From rdice at pobox.com Tue Jul 1 07:06:02 2008 From: rdice at pobox.com (Richard Dice) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:06:02 -0400 Subject: [kw-pm] A reminder - Damian Conway to speak in Toronto Wednesday July 16th (evening); talk and venue details here Message-ID: <5bef4baf0807010706r2545c00drbb1813bc9ddb3b4e@mail.gmail.com> Hi everyone, We're getting close to the event, so here's a reminder - The evening of Wed 16 July 2008, Damian Conway, Perl expert extraordinaire, Open Source luminary, and long-time friend of the Toronto Perl Mongers, will deliver -- free and to the public -- one of his signature tour-de-force completely insane talks that is 1/3 high-end IT, 1/3 showmanship and 1/3 peyote-fuelled hallucination. Here are the details: Talk: "Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming in Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces... Made Easy" This will be the world premiere of the talk. Date: Wednesday 16 July 2008 Time: 6:30pm - 9pm Location: Bahen Centre for Information Technology, University of Toronto 40 St. George Street (w. side of street, just north of College Ave. Room # BA 1160 http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=+40+St.+George+Street,+Toronto&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=37.052328,95.009766&ie=UTF8&ll=43.659986,-79.396745&spn=0.004137,0.011598&z=17&iwloc=addr As I have done the past 4 times Damian has come to Toronto to give talks I will take up a collection. This is to help defray expenses and to provide Damian with an honorarium for the talk. Donations are completely voluntary. If you feel motivated and/or in the right place financially to make a donation please get in touch with me or visit the Paypal links at http://hew.ca/. The Toronto Perl Mongers and the other groups who have attended Damian's talks have always been incredibly generous in supporting Damian whenever he has visited in the past and both he and I thank everyone for all the support he has received over the years. FWIW, I have Facebook and Upcoming events for this set up now too -- http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=22670172852&ref=mf and http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/818803/ Cheers, - Richard PS For those of you who don't know Damian, here is some background info on him. He's _not_ just a Perl hacker. If you're into IT in any way, shape or form prepare to have your mind blown... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Conway http://damian.conway.org/About_us//Bio_formal.html http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=damian+conway&type=1 -- I like the "... is my personal savior" one http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/speaker/4710 -- we are getting his OSCON 2008 keynote delivered here first! http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail880.html -- to hear one of his previous OSCON keynote talks (although this talk, as is the case with all his talks, is really enhanced by the slideshow that goes along with it) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From daniel at coder.com Thu Jul 10 08:43:19 2008 From: daniel at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:43:19 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [kw-pm] Upcoming talks Message-ID: We're moving our regular meeting to one week later, in order that those of us who are interested can go to this talk: Thursday, July 17, 2008- Free public lecture at the University of Waterloo: Breaking High-Grade German Cyphers in World War II, by Peter Hilton, cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park. 7:00 p.m., Humanities Theatre. And our regular kw.pm meeting is a week later: Thursday, July 24, 2008- fishbot will talk on Threading in Perl: Synchronization Primatives, and Building a Message Passing Architecture (which he says will be a basic talk. ...Or at least for fish, a basic talk; it may leave me in the dust on slide 3, but I'm looking forward to it anyway.) From rdice at pobox.com Thu Jul 10 08:53:18 2008 From: rdice at pobox.com (Richard Dice) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:53:18 -0400 Subject: [kw-pm] Upcoming talks In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5bef4baf0807100853t42291c80od38c5747443b8c6f@mail.gmail.com> Hi Daniel & KW.pm, Don't forget about Damian Conway presenting in Toronto on July 16th too! http://to.pm.org/#2008-07 Cheers, - Richard On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Daniel R. Allen wrote: > We're moving our regular meeting to one week later, in order that those of > us who are interested can go to this talk: > > Thursday, July 17, 2008- > Free public lecture at the University of Waterloo: > Breaking High-Grade German Cyphers in World War II, by Peter Hilton, > cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park. 7:00 p.m., Humanities Theatre. > > And our regular kw.pm meeting is a week later: > > Thursday, July 24, 2008- > fishbot will talk on Threading in Perl: Synchronization Primatives, and > Building a Message Passing Architecture (which he says will be a basic > talk. ...Or at least for fish, a basic talk; it may leave me in the > dust on slide 3, but I'm looking forward to it anyway.) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > kw-pm mailing list > kw-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kw-pm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eric at uc.org Thu Jul 10 09:28:06 2008 From: eric at uc.org (fishbot) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:28:06 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [kw-pm] Upcoming talks In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Yeesh, you always make me out to be some sort of mad scientist. It will be a very basic talk: - creating threads, locks, shared memory and so on in Perl - what can be built from the primitives (semaphores, critical sections, etc.) I won't assume any familiarity with these concepts. - what has been build that you can just use from CPAN And then I've been curious about the potential for building a simple message passing framework around these resources - that is, restrict communication and shared memory to a single abstraction of 'sending a message'. I'll be talking about some of the issues with both concurrent programming in general, and Perl's notoriously flabby and fragile threads. I'm curious if a message passing abstraction alleviates some of these issues, or is like training a dog to sing: an interesting exercise, but your dog won't suddenly smelling like Avril. Eric ---- original message : 2008-07-10 11:43am : Daniel R. Allen ---- > We're moving our regular meeting to one week later, in order that those of > us who are interested can go to this talk: > > Thursday, July 17, 2008- > Free public lecture at the University of Waterloo: > Breaking High-Grade German Cyphers in World War II, by Peter Hilton, > cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park. 7:00 p.m., Humanities Theatre. > > And our regular kw.pm meeting is a week later: > > Thursday, July 24, 2008- > fishbot will talk on Threading in Perl: Synchronization Primatives, and > Building a Message Passing Architecture (which he says will be a basic > talk. ...Or at least for fish, a basic talk; it may leave me in the > dust on slide 3, but I'm looking forward to it anyway.) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > kw-pm mailing list > kw-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kw-pm > From rdice at pobox.com Tue Jul 15 20:12:33 2008 From: rdice at pobox.com (Richard Dice) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:12:33 -0400 Subject: [kw-pm] Damian Conway in Toronto tomorrow (Wednesday) to present one of his high-end IT showsmanship talks! Message-ID: <5bef4baf0807152012m2b200ad5pdd22d3d3b2b31b69@mail.gmail.com> Hi everyone, This email is a condensation of emails I have sent to these lists previously, so please forgive the curtness. One last reminder -- this Wednesday, July 16th, 6:30pm, Damian Conway will be presenting his talk: *Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming in Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces... Made Easy* Location: Bahen Centre for Information Technology, University of Toronto 40 St. George Street (w. side of street, just north of College Ave.) [map] Room # BA 1160 Donations are welcome! These will help provide Damian with an honorarium and to help offset costs of his trip to Toronto. How to donate? Easy! Paypal and credit card (via Paypal) - go to http://hew.ca/ Cheque and cash - bring it to the event tomorrow. I will be there to collect and I can write receipts for those who are interested. If you'd like to email me ahead of time to help me know what the pledge level might aggregate to I'd appreciate it. Facebook event for this talk - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=22670172852 Cheers, - Richard -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From daniel at coder.com Thu Jul 17 12:07:08 2008 From: daniel at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:07:08 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [kw-pm] tonight's UW crypto talk cancelled Message-ID: Oops, I meant to email the list about this earlier. The crypto talk this evening was cancelled due to illness. But come out next Thursday for our .pm meeting! fishbot will talk on Threading in Perl: Synchronization Primatives, and Building a Message Passing Architecture "Summary: The title is pompous, but this will be a very basic talk: * creating threads, locks, shared memory and so on in Perl * what can be built from the primitives (semaphores, critical sections, etc.) I won't assume any familiarity with these concepts. * what has been build that you can just use from CPAN And then I've been curious about the potential for building a simple message passing framework around these resources - that is, restrict communication and shared memory to a single abstraction of 'sending a message'. I'll be talking about some of the issues with both concurrent programming in general, and Perl's notoriously flabby and fragile threads. I'm curious if a message passing abstraction alleviates some of these issues, or is like training a dog to sing: an interesting exercise, but your dog won't suddenly start smelling like Avril." From eric at uc.org Thu Jul 24 08:01:15 2008 From: eric at uc.org (fishbot) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:01:15 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [kw-pm] Reminder: July Meeting is tonight @7pm Message-ID: Don't forget that the July meeting was rescheduled to tonight (July 24th) at the normal time (7pm). Location is University of Waterloo Campus, Davis Centre room 3323. See the FAQ for directions: http://kw.pm.org/wiki/index.cgi?FAQ As usual, pop and pizza is supplied by an $anonymous++ donor if you sign up ahead of time: http://kw.pm.org/wiki/index.cgi?PizzaList Looking forward to seeing everyone there. Eric From daniel at coder.com Sun Jul 27 15:54:28 2008 From: daniel at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:54:28 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [kw-pm] Slides from July Threads talk Message-ID: Another round of thanks for Eric's Threads talk; I think he did a great job at making a fairly confusing topic understandable for those of us with no multithreading experience. We have slides on the website: (334kb) http://kw.pm.org/talks/2008-07-24_kwpm_Threads_and_Synchronization.pdf -Daniel From daniel at coder.com Sun Jul 27 17:14:20 2008 From: daniel at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:14:20 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [kw-pm] Upcoming BBBQ and Talks Message-ID: KW Perl Mongers has an exciting summer and autumn planned just for you. And you. And you. For August (the 21st), we will have our nth annual BBQ, this year at wmat's house in North Waterloo. Directions will follow on this list. [I just checked. n=6. We've been doing this for over six years, folks!] In September, we're lucky enough to have a follow-up talk on threading- because when Eric investigates something, he goes thorough. His description is: "Asynchronous Message Passing: Investigating an alternative strategy for managing concurrent applications" "fishbot will continue his investigation into concurrent applications using Perl threads. The July talk focused on Threading basics and standard synchronization mechanisms, this talk will look at using an asynchronous message passing framework to build applications. This talk is standalone, attendance at the July talk is not required or assumed." And in October, we have a guest presentation from Simon Ditner, who has made the shift from Perl to Python, and would like to talk about his experiences. I'm looking forward to all of these. Hope to see you there. -Daniel