From andy at petdance.com Fri Jan 6 12:43:40 2006 From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:43:40 -0600 Subject: [Chicago-announce] TALK: Iterators and inside-out objects: Perl closures at work Message-ID: <20060106204340.GA13483@petdance.com> http://uniforum.chi.il.us/meetings/perliterators.html Iterators and inside-out objects: Perl closures at work Andy Lester Tuesday Jan 10th 2006 at 7:00pm Wheaton, Illinois Institute of Technology - Rice Campus, Room 103 Abstract Closures are a powerful abstraction common to modern dynamic languages. They're functions that maintain information between calls, and can in some ways be thought of as objects. In this gentle introduction to this advanced concept, you'll learn how Perl's lexical variable scoping allows closures, and how to apply them. We'll discuss: * Iterators that allow walking through a sequence of data or actions by maintaining state between calls. * "Inside-out objects", a method of creating objects in Perl that is gaining in popularity. (Later today, I'll send out official info about Mark-Jason Dominus on Feburary 6th) xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => andy at petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance From andy at petdance.com Sat Jan 7 16:28:28 2006 From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester) Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 18:28:28 -0600 Subject: [Chicago-announce] MEETING/TALK: Feb 6, 2006 with Mark Jason Dominus Message-ID: <20060108002828.GA32466@petdance.com> [Please feel free to forward to other area groups. Mark is a great speaker and well worth the trip. -- Andy] Mark Jason Dominus Red Flags: Code Review World Tour Tuesday, January 10, 2006 (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM) Doors open at 6:00: Talk with Mark before the meeting Illinois Institute Of Technology, Rice Campus Auditorium, room 166 201 East Loop Road Wheaton, IL http://www.rice.iit.edu/directions.html Chicago Perl Mongers is proud to welcome Mark Jason Dominus, author of "Higher-Order Perl," to the February meeting of Chicago.pm. Mark will be talking about the book he's currently working on, Perl Program Repair Shop and Red Flags. We'll be giving away a copy of Mark's book "Higher-Order Perl" as well as other swag. MJD is a very popular speaker, and we expect a large turnout. Please let us know you plan to attend by emailing andy at petdance.com with "MJD" in the subject. As preparation, Mark has asked Chicago PMers to read the following: I'm writing a new book, which I hope will be published in 2007. It's about code review and refactoring in Perl. (For more complete information, please see http://perl.plover.com/flagbook/.) To do this right, I need real examples of real code that other people wrote. I'll review the code and fix it up, and explain in the book what I did and why. I have about half the examples that I need. I hope that the Perl community can provide the other half. For the next year, I'll be travelling around speaking to Perl Mongers groups about this. I'd like to give about one talk each month for the rest of the year. What I hope will happen is that a group will invite me to come speak, and that some of the group members will send me some example code ahead of time. Then I'll read over the code, write up a talk about how I think it could be improved, and come visit the group and give the talk. After I go home again, I'l write up a book chapter about the code, incorporating the points that the PM group raised when I gave the talk. Guidelines for code contributions are at http://perl.plover.com/flagbook/contribute.html I need your contributions no later than January 17th. To contribute, send code to: mjd at plover.com. Questions? Send to mjd at plover.com. Thanks a lot for having me in to speak. For questions about this or any other upcoming meeting, please email Andy Lester at andy at petdance.com. -- Andy Lester => andy at petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance From andy at petdance.com Sat Jan 7 18:47:53 2006 From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester) Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 20:47:53 -0600 Subject: [Chicago-announce] CORRECTION: Feb 6, 2006 with Mark Jason Dominus Message-ID: <20060108024752.GA1513@petdance.com> I apologize! My original announcement said Feb 6 in the subject, but January 10 in the mail. January 10th is the Uniforum PerlSIG meeting, also at IIT, but in a different room. http://uniforum.chi.il.us/meetings/perliterators.html Mark Jason Dominus Red Flags: Code Review World Tour Monday, February 6, 2006 (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM) Doors open at 6:00: Talk with Mark before the meeting Illinois Institute Of Technology, Rice Campus Auditorium, room 166 201 East Loop Road Wheaton, IL http://www.rice.iit.edu/directions.html Chicago Perl Mongers is proud to welcome Mark Jason Dominus, author of "Higher-Order Perl," to the February meeting of Chicago.pm. Mark will be talking about the book he's currently working on, Perl Program Repair Shop and Red Flags. We'll be giving away a copy of Mark's book "Higher-Order Perl" as well as other swag. MJD is a very popular speaker, and we expect a large turnout. Please let us know you plan to attend by emailing andy at petdance.com with "MJD" in the subject. As preparation, Mark has asked Chicago PMers to read the following: I'm writing a new book, which I hope will be published in 2007. It's about code review and refactoring in Perl. (For more complete information, please see http://perl.plover.com/flagbook/.) To do this right, I need real examples of real code that other people wrote. I'll review the code and fix it up, and explain in the book what I did and why. I have about half the examples that I need. I hope that the Perl community can provide the other half. For the next year, I'll be travelling around speaking to Perl Mongers groups about this. I'd like to give about one talk each month for the rest of the year. What I hope will happen is that a group will invite me to come speak, and that some of the group members will send me some example code ahead of time. Then I'll read over the code, write up a talk about how I think it could be improved, and come visit the group and give the talk. After I go home again, I'l write up a book chapter about the code, incorporating the points that the PM group raised when I gave the talk. Guidelines for code contributions are at http://perl.plover.com/flagbook/contribute.html I need your contributions no later than January 17th. To contribute, send code to: mjd at plover.com. Questions? Send to mjd at plover.com. Thanks a lot for having me in to speak. For questions about this or any other upcoming meeting, please email Andy Lester at andy at petdance.com. -- Andy Lester => andy at petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance From mswier at yahoo.com Mon Jan 9 07:04:42 2006 From: mswier at yahoo.com (Mike Swier) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 07:04:42 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Chicago-announce] NWCLUG up comming Events Message-ID: <20060109150442.28517.qmail@web32209.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hi all, NWCLUG is having a couple extra meetings/events this month. On Wednesday, 1/18/06, we have Harper TECH night at Harper's extension site HPC. On Friday, 1/20/06, we have NWCLUG's extra meeting that Henrik Pedersen from Denmark will be speaking at. For more info pleas see: http://nwclug.harpercollege.edu/httpd/html/meetings.html#nextmtg hope to see you there mikie From jbalint at gmail.com Tue Jan 10 12:38:42 2006 From: jbalint at gmail.com (Jess Balint) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:38:42 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-announce] TALK: Iterators and inside-out objects: Perlclosures at work In-Reply-To: <20060106204340.GA13483@petdance.com> Message-ID: <43c41b54.57c433d0.4e1b.779c@mx.gmail.com> Anybody going to this that wants to carpool from around downtown or near-north side ? It's kind of far so I am going to drive. If interested, mail me offline. Jess -----Original Message----- From: chicago-announce-bounces at pm.org [mailto:chicago-announce-bounces at pm.org] On Behalf Of Andy Lester Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 3:44 PM To: chicago-talk at mail.pm.org; chicago-announce at mail.pm.org Subject: [Chicago-announce] TALK: Iterators and inside-out objects: Perlclosures at work http://uniforum.chi.il.us/meetings/perliterators.html Iterators and inside-out objects: Perl closures at work Andy Lester Tuesday Jan 10th 2006 at 7:00pm Wheaton, Illinois Institute of Technology - Rice Campus, Room 103 Abstract Closures are a powerful abstraction common to modern dynamic languages. They're functions that maintain information between calls, and can in some ways be thought of as objects. In this gentle introduction to this advanced concept, you'll learn how Perl's lexical variable scoping allows closures, and how to apply them. We'll discuss: * Iterators that allow walking through a sequence of data or actions by maintaining state between calls. * "Inside-out objects", a method of creating objects in Perl that is gaining in popularity. (Later today, I'll send out official info about Mark-Jason Dominus on Feburary 6th) xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => andy at petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance _______________________________________________ Chicago-announce mailing list Chicago-announce at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago-announce From mswier at yahoo.com Fri Jan 20 09:13:09 2006 From: mswier at yahoo.com (Mike Swier) Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:13:09 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Chicago-announce] NWCLUG's meeting tonight 1/20/06 Message-ID: <20060120171309.10445.qmail@web32201.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hi, NWCLUG's next meeting will be tonight, friday 1/20/06, at Harper College in A238 at 7pm. We have Henrik Pedersen from Denmark speaking tonight. for (a bit) more info please see http://nwclug.harpercollege.edu/httpd/html/meetings.html#nextmtg mikie