From jay at jays.net Sat Dec 3 09:21:19 2011 From: jay at jays.net (Jay Hannah) Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 11:21:19 -0600 Subject: [Omaha.pm] Coworking in southwest Omaha Message-ID: Hola, If you'd have any interest in a coworking space in southwest Omaha I'd love for you to discuss it here: http://www.facebook.com/CwOSW Thanks, j From jay.hannah at iinteractive.com Thu Dec 8 14:56:06 2011 From: jay.hannah at iinteractive.com (Jay Hannah) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 16:56:06 -0600 Subject: [Omaha.pm] Dec 13 meeting Message-ID: <31992305-83AF-43C3-89F3-1D0673FF3170@iinteractive.com> I've added another bullet point to my offerings for next Tuesday: http://odlug.org IRC vs Flowdock (real-time updates from Jira, Confluence, github, Bamboo, RSS, Twitter, email) https://www.flowdock.com/tour/irc Anyone else using any of this stack? If you're not already an IRC wizard (screen + irssi + writing bots) then Flowdock is all that awesomeness with none of the pain. :) As always, if anyone else wants to present anything, we'd love to have you. :) Thanks, Jay Hannah Senior Developer / Consultant http://www.iinteractive.com Email: jay.hannah at iinteractive.com From jay.hannah at iinteractive.com Mon Dec 12 13:35:00 2011 From: jay.hannah at iinteractive.com (Jay Hannah) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:35:00 -0600 Subject: [Omaha.pm] Dec 13 meeting In-Reply-To: <31992305-83AF-43C3-89F3-1D0673FF3170@iinteractive.com> References: <31992305-83AF-43C3-89F3-1D0673FF3170@iinteractive.com> Message-ID: Reminder: Our next meeting is tomorrow night. :) http://odlug.org Thanks, Jay Hannah Senior Developer / Consultant http://www.iinteractive.com Email: jay.hannah at iinteractive.com AOL IM: deafferret Mobile: 1.402.598.7782 Fax: 1.402.691.9496 From jay at jays.net Tue Dec 13 09:42:54 2011 From: jay at jays.net (Jay Hannah) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:42:54 -0600 Subject: [Omaha.pm] AI Challenge: Ants Message-ID: <3B566549-9B85-45F6-AA3E-47B28C7B5F8A@jays.net> Wow! Watch how strategic people's bots have become! http://aichallenge.org/visualizer.php?game=213756&user=4513 Forming combat columns, blocking off choke point. Impressive! j From jay.hannah at iinteractive.com Tue Dec 13 14:18:11 2011 From: jay.hannah at iinteractive.com (Jay Hannah) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:18:11 -0600 Subject: [Omaha.pm] Pizza status bar Message-ID: <04E84A2E-67D9-4DE9-89B9-0878594F76E0@iinteractive.com> Want to surf the Internet while keeping an eye on our pizza order? http://tracker.dominos.com/tracker/surfwithtracker/index.html?store=6112&id=611264835880 Laugh, j From jay.hannah at iinteractive.com Wed Dec 21 14:49:47 2011 From: jay.hannah at iinteractive.com (Jay Hannah) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:49:47 -0600 Subject: [Omaha.pm] Fwd: Happy Holidays from TPF (apologies if you dislike html emails) References: <2B61EC71-D2C4-4C78-AEAD-67F340D7FE2D@shadowcat.co.uk> Message-ID: <9B5A3886-5DA5-489D-86AE-D5C865388708@iinteractive.com> Ha! Cool onion moon! :) j Begin forwarded message: > From: Mark Keating > Date: December 21, 2011 3:12:58 PM CST > To: pr at perlfoundation.org > Subject: Happy Holidays from TPF (apologies if you dislike html emails) > > > > > Thank you > The Perl Foundation would like to thank you for all your support during 2011 and we look forward to a continuing relationship in 2012. > > With regards: > Karen Pauley (President) > Daniel White (Treasurer) > Mark Keating (Marketing and Public Relations) > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: header.jpg Type: image/jpg Size: 53914 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Photos.png Type: image/png Size: 243358 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Here are the areas of interest I have: > > - EA (Electronic Arts) uses Perl for various game projects, some for patching, some for servers. > - CBS Interactive / CBS Sports uses Perl for fantasy football and some other things. > - Yahoo! uses Perl for lots of things, or at least used to. I'd like to find out if they still do. > - There are Perl bindings for Arduino, I'd like to get someone to come talk about them or maybe even do a mini workshop. > - New York Times created NYTProf and other cool goodies. However, all the email address I've tried have either bounced or gone unanswered. I'd like to see what's going on over there. > > If anybody else knows some cool uses of Perl like these and can provide some contact info, I'd like to know about them. I appreciate your help. > _______________________________________________ > yapc mailing list > yapc at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/yapc From jay.hannah at iinteractive.com Wed Dec 28 19:37:47 2011 From: jay.hannah at iinteractive.com (Jay Hannah) Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:37:47 -0600 Subject: [Omaha.pm] Games::Construder - Minecraft style game written in Perl and C References: <20111229031744.GK14241@slowass.net> Message-ID: <05715225-CFDB-4CEB-9D17-8F37F58EF366@iinteractive.com> Oh, wow. Minecraft-like game written in Perl and C: http://ue.o---o.eu/ j Begin forwarded message: > From: Scott Walters > Date: December 28, 2011 9:17:44 PM CST > To: yapc at pm.org > Subject: Re: [yapc] contact info > > On 0, JT Smith wrote: >> I'm looking for some contact info for people who do very interesting things with Perl that aren't highlighted all that much. I'd like to invite these people to come speak about what they do at YAPC. I'm hoping you can help me get some email addresses. Here are the areas of interest I have: >> >> - Yahoo! uses Perl for lots of things, or at least used to. I'd like to find out if they still do. > > Here's a talk given on Yahoo! Pipes, which was written in Perl. The guy who > did this talk might have some leads and may himself be available. > > http://ajaxian.com/archives/pipes-a-tech-talk > > Outside of the topic of large companies using Perl, I'd love to hear a talk > from the guy who did this Perl SDL game: > > http://ue.o---o.eu/ > > Cheers, > -scott From jay at jays.net Sat Dec 31 10:02:36 2011 From: jay at jays.net (Jay Hannah) Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:02:36 -0600 Subject: [Omaha.pm] Code Golf Message-ID: <55C69646-BD24-408E-8A16-1C5D2BEE078D@jays.net> Code golf lives on! http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/ Just last night a Java purist was complaining to me about unreadable Perl. http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/189/drawing-a-cube-in-ascii-art $ perl -E '$d=<>/2;$s=$"x$d;$H=$s x4;$f="|$H|";$t.=$"x$d--."/$H/".$"x$_."|\n",$m.="$f$s|\n",$b=$f.$"x$_."/\n$b"for 0..$d-1;$_="+$H+";y/ /-/;say" $s$_\n$t$_$s|\n$m$f$s+\n$b$_"' 3 +----+ / /| +----+ | | | | | | + | |/ +----+ Yet Python, Ruby, and PowerShell won this contest? Perl? Unreadable? pshh! :) j