From Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at Ticketmaster.com  Fri Mar  2 12:12:32 2007
From: Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at Ticketmaster.com (Todd Cranston-Cuebas)
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:12:32 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm] New Members: Introduce Yourself!
Message-ID: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>

We've had a bunch of new people signing up for the la.pm mailing list so
I thought it would be great if you all would introduce yourself. In
fact, even if you're an older member but don't get a chance to come to
meetings too often, etc. this is your time to tell us a little bit about
yourself.

 

It would be great to know:

 

Your name
Your experience level with perl

What you hope to get from this group?

Regards,

Todd

Todd Cranston-Cuebas
Manager of Technical Recruiting

8800 W. Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Phone: (310) 360-2436; Mobile: (310) 422-3347
tcc at ticketmaster.com

 

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From merlyn at stonehenge.com  Fri Mar  2 12:23:23 2007
From: merlyn at stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:23:23 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm] New Members: Introduce Yourself!
In-Reply-To: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
	(Todd Cranston-Cuebas's message of "Fri,
	2 Mar 2007 12:12:32 -0800")
References: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
Message-ID: <861wk775tw.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

>>>>> "Todd" == Todd Cranston-Cuebas <Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at Ticketmaster.com> writes:

Todd> In fact, even if you're an older member but don't get a chance to come
Todd> to meetings too often, etc. this is your time to tell us a little bit
Todd> about yourself.

How much older do you have to be to apply for the senior discount at the
buffet?

-- 
Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095
<merlyn at stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>
Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc.
See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

From Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at Ticketmaster.com  Fri Mar  2 12:51:28 2007
From: Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at Ticketmaster.com (Todd Cranston-Cuebas)
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:51:28 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm] New Members: Introduce Yourself!
In-Reply-To: <861wk775tw.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
Message-ID: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33CBD@pasmail3.office.tmcs>

Pretty funny ;) OK, OK, long-standing members then...

Todd

-----Original Message-----
From: losangeles-pm-bounces+tcc=citysearch.com at pm.org
[mailto:losangeles-pm-bounces+tcc=citysearch.com at pm.org] 
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 12:23 PM
To: Todd Cranston-Cuebas
Cc: losangeles-pm at pm.org
Subject: Re: [LA.pm] New Members: Introduce Yourself!

>>>>> "Todd" == Todd Cranston-Cuebas
<Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at Ticketmaster.com> writes:

Todd> In fact, even if you're an older member but don't get a chance to
come
Todd> to meetings too often, etc. this is your time to tell us a little
bit
Todd> about yourself.

How much older do you have to be to apply for the senior discount at the
buffet?

-- 
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0095
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From merlyn at stonehenge.com  Fri Mar  2 12:52:43 2007
From: merlyn at stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:52:43 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm] New Members: Introduce Yourself!
In-Reply-To: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33CBD@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
	(Todd Cranston-Cuebas's message of "Fri,
	2 Mar 2007 12:51:28 -0800")
References: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33CBD@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
Message-ID: <86ejo75pwk.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

>>>>> "Todd" == Todd Cranston-Cuebas <Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at Ticketmaster.com> writes:

Todd> Pretty funny ;) OK, OK, long-standing members then...

Why don't they get a chair?

require "rimshot.pl";

-- 
Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095
<merlyn at stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>
Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc.
See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

From quinn at fairpath.com  Fri Mar  2 13:15:31 2007
From: quinn at fairpath.com (Quinn Weaver)
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:15:31 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm] New Members: Introduce Yourself!
In-Reply-To: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
References: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
Message-ID: <20070302211531.GA37006@fu.funkspiel.org>

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:12:32PM -0800, Todd Cranston-Cuebas wrote:
> We've had a bunch of new people signing up for the la.pm mailing list so
> I thought it would be great if you all would introduce yourself.

Hey,

I'm Quinn Weaver.  I run San Francisco Perl Mongers (since 2001, when I
took over from Matt Lanier).

I've been using Perl since 1997, including several different (*&@#!^)
OO Perl techniques--most recently Class::Std.  I have used Perl for
financial stuff, database stuff, web stuff, and VoIP stuff (with
Asterisk/AGI).  My latest Perl interest is Catalyst, which is a good
idea, but not yet up to Ruby on Rails standards.

I originally joined this group because I was responding to a cross-posted
discussion and wanted my response to go through.  I stay subscribed because
it's good to know what's going on down there, especially in terms of
conferences.

I work as an independent contractor, and I'm happy to travel to SoCal
for gigs.  See my sig for a link to a resume with full contact info.

-- 
Quinn Weaver, independent contractor  |  President, San Francisco Perl Mongers
http://fairpath.com/quinn/resume/     |  http://sf.pm.org/

From btilly at gmail.com  Fri Mar  2 14:14:30 2007
From: btilly at gmail.com (Ben Tilly)
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 14:14:30 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm] New Members: Introduce Yourself!
In-Reply-To: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
References: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
Message-ID: <acc274b30703021414l51a2f101mf88bd3977ca0e022@mail.gmail.com>

On 3/2/07, Todd Cranston-Cuebas <Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at ticketmaster.com> wrote:
>
> We've had a bunch of new people signing up for the la.pm mailing list
> so I thought it would be great if you all would introduce yourself. In
> fact, even if you're an older member but don't get a chance to come to
> meetings too often, etc. this is your time to tell us a little bit
> about yourself.
>
Well I'm a resubscribe.  I'd left my operamail address subscribed but
I've long abandoned that for gmail.
>
> It would be great to know:
>
> Your name

Ben Tilly

>  Your experience level with perl

Check tilly out on perlmonks.

> What you hope to get from this group?

A chance to stay in touch with the local Perl community.

Cheers,
Ben

From zrusilla at mac.com  Fri Mar  2 14:20:26 2007
From: zrusilla at mac.com (zrusilla at mac.com)
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 14:20:26 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm] New Members: Introduce Yourself!
In-Reply-To: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
References: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
Message-ID: <c67eac5bb1c53164d1d897af434b4fce@mac.com>

I'm Liz Cortell, formerly of Chicago.pm.

I first used Perl at Playboy.com. The first module I wrote was 
Playboy::Playmate.

Later I did data conversion at Ex Libris, a  library management 
software company. I used the Swss Army chainsaw to defeat some of the 
world's ugliest file formats.

I helped out with the Chicago YAPC.

After a brief, unhappy foray into PHP, I moved to California to work 
for Valueclick Media, a Perl shop.  I have no special focus in Perl, 
but enjoy working it in it for its amazing range and flexibility.  
Also. Perl hackers have more fun.

I live in Santa Barbara and try to make it down to LA.pm when I can, 
quite a hike.

Cheers,

Liz


On Mar 2, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Todd Cranston-Cuebas wrote:

>
> We?ve had a bunch of new people signing up for the la.pm mailing list 
> so I thought it would be great if you all would introduce yourself. In 
> fact, even if you?re an older member but don?t get a chance to come to 
> meetings too often, etc. this is your time to tell us a little bit 
> about yourself.
> ?
> It would be great to know:
> ?
> Your name
>  Your experience level with perl
> What you hope to get from this group?
>
> Regards,
>
> Todd
>
> Todd Cranston-Cuebas
>  Manager of Technical Recruiting
> <unknown.jpg>
>  8800 W. Sunset Blvd.
> West Hollywood, CA 90069
>  Phone: (310) 360-2436; Mobile: (310) 422-3347
> tcc at ticketmaster.com
> ?
> <image001.jpg>_______________________________________________
> Losangeles-pm mailing list
> Losangeles-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm
The purpose of satire is to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion 
and cozy half-truth, and our job is to put it back again. -- Michael 
Flanders


From david at fetter.org  Fri Mar  2 14:25:57 2007
From: david at fetter.org (David Fetter)
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 14:25:57 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm] New Members: Introduce Yourself!
In-Reply-To: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
References: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
Message-ID: <20070302222557.GC3665@fetter.org>

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:12:32PM -0800, Todd Cranston-Cuebas wrote:
> We've had a bunch of new people signing up for the la.pm mailing
> list so I thought it would be great if you all would introduce
> yourself.  In fact, even if you're an older member but don't get a
> chance to come to meetings too often, etc. this is your time to tell
> us a little bit about yourself.
> 
> It would be great to know:
> 
> Your name

David Fetter

> Your experience level with perl

Happy user since the mid-90s

> What you hope to get from this group?

Some great people to hang out with when I'm in LALA Land.  Check! :)

Cheers,
D
-- 
David Fetter <david at fetter.org> http://fetter.org/
phone: +1 415 235 3778        AIM: dfetter666
                              Skype: davidfetter

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From samy at fonality.com  Fri Mar  2 15:52:37 2007
From: samy at fonality.com (Samy Kamkar)
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:52:37 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm] New Members: Introduce Yourself!
In-Reply-To: <001d01c75d1f$ea0b0ab0$4a0a0a0a@dheslop>
References: <001d01c75d1f$ea0b0ab0$4a0a0a0a@dheslop>
Message-ID: <45E8B8C5.7060204@fonality.com>

Hi!

I'm Samy.

I've been using perl since the late 90s for all sorts of cool stuff from 
low level packet injection and pure perl TCP/IP stacks to web based AJAX 
tools and more. I love perl. I recently helped run the Fonality Perl 
Golf Challenge, and some of you may remember me from many moons ago when 
I ran LA.pm, until I moved to San Diego for a few years (now back in 
LA). We owe a big thanks to Todd for his great job running this group!

I hope to see you all at some upcoming meetings.

-samy

--
samy kamkar -- http://samy.pl -- 877.835.5708
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 1:16 PM
> To: Todd Cranston-Cuebas
> Cc: losangeles-pm at pm.org
> Subject: Re: [LA.pm] New Members: Introduce Yourself!
>
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:12:32PM -0800, Todd Cranston-Cuebas wrote:
>   
>> We've had a bunch of new people signing up for the la.pm mailing list 
>> so I thought it would be great if you all would introduce yourself.
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From ehammond at thinksome.com  Fri Mar  2 16:08:51 2007
From: ehammond at thinksome.com (Eric Hammond)
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 16:08:51 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm] New Members: Introduce Yourself!
In-Reply-To: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
References: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
Message-ID: <20070303000851.GK30357@level22.com>


I'm Eric and I'm old enough to remember when Samy ran LA.pm
(which was when he wasn't old enough to drive).

I used to be regularly looking to hire good Perl people back 
when I worked at Rent.com, but eBay bought that company :) 
and I moved on to co-found another startup: http://www.thisnext.com/

I've been using Perl almost exclusively since 1993 and I'm
still learning the language.

--
Eric Hammond
ehammond at thinksome.com

From mjt at mijit.com  Fri Mar  2 16:14:29 2007
From: mjt at mijit.com (michael j talarczyk)
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 16:14:29 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm] New Members: Introduce Yourself!
In-Reply-To: <20070303000851.GK30357@level22.com>
References: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
	<20070303000851.GK30357@level22.com>
Message-ID: <20070303001429.GA23577@majesty.mijit.com>

hi, i'm michael, and i'm a perlaholic.

i've been using for 11 years and have no intention of stopping. i've tried
other languages, but they don't make me feel the way perl does. people have
tried to make me go to python meetings, but i just feel like i'm going through
the motions. is there hope? (don't answer that ;)

From vsarkiss at pobox.com  Fri Mar  2 17:42:40 2007
From: vsarkiss at pobox.com (Vahe Sarkissian)
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 17:42:40 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm]  New Members: Introduce Yourself!
In-Reply-To: <9fb88bdd0703021739s225c00e2m3df9bdf15e5710f0@mail.gmail.com>
References: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
	<9fb88bdd0703021739s225c00e2m3df9bdf15e5710f0@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <9fb88bdd0703021742u62435921p826b0420b553fddd@mail.gmail.com>

I'm Vahe Sarkissian, although on most Perl sites (perlmonks, use.perI) I'm
known as "VSarkiss".  My name is pronounced just like it's spelled. :-)

I've used Perl mostly for database work since around 1993.  I did a brief
stint at Citysearch as director of development, but otherwise I haven't done
much with mod_perl.

I wanted to join the group mainly to keep in touch with the local Perl
crowd, and to put faces to some of the names I've known.  Unfortunately I
haven't been able to attend the most recent meetings because of logistical
problems (although mine are not as difficult as merlyn's :-)

Thanks,
--Vahe
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From btilly at gmail.com  Fri Mar  2 20:46:32 2007
From: btilly at gmail.com (Ben Tilly)
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 20:46:32 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm] New Members: Introduce Yourself!
In-Reply-To: <20070303000851.GK30357@level22.com>
References: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
	<20070303000851.GK30357@level22.com>
Message-ID: <acc274b30703022046l2927be2cgb2f9107ad2eccbb@mail.gmail.com>

On 3/2/07, Eric Hammond <ehammond at thinksome.com> wrote:
>
> I'm Eric and I'm old enough to remember when Samy ran LA.pm
> (which was when he wasn't old enough to drive).
>
> I used to be regularly looking to hire good Perl people back
> when I worked at Rent.com, but eBay bought that company :)
> and I moved on to co-found another startup: http://www.thisnext.com/

*ahem*

With or without Eric, Rent.com is still looking to hire good Perl
people.  If you're good and want to work in Santa Monica with an
excellent team in a relaxed environment, we're hiring.  If you're
interested, tell aavakian at rent.com, that Ben sent you. :-D

Also details haven't been finalized, but Rent.com has offered to host
the April technical meeting.  Which is good news for those of us who
are on the West side who find it hard to get to Hollywood at rush
hour. :-)

> I've been using Perl almost exclusively since 1993 and I'm
> still learning the language.

And just when you think you finished learning it, Larry Wall will
rewrite it. :-)

Cheers,
Ben

From jeff at yoak.com  Sat Mar  3 05:51:35 2007
From: jeff at yoak.com (Jeff Yoak)
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 05:51:35 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm] New Members: Introduce Yourself!
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At 12:12 PM 3/2/2007, Todd Cranston-Cuebas wrote:

>We've had a bunch of new people signing up for the la.pm mailing 
>list so I thought it would be great if you all would introduce 
>yourself. In fact, even if you're an older member but don't get a 
>chance to come to meetings too often, etc. this is your time to tell 
>us a little bit about yourself.

I was at the very first meeting on the lapm!  I'm probably one of the 
older members too.  Randal's older, though!  :-)


>Your name

Jeff Yoak.  jeffy in some online forums.

>Your experience level with perl

I started programming in Perl in 1994 and it has been my principle 
programming language ever since.  Most of my jobs (including the ones 
where I was successfully recruited by Todd!) centered around Perl 
programming.  In fact, I think the current job is the first one that hasn't.

>What you hope to get from this group?

I'm still a lurker just to keep up with old friends.  From time to 
time I'll enter a golf competition or answer a question that is 
interesting to me, but I'm too busy with a new son and my most 
demanding job so far to make too many meetings.

Cheers,
Jeff

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At 12:12 PM 3/2/2007, Todd Cranston-Cuebas wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=2>We?ve had a bunch
of new people signing up for the la.pm mailing list so I thought it would
be great if you all would introduce yourself. In fact, even if you?re an
older member but don?t get a chance to come to meetings too often, etc.
this is your time to tell us a little bit about yourself.<br>
</font></blockquote><br>
I was at the very first meeting on the lapm!&nbsp; I'm probably one of
the older members too.&nbsp; Randal's older, though!&nbsp; :-)<br><br>
<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=2>Your
name</font></blockquote><br>
Jeff Yoak.&nbsp; jeffy in some online forums.<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=2>Your experience
level with perl</font></blockquote><br>
I started programming in Perl in 1994 and it has been my principle
programming language ever since.&nbsp; Most of my jobs (including the
ones where I was successfully recruited by Todd!) centered around Perl
programming.&nbsp; In fact, I think the current job is the first one that
hasn't.<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=2>What you hope to
get from this group?</font></blockquote><br>
I'm still a lurker just to keep up with old friends.&nbsp; From time to
time I'll enter a golf competition or answer a question that is
interesting to me, but I'm too busy with a new son and my most demanding
job so far to make too many meetings.<br><br>
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From elvis at elvisware.com  Mon Mar  5 13:04:08 2007
From: elvis at elvisware.com (Ron Stephan)
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 13:04:08 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm] New Members: Introduce Yourself!
In-Reply-To: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
Message-ID: <20070305210417.DD87D5378A1@mailspool2.panix.com>

It would be great to know:

Your name:
Ron Stephan (Elvis to friends)


Your experience level with perl:
Nothing formal - Old C, C++, xBase hack been perl diving since most of my database apps moved to MySQL about 4 or 5 years ago.
Hated it intensely at first - I have grown to like it.


What you hope to get from this group?
- Tea and Sympathy?  

- Freak out help.

Seriously - If I had a magic wand it would someplace where I could ask a question like...  I have a perl script that needs to spawn
a cmd line util to do a chroma-key merge between two MPEG files (this is my current problem dejour)... Where on planet earth could I
find that?  And (A) not get laughed at and (B) get pointed into a generally good direction.

The noise floor in searching for all things *ix,perl..etc is so high...it is hard to find what you are really looking for these
days.


Regards,

Todd

Todd Cranston-Cuebas
Manager of Technical Recruiting

8800 W. Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Phone: (310) 360-2436; Mobile: (310) 422-3347
tcc at ticketmaster.com

 



From Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at Ticketmaster.com  Mon Mar  5 15:36:20 2007
From: Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at Ticketmaster.com (Todd Cranston-Cuebas)
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 15:36:20 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm] Introductions and... show up to the next meeting!
In-Reply-To: <20070305210417.DD87D5378A1@mailspool2.panix.com>
Message-ID: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF8287E@pasmail3.office.tmcs>

Please keep the introductions coming. This is really great since it puts
a little history behind each member. Since you're taking the time to do
this, please also try hard to come to the next meeting so people can
connect your history and your face!

Todd

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Stephan [mailto:elvis at elvisware.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 1:04 PM
To: Todd Cranston-Cuebas; losangeles-pm at pm.org
Subject: RE: [LA.pm] New Members: Introduce Yourself!

It would be great to know:

Your name:
Ron Stephan (Elvis to friends)


Your experience level with perl:
Nothing formal - Old C, C++, xBase hack been perl diving since most of
my database apps moved to MySQL about 4 or 5 years ago.
Hated it intensely at first - I have grown to like it.


What you hope to get from this group?
- Tea and Sympathy?  

- Freak out help.

Seriously - If I had a magic wand it would someplace where I could ask a
question like...  I have a perl script that needs to spawn
a cmd line util to do a chroma-key merge between two MPEG files (this is
my current problem dejour)... Where on planet earth could I
find that?  And (A) not get laughed at and (B) get pointed into a
generally good direction.

The noise floor in searching for all things *ix,perl..etc is so
high...it is hard to find what you are really looking for these
days.


Regards,

Todd

Todd Cranston-Cuebas
Manager of Technical Recruiting

8800 W. Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Phone: (310) 360-2436; Mobile: (310) 422-3347
tcc at ticketmaster.com

 



From sodonnell at childrensoncologygroup.org  Tue Mar  6 11:58:02 2007
From: sodonnell at childrensoncologygroup.org (Sean O'Donnell)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 11:58:02 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm] New Members: Introduce Yourself!
Message-ID: <22A4C55F29F8FE468C62234216E5E4A801E3D2E6@OEXCHANGE.cog.local>

# name: 

Sean O'Donnell 

(not Dick Cheney's Doctor, nor the Hockey Player!) =p

# experience level with perl:

Informal/Continuous-Learning (I still consider myself 'novice' in perl
compared to most)

For the last 2 years, I've been using PERL (among other things) to try
to find a cure for Childhood Cancer, focusing on Biomedical Research
Application Development for CureSearch, Children's Oncology Group (COG),
and the National Childhood Cancer Foundation (NCCF).

I've also been using PERL and PHP for Web Application Development and
Server Administration since around 1999. I mostly use PHP for Web
Interfaces, and PERL for command-line applications. 

The 'legacy' system that I'm currently 'maintaining' here at CureSearch
is based upon Linux, Apache, PERL/PHP, and Oracle. It was originally
developed by staff (as well as bioinformatics students) at the
University of Florida's Pediatric Oncology Group (POG), back in 2000. 

The application itself is considered 'legacy' around here, as they are
mostly a .NET shop and (due to the complexity of the system, and the
lack of understanding of Open Source Software or related technologies)
have reinvented the wheels in ways in which I cannot even begin to
express my dismay, but I steer-clear of the politics (that all occurred
long before I was here) and just try to find new and interesting ways to
bridge the gaps between the 2 systems. Using things such as mod_perl,
XML, and SOAP have proven effective for such cross-platform
requirements. 

# What you hope to get from this group? 

Pure Sympathy, or perhaps a reminder that I am not the only person in
the world who uses PERL (around here you would think that's the case).
 
I'm just lurking really, as I normally don't have enough time during the
week to attend SIG/LUG/PM meetings (outside of the SGV), but I do try to
participate in IRC and Mailing-List discussions. 

Overall, it's nice to know that there is a (local) community of users
who share such interests, time, and knowledge with each other in an open
manor.

Thanks,

Sean O'Donnell
Programmer Analyst
Children's Oncology Group (COG)

440 E. Huntington Dr. 2nd Floor
Arcadia, CA 91066

[office] (626) 241-1752
[email] sodonnell at cogmembers.org

PGP Public Key: 0xE6A0E96C
PGP Public Key Server: http://pgp.mit.edu <http://pgp.mit.edu/> 

---- 

 

________________________________

From: losangeles-pm-bounces+sodonnell=childrensoncologygroup.org at pm.org
[mailto:losangeles-pm-bounces+sodonnell=childrensoncologygroup.org at pm.or
g] On Behalf Of Todd Cranston-Cuebas
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 12:13 PM
To: losangeles-pm at pm.org
Subject: [LA.pm] New Members: Introduce Yourself!



We've had a bunch of new people signing up for the la.pm mailing list so
I thought it would be great if you all would introduce yourself. In
fact, even if you're an older member but don't get a chance to come to
meetings too often, etc. this is your time to tell us a little bit about
yourself.

 

It would be great to know:

 

Your name
Your experience level with perl

What you hope to get from this group?

Regards,

Todd

Todd Cranston-Cuebas
Manager of Technical Recruiting

8800 W. Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Phone: (310) 360-2436; Mobile: (310) 422-3347
tcc at ticketmaster.com

 


From Peter at psdt.com  Thu Mar  8 06:22:59 2007
From: Peter at psdt.com (Peter Scott)
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:22:59 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm] Introductions and... show up to the next meeting!
In-Reply-To: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF8287E@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
References: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF8287E@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
Message-ID: <p06230906c215cbb19b70@[172.17.174.253]>

Hi gang!  I show up to the occasional meeting down there when I'm on 
business travel in the area because LA.pm is a fun crowd.  I lived 
there for 18 years before moving to Victoria, BC 8 years ago.  I've 
been using Perl since '93, and written a couple of books...

From tan.dalat at gmail.com  Thu Mar  8 09:49:33 2007
From: tan.dalat at gmail.com (Tan)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:49:33 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm] Introductions and... show up to the next meeting!
In-Reply-To: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF8287E@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
References: <20070305210417.DD87D5378A1@mailspool2.panix.com>
	<71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF8287E@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
Message-ID: <46db37260703080949r1e4ab511u9853022a953d80c3@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

Your name:
> - Tan Nguyen
>
>
> Your experience level with perl:
> - Started with a few XML parsing scripts in 2000. I've been using Perl on
> and off since.
>
> What you hope to get from this group?
> - Stay in touch with latest Perl news, training.
>
>
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From jleader at alumni.caltech.edu  Thu Mar  8 11:51:04 2007
From: jleader at alumni.caltech.edu (Jeremy Leader)
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:51:04 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm] New Members: Introduce Yourself!
In-Reply-To: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
References: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
Message-ID: <45F06928.30208@alumni.caltech.edu>

on 03/02/2007 12:12 PM Todd Cranston-Cuebas  wrote:
> We?ve had a bunch of new people signing up for the la.pm mailing list so 
> I thought it would be great if you all would introduce yourself. In 
> fact, even if you?re an older member but don?t get a chance to come to 
> meetings too often, etc. this is your time to tell us a little bit about 
> yourself.

I've been lurking on the list for quite a while, but I haven't made it to any 
meetings.  I learned Perl sometime around 1993 (Perl 4 in those days), and I've 
been using it fairly regularly since then.  I work at Yahoo Search Marketing in 
Burbank; most of the production code I work on these days is in C or C++, but I 
often work on things like test harnesses, off-line database dumping scripts, 
etc. in Perl.

-- 
Jeremy Leader
jleader at alumni.caltech.edu
leaderj at yahoo-inc.com (work)

From Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at Ticketmaster.com  Thu Mar  8 11:54:18 2007
From: Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at Ticketmaster.com (Todd Cranston-Cuebas)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 11:54:18 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm] Short Notice!!! LA.pm Tech Talk: 03-12-07: brian d foy
Message-ID: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640F24780B@pasmail3.office.tmcs>

I _know_ that this is short notice, but we have a special guest speaker
in town! brian d foy is here just this weekend and he's volunteered to
give an impromptu TechTalk this Monday night. Please add this to your
calendar.

Do plan to stay after the talk for a quick bite across the street at the
famous Red Rock bar ;) It's a good time to share thoughts, get a chance
to talk to brian, etc.


Mastering Perl


brian d foy will give us an informal presentation
on his new book "Mastering Perl."


A little about our speaker...


brian d foy: An icon in the world of perl! brian is known as the man to
started the perl mongers <http://www.pm.org/>  organization. He's also
the founder and editor of The Perl <http://www.theperlreview.com/>
Review. He's a writer and contributor to many CPAN modules and is
currently a consultant for Stonehenge <http://www.stonehenge.com/>
Consulting Services. For those of you familiar with the classic perl
texts, you will recognize brian as a co-author to the newest editions of
Learning Perl and Intermediate Perl. To piggyback on these great works,
brian will shortly be releasing Mastering Perl (the topic of his talk).

Date / Time :
  Monday, March 12, 20097; 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m

Location:
Ticketmaster Corporate Headquarters
8800 W. Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Practical information you should know....

Please arrive a few minutes early if you can. I realize that traffic can
be difficult in LA but we're going to start as close to 7:00 p.m. as
possible. Ticketmaster is located on the southeast corner of Sunset
Blvd. and Palm Avenue. At night, it is hard to see the 8800 number on
our red brick building so be careful you don't drive past. Parking is
off of Palm Avenue. Please see the map link below for our location. When
you arrive, please pull into our parking structure below our building
unless you like getting parking tickets ;)  Please proceed to the
guard's desk and a Ticketmaster representative take you the movie
theater for this talk.. 

http://www.google.com/maps?f=q
<http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=8800+w.+sunset+blvd.+west+hollyw
ood,+ca&ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=34.092934,-118.380542&spn=0.025482,0.054245>
&hl=en&q=8800+w.+sunset+blvd.+west+hollywood,+ca&ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=34.0929
34,-118.380542&spn=0.025482,0.054245

RSVP Please

Finally, if you plan to attend, please RSVP to tcc at ticketmaster.com and
put "la.pm TechTalk" in the subject line. It is very helpful for us to
know how many people will arrive so we can make the necessary plans.

If you have any other questions, you can contact me directly.

Todd Cranston-Cuebas
310-360-2436
 <mailto:tcc at ticketmaster.com> tcc at ticketmaster.com

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From pete at peterbenjamin.com  Fri Mar  9 19:49:27 2007
From: pete at peterbenjamin.com (Peter Benjamin)
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:49:27 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm] web session tracker recommendation?
In-Reply-To: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640F24780B@pasmail3.office.t mcs>
References: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640F24780B@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
Message-ID: <200703100352.TAA12078@ns1.peterbenjamin.com>


I've built the prototype search engine for a new database
in perl, and now wish to add session tracking for a 
value added advance search subscription level.

Got any recommendations?  CPAN is full of such and years
ago picking one was easy, now I've found it hit and miss,
more miss, until I get a recommendation.


From ask at develooper.com  Fri Mar  9 20:41:00 2007
From: ask at develooper.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ask_Bj=F8rn_Hansen?=)
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 20:41:00 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm] web session tracker recommendation?
In-Reply-To: <200703100352.TAA12078@ns1.peterbenjamin.com>
References: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640F24780B@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
	<200703100352.TAA12078@ns1.peterbenjamin.com>
Message-ID: <F5F8B608-BDD1-45C9-9D97-35F656AEEAB9@develooper.com>


On Mar 9, 2007, at 7:49 PM, Peter Benjamin wrote:

> I've built the prototype search engine for a new database
> in perl, and now wish to add session tracking for a
> value added advance search subscription level.

Cookies, your regular database and memcached!

Come to my talk later in the month for more details.   :-)


  - ask

-- 
http://develooper.com/ - http://askask.com/



From hayter at usc.edu  Fri Mar  9 21:32:57 2007
From: hayter at usc.edu (Carl Hayter)
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:32:57 -0800
Subject: [LA.pm] New Members: Introduce Yourself!
In-Reply-To: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
References: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
Message-ID: <20070310053257.GF1434@usc.edu>

> Your name

Carl Hayter

> Your experience level with perl

Since about 1997 or so.  Many many years ago I saw some Perl and was not
impressed.  "Just awk and sed and sh." all thrown together...  this was
around 1990 or so.

Years later when I started working for The University of Southern California
in the 'University Computing Services', or 'Information Services Division',
or 'Information Technology Services', or ??? (depending on the current
management mood :).  Anyway, some of the CLI tools didn't do what I expected
them to do and I went looking for a scripting language to make them do what
I expected.  While I thought I would end up with TCL/Expect, for some reason
I looked at Perl again and was hooked.

I read a couple of books, started hanging around on PerlMonks.org (aka.
zengargoyle), and *presto*, I like Perl, a lot, I use it almost every day.

Lately I've been dabbling in Erlang (to hack my ejabberd XMPP servers) and
trying to learn Haskell (thanks to Pugs for the introduction).  I eagerly
and sometimes impatiently await Perl 6. :)

> What you hope to get from this group?

I've only been to one meeting, but I wish to attend more often.  It just
seems that sometimes the meeting is far away, and other times when I would
go (like the next scheduled meeting), I'll be out of town at a conference.

----
Carl Hayter
ITS - Data Network Operations
University of Southern California
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From pablo at paeli.com  Tue Mar 13 11:46:17 2007
From: pablo at paeli.com (Pablo Velasquez)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:46:17 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] webcast of tech talks
In-Reply-To: <20070310053257.GF1434@usc.edu>
References: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
	<20070310053257.GF1434@usc.edu>
Message-ID: <200703131146.17442.pablo@paeli.com>

Do you guys know of any perl mongers group that does broadcasting of their 
tech talks in any way?

For example podcasts/video broadcasts, etc.

I know there are a lot of perl people in LA but with traffic being what it is, 
it's not easy to go to the tech talks. So I was wondering if there is a way 
to bring the tech talks to the people (the mountain comes to you deal). 

There are certainly barriers to that idea for example:
1. the speaker might not want to be recorded on video/audio
2. if people ask questions you need a release form 

And there are certainly a lot of ways of doing this, live broadcast, so the 
feed goes away after that, or audio only, etc.

Anyway, just brainstorming on how LA perl folks can get more out of these 
visits by great perl speakers...

-Pablo



From merlyn at stonehenge.com  Tue Mar 13 12:04:06 2007
From: merlyn at stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:04:06 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] webcast of tech talks
In-Reply-To: <200703131146.17442.pablo@paeli.com> (Pablo Velasquez's message
	of "Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:46:17 -0700")
References: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
	<20070310053257.GF1434@usc.edu> <200703131146.17442.pablo@paeli.com>
Message-ID: <86tzwpt17d.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

>>>>> "Pablo" == Pablo Velasquez <pablo at paeli.com> writes:

Pablo> Do you guys know of any perl mongers group that does broadcasting of
Pablo> their tech talks in any way?

Pablo> For example podcasts/video broadcasts, etc.

I'm sure Josh at perlcast.com wouldn't mind additional content for his
feed, presuming it's good quality and minimal work on his part.

-- 
Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095
<merlyn at stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>
Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc.
See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

From naterajj at gmail.com  Tue Mar 13 12:05:34 2007
From: naterajj at gmail.com (Juan Jose Natera)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:05:34 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] webcast of tech talks
In-Reply-To: <200703131146.17442.pablo@paeli.com>
References: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
	<20070310053257.GF1434@usc.edu> <200703131146.17442.pablo@paeli.com>
Message-ID: <349627440703131205q49a6b29bn420e927eda3e6eb6@mail.gmail.com>

On 3/13/07, Pablo Velasquez <pablo at paeli.com> wrote:
> Do you guys know of any perl mongers group that does broadcasting of their
> tech talks in any way?
>
> For example podcasts/video broadcasts, etc.
>
> I know there are a lot of perl people in LA but with traffic being what it is,
> it's not easy to go to the tech talks. So I was wondering if there is a way
> to bring the tech talks to the people (the mountain comes to you deal).
>
> There are certainly barriers to that idea for example:
> 1. the speaker might not want to be recorded on video/audio
> 2. if people ask questions you need a release form
>
> And there are certainly a lot of ways of doing this, live broadcast, so the
> feed goes away after that, or audio only, etc.
>
> Anyway, just brainstorming on how LA perl folks can get more out of these
> visits by great perl speakers...

Pablo this is a really good idea, they did it for YAPC::NA 2005, it
was very nice for those of us that couldn't attend. (I have the CD
ISOs of YAPC::NA 2005 if someone wants a copy)

I suggest there should be a delay between the presentation and the
availability of the media, to reward those that show up. Otherwise, It
might encourage people not to attend to the meetings.

Juan


>
> -Pablo
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Losangeles-pm mailing list
> Losangeles-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm
>

From pablo at paeli.com  Tue Mar 13 14:43:11 2007
From: pablo at paeli.com (Pablo Velasquez)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:43:11 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] webcast of tech talks
In-Reply-To: <349627440703131205q49a6b29bn420e927eda3e6eb6@mail.gmail.com>
References: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FF33C29@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
	<200703131146.17442.pablo@paeli.com>
	<349627440703131205q49a6b29bn420e927eda3e6eb6@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <200703131443.11613.pablo@paeli.com>

Juan,
I wouldn't mind taking a look at those talks, also to see the quality and 
such, to see what we might be aiming for. 

I'm okay with adding the delay, which I think will have to happen anyway due 
to the process of putting everything online, etc.

Also, has anyone done this, how might this work? I'm thinking it's going to 
take more than a webcam and a laptop, but hey, maybe that's all that's 
needed...

-Pablo

On Tuesday 13 March 2007 12:05:34 pm Juan Jose Natera wrote:
> Pablo this is a really good idea, they did it for YAPC::NA 2005, it
> was very nice for those of us that couldn't attend. (I have the CD
> ISOs of YAPC::NA 2005 if someone wants a copy)
>
> I suggest there should be a delay between the presentation and the
> availability of the media, to reward those that show up. Otherwise, It
> might encourage people not to attend to the meetings.
>
> Juan




From Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at Ticketmaster.com  Tue Mar 13 14:54:05 2007
From: Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at Ticketmaster.com (Todd Cranston-Cuebas)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:54:05 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] webcast of tech talks
In-Reply-To: <200703131443.11613.pablo@paeli.com>
Message-ID: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FFFE842@pasmail3.office.tmcs>

I'll talk to friends over the UUASC. I do think that they worked out the
details of making their talks "public." I'll let you all know what I
find out.

Todd

-----Original Message-----
From: losangeles-pm-bounces+tcc=ticketmaster.com at pm.org
[mailto:losangeles-pm-bounces+tcc=ticketmaster.com at pm.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 2:43 PM
To: losangeles-pm at pm.org
Subject: Re: [LA.pm] webcast of tech talks

Juan,
I wouldn't mind taking a look at those talks, also to see the quality
and 
such, to see what we might be aiming for. 

I'm okay with adding the delay, which I think will have to happen anyway
due 
to the process of putting everything online, etc.

Also, has anyone done this, how might this work? I'm thinking it's going
to 
take more than a webcam and a laptop, but hey, maybe that's all that's 
needed...

-Pablo

On Tuesday 13 March 2007 12:05:34 pm Juan Jose Natera wrote:
> Pablo this is a really good idea, they did it for YAPC::NA 2005, it
> was very nice for those of us that couldn't attend. (I have the CD
> ISOs of YAPC::NA 2005 if someone wants a copy)
>
> I suggest there should be a delay between the presentation and the
> availability of the media, to reward those that show up. Otherwise, It
> might encourage people not to attend to the meetings.
>
> Juan



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From elvis at elvisware.com  Tue Mar 13 14:57:40 2007
From: elvis at elvisware.com (Ron Stephan)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:57:40 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] webcast of tech talks
In-Reply-To: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FFFE842@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
Message-ID: <20070313215742.585805378A0@mailspool2.panix.com>



I have tons of sound gear (mics mixers etc) in my shop - if that is an issue.

(Naturally - I didn't make it last night to the meeting - another problem entirely).



Ron "Elvis" Stephan









-----Original Message-----
From: losangeles-pm-bounces+elvis=elvisware.com at pm.org [mailto:losangeles-pm-bounces+elvis=elvisware.com at pm.org] On Behalf Of Todd
Cranston-Cuebas
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 2:54 PM
To: pablo at paeli.com; losangeles-pm at pm.org
Subject: Re: [LA.pm] webcast of tech talks

I'll talk to friends over the UUASC. I do think that they worked out the
details of making their talks "public." I'll let you all know what I
find out.

Todd

-----Original Message-----
From: losangeles-pm-bounces+tcc=ticketmaster.com at pm.org
[mailto:losangeles-pm-bounces+tcc=ticketmaster.com at pm.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 2:43 PM
To: losangeles-pm at pm.org
Subject: Re: [LA.pm] webcast of tech talks

Juan,
I wouldn't mind taking a look at those talks, also to see the quality
and 
such, to see what we might be aiming for. 

I'm okay with adding the delay, which I think will have to happen anyway
due 
to the process of putting everything online, etc.

Also, has anyone done this, how might this work? I'm thinking it's going
to 
take more than a webcam and a laptop, but hey, maybe that's all that's 
needed...

-Pablo

On Tuesday 13 March 2007 12:05:34 pm Juan Jose Natera wrote:
> Pablo this is a really good idea, they did it for YAPC::NA 2005, it
> was very nice for those of us that couldn't attend. (I have the CD
> ISOs of YAPC::NA 2005 if someone wants a copy)
>
> I suggest there should be a delay between the presentation and the
> availability of the media, to reward those that show up. Otherwise, It
> might encourage people not to attend to the meetings.
>
> Juan



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From p at chudpi.org  Tue Mar 13 15:15:33 2007
From: p at chudpi.org (pete)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:15:33 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] webcast of tech talks
In-Reply-To: <20070313215742.585805378A0@mailspool2.panix.com>
References: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FFFE842@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
	<20070313215742.585805378A0@mailspool2.panix.com>
Message-ID: <4ad4005e0703131515v4fc9811bodba0a58b6c6c70cc@mail.gmail.com>

I think the ability to share TechTalkCasts would be great, especially
for the smaller and brand new pm groups.
I'm keeping my old MadMongers (from Madison, WI) group up to date on
this conversation.
If any of you have ties to another pm group elsewhere in the world,
please include them too.

Let's come up with some ideas for making the TechTalkCasts widely
available, for example:
- BitTorrents,
- P2P file sharing networks,
- A central repository on or linked at pm.org (would the Perl
Foundation be interested in funding such effort? Would people be
interested in setting up and administering the repos?)
- Each PM group responsible for maintaining their own casts.
...
Other ideas, suggestions?
It would be great if we could make this happen as a community.

Cheers.
Pete.


On 3/13/07, Ron Stephan <elvis at elvisware.com> wrote:
> I have tons of sound gear (mics mixers etc) in my shop - if that is an issue.
>
> (Naturally - I didn't make it last night to the meeting - another problem entirely).
>
>
>
> Ron "Elvis" Stephan
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: losangeles-pm-bounces+elvis=elvisware.com at pm.org [mailto:losangeles-pm-bounces+elvis=elvisware.com at pm.org] On Behalf Of Todd
> Cranston-Cuebas
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 2:54 PM
> To: pablo at paeli.com; losangeles-pm at pm.org
> Subject: Re: [LA.pm] webcast of tech talks
>
> I'll talk to friends over the UUASC. I do think that they worked out the
> details of making their talks "public." I'll let you all know what I
> find out.
>
> Todd
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: losangeles-pm-bounces+tcc=ticketmaster.com at pm.org
> [mailto:losangeles-pm-bounces+tcc=ticketmaster.com at pm.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 2:43 PM
> To: losangeles-pm at pm.org
> Subject: Re: [LA.pm] webcast of tech talks
>
> Juan,
> I wouldn't mind taking a look at those talks, also to see the quality
> and
> such, to see what we might be aiming for.
>
> I'm okay with adding the delay, which I think will have to happen anyway
> due
> to the process of putting everything online, etc.
>
> Also, has anyone done this, how might this work? I'm thinking it's going
> to
> take more than a webcam and a laptop, but hey, maybe that's all that's
> needed...
>
> -Pablo
>
> On Tuesday 13 March 2007 12:05:34 pm Juan Jose Natera wrote:
> > Pablo this is a really good idea, they did it for YAPC::NA 2005, it
> > was very nice for those of us that couldn't attend. (I have the CD
> > ISOs of YAPC::NA 2005 if someone wants a copy)
> >
> > I suggest there should be a delay between the presentation and the
> > availability of the media, to reward those that show up. Otherwise, It
> > might encourage people not to attend to the meetings.
> >
> > Juan
>
>
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From naterajj at gmail.com  Tue Mar 13 16:00:29 2007
From: naterajj at gmail.com (Juan Jose Natera)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:00:29 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] webcast of tech talks
In-Reply-To: <4ad4005e0703131515v4fc9811bodba0a58b6c6c70cc@mail.gmail.com>
References: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FFFE842@pasmail3.office.tmcs>
	<20070313215742.585805378A0@mailspool2.panix.com>
	<4ad4005e0703131515v4fc9811bodba0a58b6c6c70cc@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <349627440703131600p53a4dab6w486852aaf12d9e01@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

> Let's come up with some ideas for making the TechTalkCasts widely
> available, for example:
> - BitTorrents,
> - P2P file sharing networks,
> - A central repository on or linked at pm.org (would the Perl
> Foundation be interested in funding such effort? Would people be
> interested in setting up and administering the repos?)
> - Each PM group responsible for maintaining their own casts.
> ...
> Other ideas, suggestions?
> It would be great if we could make this happen as a community.


The organizers of SCALE were discussing a similar issue recently, one
of the ideas suggested was to use YouTube / Google Video.

I think a system that acted like a public directory, where each PM can
manage links to their tech talks uploaded to the PM's preferred
service would require very light resources from TPF.

> > I'll talk to friends over the UUASC. I do think that they worked out the
> > details of making their talks "public." I'll let you all know what I

I know they have slides at their website, I am not sure about audio / video.

Juan

From Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at Ticketmaster.com  Wed Mar 14 10:24:49 2007
From: Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at Ticketmaster.com (Todd Cranston-Cuebas)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:24:49 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] webcast of tech talks
In-Reply-To: <349627440703131600p53a4dab6w486852aaf12d9e01@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <71D28C8451BFD5119B2B00508BE26E640FFFE878@pasmail3.office.tmcs>

I think YouTube is a great idea, but we still have to think through a
bit on the overall issue of privacy and copyright of materials, etc.

Todd

-----Original Message-----
From: losangeles-pm-bounces+tcc=ticketmaster.com at pm.org
[mailto:losangeles-pm-bounces+tcc=ticketmaster.com at pm.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 4:00 PM
To: pete
Cc: losangeles-pm at pm.org
Subject: Re: [LA.pm] webcast of tech talks

Hi,

> Let's come up with some ideas for making the TechTalkCasts widely
> available, for example:
> - BitTorrents,
> - P2P file sharing networks,
> - A central repository on or linked at pm.org (would the Perl
> Foundation be interested in funding such effort? Would people be
> interested in setting up and administering the repos?)
> - Each PM group responsible for maintaining their own casts.
> ...
> Other ideas, suggestions?
> It would be great if we could make this happen as a community.


The organizers of SCALE were discussing a similar issue recently, one
of the ideas suggested was to use YouTube / Google Video.

I think a system that acted like a public directory, where each PM can
manage links to their tech talks uploaded to the PM's preferred
service would require very light resources from TPF.

> > I'll talk to friends over the UUASC. I do think that they worked out
the
> > details of making their talks "public." I'll let you all know what I

I know they have slides at their website, I am not sure about audio /
video.

Juan
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From harry at wozniak.org  Wed Mar 14 23:16:53 2007
From: harry at wozniak.org (harry at wozniak.org)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:16:53 -0600
Subject: [LA.pm] webcast of tech talks
Message-ID: <1276.1173939413@wozniak.org>

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From pablo at paeli.com  Thu Mar 15 12:16:03 2007
From: pablo at paeli.com (Pablo Velasquez)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:16:03 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] webcast of tech talks
In-Reply-To: <1276.1173939413@wozniak.org>
References: <1276.1173939413@wozniak.org>
Message-ID: <200703151216.03845.pablo@paeli.com>

wow, that's a cool service!  we still need to address the copyright/privacy 
issues though, I'm not a lawyer nor play one on tv, so we'll need to ask 
someone about that. I know a tech reporter so I bet he knows something about 
it, I'll send him an e-mail...

On Wednesday 14 March 2007 11:16:53 pm harry at wozniak.org wrote:
>  Stickam.com would be great way to do it live.? Joining the "chat" room
> could be limited to say, friends of LA.pm, or some other regulator.? This
> way it would be interactive for the remote viewers.
>
>  Harry
>
>
>
>  On Wed Mar 14 12:24 , "Todd Cranston-Cuebas"  sent:
>
>
> I think YouTube is a great idea, but we still have to think through a
>  bit on the overall issue of privacy and copyright of materials, etc.
>
>  Todd
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: losangeles-pm-bounces+tcc=ticketmaster.com at pm.org
>  [mailto:losangeles-pm-bounces+tcc=ticketmaster.com at pm.org]
>  Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 4:00 PM
>  To: pete
>  Cc: losangeles-pm at pm.org
>  Subject: Re: [LA.pm] webcast of tech talks
>
>  Hi,
>
>  > Let's come up with some ideas for making the TechTalkCasts widely
>  > available, for example:
>  > - BitTorrents,
>  > - P2P file sharing networks,
>  > - A central repository on or linked at pm.org (would the Perl
>  > Foundation be interested in funding such effort? Would people be
>  > interested in setting up and administering the repos?)
>  > - Each PM group responsible for maintaining their own casts.
>  > ...
>  > Other ideas, suggestions?
>  > It would be great if we could make this happen as a community.
>
>  The organizers of SCALE were discussing a similar issue recently, one
>  of the ideas suggested was to use YouTube / Google Video.
>
>  I think a system that acted like a public directory, where each PM can
>  manage links to their tech talks uploaded to the PM's preferred
>  service would require very light resources from TPF.
>
>  > > I'll talk to friends over the UUASC. I do think that they worked out
>
>  the
>
>  > > details of making their talks "public." I'll let you all know what I
>
>  I know they have slides at their website, I am not sure about audio /
>  video.
>
>  Juan
>  _______________________________________________
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>  Losangeles-pm at pm.org
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From zrusilla at mac.com  Wed Mar 21 00:23:20 2007
From: zrusilla at mac.com (zrusilla at mac.com)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:23:20 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] OMG! I walked out on my check!
Message-ID: <7b3fc36ec814530fda570119bcd3bb04@mac.com>

I got all the way to Oxnard before I realized that I didn't pay my bill 
at the Red Rock.   Who picked up my freight? I owe you!

Liz


From ask at develooper.com  Wed Mar 21 01:34:38 2007
From: ask at develooper.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ask_Bj=F8rn_Hansen?=)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:34:38 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] OMG! I walked out on my check!
In-Reply-To: <7b3fc36ec814530fda570119bcd3bb04@mac.com>
References: <7b3fc36ec814530fda570119bcd3bb04@mac.com>
Message-ID: <4FE5E528-FBB4-4A4F-816B-97E6EB29EF21@develooper.com>


On Mar 21, 2007, at 0:23, zrusilla at mac.com wrote:

> I got all the way to Oxnard before I realized that I didn't pay my  
> bill
> at the Red Rock.   Who picked up my freight? I owe you!

Unless you had A LOT of food and drinks it wasn't just you!

Our friendly friends Sean and Jay (I hope I got that right) from San  
Diego picked up the slack, so we owe them a good stack of beer.

Thanks for coming out everyone - especially those of you who trekked  
from far up and down the coast, I am most impressed!  :-)

The slides will be here in a few minutes,

    http://develooper.com/talks/Real-World-Scalability-LA-PM-2007-r9.pdf

Please don't link to them or forward them outside LA.pm (for now).   
If you want to make a link, make it to http://develooper.com/talks/  
where they'll show up later...


    - ask

-- 
http://develooper.com/ - http://askask.com/



From ask at develooper.com  Wed Mar 21 16:01:10 2007
From: ask at develooper.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ask_Bj=F8rn_Hansen?=)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:01:10 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] OMG! I walked out on my check!
In-Reply-To: <4FE5E528-FBB4-4A4F-816B-97E6EB29EF21@develooper.com>
References: <7b3fc36ec814530fda570119bcd3bb04@mac.com>
	<4FE5E528-FBB4-4A4F-816B-97E6EB29EF21@develooper.com>
Message-ID: <B5A2B027-B44E-477D-A4A8-1732EA85016B@develooper.com>


On Mar 21, 2007, at 1:34, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote:

> The slides will be here in a few minutes,
>
>     http://develooper.com/talks/Real-World-Scalability-LA-PM-2007- 
> r9.pdf
>
> Please don't link to them or forward them outside LA.pm (for now).
> If you want to make a link, make it to http://develooper.com/talks/
> where they'll show up later...

Eh, now the slides are actually there.

Who was the guy in the back in the white shirt?   Are you subscribed  
here?  Does anyone know him?    I wanted to say hello but then he was  
gone!


  - ask

-- 
http://develooper.com/ - http://askask.com/



From cnk at caltech.edu  Wed Mar 21 16:19:04 2007
From: cnk at caltech.edu (Cynthia Kiser)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:19:04 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] OMG! I walked out on my check!
In-Reply-To: <B5A2B027-B44E-477D-A4A8-1732EA85016B@develooper.com>
References: <7b3fc36ec814530fda570119bcd3bb04@mac.com>
	<4FE5E528-FBB4-4A4F-816B-97E6EB29EF21@develooper.com>
	<B5A2B027-B44E-477D-A4A8-1732EA85016B@develooper.com>
Message-ID: <20070321231904.GN4400@clyde.caltech.edu>

Quoting Ask Bj?rn Hansen <ask at develooper.com>:
> Eh, now the slides are actually there.

Thanks Ask. That was a terrific talk. The slides will be a real
help. I also wish I had a recording - or was going to the MySQL
conference. 

> Who was the guy in the back in the white shirt?   Are you subscribed  
> here?  Does anyone know him?    I wanted to say hello but then he was  
> gone!

The guy who was being so helpful about load balancers and caching
engines? Don't know. Please identify yourself so I can say thanks. 

-- 
Cynthia Kiser
cnk at caltech.edu


From max.clark at gmail.com  Wed Mar 21 17:29:03 2007
From: max.clark at gmail.com (Max Clark)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:29:03 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] OMG! I walked out on my check!
In-Reply-To: <20070321231904.GN4400@clyde.caltech.edu>
References: <7b3fc36ec814530fda570119bcd3bb04@mac.com>
	<4FE5E528-FBB4-4A4F-816B-97E6EB29EF21@develooper.com>
	<B5A2B027-B44E-477D-A4A8-1732EA85016B@develooper.com>
	<20070321231904.GN4400@clyde.caltech.edu>
Message-ID: <2fa1e1780703211729o54bc1e2cq757e7c79d30a3@mail.gmail.com>

Ask,

It's always fun to see this talk - I caught it the first time at OSCON
in San Diego and really solidified for me ideas that I had and a path
to work down.

I kinda feel like I should pound on this a little more - the use of a
proxy in front of the application server is the #1 optimization item
(bang for the buck) you can implement. If you are not already doing
it, just move your main Apache instance to a different port and use
mod_proxy - it's an extremely simple hack and goes a long way.

We are currently using Squid as our main proxy of choice (I am going
to be looking at perlbal and Varnish this weekend). I like Squid
because we can cluster the caches and share objects between the nodes.
If you haven't already done so, check out this article from etoys.com
http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/596 it's a little dated but drives home
Ask's points from last night.

This specific proxy server is a dual 3 ghz, 4GB Ram, 2x 73 GB 15k RPM
drives (way overkill but the budgeting process for this site dictates
that the hardware lasts 5 years so we bought big). It's not very busy
now, but I've seen our open connections to port 80 exceed 5000 with
the load average under 1.00. I think the sweetspot would be a single
CPU, 1-2 GB Ram, and a single 15k RPM drive - don't invest in
redundancy on the proxy tier, just by multiple machines.

proxy01# uptime
5:12PM  up 46 days, 23:14, 2 users, load averages: 0.16, 0.19, 0.22
proxy01# ps ax | grep squid | wc -l
      48
proxy01# ps ax | grep rd.pl | wc -l
      46
proxy01# netstat -na | grep 80 | wc -l
     828

My _favorite_ load balancers on the market right now are the Foundry
ServerIron FCSLB8, if you can spend a little more purchase the XL
version. You can find these all day long for $2k and they are worth 10
times that. Don't let the number of ethernet ports discourage you, you
will only use one of them. We have these all over the city pushing
incredible amounts of traffic.

Ask is dead on with PF and pfsync on FreeBSD, we've maxed out single
CPU firewalls at a little over 700 Mbit of throughput. pfsense
(http://www.pfsense.com/) is awesome if you are console shy.

Sorry I missed food, I was late for another engagement. My work
contact info is below - it's a little more reliable than gmail :)

-Max

Max Clark
Creative Thought, Inc.
(800)281-2149 x 3874
(866)369-0953 24/7 Support
max at cthought.com

Check out our stats!
http://stats.cthought.com/ & http://stats.cthought.com/smokeping.cgi

On 3/21/07, Cynthia Kiser <cnk at caltech.edu> wrote:
> Quoting Ask Bj?rn Hansen <ask at develooper.com>:
> > Eh, now the slides are actually there.
>
> Thanks Ask. That was a terrific talk. The slides will be a real
> help. I also wish I had a recording - or was going to the MySQL
> conference.
>
> > Who was the guy in the back in the white shirt?   Are you subscribed
> > here?  Does anyone know him?    I wanted to say hello but then he was
> > gone!
>
> The guy who was being so helpful about load balancers and caching
> engines? Don't know. Please identify yourself so I can say thanks.
>
> --
> Cynthia Kiser
> cnk at caltech.edu
>
> _______________________________________________
> Losangeles-pm mailing list
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From zrusilla at mac.com  Wed Mar 21 18:47:56 2007
From: zrusilla at mac.com (zrusilla at mac.com)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:47:56 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] OMG! I walked out on my check!
In-Reply-To: <20070321231904.GN4400@clyde.caltech.edu>
References: <7b3fc36ec814530fda570119bcd3bb04@mac.com>
	<4FE5E528-FBB4-4A4F-816B-97E6EB29EF21@develooper.com>
	<B5A2B027-B44E-477D-A4A8-1732EA85016B@develooper.com>
	<20070321231904.GN4400@clyde.caltech.edu>
Message-ID: <a66160894285d2f3d620e7a52a190dc4@mac.com>

And give a tech talk!   I really want to hear more, too.


>
> The guy who was being so helpful about load balancers and caching
> engines? Don't know. Please identify yourself so I can say thanks. 


From zrusilla at mac.com  Wed Mar 21 18:58:38 2007
From: zrusilla at mac.com (zrusilla at mac.com)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:58:38 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] Puppet
Message-ID: <e8ad75462469e4ca7b0093141c46397a@mac.com>

Ask mentioned Puppet briefly in his talk last night.  According to 
lalugs, org  LiLAX is having a presentation on it, but the LiLAX site 
http://lilax.net/meetings.shtml mentions clustered FS as the topic, so 
we should confirm.

 From lalugs.org:

Saturday 14 10-2PM Puppet, Ryan Liebenberg LiLAX.net Puppet lets you 
centrally manage every important aspect of your system using a 
cross-platform specification language that manages all the separate 
elements normally aggregated in different files, like users, cron jobs, 
and hosts, along with obviously discrete elements like packages, 
services, and files.


Liz


"Subscriber acknowledges that the Internet is an unsecured, unstable, 
unregulated, disorganized and unreliable environment."  --Library of 
Congress


From tan.dalat at gmail.com  Thu Mar 22 00:46:06 2007
From: tan.dalat at gmail.com (Tan)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:46:06 -0700
Subject: [LA.pm] OMG! I walked out on my check!
In-Reply-To: <2fa1e1780703211729o54bc1e2cq757e7c79d30a3@mail.gmail.com>
References: <7b3fc36ec814530fda570119bcd3bb04@mac.com>
	<4FE5E528-FBB4-4A4F-816B-97E6EB29EF21@develooper.com>
	<B5A2B027-B44E-477D-A4A8-1732EA85016B@develooper.com>
	<20070321231904.GN4400@clyde.caltech.edu>
	<2fa1e1780703211729o54bc1e2cq757e7c79d30a3@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <46db37260703220046w5d180f91g97ce2d4e93580810@mail.gmail.com>

Speaking of proxies, the young nginx has gained enormous growth lately. Has
anyone had any experience with it? It's particularly popular among rails
apps due to its blazing performance with mongrel instances serving as
backend application servers.

http://nginx.net/
http://survey.netcraft.com/Reports/200703/   (~170K sites - 4X from a year
ago)
http://survey.netcraft.com/Reports/200603/  (~43K sites)

On 3/21/07, Max Clark <max.clark at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ask,
>
> It's always fun to see this talk - I caught it the first time at OSCON
> in San Diego and really solidified for me ideas that I had and a path
> to work down.
>
> I kinda feel like I should pound on this a little more - the use of a
> proxy in front of the application server is the #1 optimization item
> (bang for the buck) you can implement. If you are not already doing
> it, just move your main Apache instance to a different port and use
> mod_proxy - it's an extremely simple hack and goes a long way.
>
> We are currently using Squid as our main proxy of choice (I am going
> to be looking at perlbal and Varnish this weekend). I like Squid
> because we can cluster the caches and share objects between the nodes.
> If you haven't already done so, check out this article from etoys.com
> http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/596 it's a little dated but drives home
> Ask's points from last night.
>
> This specific proxy server is a dual 3 ghz, 4GB Ram, 2x 73 GB 15k RPM
> drives (way overkill but the budgeting process for this site dictates
> that the hardware lasts 5 years so we bought big). It's not very busy
> now, but I've seen our open connections to port 80 exceed 5000 with
> the load average under 1.00. I think the sweetspot would be a single
> CPU, 1-2 GB Ram, and a single 15k RPM drive - don't invest in
> redundancy on the proxy tier, just by multiple machines.
>
> proxy01# uptime
> 5:12PM  up 46 days, 23:14, 2 users, load averages: 0.16, 0.19, 0.22
> proxy01# ps ax | grep squid | wc -l
>       48
> proxy01# ps ax | grep rd.pl | wc -l
>       46
> proxy01# netstat -na | grep 80 | wc -l
>      828
>
> My _favorite_ load balancers on the market right now are the Foundry
> ServerIron FCSLB8, if you can spend a little more purchase the XL
> version. You can find these all day long for $2k and they are worth 10
> times that. Don't let the number of ethernet ports discourage you, you
> will only use one of them. We have these all over the city pushing
> incredible amounts of traffic.
>
> Ask is dead on with PF and pfsync on FreeBSD, we've maxed out single
> CPU firewalls at a little over 700 Mbit of throughput. pfsense
> (http://www.pfsense.com/) is awesome if you are console shy.
>
> Sorry I missed food, I was late for another engagement. My work
> contact info is below - it's a little more reliable than gmail :)
>
> -Max
>
> Max Clark
> Creative Thought, Inc.
> (800)281-2149 x 3874
> (866)369-0953 24/7 Support
> max at cthought.com
>
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>
> On 3/21/07, Cynthia Kiser <cnk at caltech.edu> wrote:
> > Quoting Ask Bj?rn Hansen <ask at develooper.com>:
> > > Eh, now the slides are actually there.
> >
> > Thanks Ask. That was a terrific talk. The slides will be a real
> > help. I also wish I had a recording - or was going to the MySQL
> > conference.
> >
> > > Who was the guy in the back in the white shirt?   Are you subscribed
> > > here?  Does anyone know him?    I wanted to say hello but then he was
> > > gone!
> >
> > The guy who was being so helpful about load balancers and caching
> > engines? Don't know. Please identify yourself so I can say thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Cynthia Kiser
> > cnk at caltech.edu
> >
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