From naterajj at gmail.com Thu Mar 6 14:31:04 2008 From: naterajj at gmail.com (Juan Jose Natera) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 14:31:04 -0800 Subject: [LA.pm] Tech Meeting @ Pricegrabber - Tuesday, March 18th 7:00pm Message-ID: <349627440803061431o3a814afbq73bcc11c7caa2857@mail.gmail.com> What: Thomas MacNeil will talk about Writing Modules Where: Pricegrabber 10940 Wilshire Blvd., 11th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90024 When: Tuesday, March 18th at 7:00pm About the speaker: Thomas MacNeil has been working in IT professionally as a consultant, developer, architect or manager for the past 15 years. He has worked at both small companies like Vegas.com and large companies like Lockheed Martin, TRW (now Northrop Grumman), and Experian Information Solutions. Thomas is currently the Director of Technology Operations at Pricegrabber, and works to ensure the operational integrity and scalability of the site. About the presentation: Modules let us encapsulate our code and easily share it with others. Yet so many still cut and paste code instead of creating modules. This talk will be a brief overview of namespaces, packages, and symbol tables. Tom will show how with some simple structure and conventions, you too can create clean distributable Perl modules! We'll even build a sample module as we go through the concepts. Good times. About the host: PriceGrabber.com is the leading online comparison shopping site that revolutionized the way consumers make purchasing decisions through the Internet. Since 1999, PriceGrabber.com has received wide recognition as an industry leader, including "2006 Internet Company of the Year" (Southern California Software Council), and #1 comparison shopping site of choice for active Web shoppers (Forrester, 2007). Pricegrabber will be providing pizza and beverages for the attendees. Parking and Building Instructions: Provided by Pricegrabber, please follow these instructions: - Pull into the back of our building (entrance on Ashton Ave.) - There will be a ramp going under the building into the monthly parking area. The gate will be down, so each attendee will have to push the button to ring the parking attendant and let them know they are with Perl Mongers. The Parking attendant will open the gate. They will have to do the same on the way out. - Once parked, take the elevator to level 'G' - Check in w/ the security guard, and let them know they are with Perl Mongers, visiting PriceGrabber.com - Take the next set of elevators to the 11th floor, and that's where the meeting will occur Use the following link for the Google Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=10940+Wilshire+Blvd.+Los+Angeles,+CA+90024&sll=34.02156,-118.32956&sspn=0.048303,0.115871&ie=UTF8&ll=34.058917,-118.33683&spn=0.193128,0.463486&z=12 The LA.pm Team Alyson Lago, Pablo Velasquez, Juan Natera From naterajj at gmail.com Tue Mar 18 07:54:32 2008 From: naterajj at gmail.com (Juan Jose Natera) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:54:32 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] Tech Meeting @ Pricegrabber - Tonight 7:00pm Message-ID: <349627440803180754t4d33ab82qf7735cddba616c31@mail.gmail.com> What: Thomas MacNeil will talk about Writing Modules Where: Pricegrabber 10940 Wilshire Blvd., 11th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90024 When: Tonight!, Tuesday, March 18th at 7:00pm About the speaker: Thomas MacNeil has been working in IT professionally as a consultant, developer, architect or manager for the past 15 years. He has worked at both small companies like Vegas.com and large companies like Lockheed Martin, TRW (now Northrop Grumman), and Experian Information Solutions. Thomas is currently the Director of Technology Operations at Pricegrabber, and works to ensure the operational integrity and scalability of the site. About the presentation: Modules let us encapsulate our code and easily share it with others. Yet so many still cut and paste code instead of creating modules. This talk will be a brief overview of namespaces, packages, and symbol tables. Tom will show how with some simple structure and conventions, you too can create clean distributable Perl modules! We'll even build a sample module as we go through the concepts. Good times. About the host: PriceGrabber.com is the leading online comparison shopping site that revolutionized the way consumers make purchasing decisions through the Internet. Since 1999, PriceGrabber.com has received wide recognition as an industry leader, including "2006 Internet Company of the Year" (Southern California Software Council), and #1 comparison shopping site of choice for active Web shoppers (Forrester, 2007). Pricegrabber will be providing pizza and beverages for the attendees. Parking and Building Instructions: Provided by Pricegrabber, please follow these instructions: - Pull into the back of our building (entrance on Ashton Ave.) - There will be a ramp going under the building into the monthly parking area. The gate will be down, so each attendee will have to push the button to ring the parking attendant and let them know they are with Perl Mongers. The Parking attendant will open the gate. They will have to do the same on the way out. - Once parked, take the elevator to level 'G' - Check in w/ the security guard, and let them know they are with Perl Mongers, visiting PriceGrabber.com - Take the next set of elevators to the 11th floor, and that's where the meeting will occur Use the following link for the Google Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=10940+Wilshire+Blvd.+Los+Angeles,+CA+90024&sll=34.02156,-118.32956&sspn=0.048303,0.115871&ie=UTF8&ll=34.058917,-118.33683&spn=0.193128,0.463486&z=12 The LA.pm Team Alyson Lago, Pablo Velasquez, Juan Natera From naterajj at gmail.com Wed Mar 19 12:10:01 2008 From: naterajj at gmail.com (Juan Jose Natera) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:10:01 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] About last night's meeting Message-ID: <349627440803191210j411c32efn9b97f9d65a9b8bae@mail.gmail.com> Hello all, We had a lot of fun last night at the Pricegrabber meeting, there were more than 30 attendants including a few new faces. We want to thank Jennifer Maness and Pricegrabber for taking care of all the logistics, providing pizza, beer and sodas for all of us. Also, we wanted to thank Thomas MacNeil, the speaker, for a presentation choke-full of good advice, covering the whole process of creating a Module all the way up to its release to CPAN. We look forward to meeting at Pricegrabber again in the future. An announcement about the slides of last night's presentation will follow soon. The LA.pm Team Alyson Lago, Pablo Velasquez, Juan Natera From naterajj at gmail.com Wed Mar 19 17:32:08 2008 From: naterajj at gmail.com (Juan Jose Natera) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:32:08 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] Last night's slides Message-ID: <349627440803191732ub8a8a84n6ae0c9b0a64bd108@mail.gmail.com> Hello all, You can grab the slides of last night's presentation at http://la.pm.org Thanks to Thomas for providing them and to Pablo for uploading them. The LA.pm Team Alyson Lago, Pablo Velasquez, Juan Natera From ask at develooper.com Wed Mar 19 17:45:45 2008 From: ask at develooper.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ask_Bj=F8rn_Hansen?=) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:45:45 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] Last night's slides In-Reply-To: <349627440803191732ub8a8a84n6ae0c9b0a64bd108@mail.gmail.com> References: <349627440803191732ub8a8a84n6ae0c9b0a64bd108@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <7165E397-766D-41BF-8F6E-A19AB6F6F198@develooper.com> On Mar 19, 2008, at 17:32, Juan Jose Natera wrote: > Hello all, > > You can grab the slides of last night's presentation at http://la.pm.org > > Thanks to Thomas for providing them and to Pablo for uploading them. Eeew, powerpoint. No PDF version? :-) - ask -- http://develooper.com/ - http://askask.com/ From naterajj at gmail.com Wed Mar 19 21:12:20 2008 From: naterajj at gmail.com (Juan Jose Natera) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:12:20 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] Summer of Perl -- call for student proposals Message-ID: <349627440803192112x2b5f2b8dv751d55336ec81468@mail.gmail.com> Below is a Message from Eric Wilhelm regarding TPF's participation in Google's SOC #### The Perl Foundation is participating in Google's 2008 Summer of Code(tm) and we have a lot of capable, willing mentors looking forward to working with some talented, driven students. So, we would like you to help find those students (and quickly -- the students must apply before March 31st.) This is a rare opportunity for students to get a chance to get a paid summer of hacking on exciting projects like Parrot, Perl 6, Moose, Jifty, SVK, Catalyst, or their very own Perl modules or applications. It also brings new talent into the community and gives the student a hefty "real world" experience with a knowledgable mentor. Further, employers love to see this sort of demonstration of teamwork, handling deadlines, communication skills, resourcefulness and etc. We're looking for promising students who are interested in open source (or maybe you know someone who *should* be interested in open source.) Knowledge of Perl is optional if the project is Parrot-related. The student doesn't need to be an expert in the problem domain (after all, learning is part of the process), but should bring a big pile of creativity, problem-solving skills, and determination. Students should review the page of suggested projects, but are encouraged to bring their own proposals (those are often the best.) The most important first step is getting in touch with the community and discussing their project idea with potential mentors. http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects Additional information and links can be found here. http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008 Google has posted some flyers if you happen to have a university bulletin board or hallway handy: http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/GsocFlyers Additional info: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html (Note that google has particular requirements to do with the fact that they are paying the students. The student must be able to show their eligibility regarding enrollment and employability.) Remember, the Perl community draws talent from many fields, so if you came to Perl from a non-computer-science major and still have contacts in that department from your university, it is probably worth mentioning to them. Thanks, Eric From naterajj at gmail.com Mon Mar 24 14:53:33 2008 From: naterajj at gmail.com (Juan Jose Natera) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:53:33 -0700 Subject: [LA.pm] Pro Perl Debugging Message-ID: <349627440803241453j29570a90je0c90de7fe98c6d@mail.gmail.com> Hello all, Apress has a promotion called deal of the day, in which you can get the PDF version of one of their books for just $10, today is day of Pro Perl Debugging by Andy Lester and Richard Foley. Here is the link: http://apress.com/info/dailydeal Best regards, Juan Natera From andy at petdance.com Mon Mar 24 14:57:36 2008 From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:57:36 -0500 Subject: [LA.pm] Pro Perl Debugging In-Reply-To: <349627440803241453j29570a90je0c90de7fe98c6d@mail.gmail.com> References: <349627440803241453j29570a90je0c90de7fe98c6d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <517C3030-3680-4B46-920A-4115A5AE5892@petdance.com> On Mar 24, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Juan Jose Natera wrote: > Pro Perl Debugging by Andy Lester and Richard Foley. That's by Richard Foley with Andy Lester. I didn't write much, but was more of a guide. It's still a good book, though! -- Andy Lester => andy at petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance