From elaine at cts.wustl.edu Thu Apr 1 14:42:37 1999 From: elaine at cts.wustl.edu (elaine ashton) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] april fools, etc. In-Reply-To: <199903150622.BAA18753@panix.com> Message-ID: see http://www.pm.org/ for those of you who haven't seen it today :) http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lenzo/yapc/yapc_cfp.txt for the YAPC call for papers. I will be doing a "History of Perl" talk so I encourage anyone who has an idea to pursue it. Abstracts are due at the end of April. It should be a much more intimate and fun conference than TPC...start nagging your boss now! Someone has volunteered to do a logo for us so there is hope for a web page sometime in the not too distant future. Is anyone coming to the Boston Tutorials at the end of April? The Boston.pm will be hosting some fun diversions for those attending :) And lastly....I have seen the worst use of Perl in my life at my job this week. Problem: It was written by my peter pricipled boss who has asked me to 'have a look at it'. I could rewrite this several hundred line monstrosity in about 10 lines. So, should I risk zorching the male ego (prior demonstrated sensitivity to ignorance) or let it go? Imagine a shell script only in Perl :) cheers, e. From lnyman at Census.gov Thu Apr 1 14:50:52 1999 From: lnyman at Census.gov (Lisa Nyman (GEO-CSB)) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] april fools, etc. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi, elaine wrote: > Someone has volunteered to do a logo for us so there is hope for a web > page sometime in the not too distant future. Yes, I hope to get together ideas for a web page soon... > Is anyone coming to the Boston Tutorials at the end of April? The > Boston.pm will be hosting some fun diversions for those attending :) No, but I plan on attending Pittsburgh. > And lastly....I have seen the worst use of Perl in my life at my job this > week. Problem: It was written by my peter pricipled boss who has asked me > to 'have a look at it'. I could rewrite this several hundred line > monstrosity in about 10 lines. So, should I risk zorching the male ego > (prior demonstrated sensitivity to ignorance) or let it go? Imagine a > shell script only in Perl :) I had a user write a 1200 line perl script. The bulk of the script was a loop repeated for each possible case of the looping variable. -lisa From elaine at cts.wustl.edu Thu Apr 1 15:09:38 1999 From: elaine at cts.wustl.edu (elaine ashton) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] april fools, etc. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > > Someone has volunteered to do a logo for us so there is hope for a web > > page sometime in the not too distant future. > > Yes, I hope to get together ideas for a web page soon... Cool. I have a ton of urls and such...the more the merrier. I will be taking a month off here soon so I'll set aside a day to put something together. > > Is anyone coming to the Boston Tutorials at the end of April? The > > Boston.pm will be hosting some fun diversions for those attending :) > > No, but I plan on attending Pittsburgh. Eggcellent. :) It should be quite a bit of fun. > I had a user write a 1200 line perl script. The bulk of the script was a > loop repeated for each possible case of the looping variable. LOL! Those pesky users...what would we do without them? So, is anyone else alive? breathing? still hibernating from the winter? Anything new, old, etc? Exciting projects? Aggravating ones? e. From elaine at cts.wustl.edu Tue Apr 6 15:56:22 1999 From: elaine at cts.wustl.edu (elaine ashton) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] Perl Tools In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I was recommending a favourite monitoring tool to a friend of mine today which has the feature of being writting in Perl. It's called mon and is at http://ftp.kernel.org/software/mon/ So, I was wondering how many such gnu-ish tools exist for the SA and the programmer that are written in Perl and are relatively well known and used. Any others that come to your mind? I'd like to compile a list of said software as I've not see one like it anywhere. Also, the Perl Power Tools Project (PPT) is a pretty cool and interesting thing so far. Have a look at http://language.perl.com/ppt/ e. From lnyman at Census.gov Wed Apr 7 14:47:52 1999 From: lnyman at Census.gov (Lisa Nyman (GEO-CSB)) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] Perl Tools In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi, I use swatch to look at various log files. ftp://ftp.stanford.edu/general/security-tools/swatch/ Lisa W. Nyman Standard Disclaimer applies. +Read the GIS FAQ: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/faq-index.html -Life is too short to wear ugly underwear. "All roads lead somewhere so don't sweat the wrong turns." --me On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, elaine ashton wrote: > So, I was wondering how many such gnu-ish tools exist for the SA and the > programmer that are written in Perl and are relatively well known and > used. Any others that come to your mind? I'd like to compile a list of > said software as I've not see one like it anywhere.