From nixternal at kubuntu.org Wed May 7 21:42:49 2008 From: nixternal at kubuntu.org (Richard A. Johnson) Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 23:42:49 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] KDE Bindings for Perl Message-ID: <200805072342.49469.nixternal@kubuntu.org> Hey there everyone! I received an email from one of the Perl'ites in Chicago after Flourish concerning working on the existing Perl bindings for KDE 4 and possibly Qt 4. I somehow misplaced that email so I am hoping it was one of you, which I am more than positive it was. I am the one who gave the talk on KDE 4 at Flourish and I believe Clyde Forrester is the one who directed us to contact. Thanks! -- Richard A. Johnson nixternal at kubuntu.org GPG Key: 0x2E2C0124 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. 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URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/chicago-talk/attachments/20080508/c8d1c9bd/attachment.html From me at heyjay.com Sun May 11 05:43:57 2008 From: me at heyjay.com (Jay Strauss) Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 07:43:57 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] LAN/Phone wiring help needed Message-ID: Hi, I apologize for double posting, and posting to possibly the wrong list, but I figured someone at these could give me a referral. Can anyone recommend someone to re-connect all my phone wires (punch-down), and put in 2 network jacks? Ideally someone good and inexpensive . I ripped out the nest upon nest of grerry-rigged phone wires in my house (basement) where the entire phone service distribution/splicing occurred. It seemed that there were 3-4 separate installations from previous owners of my home, where one installer patched into the previous install. I was trying to clean up all the wires and make room for getting Comcast's voice/data/video service. But I've messed something up and don't have tons of time for working on it. Some phones work, some don't, weird clicking, intermittent outages. I've probably got a short or something. I'm up in Lincolnshire. Thanks Jay From shawn.c.carroll at gmail.com Tue May 13 08:17:07 2008 From: shawn.c.carroll at gmail.com (Shawn Carroll) Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 10:17:07 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] Perl lib to mimic unix File cmd Message-ID: Is there a lib in CPAN to mimic UNIX's file command? -- shawn.c.carroll at gmail.com Perl Programmer Soccer Referee From mongers at bsod.net Tue May 13 08:20:10 2008 From: mongers at bsod.net (Pete Krawczyk) Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 10:20:10 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Chicago-talk] Perl lib to mimic unix File cmd In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Subject: Perl lib to mimic unix File cmd From: Shawn Carroll Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 10:17:07 -0500 }Is there a lib in CPAN to mimic UNIX's file command? File::MMagic http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-MMagic/ -Pete K -- Pete Krawczyk Chicago Perl Mongers mongers at bsod dot net From frag at ripco.com Tue May 13 09:13:42 2008 From: frag at ripco.com (Mike Fragassi) Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 11:13:42 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Chicago-talk] Is anyone interested in trying their hand at a lightning talk? Message-ID: The next downtown Perl Mongers meeting is in 2 weeks, and this is the last meeting before YAPC is held in town in June. As I suggested last month, this would be a great time for anyone who is interested in giving a lightning talk at YAPC to come on down and practice it in advance. The deadline for submitting a lightning talk for YAPC is still open (in fact, I don't think the actual deadline has been set yet), so it's still possible to give a talk there. But even if you're not keen on talking at YAPC, giving a lightning talk is a great way to get your feet wet when it comes to giving presentations. If you're not familiar with lightning talks, this page gives an explanation, along with a great list of suggestions for topics: http://perl.plover.com/lightning-talks.html So, is anyone interested? -- Mike F. From danel at speakeasy.net Tue May 13 12:40:40 2008 From: danel at speakeasy.net (Alexander Danel) Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 14:40:40 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] LAN/Phone wiring help needed In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <012801c8b531$3a4674a0$0d00a8c0@dsmsik7n2d2> I can tell you where to go for tools and parts: Graybar Electric Co 539 W 14th Place Chicago, IL 60607 (312) 491-1123 They specialize in telephone and Ethernet cabling, tools, and supplies. You can ask questions, too. A high quality punch-down tool costs about $70 to $100, and is a worthwhile investment. Buy yourself a 1,000 ft roll of cat-6, 4-pair cable; although you will never use even half the roll, it is none-the-less cheapest to buy the big roll. The actual punch-down blocks, etc, are cheap. I attached a wooden board to the masonry wall, and then attached the blocks to the board. You will also want a good quality staple gun, and a selection of staples. The punch-down tool should have a reversible tip; where one option has a knife blade, and the other option has no blade. (There are also two types of tips available, older style versus newer style -- you will need to choose one style or the other.) You will be flipping the tip between blade versus no-blade as you work. The no-blade option lets you punch down a wire that then continues to the next position. A block has 25 positions. Typically, you might have each incoming wire span 6 positions; so a block handles four wires (i.e. two pairs of wires.) If you are just connecting one or two pairs, you would use a single block, if you have three or four pairs you might consider two blocks. Bring the first wire to the top most position, letting the wire get loosely gripped by the pincers, then pull straight down and let it get gripped by the pincers at the next five positions below. Using the non-cutting side, punch down the first five positions, then flip the tip so you have the knife edge and punch down, this final act cuts the wire. (A common error here is to put the knife side up, cutting the wire before it enters the pincers, instead of as it exits.) Then take the next wire (the matching wire of the pair) and repeat, spanning the next six positions down. Etc. It might be traditional that incoming signal goes at the right side of the block, and outgoing lines to your house go out the left side; or maybe it's the other way -- ask the guys at Graybar what the tradition is. Anyway, every position consists of a horizontal row having four pincers in the row. These four are arranged as a pair of pairs, with the left two having continuity, the right two having continuity, but no continuity between the pairs. You connect your incoming/outgoing wires to the pincers at the extreme right/left, then use a "bridge clip" to short the pairs together. The idea is that you have the option of not using a bridge clip, in which case you would use wires punched down onto the inner pincers, and thusly would have the option of carrying the signal to some different position. But you won't be doing that; just use the bridge clips to connect straight across, right pair with adjacent left pair. The bridge clips envelop the inner pincers, shorting them together. Don't forget to buy the bridge clips. Alexander Danel From hwigoda at mindspring.com Tue May 13 12:52:26 2008 From: hwigoda at mindspring.com (Hal Wigoda) Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 14:52:26 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] LAN/Phone wiring help needed In-Reply-To: <012801c8b531$3a4674a0$0d00a8c0@dsmsik7n2d2> References: <012801c8b531$3a4674a0$0d00a8c0@dsmsik7n2d2> Message-ID: <9D6CA27E-503E-49F1-834C-3D45F5C3F9B7@mindspring.com> btw, graybar has offices everywhere. On May 13, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Alexander Danel wrote: > I can tell you where to go for tools and parts: > > Graybar Electric Co > 539 W 14th Place > Chicago, IL 60607 > (312) 491-1123 > > They specialize in telephone and Ethernet cabling, tools, and > supplies. You > can ask questions, too. > > A high quality punch-down tool costs about $70 to $100, and is a > worthwhile > investment. Buy yourself a 1,000 ft roll of cat-6, 4-pair cable; > although > you will never use even half the roll, it is none-the-less cheapest > to buy > the big roll. The actual punch-down blocks, etc, are cheap. I > attached a > wooden board to the masonry wall, and then attached the blocks to > the board. > > You will also want a good quality staple gun, and a selection of > staples. > > The punch-down tool should have a reversible tip; where one option > has a > knife blade, and the other option has no blade. (There are also two > types > of tips available, older style versus newer style -- you will need > to choose > one style or the other.) You will be flipping the tip between blade > versus > no-blade as you work. The no-blade option lets you punch down a > wire that > then continues to the next position. A block has 25 positions. > Typically, > you might have each incoming wire span 6 positions; so a block > handles four > wires (i.e. two pairs of wires.) If you are just connecting one or > two > pairs, you would use a single block, if you have three or four pairs > you > might consider two blocks. Bring the first wire to the top most > position, > letting the wire get loosely gripped by the pincers, then pull > straight down > and let it get gripped by the pincers at the next five positions > below. > Using the non-cutting side, punch down the first five positions, > then flip > the tip so you have the knife edge and punch down, this final act > cuts the > wire. (A common error here is to put the knife side up, cutting the > wire > before it enters the pincers, instead of as it exits.) Then take > the next > wire (the matching wire of the pair) and repeat, spanning the next six > positions down. Etc. > > It might be traditional that incoming signal goes at the right side > of the > block, and outgoing lines to your house go out the left side; or > maybe it's > the other way -- ask the guys at Graybar what the tradition is. > Anyway, > every position consists of a horizontal row having four pincers in > the row. > These four are arranged as a pair of pairs, with the left two having > continuity, the right two having continuity, but no continuity > between the > pairs. You connect your incoming/outgoing wires to the pincers at the > extreme right/left, then use a "bridge clip" to short the pairs > together. > The idea is that you have the option of not using a bridge clip, in > which > case you would use wires punched down onto the inner pincers, and > thusly > would have the option of carrying the signal to some different > position. > But you won't be doing that; just use the bridge clips to connect > straight > across, right pair with adjacent left pair. The bridge clips > envelop the > inner pincers, shorting them together. > > Don't forget to buy the bridge clips. > > Alexander Danel > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago-talk mailing list > Chicago-talk at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago-talk From me at heyjay.com Tue May 13 15:55:14 2008 From: me at heyjay.com (Jay Strauss) Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 17:55:14 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] LAN/Phone wiring help needed In-Reply-To: <012801c8b531$3a4674a0$0d00a8c0@dsmsik7n2d2> References: <012801c8b531$3a4674a0$0d00a8c0@dsmsik7n2d2> Message-ID: Hi, Thanks for all the details. Much appreciated. Thanks Jay On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Alexander Danel wrote: > I can tell you where to go for tools and parts: > > Graybar Electric Co > 539 W 14th Place > Chicago, IL 60607 > (312) 491-1123 > > They specialize in telephone and Ethernet cabling, tools, and supplies. You > can ask questions, too. > > A high quality punch-down tool costs about $70 to $100, and is a worthwhile > investment. Buy yourself a 1,000 ft roll of cat-6, 4-pair cable; although > you will never use even half the roll, it is none-the-less cheapest to buy > the big roll. The actual punch-down blocks, etc, are cheap. I attached a > wooden board to the masonry wall, and then attached the blocks to the board. > > You will also want a good quality staple gun, and a selection of staples. > > The punch-down tool should have a reversible tip; where one option has a > knife blade, and the other option has no blade. (There are also two types > of tips available, older style versus newer style -- you will need to choose > one style or the other.) You will be flipping the tip between blade versus > no-blade as you work. The no-blade option lets you punch down a wire that > then continues to the next position. A block has 25 positions. Typically, > you might have each incoming wire span 6 positions; so a block handles four > wires (i.e. two pairs of wires.) If you are just connecting one or two > pairs, you would use a single block, if you have three or four pairs you > might consider two blocks. Bring the first wire to the top most position, > letting the wire get loosely gripped by the pincers, then pull straight down > and let it get gripped by the pincers at the next five positions below. > Using the non-cutting side, punch down the first five positions, then flip > the tip so you have the knife edge and punch down, this final act cuts the > wire. (A common error here is to put the knife side up, cutting the wire > before it enters the pincers, instead of as it exits.) Then take the next > wire (the matching wire of the pair) and repeat, spanning the next six > positions down. Etc. > > It might be traditional that incoming signal goes at the right side of the > block, and outgoing lines to your house go out the left side; or maybe it's > the other way -- ask the guys at Graybar what the tradition is. Anyway, > every position consists of a horizontal row having four pincers in the row. > These four are arranged as a pair of pairs, with the left two having > continuity, the right two having continuity, but no continuity between the > pairs. You connect your incoming/outgoing wires to the pincers at the > extreme right/left, then use a "bridge clip" to short the pairs together. > The idea is that you have the option of not using a bridge clip, in which > case you would use wires punched down onto the inner pincers, and thusly > would have the option of carrying the signal to some different position. > But you won't be doing that; just use the bridge clips to connect straight > across, right pair with adjacent left pair. The bridge clips envelop the > inner pincers, shorting them together. > > Don't forget to buy the bridge clips. > > Alexander Danel > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago-talk mailing list > Chicago-talk at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago-talk > From andy at petdance.com Fri May 16 09:14:04 2008 From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester) Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 11:14:04 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] Just enough C for open source programmers Message-ID: <5C2253D3-432A-4B6C-9D96-31AF20E949E3@petdance.com> On July 8th, 2008, I'll be giving a talk at the Wheaton branch of Polyglot Programmers. It will be the same talk I'll be giving a few weeks later at OSCON: http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3050 This session will provide a high-level overview of C, aimed specifically at the programmer wanting to get involved in a C-based open source project. We?ll cover: * Numeric types, strings and structures * Memory management: the heap, the stack, and pointers * Using the preprocessor * Understanding compiler warnings * Memory checking with valgrind * How to navigate a large C-based open source project (ctags, etc) * Security, or, how the Bad Guys smash the stack Although Perl 5 is written in C, I will NOT be getting into specifics of Perl 5 internals, so if that's what you're interested in, please don't be disappointed. The full schedule of all Polyglot Programmers talks are available at http://polyglotprogrammers.com/ I hope to see y'all there. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => andy at petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance From brian.d.foy at gmail.com Wed May 21 05:25:43 2008 From: brian.d.foy at gmail.com (brian d foy) Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 14:25:43 +0200 Subject: [Chicago-talk] More master classes for YAPC Message-ID: <2715accf0805210525o70ea441esaeb1b6888e63d67@mail.gmail.com> Hi Everyone, YAPC::NA is quickly approaching. Hordes of Perl people are going to invade Chicago, so it's your chance to meet a lot of the people you may only know by name, reputation, or irc handle. See http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2008/ . Don't wait until the last minute to register just because you're in Chicago! After YAPC, I've organized some master classes. Each of these are open-enrollment, two-day, low cost classes. Each class is $200 and you can register for any of these classes through The Perl Review (https://www.theperlreview.com/cgi-bin/events.cgi): We're offering two Stonehenge classes: * Beginning Catalyst, by Jon Rockway * Intermediate Perl, by brian d foy This year, we have more training organizations taking part to give their commercial classes in the low-cost master class format. These are especially important since they allow far-away people to come to YAPC by subsidizing their travel and time away from work: * Test Automation with Perl, by Gabor Szabo (Perl Training Israel). See the course description at http://www.pti.co.il/qa_automation.html * System Administration, by Jesse Trucks (League of Professional SysAdmins) See the course description at https://lopsa.org/YAPCNA2008Class This is your best chance to see Gabor's or Jesse's class in Chicago, and at far-below market prices. :) -- brian d foy http://www.pair.com/~comdog/ From frag at ripco.com Wed May 21 13:57:05 2008 From: frag at ripco.com (Mike Fragassi) Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 15:57:05 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Chicago-talk] [WindyCity-pm] Is anyone interested in trying their hand at a lightning talk? In-Reply-To: <87tzgsrh3w.fsf@bar.jrock.us> References: <87tzgsrh3w.fsf@bar.jrock.us> Message-ID: On Tue, 20 May 2008, Jonathan Rockway wrote: > * On Tue, May 13 2008, Mike Fragassi wrote: >> The next downtown Perl Mongers meeting is in 2 weeks, and this is the >> last meeting before YAPC is held in town in June. As I suggested last >> month, this would be a great time for anyone who is interested in giving >> a lightning talk at YAPC to come on down and practice it in advance. >> >> The deadline for submitting a lightning talk for YAPC is still open (in >> fact, I don't think the actual deadline has been set yet), so it's still >> possible to give a talk there. >> >> But even if you're not keen on talking at YAPC, giving a lightning talk >> is a great way to get your feet wet when it comes to giving >> presentations. If you're not familiar with lightning talks, this page >> gives an explanation, along with a great list of suggestions for topics: >> >> http://perl.plover.com/lightning-talks.html >> >> So, is anyone interested? > > Sure, I can recycle my String::TT talk from YAPC::Asia. Recycling is > good for the environment ;) OK, that's one. If no one complains, I'd like to give a lightning-ized version of my Pycon 2008 talk from February. Does anyone else want to volunteer to give a lightning talk? -- Mike F. From joshua.mcadams at gmail.com Mon May 26 22:44:48 2008 From: joshua.mcadams at gmail.com (Joshua McAdams) Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 00:44:48 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] Is anyone interested in trying their hand at a lightning talk? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <49d805d70805262244u2cbb3175rb1d120ed89602d71@mail.gmail.com> This is a reminder that we'll be having a PM meeting this Tuesday, June 27th, in the Performics office at 180 N La Salle. Please RSVP to me if you haven't been to a meeting before. The meeting starts at 7pm and lasts until we are done :) Typically there is a bar trip afterward. See you there! Josh On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Mike Fragassi wrote: > > The next downtown Perl Mongers meeting is in 2 weeks, and this is the > last meeting before YAPC is held in town in June. As I suggested last > month, this would be a great time for anyone who is interested in giving > a lightning talk at YAPC to come on down and practice it in advance. > > The deadline for submitting a lightning talk for YAPC is still open (in > fact, I don't think the actual deadline has been set yet), so it's still > possible to give a talk there. > > But even if you're not keen on talking at YAPC, giving a lightning talk > is a great way to get your feet wet when it comes to giving > presentations. If you're not familiar with lightning talks, this page > gives an explanation, along with a great list of suggestions for topics: > > http://perl.plover.com/lightning-talks.html > > So, is anyone interested? > > -- Mike F. > _______________________________________________ > Chicago-talk mailing list > Chicago-talk at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago-talk > From joshua.mcadams at gmail.com Mon May 26 22:44:48 2008 From: joshua.mcadams at gmail.com (Joshua McAdams) Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 00:44:48 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] Is anyone interested in trying their hand at a lightning talk? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <49d805d70805262244u2cbb3175rb1d120ed89602d71@mail.gmail.com> This is a reminder that we'll be having a PM meeting this Tuesday, June 27th, in the Performics office at 180 N La Salle. Please RSVP to me if you haven't been to a meeting before. The meeting starts at 7pm and lasts until we are done :) Typically there is a bar trip afterward. See you there! Josh On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Mike Fragassi wrote: > > The next downtown Perl Mongers meeting is in 2 weeks, and this is the > last meeting before YAPC is held in town in June. As I suggested last > month, this would be a great time for anyone who is interested in giving > a lightning talk at YAPC to come on down and practice it in advance. > > The deadline for submitting a lightning talk for YAPC is still open (in > fact, I don't think the actual deadline has been set yet), so it's still > possible to give a talk there. > > But even if you're not keen on talking at YAPC, giving a lightning talk > is a great way to get your feet wet when it comes to giving > presentations. If you're not familiar with lightning talks, this page > gives an explanation, along with a great list of suggestions for topics: > > http://perl.plover.com/lightning-talks.html > > So, is anyone interested? > > -- Mike F. > _______________________________________________ > Chicago-talk mailing list > Chicago-talk at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago-talk > From joshua.mcadams at gmail.com Mon May 26 22:48:32 2008 From: joshua.mcadams at gmail.com (Joshua McAdams) Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 00:48:32 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] Is anyone interested in trying their hand at a lightning talk? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <49d805d70805262248r101b9cb0pdad71ee340b10c80@mail.gmail.com> This is a reminder that we'll be having a PM meeting this Tuesday, June 27th, in the Performics office at 180 N La Salle. Please RSVP to me if you haven't been to a meeting before. The meeting starts at 7pm and lasts until we are done :) Typically there is a bar trip afterward. See you there! Josh On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Mike Fragassi wrote: > > The next downtown Perl Mongers meeting is in 2 weeks, and this is the > last meeting before YAPC is held in town in June. As I suggested last > month, this would be a great time for anyone who is interested in giving > a lightning talk at YAPC to come on down and practice it in advance. > > The deadline for submitting a lightning talk for YAPC is still open (in > fact, I don't think the actual deadline has been set yet), so it's still > possible to give a talk there. > > But even if you're not keen on talking at YAPC, giving a lightning talk > is a great way to get your feet wet when it comes to giving > presentations. If you're not familiar with lightning talks, this page > gives an explanation, along with a great list of suggestions for topics: > > http://perl.plover.com/lightning-talks.html > > So, is anyone interested? > > -- Mike F. > _______________________________________________ > Chicago-talk mailing list > Chicago-talk at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago-talk > From joshua.mcadams at gmail.com Mon May 26 22:48:32 2008 From: joshua.mcadams at gmail.com (Joshua McAdams) Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 00:48:32 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] Is anyone interested in trying their hand at a lightning talk? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <49d805d70805262248r101b9cb0pdad71ee340b10c80@mail.gmail.com> This is a reminder that we'll be having a PM meeting this Tuesday, June 27th, in the Performics office at 180 N La Salle. Please RSVP to me if you haven't been to a meeting before. The meeting starts at 7pm and lasts until we are done :) Typically there is a bar trip afterward. See you there! Josh On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Mike Fragassi wrote: > > The next downtown Perl Mongers meeting is in 2 weeks, and this is the > last meeting before YAPC is held in town in June. As I suggested last > month, this would be a great time for anyone who is interested in giving > a lightning talk at YAPC to come on down and practice it in advance. > > The deadline for submitting a lightning talk for YAPC is still open (in > fact, I don't think the actual deadline has been set yet), so it's still > possible to give a talk there. > > But even if you're not keen on talking at YAPC, giving a lightning talk > is a great way to get your feet wet when it comes to giving > presentations. If you're not familiar with lightning talks, this page > gives an explanation, along with a great list of suggestions for topics: > > http://perl.plover.com/lightning-talks.html > > So, is anyone interested? > > -- Mike F. > _______________________________________________ > Chicago-talk mailing list > Chicago-talk at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago-talk > From joshua.mcadams at gmail.com Tue May 27 10:54:04 2008 From: joshua.mcadams at gmail.com (Joshua McAdams) Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 12:54:04 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] Is anyone interested in trying their hand at a lightning talk? In-Reply-To: <49d805d70805262244u2cbb3175rb1d120ed89602d71@mail.gmail.com> References: <49d805d70805262244u2cbb3175rb1d120ed89602d71@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <49d805d70805271054r45b21dadq971be1a89fafd2cb@mail.gmail.com> And of course by June 27th I meant May 27th... geeze! On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Joshua McAdams wrote: > This is a reminder that we'll be having a PM meeting this Tuesday, > June 27th, in the Performics office at 180 N La Salle. Please RSVP to > me if you haven't been to a meeting before. > > The meeting starts at 7pm and lasts until we are done :) Typically > there is a bar trip afterward. > > See you there! > Josh > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Mike Fragassi wrote: >> >> The next downtown Perl Mongers meeting is in 2 weeks, and this is the >> last meeting before YAPC is held in town in June. As I suggested last >> month, this would be a great time for anyone who is interested in giving >> a lightning talk at YAPC to come on down and practice it in advance. >> >> The deadline for submitting a lightning talk for YAPC is still open (in >> fact, I don't think the actual deadline has been set yet), so it's still >> possible to give a talk there. >> >> But even if you're not keen on talking at YAPC, giving a lightning talk >> is a great way to get your feet wet when it comes to giving >> presentations. If you're not familiar with lightning talks, this page >> gives an explanation, along with a great list of suggestions for topics: >> >> http://perl.plover.com/lightning-talks.html >> >> So, is anyone interested? >> >> -- Mike F. >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago-talk mailing list >> Chicago-talk at pm.org >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago-talk >> > From joshua.mcadams at gmail.com Tue May 27 10:54:04 2008 From: joshua.mcadams at gmail.com (Joshua McAdams) Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 12:54:04 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] Is anyone interested in trying their hand at a lightning talk? In-Reply-To: <49d805d70805262244u2cbb3175rb1d120ed89602d71@mail.gmail.com> References: <49d805d70805262244u2cbb3175rb1d120ed89602d71@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <49d805d70805271054r45b21dadq971be1a89fafd2cb@mail.gmail.com> And of course by June 27th I meant May 27th... geeze! On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Joshua McAdams wrote: > This is a reminder that we'll be having a PM meeting this Tuesday, > June 27th, in the Performics office at 180 N La Salle. Please RSVP to > me if you haven't been to a meeting before. > > The meeting starts at 7pm and lasts until we are done :) Typically > there is a bar trip afterward. > > See you there! > Josh > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Mike Fragassi wrote: >> >> The next downtown Perl Mongers meeting is in 2 weeks, and this is the >> last meeting before YAPC is held in town in June. As I suggested last >> month, this would be a great time for anyone who is interested in giving >> a lightning talk at YAPC to come on down and practice it in advance. >> >> The deadline for submitting a lightning talk for YAPC is still open (in >> fact, I don't think the actual deadline has been set yet), so it's still >> possible to give a talk there. >> >> But even if you're not keen on talking at YAPC, giving a lightning talk >> is a great way to get your feet wet when it comes to giving >> presentations. If you're not familiar with lightning talks, this page >> gives an explanation, along with a great list of suggestions for topics: >> >> http://perl.plover.com/lightning-talks.html >> >> So, is anyone interested? >> >> -- Mike F. >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago-talk mailing list >> Chicago-talk at pm.org >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago-talk >> > From joshua.mcadams at gmail.com Tue May 27 16:17:16 2008 From: joshua.mcadams at gmail.com (Joshua McAdams) Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 18:17:16 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] Meeting Location Message-ID: <49d805d70805271617i58f2eb04m80ffd456937f4a83@mail.gmail.com> As many of you know, Performics, who was purchased by DoubleClick, has now been purchased by Google. That being said, we will be moving out of the Performics office relatively soon and I'm not sure of Google's policy on user group meetings. I'll look into it and see if we can meet at their location. However, I don't want to seem like I have the exclusive right to the location of the downtown Perl meeting and I don't even know if I can continue to host them. Does anyone else have a good location? From jason at hostedlabs.com Wed May 28 09:17:49 2008 From: jason at hostedlabs.com (Jason Rexilius) Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 11:17:49 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] Meeting Location In-Reply-To: <49d805d70805271617i58f2eb04m80ffd456937f4a83@mail.gmail.com> References: <49d805d70805271617i58f2eb04m80ffd456937f4a83@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <483D85AD.9070106@hostedlabs.com> you guys are welcome to use 210 s clark, 24th floor for meeting. Lisp and PHP have used it for meetings. our new office space (in July) will also be standing invitation.. Joshua McAdams wrote: > As many of you know, Performics, who was purchased by DoubleClick, has > now been purchased by Google. That being said, we will be moving out > of the Performics office relatively soon and I'm not sure of Google's > policy on user group meetings. I'll look into it and see if we can > meet at their location. However, I don't want to seem like I have the > exclusive right to the location of the downtown Perl meeting and I > don't even know if I can continue to host them. Does anyone else have > a good location? > _______________________________________________ > Chicago-talk mailing list > Chicago-talk at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago-talk From lembark at wrkhors.com Wed May 28 14:28:26 2008 From: lembark at wrkhors.com (Steven Lembark) Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 17:28:26 -0400 Subject: [Chicago-talk] Meeting Location In-Reply-To: <49d805d70805271617i58f2eb04m80ffd456937f4a83@mail.gmail.com> References: <49d805d70805271617i58f2eb04m80ffd456937f4a83@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <483DCE7A.6060806@wrkhors.com> > As many of you know, Performics, who was purchased by DoubleClick, has > now been purchased by Google. That being said, we will be moving out > of the Performics office relatively soon and I'm not sure of Google's > policy on user group meetings. I'll look into it and see if we can > meet at their location. However, I don't want to seem like I have the > exclusive right to the location of the downtown Perl meeting and I > don't even know if I can continue to host them. Does anyone else have > a good location? Google hosts the NYLUG meetings, you'd have pretty good odds of getting use of the space. -- Steven Lembark 85-09 90th St. Workhorse Computing Woodhaven, NY, 11421 lembark at wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508 From list at phaedrusdeinus.org Wed May 28 17:46:29 2008 From: list at phaedrusdeinus.org (John Melesky) Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 19:46:29 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-talk] Meeting Location In-Reply-To: <49d805d70805271617i58f2eb04m80ffd456937f4a83@mail.gmail.com> References: <49d805d70805271617i58f2eb04m80ffd456937f4a83@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <9FC76F8B-C4FB-4A3A-921F-66D4B83A4719@phaedrusdeinus.org> On May 27, 2008, at 6:17 PM, Joshua McAdams wrote: > I'll look into it and see if we can > meet at their location. However, I don't want to seem like I have the > exclusive right to the location of the downtown Perl meeting and I > don't even know if I can continue to host them. The Google offices have been happy to host Chipy (Chicago Python) meetings a few times in the past, though they're not by any means a regular host. They provide lots and lots of pizza. FWIW. OMMV. -johnnnnnn From joshua.mcadams at gmail.com Thu May 29 20:00:25 2008 From: joshua.mcadams at gmail.com (Joshua McAdams) Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 23:00:25 -0400 Subject: [Chicago-talk] YAPC Meeting 2pm Sunday Message-ID: <49d805d70805292000s45fca667l8863b9b53d82486c@mail.gmail.com> We are going to have a little YAPC::NA meeting at my place, 124 W Polk, this Sunday at 2pm. There is parking if you want to drive, but the lot across the road is $13/day so you might want to take public transit. If so, the 36, 24, and 22 are all good bus choices and the Blue line (La Salle), Red Line (Harrison), or the Orange/Pink/Brown lines (La Salle or Library) are good for the L. And finally, I'm just a few blocks (okay, just over .5 miles) from Union Station. Anyone who wants to help out with YAPC::NA is welcome to attend. When you get there ring 'McAdams' on the box. If that doesn't work, walk to the West side of the building and yell... Sunday is looking beautiful according to the forecast so I'll have the windows open :) C you there Josh