl 5.10 and Perl 6. Put on your overalls and get ready to dive under the hood of HTML::Tree by Sean Burke. The Chicago Monster Mongers team will reengineer the test suite for maximum performance and ride the finished product around the parking lot. You'll learn how to engineer high-octane tests for your own code and be equipped to help CPAN move into the next generation of Perl. All work will be done on the big screen, but if you have a wi-fi laptop in your toolbox, bring it along and join in the fun. When our hands are clean, we'll post how we did it to encourage other Perl Monger groups to do the same. Directions at http://chicago.pm.org/meetings/ xoxo, Andy (Thanks to Liz Cortell for writing this up) -- Andy Lester => andy@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance