[Kc] Last nights meeting

Garrett Goebel garrett at scriptpro.com
Wed Feb 11 14:07:34 CST 2004


In attendance were: CJ, Jared, Teal, Stephen Clouse, Garrett Goebel, and
Michael Morgan. Also joining us as honorary mongers were 2 of Jared's well
behaved kids: Iasaiah and Amariah(sp?). Seriously... they do exist: happy
well-behaved kids. Though they did have a slight tendency to wander off when
I wasn't giving them key or doing slight of hand tricks.

CJ brought up the topic of the variable quality of debugging info output by
perl interpreters varying in version and/or operating system. It seems that
some strides in better reporting of missing closing braces and semicolons
have been made in the 5.8.x branch.

Michael shared his laptop running Perl 5.6.1 on Mac OS X. And worked through
a couple glitches editing and executing perl scripts from within editors, a
shell, and as Apache cgi scripts.

Stephen showed us a brand spanking new Dell P4 laptop with RedHat Enterprise
3 and loads of memory and drive capacity. Stephen has been promising to show
us many interesting things if only he could get his hands on a laptop to
present them.

Jared brought along some interesting papers he written describing his
thought on implementing Credibility Servers using ternary logic. This
sparked various threads relating to ternary application of RPG rules,
filtration, moderation, reputation, and trust metrics on community forums
like Advagoto and Slashdot.

I think I'll volunteer Stephen and Jared for future presentations...

And before I forget. I promised to post links to:

Advogato's trust metrics
http://www.advogato.org/trust-metric.html

Search Engine technologies:
  latent semantic indexing
  http://javelina.cet.middlebury.edu/lsa/out/lsa_definition.htm
  http://search.cpan.org/~mceglows/Search-VectorSpace-0.02/

  contextual network graphs
  http://javelina.cet.middlebury.edu/cns/Contextual_Network_Graphs.pdf
  http://search.cpan.org/~mceglows/Search-ContextGraph-0.07/

  inverted index (the common roll-your-own method)
  http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/09/25/searching.html
  http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/code/97/16/index2a.html  


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Garrett Goebel
IS Development Specialist 

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