From oubiwann at myrealbox.com  Wed Apr 10 06:52:41 2002
From: oubiwann at myrealbox.com (Duncan McGreggor)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:28:56 2004
Subject: APM: Last night
References: <89D64415A02B164F882CCB2A1083B29E0A4970@nacolsrv002.genphysics.com>
Message-ID: <3CB42789.1090708@myrealbox.com>

Wow, so I guess it's time for our next meeting already! I haven't been 
in touch with David lately and we haven't found a place that would be 
suitable. I've emailed the Brale group in the hopes of finding someone 
that I can talk to about getting the room in the Patapsco building.

So, seeing that the meeting was supposed to be tomorrow and we don't 
have a place and I haven't talked with David yet, are we all cool on a 
postponement? David, is next Thurday good for you to come out and talk 
to us about references?

By the way, I was working on my resume last week, and I went through 
every trouble ticket I have worked on in the past year, classifying them 
as I went. I then saved it as a CSV file. I wanted to find out the 
percentages of the areas I worked on, so I wrote a little snippet in 
perl and I thought you guys might like to play with it (yes, I'm using 
globals... I know, I suck). We can go over it some time if you like.

open(FILE, "Bug List - My History3.csv");
%::vals;
$::tot;

while (<FILE>) {
        chomp;
        $::vals{(split /,/)[1]}++;
        $::tot++;
}
close(FILE);

@keys = sort { $vals{$b} <=> $vals{$a} } keys %::vals;
foreach ( @keys ) {
        print "$::vals{$_} : " . ($::vals{$_}) / $::tot * 100 . " : $_\n";
}

This generated the folloinw list (minus the headers):


*Bugs :    Percent         :   Category*

80 : 18.4757505773672 : "Maintenance"
63 : 14.5496535796767 : "Troubleshooting"
52 : 12.0092378752887 : "Proecess and Documentation"
42 : 9.69976905311778 : "Networking"
41 : 9.46882217090069 : "Internal IT Support"
37 : 8.54503464203233 : "Monitoring and Reporting"
25 : 5.77367205542725 : "Software Development"
23 : 5.31177829099307 : "Software Setup"
18 : 4.15704387990762 : "Security"
14 : 3.23325635103926 : "Systems Engineering"
9 : 2.07852193995381 : "Client Support"
8 : 1.84757505773672 : "Database"
7 : 1.61662817551963 : "Management"
6 : 1.38568129330254 : "Partner Interaction"
5 : 1.15473441108545 : "QA and Testing"
3 : 0.69284064665127 : "Acquisition"

McGreggor, Duncan wrote:

> Thanks for coming out last night, everyone!
>
> Quick note:
> To subscribe to the list, please write a mail to 
> "majordomo@hfb.pm.org" with "subscribe frederick" as the body of the 
> message.
>
> It was great to get to meet everyone - I look forward to our future 
> meetings :-)
>
> For those of you that couldn't make it, we round the tables hearing 
> what we like to do, what we've done, what we're working on, what we 
> want to learn, and eating chips with vinegar ;-)
>
> We are looking forward to David's talk on perl references, wherein I 
> am sure there will be nuggets for every level of user. I don't know 
> what Dave has in mind, but since there are a few of us who haven't 
> done much perl and really want to learn it, maybe I can make the 
> following suggestions:
>
> 1) perl intro - what is perl good for?
> 2) perl data types -  how do we use variables in perl? what kind of 
> data types does perl have?
> 3) perl references - how and why would we ever want to do this?
>
> A couple of good reads to prepare for this might be the following (in 
> no particular order):
>
> Perl 5.6 Documentation - perlsyn - Perl syntax: 
> http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlsyn.html
> Perl 5.6 Documentation - perldata - Perl data types: 
> http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perldata.html
> Perl 5.6 Documentation - perlreftut - Mark's very short tutorial about 
> references: http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlreftut.html
>
> Perl 5.6 Documentation - perlref - Perl references and nested data 
> structures: http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlref.html
>
> The O'Reilly "Camel" book, Programming Perl, Chapter 2, "Built-in Data 
> Types"
> The O'Reilly "Camel" book, Programming Perl, Chapter 4, "What is a 
> Reference?"
>
> (I need to take my own advice and read these too!)
>
> I showed a small snippet of code last night and promised that I would 
> send everyone a little script that they could run and tweak, something 
> useful in and of itself as well as something small enough that it can 
> be learned from and played with without too much confusion. Also, a 
> small intro to regular expressions ;-) I will attach it in this email 
> without an extension (in case some of you have mail servers/clients 
> that remove scripts). Caveat: this is an older script, and were I to 
> rewrite it, I would condense it considerably, but in the interest of 
> those just learning, I'll keep it in it's original less obfuscated 
> version ;-)
>
> Jason took pics last night (right Jason? - sorry man, wanted to get a 
> shot of you in the group too :-( but you up and left before I 
> remembered to be that considerate... Bring it next time, and I'll get 
> ya then! ), and I will put those up on the site as soon as I get them.
>
>
> I'm forgetting stuff, I'm sure - but hey, that's what a list is for!
>
> Duncan
>
>
>
> <<passwords>>
>
>
>
> Duncan McGreggor
>
> UNIX Administrator
>
> General Physics
>
> GP e-Learning Hosting Support
>
> -----------------------------
>
> 6700 Alexander Bell Drive
>
> desk: 410-290-2535
>
> cell: 443-838-6269
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From DMcGreggor at gpelearning.com  Wed Apr 10 08:30:58 2002
From: DMcGreggor at gpelearning.com (McGreggor, Duncan)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:28:56 2004
Subject: APM: Last night
Message-ID: <89D64415A02B164F882CCB2A1083B29E0A499E@nacolsrv002.genphysics.com>

Whoa,
 
My bad, guys. Somehow I thought it was already next week... Hopefully, we'll still be on for next Thurs.
 
Duncan

-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan McGreggor [mailto:oubiwann@myrealbox.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 7:53 AM
To: frederick@pm.org
Cc: dm_bradford@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: APM: Last night


Wow, so I guess it's time for our next meeting already! I haven't been in touch with David lately and we haven't found a place that would be suitable. I've emailed the Brale group in the hopes of finding someone that I can talk to about getting the room in the Patapsco building.

So, seeing that the meeting was supposed to be tomorrow and we don't have a place and I haven't talked with David yet, are we all cool on a postponement? David, is next Thurday good for you to come out and talk to us about references?

By the way, I was working on my resume last week, and I went through every trouble ticket I have worked on in the past year, classifying them as I went. I then saved it as a CSV file. I wanted to find out the percentages of the areas I worked on, so I wrote a little snippet in perl and I thought you guys might like to play with it (yes, I'm using globals... I know, I suck). We can go over it some time if you like.

open(FILE, "Bug List - My History3.csv");
%::vals;
$::tot;

while (<FILE>) {
        chomp;
        $::vals{(split /,/)[1]}++;
        $::tot++;
}
close(FILE);

@keys = sort { $vals{$b} <=> $vals{$a} } keys %::vals;
foreach ( @keys ) {
        print "$::vals{$_} : " . ($::vals{$_}) / $::tot * 100 . " : $_\n";
}

This generated the folloinw list (minus the headers):


Bugs :    Percent         :   Category

80 : 18.4757505773672 : "Maintenance"
63 : 14.5496535796767 : "Troubleshooting"
52 : 12.0092378752887 : "Proecess and Documentation"
42 : 9.69976905311778 : "Networking"
41 : 9.46882217090069 : "Internal IT Support"
37 : 8.54503464203233 : "Monitoring and Reporting"
25 : 5.77367205542725 : "Software Development"
23 : 5.31177829099307 : "Software Setup"
18 : 4.15704387990762 : "Security"
14 : 3.23325635103926 : "Systems Engineering"
9 : 2.07852193995381 : "Client Support"
8 : 1.84757505773672 : "Database"
7 : 1.61662817551963 : "Management"
6 : 1.38568129330254 : "Partner Interaction"
5 : 1.15473441108545 : "QA and Testing"
3 : 0.69284064665127 : "Acquisition"

McGreggor, Duncan wrote:


Thanks for coming out last night, everyone! 

Quick note: 
To subscribe to the list, please write a mail to "majordomo@hfb.pm.org" <mailto:majordomo@hfb.pm.org>  with "subscribe frederick" as the body of the message.

It was great to get to meet everyone - I look forward to our future meetings :-) 

For those of you that couldn't make it, we round the tables hearing what we like to do, what we've done, what we're working on, what we want to learn, and eating chips with vinegar ;-)

We are looking forward to David's talk on perl references, wherein I am sure there will be nuggets for every level of user. I don't know what Dave has in mind, but since there are a few of us who haven't done much perl and really want to learn it, maybe I can make the following suggestions:

1) perl intro - what is perl good for? 
2) perl data types -  how do we use variables in perl? what kind of data types does perl have? 
3) perl references - how and why would we ever want to do this? 

A couple of good reads to prepare for this might be the following (in no particular order): 

Perl 5.6 Documentation - perlsyn - Perl syntax: http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlsyn.html 
Perl 5.6 Documentation - perldata - Perl data types: http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perldata.html 
Perl 5.6 Documentation - perlreftut - Mark's very short tutorial about references: http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlreftut.html

Perl 5.6 Documentation - perlref - Perl references and nested data structures: http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlref.html

The O'Reilly "Camel" book, Programming Perl, Chapter 2, "Built-in Data Types" 
The O'Reilly "Camel" book, Programming Perl, Chapter 4, "What is a Reference?" 

(I need to take my own advice and read these too!) 

I showed a small snippet of code last night and promised that I would send everyone a little script that they could run and tweak, something useful in and of itself as well as something small enough that it can be learned from and played with without too much confusion. Also, a small intro to regular expressions ;-) I will attach it in this email without an extension (in case some of you have mail servers/clients that remove scripts). Caveat: this is an older script, and were I to rewrite it, I would condense it considerably, but in the interest of those just learning, I'll keep it in it's original less obfuscated version ;-)

Jason took pics last night (right Jason? - sorry man, wanted to get a shot of you in the group too :-( but you up and left before I remembered to be that considerate... Bring it next time, and I'll get ya then! ), and I will put those up on the site as soon as I get them.


I'm forgetting stuff, I'm sure - but hey, that's what a list is for! 

Duncan 



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From oubiwann at myrealbox.com  Wed Apr 17 20:32:48 2002
From: oubiwann at myrealbox.com (Duncan McGreggor)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:28:56 2004
Subject: APM: Meeting tomorrow
Message-ID: <3CBE2240.8020008@myrealbox.com>

Okay guys,

I haven't heard from anyone... We are supposed to have a meeting 
tomorrow with David Bradford speaking. A suggestion was made that we 
meet at the Golden Corral. That sounds good to me - we can spread our 
notes out on the table and then get some chow.

However - I don't want to drag David out here if only 2 of us are going 
to show up. So, please email me TONIGHT!!! I need to talk to David 
tonight and tomorrow. I will give him directions tonight, but I will 
tell him not to come unless people show interest. He is an experienced 
coder with great advice, so who's with me!!!??? Come on! Let's get some 
perl! Let's get some chow!

Duncan


From jwdixon1 at yahoo.com  Wed Apr 17 21:45:07 2002
From: jwdixon1 at yahoo.com (Jason Dixon)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:28:56 2004
Subject: APM: Meeting tomorrow
In-Reply-To: <3CBE2240.8020008@myrealbox.com>
References: <3CBE2240.8020008@myrealbox.com>
Message-ID: <1019097908.18104.8.camel@jason.fuzzypenguin.net>

Sorry, I can't make it.  I'm in RHCE class all this week in Bethesda.

-Jason

On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 21:32, Duncan McGreggor wrote:
> Okay guys,
> 
> I haven't heard from anyone... We are supposed to have a meeting 
> tomorrow with David Bradford speaking. A suggestion was made that we 
> meet at the Golden Corral. That sounds good to me - we can spread our 
> notes out on the table and then get some chow.
> 
> However - I don't want to drag David out here if only 2 of us are going 
> to show up. So, please email me TONIGHT!!! I need to talk to David 
> tonight and tomorrow. I will give him directions tonight, but I will 
> tell him not to come unless people show interest. He is an experienced 
> coder with great advice, so who's with me!!!??? Come on! Let's get some 
> perl! Let's get some chow!
> 
> Duncan



From oubiwann at myrealbox.com  Thu Apr 18 12:56:24 2002
From: oubiwann at myrealbox.com (Duncan McGreggor)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:28:56 2004
Subject: APM: Meeting tomorrow
Message-ID: <1019152584.4abf4ff7oubiwann@myrealbox.com>

Well, it looks like only one or two people could have made it. Let's reschedule for next month - David said it was no prob at all, and that he'd be happy to do it next time.

Thanks for getting back to me, everyone :-)

Have a good weekend and I'll talk to you all soon,
Duncan

-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan McGreggor <oubiwann@myrealbox.com>
To: David Bradford <dm_bradford@hotmail.com>, frederick@pm.org, Nlm2005@aol.com, Nick Mercer <linux_nlm@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 21:32:48 -0400
Subject: APM: Meeting tomorrow

Okay guys,

I haven't heard from anyone... We are supposed to have a meeting 
tomorrow with David Bradford speaking. A suggestion was made that we 
meet at the Golden Corral. That sounds good to me - we can spread our 
notes out on the table and then get some chow.

However - I don't want to drag David out here if only 2 of us are going 
to show up. So, please email me TONIGHT!!! I need to talk to David 
tonight and tomorrow. I will give him directions tonight, but I will 
tell him not to come unless people show interest. He is an experienced 
coder with great advice, so who's with me!!!??? Come on! Let's get some 
perl! Let's get some chow!

Duncan