From louis at louishoughton.com Wed Aug 11 10:08:48 2010 From: louis at louishoughton.com (Louis Houghton) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:08:48 +0100 Subject: Introduction Message-ID: <726E917D-7138-474C-B13B-23ED8CD19160@louishoughton.com> Hello, One of the reasons I started looking at Perl was the community so I thought I should get round to e-mailing my local PM group as soon as possible. My name is Louis and I'm a bit of a newbie. I'm currently doing a computing degree part time with the OU whilst working as a trainee database administrator. I decided I wanted to learn to program not too long ago and was directed towards Perl by my long term girlfriend's step dad Dave Cross whom I'm sure a good majority of you will be aware of. As I say I am still very beginner. I've been through Learning Perl twice and I'm currently half way through Intermediate Perl. I'm really enjoying it all so far. I'm hoping that getting some local contacts and coming along to the various meetings will broaden my horizons in all things Perl. So, this is me saying hello... Hello. For a slightly more in depth history here is a blog entry I wrote about starting out... http://www.louishoughton.com/geek/learning-perl/ - Louis Houghton - louis at louishoughton.com - www.louishoughton.com From tom at eborcom.com Thu Aug 12 03:14:10 2010 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:14:10 +0100 Subject: Introduction In-Reply-To: <726E917D-7138-474C-B13B-23ED8CD19160@louishoughton.com> References: <726E917D-7138-474C-B13B-23ED8CD19160@louishoughton.com> Message-ID: <20100812101410.GC34687@eborcom.com> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 06:08:48PM +0100, Louis Houghton wrote: > One of the reasons I started looking at Perl was the community so I > thought I should get round to e-mailing my local PM group as soon as > possible. My name is Louis and I'm a bit of a newbie. Hi, Louis. Welcome to the group. I guess you've seen our Web page at http://miltonkeynes.pm.org/ which explains a little about what we do. Basically, we're an unstructured group where our members make things they care about happen. We hold regular meetings and have this mailing list and an IRC channel. Please discuss anything that interests you; please mention if discussions go in a direction you dislike. Fortunately, we're usually a considerate bunch so the latter rarely happens, but I encourage everyone to let us know when it does. I look forward to meeting you soon. Tom From tom at eborcom.com Thu Aug 12 03:53:41 2010 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:53:41 +0100 Subject: Various Announcements Message-ID: <20100812105341.GD34687@eborcom.com> Hi everyone, As we approach the end of summer after another wonderful YAPC::Europe (featuring the official MiltonKeynes.pm shoe) it's time to start thinking about autumn and beyond. Ian and Tony have organised technical meetings earlier in the year so it's time for me to keep my part of the agreement and organise one in October. If you have done something interesting with Perl recently, please let me know. This year's London Perl Workshop will take place some time in November or December: it's the best chance within a short journey of MK to learn more about Perl and meet lots of interesting people. I expect it will take place on a Saturday. I'd like to encourage more of our regular speakers to offer talks - our October meeting offers an ideal practice session. In other news, OpenTech in London in September looks interesting: http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2010/ I don't know much about this one-day conference in October, but it's nearby in Bletchley Park: http://parlezuml.com/softwarecraftsmanship/ The Perl events group are looking for advocates to discuss Perl with attendees at both those conferences, and others around the world. If you would like to help out please see: https://www.socialtext.net/perl5/index.cgi?events Finally, our usual pub meeting with the Linux User Group takes place on the 31st of August. Please come along for general chat about Perl and various loosely related topics. Tom From cjbradford at gmail.com Thu Aug 26 07:57:26 2010 From: cjbradford at gmail.com (Colin Bradford) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:57:26 +0100 Subject: Meeting: Tuesday 31st August 2010 Message-ID: The monthly MKLUG/MiltonKeynes.pm meet-up is nearly upon us! As ever, it will be held at the Wetherspoons pub, near the railway station (not the one in the snow dome), next door to Chiquitos: http://osm.org/go/eu4qJDHoE-- Starting from 7pm, and going on till the last people stumble off home. We usually inhabit one of the two large curved tables in front of the bar. Feel free to bring your laptop/Linux device along if you want a hand/to show off. Colin. From cjbradford at gmail.com Thu Aug 26 07:57:26 2010 From: cjbradford at gmail.com (Colin Bradford) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:57:26 +0100 Subject: Meeting: Tuesday 31st August 2010 Message-ID: The monthly MKLUG/MiltonKeynes.pm meet-up is nearly upon us! As ever, it will be held at the Wetherspoons pub, near the railway station (not the one in the snow dome), next door to Chiquitos: http://osm.org/go/eu4qJDHoE-- Starting from 7pm, and going on till the last people stumble off home. We usually inhabit one of the two large curved tables in front of the bar. Feel free to bring your laptop/Linux device along if you want a hand/to show off. Colin. From jj at jonallen.info Mon Aug 30 09:50:42 2010 From: jj at jonallen.info (JJ) Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:50:42 +0100 Subject: Perl developer vacancy at OpusVL Message-ID: Hi, Just a heads up, if anyone is looking for a new job at the moment we've got a vacancy for a Perl developer at OpusVL. [1] We provide Open Source business systems, consultancy, and bespoke software development for a variety of clients, ranging from small local companies to large national retailers. This makes for a very varied, project-based environment with exposure to many different industry sectors. We also supply and customise open source products such as Asterisk and OpenERP. The majority of our Perl development uses Catalyst, Moose, DBIx::Class, Template Toolkit, and HTML::FormFu, so knowledge of these modules would be very beneficial. Additionally, any experience of user interface design or exposure to other languages (e.g. Java or Python [2]) would be a definite bonus. The position is full-time, based at our office in Rugby, which is a short walk from Rugby train station. If you are interested in finding out more, have a chat at the next social meeting or drop me an email to jj at opusvl.com. Cheers, JJ [1] http://www.opusvl.com [2] But we are primarily a Perl shop! :-) -- http://perl.jonallen.info :: http://perldoc.perl.org From louis at louishoughton.com Tue Aug 31 10:14:16 2010 From: louis at louishoughton.com (Louis Houghton) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:14:16 +0200 Subject: Meeting: Tuesday 31st August 2010 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <67386E8F-640E-4B0E-A8A9-3DC1D0E74732@louishoughton.com> I was hoping to come tonight and meet everyone for the first time but due to Easyjet's unrivalled incompetence I am stuck in Slovenia. It doesn't look like I'll be back in MK until long after midnight... Great. I'll look forward to meeting everyone next month and possibly at the Open Tech Conference next week. On 26 Aug 2010, at 16:57, Colin Bradford wrote: > The monthly MKLUG/MiltonKeynes.pm meet-up is nearly upon us! > > As ever, it will be held at the Wetherspoons pub, near the railway > station (not the one in the snow dome), next door to Chiquitos: > > http://osm.org/go/eu4qJDHoE-- > > Starting from 7pm, and going on till the last people stumble off home. > We usually inhabit one of the two large curved tables in front of the bar. > Feel free to bring your laptop/Linux device along if you want a hand/to > show off. > > Colin. I was hoping to come tonight and meet everyone for the first time but due to Easyjet's unrivalled incompetence I am stuck in Slovenia. It doesn't look like I'll be back in MK until long after midnight... Great. I'll look forward to meeting everyone next month and possibly at the Open Tech Conference next week. > _______________________________________________ > MiltonKeynes-pm mailing list > MiltonKeynes-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/miltonkeynes-pm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: