From glim at mycybernet.net Sat Mar 19 12:13:00 2005 From: glim at mycybernet.net (glim@mycybernet.net) Date: Sat Mar 19 12:41:06 2005 Subject: [Nh-pm] Yet Another Perl Conference, North America, 2005 Registration now open Message-ID: ----------> Yet Another Perl Conference, North America, 2005 Registration now open. Conference dates: Monday - Wednesday 27 - 29 June 2005 Location: 89 Chestnut Street http://89chestnut.com/ University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada Info at: http://yapc.org/America Direct registration: http://donate.perlfoundation.org/index.pl?node=registrant%20info&conference_id=423 Full registration fee $85 (USD) Book now for great deals on accommodations and ensure a space for yourself. Speaking slots are still open. If you would like to present at YAPC::NA 2005, see: http://yapc.org/America/cfp-2005.shtml Details of this announcement: http://yapc.org/America/registration-announcement-2005.txt <---------- More Details ============ Registration for YAPC::NA (Yet Another Perl Conference, North America) 2005 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is now open. The conference registration price is USD$85. This price includes admission to all aspects of the conference, respectable amounts of catering, several activities and a few conference goodies. The YAPC North America 2005 conference features... * Fantastic speakers + most are the core creators of the technology on which they present + many are professional IT authors, trainers and conference speakers * An excellent learning opportunity * A chance to meet Perl professionals from all over North America and the world + YAPC attendees tend to be very involved in Perl and so are another great way to learn more about what the language has to offer beyond just what the speakers have to say * Extra-curricular / after hours activities * A great location in downtown Toronto All this, and the price is more than an order of magnitude cheaper than what commercial conferences can offer. This is because YAPC is a 100% volunteer effort, both from its organizers and its speakers. Quality is *not* sacrificed to achieve this stunning level of affordability. YAPC provides the best value-for-dollar in IT conferences. And it's a ton of fun, too. The dates of the conference are Monday - Wednesday 27-29 June 2005. The location is 89 Chestnut Street in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Note that a different date block was previously announced; we moved the conference date to accommodate venue availability.) http://89chestnut.com/ -- a facility within the University of Toronto If you are at all interested in attending the conference... Book now! Book now! Book now! We have room for about 400 attendees and we hope to sell out well in advance of the late June conference date. However, the critical matter is that of hotels. The YAPC::NA 2005 organizers have made group arrangements with several facilities around the city to provide _excellent_ quality accommodations in _very_ convenient locations at _terrific_ prices for the _full_ capacity of conference attendees (around 400 people). (Finding, booking and paying accommodations is the responsibility of the attendees, but we will provide you with a list of the hotels and university dorms to try first based on our group arrangement with them when you register for the conference. Also, see the web site at http://yapc.org/America/accommodations-2005.shtml. More details will be up shortly. The dorm option will be approx. C$55/night, the hotel options will be more like C$90/night, and for slightly different prices there will be options for putting more than 1 person in a room. Exact details and how to book will be emailed directly to people who have registered for the conference as soon as they become available.) *The catch is -- book now!!* The group reservations will expire in early May, at which point in time the group rates will mostly still apply, but the rooms will be given out on an "availability basis". Which means that someone else outside of the YAPC group can book the rooms as well. Make no mistake -- the rooms *will* be sold. Toronto is a very active conference city in the summer and there will be _no_ guarantee of vacancies either at the facilities we made arrangements with or anywhere else in the city if you leave it to within 6 weeks of the conference date. So, if you want to save yourself the likely-fruitless headache of scrambling around looking for accommodations at the last minute, Book now! Book now! Book now! Have any questions? Email na-help@yapc.org for more details. Additionally, we are still welcoming submissions for proposals via: http://yapc.org/America/cfp-2005.shtml The close of the call-for-papers is April 18, 2005 at 11:59 pm (Toronto time). If you have any questions regarding the call-for-papers or speaking at YAPC::NA 2005 please email na-author@yapc.org We would love to hear from potential sponsors. Please contact the organizers at na-sponsor@yapc.org to learn about the benefits of sponsorship. From paul.cour1 at verizon.net Sun Mar 20 07:23:25 2005 From: paul.cour1 at verizon.net (paul.cour1@verizon.net) Date: Sun Mar 20 07:23:42 2005 Subject: [Nh-pm] Perl 5.6 ? Message-ID: <0IDN00DJ6PF22DH1@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> Good morning, I was recently reading job descriptions at Craigs List - Boston, and one position was explicit about the fluency of using Object oriented Perl with ver 5.6 ... I have spent time learning Perl and wrote an extensive application based on Regular Expressions. However, I have not looked at O-O perl ... Is there a lot of interest in O-O perl? Are there specific types of applications where O-O perl finds favor? Yes, I understand that O-O perl readily applies itself to about any design paradigm, but I wondered if lots of folks are jumping onto O-O perl for specific reasons or types of applications, or is it a natural progression that drives interest in O-O perl? thanks for any comments paulc From bill at bfccomputing.com Tue Mar 22 09:51:09 2005 From: bill at bfccomputing.com (Bill McGonigle) Date: Tue Mar 22 09:51:32 2005 Subject: [Nh-pm] Perl 5.6 ? In-Reply-To: <0IDN00DJ6PF22DH1@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> References: <0IDN00DJ6PF22DH1@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> Message-ID: On Mar 20, 2005, at 10:23, wrote: > Yes, I understand that O-O perl readily > applies itself to about any design paradigm, > but I wondered if lots of folks are jumping onto > O-O perl for specific reasons or types of > applications, or is it a natural progression > that drives interest in O-O perl? For me it's the confluence of liking OO programming and liking perl. I can't imagine going back to doing purely functional programming. I learned OO on C++, really got it with Java and prefer to write it in perl, though Ruby is on my list. I used Damian Conway's _Object Oriented Perl_ to learn. Heck, it's mostly dusty so if you're up my way you're welcome to borrow it for a while. -Bill ----- Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 bill@bfccomputing.com Mobile: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/ Pager: 603.442.1833 AIM: wpmcgonigle Skype: bill_mcgonigle From stigliz at gmail.com Wed Mar 23 14:54:22 2005 From: stigliz at gmail.com (Amedeo Guffanti) Date: Wed Mar 23 14:54:35 2005 Subject: [Nh-pm] Reseach on Open Source Developers Message-ID: Hi, I'm Amedeo Guffanti, a 22 years old Italian student at Bocconi university in Milan, I' m doing a research to write a work about Open Source Movement, in particular, about the developers. I try to collect the opinions of developers like you. My little poll is at this page : http://www.alberocavo.com/OSSprojects.asp It takes less then 4 minutes. I hope the Open Source Communities will give me a help for my research. I apologize for taking your time and for my English that I hope it's understandable ^^ Sincerly, Amedeo Guffanti From bill at bfccomputing.com Wed Mar 30 19:40:28 2005 From: bill at bfccomputing.com (Bill McGonigle) Date: Wed Mar 30 19:40:49 2005 Subject: [Nh-pm] Fwd: [DLSLUG-Announce] DLSLUG: Monthly Meeting - April 7th Message-ID: <12052cca4b54a937bfe8e438d0ca8b0d@bfccomputing.com> Interchange is an e-commerce app that you extend with perl. It has a mod_perl 2 connector. -Bill Begin forwarded message: > > *************************************************************** > Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux Users Group > http://www.dlslug.org/ > *************************************************************** > > The next regular monthly meeting of the DLSLUG will be held: > Thursday, April 7th, 7-9PM > at: Dartmouth College, Carson Hall Room L02 > All are welcome, free of charge. > > Agenda > > 5:30 Special Pre-Meeting PyCon 'Debrief' @ EBA's > > Anybody interested in hearing about the latest developments > in the Python world is welcome to join the Python SIG for > a report from some intrepid NH Pythoneers who just got back > from D.C. where the PyCon 2005 Python convention was held. > We'll be eating dinner in the back room at EBA's. > > 7:00 Sign-in, networking > > 7:15 Introductory remarks > > 7:20 Open Source E-Commerce with Interchange > > presented by Peter Nikolaidis > > Interchange is an open source alternative to commercial > commerce servers and application server/component > applications. Interchange is one of the most powerful > tools available to automate and database-enable your > web site or build online applications. The talk will > cover the basics of installing and configuring the > software, as well as some demonstrations of existing > sites running on Interchange. > > 8:50 Roundtable Exchange - where the attendees can make > announcements or ask a linux question. > > Please see the website for links to directions. > > If any area companies are interested in sponsoring refreshments, please > let me know. > > Please RSVP so we can give a refreshment sponsor a headcount. > > --------- > MAILING LISTS > > There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce > list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list > (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities > and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. > Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. > > Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be > interested. > > ----- > Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 > BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 > bill@bfccomputing.com Cell: 603.252.2606 > http://www.bfccomputing.com/ Page: 603.442.1833 > AIM: wpmcgonigle Skype: bill_mcgonigle > > _______________________________________________ > DLSLUG-Announce mailing list > DLSLUG-Announce@dlslug.org > http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce