From glim at mycybernet.net Sun Apr 10 08:38:00 2005 From: glim at mycybernet.net (Gerard Lim) Date: Sun Apr 10 08:57:19 2005 Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-announce] Reminder: Yet Another Perl Conference in Toronto, June 27 - 29 Message-ID: Yet Another YAPC::NA 2005 Conference Reminder --------------------------------------------- YAPC::NA 2005 is Yet Another Perl Conference, North America, this year to be held in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Mon - Wed 27 - 29 June 2005. Important Dates/Deadlines ------------------------- April 18 -- deadline for paper submissions May 12 -- last day of guaranteed accommodations YAPC::NA is a grassroots, all-volunteer conference. The speaker quality is high, the participants lively, and there are many extra social activities scheduled. We expect a bit over 400 people this year, and registration is proceeding faster this year than in the past. The registration cost is USD$85. Information on registration: http://yapc.org/America/register-2005.shtml http://yapc.org/America/registration-announcement-2005.txt Direct link to registration: http://donate.perlfoundation.org/index.pl?node=registrant%20info&conference_id=423 Want to be a speaker? Deadline for proposal submission is April 18, just over 1 week from now. Go to: http://yapc.org/America/cfp-2005.shtml Need accommodations in Toronto? Go to: http://yapc.org/America/accommodations-2005.shtml If you book before May 13 you will be guaranteed a hotel space. After that getting accommodations will become progressively more difficult. Prices we have arranged are in two different price ranges: approximately US$50 for a dorm room, US$72 for a decent hotel room. All accommodations are very nearby the conference venue. This message comes from the YAPC::NA 2005 organizers in Toronto.pm, http://to.pm.org/, on behalf of The Perl Foundation, http://www.perlfoundation.org/ We look forward to seeing you in Toronto! If you have any questions please contact na-help@yapc.org From matt.hahnfeld at gmail.com Mon Apr 11 05:34:33 2005 From: matt.hahnfeld at gmail.com (Matt Hahnfeld) Date: Mon Apr 11 05:34:44 2005 Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-announce] April Perl Mongers -- Introduction to Perl Message-ID: <13c4da4105041105342cec32cc@mail.gmail.com> April's Grand Rapids Perl Mongers meeting is just a few short weeks away... This month's meeting will be an introduction to Perl! We'll teach you everything you need to know about the Perl language, from basic Perl syntax to how to use the Perl interpreter. If you're new to Perl or just need to re-learn the basics, this is the meeting to attend. If you have friends or coworkers who want to learn more about Perl, this is the meeting to drag 'em to. The meeting will be held at Priority Health (1239 E. Beltline NE, Grand Rapids Township) at 11:30am on Friday, April 29th, 2005. Matt Heusser of Excelon Development will be heading up the training, with other Perl experts jumping in to share their expertise on the various aspects of Perl. Training will last approximately 1.5 hours. Everyone is welcome to attend -- "membership" in Perl Mongers is not required. There is no charge. As usual, we'll provide a pizza lunch to everyone who attends. Yeah, that's FREE training and FREE lunch! By the way, next month's meeting will be a great follow-up to this month, with Chuck Dryer of Prioriy Health doing a presentation on the Perl Debugger. Stay tuned for more information. If you have any questions, feel free to send me an e-mail... See y'all there! Matt Hahnfeld President Grand Rapids Perl Mongers From mheusser at charter.net Tue Apr 12 05:35:20 2005 From: mheusser at charter.net (Matthew Heusser) Date: Tue Apr 12 05:35:33 2005 Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-announce] UPDATE: Introduction to Perl Message-ID: <3rr04b$p6qb5l@mxip02a.cluster1.charter.net> We're going to run the meeting in the computer labs at Priority Health, so the class will be hands-on and interactive. You will solve real problems in perl through the class, so it's going to be a fun, fast-paced, meaningful introduction to Perl, not just a lecture on the semantics of the eval() statement. :-) Please feel free to forward this to others who you think may be interested. If you can make the meeting, you might want to RSVP to Matt Hahnfeld , so he can be certain to get enough pizza. I'm off to go scrounge up some door prizes, --Heusser From: Matt Hahnfeld Date: 2005/04/11 Mon PM 12:34:33 GMT To: grand-rapids-pm-announce@mail.pm.org Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-announce] April Perl Mongers -- Introduction to Perl April's Grand Rapids Perl Mongers meeting is just a few short weeks away... This month's meeting will be an introduction to Perl! We'll teach you everything you need to know about the Perl language, from basic Perl syntax to how to use the Perl interpreter. If you're new to Perl or just need to re-learn the basics, this is the meeting to attend. If you have friends or coworkers who want to learn more about Perl, this is the meeting to drag 'em to. The meeting will be held at Priority Health (1239 E. Beltline NE, Grand Rapids Township) at 11:30am on Friday, April 29th, 2005. Matt Heusser of Excelon Development will be heading up the training, with other Perl experts jumping in to share their expertise on the various aspects of Perl. Training will last approximately 1.5 hours. Everyone is welcome to attend -- "membership" in Perl Mongers is not required. There is no charge. As usual, we'll provide a pizza lunch to everyone who attends. Yeah, that's FREE training and FREE lunch! By the way, next month's meeting will be a great follow-up to this month, with Chuck Dryer of Prioriy Health doing a presentation on the Perl Debugger. Stay tuned for more information. If you have any questions, feel free to send me an e-mail... See y'all there! Matt Hahnfeld President Grand Rapids Perl Mongers _______________________________________________ grand-rapids-pm-announce mailing list grand-rapids-pm-announce@pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/grand-rapids-pm-announce Matthew Heusser, www.xndev.com mheusser@charter.net "The product wasn't planned and built, it was envisioned and evolved. Alias didn't start with anticipated architectures, plans, and detailed specifications-it began with a vision followed shortly by the first iteration of the product. The product, the architecture, the plans, and the specifications evolved as the team adapted to the ever-unfolding reality of the market and the technology." - Jim Highsmith, Agile Project Management, Pg. 2 From matt.hahnfeld at gmail.com Tue Apr 26 13:38:48 2005 From: matt.hahnfeld at gmail.com (Matt Hahnfeld) Date: Tue Apr 26 13:39:00 2005 Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-announce] Grand Rapids Perl Mongers -- April 29 (location change) Message-ID: <13c4da410504261338f6031ea@mail.gmail.com> Hi all... This Friday at 11:30am the Grand Rapids Perl Mongers will be hosting a Perl training workshop! If you've always wanted to learn Perl, or just brush up on your Perl skills, then this is the meeting to attend. There will be lots of hands-on examples and entertaining demos put together by Matt Heusser of Excelon Development. We'll provide computers to work on and pizza for lunch. We will have a limited number of computers available, so you may want to bring your own laptop if you have one. Because of the large turnout expected, we've ordered extra pizza and set up extra seats. We've also changed the location to the NEW Priority Health Conference Center at 3111 Leonard St. NE in Grand Rapids. The conference center is located near the corner of East Beltline and Leonard St. next door to the Red Hot Inn. From I-96 or I-196, exit at East Beltline and head north to Leonard. Take a "michigan left" and then a quick right into the parking lot. If the parking lot is full, you can park in any of the Priority Health parking lots and walk south to the conference center. You can find a map to the conference center on our web site at http://grand-rapids.pm.org/. There is no charge for this or any Grand Rapids Perl Mongers meetings. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us! If you want to make sure we have pizza for you, please RSVP to Matt at matth@everysoft.com and put "Perl Mongers" in the subject. Matt Hahnfeld President, Grand Rapids Perl Mongers From mheusser at charter.net Tue Apr 26 16:50:47 2005 From: mheusser at charter.net (Matthew Heusser) Date: Tue Apr 26 16:51:00 2005 Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-announce] Grand Rapids Perl Mongers -- April 29 (location change) Message-ID: <41djhm$pv26q0@mxip10a.cluster1.charter.net> FWIW ... If you're worried about finding the conference center, just show up to the "main" priority health building and ask the receptionist. It's a stone's throw away. see you there! --Heusser > > From: Matt Hahnfeld > Date: 2005/04/26 Tue PM 08:38:48 GMT > To: grand-rapids-pm-announce@mail.pm.org > Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-announce] Grand Rapids Perl Mongers -- April 29 > (location change) > > Hi all... > > This Friday at 11:30am the Grand Rapids Perl Mongers will be hosting a > Perl training workshop! If you've always wanted to learn Perl, or > just brush up on your Perl skills, then this is the meeting to attend. > There will be lots of hands-on examples and entertaining demos put > together by Matt Heusser of Excelon Development. We'll provide > computers to work on and pizza for lunch. We will have a limited > number of computers available, so you may want to bring your own > laptop if you have one. > > Because of the large turnout expected, we've ordered extra pizza and > set up extra seats. We've also changed the location to the NEW > Priority Health Conference Center at 3111 Leonard St. NE in Grand > Rapids. The conference center is located near the corner of East > Beltline and Leonard St. next door to the Red Hot Inn. From I-96 or > I-196, exit at East Beltline and head north to Leonard. Take a > "michigan left" and then a quick right into the parking lot. If the > parking lot is full, you can park in any of the Priority Health > parking lots and walk south to the conference center. You can find a > map to the conference center on our web site at > http://grand-rapids.pm.org/. > > There is no charge for this or any Grand Rapids Perl Mongers meetings. > > If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us! If you want > to make sure we have pizza for you, please RSVP to Matt at > matth@everysoft.com and put "Perl Mongers" in the subject. > > Matt Hahnfeld > President, Grand Rapids Perl Mongers > _______________________________________________ > grand-rapids-pm-announce mailing list > grand-rapids-pm-announce@pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/grand-rapids-pm-announce > Matthew Heusser, www.xndev.com mheusser@charter.net Programmers shift from design to coding when the problem is decomposed to a level of "primitives" that the designer has mastered. If the coder is not the same person as the designer, the designer's primitives are unlikely to match the coder's primitives, and trouble will result. - Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, Fact #29