From glim at mycybernet.net Sun Apr 10 09:27:00 2005 From: glim at mycybernet.net (Gerard Lim) Date: Sun Apr 10 09:46:17 2005 Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] 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$72 for a decent hotel room. All accommodations are very nearby the conference venue. This message comes from the YAPC::NA 2005 organizers in Toronto.pm, http://to.pm.org/, on behalf of The Perl Foundation, http://www.perlfoundation.org/ We look forward to seeing you in Toronto! If you have any questions please contact na-help@yapc.org From mheusser at charter.net Tue Apr 12 05:35:20 2005 From: mheusser at charter.net (Matthew Heusser) Date: Tue Apr 12 05:35:31 2005 Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] UPDATE: Introduction to Perl Message-ID: <3rr04b$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 joe at joewright.org Fri Apr 15 12:03:56 2005 From: joe at joewright.org (Joe Wright) Date: Fri Apr 15 12:01:18 2005 Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] Higher Order Perl - Has anyone read it yet? Message-ID: <4260101C.8050509@joewright.org> Hi all. I'm a new subscriber to the list; it's nice to see that Grand Rapids has a Perl group. This morning I read The Perl Review's interview with Mark Jason Dominus (http://www.theperlreview.com/Interviews/mjd-hop-20050407.html?up) about his new book "Higher Order Perl" (http://perl.plover.com/hop). Just the other day I was wishing that I could use Perl to do closures, and that turns out to be one of the things described in the book. Has anyone read "Higher Order Perl" yet? Is it worthwhile? I'll probably ask my manager to expense it for me but wonder if anyone has a feel for it yet. Thanks, Joe From mheusser at charter.net Fri Apr 15 12:19:15 2005 From: mheusser at charter.net (Matthew Heusser) Date: Fri Apr 15 12:19:25 2005 Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] Higher Order Perl - Has anyone read it yet? Message-ID: <3rr9ri$uil5od@mxip18a.cluster1.charter.net> Both the PORM (Learning Perl Objects, References and Modules) and "Effective Perl Programming" have a good coverage of closures. I have both of them & could loan you a copy at an upcoming perl mongers meeting. April is going to be intro to perl for programmers, may is using the debugger, and June is "The Source_ers apprentice: Advanced techniques in perl you can start using today" Should be good. If you're planning on attending, please shoot an RSVP to Matt Hahnfeld: Matt.Hahnfeld@priority-health.com. Right now we're trying to guess at if we can use the computer lab as planned, or if we'll have too many people and have to use the new Priority Health Conference Center. Regards, --Heusser, GR.PM Party Elder > > From: Joe Wright > Date: 2005/04/15 Fri PM 07:03:56 GMT > To: grand-rapids-pm-list@pm.org > Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] Higher Order Perl - Has anyone read it yet? > > Hi all. I'm a new subscriber to the list; it's nice to see that Grand > Rapids has a Perl group. > > This morning I read The Perl Review's interview with Mark Jason Dominus > (http://www.theperlreview.com/Interviews/mjd-hop-20050407.html?up) about > his new book "Higher Order Perl" (http://perl.plover.com/hop). Just the > other day I was wishing that I could use Perl to do closures, and that > turns out to be one of the things described in the book. Has anyone > read "Higher Order Perl" yet? Is it worthwhile? I'll probably ask my > manager to expense it for me but wonder if anyone has a feel for it yet. > > Thanks, > > Joe > > _______________________________________________ > grand-rapids-pm-list mailing list > grand-rapids-pm-list@pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/grand-rapids-pm-list > 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 at diephouse.com Fri Apr 15 12:47:17 2005 From: matt at diephouse.com (Matt Diephouse) Date: Fri Apr 15 12:47:31 2005 Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] Higher Order Perl - Has anyone read it yet? In-Reply-To: <4260101C.8050509@joewright.org> References: <4260101C.8050509@joewright.org> Message-ID: <67549779eaa961fa5ac18461b9d72510@diephouse.com> Joe Wright wrote: > This morning I read The Perl Review's interview with Mark Jason > Dominus > (http://www.theperlreview.com/Interviews/mjd-hop-20050407.html?up) > about his new book "Higher Order Perl" (http://perl.plover.com/hop). > Just the other day I was wishing that I could use Perl to do closures, > and that turns out to be one of the things described in the book. Has > anyone read "Higher Order Perl" yet? Is it worthwhile? I'll probably > ask my manager to expense it for me but wonder if anyone has a feel > for it yet. I haven't read "Higher Order Perl" yet, but I look forward to doing so. MJD (as he is known) is an active member of the perl community[1] and a Smart Guy?[2]. I'm sure the book will be worthwhile. If you're not hesitant, you can wait until he posts the book on his website[3], but that might be a little while yet. In the meantime, you might check out: - "Achieving Closure": http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/29/closure.html A tutorial about closures in Perl. - "Closure on Closures": http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=268891 Another tutorial about closures in Perl. - "May Thy Closures Be Blessed": http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=348189 An interesting use of closures to do some OO programming. Hope this helps, -- matt diephouse http://matt.diephouse.com [1] MJD is actually a part of the "Perl Cabal" -- the head honchos of the Perl community. These are the folks who are designing Perl 6. You can see his cabal character card at . [2] This is actually a prerequisite for [1], but is worth stating. You can articles, modules, and talks that he's written at his website: . [3] As part of his contract, he can distribute the complete text on his website: .