From mheusser at charter.net Tue Feb 14 06:44:36 2006 From: mheusser at charter.net (mheusser@charter.net) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 6:44:36 -0800 Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-announce] Upcoming Professional Development Event in GR Message-ID: <144587.1139928276301.JavaMail.root@fepweb11> #See Below # --- heusser Scott Ambler, frequent conference speaker, keynoter, author, leading light in the agile modeling and data world, and all-around smart guy is the February speaker at XP West Michigan. More info at: http://xpwestmichigan.org/site/node/65 The meeting is Monday (NOTE, not our traditional Tuesday) February 27th at Atomic Object. RSVPs are appreciated. Carl --- Carl Erickson, President Atomic Object LLC 941 Wealthy Street SE Grand Rapids MI 49506 USA http://atomicobject.com/ +1 616 776 6020 voice +1 616 776 6015 fax From mheusser at charter.net Tue Feb 14 07:04:11 2006 From: mheusser at charter.net (mheusser@charter.net) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 7:04:11 -0800 Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-announce] Special Speaker -- Mark your calendars -- Message-ID: <10741234.1139929451946.JavaMail.root@fepweb11> Who: Brian D Foy, co-Author of Learning Perl, 4th Edition What: A presentation on Design Patterns in Perl at the next meeting of the Grand Rapids Perl Mongers. When: Friday, Feb 24th, 11:30AM Where: Priority Health Conference Center (3111 Leonard St) Lunch: Is included for those who RSVP. RSVP by Tuesday of that week; RSVP to Albert.Tobey at priority-health.com. TOPIC: Design patterns gives names to and describe ways for solving tricky coding problems without creating additional complexity. Many of these ideas are useful in Perl, and, when correctly applied, let you express your ideas more clearly and naturally. About Brian: Brian has been an instructor for Stonehenge since 1998 and a Perl user since he was a Physics graduate student. He founded the first Perl users group, the New York Perl Mongers, as well as the Perl advocacy non-profit Perl Mongers, Inc. which helped form over 200 Perl user groups across the globe. He maintains the perlfaq portions of the core Perl documentation, several modules on CPAN, and some stand-alone scripts. He's the publisher of The Perl Review, a magazine devoted to Perl, and a frequent speaker at conferences including The Perl Conference, Perl University, MarcusEvans BioInformatics '02, and YAPC. His writings on Perl appear in The Perl Journal, Dr. Dobbs, and The Perl Review The Priority Health Conference Center is located at 3111 Leonard St, Grand Rapids, just west of the corner of Beltline and Leonard, just north of Cornerstone University. For more informatiuon, you can contact myself or Al Tobey directly. Regards, -- Matthew Heusser, www.xndev.com Program Chair, Grand-Rapids.pm.org mheusser at charter.net From tobert at gmail.com Wed Feb 22 14:51:49 2006 From: tobert at gmail.com (Al Tobey) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:51:49 -0500 Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-announce] Special speaker this Friday: Brian D Foy In-Reply-To: <5ac7acb10602221423p707e573alda1d211edefc4ff9@mail.gmail.com> References: <5ac7acb10602221423p707e573alda1d211edefc4ff9@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5ac7acb10602221451w75e98758yb9b9abf5f8b5e17b@mail.gmail.com> Please join us for Brian D Foy's talk on design patterns on this Friday at 11:30am. This event will be hosted at the Priority Health Conference Center (3111 Leonard St ). http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=3111+Leonard+St+49525&ll=42.985751,-85.593023&spn=0.027124,0.099649 We will be giving away 5 books this month. They are listed at the bottom of this message. Pay attention during Brian's presentation as I will be asking questions derived from things he says, tangential or otherwise! -Al Tobey President, Grand Rapids Perl Mongers tobert at gmail.com -- Who: Brian D Foy, co-Author of Learning Perl, 4th Edition What: A presentation on Design Patterns in Perl at the next meeting of the Grand Rapids Perl Mongers. When: Friday, Feb 24th, 11:30AM Where: Priority Health Conference Center (3111 Leonard St) Lunch: Is included for those who RSVP by Thursday at 2:00pm. Send your RSVP to tobert at gmail.com. TOPIC: Design patterns gives names to and describe ways for solving tricky coding problems without creating additional complexity. Many of these ideas are useful in Perl, and, when correctly applied, let you express your ideas more clearly and naturally. About Brian: Brian has been an instructor for Stonehenge since 1998 and a Perl user since he was a Physics graduate student. He founded the first Perl users group, the New York Perl Mongers, as well as the Perl advocacy non-profit Perl Mongers, Inc. which helped form over 200 Perl user groups across the globe. He maintains the perlfaq portions of the core Perl documentation, several modules on CPAN, and some stand-alone scripts. He's the publisher of The Perl Review, a magazine devoted to Perl, and a frequent speaker at conferences including The Perl Conference, Perl University, MarcusEvans BioInformatics '02, and YAPC. His writings on Perl appear in The Perl Journal, Dr. Dobbs, and The Perl Review -- Books: The Cathedral & The Bazaar (O'Reilly) C# Essentials (O'Reilly) Samba-3 By Example (Prentice Hall) The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide (Prentice Hall) Apache Derby - Off to the Races (IBM Press) Alternates: Linux Debugging and Performance Tuning (Prentice Hall) Linux Patch Management (Prentice Hall) Self-Service Linux (Prentice Hall)