From fasteliteprogrammer at gmail.com  Fri Jul 16 06:36:47 2010
From: fasteliteprogrammer at gmail.com (packet)
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:36:47 -0500
Subject: [Chicago-talk] project Question
Message-ID: <AANLkTikSdKK4dBK8qiSR7x_muqza3GLbw6SffjTpmVYE@mail.gmail.com>

I haveing a hard time thinking of p project to work on with perl and i
just start out?

From imranjj at gmail.com  Fri Jul 16 07:00:43 2010
From: imranjj at gmail.com (imran javaid)
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:00:43 -0500
Subject: [Chicago-talk] project Question
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikSdKK4dBK8qiSR7x_muqza3GLbw6SffjTpmVYE@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTikSdKK4dBK8qiSR7x_muqza3GLbw6SffjTpmVYE@mail.gmail.com>
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Go to http://sourceforge.net/develop/ and see if you can find a
project that could use your expertise.

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:36 AM, packet <fasteliteprogrammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I haveing a hard time thinking of p project to work on with perl and i
> just start out?
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From joshua.mcadams at gmail.com  Fri Jul 16 07:15:41 2010
From: joshua.mcadams at gmail.com (Joshua)
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:15:41 -0500
Subject: [Chicago-talk] project Question
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilqpsvZ4nBn4rj7t_dGgjdDJEs0k5nBUoqngcSn@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTikSdKK4dBK8qiSR7x_muqza3GLbw6SffjTpmVYE@mail.gmail.com>
	<AANLkTilqpsvZ4nBn4rj7t_dGgjdDJEs0k5nBUoqngcSn@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTikWMWIVj5VFd_IflQJfxWp-RCTg_aEMoEJ090Mi@mail.gmail.com>

There are also quite a few Perl projects hosted on GitHub
(http://github.com). If you go there and search for Perl you will
probably find something interesting.

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:00 AM, imran javaid <imranjj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Go to http://sourceforge.net/develop/ and see if you can find a
> project that could use your expertise.
>
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:36 AM, packet <fasteliteprogrammer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I haveing a hard time thinking of p project to work on with perl and i
>> just start out?
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From drench+chipm at gmail.com  Fri Jul 16 11:30:11 2010
From: drench+chipm at gmail.com (Dan Rench)
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:30:11 -0500
Subject: [Chicago-talk] project Question
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikSdKK4dBK8qiSR7x_muqza3GLbw6SffjTpmVYE@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTikSdKK4dBK8qiSR7x_muqza3GLbw6SffjTpmVYE@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTikCtc7jymacWNcbQeRRRzq7V4P-lgcDbww8np_t@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:36 AM, packet <fasteliteprogrammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I haveing a hard time thinking of p project to work on with perl and i
> just start out?

Assuming you are already a programmer (given your
"fasteliteprogrammer" address), I'd say take some code you wrote in
some other language and try porting it to Perl.

From tprinty at mail.edisonave.net  Fri Jul 16 07:14:45 2010
From: tprinty at mail.edisonave.net (Tom Printy)
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:14:45 -0500
Subject: [Chicago-talk] project Question
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikSdKK4dBK8qiSR7x_muqza3GLbw6SffjTpmVYE@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTikSdKK4dBK8qiSR7x_muqza3GLbw6SffjTpmVYE@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1279289685.3157.15.camel@dresser>

You could write a screen scrapping application. I have several ideas
involving screen scrapping.  Contact me directly if you would like to
discuss.

-Tom



On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 08:36 -0500, packet wrote:
> I haveing a hard time thinking of p project to work on with perl and i
> just start out?
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From lembark at wrkhors.com  Sat Jul 17 14:20:40 2010
From: lembark at wrkhors.com (Steven Lembark)
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:20:40 -0400
Subject: [Chicago-talk] Accessing request content in Apache2
Message-ID: <20100717172040.10d30f2blembark@wrkhors.com@wrkhors.com>


Trying to use Apache2::FakeReqeust to test portions
of code external to mod_perl (e.g. database access).

Someone I'm working with noted that in order to 
access most of the data content of a mod_perl2
request object (second argument to the handler)
we needed to use something like:

    sub handler
    {
        my ( undef, $request ) = @_;

        my $usable_request
        = Apache2::RequestUtil->request( $request );

        ...
    }

There was supposed to be something about the 
usable_request object that allowed it to access
things like param and auth_headers that the 
original request object could not. 

The POD for Apache2::RequestUtil and
Apache2::RequestRec are not very enlightening.

Q: Where are decent examples of using the Apache2
   objects for accessing the request data?

All I really need to do is snag a few standard
pieces like auth_headers and some params.

thanx

-- 
Steven Lembark                                            85-09 90th St.
Workhorse Computing                                 Woodhaven, NY, 11421
lembark at wrkhors.com                                      +1 888 359 3508

From frag at ripco.com  Wed Jul 21 13:49:11 2010
From: frag at ripco.com (Mike Fragassi)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:49:11 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [Chicago-talk] does anyone know anything about local::lib?
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.1007211448300.19972@shell3>


I'm beating my head against the '--bootstrap' option for local::lib.  I 
am trying to get it to install in ~/lib/perl5, but it insists on 
installing into ~/perl5/lib/perl5.

The hacky solution is just to let it do this, and move everything back 
to ~/lib/perl when it's done, but I can't figure out why this is so 
difficult, if either I'm missing some obvious step, or if there's 
actually some reason for this behavior.

-- Mike F.

From andy at petdance.com  Mon Jul 26 10:02:20 2010
From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:02:20 -0500
Subject: [Chicago-talk] Chicago Barcamp Aug 21-22, 2010
Message-ID: <4FFE77A5-C31F-4CCB-BE5D-44D59DFE0647@petdance.com>


What: The best technology unconference in Chicago  http://barcampchicago.com/
When: Saturday August 21st @ 10am - Sunday August 22nd 7pm
Where: 215 W. Ohio St. Chicago IL 60654  http://tinyurl.com/barcampchi2010


This August, Chicago will host its 5th annual BARcamp Conference. Come
to BARcamp Chicago 2010 to learn from and mingle with Chicago's most
talented and innovative computer and technology enthusiasts in an
impromptu, informal setting.  BARcamp Chicago is an un-conference,
meaning event participants are the people who run the event, give the
presentations and host the various activities throughout the weekend.
Here is what we have lined up for you:

- Many talks and demos concerning a wide range of technology topics
- Socialize with Chicago's top technology enthusiasts
- A drunken panel discussion
- Geeky/technology related movies that run all night
- Free food and drink
- BARcompany - Start a business over the weekend
- Random other activities

Guests from a multitude of backgrounds will be in attendance,
including programmers, developers, engineers, tech students,
open-source advocates, entrepreneurs and business professionals.
Participants are encouraged to share, learn and break off into smaller
focus groups, brainstorm and collaborate on any project or idea.
Professional networking is highly recommended.

Words really cannot describe this event! Take a look at the videos and
pictures linked from our website:  http://barcampchicago.com/


BARcompany

Returning to BARcamp this year is BARcompany, which challenges small
groups of participants to come up with an idea and create a company
around it in about a day's time. The resulting companies and ideas are
presented at the end of the weekend to the conference attendees and to
a panel of judges made up of local, influential people in the
technology community. The team who organizes the best company has a
chance to win prizes which may include server hosting for the
developed web application, co-working space and possibly even some
start up capital.


More Information

The event is expected to draw several hundred attendees and is free
and open to the public.  The majority of talks and activities will be
between the hours of 10 AM and 7 PM each day. Complimentary food and
beverages will be provided as well as activities on Saturday night
through Sunday morning.
--
Andy Lester => andy at petdance.com => www.theworkinggeek.com => AIM:petdance





From andy at petdance.com  Sat Jul 31 13:45:14 2010
From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester)
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:45:14 -0500
Subject: [Chicago-talk] Rakudo Star, a release of Perl 6 for early adopters,
	is now available
Message-ID: <1E3B5C83-A436-4253-96A5-C9AB088A6F47@petdance.com>


http://perlbuzz.com/2010/07/rakudo-star-for-early-adopters-of-perl-6-is-now-available.html

On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the July 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the July 2010 release is available from http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads.

Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6. We know that it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification that aren't implemented yet. But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications and exploring a great new language. These "Star" releases are intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.

In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language ("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as "Rakudo Perl". "Rakudo Star" is a distribution that includes release #31 of the Rakudo Perl 6 "compiler, version 2.6.0 of the Parrot Virtual Machine, and various modules, documentation, and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. We plan to make Rakudo Star releases on a monthly schedule, with occasional special releases in response to important bugfixes or changes.

Some of the many cool Perl 6 features that are available in this release of Rakudo Star:

	? Perl 6 grammars and regexes
	? formal parameter lists and signatures
	? metaoperators
	? gradual typing
	? a powerful object model, including roles and classes
	? lazy list evaluation
	? multiple dispatch
	? smart matching
	? junctions and autothreading
	? operator overloading (limited forms for now)
	? introspection
	? currying
	? a rich library of builtin operators, functions, and types
	? an interactive read-evaluation-print loop
	? Unicode at the codepoint level
	? resumable exceptions
There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming releases. Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a "Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release.

In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are many that we've missed. Bug reports about missing and broken features are welcomed.

See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources. Rakudo Star also contains a draft of a Perl 6 book -- see in the release tarball.

The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help, ask on the perl6-compiler at perl.org mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.

Rakudo Star releases are created on a monthly cycle or as needed in response to important bug fixes or improvements. The next planned release of Rakudo Star will be on August 24, 2010.

--
Andy Lester => andy at petdance.com => www.theworkinggeek.com => AIM:petdance







From me at heyjay.com  Sat Jul 31 16:18:10 2010
From: me at heyjay.com (Jay Strauss)
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:18:10 -0500
Subject: [Chicago-talk] using Google visualization
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=+1dvMfOFmRLHzuu=G1jtCyZSptK_H4tKHYRSx@mail.gmail.com>

Hi, I'm double posting (on luni), but since these lists only partially
overlap, I thought someone here might know (hopefully)

I'm struggling to use a line chart with Google visualization. Its very
possible I don't have a clue as to what I'm doing. I've been reading docs
and searching google but cant find why I can't get this to work.

I can get a basic example to work where the data table is populated by
javascript within the page.

http://luni.heyjay.com:55555/works.html

But I'd like the data to come from the server in the form of a CSV file
(I'll work on delivering a JSON string for later). Here is the CSV file:

http://luni.heyjay.com:55555/data.csv

and here is the page that's trying to render the graph using the CSV file:

http://luni.heyjay.com:55555/with_csv.html

All of the above links should work, I figured rather than post a bunch of
source code and make this email huge, you can just "view source" from the
link

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks
Jay