From george at metaart.org Sat Nov 1 09:13:13 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, October 31 Message-ID: <200311010713.13246.george@metaart.org> ================================================================ O'Reilly News for User Group Members October 31, 2003 ================================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Spidering Hacks -Programming .NET Windows Applications ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Steve Bass ("PC Annoyances"), APCUG User Group Reception--November 16 -Derrick Story ("iPhoto 2: The Missing Manual" & "Digital Photography Pocket Guide"), North Coast Mac Users Group Author Event--November 18 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conferences ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Thanks to Everyone Who Attended the Mac OS X Conference -Registration Is Open for ETech 2004--San Diego, CA ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -New O'Reilly Beta Chapters -PHP Web Services Without SOAP -Introducing REBOL with Amazingly Easy GUI Programming -Page Navigation in JavaServer Faces -XForms and Microsoft InfoPath -Five More Annoying PC Annoyances -Confessions of the World's Largest Switcher -Ten Things I Dig About Xcode ================================================ Book News ================================================ Did you know you can request a free book to review for your group? Ask your group leader for more information. For book review writing tips and suggestions, go to: http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html Don't forget, you can receive 20% off any O'Reilly book you purchase directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering online or by phone 800-998-9938. http://www.oreilly.com/ ***Free ground shipping is available for online orders of at least $29.95 that go to a single U.S. address. This offer applies to U.S. delivery addresses in the 50 states and Puerto Rico. For more details, go to: http://www.oreilly.com/news/freeshipping_0703.html ***Spidering Hacks Order Number: 5776 Written for developers, researchers, technical assistants, librarians, and power users, "Spidering Hacks" provides expert tips on spidering and scraping methodologies. You'll get a crash course in spidering concepts, tools, and ethics (how to know when you've gone too far). You'll collect media files and data from databases, and you'll learn how to interpret and understand the data, repurpose it for use in other applications, and even build authorized interfaces to integrate the data into your own content. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/spiderhks/ Sample Hacks are available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/spiderhks/chapter/index.html ***Programming .NET Windows Applications Order Number: 3218 "Programming .NET Windows Applications" explores all aspects of using .NET Windows Forms class libraries and the associated programming tools in Visual Studio .NET, enabling you to build applications for the Windows 9x, Windows 2000, and Windows XP desktop platforms. Step-by-step, you'll learn ways to design applications that either function alone on a PC, or work in combination with your web-based application server to take advantage of the richer interface and higher level of security. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pnetwinaps/ Chapter 10, "Drawing and GDI+," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pnetwinaps/chapter/index.html ================================================ Upcoming Events ================================================ ***For more events, please see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ***Steve Bass ("PC Annoyances"), APCUG User Group Reception, Las Vegas,NV--November 16 The Association of Personal Computer User Groups is hosting a UG exhibition and reception from 3:00-5:30 p.m. Drop by the O'Reilly table and say "hi" to me (Marsee Henon) and author Steve Bass, who will be signing copies of his new book, "PC Annoyances." (O'Reilly is giving away a free copy of PC Annoyances to APCUG Attendees--check your welcome goodie bag!)Stardust Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, NV. http://www.apcug.org/events/comdex/fall2003/index.shtm ***Derrick Story ("iPhoto 2: The Missing Manual," "Digital Video Pocket Guide," and "Digital Photography Pocket Guide"), North Coast Mac Users Group Author Event, Rohnert Park, CA--November 18 Mac DevCenter editor and author Derrick Story (iPhoto 2: The Missing Manual, Digital Video Pocket Guide, and Digital Photography Pocket Guide) provides an update on what's happening behind the scenes of Mac technology: the iSight, .Mac revelations, and interesting new features in the suite of iApps. Drop by the O'Reilly table to peruse our new Mac titles. The fun gets underway at 7:00 p.m. Rohnert Park Senior Center, Rohnert Park, CA. http://www.ncmug.org/events.html ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***To Everyone Who Attended the Mac OS X Conference UG Gathering Last Tuesday Thanks for coming! And thanks to Lorene Romero for helping us create, organize, and plan this event. It was great to meet you all! Here is the latest Mac OS X Conference Coverage: http://www.macdevcenter.com/mac/osx2003/ ***Registration Is Open for ETech 2004--San Diego, CA Gather with lead users, forward thinkers, and technology activists at O'Reilly's third annual Emerging Technology Conference to vet the projects and ideas that will radically alter not just the future of computing, but the way we live and work. ETech is slated for February 9-12, 2004 in San Diego, California. Take advantage of our Early Bird discount when you register before January 9, 2004. http://conferences.oreilly.com/etech/ User Group members who register before January 9, 2004 get a double discount. Use code DSUG when you register, and receive 20% off the "Early Bird" price. To register for the conference, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/28/register.html ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***New O'Reilly Beta Chapters November and December are busy months for new releases from O'Reilly. Visit our Beta Chapters site to get a preview of upcoming titles, including: "sendmail Cookbook;" "Mac OS X Panther Pocket Guide;" "Apache Cookbook;" "SQL Tuning;" "DNS on Windows Server 2003;" and ".NET and XML." http://www.oreilly.com/beta/ --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***PHP Web Services Without SOAP Web services are hot these days, and SOAP gets a lot of the buzz. It's not the only game in town, though. REST advocates claim their approach is how the Web was meant to be. You decide. Adam Trachtenberg, coauthor of "PHP Cookbook," demonstrates how to access Amazon.com's web services with PHP and REST; no special tools needed! http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2003/10/30/amazon_rest.html ***Introducing REBOL with Amazingly Easy GUI Programming Cross-platform development and deployment is tricky, though modern toolkits aim to take away some of the troubles. Some languages have already solved this issue, though. Enter REBOL, a small but powerful network-enabled programming language. Gregg Irwin introduces the language by writing a tiny survey application. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/10/30/rebol.html --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Page Navigation in JavaServer Faces Any web application with more than one page needs some sort of navigation. Where does the user go when he logs in? Where does he go if his password is incorrect? JSF provides an easy-to-update page navigation model in its Application Configuration file. Budi Kurniawan explains how it works. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/10/29/jsf_page_nav.html --------------------- XML --------------------- ***XForms and Microsoft InfoPath Micah Dubinko, author of "XForms Essentials," compares W3C XForms and Microsoft InfoPath, the data gathering technology shipping with Microsoft Office 2003. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/10/29/infopath.html XForms Essentials Order Number: 3692 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xforms/ --------------------- Windows --------------------- ***Five More Annoying PC Annoyances Steve Bass, the author of "PC Annoyances," bumped into more Windows, Office, Internet, email, and hardware irritations than he could include in the book. So, rather than waste them, he's included some of them on our web site. Here are five bonus PC annoyances, and Steve's fix for each. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2003/10/29/pcannoyances.html --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Confessions of the World's Largest Switcher At the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference, Srinidhi Varadarajan reveals the details behind what it took to build Virginia Tech's G5 Supercomputer. Find out why he says you can expect to see a lot more G5 clusters in the future. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/10/29/osxcon_g5cluster.html ***Ten Things I Dig About Xcode Following in the footsteps of "Ten Things I Dig About Panther," James Duncan Davidson further explores one of the facets near and dear to Mac developers--their application development environment. Apple is introducing Xcode, along with Panther, and Davidson takes it for a spin and reports on his initial findings. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/10/24/panther.html Until next time-- Marsee ------------------------------------------------------- From george at metaart.org Sat Nov 1 18:05:37 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Open Source Humor? Message-ID: <200311011605.37503.george@metaart.org> The theme of the next meeting is Open Source Humor. Let me know if you will be able to contribute something to the theme. That would be much appreciated. Two Examples: * Tell an Open Source joke or two. * Do a show & tell of some Open Source Humor on the web. Likely something comes to mind, but if not, how about: * doing a search on Google for: "open source" humor I got 93,400 hits when I tried it. Help. * looking at some random User Friendly cartoons See http://www.userfriendly.org Hey the archives go back to late 1997. There must be something there that strikes your funny bone. Let me know if you have (or find) something. Thanks, George P.S. There will be a User Friendly book, among other things, in the lottery/giveaway part of the meeting among other things. P.P.S. Note, please please note, that the meeting is at a different location. If the directions are not adequate, let us know. Cut & Paste from http://oakland.pm.org/ ................................... Next meeting when: Tue. Nov. 11 at 7:30-9:30pm. (We meet 2nd Tuesdays.) where: Joshua Wait's place 1903 Virginia Street Apt. 3 Berkeley, CA 94709 directions: [link to] Joshua's pdf map and directions [link to] George's directions and ascii map theme: Open Sores Humor what: introductions lottery short report on Mac OS X Conference by Joshua Wait short talks, ... on the theme who: open to anyone interested. how much: no fee for our meetings. From george at metaart.org Sat Nov 1 18:14:47 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Meetings Next Year: Request for Ideas Message-ID: <200311011614.47527.george@metaart.org> I'm still gathering ideas. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [oak perl] Meetings Next Year: Request for Ideas Date: Sunday 26 October 2003 10:47 pm From: George Woolley To: oakland@mail.pm.org I am gathering ideas for meetings for next year. If you have an idea(s) for a meeting(s), let me know, especially if you are willing to do something to make it happen. Most of our meeting have been either (1) built around a central speaker/presenter on some topic or (2) built around a theme with a number of people contributing. Or perhaps you have some completely different approach. Anyway, let me know your ideas. Or if you have questions, that's kool too. George From james at ActionMessage.com Sat Nov 1 21:40:58 2003 From: james at ActionMessage.com (james) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Re: [sf-perl] Grewvy Javascript module :) In-Reply-To: <20031031200237.GN10904@fetter.org> References: <20031031200237.GN10904@fetter.org> Message-ID: <20031102033429.M68237@www.actionmessage.com> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:02:37 -0800, David Fetter wrote > Kind people, > > I've made a new perl module for doing dynamic javascript menus. I'd > much appreciate it if you were to kick the tires & let me know if > they pop :) Some suggestions: 1) did you use h2xs to make that? I don't recall seeing lib/ before 2) use gz since bzip isn't universally installed 3) what's with 5.8.1 being required? Seems to install without it. # perl Makefile.PL Perl v5.8.1 required--this is only v5.6.1, stopped at Makefile.PL line 1. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 1. > It's at > > > > TIA, and please pardon the duplicates :) > > Cheers, > D > -- > David Fetter david@fetter.org http://fetter.org/ > phone: +1 510 893 6100 cell: +1 415 235 3778 > > ==== Want to unsubscribe from this list? > ==== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to sfpug-request@sf.pm.org Thanks, James Briggs ActionMessage james@actionmessage.com http://www.ActionMessage.com/ From tony at nog.net Mon Nov 3 11:25:15 2003 From: tony at nog.net (Tony Monroe) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Re: [sf-perl] Grewvy Javascript module :) In-Reply-To: <20031102033429.M68237@www.actionmessage.com> References: <20031031200237.GN10904@fetter.org> <20031102033429.M68237@www.actionmessage.com> Message-ID: <20031103172515.GA9705@bloodrose.nog.net> Meditate ye upon the words of james: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:02:37 -0800, David Fetter wrote > > Kind people, > > > > I've made a new perl module for doing dynamic javascript menus. I'd > > much appreciate it if you were to kick the tires & let me know if > > they pop :) > > Some suggestions: > > 1) did you use h2xs to make that? I don't recall seeing lib/ before He probably did. h2xs in 5.8.1 creates a lib/ directory. I like the new h2xs. More sane, friendlier to CVS. [snip] > 3) what's with 5.8.1 being required? Seems to install without it. h2xs generates another clause in Makefile.PL for those who want to require a minimum version. It is, unfortunately, enabled by default. I think this "feature" has been around sine 5.8.0. -- tony -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/oakland/attachments/20031103/0c161660/attachment.bin From robert-kuropkat at comcast.net Tue Nov 4 12:25:35 2003 From: robert-kuropkat at comcast.net (robert-kuropkat@comcast.net) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Shirts worth buying? :-) Message-ID: <110420031825.6490.1656@comcast.net> All, Came across these recently and thought them worth sharing. I'm thinking of ordering one each for myself. Anyone else interested in a group order? http://warlock.blackops.org/~msk/T/ http://dwu.mu.org/ Robert Kuropkat From george at metaart.org Tue Nov 4 13:42:17 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Shirts worth buying? :-) In-Reply-To: <110420031825.6490.1656@comcast.net> References: <110420031825.6490.1656@comcast.net> Message-ID: <200311041142.18050.george@metaart.org> Kool! I went to the two links and saw: * what looked like my favorite villain, Cthulhu. * what looked like a system administrator one place I worked (or perhaps that's what I looked liked to him) These are IMO definitely worth looking at. George P.S. Also, these excellent parodies are in the spirit of the theme ("Open Sores Humor") of our next meeting, which is on Tuesday next week. On Tuesday 04 November 2003 10:25 am, robert-kuropkat@comcast.net wrote: > All, > > Came across these recently and thought them worth sharing. I'm thinking of > ordering one each for myself. Anyone else interested in a group order? > > http://warlock.blackops.org/~msk/T/ > http://dwu.mu.org/ > > Robert Kuropkat From tmonroe+pm at nog.net Tue Nov 4 15:36:06 2003 From: tmonroe+pm at nog.net (Tony Monroe) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Shirts worth buying? :-) In-Reply-To: <110420031825.6490.1656@comcast.net> References: <110420031825.6490.1656@comcast.net> Message-ID: <20031104213606.GA75901@bloodrose.nog.net> Meditate ye upon the words of robert-kuropkat@comcast.net: > > Came across these recently and thought them worth sharing. I'm thinking of ordering one each for myself. Anyone else interested in a group order? > > http://warlock.blackops.org/~msk/T/ I would be, except I already have that shirt. So, I guess, yes, it's worth buying. -- tony -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/oakland/attachments/20031104/c1a4be8f/attachment.bin From george at metaart.org Tue Nov 4 16:59:44 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Shirts worth buying? :-) In-Reply-To: <20031104213606.GA75901@bloodrose.nog.net> References: <110420031825.6490.1656@comcast.net> <20031104213606.GA75901@bloodrose.nog.net> Message-ID: <200311041459.44662.george@metaart.org> Tony, And which is your favorite T-shirt? George All, Hm, I see a number of funny ones in the mix at: http://www.computergear.com/linuxtshirts.html George P.S. You could contribute to the theme of the upcoming meeting (Tuesday, November 11th, i.e. Tuesday of next week) by wearing a humorous open source T-shirt of some kind if you have (or get) one. On Tuesday 04 November 2003 1:36 pm, Tony Monroe wrote: > Meditate ye upon the words of robert-kuropkat@comcast.net: > > Came across these recently and thought them worth sharing. I'm thinking > > of ordering one each for myself. Anyone else interested in a group > > order? > > > > http://warlock.blackops.org/~msk/T/ > > I would be, except I already have that shirt. So, I guess, yes, > it's worth buying. > > -- tony From george at metaart.org Tue Nov 4 17:02:43 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Shirts worth buying? :-) In-Reply-To: <20031104213606.GA75901@bloodrose.nog.net> References: <110420031825.6490.1656@comcast.net> <20031104213606.GA75901@bloodrose.nog.net> Message-ID: <200311041502.43117.george@metaart.org> Tony, Is it possible you could wear that T-shirt or some other relevant humorous T-shirt to our meeting next Tuesday? George On Tuesday 04 November 2003 1:36 pm, Tony Monroe wrote: > Meditate ye upon the words of robert-kuropkat@comcast.net: > > Came across these recently and thought them worth sharing. I'm thinking > > of ordering one each for myself. Anyone else interested in a group > > order? > > > > http://warlock.blackops.org/~msk/T/ > > I would be, except I already have that shirt. So, I guess, yes, > it's worth buying. > > -- tony From tmonroe+pm at nog.net Wed Nov 5 12:29:13 2003 From: tmonroe+pm at nog.net (Tony Monroe) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Shirts worth buying? :-) In-Reply-To: <200311041459.44662.george@metaart.org> References: <110420031825.6490.1656@comcast.net> <20031104213606.GA75901@bloodrose.nog.net> <200311041459.44662.george@metaart.org> Message-ID: <20031105182913.GA77254@bloodrose.nog.net> Meditate ye upon the words of George Woolley: > Tony, > And which is your favorite T-shirt? > George Why, this one (that hasn't been made yet), of course: http://www.nog.net/~tony/pics/obfusperl.png All this talk of shirts has made me think about sprucing up that image to make it actually shirtable. Of course, that would require that I have disposable income too. (I'm working on that part.) By the way, donations of better Postscript fonts would be appreciated. :-) -- tony -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/oakland/attachments/20031105/7628b5bd/attachment.bin From tmonroe+pm at nog.net Wed Nov 5 12:31:03 2003 From: tmonroe+pm at nog.net (Tony Monroe) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Shirts worth buying? :-) In-Reply-To: <200311041502.43117.george@metaart.org> References: <110420031825.6490.1656@comcast.net> <20031104213606.GA75901@bloodrose.nog.net> <200311041502.43117.george@metaart.org> Message-ID: <20031105183103.GB77254@bloodrose.nog.net> Meditate ye upon the words of George Woolley: > Tony, > Is it possible you could wear that T-shirt > or some other relevant humorous T-shirt > to our meeting next Tuesday? Possible? No. Mandatory? Yes. -- tony -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/oakland/attachments/20031105/de02a92a/attachment.bin From blyman at iii.com Wed Nov 5 12:59:14 2003 From: blyman at iii.com (Belden Lyman) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Shirts worth buying? :-) In-Reply-To: <20031105183103.GB77254@bloodrose.nog.net> References: <110420031825.6490.1656@comcast.net> <20031104213606.GA75901@bloodrose.nog.net> <200311041502.43117.george@metaart.org> <20031105183103.GB77254@bloodrose.nog.net> Message-ID: <3FA94882.7070104@iii.com> Tony Monroe wrote: > Meditate ye upon the words of George Woolley: > >>Tony, >>Is it possible you could wear that T-shirt >>or some other relevant humorous T-shirt >>to our meeting next Tuesday? > > > Possible? No. Mandatory? Yes. > Yes, Oakland.pm - the McDonald's of the perlmongers: No shirt, no shoes, no service. I'm sure Camelot.pm has a more flexible dress code ;) From robert-kuropkat at comcast.net Wed Nov 5 13:03:04 2003 From: robert-kuropkat at comcast.net (robert-kuropkat@comcast.net) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Shirts worth buying? :-) Message-ID: <110520031903.16296.5de2@comcast.net> Now THIS one is REALLY good!!! Robert Kuropkat > _______________________________________________ > Oakland mailing list > Oakland@mail.pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/oakland From blyman at iii.com Wed Nov 5 13:20:22 2003 From: blyman at iii.com (Belden Lyman) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Shirts worth buying? :-) In-Reply-To: <110520031903.16296.5de2@comcast.net> References: <110520031903.16296.5de2@comcast.net> Message-ID: <3FA94D76.50101@iii.com> robert-kuropkat@comcast.net wrote: > Now THIS one is REALLY good!!! > I'd like to see one of a camel on a spit roasting over a fire. "Roll over, Perl 5: Ponie is coming!" From robert-kuropkat at comcast.net Wed Nov 5 13:49:23 2003 From: robert-kuropkat at comcast.net (robert-kuropkat@comcast.net) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Shirts worth buying? :-) Message-ID: <110520031949.23970.6197@comcast.net> Now THIS one is REALLY good!!! Robert Kuropkat > _______________________________________________ > Oakland mailing list > Oakland@mail.pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/oakland From george at metaart.org Wed Nov 5 15:00:12 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Shirts worth buying? :-) In-Reply-To: <3FA94882.7070104@iii.com> References: <110420031825.6490.1656@comcast.net> <20031105183103.GB77254@bloodrose.nog.net> <3FA94882.7070104@iii.com> Message-ID: <200311051300.12619.george@metaart.org> On Wednesday 05 November 2003 10:59 am, Belden Lyman wrote: > Tony Monroe wrote: > > Meditate ye upon the words of George Woolley: > >>Tony, > >>Is it possible you could wear that T-shirt > >>or some other relevant humorous T-shirt > >>to our meeting next Tuesday? > > > > Possible? No. Mandatory? Yes. > > Yes, Oakland.pm - the McDonald's of the perlmongers: > No shirt, no shoes, no service. > > I'm sure Camelot.pm has a more flexible dress code ;) Belden, You are correct about Camelot.pm. Camelot.pm has no dress code at all. Then again, ... Are you a dress code advocate? George From blyman at iii.com Wed Nov 5 15:28:17 2003 From: blyman at iii.com (Belden Lyman) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Shirts worth buying? :-) In-Reply-To: <200311051300.12619.george@metaart.org> References: <110420031825.6490.1656@comcast.net> <20031105183103.GB77254@bloodrose.nog.net> <3FA94882.7070104@iii.com> <200311051300.12619.george@metaart.org> Message-ID: <3FA96B71.2090809@iii.com> George Woolley wrote: > On Wednesday 05 November 2003 10:59 am, Belden Lyman wrote: > >>Tony Monroe wrote: >> >>>Meditate ye upon the words of George Woolley: >>> >>>>Tony, >>>>Is it possible you could wear that T-shirt >>>>or some other relevant humorous T-shirt >>>>to our meeting next Tuesday? >>> >>>Possible? No. Mandatory? Yes. >> >>Yes, Oakland.pm - the McDonald's of the perlmongers: >>No shirt, no shoes, no service. >> >>I'm sure Camelot.pm has a more flexible dress code ;) > > > Belden, > You are correct about Camelot.pm. > Camelot.pm has no dress code at all. > Then again, ... > > Are you a dress code advocate? #!/usr/bin/perl -l my @ripostes = ( 'No, I eat my code plain, without any dressing.', 'Well, if you call "black tie mandatory" a dress code...', 'I know you are but what am I?!', '', ); print $ripostes[rand @ripostes -1] . " wokka wokka wokka!" __END__ har-har! From george at metaart.org Thu Nov 6 23:50:27 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] BOFH, December Meeting Location In-Reply-To: <110420031825.6490.1656@comcast.net> References: <110420031825.6490.1656@comcast.net> Message-ID: <200311062150.27103.george@metaart.org> I was talking to Robert Kuropkat about something, (maybe the T-shirts referred to below?) and he suggested I read some of the BOFH stuff. Later, following his suggestion, I googled to http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html and had some good laughs. George P.S. The December Meeting will be at Robert's place. On Tuesday 04 November 2003 10:25 am, robert-kuropkat@comcast.net wrote: > All, > > Came across these recently and thought them worth sharing. I'm thinking of > ordering one each for myself. Anyone else interested in a group order? > > http://warlock.blackops.org/~msk/T/ > http://dwu.mu.org/ > > Robert Kuropkat From george at metaart.org Fri Nov 7 15:43:39 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Next meeting: Tue. Nov. 11 Message-ID: <200311071343.39002.george@metaart.org> Below my "signature" is the announcement for the November Oakland.pm meeting, which is Tuesday next week, i.e. soon. >>> Note the location is different from before. <<< George Oakland.pm Meeting Announcement Cut & Paste from http://oakland.pm.org/ ............................................................... Next meeting when: Tue. Nov. 11 at 7:30-9:30pm. (We meet 2nd Tuesdays.) where: Joshua Wait's place 1903 Virginia Street Apt. 3 Berkeley, CA 94709 directions: Joshua's pdf map and directions George's directions and ascii map theme: Open Sores Humor what: introductions lottery short report on Mac OS X Conference by Joshua Wait short talks, ... on the theme who: open to anyone interested. how much: no fee for our meetings. From george at metaart.org Sat Nov 8 00:35:07 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] One Year Message-ID: <200311072235.07637.george@metaart.org> The meeting on Tuesday will be our one year anniversary of meetings. From extasia at extasia.org Sun Nov 9 08:25:45 2003 From: extasia at extasia.org (David Alban) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] SIG-BEER-WEST next Saturday 11/15 in Berkeley Message-ID: <20031109062545.A26336@gerasimov.net> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 sig-beer-west Saturday, November 15, 2003 at 6:00pm San Francisco Bay area http://extasia.org/sig-beer-west/ Beer. Mental stimulation. This event: Saturday, 11/15/2003, 6:00pm, at Jupiter, Berkeley Jupiter: http://www.jupiterbeer.com/berkeley/index.html Coming events (third Saturdays): Saturday, 12/20/2003, 6:00pm, location to be determined Saturday, 01/17/2004, 6:00pm, location to be determined Saturday, 02/21/2004, 6:00pm, location to be determined Saturday, 03/20/2004, 6:00pm, location to be determined The San Francisco Bay area's next social event for techies and their friends, sig-beer-west, will take place on Saturday, November 15, 2003 at Jupiter in Berkeley, CA. According to their web site, "Jupiter pours, on draft, its own brews plus up to 30 of the region's best brews from other local brewpubs and small breweries." They are literally a stone's throw from the downtown Berkeley BART station. Jupiter: http://www.jupiterbeer.com/berkeley/index.html about: http://www.jupiterbeer.com/berkeley/about/index.html beer: http://www.jupiterbeer.com/berkeley/beer/index.html directions: http://www.jupiterbeer.com/berkeley/directions/index.html food: http://www.jupiterbeer.com/berkeley/food/index.html Berkeley Bart: http://www.bart.gov/stations/stationGuide/localAreaMap_BRK.asp Festivities will start at 6:00pm and continue until we've all left. When you show up, you should look for a sig-beer-west sign. Do look in every (public) room of the venue for us. We don't know ahead of time where we'll find space. Note: Please look for the sig-beer-west sign, not for a particular person. sig-beer-west may have different hosts from month to month. Everyone is welcome at this event. We mean it! Please feel free to forward this information and to invite friends, co-workers, and others who might enjoy lifting a glass with interesting folks from all over the place. (O.K., you do have to be of legal drinking age to attend.) Can't come this month? Mark your calendar for next month. (Do it now before you forget!) sig-beer-west occurs on the third Saturday of the month. Any questions, comments, suggestions of things to do later on that evening, or new venue suggestions ... email the current sig-beer-west Instigator. Instigator: extasia *AT. extasia *DOT. org sig-beer-west FAQ 1. Q: Your announcement says "techies and their friends". How do I know if I'm a techie, or a friend of one? A: Well, actually, you don't have to be a techie to attend. You just have to be able to find the sig-beer-west sign at this month's event. That's it! Simple, huh? 2. Q: I'm not really a beer person. In fact I'm interested in hanging out, but not in drinking. Would I be welcome? A: Absolutely! The point is to hang out with fun, interesting folks. Please do join us. 3. Q: Is parking difficult in the Bay area, like maybe I should factor this into my travel time? A: Yes. ______________________________________________________________________ sig-beer-west was started in February 2002 when a couple Washington, D.C. based systems administrators who moved to the San Francisco Bay area wanted to continue a dc-sage tradition, sig-beer, which is described in dc-sage web space as: SIG-beer, as in "Special Interest Group - Beer" ala ACM, or as in "send the BEER signal to that process". The original SIG-beer gathering takes place in Washington DC, usually on the first Saturday night of the month. dc-sage: http://www.dc-sage.org/ ______________________________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE/rkwIPh0M9c/OpdARAjQqAKCz+fzUvDlblbyUW2C8+vE7INvZ5QCaAlP/ wlSeFgNCkgHISCiPcDiTtdA= =IUVN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From george at metaart.org Mon Nov 10 13:38:39 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Meeting Location Not Same Message-ID: <200311101138.39557.george@metaart.org> Note that the Oakland.pm meeting tonight is at a new location. <<<<<< If you are coming, please note the address and directions before you start. George Snip from Website (+ Annotations) at http://oakland.pm.org/ ....................................................... Next meeting when: Tue. Nov. 11 at 7:30-9:30pm. (We meet 2nd Tuesdays.) where: Joshua Wait's place <<<<<< 1903 Virginia Street Apt. 3 Berkeley, CA 94709 directions: [link to] Joshua's pdf map and directions [link to] George's directions and ascii map theme: Open Sores Humor what: introductions lottery short report on Mac OS X Conference by Joshua Wait short talks, ... on the theme who: open to anyone interested. how much: no fee for our meetings. From george at metaart.org Mon Nov 10 13:43:02 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: Fwd: [oak perl] Meeting Location Not Same [+correction] Message-ID: <200311101143.02088.george@metaart.org> Ooops, I mean tomorrow night. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [oak perl] Meeting Location Not Same Date: Monday 10 November 2003 11:38 am From: George Woolley To: oakland@mail.pm.org Note that the Oakland.pm meeting tonight is at a new location. <<<<<< If you are coming, please note the address and directions before you start. George Snip from Website (+ Annotations) at http://oakland.pm.org/ ....................................................... Next meeting when: Tue. Nov. 11 at 7:30-9:30pm. (We meet 2nd Tuesdays.) where: Joshua Wait's place <<<<<< 1903 Virginia Street Apt. 3 Berkeley, CA 94709 directions: [link to] Joshua's pdf map and directions [link to] George's directions and ascii map theme: Open Sores Humor what: introductions lottery short report on Mac OS X Conference by Joshua Wait short talks, ... on the theme who: open to anyone interested. how much: no fee for our meetings. _______________________________________________ Oakland mailing list Oakland@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/oakland ------------------------------------------------------- From robert-kuropkat at comcast.net Mon Nov 10 13:54:06 2003 From: robert-kuropkat at comcast.net (robert-kuropkat@comcast.net) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:36 2004 Subject: Fwd: [oak perl] Meeting Location Not Same [+correction] Message-ID: <111020031954.2563.49c7@comcast.net> btw, what's the parking situation there? Robert Kuropkat > Ooops, I mean tomorrow night. > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: [oak perl] Meeting Location Not Same > Date: Monday 10 November 2003 11:38 am > From: George Woolley > To: oakland@mail.pm.org > > Note that the Oakland.pm meeting tonight > is at a new location. <<<<<< > If you are coming, > please note the address > and directions before you start. > > George > > Snip from Website (+ Annotations) > at http://oakland.pm.org/ > ....................................................... > Next meeting > when: Tue. Nov. 11 at 7:30-9:30pm. > (We meet 2nd Tuesdays.) > where: Joshua Wait's place <<<<<< > 1903 Virginia Street Apt. 3 > Berkeley, CA 94709 > directions: [link to] Joshua's pdf map and directions > [link to] George's directions and ascii map > theme: Open Sores Humor > what: > introductions > lottery > short report on Mac OS X Conference > by Joshua Wait > short talks, ... on the theme > who: open to anyone interested. > how much: no fee for our meetings. > > _______________________________________________ > Oakland mailing list > Oakland@mail.pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/oakland > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Oakland mailing list > Oakland@mail.pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/oakland From tmonroe+pm at nog.net Mon Nov 10 15:36:13 2003 From: tmonroe+pm at nog.net (Tony Monroe) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:36 2004 Subject: Fwd: [oak perl] Meeting Location Not Same [+correction] In-Reply-To: <111020031954.2563.49c7@comcast.net> References: <111020031954.2563.49c7@comcast.net> Message-ID: <20031110213613.GA12465@bloodrose.nog.net> Meditate ye upon the words of robert-kuropkat@comcast.net: > > btw, what's the parking situation there? From a theoretical web page that the city of Berkeley should probably post: Cars are illegal in Berkeley. If you need automobile access, consider parking in a neighboring community, such as Oakland, Gilroy, or Fresno. Typically, parking in Berkeley is questionable at best, even if you are a resident. As far as I can tell from when I was living there, most of Berkeley's city budget comes from (and possibly goes to) parking enforcement. Josh, is this still mostly correct? I advocate taking BART (North Berkeley appears closest) or public transit, and walking the rest of the way. -- tony -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I don't have a car, so I'll probably take Bart to North Berkeley Bart and walk from there. Or I might go to the downtown Berkeley Bart, though it's not quite as close. George On Monday 10 November 2003 1:36 pm, Tony Monroe wrote: > Meditate ye upon the words of robert-kuropkat@comcast.net: > > btw, what's the parking situation there? > > > > From a theoretical web page that the city of Berkeley should probably > post: > > Cars are illegal in Berkeley. If you need automobile access, > consider parking in a neighboring community, such as Oakland, > Gilroy, or Fresno. > > > > Typically, parking in Berkeley is questionable at best, even if you > are a resident. As far as I can tell from when I was living there, > most of Berkeley's city budget comes from (and possibly goes to) > parking enforcement. Josh, is this still mostly correct? > > I advocate taking BART (North Berkeley appears closest) or public > transit, and walking the rest of the way. > > -- tony From joshnjillwait at yahoo.com Mon Nov 10 18:47:16 2003 From: joshnjillwait at yahoo.com (Joshua Wait) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:36 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Parking for November, 2003 Oakland PM Meeting In-Reply-To: <200311071800.hA7I0JT28343@mail.pm.org> Message-ID: <20031111004716.97496.qmail@web10703.mail.yahoo.com> You can find parking in the area on either Virginia (where I live), Bonita (East), MLK (West), Francisco (South) or Josephine (further West). Parking is not particularly plentiful, but usually is not too much of a problem. --JOSHUA __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree From george at metaart.org Mon Nov 10 19:22:16 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:36 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Parking for November, 2003 Oakland PM Meeting In-Reply-To: <20031111004716.97496.qmail@web10703.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031111004716.97496.qmail@web10703.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <200311101722.16776.george@metaart.org> Oh good, Joshua has responded. Joshua, thanks. See you tomorrow. On Monday 10 November 2003 4:47 pm, Joshua Wait wrote: > You can find parking in the area on either Virginia > (where I live), Bonita (East), MLK (West), Francisco > (South) or Josephine (further West). > > Parking is not particularly plentiful, but usually is > not too much of a problem. > > --JOSHUA From tmonroe+pm at nog.net Wed Nov 12 16:36:15 2003 From: tmonroe+pm at nog.net (Tony Monroe) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:36 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Supplemental humor information Message-ID: <20031112223615.GA20769@bloodrose.nog.net> ______________________________________ / I threatened to show you cowsay. So \ \ here it is. / -------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || || I refuse to apologize to those of you who insist on using fancy mail readers with proportional fonts. :-) If you're really interested in talking cows, you can visit: http://www.nog.net/~tony/warez/cowsay.shtml I recommend the Acme::Cow modules, which install without a hitch on perl 5.8.2, provided you have Text::Template installed. Other things (possibly not) mentioned at the meeting: User Friendly http://www.userfriendly.org/ General Protection Fault http://www.gpf-comics.com/ The Register, purveyors of Simon Travaglia's BOFH http://www.theregister.co.uk/ The Nondeterministic Yodapproximator http://bloodrose.nog.net/~tony/cgi-bin/yoda.cgi -- tony -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/oakland/attachments/20031112/ebdad877/attachment.bin From george at metaart.org Wed Nov 12 18:59:13 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:36 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Supplemental humor information In-Reply-To: <20031112223615.GA20769@bloodrose.nog.net> References: <20031112223615.GA20769@bloodrose.nog.net> Message-ID: <200311121659.13298.george@metaart.org> Tony, Nice cow. Glad you are a man of your word and do as you threaten. Thanks for the URLs too. George On Wednesday 12 November 2003 2:36 pm, Tony Monroe wrote: > ______________________________________ > / I threatened to show you cowsay. So \ > \ here it is. / > -------------------------------------- > \ ^__^ > \ (oo)\_______ > (__)\ )\/\ > > ||----w | > > I refuse to apologize to those of you who insist on using fancy > mail readers with proportional fonts. :-) > > If you're really interested in talking cows, you can visit: > > http://www.nog.net/~tony/warez/cowsay.shtml > > I recommend the Acme::Cow modules, which install without a hitch > on perl 5.8.2, provided you have Text::Template installed. > > Other things (possibly not) mentioned at the meeting: > > User Friendly > > http://www.userfriendly.org/ > > General Protection Fault > > http://www.gpf-comics.com/ > > The Register, purveyors of Simon Travaglia's BOFH > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/ > > The Nondeterministic Yodapproximator > > http://bloodrose.nog.net/~tony/cgi-bin/yoda.cgi > > -- tony From george at metaart.org Thu Nov 13 17:51:15 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:36 2004 Subject: [oak perl] November Meeting: some more links In-Reply-To: <200311062150.27103.george@metaart.org> References: <110420031825.6490.1656@comcast.net> <200311062150.27103.george@metaart.org> Message-ID: <200311131551.15806.george@metaart.org> November meeting theme: Open Sores Humor Tony posted some supplemental humor information related to the Tuesday meeting, including some links. Here's a link to a page containing the highlights from my preparation notes (which notes also include some links): http://camelot.pm.org/humor_language.html George From george at metaart.org Fri Nov 14 15:34:38 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:36 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Fwd: [pm_groups] YAPC::Israel::2004 - Call for Paper Message-ID: <200311141334.38494.george@metaart.org> OK. Probably not too many of you plan to go. However, * It is a Perl conference, who knows. * Gabor gave us a bit of help and encouragement when we were just beginning. * It would be so fun if one person considered giving a paper or even just going. * Gabor specifically mentions visitors and speakers from overseas. George ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [pm_groups] YAPC::Israel::2004 - Call for Paper Date: Friday 14 November 2003 12:04 pm From: Gabor Szabo To: pm_groups@pm.org Dear PM, I'd be glad if you forwarded this to your respective groups. On 26th of February, 2004 the Israeli Perl Mongers ( http://www.perl.org.il/ ) are going to have their second annual Perl conference YAPC::Israel::2004 ( http://www.perl.org.il/YAPC/2004/ ). We would be glad to see many visitors and speakers from overseas to make our conference even better than it was in 2003. We hope you'll want to participate in a Perl get together in the off season. The dead-line for talk proposals is very close. If you'd like to talk on the conference you have to submit the abstract by 30th November, 2003. See our web site for registration and for the proposal submission form. regards Gabor Szabo Perl in Israel http://www.perl.org.il/ _______________________________________________ pm_groups mailing list pm_groups@pm.org http://www.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pm_groups ------------------------------------------------------- From george at metaart.org Fri Nov 14 16:08:06 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:36 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, November 14 Message-ID: <200311141408.07002.george@metaart.org> ================================================================ O'Reilly News for User Group Members November 14, 2003 ================================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition -Head First EJB ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Steve Bass ("PC Annoyances"), APCUG User Group Reception--November 16 -Tim O'Reilly, COMDEX, Las Vegas, NV--November 16-20, 2003 -ApacheCon, Las Vegas, NV--November 16-19, 2003 -David McFarland ("Dreamweaver MX: The Missing Manual" and "Dreamweaver 4: The Missing Manual"), 2003 Macromedia MAX, Salt Lake City, UT--Nov 18-21 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conferences ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Registration Is Open for ETech 2004--San Diego, CA ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Are "How To" Books Archaic? -Open Source at COMDEX Contest Winners -GBA Programming with DevKit Advance -Certification in Linux/Unix System Administration -"Head First EJB" Author Interview -Inside Class Loaders -Windows Server 2003: Still Room for Improvement -Shooting the Windows Messenger Service -Using the eBay SDK -Panther Internet Sharing -Rendezvous Picture Transfer with Panther ================================================ Book News ================================================ Did you know you can request a free book to review for your group? 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In this article, Preston Gralla shows you how you can permanently solve this pop-up problem in XP by disabling the Windows Messenger Service, a hack he also covers in his book, "Windows XP Hacks." http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2003/11/11/winxp_hacks.html Windows XP Hacks Order Number: 5113 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/winxphks/index.html --------------------- .NET --------------------- ***Using the eBay SDK Unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that eBay enables people and businesses to buy and sell items online. But you might not have known that you can write software applications that integrate with eBay through a handy set of .NET components. Jeffrey McManus gives you an overview of how to write apps using the eBay SDK for .NET. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/11/10/ebay.html --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Panther Internet Sharing A quick look at sharing an Internet connection in Panther with IP over FireWire, which is now built into Mac OS X 10.3, and AirPort, including the pros and cons of each method. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/11/11/panther_internet.html ***Rendezvous Picture Transfer with Panther You can show others on a Rendezvous network pictures directly from your camera using the new Image Capture app in Panther. But that's only part of the good news. Derrick Story shows you the ins and outs of this handy new Mac OS X 10.3 trick. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/11/10/rendezvous_images.html Until next time-- Marsee ------------------------------------------------------- From george at metaart.org Wed Nov 19 02:02:57 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:36 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Fwd: sv.pm.org - Perl jobs available Message-ID: <200311190002.57728.george@metaart.org> ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: sv.pm.org - Perl jobs available Date: Monday 17 November 2003 11:16 pm From: james@ActionMessage.com To: georgepw@metaart.org Fellow Perl Mongers: I've received some requests to post Perl jobs that you or a friend may be interested in. Nice to see the economy is improving! Please pass-along. Job #1 ===== http://jobs.perl.org/job/1066 Topica Inc. Topica Email Publisher is the business solution for publishing, delivering and marketing email content over the Internet. As a full-service email marketing firm that delivers 500+ million messages a month, Topica is able to produce and distribute newsletters, build subscription bases for those products, and serve advertising. By integrating these capabilities under one roof, Topica is uniquely positioned to capture a large share of the newsletter publishing market. Position Summary: We are currently seeking a Sr. Web Applications/Web Development Lead with strong organizational, communication and project management skills. Reporting to the Director of Development, this position is responsible for designing, developing and maintaining our email publishing and email marketing automation web applications. Duties include application design, technical specification creation and maintenance, coding, documentation, debugging, as well as reviewing the work of other engineers on the team. Required Skills: ?4 years coding with object-oriented Perl ?4 years experience in building enterprise-level, database-driven web applications ?4 years experience with Apache & mod_perl ?4+ years experience with HTML, Javascript, CSS, DHTML ?4+ years experience in Linux/Unix environment ?2 years coding in C ?Extensive experience with design patterns ?Solid knowledge of Oracle and SQL Desired Skills: ?Ability to write good, clean, efficient, *maintainable* Perl ?Ability to read and debug bad, messy, inefficient, *unmaintainable* Perl ?Meticulous attention to detail ?Flexibility to function in a fast-paced, dynamic Internet/e-commerce production environment ?Excellent communication and problem solving skills Job #2 ===== > I'm looking for a Perl programmer for a client who is located > in San Jose. I'm looking for: > > Strong Perl Scripting > > Some VB Script. > > Some Windows admin experience. > > Some LDAP > > Works well independently. > > Please let me know if you would be able to post a job for me. > > Thanks, I appreciate any help you can give me. > > Lauren Stewart > > Vado, Inc. > > 5000 Executive Parkway #140 > > San Ramon, CA 94583 > > Direct: (925) 824-3306 > > Fax: (925) 275-8948 > > www.vadoinc.com > lstewart@vadoinc.com Job #3 ===== Postini is hiring a Perl programmer for Redwood City. Please see jobs.perl.org posting. The End. -- Powered by ActionMessage http://www.ActionMessage.com/index.html?cp=PERL-513 ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- From george at metaart.org Wed Nov 26 03:41:26 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:36 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, November 25 Message-ID: <200311260141.26677.george@metaart.org> ================================================================ O'Reilly News for User Group Members November 25, 2003 ================================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -AppleScript: The Definitive Guide -.NET and XML -Mac OS X Panther Pocket Guide -Learning XSLT -SQL Tuning -Apache Cookbook ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Steven Feuerstein ("Oracle PL/SQL Programming") PL/SQL Language Seminar, Chicago, IL--December 9-11 -David Sklar and Adam Trachtenberg ("PHP Cookbook"), New York PHP RAMP Training, New York, NY--December 9-10 -Tony Stubblebine ("Regular Expression Pocket Reference"), North Bay Linux Users' Group, Sebastopol, CA--December 9 -David Blank-Edelman ("Perl for System Administration") Back Bay LISA, Cambridge, MA--December 10 -Kathy Sierra ("Head First EJB," "Head First Java"), Denver Java Users Group, Denver, CO--December 10 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conferences ---------------------------------------------------------------- -O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference Speaker List ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Using JPEG2000 -VBScript or Perl? -Economics of Writing on Computer Topics -Using Linux as a Small Business Internet Gateway -BZFlag -Handling Mixed Content in a Strongly Typed World -Panther Maintenance Tips -Keynote's XML Connections -O'Reilly in the Comics ================================================ Book News ================================================ Did you know you can request a free book to review for your group? Ask your group leader for more information. For book review writing tips and suggestions, go to: http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html Don't forget, you can receive 20% off any O'Reilly book you purchase directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering online or by phone 800-998-9938. http://www.oreilly.com/ ***Free ground shipping is available for online orders of at least $29.95 that go to a single U.S. address. This offer applies to U.S. delivery addresses in the 50 states and Puerto Rico. For more details, go to: http://www.oreilly.com/news/freeshipping_0703.html ***AppleScript: The Definitive Guide Order Number: 5571 "AppleScript: The Definitive Guide" explores and teaches the language from the ground up. If you're a beginner and want to learn how to write your first script, or you just want to understand what the excitement is about, this book brings it all into focus. 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"Learning XSLT" also explains how the XML Path Language (XPath) is used by XSLT, and provides a glimpse of what the future holds for XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnxslt/ Chapter 2, "Building New Documents with XSLT," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnxslt/chapter/index.html ***SQL Tuning Order Number: 5733 "SQL Tuning" outlines a timesaving method developed for finding the optimum execution plan rapidly and systematically, regardless of the complexity of the SQL or the database platform being used. You'll learn how to understand and control SQL execution plans and how to diagram SQL queries to deduce the best execution plan. Exercises are included to reinforce the concepts you've learned. "SQL Tuning" concludes by addressing special concerns and unique solutions to "unsolvable" problems. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sqltuning/ Chapter 1, "Introduction," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sqltuning/chapter/index.html ***Apache Cookbook Order Number: 1916 "Apache Cookbook" is a collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples written for anyone who works with Apache. For every problem addressed in the book, there's a solution or "recipe," as well as an explanation of how and why the code works so you can adapt the problem-solving techniques to real-world situations. The two hundred-plus recipes in the book cover topics such as: Security; Aliases, Redirecting, and Rewriting; CGI Scripts, the suexec Wrapper, and other dynamic content techniques; Error Handling; SSL; and Performance. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/apacheckbk/ Chapter 9, "Error Handling," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/apacheckbk/chapter/index.html ================================================ Upcoming Events ================================================ ***For more events, please see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ***Steven Feuerstein ("Oracle PL/SQL Programming") PL/SQL Language Seminar, Chicago, IL--December 9-11 Steven is leading a three-day "MIN-MAX PL/SQL" seminar--a best practices and optimization event that will radically change (for the better!) the way you design and implement PL/SQL-based applications. http://www.minmaxplsql.com/ David Sklar and Adam Trachtenberg ("PHP Cookbook"), New York PHP RAMP Training, New York, NY--December 9-10 David and Adam will lead sessions in NYPHP's Rapid AMP Technology Certification program. http://nyphp.org/content/training/ramp.php ***Tony Stubblebine ("Regular Expression Pocket Reference"), North Bay Linux Users' Group, Sebastopol, CA--December 9 Tony is going to rummage through his Regex Toolbox. 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You'll look at how to take advantage of the new features, especially focusing on the new portable abstract schema for object-relational mapping of Entity Beans. Learn how to make your life easier as a bean developer. No registration for meetings is required, and there is no fee. Food and networking at 5:30-6:00pm The early session at 6:00pm. is for learning basic concepts. Advanced topics are covered by the main speaker at 7:00pm. Qwest Auditorium, 1005 17th Street, Denver, CO http://www.denverjug.org/index.html ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference Speaker List One of the best reasons to attend the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference is the gathering of top-notch presenters, leaders, and experts. Core developers, unique users, and visionaries share their knowledge with you to help you solve your computing or programming challenges. 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Ken details the options available in the JPEG2000 plugin, which were designed to help photographers losslessly compress and store their highest-quality images as efficiently as possible. Ken is the author of the upcoming "Digital Photographer's Handbook." http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2003/11/14/digphoto_ckbk.html ***VBScript or Perl? In the process of writing "Active Directory Cookbook," author and long-time Perl coder Robbie Allen had to make a decision that Windows system administrators often face: whether to use VBScript or Perl. Ultimately, Robbie decided to use VBScript for the book's examples (though you can find Perl examples on his web site). In this article, Robbie outlines the advantages and disadvantages of each language, with sample code, to help you determine which works best for your project. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2003/11/18/activedir_ckbk.html ***Economics of Writing on Computer Topics How important is timeliness in computer book publishing? Can niche books succeed? What about gimmicks? Tim O'Reilly says timing is about more than being first to market on a technology; it's about being first to market for a market. Tim answers all these questions with some "in the trenches" stories of O'Reilly publishing, at tim.oreilly.com. http://tim.oreilly.com/publishing/timeliness_1103.csp --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Using Linux as a Small Business Internet Gateway Internet access is vital to many small businesses. Creating a reliable and worry-free connection used to be difficult. With good software such as the Linux kernel, wvdial, Squid, Postfix, and iptables, it's reasonably easy to set up Linux as an Internet gateway. Alexander Prohorenko explains how. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/11/20/internet_gateway.html ***BZFlag Sometimes a demo program can spin out of control to take on a life of its own. A ten-year-old project to demonstrate 3D movement has become a simple-yet-clever online tank battle game. Howard Wen talks to the creator and maintainer of BZFlag. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/11/20/bzflag.html --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Handling Mixed Content in a Strongly Typed World Merge the line between data and text with XMLBeans. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/bea/mixedcontent.html --------------------- .NET --------------------- ***WinFX: An All-Managed API In Longhorn, Win32 will no longer be the principal API. It will, of course, continue to be supported; 20-year-old DOS applications still run on the latest version of Windows, and likewise, Win32 applications will also continue to work for the foreseeable future. But just as DOS and 16-bit Windows applications were superseded by Win32 applications, so in Longhorn will Win32 become the "old way" of doing things. In the first edition of this new column by Ian Griffiths, he explains why an all-managed API is a good thing. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/11/24/longhorn_01.htm --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Panther Maintenance Tips Yes, Mac OS X is incredibly stable, but here's a comprehensive list of tips to keep it that way for the duration of your OS install. What? You don't do any maintenance at all? Well, read on. That might change. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/11/21/maintenance.html ***Keynote's XML Connections For its Keynote application, Apple had created an XML syntax, APXL (short for Apple Presentation XML), and made its schema publicly available. That means you can build presentations outside of Keynote using data stored in apps like FileMaker Pro and 4D. David Miller explains, and shows you how to leverage this functionality. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/11/18/keynote.html --------------------- Fun --------------------- ***O'Reilly in the Comics http://secretworldofnerds.com/atlas_nerd.jpg Thanks to Art Payne (The Michigan Apple User Group) and Julie Reynolds-Grabbe (NASA Ames Research Center--Mac Group) for sending this to me. Until next time-- Marsee -------------------------------------------------------