From brandon at squareonedesign.com Wed Aug 16 15:00:34 2000 From: brandon at squareonedesign.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:35 2004 Subject: FW: O'Reilly Needs Guinea Pigs...Any Volunteers? Message-ID: Hello everyone! Here is a message from O'Reilly looking for some ideas and input. See what you think. Brandon -----Original Message----- From: Denise Olliffe [mailto:deniseo@oreilly.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 2:56 PM To: brandon@squareonedesign.com Subject: O'Reilly Needs Guinea Pigs...Any Volunteers? What technologies are your group members excited about? Where do they smell vaporware? We want you or members of your group to tell us all about it. We invite you to join O'Reilly's new email survey research panel, and give us your two cents. You can sign up at http://www.survey.com/orpanel.html -- it only takes a few minutes. As a thank you for your time and insight, we'll give you a 25% discount on all O'Reilly books purchased through the O'Reilly Web site for one year (5% more than the regular UG discount), plus enter you in a drawing for one of 200 "Official O'Reilly Guinea Pig" T-shirts. A few important details: After you register for the panel, you'll receive short email invitations to participate in surveys, either from O'Reilly & Associates or Survey.com, our partner in this endeavor. When you enroll, you choose how often you're interested in hearing from us. Membership and participation is entirely voluntary, and you may leave the panel at any time. There's also no obligation to participate in any particular survey. We promise that all information you submit will be kept confidential. We will never sell or rent your personal information. If you order books directly from us, we'll send you our book catalog three or four times a year (if you don't want it, just ask us not to send it). If you feel your members would be interested in particpating, please pass this invitation on to them. --Denise :) From joelmeulenberg at yahoo.com Tue Aug 22 01:22:38 2000 From: joelmeulenberg at yahoo.com (Joel Meulenberg) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:35 2004 Subject: GR.pm Meeting/Presentation this Friday! Message-ID: <20000822062238.8294.qmail@web312.mail.yahoo.com> Paul Tjapkes will be giving a presentation on Globals and Locals and Lexicals (oh my!). From what I've heard from Paul, I'm sure his presentation will have something to offer to beginners and experienced Perl programmers alike. For example, do you know what "dynamically scoped" variables are? If so, can you think of any good reasons to use them? Do you grok typeglobs? Paul will reveal all during this engaging journey to the bowels of Perl symbol tables and lexical scratchpads! We haven't finalized the meeting place, but it'll probably be at Priority Health. Meeting place and agenda will be announced soon. Oh, and please plan to return your books on loan from the GR.pm lending library. +Joel ===== only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's, sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's, four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's, forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven hyphens and, last but not least, a single ! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ From joelmeulenberg at yahoo.com Tue Aug 22 19:11:11 2000 From: joelmeulenberg at yahoo.com (Joel Meulenberg) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:35 2004 Subject: Sorry! - GR.pm Meeting/Presentation *next* Friday - September 1st Message-ID: <20000823001111.8085.qmail@web313.mail.yahoo.com> Due to scheduling issues, we're going to have to break from our tradition of meeting on the last Friday of the month and, instead, meet on the following Friday - September 1st. Sorry for the mixup. +Joel --- Joel Meulenberg wrote: > Paul Tjapkes will be giving a presentation on Globals and Locals and > Lexicals (oh my!). From what I've heard from Paul, I'm sure his > presentation will have something to offer to beginners and > experienced > Perl programmers alike. For example, do you know what "dynamically > scoped" variables are? If so, can you think of any good reasons to > use > them? Do you grok typeglobs? > > Paul will reveal all during this engaging journey to the bowels of > Perl > symbol tables and lexical scratchpads! > > We haven't finalized the meeting place, but it'll probably be at > Priority Health. Meeting place and agenda will be announced soon. > > Oh, and please plan to return your books on loan from the GR.pm > lending > library. > > +Joel > > ===== > only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was > composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's, > sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's, > four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's, > forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four > x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven > hyphens and, last but not least, a single ! > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > ===== only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's, sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's, four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's, forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven hyphens and, last but not least, a single ! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ From brandon at squareonedesign.com Thu Aug 24 08:41:54 2000 From: brandon at squareonedesign.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:35 2004 Subject: FW: O'Reilly Seeks Java Experts Message-ID: Any Java experts among us? -----Original Message----- From: Denise Olliffe [mailto:deniseo@oreilly.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 7:16 PM To: brandon@squareonedesign.com Subject: O'Reilly Seeks Java Experts Hello, O'Reilly is seeking Java Experts to present at the O'Reilly Conference on Java--Enterprise Java. When: March 26-29, 2001 Where: Santa Clara, CA This Developer Conference focuses on emerging Enterprise-class Java applications. O'Reilly & Associates has posted a Call for Participation soliciting masters of Java technology, who are interested in leading tutorial and conference sessions at the 2001 O'Reilly Conference on Java. Session speakers are in demand for three classes of talks: focused technology discussions, new product/technology demonstrations, and targeted technological discussions featuring an array of panel participants. The submission deadline for all proposals is September 15, 2000. Presenters will be notified of selection results by October 15, 2000. See, http://conferences.oreilly.com/java2001/news/call.html for complete information about our submission and acceptance process. Please, pass this info along to your members. Thanks, Denise :) From brandon at squareonedesign.com Fri Aug 25 09:51:11 2000 From: brandon at squareonedesign.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:35 2004 Subject: FW: O'Reilly University of Perl 2000 Message-ID: Let's all go to the lobby.... -----Original Message----- From: Denise Olliffe [mailto:deniseo@oreilly.com] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 7:38 PM To: brandon@squareonedesign.com Subject: O'Reilly University of Perl 2000 O'REILLY BRINGS ITS EXPERTISE TO YOU AT UNIVERSITY OF PERL 2000 O'Reilly University of Perl 2000 is a four-city tour offering two-day tutorials featuring the best Perl training available. This cross-country tour will start in Seattle and move to Los Angeles and Atlanta, ending in New York City. O'Reilly University of Perl 2000 will be taught by top-rated leaders in the Perl community; Damian Conway, Mark-Jason Dominus, brain d foy, Dan Klein, Michael Rodriquez, Randal Schwartz, and Nathan Torkington. These fearless leaders will teach you solutions to your programming problems, offer advanced programming techniques and much more. Eleven courses in all, the tutorials will focus on: 'Perl 101' for programmers new to Perl Perl CGI and Web programming Advanced Perl Programming techniques mod_perl Dates and Locations: October 2 & 3: Seattle, Hyatt Regency Bellevue October 5 & 6: Los Angeles, The Westin Los Angeles Airport October 16 & 17: Atlanta, Sheraton Atlanta October 19 & 20: New York City, New York Marriott East Side For more information about O'Reilly University of Perl 2000, go to: http://conferences.oreilly.com/uperl2k/ If you would like to help O'Reilly by posting a banner for this tour on your site, go to: http://conferences.oreilly.com/uperl2k/banners.html If you post the banner, please let me know. Please pass this information to all of your group members. Thanks, Denise From brandon at squareonedesign.com Fri Aug 25 09:52:11 2000 From: brandon at squareonedesign.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:35 2004 Subject: FW: O'Reilly Launches WebBoard 4, Windows Editon for Oracle 8i Message-ID: -----Original Message----- From: Denise Olliffe [mailto:deniseo@oreilly.com] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 6:30 PM To: brandon@squareonedesign.com Subject: O'Reilly Launches WebBoard 4, Windows Editon for Oracle 8i FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE deniseo@oreilly.com or 707.829.0515 x 339 O'REILLY LAUNCHES WEBBOARD FOR ORACLE8? & ORACLE8i? USERS Enterprise Forums Software Developed To Support Oracle Database Customers Sebastopol, CA--O'Reilly extends its widely acclaimed WebBoard 4, forums and chat Windows software, to support Oracle8 and Oracle8i enterprise database users. According to Software Product Manager Lisa Henning, "WebBoard 4, Windows Edition for Oracle 8/8i was developed to meet the unique demands of enterprise Oracle users. Judging from the reaction of Beta testers, users of the Oracle version of WebBoard are going to be very pleased." Since 1996, WebBoard has provided a cost-effective, powerful solution for web-based community building, communication and collaboration. Utilizing WebBoard, Oracle users can now host online community or workgroup forums in conjunction with their Oracle databases. WebBoard provides corporations, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and educational institutions ease of interacting and communicating both internally and externally. WebBoard builds on O'Reilly's long history of providing the highest quality products to its customers with significant product features like: straightforward remote administration, ease-of-use for end-users, IRC chat for 1,000 simultaneous users, the ability to participate in online conferences via email and NNTP, and simple interface customization. WebBoard also includes substantial printed documentation-a hallmark of all O'Reilly software products. 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WebBoard 4, Windows Edition for Oracle 8/8i, benefits incorporate: Extensive Customization. Open Scripting integrates popular scripting languages like JavaScript, PerlScript and VBScript. Custom Schemes are pre-defined color and graphic styles that let web administrators and board managers change the look of their boards with a few mouse clicks. Choice of four communication approaches. With WebBoard you can read and post messages using email, your favorite newsreader, web-based chat (synchronous), and web-based forums (asynchronous). Redundancy. A single copy of WebBoard can live on multiple systems. Expanded user features. Attention: Messaging lets end-users direct other users' attention to specific messages. WebBoard's large and enthusiastic user base continues to expand. This innovative move to support another significant database platform, will serve to further increase WebBoard's prominence in the industry. As InfoWorld Reporter Andre Kvitka stated in his review of WebBoard 4, "If you are thinking about deploying a web forum and chat server for your intranet or Internet site, I would recommend WebBoard. WebBoard 4 is a great way to nurture discussions and create communities." More information is available at http://webboard.oreilly.com. # # # WebBoard 4, Windows Edition for Oracle 8/8i 1-56592-847-4 464 pages of documentation $2,999 order@oreilly.com 1-800-998-9938 http://www.oreilly.com From brandon at squareonedesign.com Fri Aug 25 12:00:32 2000 From: brandon at squareonedesign.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:35 2004 Subject: FW: Correction and info for ORA University of Perl 2000 Message-ID: Whoopsadaisy, -----Original Message----- From: Denise Olliffe [mailto:deniseo@oreilly.com] Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 12:19 PM To: brandon@squareonedesign.com Subject: Correction and info for ORA University of Perl 2000 A 20% discount is being offered to O'Reilly UG Members that wish to attend the O'Reilly University of Perl 2000. When registering for the tutorials, enter the code: DSUG in the Discount Code field on the form. Also... I would like to make a spelling correction to the name of one of the tutorial instructors from my last message--brain d foy, should read: brian d foy. To brian, and those who know brian (I've already heard from some of you)--Woops...sorry. ;) Denise From joelmeulenberg at yahoo.com Tue Aug 29 12:19:49 2000 From: joelmeulenberg at yahoo.com (Joel Meulenberg) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:35 2004 Subject: GR.pm Meeting This Friday - Sept. 1 @ 11:30am @ Priority Health Message-ID: <20000829171949.28893.qmail@web314.mail.yahoo.com> WHEN & WHERE ------------ As usual, the meeting will begin at 11:30am and run for about an hour (definitely done by 1pm). We'll be meeting in Board Rooms B & C at Priority Health. The address is 1231 East Beltline NE (that's the southmost building of the 3 buildings in "Waters Circle"). Priority Health is basically at the intersection of the East Beltline (M-37) and Leonard. If you're coming from I-196 (or even I-96), you can get off the expressway at the East Beltline and head north. The East Beltline & Leonard intersection is less than a mile north of I-196. You'll go past the light at the intersection of the East Beltline and Leonard and turn into the first "banana turn" ("Michigan turn"). That'll take you into the 3-building "Waters Circle". The 1231 building will be on the left. Go to the elevator and take it up to the 3rd floor. If someone's not there to greet you, the receptionist can tell you how to get to board rooms B & C. LUNCH ----- If you'd like a lunch delivered, Keith Sederholm (keith.sederholm@priority-health.com) will be taking orders for Asiana (a Chinese restaurant). The menu is attached to this message as 2 bitmap files. **Please note that actual prices are now about 75 cents more than listed on this old menu.** Please be sure to get your order to Keith by 4pm on Thursday! AGENDA ------ Here's our basic agenda: 1. Lunch & Introductions 2. Lending Library (Please Remember Your Checked-Out Books!!) 3. Presentation on "Perl Scope and All That" by Paul Tjapkes 4. Discussion of Future Topics & Presentations - Any Volunteers? Any Requests? 5. Adjourn Anything I've missed? If there's something else you'd like on the agenda, please let me know. See you there! +Joel ===== only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's, sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's, four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's, forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven hyphens and, last but not least, a single ! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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Name: asiana2.bmp Type: image/bmp Size: 38294 bytes Desc: asiana2.bmp Url : http://mail.pm.org/archives/grand-rapids-pm-announce/attachments/20000829/eb265fc7/asiana2.bin From brandon at squareonedesign.com Wed Aug 30 14:12:12 2000 From: brandon at squareonedesign.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:35 2004 Subject: FW: O'Reilly articles on RSS Message-ID: -----Original Message----- From: Denise Olliffe [mailto:deniseo@oreilly.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 3:10 PM To: brandon@squareonedesign.com Subject: O'Reilly articles on RSS I thought your group members might have interest in these news articles from the O'Reilly Network about RSS... http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/08/25/magazine/rss91.html http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/08/25/magazine/rss_intro.html http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/08/25/magazine/rss_tut.html If you think your members would appreciate the news, please pass them on. Thanks, Denise :-)