From will.willis at gmail.com  Mon Apr  5 19:55:17 2010
From: will.willis at gmail.com (Will Willis)
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 21:55:17 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Can you recommend a good podcast?
Message-ID: <l2j6ee1e6091004051955n12a9ee0ex194932c0f4338744@mail.gmail.com>

Warning: Off-topic thread!

I have a decent commute to work. I'll typically fill the time with a podcast
or two each day.

What technical (or otherwise) podcasts are you listening to that you find
enjoyable? *Don't hold back, I'm willing to try anything to mix up my
current play list.*

Below are the podcasts I listen to on a regular basis:

FLOSS Weekly
Perlcast (no longer releasing)
Ruby on Rails Podcast
MacBreak Weekly
37signals Podcast
DH unplugged (financial)
python411 (no longer releasing)


and I'll occasionally listen to the following:

This week in google
This Week in Tech
Linux Outlaws
IT Conversations

Thanks! I look forward to any recommendations.

-Will
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From gwadej at anomaly.org  Mon Apr  5 20:18:35 2010
From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson)
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 22:18:35 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Can you recommend a good podcast?
In-Reply-To: <l2j6ee1e6091004051955n12a9ee0ex194932c0f4338744@mail.gmail.com>
References: <l2j6ee1e6091004051955n12a9ee0ex194932c0f4338744@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20100405221835.18e56442@sovvan>

On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 21:55:17 -0500
Will Willis <will.willis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Warning: Off-topic thread!
> 
> I have a decent commute to work. I'll typically fill the time with a
> podcast or two each day.
> 
> What technical (or otherwise) podcasts are you listening to that you
> find enjoyable? *Don't hold back, I'm willing to try anything to mix
> up my current play list.*
> 
> Below are the podcasts I listen to on a regular basis:
> 
> FLOSS Weekly
> Perlcast (no longer releasing)
> Ruby on Rails Podcast
> MacBreak Weekly
> 37signals Podcast
> DH unplugged (financial)
> python411 (no longer releasing)
> 
> 
> and I'll occasionally listen to the following:
> 
> This week in google
> This Week in Tech
> Linux Outlaws
> IT Conversations

Some of the above and:

Security Now
Software Engineering Radio
Sword and Laser - (SciFi/Fantasy reviews and interviews)
Maxwell's House
This week in Science
Dr. Kiki's Science Hour

Shorter commute, so less time to listen.

G. Wade
-- 
The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do,
after all.                                             -- Larry Wall

From will.willis at gmail.com  Tue Apr  6 21:00:56 2010
From: will.willis at gmail.com (Will Willis)
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 23:00:56 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Can you recommend a good podcast?
In-Reply-To: <20100405221835.18e56442@sovvan>
References: <l2j6ee1e6091004051955n12a9ee0ex194932c0f4338744@mail.gmail.com>
	<20100405221835.18e56442@sovvan>
Message-ID: <t2x6ee1e6091004062100s5c7ef044w9fdcb12c89a167f8@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks Wade and Montgomery for the recommendations!

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:18 PM, G. Wade Johnson <gwadej at anomaly.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 21:55:17 -0500
> Will Willis <will.willis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Warning: Off-topic thread!
> >
> > I have a decent commute to work. I'll typically fill the time with a
> > podcast or two each day.
> >
> > What technical (or otherwise) podcasts are you listening to that you
> > find enjoyable? *Don't hold back, I'm willing to try anything to mix
> > up my current play list.*
> >
> > Below are the podcasts I listen to on a regular basis:
> >
> > FLOSS Weekly
> > Perlcast (no longer releasing)
> > Ruby on Rails Podcast
> > MacBreak Weekly
> > 37signals Podcast
> > DH unplugged (financial)
> > python411 (no longer releasing)
> >
> >
> > and I'll occasionally listen to the following:
> >
> > This week in google
> > This Week in Tech
> > Linux Outlaws
> > IT Conversations
>
> Some of the above and:
>
> Security Now
> Software Engineering Radio
> Sword and Laser - (SciFi/Fantasy reviews and interviews)
> Maxwell's House
> This week in Science
> Dr. Kiki's Science Hour
>
> Shorter commute, so less time to listen.
>
> G. Wade
> --
> The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do,
> after all.                                             -- Larry Wall
> _______________________________________________
> Houston mailing list
> Houston at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston
> Website: http://houston.pm.org/
>
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From mikeflan at att.net  Wed Apr  7 18:34:07 2010
From: mikeflan at att.net (Mike Flannigan)
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:34:07 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Next Meeting
In-Reply-To: <20100327001613.0a8f64b1@sovvan>
References: <20100327001613.0a8f64b1@sovvan>
Message-ID: <4BBD328F.1080705@att.net>


On 3/26/2010 11:16 PM, G. Wade Johnson wrote:
> Since there has not been a huge outcry about idea of the second Thursday
> of the month, we're going to try that for April.
>
> So, we will meet on Thursday, April 8 instead of Tuesday, April 13.
>
> We will still meet at the cPanel offices at 3131 W. Alabama St. We'll
> meet in the lobby area between 6:30 and 6:50, and start the meeting at
> 7pm.
>
> We have a number of possible topics, with some potential volunteers to
> present.
>
>   * Intro to Object Oriented Perl with Moose
>   * Getting stuff done with Perl One-Liners
>   * Intro to LWP and WWW::Mechanize for Web Automation
>   * Useful Core Perl modules
>   * Using CPAN to avoid writing code
>   * Perl Tips and Tricks
>
> Which of these topics is presented depends partly on who gets a
> presentation finished in time and which topics generate the most
> interest.
>
> There's not much time to let us know what you want to hear about, so
> vote now.
>
> G. Wade
>    


What is the meeting topic tomorrow?
I probably won't make it, but I'm considering it.

Sure sounds like good topics of discussion.


Mike Flannigan



From gwadej at anomaly.org  Wed Apr  7 20:03:58 2010
From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson)
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 22:03:58 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Next Meeting
In-Reply-To: <4BBD328F.1080705@att.net>
References: <20100327001613.0a8f64b1@sovvan>
	<4BBD328F.1080705@att.net>
Message-ID: <20100407220358.0b4a4d6b@sovvan>

On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:34:07 -0500
Mike Flannigan <mikeflan at att.net> wrote:

> 

[snip]

> What is the meeting topic tomorrow?
> I probably won't make it, but I'm considering it.
> 
> Sure sounds like good topics of discussion.

Introduction to Object Oriented Programming in Perl with Moose.

G. Wade
-- 
All things are possible, given enough time and caffeine.
                                                     -- Danny Hoover

From mikeflan at att.net  Thu Apr  8 16:08:50 2010
From: mikeflan at att.net (Mike Flannigan)
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:08:50 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Next Meeting
In-Reply-To: <20100407220358.0b4a4d6b@sovvan>
References: <20100327001613.0a8f64b1@sovvan>	<4BBD328F.1080705@att.net>
	<20100407220358.0b4a4d6b@sovvan>
Message-ID: <4BBE6202.2080008@att.net>


On 4/7/2010 10:03 PM, G. Wade Johnson wrote:
> Introduction to Object Oriented Programming in Perl with Moose.
>
> G. Wade
>    

That's the one I wanted to see,
but I won't be there tonight.


Mike


From gwadej at anomaly.org  Thu Apr  8 15:28:53 2010
From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:28:53 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Next Meeting
In-Reply-To: <4BBE6202.2080008@att.net>
References: <20100327001613.0a8f64b1@sovvan> <4BBD328F.1080705@att.net>
	<20100407220358.0b4a4d6b@sovvan> <4BBE6202.2080008@att.net>
Message-ID: <20100408172853.10340d61@sovvan>

On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:08:50 -0500
Mike Flannigan <mikeflan at att.net> wrote:

> 
> On 4/7/2010 10:03 PM, G. Wade Johnson wrote:
> > Introduction to Object Oriented Programming in Perl with Moose.
> >
> > G. Wade
> >    
> 
> That's the one I wanted to see,
> but I won't be there tonight.

Sorry to hear that.

Well, the presentation will be on-line later.

G. Wade
-- 
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters
will eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the
Internet, we know this is not true.          -- Robert Wilensky, UCB

From fluhmann at gmail.com  Sun Apr 11 07:19:34 2010
From: fluhmann at gmail.com (Jeremy Fluhmann)
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:19:34 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Can you recommend a good podcast?
In-Reply-To: <t2x6ee1e6091004062100s5c7ef044w9fdcb12c89a167f8@mail.gmail.com>
References: <l2j6ee1e6091004051955n12a9ee0ex194932c0f4338744@mail.gmail.com>
	<20100405221835.18e56442@sovvan>
	<t2x6ee1e6091004062100s5c7ef044w9fdcb12c89a167f8@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <o2n7f7c2d5e1004110719tdaccc840rb8e9549baf76cee1@mail.gmail.com>

Just to add (since I commute, as well ;-),
IT Management and Cloud Podcast (Michael Cote and John Willis)
PDX Perl Monthly Meetings
O'Reilly Week in Review
NPR: Technology Podcast

Cheers,
Jeremy
-- 

*http://twitter.com/jfluhmann*
*http://identi.ca/jfluhmann
Open Source Symposium - http://texasoss.org
Texas Linux Fest - http://www.texaslinuxfest.org
TCEA Strategic Open Source SIG - http://sos.tcea.org*




On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Will Willis <will.willis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Wade and Montgomery for the recommendations!
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:18 PM, G. Wade Johnson <gwadej at anomaly.org>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 21:55:17 -0500
>> Will Willis <will.willis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Warning: Off-topic thread!
>> >
>> > I have a decent commute to work. I'll typically fill the time with a
>> > podcast or two each day.
>> >
>> > What technical (or otherwise) podcasts are you listening to that you
>> > find enjoyable? *Don't hold back, I'm willing to try anything to mix
>> > up my current play list.*
>> >
>> > Below are the podcasts I listen to on a regular basis:
>> >
>> > FLOSS Weekly
>> > Perlcast (no longer releasing)
>> > Ruby on Rails Podcast
>> > MacBreak Weekly
>> > 37signals Podcast
>> > DH unplugged (financial)
>> > python411 (no longer releasing)
>> >
>> >
>> > and I'll occasionally listen to the following:
>> >
>> > This week in google
>> > This Week in Tech
>> > Linux Outlaws
>> > IT Conversations
>>
>> Some of the above and:
>>
>> Security Now
>> Software Engineering Radio
>> Sword and Laser - (SciFi/Fantasy reviews and interviews)
>> Maxwell's House
>> This week in Science
>> Dr. Kiki's Science Hour
>>
>> Shorter commute, so less time to listen.
>>
>> G. Wade
>> --
>> The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do,
>> after all.                                             -- Larry Wall
>> _______________________________________________
>> 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/
>
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From gwadej at anomaly.org  Mon Apr 12 05:12:31 2010
From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:12:31 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] April Meeting notes
Message-ID: <20100412071231.09eb7839@sovvan>

The April meeting notes are up on the houston.pm.org website.

Now, we need to find a topic for the May meeting. Before the last
meeting, I put up a list of ideas that had been suggested.

 * Getting stuff done with Perl One-Liners
 * Intro to LWP and WWW::Mechanize for Web Automation
 * Useful Core Perl modules
 * Using CPAN to avoid writing code
 * Perl Tips and Tricks

Additionally, I've had a few people asking about more introductory
talks.

What topics would be interesting to you?

G. Wade
-- 
No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical.
                                                       -- Neils Bohr

From toddr at null.net  Mon Apr 12 09:37:06 2010
From: toddr at null.net (Todd Rinaldo)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:37:06 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] The future of perl 5
Message-ID: <r2o748c25c21004120937mb2bbe2f3gd83496664b4e947a@mail.gmail.com>

Just before the April meeting, I was telling everyone about how new
versions of perl 5 were going to be more prolific in the future. The
link below outlines the current plan for perl releases. Basically
we'll get a non-maintenance upgrade of perl once per year going
forward.

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158635.html

From toddr at null.net  Mon Apr 12 11:12:40 2010
From: toddr at null.net (Todd Rinaldo)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:12:40 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] April Meeting notes
In-Reply-To: <20100412071231.09eb7839@sovvan>
References: <20100412071231.09eb7839@sovvan>
Message-ID: <q2s748c25c21004121112uf98b01a0h8080daa3acbeb691@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 7:12 AM, G. Wade Johnson <gwadej at anomaly.org> wrote:
> The April meeting notes are up on the houston.pm.org website.
>
> Now, we need to find a topic for the May meeting. Before the last
> meeting, I put up a list of ideas that had been suggested.
>
> ?* Getting stuff done with Perl One-Liners
> ?* Intro to LWP and WWW::Mechanize for Web Automation
> ?* Useful Core Perl modules
> ?* Using CPAN to avoid writing code
> ?* Perl Tips and Tricks
>
> Additionally, I've had a few people asking about more introductory
> talks.
>
> What topics would be interesting to you?
>

I'm putting together a summary of new features when moving from perl
5.8 to perl 5.12 I could probably present that as a talk if people are
interested.

Todd

From gwadej at anomaly.org  Sun Apr 18 14:11:49 2010
From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson)
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:11:49 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Fw: [pm_groups] Poll: What is the primary operating system
 you use for developing Perl applications?
Message-ID: <20100418161149.1970fa11@sovvan>

Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:46:47 +0300
From: Gabor Szabo <szabgab at gmail.com>
To: PM Groups <pm_groups at pm.org>
Subject: [pm_groups] Poll: What is the primary operating system you use
for developing Perl applications?

Please take the 5 sec to answer this question on the new poll I setup:

http://perlide.org/poll201004/

and send this request to the other people using Perl in your company.

thanks
? Gabor

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From mikeflan at att.net  Sat Apr 24 04:27:11 2010
From: mikeflan at att.net (Mike Flannigan)
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 06:27:11 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Fw: [pm_groups] Poll: What is the primary operating
 system you use for developing Perl applications?
In-Reply-To: <20100418161149.1970fa11@sovvan>
References: <20100418161149.1970fa11@sovvan>
Message-ID: <4BD2D58F.6070809@att.net>


On 4/18/2010 4:11 PM, G. Wade Johnson wrote:
> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:46:47 +0300
> From: Gabor Szabo<szabgab at gmail.com>
> To: PM Groups<pm_groups at pm.org>
> Subject: [pm_groups] Poll: What is the primary operating system you use
> for developing Perl applications?
>
> Please take the 5 sec to answer this question on the new poll I setup:
>
> http://perlide.org/poll201004/
>
>    

I did not vote, but interestingly I fall in the 0%
category since I use Win2000.

I'm still going to make that move to Linux, but
it hasn't worked out for me yet.


Mike


From toddr at null.net  Sat Apr 24 08:15:17 2010
From: toddr at null.net (Todd Rinaldo)
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:15:17 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Fw: [pm_groups] Poll: What is the primary operating
	system you use for developing Perl applications?
In-Reply-To: <4BD2D58F.6070809@att.net>
References: <20100418161149.1970fa11@sovvan> <4BD2D58F.6070809@att.net>
Message-ID: <y2n748c25c21004240815hd5a80c24s8f6c02bcc17c9fa9@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Mike Flannigan <mikeflan at att.net> wrote:
>
> I did not vote, but interestingly I fall in the 0%
> category since I use Win2000.
>
> I'm still going to make that move to Linux, but
> it hasn't worked out for me yet.
>

I found that moving to OSX rather than a Linux distro quenched my UNIX
thirst sufficiently, while cushioning my shock from: "What do you mean
XXX isn't available on Linux???"

From gwadej at anomaly.org  Sat Apr 24 13:22:40 2010
From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson)
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:22:40 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Fw: [pm_groups] Poll: What is the primary operating
 system you use for developing Perl applications?
In-Reply-To: <y2n748c25c21004240815hd5a80c24s8f6c02bcc17c9fa9@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20100418161149.1970fa11@sovvan> <4BD2D58F.6070809@att.net>
	<y2n748c25c21004240815hd5a80c24s8f6c02bcc17c9fa9@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20100424152240.36742e75@sovvan>

On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:15:17 -0500
Todd Rinaldo <toddr at null.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Mike Flannigan <mikeflan at att.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > I did not vote, but interestingly I fall in the 0%
> > category since I use Win2000.
> >
> > I'm still going to make that move to Linux, but
> > it hasn't worked out for me yet.
> >
> 
> I found that moving to OSX rather than a Linux distro quenched my UNIX
> thirst sufficiently, while cushioning my shock from: "What do you mean
> XXX isn't available on Linux???"

Yeah. But then you have to live with the whole Mac-thing.<grin/>

In all honesty, my move off Windows was accomplished despite not being
able to find several things in the Linux environment. Shortly after I
changed over, I found equivalents for everything I needed.

G. Wade
-- 
Never express yourself more clearly than you think.    -- Niels Bohr

From gwadej at anomaly.org  Mon Apr 26 20:07:01 2010
From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson)
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:07:01 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] May meeting
Message-ID: <20100426220701.6e966244@sovvan>

There has not been much discussion on the list about the next meeting
topic, so I wanted to remind everyone that the next meeting is in a
little over two weeks (Thurs, May 13).

We've had suggestions for topics like

 * Getting stuff done with Perl One-Liners
 * Intro to LWP and WWW::Mechanize for Web Automation
 * Useful Core Perl modules
 * Using CPAN to avoid writing code
 * Perl Tips and Tricks
 * New Perl features since Perl 5.8

At the last meeting, a few people also asked about more introductory
Perl presentations.

If you have a particular interest (or would like to present), email the
list.

G. Wade
-- 
As a software development model, Anarchy does not scale well.
                                                       -- Dave Welch

From andy at petdance.com  Mon Apr 26 23:07:32 2010
From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester)
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:07:32 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] May meeting
In-Reply-To: <20100426220701.6e966244@sovvan>
References: <20100426220701.6e966244@sovvan>
Message-ID: <7D14CF98-5501-451E-80A4-FF1CD362FBA1@petdance.com>


On Apr 26, 2010, at 10:07 PM, G. Wade Johnson wrote:

> * Getting stuff done with Perl One-Liners

Here's something that might get someone started: http://petdance.com/perl/command-line-options.pdf


> * Intro to LWP and WWW::Mechanize for Web Automation

I'd love to see this, especially something I could include or at least point at from the WWW::Mechanize documentation.

> * New Perl features since Perl 5.8

I'll be giving this at the June Chicago Uniforum meeting.

xoxo,
Andy

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