From mswier at yahoo.com Sat Jan 5 06:39:18 2008 From: mswier at yahoo.com (Mike Swier) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 06:39:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Chicago-announce] NWCLUG's next meeting 1/8/08 Message-ID: <431055.87346.qm@web57009.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Hi, NWCLUG's next meeting will be at Harper College in A238 at 7pm on Tuesday 1/8/08. For (a bit) more info see http://nwclug.org/httpd/html/meetings.html#nextmtg mikie -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/chicago-announce/attachments/20080105/96226b53/attachment.html From autarch at urth.org Mon Jan 7 09:01:37 2008 From: autarch at urth.org (Dave Rolsky) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:01:37 -0600 (CST) Subject: [Chicago-announce] Frozen Perl 2008 early bird deadline is approaching. Message-ID: The early bird deadline for Frozen Perl 2008 is fast approaching. After midnight Central on Saturday, January 12th, the rate for non-students will double from $20 to $40. Frozen Perl 2008 is a one-day Perl workshop happening on Saturday, February 16th, with a great schedule of speakers. The theme is "Perl in Practice", and there are a lot of great talks. We have two tracks of talks. For folks new to Perl, there is a strong slate of talks for beginners, including introductions to OOP, testing, and more. For more experienced Perlers, there are talks on Moose, Catalyst, and all sorts of interesting Perl wizardry. Registration includes breakfast and lunch, and possibly a t-shirt, all for the ridiculously cheap price of $20. If you're coming from out of town, there is a group rate at the nearby Days Inn. There will also be an all-day hackathon on Sunday, February 17th for the true geeks. For more information, check out the website at http://www.frozen-perl.org/. You can sign up online, so don't delay. We hope to see you there. Dave Rolsky Frozen Perl 2008 Organizer From joshua.mcadams at gmail.com Wed Jan 9 20:10:39 2008 From: joshua.mcadams at gmail.com (Joshua McAdams) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 22:10:39 -0600 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Downtown Chicago.pm Meeting Message-ID: <49d805d70801092010v7e4c30fcy38509240341c6d4f@mail.gmail.com> Announcing our first downtown Chicago.pm meeting of 2008, to be held Tuesday January 22nd at 7pm at Performics, located at 180 N La Salle St. This meeting with include a presentation by Kent Cowgill about image processing in Perl. Kent will be talking about "Simple Photo Processing and Web Display with Perl". He has a small photo gallery on his website and shares some steps he used in creating a nearly automatic workflow of getting pictures from his camera to his gallery using Perl. Making an appearance in the discussion: Imager, MIME::Lite, Email::MIME::Attachment::Stripper, Image::ExifTool, Flickr, AJAX, and Chuck Norris. Kent is a software engineer and sometimes system administrator, presently plying his perl programming prowess at Performics in Chicago. He has a beautiful wife Lisa, a little black poodle/terrier mix named Spike, and two cats named Shadow and Butterscotch, all of which provide plenty of excuses to refine and hone his photography and photographic gallery chops. If you haven't been to a meeting before, please RSVP to jmcadams at performics.com so that you won't get harassed by security at the door :) See you on the 22nd! From joshua.mcadams at gmail.com Mon Jan 21 22:20:56 2008 From: joshua.mcadams at gmail.com (Joshua McAdams) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:20:56 -0600 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Simple Photo Processing and Web Display with Perl (Meeting Tuesday!) Message-ID: <49d805d70801212220r2a47ca6fy9214b08db691e098@mail.gmail.com> Don't forget that Kent Cowgill will be presenting on Simple Photo Processing and Web Display with Perl at tomorrows meeting. Feel free to stop by 180 N La Salle 12th floor around 7pm. From dave at obtiva.com Wed Jan 30 10:51:55 2008 From: dave at obtiva.com (Dave Hoover) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:51:55 -0600 Subject: [Chicago-announce] The JavaScript Renaissance Part II: The Browser Message-ID: <11c8704e0801301051ne3bfef0m4b17557fcf73e4ed@mail.gmail.com> We're going to continue our focus on JavaScript for our Febrary meeting in Wheaton. Fred Polgardy will continue his JavaScript Renaissance series. When: Tuesday, Feb 12, 2008, 7-9 PM Where: Wheaton, IIT - Rice Campus Who: Frederick Polgardy What: The JavaScript Renaissance Part II: The Browser What comes to mind when think of JavaScript? Broken web sites, browser incompatibilities, and brittle spaghetti code? It doesn't have to be this way anymore! Last time we learned about some powerful features of JavaScript, the language. In Part II of our exploration, we'll be focusing on JavaScript in its native habitat -- the Web browser. We'll look at the Document Object Model, and how it enables us to dynamically create and modify web page content. We'll learn about the DOM Event Model, and how it gives us the capability to capture and respond to user input. We'll also take a brief look at XMLHttpRequest, the technology that makes Ajax possible, and see how to communicate with the server without ever leaving the page. Along the way, we'll grapple with browser incompatibility issues, and see how libraries like Prototype and jQuery help us navigate the waters. More information and directions can be found at http://chicago.pm.org/meetings/ Let me know if you have ideas for other talks in 2008. I'd definitely like to get back to Perl, but haven't heard from anyone about what they'd like to hear or talk about. Best, Dave Hoover //obtiva: Agility applied. Software delivered.