From naterajj at gmail.com Thu Aug 2 15:08:51 2007 From: naterajj at gmail.com (Juan Jose Natera) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:08:51 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] The Perl Survey 2007 Message-ID: <349627440708021508p2acd0128gc3d9a5351abf8baa@mail.gmail.com> As per the announcement posted at http://perlsurvey.org $survey = < Forwarding an email from our friends at UUASC, they are having a Perl and RE talk in Irvine on Monday the 13th. However, we're very close to make an announcement about a meeting of our own for that same week. Juan Natera > UUASC-OC > Unix Users Association of Southern California > Orange County Chapter > August Meeting > > --------------------------------------------- > > Perl and REs > > --------------------------------------------- > > Monday, Aug. 13, 7-9 PM > > Sun Microsystems, Inc. > 2020 S. Main St. in Irvine > 12th Floor > > --------------------------------------------- > > A renowned author on programming will makes his UUASC speaking debut by > sharing his knowledge with us on a number of coding tricks. > > At the August meeting of UUASC-OC, Stephen Oualline will teach us how to avoid > known pitfalls and provide a few techniques we can use to write better Perl. > Then, he will shift gears and focus on making regular expressions more simple > for us. This will mark the first time in seven years that UUASC has hosted a > talk on the popular topic of REs. > > Steve will guide us through the design of many different types of regular > expressions and will demonstrate how even the most complex RE can be made > simple by incorporating the use of a graph. > > Steve wrote many books including "Practical C++ Programming", "How Not To > Program in C++", "Wicked Cool Perl Scripts", and "Perl for C Programmers". He > has more than 40 years of programming experience. > > POST-MEETING ACTIVITIES: Join us at the Pilsner Room, within walking distance. > > AFTER HOURS ACCESS: The Sun building's doors are locked at 7 p.m. If you > arrive late, please contact the guard at 949-372-2937 or 949-279-1539 for > access. > > CARPOOL INFO: If you are interested in joining a carpool with other members, > please post an email to the general list, uuasc at uuasc.org , requesting carpool > info. > > PARKING: Convenient FREE parking is located next to the Sun office building in > the visitor parking lot for after hours usage. Take a ticket when entering the > garage but don't be concerned - no one will be there to collect money when the > meeting ends, so you can exit for free. > > DIRECTIONS: Exit the San Diego Freeway (I-405) at MacArthur, go north (away > from the airport) to the signal at Main Street (the first cross-street), turn > right to Mercantile (the first signal on Main Street), turn right to parking. > Please visit our web site, http://uuasc.org/oc.html , where you will find a > detailed map. Here's an ASCII version: > > > | Mercantile | Gillette > | v | > Main -----+---------+---------------+----------- > | | ElTorito | > | | | > | | Sun | > | \_______________/ > +--\ parking > | /\ > 405 ======|===================================== > | \/ > Airport +--/ (all intersections shown > | have signals (+)) > > The El Torito is on the corner and can serve as a landmark. The Pilsner Room > is at the other end of the same block, Gillette and Main. The Sun building is > behind the one with El Torito. 949-833-1640. > > UUASC-OC wants to thank our host, Sun Microsystems, for the continued support > of our meetings. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The UUASC is for all persons using Unix either personally or professionally, > or interested in learning more about Unix. We recognize all varieties of Unix, > including (without prejudice) HP/UX, Linux, SVr4, Solaris, AIX, and BSD. This > is a good place to meet others with similar interests and broaden your skills > and knowledge. Generally, meetings include a technical presentation on a > hardware or software topic of current interest to the Unix community and a > round-table discussion of current topics of interest to the group. We are > always looking for interesting presentations and your suggestions are most > welcome. > > Please join us this month and bring along your friends or co-workers. Also, > please forward this announcement to others who may be interested and feel free > to post it to wherever you wish, both electronically and physically. If you > receive more than one announcement by email, please let us know so we can keep > our lists current. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --General instructions-- --Administrative requests-- > Post to this list, Send to Majordomo at uuasc.org, no subject needed > send to uuasc at uuasc.org Include ONLY the following in the message BODY > Last resort, send to To unsubscribe: "unsubscribe uuasc" > owner-uuasc at uuasc.org Information or help: "info uuasc" or "help" > > From Alyson.Taylor at Ticketmaster.com Mon Aug 6 14:41:59 2007 From: Alyson.Taylor at Ticketmaster.com (Alyson Taylor) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:41:59 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] Perl Talk @ UUASC-OC Fwd: UUASC-OC August 2007 Program In-Reply-To: <349627440708031105p72c9cb9bu83415b7802402718@mail.gmail.com> References: <349627440708031105p72c9cb9bu83415b7802402718@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: I'll make sure that we don't do ours on Monday the 13th...so that there won't be a conflict... Sound okay? -----Original Message----- From: losangeles-pm-bounces+alyson.taylor=ticketmaster.com at pm.org [mailto:losangeles-pm-bounces+alyson.taylor=ticketmaster.com at pm.org] On Behalf Of Juan Jose Natera Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 11:05 AM To: losangeles-pm at mail.pm.org Subject: [LA.pm] Perl Talk @ UUASC-OC Fwd: UUASC-OC August 2007 Program Forwarding an email from our friends at UUASC, they are having a Perl and RE talk in Irvine on Monday the 13th. However, we're very close to make an announcement about a meeting of our own for that same week. Juan Natera > UUASC-OC > Unix Users Association of Southern California > Orange County Chapter > August Meeting > > --------------------------------------------- > > Perl and REs > > --------------------------------------------- > > Monday, Aug. 13, 7-9 PM > > Sun Microsystems, Inc. > 2020 S. Main St. in Irvine > 12th Floor > > --------------------------------------------- > > A renowned author on programming will makes his UUASC speaking debut > by sharing his knowledge with us on a number of coding tricks. > > At the August meeting of UUASC-OC, Stephen Oualline will teach us how > to avoid known pitfalls and provide a few techniques we can use to write better Perl. > Then, he will shift gears and focus on making regular expressions more > simple for us. This will mark the first time in seven years that UUASC > has hosted a talk on the popular topic of REs. > > Steve will guide us through the design of many different types of > regular expressions and will demonstrate how even the most complex RE > can be made simple by incorporating the use of a graph. > > Steve wrote many books including "Practical C++ Programming", "How Not > To Program in C++", "Wicked Cool Perl Scripts", and "Perl for C > Programmers". He has more than 40 years of programming experience. > > POST-MEETING ACTIVITIES: Join us at the Pilsner Room, within walking distance. > > AFTER HOURS ACCESS: The Sun building's doors are locked at 7 p.m. If > you arrive late, please contact the guard at 949-372-2937 or > 949-279-1539 for access. > > CARPOOL INFO: If you are interested in joining a carpool with other > members, please post an email to the general list, uuasc at uuasc.org , > requesting carpool info. > > PARKING: Convenient FREE parking is located next to the Sun office > building in the visitor parking lot for after hours usage. Take a > ticket when entering the garage but don't be concerned - no one will > be there to collect money when the meeting ends, so you can exit for free. > > DIRECTIONS: Exit the San Diego Freeway (I-405) at MacArthur, go north > (away from the airport) to the signal at Main Street (the first > cross-street), turn right to Mercantile (the first signal on Main Street), turn right to parking. > Please visit our web site, http://uuasc.org/oc.html , where you will > find a detailed map. Here's an ASCII version: > > > | Mercantile | Gillette > | v | > Main -----+---------+---------------+----------- > | | ElTorito | > | | | > | | Sun | > | \_______________/ > +--\ parking > | /\ > 405 ======|===================================== > | \/ > Airport +--/ (all intersections shown > | have signals (+)) > > The El Torito is on the corner and can serve as a landmark. The > Pilsner Room is at the other end of the same block, Gillette and Main. > The Sun building is behind the one with El Torito. 949-833-1640. > > UUASC-OC wants to thank our host, Sun Microsystems, for the continued > support of our meetings. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The UUASC is for all persons using Unix either personally or > professionally, or interested in learning more about Unix. We > recognize all varieties of Unix, including (without prejudice) HP/UX, > Linux, SVr4, Solaris, AIX, and BSD. This is a good place to meet > others with similar interests and broaden your skills and knowledge. > Generally, meetings include a technical presentation on a hardware or > software topic of current interest to the Unix community and a > round-table discussion of current topics of interest to the group. We > are always looking for interesting presentations and your suggestions are most welcome. > > Please join us this month and bring along your friends or co-workers. > Also, please forward this announcement to others who may be interested > and feel free to post it to wherever you wish, both electronically and > physically. If you receive more than one announcement by email, please > let us know so we can keep our lists current. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- --General instructions-- --Administrative requests-- > Post to this list, Send to Majordomo at uuasc.org, no subject needed > send to uuasc at uuasc.org Include ONLY the following in the message BODY > Last resort, send to To unsubscribe: "unsubscribe uuasc" > owner-uuasc at uuasc.org Information or help: "info uuasc" or "help" > > _______________________________________________ Losangeles-pm mailing list Losangeles-pm at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm From naterajj at gmail.com Wed Aug 8 17:25:57 2007 From: naterajj at gmail.com (Juan Jose Natera) Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 17:25:57 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] LA.pm's next meeting, a talk by Randal Schwartz on Thursday the 16th Message-ID: <349627440708081725g3a39013dk1515d70035c9d4ce@mail.gmail.com> Announcing LA.pm's next meeting! What: Randal Schwartz will present an Introduction to Rose::DB::Object When: Thursday 16th of August, 2007 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm Where: Rent.com 2425 Olympic Blvd, Suite 400E Santa Monica, CA LA.pm is very glad to welcome back renowned Perl author Randal Schwartz, for his Introductory talk about the ORM framework Rose::DB::Object. The meeting will be held at the Rent.com offices in Santa Monica on Thursday the 16th of August, from 7:00-9:00pm. Randal L. Schwartz is a two-decade veteran of the software industry -- skilled in software design, system administration, security, technical writing, and training. He has coauthored the "must-have" standards: Programming Perl, Learning Perl, Learning Perl for Win32 Systems, and Effective Perl Programming, as well as writing regular columns for WebTechniques, PerformanceComputing, SysAdmin, and Linux magazines. He's also a frequent contributor to the Perl newsgroups and the "Perl Monastery" community (perlmonks.org), and has moderated comp.lang.perl.announce since its inception. His offbeat humor and technical mastery have reached legendary proportions worldwide (but he probably started some of those legends himself). Randal's desire to give back to the Perl community inspired him to help create and provide initial funding for The Perl Institute. He is also a founding board member of the Perl Mongers (perl.org), the worldwide Perl grassroots advocacy organization. Since 1985, Randal has owned and operated Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. You can find out more about Randal at: http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Rose::DB::Object is an extensible, high performance RDBMS-OO mapper, an alternative to other frameworks such as DBIx::Class and Class::DBI. You can get Rose::DB::Object at http://search.cpan.org/dist/Rose-DB-Object/ Rent.com is an Ebay company, and one of the local Perl shops, they are located in Santa Monica. Find out more at http://www.rent.com/company/why IMPORTANT INFORMATION BELOW Google Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=2425+Olympic+Blvd,+Suite+400E,+Santa+Monica,+CA&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=48.50801,111.621094&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=1 Parking Instructions: ***Attendees please make sure to park in the Visitors section. PLEASE DO NOT FORGET TO BRING YOUR PARKING TICKETS FOR VALIDATION*** Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. From naterajj at gmail.com Thu Aug 16 07:29:35 2007 From: naterajj at gmail.com (Juan Jose Natera) Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:29:35 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] LA.pm meeting, Randal Schwartz presenting in Santa Monica today! Message-ID: <349627440708160729xe20d59s6376cbaa7b760aaf@mail.gmail.com> Today's LA.pm Meeting What: Randal Schwartz will present an Introduction to Rose::DB::Object When: Today, Thursday 16th of August, 2007 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm Where: Rent.com 2425 Olympic Blvd, Suite 400E Santa Monica, CA LA.pm is very glad to welcome back renowned Perl author Randal Schwartz, for his Introductory talk about the ORM framework Rose::DB::Object. The meeting will be held at the Rent.com offices in Santa Monica on Thursday the 16th of August, from 7:00-9:00pm. Randal L. Schwartz is a two-decade veteran of the software industry -- skilled in software design, system administration, security, technical writing, and training. He has coauthored the "must-have" standards: Programming Perl, Learning Perl, Learning Perl for Win32 Systems, and Effective Perl Programming, as well as writing regular columns for WebTechniques, PerformanceComputing, SysAdmin, and Linux magazines. He's also a frequent contributor to the Perl newsgroups and the "Perl Monastery" community (perlmonks.org), and has moderated comp.lang.perl.announce since its inception. His offbeat humor and technical mastery have reached legendary proportions worldwide (but he probably started some of those legends himself). Randal's desire to give back to the Perl community inspired him to help create and provide initial funding for The Perl Institute. He is also a founding board member of the Perl Mongers (perl.org), the worldwide Perl grassroots advocacy organization. Since 1985, Randal has owned and operated Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. You can find out more about Randal at: http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Rose::DB::Object is an extensible, high performance RDBMS-OO mapper, an alternative to other frameworks such as DBIx::Class and Class::DBI. You can get Rose::DB::Object at http://search.cpan.org/dist/Rose-DB-Object/ Rent.com is an Ebay company, and one of the local Perl shops, they are located in Santa Monica. Find out more at http://www.rent.com/company/why IMPORTANT INFORMATION BELOW Google Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=2425+Olympic+Blvd,+Suite+400E,+Santa+Monica,+CA&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=48.50801,111.621094&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=1 Parking Instructions: ***Attendees please make sure to park in the Visitors section. PLEASE DO NOT FORGET TO BRING YOUR PARKING TICKETS FOR VALIDATION*** Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. From naterajj at gmail.com Fri Aug 17 13:30:22 2007 From: naterajj at gmail.com (Juan Jose Natera) Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:30:22 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] About last night's meeting Message-ID: <349627440708171330n6a97dc6aqb5a1271020386dcc@mail.gmail.com> Hello all, We want everybody to join us in thanking Randal Schwartz for another great presentation, if you missed it or if you arrived late, he began his talk with an overview of Class::DBI, and why you shouldn't be using it if you're considering to use an ORM, and then he followed it with a very nice introduction to Rose::DB::Object. Judging by the Q&A afterwards It really engaged those attending the meeting. Randal was the main reason there was such great attendance, we counted over 40 people!, including fellow mongers from OC.pm and ThousandOaks.pm. We also want to thank last night's host Rent.com, including Alain, Matt, and the rest of the very helpful crew at Rent.com. Moving forward, we have been doing our best to find speakers for future technicals meetings, we have made contact with various people but we still need all the help we can get, if you have command of a particular topic and would like to give a presentation about it, please let us now and we can schedule something! On the other hand, if there are any topics that you want to see discussed at one of our meetings please say so and we will make it happen! One of the ideas tossed around, that was also brought up last night was to do a meeting with lighting talks, short 5 - 10 minutes presentations demonstrating something cool. For more information about what it takes do to lighting talks, please visit this link: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/07/30/lightningtalk.html . Let us know what you think of this idea. A couple of reminders: * Remember to participate in the 2007 Perl Survey: http://perlsurvery.org * Tomorrow, Sat. 18th of August is Parrot New Contributor Day, if you want to get involved in the future of Perl, this is a great way to get started, get more information here: http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/08/parrot_new_contributor_day_thi.html The LA.pm team Alyson Taylor Nimish Parmar Pablo Velasquez Juan Natera From ehammond at thinksome.com Sat Aug 18 13:35:02 2007 From: ehammond at thinksome.com (Eric Hammond) Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:35:02 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] About last night's meeting In-Reply-To: <349627440708171330n6a97dc6aqb5a1271020386dcc@mail.gmail.com> References: <349627440708171330n6a97dc6aqb5a1271020386dcc@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20070818203502.GA4750@level22.com> Juan Jose Natera wrote: > Randal was the main reason there was such great attendance, [...] Indubitably. (Thanks Randal!) However, I also heard quite a few comments that the Rent.com location was far easier for folks to get to on a week night than the former Hollywood venue; so I would give that site some credit and recommend we continue having regular events there. BTW, I counted 46 in attendance. -- Eric Hammond ehammond at thinksome.com From merlyn at stonehenge.com Sat Aug 18 16:14:54 2007 From: merlyn at stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:14:54 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] About last night's meeting In-Reply-To: <20070818203502.GA4750@level22.com> (Eric Hammond's message of "Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:35:02 -0700") References: <349627440708171330n6a97dc6aqb5a1271020386dcc@mail.gmail.com> <20070818203502.GA4750@level22.com> Message-ID: <86643cwi35.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> >>>>> "Eric" == Eric Hammond writes: Eric> However, I also heard quite a few comments that the Rent.com location Eric> was far easier for folks to get to on a week night than the former Eric> Hollywood venue; so I would give that site some credit and recommend Eric> we continue having regular events there. I'd second that. I always felt like I was "invading" the other site, especially with the strange parking and the signing in at the front desk. And the "no food or drink" rule was annoying... heck, rent.com even *provides* the food and drink. Nice. Also, I forget precisely who I was talking to, but I would strongly encourage la.pm to have *two* meetings a month... a *social* night which is just a "meet at this restaurant at 7pm", and a *technical* night. That's the formula that we've found works in other places. And don't sweat too hard on making the social night work for everybody. Just pick a night and do it. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! From david at fetter.org Sat Aug 18 16:58:36 2007 From: david at fetter.org (David Fetter) Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:58:36 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] About last night's meeting In-Reply-To: <86643cwi35.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> References: <349627440708171330n6a97dc6aqb5a1271020386dcc@mail.gmail.com> <20070818203502.GA4750@level22.com> <86643cwi35.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> Message-ID: <20070818235836.GG28490@fetter.org> On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 04:14:54PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >>>>> "Eric" == Eric Hammond writes: > > Eric> However, I also heard quite a few comments that the Rent.com location > Eric> was far easier for folks to get to on a week night than the former > Eric> Hollywood venue; so I would give that site some credit and recommend > Eric> we continue having regular events there. > > I'd second that. I always felt like I was "invading" the other > site, especially with the strange parking and the signing in at the > front desk. And the "no food or drink" rule was annoying... heck, > rent.com even *provides* the food and drink. Nice. Venues get a *lot* of points simply by providing food and drink, or at least allowing people to chip in and bring their own :) > Also, I forget precisely who I was talking to, but I would strongly > encourage la.pm to have *two* meetings a month... a *social* night > which is just a "meet at this restaurant at 7pm", and a *technical* > night. That's the formula that we've found works in other places. > And don't sweat too hard on making the social night work for > everybody. Just pick a night and do it. If that's too many to arrange, just alternate social & technical. Cheers, D (up in the Bay Area, and impressed with LA.pm's meetings) -- David Fetter http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote! Consider donating to PostgreSQL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate