From mrallen1 at yahoo.com  Thu May  2 07:40:49 2013
From: mrallen1 at yahoo.com (Mark Allen)
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 07:40:49 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [pm-h] Houston.pm May Social Meeting with Schwern
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I'll be there.

Mark

________________________________
 From: G. Wade Johnson <gwadej at anomaly.org>
To: Houston Perl Mongers <houston at pm.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 7:43 PM
Subject: [pm-h] Houston.pm May Social Meeting with Schwern
 

Apologies for the last minute notice.

Schwern is in town, so we'll have our May meeting early. A social
meeting at Big Woodrow's at 3111 Chimney Rock Rd. Come join us this
Thursday (May 2) after 6:30pm for food, drinks, and conversation with
Schwern. We will have a reservation under the name Wade Johnson.

We look forward to seeing you there.
G. Wade
-- 
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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by
definition, not smart enough to debug it.? ?  -- Brian W. Kernighan
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From todd at rinaldo.us  Fri May  3 21:23:25 2013
From: todd at rinaldo.us (Todd Rinaldo)
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 23:23:25 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Houston.pm May Social Meeting with Schwern
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An important follow up from the GTG this week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BBhNkywMJY


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Mark Allen <mrallen1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'll be there.
>
> Mark
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* G. Wade Johnson <gwadej at anomaly.org>
> *To:* Houston Perl Mongers <houston at pm.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 30, 2013 7:43 PM
> *Subject:* [pm-h] Houston.pm May Social Meeting with Schwern
>
> Apologies for the last minute notice.
>
> Schwern is in town, so we'll have our May meeting early. A social
> meeting at Big Woodrow's at 3111 Chimney Rock Rd. Come join us this
> Thursday (May 2) after 6:30pm for food, drinks, and conversation with
> Schwern. We will have a reservation under the name Wade Johnson.
>
> We look forward to seeing you there.
> G. Wade
> --
> Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by
> definition, not smart enough to debug it.    -- Brian W. Kernighan
> _______________________________________________
> Houston mailing list
> Houston at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston
> Website: http://houston.pm.org/
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Website: http://houston.pm.org/
>



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From zaki.mughal at gmail.com  Wed May  8 19:58:54 2013
From: zaki.mughal at gmail.com (Zakariyya Mughal)
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 21:58:54 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Local hackathon
Message-ID: <20130509025854.GA24033@simulo>

Good evening everyone,

I am going to be attending the "City of Houston Open Innovation
Hackathon" happening over the weekend of Friday May 17th. The focus is
on tools that use data from the City of Houston. I thought that getting
some more Perl coding done out in the open would make for great
outreach. :-)

Sample projects: <https://houstonhackathon.eventbrite.com/>

Registration page: <http://houstonhackathon.com/sample.html>

Cheers,
- Zaki Mughal

From mikeflan at att.net  Sun May 12 18:44:24 2013
From: mikeflan at att.net (Mike Flannigan)
Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 20:44:24 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Local hackathon
In-Reply-To: <20130509025854.GA24033@simulo>
References: <20130509025854.GA24033@simulo>
Message-ID: <51904578.2050905@att.net>


On 5/8/2013 9:58 PM, Zakariyya Mughal wrote:
> Good evening everyone,
>
> I am going to be attending the "City of Houston Open Innovation
> Hackathon" happening over the weekend of Friday May 17th. The focus is
> on tools that use data from the City of Houston. I thought that getting
> some more Perl coding done out in the open would make for great
> outreach. :-)
>
> Sample projects: <https://houstonhackathon.eventbrite.com/>
>
> Registration page: <http://houstonhackathon.com/sample.html>
>
> Cheers,
> - Zaki Mughal
>


Sounds very interesting, but I can't do it.
I wish I could.


Mike Flannigan



From gwadej at anomaly.org  Mon May 13 07:41:30 2013
From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson)
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 09:41:30 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Fw: UG News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly
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From rurban at x-ray.at  Mon May 13 08:53:14 2013
From: rurban at x-ray.at (Reini Urban)
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 10:53:14 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Local hackathon
In-Reply-To: <20130509025854.GA24033@simulo>
References: <20130509025854.GA24033@simulo>
Message-ID: <CAHiT=DEGmw9UOM6Jw9Zu3wWyjEJTL-dyq_25NMhmd9f2ppO27w@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks for the pointer, looks interesting. Mapping was always one of
my favorites.

I don't dig flash (haxe maybe, but no time to learn), but I'm looking
in the new pure
javascript svg and shape viewers to be able come up with something.
Google maps is cool, but probably too much vendor lockin.

It would be awesome to help Houston becoming an attractive town - as
San Antonio e.g. did a 80 years ago under Hugman.

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Zakariyya Mughal <zaki.mughal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Good evening everyone,
>
> I am going to be attending the "City of Houston Open Innovation
> Hackathon" happening over the weekend of Friday May 17th. The focus is
> on tools that use data from the City of Houston. I thought that getting
> some more Perl coding done out in the open would make for great
> outreach. :-)
>
> Sample projects: <https://houstonhackathon.eventbrite.com/>
>
> Registration page: <http://houstonhackathon.com/sample.html>
>
> Cheers,
> - Zaki Mughal
> _______________________________________________
> Houston mailing list
> Houston at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston
> Website: http://houston.pm.org/



-- 
Reini Urban
http://cpanel.net/   http://www.perl-compiler.org/

From zaki.mughal at gmail.com  Mon May 13 09:49:06 2013
From: zaki.mughal at gmail.com (Zakariyya Mughal)
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 11:49:06 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Local hackathon
In-Reply-To: <CAHiT=DEGmw9UOM6Jw9Zu3wWyjEJTL-dyq_25NMhmd9f2ppO27w@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20130509025854.GA24033@simulo>
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Message-ID: <20130513164906.GA9767@simulo>

On 2013-05-13 at 10:53:14 -0500, Reini Urban wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer, looks interesting. Mapping was always one of
> my favorites.
> 
> I don't dig flash (haxe maybe, but no time to learn), but I'm looking
> in the new pure
> javascript svg and shape viewers to be able come up with something.
> Google maps is cool, but probably too much vendor lockin.

I've actually played a little with LeafletJS <http://leafletjs.com/>.
It's open source and allows for many providers in addition to
OpenStreetMap (Google, Yandex, Bing <https://github.com/shramov/leaflet-plugins>).

Cheers,
- Zaki Mughal

> 
> It would be awesome to help Houston becoming an attractive town - as
> San Antonio e.g. did a 80 years ago under Hugman.
> 
> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Zakariyya Mughal <zaki.mughal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Good evening everyone,
> >
> > I am going to be attending the "City of Houston Open Innovation
> > Hackathon" happening over the weekend of Friday May 17th. The focus is
> > on tools that use data from the City of Houston. I thought that getting
> > some more Perl coding done out in the open would make for great
> > outreach. :-)
> >
> > Sample projects: <https://houstonhackathon.eventbrite.com/>
> >
> > Registration page: <http://houstonhackathon.com/sample.html>
> >
> > Cheers,
> > - Zaki Mughal
> > _______________________________________________
> > Houston mailing list
> > Houston at pm.org
> > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston
> > Website: http://houston.pm.org/
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Reini Urban
> http://cpanel.net/   http://www.perl-compiler.org/

From gwadej at anomaly.org  Thu May 16 13:54:26 2013
From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 15:54:26 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Ideas for June Meeting
Message-ID: <20130516155426.3c73c2f2@cygnus>

Our next meeting is June 13. Does anyone have any ideas for a meeting
topic?

G. Wade
-- 
Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked
something.

From reini.urban at gmail.com  Thu May 16 13:55:54 2013
From: reini.urban at gmail.com (Reini Urban)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 15:55:54 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Ideas for June Meeting
In-Reply-To: <20130516155426.3c73c2f2@cygnus>
References: <20130516155426.3c73c2f2@cygnus>
Message-ID: <EAFB82B5-8410-4F94-84EB-69A7DB0DC870@gmail.com>

On May 16, 2013, at 3:54 PM, "G. Wade Johnson" <gwadej at anomaly.org> wrote:

> Our next meeting is June 13. Does anyone have any ideas for a meeting
> topic?

I could present p2, the design and vm of a next generation perl (11 = 5+6)


From todd at rinaldo.us  Thu May 16 19:45:22 2013
From: todd at rinaldo.us (Todd Rinaldo)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 21:45:22 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Ideas for June Meeting
In-Reply-To: <EAFB82B5-8410-4F94-84EB-69A7DB0DC870@gmail.com>
References: <20130516155426.3c73c2f2@cygnus>
	<EAFB82B5-8410-4F94-84EB-69A7DB0DC870@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAG8vyGEXJp_v_g1N+DaCLJqpMSn4MDHUFWtXE0rhMgM4XG-csA@mail.gmail.com>

Sounds like a good plan to me.


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Reini Urban <reini.urban at gmail.com> wrote:

> On May 16, 2013, at 3:54 PM, "G. Wade Johnson" <gwadej at anomaly.org> wrote:
>
> > Our next meeting is June 13. Does anyone have any ideas for a meeting
> > topic?
>
> I could present p2, the design and vm of a next generation perl (11 = 5+6)
>
> _______________________________________________
> 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  Sun May 19 16:51:14 2013
From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson)
Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 18:51:14 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Fw: UG News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly
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From gwadej at anomaly.org  Tue May 21 20:17:29 2013
From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson)
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 22:17:29 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Ideas for June Meeting
In-Reply-To: <EAFB82B5-8410-4F94-84EB-69A7DB0DC870@gmail.com>
References: <20130516155426.3c73c2f2@cygnus>
	<EAFB82B5-8410-4F94-84EB-69A7DB0DC870@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20130521221729.216b0cdd@cygnus>

On Thu, 16 May 2013 15:55:54 -0500
Reini Urban <reini.urban at gmail.com> wrote:

> On May 16, 2013, at 3:54 PM, "G. Wade Johnson" <gwadej at anomaly.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > Our next meeting is June 13. Does anyone have any ideas for a
> > meeting topic?
> 
> I could present p2, the design and vm of a next generation perl (11 =
> 5+6)

Sounds like we have a topic.

Send me a title for the presentation and I'll announce it in the
appropriate locations.

Thanks,
G. Wade
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judge of distance.                             -- Laurence J. Peter

From gwadej at anomaly.org  Sat May 25 21:48:41 2013
From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson)
Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 23:48:41 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Fw: UG News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly
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From gwadej at anomaly.org  Sun May 26 12:53:01 2013
From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson)
Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 14:53:01 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] June Houston.pm Meeting: p2: The Design and VM of a Next
 Generation Perl (11 = 5+6)
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Our next technical meeting is back on our regular schedule of the
second Thursday of the month. We'll meet at 3131 W. Alabama on
Thursday, June 13, between 6:30pm and 7pm in the lobby. As usual, we'll
go up the the conference room around 7pm.

Reini Urban will present his work on a next generation version of Perl.

Some are concerned with the recent direction of Perl, with Perl 5
holding back from new features in the name of backwards compatibility,
and Perl 6 continuing in a long-term research and development mode. P2
is one of the attempts to build a Perl 11 (5+6) that combines the best
of both.

This is one of several recent projects that aim to go back to one of
the original goals of the Perl 6 project: clean up the code base to
simplify maintenance and the ability to add new features. The P2
project is also working on a new VM, which could improve
interoperability.

I hope to see you there.
G. Wade
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