From tom at eborcom.com Wed Sep 1 04:02:21 2010 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 12:02:21 +0100 Subject: Next Technical Meeting (Was: Various Announcements) In-Reply-To: <20100812105341.GD34687@eborcom.com> References: <20100812105341.GD34687@eborcom.com> Message-ID: <20100901110221.GZ48108@eborcom.com> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:53:41AM +0100, Tom Hukins wrote: > 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. It looks like this might take place on Tuesday, 12th October. Please shout if this is inconvenient for you. Currently scheduled talks cover POE, PAR, and Lovefilm's API (all subject to change). Please let me know if you have something to tell us about. Tom From tom at eborcom.com Thu Sep 2 09:10:17 2010 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:10:17 +0100 Subject: Next Technical Meeting (Was: Various Announcements) In-Reply-To: <20100901110221.GZ48108@eborcom.com> References: <20100812105341.GD34687@eborcom.com> <20100901110221.GZ48108@eborcom.com> Message-ID: <20100902161017.GE1781@eborcom.com> On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 12:02:21PM +0100, Tom Hukins wrote: > It looks like this might take place on Tuesday, 12th October. Please > shout if this is inconvenient for you. Ian has booked the usual room at the OU on the 12th so we'll meet then. The 14th celebrates the fifth anniversary of the first post to this mailing list: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/miltonkeynes-pm/2005-October/000000.html So let's celebrate our fifth birthday a little prematurely after the meeting - bring your own jelly and ice cream. Tom From knowledgejunkie at gmail.com Tue Sep 7 17:20:21 2010 From: knowledgejunkie at gmail.com (Nick Morrott) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 01:20:21 +0100 Subject: Next Technical Meeting (Was: Various Announcements) In-Reply-To: <20100901110221.GZ48108@eborcom.com> References: <20100812105341.GD34687@eborcom.com> <20100901110221.GZ48108@eborcom.com> Message-ID: On 1 September 2010 12:02, Tom Hukins wrote: > Currently scheduled talks cover POE, PAR, and Lovefilm's API (all > subject to change). ?Please let me know if you have something to tell > us about. I think I offered a few months ago to do a talk on XMLTV - I can still do it if anyone is interested. Cheers, Nick -- Nick Morrott MythTV Official wiki: http://mythtv.org/wiki/ MythTV users list archive: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin From tom at eborcom.com Wed Sep 15 02:38:44 2010 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:38:44 +0100 Subject: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Workshop 2010 Message-ID: <20100915093844.GB73945@eborcom.com> This year's London Perl Workshop takes place on Saturday 4th December. Please note, the Web site lives at http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2010/ not the address Mark mentions below. Register soon to avoid disappointment - this workshop always marks the high point of the British Perl calendar, it costs nothing to attend and the venue is within walking distance of Euston. See you there! Tom ----- Forwarded message from Mark Keating ----- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:40:00 +0100 From: Mark Keating To: London Announce Subject: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Workshop 2010 List-Archive: List-Subscribe: , It is my pleasure and joy to announce the London Perl Workshop for 2010. *When and Where:* The London Perl Workshop will once again be held at the University of London's Cavendish Campus on Saturday 4th December 2010. I would like to thank Sean Tohill at the University for all of his efforts in securing us the venue. *Theme:* This years theme is Perl Flavours. We would like to accept talks and workshops that centre around the notion of a variety of Perl languages and implementations such as Camelia, Rakudo and Raptor. As always speakers can submit talks on any subject, but talks that focus on our theme will be given a higher priority during any selection process. *Website:* The website will be live very soon on http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2009/ ! * Keynote:* In addition to the fun of submitting a talk, one of the speakers, submitting a talk of 40 minutes, may be selected to give this years Keynote speech. To add a little excitement the talk that best fits this years theme (potentially given by a known experienced speaker, but that is not a condition) will be chosen for the honoured place as the keynote. If you have any questions or queries then please do not hesitate to ask. * Volunteers:* As always we would appreciate a number of volunteers to help with a variety of tasks during the day. If you think you can help and would like to be one of these brave souls then please let Mark know as soon as possible. Some of the volunteers will be needed for: /*Setting up:*/ Making sure the venue is set up in the early morning (around 8-8.30) and helping with the placing of signs, tables, and the arrangment of sponsorship items and registration. /*Talks:*/ A volunteer is needed in each room to time the talk and hold up an appropriate sign warning the speaker of how long they have left, this can be composed from a list of people who are definitely attending a talk (as opposed to an all day volunteer) once the schedule goes up. An alternate idea is to get the speakers in each room to nominate a member of the audience as the "timer" - this will be used if people believe it is the best option. /*Video:*/ There will be video cameras in each of the lecture halls and suitable volunteers are needed to control the cameras, make sure the talks are recorded and give harsh looks to anyone making a noise near the cameras microphone (the use of non-harmful projectile weaponry is being considered ;) ). This year we will be asking all presenters to provide their slides as: Presentation (Open Office or Keynote) Bitmap image, jpeg, gif png etc. SVG Screencast Video format (mpeg etc., - must be timed to fit the presentation though!) Slides will be added to the video of the speakers in post production to provide the best possible experience. Once again contact mdk if you have any questions or queries. All speakers will be asked to sign a Creative Commons Licence for the usage of their presentations. This usage will simply be to promote the conference, Perl community and the Perl language, the videos will be available on sites such as PresentingPerl.org and if possible YAPC.tv. *Sponsors:* As with each year the London Perl Workshop aims to be a 'free' event for those people who attend it. With that in mind we seek each year for a range of sponsors to help support us. If you work for a company that is using Perl who you believe would benefit from the exposure they would gain from being a sponsor of this event then please contact Mark immediately. We are looking for new sponsors each year and new ways in which to enhance their profile and further our event. So please do not hesitate to contact us with a sponsorship idea. As always a group of sponsors have already come forward to set up the "sponsored 'free' beer" at the after-venue event. We will let you know of the details in a future email. *Accommodation:* Each year there is a spur to find cheap rooms in London and with some it is a matter of being given a spare bed/sofa from the local Mongers living in and around London. If you have a spare bed or can put up a fellow Perler for a couple of nights around the conference place yourself on the wiki once it is launched and lets see if we can lessen the cost and broaden the uptake for our conference. If you are looking to try and get to the conference and the barrier is accommodation place your name on the same page and we can hope that someone will offer you a place to rest your weary head. *Announce:* Please forward this mail to any appropriate list that it does not appear on. As always any communication concerning the workshop can be sent to Mark Keating (m.keating(at)shadowcat.co.uk). Your cooperation and participation is, as always, greatly appreciated. -mdk -- Mark Keating BA (Hons) | Writer, Photographer, Cat-Herder Managing Director | Shadowcat Systems Limited Director/Secretary | Enlightened Perl Organisation co-Leader | North West England Perl Mongers http://www.shadowcat.co.uk | http://www.enlightenedperl.org http://northwestengland.pm.org | http://linkedin.com/in/markkeating ----- End forwarded message ----- From andyfrommk at gmail.com Thu Sep 16 10:05:55 2010 From: andyfrommk at gmail.com (Andy Selby) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:05:55 +0100 Subject: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Workshop 2010 In-Reply-To: <20100915093844.GB73945@eborcom.com> References: <20100915093844.GB73945@eborcom.com> Message-ID: > *Website:* > The website will be live very soon on > http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2009/ ! ^^^^^^^^^^^ Is This correct? Andy From dave at dave.org.uk Thu Sep 16 10:17:56 2010 From: dave at dave.org.uk (Dave Cross) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:17:56 +0100 Subject: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Workshop 2010 In-Reply-To: References: <20100915093844.GB73945@eborcom.com> Message-ID: <4C925144.1010503@dave.org.uk> On 09/16/2010 06:05 PM, Andy Selby wrote: >> *Website:* >> The website will be live very soon on >> http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2009/ ! > > ^^^^^^^^^^^ Is This correct? No. As Tom said in the bit you snipped: > Please note, the Web site lives at > http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2010/ not the address Mark > mentions below. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: dave at dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg From andyfrommk at gmail.com Tue Sep 21 14:16:25 2010 From: andyfrommk at gmail.com (Andy Selby) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:16:25 +0100 Subject: Meeting: Tuesday 28th of September 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. Don't forget, the Milton Keynes PM tech meet is on the 12th of october From robbiebow at gmail.com Mon Sep 27 00:29:40 2010 From: robbiebow at gmail.com (Robbie Bow) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:29:40 +0100 Subject: Freelance Catalyst Support Work Message-ID: Hi all I have a client that needs a new freelancer (as I am unable to continue doing freelance) do support their Catalyst based web sites. It's not regular work (as in it comes in ad hoc), but the rates are pretty good and the work they want is pretty straightforward. The two sites, although built on Catalyst, are built very differently (by me). There's no tests to speak of, but there is version control (SVN), and is hosted in a dedicated Debian server hosted by Bytemark. If you're interested, feel free to ask any questions and I shall endeavour to answer them! Cheerio Robbie From tom at eborcom.com Tue Sep 28 09:01:44 2010 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:01:44 +0100 Subject: Fifth Anniversary Technical Meeting: Tuesday 12th October, 2010 Message-ID: <20100928160144.GN60887@eborcom.com> Doesn't time fly? Milton Keynes Perl Mongers has existed for 5 years: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/miltonkeynes-pm/2005-October/thread.html We will celebrate our fifth anniversary with various talks about Perl followed by informal discussion over a few drinks. Anyone is welcome to attend, regardless of expertise, so please join us on the 12th October. For more details, see http://miltonkeynes.pm.org/ The meeting takes place at the Open University's Systems Seminar Room. Arrive at 7pm so the first talk can start promptly at 7.15. See below for directions. We have the following talks lined up: An introduction to writing web servers with POE (Colin Bradford) POE is a Perl framework for writing reactive programs. I'll give a brief introduction to POE and event based programming, and then explain how I've used it to distribute data in near real time to web clients. TV listings with XMLTV (Nick Morrott) The XMLTV project is a mature Perl-based project that provides a set of libraries, grabbers and utilities to collect, process and filter TV listings from all over the world in XML format. Applications that currently make use of this data include digital video recorder applications such as MythTV, and listings viewers such as FreeGuide. I will give an overview of the project, discuss the XMLTV DTD format, examine the internals of a typical grabber, and discuss some of the modules used in the collection of data. I will also briefly discuss configuring a grabber for use, compare the use of XMLTV listings with those from the Freeview/Freesat EPGs, and finally outline some in-progress work to improve the end-user experience. See also: http://wiki.xmltv.org/index.php/Main_Page http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmltv/ Evolving Software with Moose (Dave Cross) The North West England Perl Mongers took Dave's Perlanet feed aggregation module and reinvented it as something wonderful. This talk will describe what they did, exploring a few interesting corners about Moose such as lazy attributes and traits. We also have several brief lightning talks: Using PAR to Package and Deploy Perl Applications (Tony Edwardson) Microsoft Exchange and SOAP - my two great loves (Oliver Gorwits) Using Lovefilm's API (Paul Mooney): An overview of OAUTH and REST and how you can use WWW::Lovefilm::API to simplify both when talking to the LOVEFiLM API Please pass on this message to anyone who you think might like to attend or encourage people to attend using your favourite social networks. Thanks to bob for http://lanyrd.com/2010/milton-keynes-perl-october/ - I would appreciate someone with a Twitter account adding details and tags to this. Finally, remember to arrive at the OU for 7pm on Tuesday 12th October. Here's how to find us: First, find the OU campus as described at http://www3.open.ac.uk/contact/locations.aspx Enter the campus (signposted Open University, not Open University East), via Brickhill Street (V10). Take the middle lane past Security (on the left), through the barriers, and then turn right on to Ring Road East. Ahead you will see the road narrows to single lane on your side of the road, where there are no entry signs. Just prior to this is the entrance to a car park on the left (marked Inner East Parking on the campus map). Take this left turn and head to the top left (North West on the campus map) of the car park. The meeting is in the south east section of the Venables Building, nearest the Inner East Parking on the campus map. Take the path (marked in orange on the campus map) west from the car park toward the centre of campus. Take a right under an archway in to the courtyard area bound by Venables South, East, and South East, keeping right (heading North East on the campus map), behind the building section marked South East. You will find a double door on your right, which is Entrance G at the South East section of Venables Building. We'll see you there, as these are usually access controlled doors, so you will probably need to be let in. If you haven't attended one of our meetings at the OU before, you might want to ask for someone's phone number in case you have trouble finding us. If you need a lift to the meeting, please ask our mailing list or IRC channel (see http://miltonkeynes.pm.org/ for details). See you on the 12th, Tom From andyfrommk at gmail.com Tue Sep 28 09:38:41 2010 From: andyfrommk at gmail.com (Andy Selby) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:38:41 -0400 Subject: Meeting: Tuesday 28th of September In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: just to remind everyone, this is tonight On 21 September 2010 17:16, Andy Selby 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. > > Don't forget, the Milton Keynes PM tech meet is on the 12th of october > From i.a.cameron at open.ac.uk Tue Sep 28 17:26:15 2010 From: i.a.cameron at open.ac.uk (Ian Cameron) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:26:15 +0100 Subject: Lost a jacket at tonight's meeting? Message-ID: Hi, Has anybody lost a black suede type jacket with a light grey pinstripe in it tonight? It was found at our table and it seems likely that it belongs to one of our group. I have it at the moment, but if it's not claimed then I'll return it to Spoons as lost property. -- Cheers, Ian. The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). From tom at eborcom.com Wed Sep 29 01:15:03 2010 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:15:03 +0100 Subject: Meeting: Tuesday 28th of September In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20100929081503.GO60887@eborcom.com> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:38:41PM -0400, Andy Selby wrote: > just to remind everyone, this is tonight Thanks for the reminder, Andy. Again, I enjoyed the evening. I talked to people about testing, Perl's unpopularity, changing jobs, writing CPAN modules and travelling around Scotland. Mostly familiar topics, but interesting to discuss with different people. A few of you have interesting ideas or good questions and I encourage you to post them here. I didn't get to speak to everyone and I got the impression we gravitated into a Perly group focused at one end of the table and a Linuxy group toward the other, with a fair amount of overlap. I've wondered before, but I don't think in public, whether it still makes sense for both groups to meet together every month. We started doing this because both groups were small, but both have grown considerably since then. I suspect both would now function well separately. Any thoughts? Finally, please remember to use this list to ask questions, share thoughts or tell us about interesting things you have done with Perl. Don't be shy. :) Tom From dave at dave.org.uk Wed Sep 29 11:23:13 2010 From: dave at dave.org.uk (Dave Cross) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:23:13 +0100 Subject: Meeting: Tuesday 28th of September In-Reply-To: <20100929081503.GO60887@eborcom.com> References: <20100929081503.GO60887@eborcom.com> Message-ID: <4CA38411.1030509@dave.org.uk> On 09/29/2010 09:15 AM, Tom Hukins wrote: [ About Linux users and Perl users] > I've > wondered before, but I don't think in public, whether it still makes > sense for both groups to meet together every month. We started doing > this because both groups were small, but both have grown considerably > since then. I suspect both would now function well separately. Any > thoughts? But that would mean that some people would hae to go to the pub _twice_ in the same month! Can't see that working at all. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: dave at dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg From tom at eborcom.com Wed Sep 29 11:58:18 2010 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:58:18 +0100 Subject: Meeting: Tuesday 28th of September In-Reply-To: <4CA38411.1030509@dave.org.uk> References: <20100929081503.GO60887@eborcom.com> <4CA38411.1030509@dave.org.uk> Message-ID: <20100929185817.GA57702@eborcom.com> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 07:23:13PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: > But that would mean that some people would hae to go to the pub > _twice_ in the same month! > > Can't see that working at all. I know! What would those poor people do for the remaining 26 or more days of the month? Tom From andyfrommk at gmail.com Wed Sep 29 14:47:37 2010 From: andyfrommk at gmail.com (Andy Selby) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:47:37 -0400 Subject: Meeting: Tuesday 28th of September In-Reply-To: <20100929081503.GO60887@eborcom.com> References: <20100929081503.GO60887@eborcom.com> Message-ID: >?I've wondered before, but I don't think in public, whether it still makes > sense for both groups to meet together every month. ?We started doing > this because both groups were small, but both have grown considerably > since then. ?I suspect both would now function well separately. ?Any > thoughts? Aww, that means I've got to remember to send out 4 reminders every month, just kidding. It's worth a try, we can always go back to one meeting a month if it doesn't work out.