From davidnicol at gmail.com Wed Nov 4 11:21:17 2009 From: davidnicol at gmail.com (David Nicol) Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:21:17 -0600 Subject: [Kc] O'Reilly imitates StackOverflow, apparently Message-ID: <934f64a20911041121n4352e8ecp1b4ed1121eadf807@mail.gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marsee Henon Date: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:07 AM Subject: Announcing O'Reilly Answers - A useful site that's, well, a different kind of animal To: kcpm-moderate at davidnicol.com If you would like to view this information in your browser, click here . [image: O'Reilly] Forward this announcement Hi, Can you share this announcement with anyone you think will be interested? Thanks! Announcing O'Reilly Answers A useful site that's, well, a different kind of animal We're launching the beta of O'Reilly Answers, and I'm inviting you to be part of it. 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O'Reilly Media, Inc. 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472 (707) 827-7000 -- warlorded myself -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mikedshelton at hotmail.com Wed Nov 4 12:00:57 2009 From: mikedshelton at hotmail.com (mikedshelton at hotmail.com) Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:00:57 -0800 Subject: [Kc] Vacation reply In-Reply-To: Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From popefelix at gmail.com Fri Nov 6 07:59:25 2009 From: popefelix at gmail.com (Kit Peters) Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:59:25 -0600 Subject: [Kc] Contract opportunity Message-ID: I'd go after this myself, but I'm already booked on a short-term contract. Here's the description from Power I.T. (the recruiting agency): Basically creating scripts to help a client pull disparate data into a time series (as opposed to relational) database and then creating a GUI frontend for the database so traders can access the information. This will probably be a 6-8 wk project with a rate of around 40-45/hr. Telecommuting is available after the initial requirements gathering is done. -Database-time series background -Creation of simple statistics-maybe they have a minor in Stats or some kind of background-know what Standard deviation is?. -Create scripts to upload CSV and other sources of various formats into Database -Creation of webased front end for traders to interact with data. (collect information on weather and add to the database in perl, mysql, whatever the front end app) KP -- GPG public key fingerpint: 1A12 04B6 0C80 306A B292 14FD 2C7A 1037 F666 46A7 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amoore at mooresystems.com Mon Nov 9 15:11:36 2009 From: amoore at mooresystems.com (Andrew Moore) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 17:11:36 -0600 Subject: [Kc] November meeting tomorrow night Message-ID: <6c70d2980911091511q2105a69ged9f74a4d46629d9@mail.gmail.com> Hi KC.PMers - Our regularly scheduled November meeting has snuck up on me. It's scheduled for tomorrow night at 7pm at Barley's in Shawnee. Is anyone interested in getting together? -Andy From mikedshelton at hotmail.com Tue Nov 10 12:01:39 2009 From: mikedshelton at hotmail.com (mikedshelton at hotmail.com) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:01:39 -0800 Subject: [Kc] Vacation reply In-Reply-To: Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amoore at mooresystems.com Tue Nov 10 12:13:54 2009 From: amoore at mooresystems.com (Andrew Moore) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:13:54 -0600 Subject: [Kc] November meeting tomorrow night is CANCELLED Message-ID: <6c70d2980911101213y615f051cxf7fab708a36830dc@mail.gmail.com> I've only had one response, and he was expecting to be late, so let's cancel this month's meeting. Traditionally, we do not meet in December because everyone is so busy anyway, so let's plan on getting together in 2010. I'll try to come up with something interesting to kick off the new year, but suggestions are always encouraged. -A On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Andrew Moore wrote: > Hi KC.PMers - > > Our regularly scheduled November meeting has snuck up on me. It's > scheduled for tomorrow night at 7pm at Barley's in Shawnee. > > Is anyone interested in getting together? > > -Andy > From davidnicol at gmail.com Fri Nov 13 12:22:35 2009 From: davidnicol at gmail.com (David Nicol) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:22:35 -0600 Subject: [Kc] why "mongers?" Message-ID: <934f64a20911131222r36d80d40tdfd9dc9267aa04b3@mail.gmail.com> Apparently an ironmonger is, historicly, a blacksmith. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ironmongers -- "In the case of an infinite collection, the question of the existence of a choice function is problematic" From don.ellis at gmail.com Fri Nov 13 13:37:04 2009 From: don.ellis at gmail.com (Don Ellis) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:37:04 -0600 Subject: [Kc] why "mongers?" In-Reply-To: <934f64a20911131222r36d80d40tdfd9dc9267aa04b3@mail.gmail.com> References: <934f64a20911131222r36d80d40tdfd9dc9267aa04b3@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: This came up in St. Louis a couple of years ago (on perl discuss forum), but no one mentioned this origin. See also "warmonger", "peacemonger" (clearly derived from ironmonger). I was aware of this origin, but never got around to mentioning it. --Don Ellis [How I wish the reply-to tag could be fixed to reply to kcpm at mail.pm.orginstead of to the originator.] On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:22 PM, David Nicol wrote: > Apparently an ironmonger is, historicly, a blacksmith. > > http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ironmongers > > -- > "In the case of an infinite collection, the question of the existence > of a choice function is problematic" > _______________________________________________ > kc mailing list > kc at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jay at jays.net Fri Nov 13 16:31:56 2009 From: jay at jays.net (Jay Hannah) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:31:56 -0600 Subject: [Kc] why "mongers?" In-Reply-To: References: <934f64a20911131222r36d80d40tdfd9dc9267aa04b3@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <821A2239-5203-4475-A389-BD4DBE5567D4@jays.net> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/1999/01/foy.html Perl Monger started as a play on PM. The initial New York user group was called NY.pm to make is look like a module, especially since "use NYpm" could be a phone number (although 212-use-NYpm) was taken. We figured P stood for Perl, but we couldn't figure out M, so we made it a regular expression: /M((o|u)ngers|aniacs)*/. Unfortunately, the State of New York wouldn't accept a regex as a corporation name, and "Monger" seemed to fit the Bedouin motif that has grown up around Perl, so it became the part of the name of the corporation. The term "Perl monger" is also loosely used to described any Perl hacker, evangelist, or missionary. My dictionary describes a monger as "a dealer in a specific commodity". That certainly seems like what we are. --- I don't know if I can stick that on the www.pm.org FAQ or not. Copyright? -ponder- j From enobacon at gmail.com Fri Nov 13 17:36:26 2009 From: enobacon at gmail.com (Eric Wilhelm) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:36:26 -0800 Subject: [Kc] why "mongers?" In-Reply-To: <821A2239-5203-4475-A389-BD4DBE5567D4@jays.net> References: <934f64a20911131222r36d80d40tdfd9dc9267aa04b3@mail.gmail.com> <821A2239-5203-4475-A389-BD4DBE5567D4@jays.net> Message-ID: <200911131736.26682.enobacon@gmail.com> # from Jay Hannah # on Friday 13 November 2009 16:31: >The term "Perl monger" is also loosely used to described any Perl ? >hacker, evangelist, or missionary. My dictionary describes a monger as > ? "a dealer in a specific commodity". That certainly seems like what > we are. Yes, also: fishmonger. A monger is not necessarily a maker, but certainly a merchant/dealer/purveyor. --Eric -- "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." --Albert Einstein --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com --------------------------------------------------- From davidnicol at gmail.com Sat Nov 21 20:10:12 2009 From: davidnicol at gmail.com (David Nicol) Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:10:12 -0600 Subject: [Kc] structured procrastination with Net::Twitter::Lite Message-ID: <934f64a20911212010w5b0efba6k563923051650274f@mail.gmail.com> anyone else using Net::Twitter? I have just succeeded in engineering @HankSwap's robots to my satisfaction, including autofollow and a periodic keyword-search-and-follow and periodic unfollow of those followed who do not return follow. I'm not really certain what the time frames for these things should be, nor what the limits on automatic following based on automated search should be, and as I understand it nobody else is either, yet. Specifically, once my robot ("dieselshovel.pl") has unfollowed a twitter account that did not return follow, that account ID will not be followed again even if it re-appears in the search results, to not be an annoyance: my question is, how long should these don't-follow listings be maintained? Currently I'm not clearing them. A year? -- "In the case of an infinite collection, the question of the existence of a choice function is problematic" From amoore at mooresystems.com Sun Nov 22 07:12:25 2009 From: amoore at mooresystems.com (Andrew Moore) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:12:25 -0600 Subject: [Kc] [pm_groups] ISO location for perl/data center In-Reply-To: <876393t1mt.fsf@quad.sysarch.com> References: <876393t1mt.fsf@quad.sysarch.com> Message-ID: <6c70d2980911220712k1335dc0bge27117ef79774958@mail.gmail.com> Hi Uri - I'd like to recommend the Kansas City area. Here are just a few of the reasons that the Kansas City area is a good place for this type of business: * We have a small, but active perl community with a regularly meeting PM group. There are a handful of companies around town that use perl at some level or another, and we always seem to be able to hire qualified perl hackers. Sprint tends to bring people to town, train them, and then lay them off. Other business pick up their engineers on the cheap. * Kansas City has good network connectivity to the rest of the country due to being located near the geographic center of the country and due to the fiber that has historically been laid along the railroad lines running through town. Heck, that was enough to convince Sprint to locate themselves here. * We're pretty much impervious to the types of natural disasters that affect data centers. We don't get hurricanes, typhoons, brownouts, earthquakes, or even noreasters. The occasional tornado is pretty much ineffective against modern data center construction, especially if located in the city where the heat island keeps them out. And if you're really nuts about protection from the natural elements, we have a huge cave industry here where tons of business is done in the KC underground. * Gas, rent, food, and other aspects of the cost of living are cheap here. Salaries, too. If you would like to hear more about the perl community in the Kansas City area, or about the benefits of locating a business here, please don't hesitate to contact me or the KC perl mongers . Good luck with your search! Andrew Moore On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Uri Guttman wrote: > > please forward this to your local list if you deem it appropriate. > > hello mongers, > > i have a client who has asked me an interesting question. they are in > the discussion phase of opening a second data center for their hosting > business. they are would like it to be west of the mississippi in the US > but not california (too expensive) and east of there may work too. they > are seeking a location where they could hire a small (maybe 3-6) staff > of perl developers, but the number could grow over time. i am helping > them with this search which is why i am bringing it to the pm > groups. email me back if you think your area is a good fit for their > needs. it should have an active perl community with hackers seeking work > and decent rent and expenses for a data center. i already mentioned > portland OR and boston. another area that works is seattle. what about > your monger group's location? email me at uri at perlhunter.com with info > about your perl monger group and such. > > thanx, > > uri > > -- > Uri Guttman ?------ ?uri at stemsystems.com ?-------- ?http://www.sysarch.com -- > ----- ?Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support ------ > --------- ?Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix ?---- ?http://bestfriendscocoa.com --------- > -- > 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 > From mikedshelton at hotmail.com Sun Nov 22 12:01:17 2009 From: mikedshelton at hotmail.com (mikedshelton at hotmail.com) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:01:17 -0800 Subject: [Kc] Vacation reply In-Reply-To: Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ivantis at ivantis.net Sun Nov 22 12:12:24 2009 From: ivantis at ivantis.net (Ivan Greene) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:12:24 -0600 Subject: [Kc] Vacation Reply Message-ID: Who administrates this mail list? mikedshelton at hotmail.com keeps sending spam emails, I think it is infected with something. Maybe they should be removed or warned? --Ivan From amoore at mooresystems.com Sun Nov 22 14:20:09 2009 From: amoore at mooresystems.com (Andrew Moore) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:20:09 -0600 Subject: [Kc] Vacation Reply In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6c70d2980911221420w34be8f1nb1c3cbf8d50a1e40@mail.gmail.com> weird. I hadn't noticed. I don't have administrator access to the list, but I think David does. David? Sorry for the troubles! -A On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Ivan Greene wrote: > Who administrates this mail list? mikedshelton at hotmail.com keeps sending spam emails, I think it is infected with something. Maybe they should be removed or warned? > > --Ivan > > _______________________________________________ > kc mailing list > kc at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc > From amoore at mooresystems.com Mon Nov 23 12:26:17 2009 From: amoore at mooresystems.com (Andrew Moore) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:26:17 -0600 Subject: [Kc] Vacation Reply In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6c70d2980911231226p47377bcclf4b931cd147d7ce1@mail.gmail.com> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Ivan Greene wrote: > Who administrates this mail list? mikedshelton at hotmail.com keeps sending spam emails, I think it is infected with something. Maybe they should be removed or warned? Thanks, Ivan. I've unsubscribed him. It looks like the spams were being filtered on their way into my inbox, so I had not noticed them. Please don't hesitate to point out similar problems in the future. -Andy From davidnicol at gmail.com Wed Nov 25 11:23:29 2009 From: davidnicol at gmail.com (David Nicol) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:23:29 -0600 Subject: [Kc] fun regex particle Message-ID: <934f64a20911251123v72694047v4bbf5b3a4f1f3450@mail.gmail.com> Quiz: what does this do, and can the letters be rearranged for more fun? ([DOFJAM][youngerblatvcop]{2}) -- "In the case of an infinite collection, the question of the existence of a choice function is problematic" From ivantis at ivantis.net Wed Nov 25 12:58:21 2009 From: ivantis at ivantis.net (Ivan Greene) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:58:21 -0600 Subject: [Kc] fun regex particle Message-ID: Match some choice 3 letter words that start with D, O, F, J, A or M? "David Nicol" wrote: >Quiz: what does this do, and can the letters be rearranged for more fun? > >([DOFJAM][youngerblatvcop]{2}) > > > >-- >"In the case of an infinite collection, the question of the existence >of a choice function is problematic" >_______________________________________________ >kc mailing list >kc at pm.org >http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc > From davidnicol at gmail.com Wed Nov 25 13:49:40 2009 From: davidnicol at gmail.com (David Nicol) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:49:40 -0600 Subject: [Kc] fun regex particle In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <934f64a20911251349q328ca3b7mb44b59d4e1285ca9@mail.gmail.com> I stupidly left out N and S from the capital list ([JSNODFAM][vctyoungerblap]{2}) On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Ivan Greene wrote: > Match some choice 3 letter words that start with D, O, F, J, A or M? > > "David Nicol" wrote: > >>Quiz: what does this do, and can the letters be rearranged for more fun? From ironicface at earthlink.net Wed Nov 25 13:50:22 2009 From: ironicface at earthlink.net (ironicface at earthlink.net) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:50:22 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Kc] fun regex particle Message-ID: <7835603.1259185822586.JavaMail.root@elwamui-rubis.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Which, oddly, makes it match the 3 letter month abbreviations for every month except September and November. (Missing Leading caps.) What else does it do? >Match some choice 3 letter words that start with D, O, F, J, A or M? > >"David Nicol" wrote: > >>Quiz: what does this do, and can the letters be rearranged for more fun? >> >>([DOFJAM][youngerblatvcop]{2}) >> >> >> >>-- >>"In the case of an infinite collection, the question of the existence >>of a choice function is problematic" >>_______________________________________________ >>kc mailing list >>kc at pm.org >>http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc >> From djgoku at gmail.com Thu Nov 26 11:25:51 2009 From: djgoku at gmail.com (Jonathan Otsuka) Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:25:51 -0600 Subject: [Kc] Google Wave Invites Message-ID: <6FBA21A0-D0D5-4A5E-B026-8C5C08189B87@gmail.com> If anyone would and invite let me know. There is some on going ideas/modules (prime number, and md5) with people on #perl6 freenode. Jonathan