From gwadej at anomaly.org Mon Mar 5 20:54:56 2007 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 22:54:56 -0600 Subject: [pm-h] Next week's Meeting Message-ID: <20070305225456.1aacb21d@sovvan> The March meeting will be here next week and we have a bit of a problem. We don't have a topic. Worse, I lost track of the time and haven't found anyone to cover for March. Any volunteers to talk? Any cool modules you've worked with, or interesting projects you've worked on? Any topics that we can use for a discussion? Any projects that you are working on, that you could use the help of everyone at the meeting? G. Wade -- I like you. You're trouble. -- Draal - "Voices of Authority" From gwadej at anomaly.org Thu Mar 8 05:13:41 2007 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 07:13:41 -0600 Subject: [pm-h] Fw: [pm_groups] YACP::Europe re-scheduled to start a day earlier! Message-ID: <20070308071341.4e70e05a@sovvan> In case some of you were planning to go to YAPC::Europe. Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 12:12:53 +0100 From: Thomas Klausner To: pm_groups at pm.org Subject: [pm_groups] YACP::Europe re-scheduled to start a day earlier! Hi! Please forward this to your local groups, especially if you already forwarded the Call for Papers/Participation. Thanks! ----- Forwarded message from Thomas Klausner ----- From: Thomas Klausner Subject: [Conferences] YACP::Europe re-scheduled to start a day earlier! Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 11:01:43 +0100 To: conferences at yapceurope.org The bad news: The Conference has to be rescheduled slightly ----------------------------------------------------------- The ESC Congress 2007 is even bigger than we thought. They expect 15.000 cardiologists, plus their spouses! Due to this, there is nearly not a single bed available in Vienna for the night from Friday, 31st August to Saturday, 1st September. As we do not want to force you to leave on the last day of the conference, we decided to **reschedule YAPC::Europe to Tuesday, 28th to Thursday, 30th August.** We are very sorry for this, and do hope that it does not cause any problems for anybody who might have already booked his or her flights or hotel. If this change does cause you some problems, please inform us, and we'll see what we can do to help you. The good news: Register or submit a talk until 31th March and win a book! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- We have two coffee-table books (one including a DVD) on Vienna to raffle off. To enter the contest, all you need to do is to either register for the conference and pay your ticket, or submit a talk proposal until 31th March. - Zentralfriedhof Vienna: The living Graveyard. Including DVD: Universum Documentary A documentary about the Zentralfriedhof, which is the second largest cemetery by area and largest by number of interred in Europe. In German and English. - Wien. Tradition und Moderne. by Doris Simhofer This book is German only, but has lots of nice photos :-) Winners will be announced on 3th April. YAPC::Europe 2007 website: -------------------------- http://vienna.yapceurope.org Thomas Klausner, on behalf of Vienna.pm -- #!/usr/bin/perl http://domm.zsi.at for(ref bless{},just'another'perl'hacker){s-:+-$"-g&&print$_.$/} _______________________________________________ Conferences mailing list Conferences at yapceurope.org http://lists.yapceurope.org/mailman/listinfo/conferences ----- End forwarded message ----- -- #!/usr/bin/perl http://domm.zsi.at for(ref bless{},just'another'perl'hacker){s-:+-$"-g&&print$_.$/} -- Request pm.org Technical Support via support at pm.org pm_groups mailing list pm_groups at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pm_groups -- The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time. -- Bruce Schneier From gwadej at anomaly.org Fri Mar 9 17:17:51 2007 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 19:17:51 -0600 Subject: [pm-h] Tuesday's meeting - canceled Message-ID: <20070309191751.7e07f120@sovvan> It looks like we'll be cancelling the Houston.pm meeting for next Tuesday. At present, we have no speaker and no place to hold the meeting. I apologize for not having a backup plan for this month. G. Wade -- A 'language' is a dialect with an army. From toddr at null.net Sat Mar 10 09:05:43 2007 From: toddr at null.net (Todd Rinaldo) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:05:43 -0600 Subject: [pm-h] April Meeting In-Reply-To: <20070309191751.7e07f120@sovvan> References: <20070309191751.7e07f120@sovvan> Message-ID: <000c01c76336$59106920$0201a8c0@centurysupply.com> On that topic, I suggest we discuss next month's meeting topic now. The meeting is April 10, 2007. As far as topics, I can't come up with anything specific. It does occur to me that most of the people attending our meetings seem to be highly skilled. Maybe we could try a mini-hackathon if anyone was interested. This would have to be RSVP to work. Maybe we could extend the hours and make it a longer meeting? Start earlier? If this'll work for you guys, then I networking and the room can be provided. Of personal interest to me would be something perl6 related. I just got done listening to Uri Guttman, on perl cast http://www.perlcast.com/. And there was a mention of a "docathon" for perl6. Maybe we could contribute in this way? We could learn more about perl6 and help with the cause at the same time. I'm open to other suggestions. I think this could be fun. What do you guys think? From gwadej at anomaly.org Sat Mar 10 09:26:12 2007 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:26:12 -0600 Subject: [pm-h] April Meeting In-Reply-To: <000c01c76336$59106920$0201a8c0@centurysupply.com> References: <20070309191751.7e07f120@sovvan> <000c01c76336$59106920$0201a8c0@centurysupply.com> Message-ID: <20070310112612.418bd275@sovvan> On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:05:43 -0600 "Todd Rinaldo" wrote: > On that topic, I suggest we discuss next month's meeting topic now. > The meeting is April 10, 2007. As far as topics, I can't come up with > anything specific. It would be a good idea to think about topics a few months into the future, not just next month. This allows someone to volunteer to present even if they don't think they can prepare before the next meeting. > It does occur to me that most of the people attending our meetings > seem to be highly skilled. Maybe we could try a mini-hackathon if > anyone was interested. This would have to be RSVP to work. Maybe we > could extend the hours and make it a longer meeting? Start earlier? > If this'll work for you guys, then I networking and the room can be > provided. We've talked about projects in the past, and even trying to help out the Perl community. But, maybe a hackathon would be more successful. > Of personal interest to me would be something perl6 related. I just > got done listening to Uri Guttman, on perl cast > http://www.perlcast.com/. And there was a mention of a "docathon" for > perl6. Maybe we could contribute in this way? We could learn more > about perl6 and help with the cause at the same time. > > I'm open to other suggestions. I think this could be fun. What do you > guys think? Sounds like a good set of ideas to me. What does everyone else think? G. Wade -- Never express yourself more clearly than you think. -- Niels Bohr From fluhmann at gmail.com Mon Mar 12 07:31:42 2007 From: fluhmann at gmail.com (Jeremy Fluhmann) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:31:42 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] April Meeting In-Reply-To: <20070310112612.418bd275@sovvan> References: <20070309191751.7e07f120@sovvan> <000c01c76336$59106920$0201a8c0@centurysupply.com> <20070310112612.418bd275@sovvan> Message-ID: <7f7c2d5e0703120731o193cbd4o5ce837a7fa4b8f25@mail.gmail.com> On 3/10/07, G. Wade Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:05:43 -0600 > "Todd Rinaldo" wrote: > > > It does occur to me that most of the people attending our meetings > > seem to be highly skilled. Maybe we could try a mini-hackathon if > > anyone was interested. This would have to be RSVP to work. Maybe we > > could extend the hours and make it a longer meeting? Start earlier? > > If this'll work for you guys, then I networking and the room can be > > provided. > > We've talked about projects in the past, and even trying to help out > the Perl community. But, maybe a hackathon would be more successful. I think the mini-hackathon idea is GREAT! Of course, I won't be able to make it (seeing as how I'm now about 7 hours away vs. only 2), but I think the idea is great. It would also give someone "organizing" it some great exposure to possibly organizing one immediately after this year's YAPC ;-) *wink wink*. Last year's post-yapc hackathon was fairly small (I believe) as compared to Chicago's full blown hackathon later that year. If there's any interest on that front, let me know. Jeremy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/mailman/private/houston/attachments/20070312/4c9db95f/attachment.html From robo4288 at gmail.com Mon Mar 12 07:44:35 2007 From: robo4288 at gmail.com (Robert Boone) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:44:35 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] April Meeting In-Reply-To: <000c01c76336$59106920$0201a8c0@centurysupply.com> References: <20070309191751.7e07f120@sovvan> <000c01c76336$59106920$0201a8c0@centurysupply.com> Message-ID: <435624390703120744h7f303dafx8bfec5ddcee585c9@mail.gmail.com> I would be interested in a hackathon or a docathon for perl 6. Robert On 3/10/07, Todd Rinaldo wrote: > On that topic, I suggest we discuss next month's meeting topic now. The > meeting is April 10, 2007. As far as topics, I can't come up with anything > specific. > > It does occur to me that most of the people attending our meetings seem to > be highly skilled. Maybe we could try a mini-hackathon if anyone was > interested. This would have to be RSVP to work. Maybe we could extend the > hours and make it a longer meeting? Start earlier? If this'll work for you > guys, then I networking and the room can be provided. > > Of personal interest to me would be something perl6 related. I just got done > listening to Uri Guttman, on perl cast http://www.perlcast.com/. And there > was a mention of a "docathon" for perl6. Maybe we could contribute in this > way? We could learn more about perl6 and help with the cause at the same > time. > > I'm open to other suggestions. I think this could be fun. What do you guys > think? > > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > Houston at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ > From mongers at bsod.net Mon Mar 12 07:45:17 2007 From: mongers at bsod.net (Pete Krawczyk) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:45:17 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [pm-h] April Meeting In-Reply-To: <7f7c2d5e0703120731o193cbd4o5ce837a7fa4b8f25@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070309191751.7e07f120@sovvan> <000c01c76336$59106920$0201a8c0@centurysupply.com> <20070310112612.418bd275@sovvan> <7f7c2d5e0703120731o193cbd4o5ce837a7fa4b8f25@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Subject: Re: [pm-h] April Meeting From: Jeremy Fluhmann Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:31:42 -0500 }Last year's post-yapc hackathon was fairly small (I believe) }as compared to Chicago's full blown hackathon later that year. Actually - they were about the same size, go figure. More locals showed up for the November one than the June one, but the June one had many of the "heavyweights" of the community hacking it out in an unused IIT cafeteria. The November one was just more formal and more publicized. Also, the post-YAPC one was "hack on whatever you want", while the November one was "hack on whatever you want, but we could use some hands on Parrot." Similar yet different. -Pete K -- Pete Krawczyk Chicago Perl Mongers mongers at bsod dot net From gwadej at anomaly.org Tue Mar 13 05:20:26 2007 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:20:26 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] March Meeting canceled Message-ID: <20070313072026.0cf3a270@sovvan> Just a quick reminder that tonight's meeting was canceled due to lack of a speaker and place to hold the meeting. As Todd suggested, next month's meeting will be here before you know it. Volunteer now to reserve your spot. G. Wade -- Never express yourself more clearly than you think. -- Niels Bohr From Dennis.Berestecki at USOncology.com Thu Mar 22 16:16:24 2007 From: Dennis.Berestecki at USOncology.com (Berestecki, Dennis) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:16:24 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] PERL Training Message-ID: > Hello Houston Mongers! > > I am a PERL hacker wannabe and I am looking for some recommendations for beginner (and then advanced) training classes. The classes don't HAVE to be in Houston, but it would help. My company will probably be willing to foot the bill, but they are more likely to do so if it is not TOO expensive. I don't want to take classes that are useless, however, just for the sake of training. > > I am pretty much a beginner, although I have been "reading" a lot about PERL, and I am fascinated by Regular Expressions. I just need something to jumpstart my involvement. My primary need for PERL is for scripting Tivoli Storage Manager activities, but my interests are definitely beyond this niche usage. > > Any suggestions you may have will be GREATLY appreciated! > > Sincerely, > > Dennis Berestecki > Tivoli Storage Manager Administrator > US Oncology - Houston, TX > 281.642.4786 (Cell) > dennis.berestecki at usoncology.com > > ----------------------------------------- The contents of this electronic mail message and any attachments are confidential, possibly privileged and intended for the addressee(s) only. Only the addressee(s) may read, disseminate, retain or otherwise use this message. If received in error, please immediately inform the sender and then delete this message without disclosing its contents to anyone. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/mailman/private/houston/attachments/20070322/81a93a73/attachment.html From joey at joeykelly.net Thu Mar 22 16:26:31 2007 From: joey at joeykelly.net (Joey Kelly) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:26:31 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] PERL Training In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <200703221826.43708.joey@joeykelly.net> On Thursday 22 March 2007 18:16, Berestecki, Dennis wrote: > > Hello Houston Mongers! > > > > I am a PERL hacker wannabe and I am looking for some recommendations for > > beginner (and then advanced) training classes. The classes don't HAVE to > > be in Houston, but it would help. You're in luck. There is a Perl conference in Houston during the last week of June, and after the conference there will be 2 days of intense classroom-style training available. http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2007/ Hope this helps. --Joey > > My company will probably be willing to > > foot the bill, but they are more likely to do so if it is not TOO > > expensive. I don't want to take classes that are useless, however, just > > for the sake of training. > > > > I am pretty much a beginner, although I have been "reading" a lot about > > PERL, and I am fascinated by Regular Expressions. I just need something > > to jumpstart my involvement. My primary need for PERL is for scripting > > Tivoli Storage Manager activities, but my interests are definitely beyond > > this niche usage. > > > > Any suggestions you may have will be GREATLY appreciated! > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Dennis Berestecki > > Tivoli Storage Manager Administrator > > US Oncology - Houston, TX > > 281.642.4786 (Cell) > > dennis.berestecki at usoncology.com > > ----------------------------------------- > The contents of this electronic mail message and any attachments > are confidential, possibly privileged and intended for the > addressee(s) only. Only the addressee(s) may read, disseminate, > retain or otherwise use this message. If received in error, please > immediately inform the sender and then delete this message without > disclosing its contents to anyone. -- Joey Kelly < Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant > http://joeykelly.net How many spyware pop-ups did you get on your Windows computer today? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.pm.org/mailman/private/houston/attachments/20070322/d8093157/attachment.bin From gwadej at anomaly.org Thu Mar 22 16:46:44 2007 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:46:44 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] PERL Training In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20070322184644.4baa8735@sovvan> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:16:24 -0500 "Berestecki, Dennis" wrote: > > Hello Houston Mongers! Hi Dennis, Welcome to Houston.pm. > > I am a PERL hacker wannabe and I am looking for some > > recommendations for beginner (and then advanced) training classes. > > The classes don't HAVE to be in Houston, but it would help. My > > company will probably be willing to foot the bill, but they are > > more likely to do so if it is not TOO expensive. I don't want to > > take classes that are useless, however, just for the sake of > > training. I know Stonehenge Consulting (http://www.stonehenge.com/) does training. I also found this directory of Perl training services. (http://www.perltraining.org/country/USA.html) However, many of use learned Perl from "Learning Perl". The Perl Monastery (perlmonks.org) is another good resource for answering questions on the Perl language. > > I am pretty much a beginner, although I have been "reading" a lot > > about PERL, and I am fascinated by Regular Expressions. I just need > > something to jumpstart my involvement. My primary need for PERL is > > for scripting Tivoli Storage Manager activities, but my interests > > are definitely beyond this niche usage. The best book on regular expressions is definitely "Mastering Regular Expressions". Until you get a chance to go to training, I would definitely recommend asking questions here or at perlmonks.org. G. Wade PS. One other little thing. According to the Perl FAQ, the spelling is Perl (for the language) or perl (for the executable), but never PERL. Despite many jokes, Perl is not an acronym. -- Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. From fluhmann at gmail.com Thu Mar 22 19:34:18 2007 From: fluhmann at gmail.com (Jeremy Fluhmann) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:34:18 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] PERL Training In-Reply-To: <200703221826.43708.joey@joeykelly.net> References: <200703221826.43708.joey@joeykelly.net> Message-ID: <7f7c2d5e0703221934u2d5d642aue54b73b85fea23ab@mail.gmail.com> On 3/22/07, Joey Kelly wrote: > > On Thursday 22 March 2007 18:16, Berestecki, Dennis wrote: > > > Hello Houston Mongers! > > > > > > I am a PERL hacker wannabe and I am looking for some recommendations > for > > > beginner (and then advanced) training classes. The classes don't HAVE > to > > > be in Houston, but it would help. > > You're in luck. There is a Perl conference in Houston during the last week > of > June, and after the conference there will be 2 days of intense > classroom-style training available. Absolutely! :-) 99% probability that the prices for the classes will be the same as last year, $200. Also, Dennis, the conference itself runs $85 for the early bird price, or $100 thereafter. Registration will be opening as soon as the final payment integration piece is added. One of the registration choices includes a training class option. Jeremy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/mailman/private/houston/attachments/20070322/b64d8721/attachment.html From gwadej at anomaly.org Mon Mar 26 17:34:26 2007 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:34:26 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] Fw: [pm_groups] YAPC-NA CFP deadline approaching Message-ID: <20070326193426.78e0960b@sovvan> Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:42:21 -0500 From: "Jeremy Fluhmann" To: pm_groups at pm.org Subject: [pm_groups] YAPC-NA CFP deadline approaching Please forward to your pm lists (actually, any list that might have an interest) ---- Two weeks remain in the Call For Participation! Visit http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2007 to register as a new user (or login with your existing account) and submit a talk proposal. If possible, please indicate (in the comments section) if you consider this talk to be suitable for a beginner, intermediate, or advanced Perl user. Some of the comments from last year indicated a desire to know the level of knowledge expected of talk attendees. Official CFP posting at http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2007/cfp.html Jeremy Fluhmann http://www.yapc.org/America -- If there's no problem, there's no solution. -- Rick Hoselton -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Wade -- Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries. -- Boris Bezier From robo4288 at gmail.com Thu Mar 29 09:52:37 2007 From: robo4288 at gmail.com (Robert Boone) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:52:37 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] April Meeting In-Reply-To: <20070326210609.61ae4bed@sovvan> References: <20070326210609.61ae4bed@sovvan> Message-ID: <435624390703290952u22b97cdala747108b94449322@mail.gmail.com> Unless anyone else has something I have been toying around with the Moose module. I can talk about it if no one has anything else. Robert On 3/26/07, G. Wade Johnson wrote: > Has anyone volunteered to present or coordinate for the April meeting? > April 10th is only two weeks away. > > There was some talk about a potential for a mini-hackathon, but I > didn't hear a conclusion to that idea. > > G. Wade > -- > Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries. -- Boris Bezier > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > Houston at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ > From toddr at null.net Thu Mar 29 16:31:37 2007 From: toddr at null.net (Todd Rinaldo) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:31:37 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] April Meeting In-Reply-To: <435624390703290952u22b97cdala747108b94449322@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070326210609.61ae4bed@sovvan> <435624390703290952u22b97cdala747108b94449322@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <001f01c7725a$663a0510$0201a8c0@centurysupply.com> Looks interesting. 1111 Fannin is availble if no one else has a preference. -----Original Message----- From: houston-bounces+toddr=null.net at pm.org [mailto:houston-bounces+toddr=null.net at pm.org] On Behalf Of Robert Boone Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 11:53 AM To: Houston.pm located in Houston, TX. Subject: Re: [pm-h] April Meeting Unless anyone else has something I have been toying around with the Moose module. I can talk about it if no one has anything else. Robert On 3/26/07, G. Wade Johnson wrote: > Has anyone volunteered to present or coordinate for the April meeting? > April 10th is only two weeks away. > > There was some talk about a potential for a mini-hackathon, but I > didn't hear a conclusion to that idea. > > G. Wade > -- > Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries. -- Boris Bezier > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > Houston at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ > _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list Houston at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/