From george at metaart.org Tue Oct 7 23:08:19 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:34 2004 Subject: Fwd: Re: [oak perl] Looking Ahead: Bricolage Presentation Message-ID: <200310072108.19360.george@metaart.org> Hi All, The next Oakland.pm meeting is just a week off. David Wheeler is giving a Bricolage Presentation. As a reminder, I'm forwarding David's reply to an earlier email announcing that he had agreed to do this. -- george ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [oak perl] Looking Ahead: Bricolage Presentation Date: Thursday 17 July 2003 2:39 pm From: David Wheeler To: Oakland Perl Mongers On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 02:53 PM, George Woolley wrote: > Everyone, > I just received confirmation that David Wheeler > will be giving us a Bricolage Presentation > for our October meeting. > [Thanks, David.] My pleasure. > What's Bricolage? > Well, I gather it's > * a comprehensive content management system > * written in Perl > * open source > That's about what I know, > plus that the references I see to it > are unusually positive. That's a good start. There's more information on the Bricolage site, as well as the Kineticode site. See the "News" section of the Kineticode site for links to articles about Bricolage. http://bricolage.cc/ http://kineticode.com/ > If I understand correctly, > David is the lead developer and maintainer for Bricolage. Yes, and I founded Kineticode to provide consulting and support services for Bricolage, as well. > David, if you see this post and have time, > please: > * correct any errors or misstatements I've made, None so far. > * expand on anything you wish to and/or See the sites mentioned above. > * make a suggestion on how to start learning > about Bricolage. Bricolage is open source. You can download it and install it and play with it if you like (requires Apache with static mod_perl, PostgreSQL, and several million CPAN modules). I've also written an introduction to Bricolage that has been published as Appendix D in the O'Reilly Mason book. http://www.masonbook.com/ And of course, all of the documentation is on the Bricolage web site, including some introductory documents, a FAQ, and a couple of HOWTOs. http://bricolage.cc/documentation.html See you all in February! Regards, David -- David Wheeler AIM: dwTheory david@kineticode.com ICQ: 15726394 http://kineticode.com/ Yahoo!: dew7e Jabber: Theory@jabber.org Kineticode. Setting knowledge in motion.[sm] From david at kineticode.com Wed Oct 8 00:18:23 2003 From: david at kineticode.com (David Wheeler) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:34 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Looking Ahead: Bricolage Presentation In-Reply-To: <200310072108.19360.george@metaart.org> Message-ID: On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 09:08 PM, George Woolley wrote: > See you all in February! God, you had to remind me of that stupid typo again! I just wasn't awake that day, clearly. Regards, David -- David Wheeler AIM: dwTheory david@kineticode.com ICQ: 15726394 http://www.kineticode.com/ Yahoo!: dew7e Jabber: Theory@jabber.org Kineticode. Setting knowledge in motion.[sm] From george at metaart.org Wed Oct 8 00:56:49 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Looking Ahead: Bricolage Presentation In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <200310072256.49145.george@metaart.org> On Tuesday 07 October 2003 10:18 pm, David Wheeler wrote: > On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 09:08 PM, George Woolley wrote: > > See you all in February! > > God, you had to remind me of that stupid typo again! I just wasn't > awake that day, clearly. > > Regards, > > David Sorry, David, my bad. I didn't even notice the typo this time around. I'm looking forward to your presentation. -- george All, The meeting is Tuesday, October 14. (i.e. next week!) See the cut & paste following my "signature". -- george Cut & Paste from Oakland.pm Website at http://oakland.pm.org ........................................... Come to our next meeting: * when: Tue. October 14, 2003 7:30pm-9:30pm. (We meet 2nd Tuesdays) * where: Arden Schaeffer's place 413 61st Street, Oakland CA * directions: original, Arden's * what: o introductions o Bricolage Presentation by David Wheeler (See Bricolage site and Kineticode site) * who: open to anyone interested. * how much: no fee for our meetings. From blyman at iii.com Wed Oct 8 09:53:37 2003 From: blyman at iii.com (Belden Lyman) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Looking Ahead: Bricolage Presentation References: Message-ID: <3F8424F1.40209@iii.com> David Wheeler wrote: > On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 09:08 PM, George Woolley wrote: > >> See you all in February! > > > God, you had to remind me of that stupid typo again! I just wasn't awake > that day, clearly. > Har-har-har! /me laffs it up again From david at wheeler.net Wed Oct 8 09:55:55 2003 From: david at wheeler.net (David Wheeler) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Looking Ahead: Bricolage Presentation In-Reply-To: <200310072256.49145.george@metaart.org> Message-ID: <84A61241-F99F-11D7-939F-0003931A964A@wheeler.net> On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 10:56 PM, George Woolley wrote: > Sorry, David, my bad. > I didn't even notice the typo this time around. Heh, no problem. I was just harassing you for my own stupidity. ;-) David -- David Wheeler AIM: dwTheory david@kineticode.com ICQ: 15726394 http://www.kineticode.com/ Yahoo!: dew7e Jabber: Theory@jabber.org Kineticode. Setting knowledge in motion.[sm] From george at metaart.org Wed Oct 8 22:24:57 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Looking Ahead: Bricolage Presentation In-Reply-To: <84A61241-F99F-11D7-939F-0003931A964A@wheeler.net> References: <84A61241-F99F-11D7-939F-0003931A964A@wheeler.net> Message-ID: <200310082024.57581.george@metaart.org> On Wednesday 08 October 2003 7:55 am, David Wheeler wrote: > On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 10:56 PM, George Woolley wrote: > > Sorry, David, my bad. > > I didn't even notice the typo this time around. > > Heh, no problem. I was just harassing you for my own stupidity. ;-) > > David Yep, no problem here either. Successful harassment hereby acknowledged. However -- stupidity? Hm, like a fox? -- george From george at metaart.org Fri Oct 10 14:51:35 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Review of "Regular Expression Pocket Reference" Message-ID: <200310101251.35797.george@metaart.org> There's a review of the "Regular Expression Pocket Reference" on the Oakland.pm site at http://oakland.pm.org/reviews/regexppr.html From david at kineticode.com Fri Oct 10 14:22:14 2003 From: david at kineticode.com (David Wheeler) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Projector Message-ID: <0DFF775A-FB57-11D7-A5EC-0003931A964A@kineticode.com> Hi All, Does anyone who's coming to the meeting on Tuesday have a VGA projector that they could bring for me to use for my demo? It'll be a lot easier than crowding around my laptop! TIA, David -- David Wheeler AIM: dwTheory david@kineticode.com ICQ: 15726394 http://www.kineticode.com/ Yahoo!: dew7e Jabber: Theory@jabber.org Kineticode. Setting knowledge in motion.[sm] From george at metaart.org Mon Oct 13 16:12:33 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Fwd: [sf-perl] Puzzling Interview techniques Message-ID: <200310131412.33161.george@metaart.org> The following is a post by Vicki Brown to the SF Perl Mongers mailing list. When I asked her if it was OK to forward it the Oakland.pm list, she kindly agreed to that and indicated she didn't want others to be unprepared in a similar situation. Personally, I also found her related weblog entry (referenced near the end of her post) to be worth reading. >---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > >Subject: [sf-perl] Puzzling Interview techniques >Date: Monday 13 October 2003 10:11 am ... > >You may recall my posting about the interview I had a few weeks ago, wherein >the interviewer asked "When would you use OOP?". My experience spawned quite >an interesting discussion! > >As the irritation from that interview wore off, I realized that my answer > was itself a test - one the interviewer failed. An interview is a two-way > street. Not only are you determining if this person/company will offer you > a job but, even more important, you are determining if you would want to > accept that job were it offered! > >Had this interviewer been more the kind of person I get along with (say, had >he had a sense of humor :-) he would have smiled or laughed, agreed, and > then asked the question again with an emphasis on the technical merits of > OOP (which, by the way, I had already touched on 15 minutes previous to > this question!). However, he didn't. As he would have been my immediate > manager and tech lead... I would not have wanted to work for him or his > company. > >If anyone cares, my post-interview analysis is on my weblog at >http://vlb.typepad.com/commentary/2003/09/interview_ups_a.html > >What I didn't mention at the time of my posting to this list was the > question that _really_ irritated me. That was the fourth question I was > asked and, apparently, the only one that really mattered to the > interviewer. Get it wrong or fail to answer and goodbye, thanks for > playing. > > 4 people need to cross a rickety bridge at night over a chasm. > They have one flashlight.... > >The puzzle comes straight out of Microsoft's interview puzzle book. > >Shortly after my interview, I also discussed the puzzle question on a > couple of mailing lists, including a Unix techie hacker list. One of the > "techie list" members recommended a book, "How Would You Move Mount Fuji? > Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle" by William Poundstone. I have read this > book and consider it to be an excellent resource. > >Puzzle questions at interviews may not be "new", but they were not in common >practice until fairly recently. Poundstone's book references puzzle > questions used by William Shockley in 1957, and by HP in 1979. Microsoft > has apparently been using puzzles since the mid-80's. But the current "fad" > of "hiring like Microsooft" is new within the past decade (and, thankfully, > hasn't spread everywhere). It's apparently been popular in software > startups (which I have managed to mostly avoid) and on Wall Street (which I > will continue to avoid). > >I consider this book to be recommended reading for anyone who might be >involved in an interview at any time in the future - from either side of the >desk. If someone hits you with one of these "puzzling" interview tactics, > you need to know what to expect and how to react. > >My review of "How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle" >and my personal thoughts on the puzzle / stress / impossible question >interview technique are on my weblog at >http://vlb.typepad.com/commentary/2003/10/puzzle_cult.html > >Caveat Jobhunter >-- >- Vicki > From george at metaart.org Thu Oct 16 03:43:58 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 15, 2003 Message-ID: <200310160143.58490.george@metaart.org> ================================================================ O'Reilly News for User Group Members October 15, 2003 ================================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Windows Server 2003 in a Nutshell -ADO.NET Cookbook -Excel Pocket Guide -Active Directory Cookbook -Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics -Flash Remoting: The Definitive Guide -Programming ASP.NET, 2nd Edition -J2EE Design Patterns ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Brent Chapman ("Building Internet Firewalls"), BayLISA Author Event, Cupertino, CA--Oct 16, 2003 -Louis Rosenfeld ("Information Architecture for the World Wide Web"), Enterprise Information Architecture Seminar, San Francisco, CA-- Oct 20, 2003 -David Jordan ("Java Data Objects"), Colorado Software Summit, Summit County, CO--Oct 26-31, 2003 -USENIX LISA Conference, San Diego, CA--Oct 26-31, 2003 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conferences ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Virginia Tech Building Power Mac G5 Supercomputer ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Enter the Great TiVo Giveaway -Fall Sale: O'Reilly CD Bookshelves -Take an O'Reilly Poll -Sending SMS Messages Using Windows XP -Adding System Calls -PHP Survey -Denial-of-Service Attacks -XML Parsing in a Producer-Consumer Model -SearchAssist: A Portable Search Engine in Java -.NET Serialization, Part 1 -Understanding Reflection, Part 1 -Cooking with ActionScript -Apple Wireless Mouse and Keyboard Tips and Tricks -Ten Things I Dig About Panther -Fast Picture Previews ================================================ Book News ================================================ Did you know you can request a free book to review for your group? 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Sorry about the late notice!!] [Note that 21st Amendment is a ten minute walk from the Montgomery St. BART station.] SIG-beer-west http://extasia.org/sig-beer-west/ Saturday, October 18, 2003 at 6:00pm San Francisco, CA Beer. Mental stimulation. This event: Saturday, 10/18/2003, 6:00pm, at the [1]21st Amendment Brewpub, San Francisco Directions: http://www.21st-amendment.com/location/index.html [1] http://www.21st-amendment.com/21A.html Coming events (third Saturdays): Saturday, 11/15/2003, 6:00pm, location to be determined 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 San Francisco's next social event for computer sysadmins and their friends, sig-beer-west, will take place on Saturday, October 18, 2003 at [2]21st Amendment Brew Pub in San Francisco, CA. 21st Amendment brews their own (delightful) beer, and usually has a few guest brews on tap. They have a full [3]food menu and I can personally recommend the sweet potato straws side dish. Festivities will start at 6:00pm and continue until we've all left. Directions to 21st Amendment can be found on their [4]directions page. [2] http://www.21st-amendment.com/21A.html [3] http://www.21st-amendment.com/food/index.html [4] http://www.21st-amendment.com/location/index.html When you show up, you should look for some kind of home made sig-beer-west sign. We will try to make it obvious who we are. :-) 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. sig-beer-west is always on the third Saturday of the month. Any Comments, Questions, Suggestions of Things to Do Later on That Evening, or New Venue Suggestions ... email [5]David. [5] extasia -AT- extasia -DOT- org There is a sig-beer-west mailing list. To subscribe, send an email with "subscribe" in the body to . sig-beer-west FAQ 1. Q: Your announcement says "computer sysadmins and their friends". How do I know if I'm a friend of a computer sysadmin? I don't even know what one is. A: You're a friend of a computer sysadmin if you can find the sig-beer-west sign at this month's sig-beer-west event. 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 city, 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 [6]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. [6] http://www.dc-sage.org/ ______________________________________________________________________ Last modified: $Date: 2003/10/18 22:37:55 $ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE/kEkuPh0M9c/OpdARAnsVAJ0fJjKDX3byOagYLsTr3jj0Ke4cjwCglhgZ 2+fG7P1k4AjOUUaZgVReKoo= =FkXi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From ddigor at well.com Wed Oct 22 15:11:22 2003 From: ddigor at well.com (Don Day) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] OT: LCD projector rental--I also need one for a memorial this weekend--did you find one for rent around here? Thanks tons for any clues from Robin B here or 510-547-5890. Urgently needed. Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.0.20031022130936.00a16ec0@mail.well.com> From robert-kuropkat at comcast.net Wed Oct 22 16:25:28 2003 From: robert-kuropkat at comcast.net (robert-kuropkat@comcast.net) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] OT: LCD projector rental--I also need one for a memorial this weekend--did you find one for rent around here? Thanks tons for any clues from Robin B here or 510-547-5890. Urgently needed. Message-ID: <102220032125.22162.72d9@comcast.net> Don't know anything about their service, etc. but I did run across this place recently: http://www.aeonevents.com They have a VERY stupid web site. The entire thing is a single, stupid flash thingy that I've actually seen work once. But maybe you can look them up in the phone book. I want to say a projector cost $260/day or something? Robert Kuropkat > > _______________________________________________ > Oakland mailing list > Oakland@mail.pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/oakland From blyman at iii.com Wed Oct 22 19:34:13 2003 From: blyman at iii.com (Belden Lyman) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: Please put the content of your message in the body of your email, not the subject Re: [oak perl] OT: LCD projector rental--I also need one for a memorial this weekend--did you find one for rent around here? Thanks tons for any clues from Robin B here or 510-547-5890. Urgently needed. In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.0.20031022130936.00a16ec0@mail.well.com> References: <5.2.1.1.0.20031022130936.00a16ec0@mail.well.com> Message-ID: <3F972205.1030402@iii.com> From george at metaart.org Wed Oct 22 20:29:08 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 22 Message-ID: <200310221829.08426.george@metaart.org> ================================================================ O'Reilly News for User Group Members October 22, 2003 ================================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -PC Annoyances -STL Pocket Reference ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -User Group Event at the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference -Tim O'Reilly, OOPSLA 2003, Anaheim, CA--Oct 26-30 -Rael Dornfest ("Google Hacks," "Mac OS X Hacks"), Portland Linux/Unix Group, Portland, OR--November 6 -ApacheCon, Las Vegas, NV--Nov 16-19 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conferences ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Registration Is Open for ETech 2004--San Diego, CA -Last Week to Register for the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -All Software Should Be Network Aware -Two New Book Brochures Available Online -Open Source Goes to COMDEX -Most Indispensable Linux Books -OpenOffice Irritation -Upgrading a MySQL Application -The PHP Scalability Myth -Creating an Online Help System with JavaHelp and DocBook -Filtering HTTP Requests with .NET -Sizing Up Windows Server 2003 -Start Me Up: Writing and Understanding OS X StartupItems -I Dig Mac OS X ================================================ Book News ================================================ Did you know you can request a free book to review for your group? 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Not attending but you still dig Mac OS X? This is the tee for you. Check out all of O'Reilly's cool swag at Think Geek. http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/tshirts/63fc/ Until next time-- Marsee ------------------------------------------------------- From mtheo at amural.com Thu Oct 23 02:21:54 2003 From: mtheo at amural.com (Mark Theodoropoulos) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Re: OT: LCD projector rental In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.0.20031022130936.00a16ec0@mail.well.com> Message-ID: <3F971F22.18551.26EBEB31@localhost> I was the one who asked about this several months ago, and I'm happy to report that I was *extremely* pleased with Oakland Audio-Visual Services (actually in San Leandro). They will deliver and pick up anywhere in the Bay Area for a very reasonable amount (e.g. 10 bux each way for Berkeley). Delivery includes complete setup and test. Huge inventory. Excellent sales help -- bent over backwards to be sure we'd have a setup that met our needs. The tech they sent out was plenty experienced and took care of everything -- roughly like finding your budget rental car comes with a chauffeur, mechanic, and chef. As far as I'm concerned, this is the outfit I'll be using from here on out. They were great on the phone, but I'd recommend getting oriented at www.oavs.com before you call. Downloading the PDFs of the catalog and forms will speed things up for you. Hope this helps. Mark Theodoropoulos Berkeley Incidentally, as you can imagine, handing out machines whose mere replacement bulbs cost $300 or so is not exactly a low-overhead, low- expense business, so projector rentals are not cheap; don't expect to get away with spending less than, er, the cost of a bulb. :) -- producer / classics without walls the anti-warhorse zone / www.amural.com kusf 90.3fm / san francisco From george at metaart.org Thu Oct 23 03:53:34 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] OT: LCD projector rental--I also need one for a memorial this weekend--did you find one for rent around here? Thanks tons for any clues from Robin B here or 510-547-5890. Urgently needed. In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.0.20031022130936.00a16ec0@mail.well.com> References: <5.2.1.1.0.20031022130936.00a16ec0@mail.well.com> Message-ID: <200310230153.34333.george@metaart.org> On Wednesday 22 October 2003 1:11 pm, Don Day wrote: [No body. See Subject.] Don, You got two more replies. See forwarded messages after my "signature". George ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Please put the content of your message in the body of your email, not the subject Re: [oak perl] OT: LCD projector rental--I also need one for a memorial this weekend--did you find one for rent around here? Thanks tons for any clues from Robin B here or 510-547-5890. Urgently needed. Date: Wednesday 22 October 2003 5:34 pm From: Belden Lyman To: Oakland Perl Mongers ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [oak perl] Re: OT: LCD projector rental Date: Thursday 23 October 2003 12:21 am From: "Mark Theodoropoulos" To: Oakland Perl Mongers I was the one who asked about this several months ago, and I'm happy to report that I was *extremely* pleased with Oakland Audio-Visual Services (actually in San Leandro). They will deliver and pick up anywhere in the Bay Area for a very reasonable amount (e.g. 10 bux each way for Berkeley). Delivery includes complete setup and test. Huge inventory. Excellent sales help -- bent over backwards to be sure we'd have a setup that met our needs. The tech they sent out was plenty experienced and took care of everything -- roughly like finding your budget rental car comes with a chauffeur, mechanic, and chef. As far as I'm concerned, this is the outfit I'll be using from here on out. They were great on the phone, but I'd recommend getting oriented at www.oavs.com before you call. Downloading the PDFs of the catalog and forms will speed things up for you. Hope this helps. Mark Theodoropoulos Berkeley Incidentally, as you can imagine, handing out machines whose mere replacement bulbs cost $300 or so is not exactly a low-overhead, low- expense business, so projector rentals are not cheap; don't expect to get away with spending less than, er, the cost of a bulb. :) -- producer / classics without walls the anti-warhorse zone / www.amural.com kusf 90.3fm / san francisco From george at metaart.org Thu Oct 23 04:13:42 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] OT: LCD projector rental ... Message-ID: <200310230213.42060.george@metaart.org> Ooops. That was supposed to go to Don Day. I've now resent to him, in case he hadn't already seen the responses. [He's not a list member.] ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [oak perl] OT: LCD projector rental--I also need one for a memorial this weekend--did you find one for rent around here? Thanks tons for any clues from Robin B here or 510-547-5890. Urgently needed. Date: Thursday 23 October 2003 1:53 am From: George Woolley To: Oakland Perl Mongers On Wednesday 22 October 2003 1:11 pm, Don Day wrote: [No body. See Subject.] Don, You got two more replies. See forwarded messages after my "signature". George ... From george at metaart.org Thu Oct 23 10:44:21 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Next Meeting, Different Location Message-ID: <200310230844.21024.george@metaart.org> The announcement for the next meeting is on our website. See cut & paste below my "signature". Note that it is at a different location. There are links to directions in the announcement on the website. The meeting is at Josh Wait's , very close to LMI.net in Berkeley, if you happen to know where that is. George Snip from Oakland.pm Website 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: Joshua's pdf map and directions George's directions and ascii map * theme: Open Sores Humor * what: o introductions o lottery o short report on Mac OS X Conference by Joshua Wait o short talks, ... on the theme * who: open to anyone interested. * how much: no fee for our meetings. From george at metaart.org Mon Oct 27 00:37:36 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Reviews? Message-ID: <200310262237.36963.george@metaart.org> Is anyone interested in writing a review of some kind for Oakland.pm? If so, let me know. If you wish to review an in print O'Reilly book, I likely can get you a review copy. [The book reviewed need not be an O'Reilly book. But O'Reilly is who I know how to get review copies from.] Oh, a review could be on all sorts of things. For example: * a Perl book (duh). * a book in some loose way related to Perl * a Linux distribution. * a talk. * an article * or use your imagination. It should have something to do with Perl, somehow. But, hey, if "Even Grues Get Full" is related to Perl, it shouldn't be too hard to rationalize that. And we do have a review of "Even Grues Get Full" on our site. [Rationalization of connection between "Even Grues Get Full" and Perl: "Even Grues Get Full" is the latest compendium of the User Friendly on-line Comic Strip which is filled with open source humor and is a part of open source culture. Perl is open source software and is part of open source culture. Pearl is a character in the User Friendly Comic Strip.] If writing a review appeals to you at all, let me know. This does not have to be especially difficult. If you have reservations, let me know; perhaps, they can be disappeared. From george at metaart.org Mon Oct 27 00:47:55 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: <200310262247.55242.george@metaart.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 george at metaart.org Mon Oct 27 01:03:54 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] sig-beer-east Message-ID: <200310262303.54451.george@metaart.org> Whatever happened to sig-beer-east? Hey, maybe there could be a meeting in Las Vegas. I bet Mike Lewis would be there in a wink. And maybe Chris Angell (LasVegas.pm group leader) would come. George VA IVAB, IREVGNF. [Can anyone translate the above?] From cajun at cajuninc.com Mon Oct 27 01:12:53 2003 From: cajun at cajuninc.com (M. Lewis) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] sig-beer-east In-Reply-To: <200310262303.54451.george@metaart.org> References: <200310262303.54451.george@metaart.org> Message-ID: <200310262312.53983.cajun@cajuninc.com> I'm up anytime for a Sig-Beer-LV. Let me know the time and place !! M On Sunday 26 October 2003 23:03, George Woolley wrote: > Whatever happened to sig-beer-east? > Hey, maybe there could be a meeting in Las Vegas. > I bet Mike Lewis would be there in a wink. > And maybe Chris Angell (LasVegas.pm group leader) > would come. > > George > > VA IVAB, IREVGNF. > [Can anyone translate the above?] > _______________________________________________ > Oakland mailing list > Oakland@mail.pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/oakland From george at metaart.org Mon Oct 27 16:41:11 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] sig-beer-east In-Reply-To: <200310262312.53983.cajun@cajuninc.com> References: <200310262303.54451.george@metaart.org> <200310262312.53983.cajun@cajuninc.com> Message-ID: <200310271441.11533.george@metaart.org> Mike, So how is it going in Las Vegas? Have you engaged with the Las Vegas Linux Users Group at all? Have you gotten together with Chris Angell to get LasVegas.pm up and running? George P.S. Ah, the glimmer of sig-beer-lv in Mike's mind's eye. ========================================================= On Sunday 26 October 2003 11:12 pm, M. Lewis wrote: > I'm up anytime for a Sig-Beer-LV. Let me know the time and place !! > > M ========================================================= > On Sunday 26 October 2003 23:03, George Woolley wrote: > > Whatever happened to sig-beer-east? > > Hey, maybe there could be a meeting in Las Vegas. > > I bet Mike Lewis would be there in a wink. > > And maybe Chris Angell (LasVegas.pm group leader) > > would come. > > > > George > > > > VA IVAB, IREVGNF. > > [Can anyone translate the above?] ... [translation clue #A1: Think User Friendly Comic Strip.] From blyman at iii.com Mon Oct 27 18:29:53 2003 From: blyman at iii.com (Belden Lyman) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] sig-beer-east In-Reply-To: <200310262303.54451.george@metaart.org> References: <200310262303.54451.george@metaart.org> Message-ID: <3F9DB881.6050400@iii.com> George Woolley wrote: > VA IVAB, IREVGNF. > [Can anyone translate the above?] IN VINO, VERITAS. Belden From george at metaart.org Mon Oct 27 19:12:01 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] sig-beer-east In-Reply-To: <3F9DB881.6050400@iii.com> References: <200310262303.54451.george@metaart.org> <3F9DB881.6050400@iii.com> Message-ID: <200310271712.01625.george@metaart.org> Not surprisingly, it's Belden who translated it. All "Hail Belden!" Also see: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20000101&mode=classic ================================================= On Monday 27 October 2003 4:29 pm, Belden Lyman wrote: > George Woolley wrote: > > VA IVAB, IREVGNF. > > [Can anyone translate the above?] > > IN VINO, VERITAS. > > Belden From blyman at iii.com Tue Oct 28 08:40:43 2003 From: blyman at iii.com (Belden Lyman) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] sig-beer-east In-Reply-To: <200310271712.01625.george@metaart.org> References: <200310262303.54451.george@metaart.org> <3F9DB881.6050400@iii.com> <200310271712.01625.george@metaart.org> Message-ID: <3F9E7FEB.3070109@iii.com> George Woolley wrote: > Not surprisingly, it's Belden who translated it. > > All "Hail Belden!" > Urrm, better yet, don't... From george at metaart.org Fri Oct 31 12:31:24 2003 From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Fwd: Parrot 0.0.13 "Screaming Pumpkin" Released! Message-ID: <200310311031.24581.george@metaart.org> ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Parrot 0.0.13 "Screaming Pumpkin" Released! Date: Friday 31 October 2003 6:11 am From: Leopold Toetsch To: P6I Cc: P6L , ... ... Turn your web browser towards for more information about Parrot, get involved, and: ... From david at fetter.org Fri Oct 31 14:02:37 2003 From: david at fetter.org (David Fetter) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:35 2004 Subject: [oak perl] Grewvy Javascript module :) Message-ID: <20031031200237.GN10904@fetter.org> 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 :) 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