From cas at taz.net.au  Sat May  2 20:44:13 2009
From: cas at taz.net.au (Craig Sanders)
Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 13:44:13 +1000
Subject: [Melbourne-pm] Moving to Australia?
In-Reply-To: <CB06E99E-C8E8-46F5-A595-6162814491BA@drewtaylor.com>
References: <CB06E99E-C8E8-46F5-A595-6162814491BA@drewtaylor.com>
Message-ID: <20090503034412.GA31729@taz.net.au>

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 03:36:03PM +0100, Drew Taylor wrote:

> While I don't have a problem going through a clueful recruiter, I'd   
> prefer a direct [...]

Flat Rate Recruitment seem to be a fairly clueful recruiter, judging
from the job ads they occasionally post to the LUV (Linux Users
Victoria) jobs mailing list.

i've never dealt with them personally, but they seem to have a good
attitude.

http://www.FlatRateRecruitment.com.au


and speaking of the LUV jobs list, you might want to subscribe to that.
it's very low volume, only a few posts per month at most. can't remember
the exact sub address right now but you will be able to find it at
http://luv.asn.au/

craig

-- 
craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>

From jarich at perltraining.com.au  Sun May  3 18:08:34 2009
From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson)
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 11:08:34 +1000
Subject: [Melbourne-pm] OSDC 2009 Call For Papers
Message-ID: <49FE4012.1040106@perltraining.com.au>

>From another list, but thought we should know...

------------

I'm please to announce that the call for papers for OSDC 2009 is
officially opened. I would like to invite you to submit a paper and do
a talk at our conference.

This conference is a grassroots style conference designed by developers
for developers.  We're planning to cover Perl, Python, Ruby PHP and Open
Source operating systems.  If you'd like us to cover something else as
well that is Open Source themed, please feel free.

The Call for Papers can be found at:
~     http://2009.osdc.com.au/call-for-papers

The important dates are:
~    Call for Papers Closes      30 June, 2009
~    Proposal acceptance         20 July, 2009
~    Accepted paper submissions  14 September, 2009
~    OSDC 2009 Main Conference!  25th to 27th November, 2009

OSDC 2009 will be held at the Bardon Conference Center in Brisbane this
year. This is a fantastic venue a short drive from the Brisbane CBD,
totally surrounded by lush greenery.

--
Regards,
Stephen Thorne

From melbourne-pm at popcorn.cx  Sun May 10 02:52:03 2009
From: melbourne-pm at popcorn.cx (Stephen Edmonds)
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 19:52:03 +1000
Subject: [Melbourne-pm] Next meeting: Wednesday 13th May 2009
Message-ID: <4A06A3C3.4070200@popcorn.cx>

We have a meeting this week:

    When:   Wednesday, 13th May 2009, 6:30pm

    Where:  Remasys Pty Ltd
            Level 1
            180 Flinders St
            MELBOURNE VIC 3121

    What:   MVCs in Perl: Too many ways to do it (Jacinta)
            + your talk goes here

Thanks,
Stephen

-- 

Stephen Edmonds
Melbourne, Australia

stephen at popcorn.cx
http://popcorn.cx/

From alecclews at gmail.com  Sun May 10 15:48:33 2009
From: alecclews at gmail.com (Alec Clews)
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 08:48:33 +1000
Subject: [Melbourne-pm] Next meeting: Wednesday 13th May 2009
In-Reply-To: <4A06A3C3.4070200@popcorn.cx>
References: <4A06A3C3.4070200@popcorn.cx>
Message-ID: <1241995713.31318.2.camel@k11>

I can do an unscripted 20 mins on "Introduction to Text::Template".

NB V crude as I'm under the pump time wise at the moment.

On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 19:52 +1000, Stephen Edmonds wrote:
> We have a meeting this week:
> 
>     When:   Wednesday, 13th May 2009, 6:30pm
> 
>     Where:  Remasys Pty Ltd
>             Level 1
>             180 Flinders St
>             MELBOURNE VIC 3121
> 
>     What:   MVCs in Perl: Too many ways to do it (Jacinta)
>             + your talk goes here
> 
> Thanks,
> Stephen
> 
-- 
Alec Clews
Personal <alec.clews at gmail.com>                  Melbourne, Australia.
Jabber:  alecclews at jabber.org.au           PGPKey ID: 0x9BBBFC7C
Blog  http://alecthegeek.wordpress.com/



From toby.corkindale at strategicdata.com.au  Tue May 12 19:14:34 2009
From: toby.corkindale at strategicdata.com.au (Toby Corkindale)
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 12:14:34 +1000
Subject: [Melbourne-pm] XML::LibXML HTML parsing regression
Message-ID: <4A0A2D0A.2000606@strategicdata.com.au>

Hey guys,
Just something to watch out for if you use XML::LibXML for parsing XHTML..
There's a regresssion that occured in all versions after 1.66, whereby 
the (x)html parsing mode is broken..
(I reported this some time back when I noticed it.. but it doesn't seem 
to have had any response for quite a while :(
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=44715
)

I just mention it here now because Ubuntu 9.04 ships with a recent 
version of xml::libxml, and thus if you're upgrading from 8.10 to 9.04 
you'll find your web scraper apps all mysteriously break.
(eg. Those of you with RSS feeds from http://rea.dryft.net will have 
noticed nothing turned up for a couple of days since the weekend. Guess 
what I upgraded then..)

(Debian 5.0 is still on the rather old 1.66 version; so it'll still work 
with xhtml data, but on the other hand you'll have to put up with 
various other bugs..)



If you're hit by this problem, I recommend swapping out XML::LibXML 
entirely for HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath - it's the closest thing to a 
drop-in replacement I could find.
The main caveat is that it doesn't seem to handle character encodings, 
so you'll need to manually faff about with that. (Which is why some, but 
not all, items were showing up on the RSS feeds from last night)


-Toby

From leonie.jennings at adaps.com.au  Tue May 12 23:30:30 2009
From: leonie.jennings at adaps.com.au (Leonie Jennings)
Date: 13 May 2009 02:30:30 -0400
Subject: [Melbourne-pm] Opportunities for OBJECT PERL Programmers....
Message-ID: <992775719.1242196230513.JavaMail.cfservice@webserver53>

Hello,

 

I'm a Senior Recruitment Consultant who is currently looking for an Object Oriented Perl Developer for a 3 - 6 month contract role

with a leading financial corporate in Melbourne's CBD. 

 

If you are interested, or know of anyone who may be interested I would love to hear from you. 

 

I hope you do not mind me using this forum, but I thought it may be of interest to you.  I can assure you that I am an ethical person,

and will not hound you with on-going emails, nor would I pass your resume on to any client without first discussing the details with 

you first. 

 

I will leave it up to you to contact me if you are interested.  Either ring me on (03) 8506 6546 or reply to this email.

 

Other skills required are:



	- 
Database programming - SQL, understanding of how to programmatically interact with databases


	- 

Strong OO development



	- 

Experience with Sybase and/or Oracle databases



	- 
Experience with Unix and Windows 

You can refer to our database for more details.  The reference no. is 6637. 

 

Thanks for your time.

 

Kind regards,

 

Leonie. 

 

 

 





Leonie Jennings

Senior Client Manager
 










 









 



Adaps IT Recruitment
A:  Level 10, 390 St.Kilda Rd, Melbourne, Victoria 3004
T:   (03) 8506 6546
M:  0438 315 896
E:  leonie.jennings at adaps.com.au
W: www.adaps.com.au



 


P
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From jarich at perltraining.com.au  Sun May 24 23:20:34 2009
From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson)
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 16:20:34 +1000
Subject: [Melbourne-pm] White Camel Nominations
Message-ID: <4A1A38B2.6050808@perltraining.com.au>

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> Every year the White Camels are presented for service to the Perl
> community.
> 
> If you look at the previous winners, you'll notice that these are mostly
> unsung heroes, like previous awardee Eric Cholet, the human moderator of
> so many Perl mailing lists, or Jay Hannah, one of the people running
> pm.org (if you ever created/maintained a pm group, chances are that Jay
> walked you through the process).
> 
> Some of these people may be well known, like Allison Randal or Randal
> Schwartz, while others may be complete strangers to at least part of the
> globe, like Josh McAdams or Jay. Some of them may be extreme Perl
> hackers who created the original JAPH, but they actually received this
> award as a recognition for their community contributions to Perl rather
> than for their programming ability.
> 
> That's not to say a great hacker can't receive the award, but you don't
> have to be one in order to be eligible.
> 
> That being said, the nomination process for the 2009 White Camels is now
> open.
> 
> If you think there's someone who deserves a White Camel, this is the
> time for you to send in your nominations. Send them to
> whitecamel-suggestions at pm.org, if possible with a subject along the
> lines of "White Camel Nomination :: $name". Make sure you properly
> identify the nominee and tell us why you think that's a worthy
> nomination.
> 
> Don't go thinking "nah, somebody else will do it" because: a) everybody
> else may be thinking the same, and b) you may state your case
> differently than the next person.
> 
> We'll be receiving nominations until June 21, 2009, by midnight, but
> don't wait up or you'll forget. Do it now!

From toby.corkindale at strategicdata.com.au  Sun May 24 23:51:50 2009
From: toby.corkindale at strategicdata.com.au (Toby Corkindale)
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 16:51:50 +1000
Subject: [Melbourne-pm] FS: Radeon X550, and some other bits and bobs
Message-ID: <4A1A4006.7020702@strategicdata.com.au>

Just a quick heads-up here before I bung this stuff on fleabay..
(I was cleaning out some boxes at home)

Anyone interested in buying:
  * ATI Radeon X550 PCI-Express card, with VGA, DVI and TV-out.
    (Should work with X easily)
  * DVI->VGA adaptors.
  * Hard-drive enclosure, PATA IDE to USB2 and FireWire.
  * Nikon micro-Nikkor 60mm AF-D lens ($550 O.N.O.)
    (Not really Linux related but figure I'd throw it into the email)
  * SCSI adaptors from 80-pin SCA to 68-pin DSUB.
    (Free to a good home if you collect)

Please email me off-list at toby at dryft.net if you're interested.

-Toby

From alecclews at gmail.com  Mon May 25 14:46:34 2009
From: alecclews at gmail.com (Alec Clews)
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 07:46:34 +1000
Subject: [Melbourne-pm] White Camel Nominations
In-Reply-To: <4A1A38B2.6050808@perltraining.com.au>
References: <4A1A38B2.6050808@perltraining.com.au>
Message-ID: <4A1B11BA.4000303@gmail.com>


They forgot to mention the most famous recipient of the White Camel!

For those that don't know it was Jacinta 'jarich' Richardson in 2008.

w00t !!

(and to emphasis the message below, I understand that the original 
nomination was sent in by a local monger with no connections to the 
wider international community -- so get nominating)

>> Every year the White Camels are presented for service to the Perl
>> community.
>>
>> If you look at the previous winners, you'll notice that these are mostly
>> unsung heroes, like previous awardee Eric Cholet, the human moderator of
>> so many Perl mailing lists, or Jay Hannah, one of the people running
>> pm.org (if you ever created/maintained a pm group, chances are that Jay
>> walked you through the process).
>>
>> Some of these people may be well known, like Allison Randal or Randal
>> Schwartz, while others may be complete strangers to at least part of the
>> globe, like Josh McAdams or Jay. Some of them may be extreme Perl
>> hackers who created the original JAPH, but they actually received this
>> award as a recognition for their community contributions to Perl rather
>> than for their programming ability.
>>
>> That's not to say a great hacker can't receive the award, but you don't
>> have to be one in order to be eligible.
>>
>> That being said, the nomination process for the 2009 White Camels is now
>> open.
>>
>> If you think there's someone who deserves a White Camel, this is the
>> time for you to send in your nominations. Send them to
>> whitecamel-suggestions at pm.org, if possible with a subject along the
>> lines of "White Camel Nomination :: $name". Make sure you properly
>> identify the nominee and tell us why you think that's a worthy
>> nomination.
>>
>> Don't go thinking "nah, somebody else will do it" because: a) everybody
>> else may be thinking the same, and b) you may state your case
>> differently than the next person.
>>
>> We'll be receiving nominations until June 21, 2009, by midnight, but
>> don't wait up or you'll forget. Do it now!
>>     
> _______________________________________________
> Melbourne-pm mailing list
> Melbourne-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pm
>   


-- 
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Personal <alec.clews at gmail.com>			Melbourne, Australia.
Jabber:  alecclews at jabber.org.au		PGPKey ID: 0x9BBBFC7C
Blog  http://alecthegeek.wordpress.com/


From scottp at dd.com.au  Thu May 28 18:45:51 2009
From: scottp at dd.com.au (Scott Penrose)
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 11:45:51 +1000
Subject: [Melbourne-pm] Regular Expression test ?
Message-ID: <EMEWEMEW2_DELIMl4RKk37de4114c07974e32f213c3, scottp@dd.com.au,
	D8EEBEAE-4F1A-4DC6-AA43-246AD>

I remember a tool that allowed you to walk through a regular  
expression. Good for testing, but also for teaching.

Anyone remember what it was called?

Scott

From Andrew.Kirkland at its.monash.edu.au  Thu May 28 18:49:29 2009
From: Andrew.Kirkland at its.monash.edu.au (Andrew Kirkland)
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 11:49:29 +1000
Subject: [Melbourne-pm] Regular Expression test ?
In-Reply-To: <OF278FCACF.A2C2B971-ONCA2575C5.0009CCB3@LocalDomain>
References: <OF278FCACF.A2C2B971-ONCA2575C5.0009CCB3@LocalDomain>
Message-ID: <OF19C78383.578F7339-ONCA2575C5.0009F8DC-CA2575C5.000A0627@monash.edu.au>

Hey Scott,

Try the RegEx Coach

http://weitz.de/regex-coach/



From:
Scott Penrose <scottp at dd.com.au>
To:
Melbourne Perlmongers <melbourne-pm at pm.org>
Date:
29/05/09 11:47 AM
Subject:
[Melbourne-pm] Regular Expression test ?



I remember a tool that allowed you to walk through a regular 
expression. Good for testing, but also for teaching.

Anyone remember what it was called?

Scott
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From jarich at perltraining.com.au  Thu May 28 18:57:38 2009
From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson)
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 11:57:38 +1000
Subject: [Melbourne-pm] Regular Expression test ?
In-Reply-To: <EMEWEMEW2_DELIMl4RKk37de4114c07974e32f213c3, scottp@dd.com.au,
	D8EEBEAE-4F1A-4DC6-AA43-246AD>
References: <EMEWEMEW2_DELIMl4RKk37de4114c07974e32f213c3, scottp@dd.com.au,
	D8EEBEAE-4F1A-4DC6-AA43-246AD>
Message-ID: <4A1F4112.3000900@perltraining.com.au>

Scott Penrose wrote:
> I remember a tool that allowed you to walk through a regular expression. 
> Good for testing, but also for teaching.
> 
> Anyone remember what it was called?

We use the RegEx Coach for teaching REs.  http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/

It allows you to see what your regular expression will match, see what 
each capture matches, step through how it's matching etc.  Awesome tool.

	J
	

From melbourne.pm at joshheumann.com  Thu May 28 18:38:38 2009
From: melbourne.pm at joshheumann.com (Josh Heumann)
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 18:38:38 -0700
Subject: [Melbourne-pm] Regular Expression test ?
In-Reply-To: <4A1F4112.3000900@perltraining.com.au>
References: <4A1F4112.3000900@perltraining.com.au>
Message-ID: <20090529013838.GA23860@joshheumann.com>

<quote who='Jacinta Richardson' when='Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:57:38AM +1000'>
> We use the RegEx Coach for teaching REs.  http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/

Other good online tools (good for linux and mac folks) are:

http://jsregex.com/ (clean javascript interface)
http://gskinner.com/RegExr/ (more complicated interface, but better for
teaching)
http://www.strfriend.com/ (for visualisations)

None of these do the step-by-step functionality that RegEx Coach does,
but they do work on any machine with a web browser.

J

From scottp at dd.com.au  Thu May 28 20:33:08 2009
From: scottp at dd.com.au (Scott Penrose)
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 13:33:08 +1000
Subject: [Melbourne-pm] Regular Expression test ?
In-Reply-To: <20090529013838.GA23860@joshheumann.com>
References: <4A1F4112.3000900@perltraining.com.au>
	<20090529013838.GA23860@joshheumann.com>
Message-ID: <EMEWEMEW2_DELIMl4RMXDb899babf11e5fbedcec185, scottp@dd.com.au,
	A2637262-FCE5-459A-9080-4C624>

Thanks everyone, they have been great.

Scott

From swatkins at fastmail.fm  Fri May 29 02:41:27 2009
From: swatkins at fastmail.fm (Sam Watkins)
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 17:41:27 +0800
Subject: [Melbourne-pm] Regular Expression test ?
Message-ID: <20090529094127.GC8291@nipl.net>

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:45:51AM +1000, Scott Penrose wrote:
> I remember a tool that allowed you to walk through a regular  
> expression. Good for testing, but also for teaching.
> 
> Anyone remember what it was called?

apt-cache remembered what it was called :)

There's one called visual-regexp for tcl/tk :)  that's the debian
package name too.

It does seem to be perl compatible I tried a few slightly tricky perl
things on it.

Sam