From grof at rogers.com Tue Sep 2 04:19:55 2008 From: grof at rogers.com (Andrew Ross) Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 07:19:55 -0400 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] Videos from Thursday's osbootcamp are posted Message-ID: <005601c90ced$d3de6640$0e00000a@rosan01> Hi Everyone, For those that didn't make it, or for those that would like to relive the moment, the videos from Thursday's interpreted language osbootcamp are posted on the osbootcamp web site. I'd like to invite you to peruse the other content from previously recorded osbootcamps as well. Please help us build awareness of these great talks by sharing the link. Thank you, Andrew http://osbootcamp.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From yanick at babyl.dyndns.org Sat Sep 6 13:54:21 2008 From: yanick at babyl.dyndns.org (Yanick Champoux) Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:54:21 -0400 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] Anyone interested in talking Web in September/October? Message-ID: <48C2EDFD.2070006@babyl.dyndns.org> Howdie everyone, I was looking at the OS BootCamp of September (http://www.osbootcamp.org), which topic is Web Development, and was thinking that we could echo the theme and have a Perl meeting with Web-themed presentations. Would anyone be interested by such a thing? From the top of my head, here's a few topics that I think would be fun to discuss: * Catalyst primer (can't let the Ruby on Rail guys have all the fun, now, can we?) * Plagger primer ('cause RSS aggregation is fun) * mod_perl / fastcgi stuff (from the questions I had at OsBootCamp 8, that seems to be something people want to hear about) * Mason, Embperl, TT, etc. * APIs for any of the big sites (Flickr, Ohloh, etc.) Joy, `/anick From yanick at babyl.dyndns.org Sat Sep 6 14:38:27 2008 From: yanick at babyl.dyndns.org (Yanick Champoux) Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:38:27 -0400 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] TravelPod looking for a Web Engineer Message-ID: <48C2F853.7090305@babyl.dyndns.org> Howdie all, A little bird told me that TravelPod is looking for a new web engineer. The job offer is reproduced below (and is also posted at http://jobs.perl.org/job/9550). If you want the email address of the aforementioned recruiting little bird, ping me. =begin Job Offer TravelPod ( A TripAdvisor/Expedia company ) is looking for a talented Web Engineer with LAMP (Perl) experience eager to work on fast growing and exciting travel websites. As a Web Engineer, your main responsibility will be developing consumer travel web apps like TravelPod.com. Ideally, you?ve run your own website / business as a passion on the side or full time for years and enjoy working in many areas of technology and being challenged by the fast paced changes of the Web. You'll also be responsible for working with a team to carry out the maintenance of the software to ensure that our sites are always available to our large community of travelers. We are looking for entrepreneurial developers who have shown leadership, creativity and enjoy big challenges participating with the creation of new web applications from concept to deployment in a fast-moving company environment. You will be working with a small but passionate team at TravelPod & TripAdvisor. TravelPod is a fun and exciting place to work at and we?re looking for someone to share their energy with us! In this role you can look forward to? * Taking a leadership role in the design and the development of various consumer travel Web projects for TravelPod.com and related web sites. * Promoting best practices and ensuring a standard of code. * Optimizing the code for performance and stability. * Working with the team to support TravelPod web applications. * Participating in quality assurance testing. What you can bring to the team? * A minimum of 5 years of experience with web development. * A minimum of 3 years working with Perl. * A minimum of 5 years experience with Linux, Apache and MySql (LAMP). * Experience developing on Facebook and other social networks is a plus. * UI Design experience is a definite plus. * Good knowledge of web related programming and web security. * Experience working on large, high traffic sites will be considered assets. * Experience working with Ajax and other leading edge web technologies is a plus. * A passion for writing quality code. * An ability to work well in a fast moving and highly collaborative team environment. =end Job Offer Joy, `/anick From dmo at acm.org Sun Sep 7 12:42:32 2008 From: dmo at acm.org (Dave O'Neill) Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 15:42:32 -0400 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] Ottawa area Linux/OSS Job Postings on oclug.on.ca Message-ID: <20080907194232.GB22230@macallan.i.dmo.ca> Just passing this on from OCLUG. Two jobs posted so far, one of them a Perl development position. ----- Forwarded message from Ian Ward ----- The OCLUG web site now has job postings for companies looking to hire Linux and Open Source developers in the Ottawa area: http://oclug.on.ca/jobs/ The latest job postings may be retrieved by RSS: http://oclug.on.ca/feeds/jobs/ Jobs must include Linux or Open Source responsibilities to be accepted. Links to recent job postings are displayed on the OCLUG home page where our monthly meeting information is updated. Once your job posting is accepted it will be displayed for two months. You may extend the posting or remove it at any time using the web interface at the URL given to you for your posting. No user account is required to create job postings. Having trouble posting a job? Problems and suggestions related to the job posting feature may be reported using our trac site (you must register using the link on the top-right before making changes): http://devel.oclug.on.ca/ If you are a developer and would like to help improve this or any other web site feature, first follow these instructions: http://oclug.on.ca/install/ Then post your changes to the oclug-www mailing list for discussion. Ian Ward ----- End forwarded message ----- From yanick at babyl.dyndns.org Wed Sep 10 05:36:19 2008 From: yanick at babyl.dyndns.org (Yanick Champoux) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:36:19 -0400 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] [TwinCity PWS 2008] Call for Invitations Message-ID: <48C7BF43.4080902@babyl.dyndns.org> (forwarded from groups-pm) The TwinCity Perl Workshop 2008 will take place in Vienna and Bratislava from November, 7th to 8th. This Perl Workshop will be an unique event in several ways as it will be the *100th grassroot Perl Event* in the history of humankind and also the first Perl event ever taking place in two national capitals: Bratislava and Vienna! Vienna.pm has set aside a budget of 1000 EUR to invite speakers to the Twin City Perl Workshop. If you're not living in Bratislava or Vienna, won't be funded by your company, but want to attend, please send e-mail to twincity at rt.useperl.at describing why we should invite you and how much it will cost to transport you to Vienna and Bratislava! The deadline for proposals is Sunday 21th Sept. 2008, and we will decide whom to invite until Wed, 24th Sept. On Friday, November 7th, Vienna.pm will welcome Perl Hackers from around the world to Vienna. The event will continue on Saturday, November 8th, in Bratislava, hosted by Bratislava.pm. Each day will feature talks in the local language (German and Slovak) in the morning, followed by English talks in the afternoon. The evenings will be spent at social events in restaurants near the venues. On behalf of the TwinCity PWS Organisers Michael Kr?ll From yanick at babyl.dyndns.org Wed Sep 10 16:18:54 2008 From: yanick at babyl.dyndns.org (Yanick Champoux) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:18:54 -0400 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2008 Message-ID: <48C855DE.5030309@babyl.dyndns.org> (forwarded from pm-groups) The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is a low-cost technical conference held at the Carnegie Mellon University's Oakland Campus. The workshop will be held on October 11?12 2008. * Talk Proposals * Classes * Hack-a-thons * Talk Proposals The deadline for talk proposals in by 12 September 2008. The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2008 is the perfect opportunity to share your ideas, code, and projects with masses of code-loving Perl hackers. Shouldn't you have a speaking slot at this year's event? Shouldn't you experience the full, PPW-powered glory that only speakers can know? Of course you should! Haven't you ... done interesting stuff for Perl? written cool code? seen the future of Perl? got a story to tell? got a trick to share? In fact, if you have anything to say that would interest Perl people, we want to hear you say it! Just go to http://pghpw.org and submit a talk proposal. It's that easy. But don't delay. Get your proposal in by 12 September 2008 -- or else you might miss out. Seize the day! Own the fun! Submit a talk proposal for PPW 2008 now! * Classes This year we are offering three great classes: Dan Klein is back teaching From Zero to Perl. http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/zerotoperl.html Peter Scott - Maintaining Code While Staying Sane http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/maintainingcode.html brian d foy - Mastering Perl http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/masteringperl.html * Hack-a-thons We are having a Rakudo, (Perl 6) hack-a-thon. From jay.lawrence at infonium.ca Mon Sep 15 09:58:56 2008 From: jay.lawrence at infonium.ca (Jay Lawrence) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:58:56 -0400 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] Smalltalk / Seaside - Wednesday, 7pm @ The Code Factory Message-ID: We have James Robertson, Smalltalk Evangelist, coming to Ottawa to introduce Seaside to us. I'm certain that there are good ideas in this framework and the talk would be well worth any avid developer's time. Seaside provides a layered set of abstractions over HTTP and HTML that let you build highly interactive web applications quickly, reusably and maintainably. IT is based on Smalltalk, a proven and robust language that is implemented by different vendors. Seaside includes: - Programmatic HTML generation - Callback-based request handling - Embedded components - Modal session management. Seaside also has good support for CSS and Javascript, excellent web- based development tools anddebugging support, a rich configuration and preferences framework, and more. http://seaside.st/ - The framework for developing sophisticated web applications in Smalltalk. http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/ - supplier of Smalltalk software development tools. http://www.thecodefactory.ca/ - TheCodeFactory is a collaborative work space located in downtown Ottawa at 246 Queen Street, between Bank and Kent, above the Green Papaya Restaurant. TheCodeFactory is a clubhouse or water cooler for the Start-up community in Ottawa. The talk will be held this Wednesday @ 7pm at The Code Factory, 246 Queent Street. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: seaside_logo.png Type: image/png Size: 21520 bytes Desc: not available URL: From yanick at babyl.dyndns.org Mon Sep 15 19:24:58 2008 From: yanick at babyl.dyndns.org (Yanick Champoux) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:24:58 -0400 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] [pm_groups] New Perl Projects Message-ID: <48CF18FA.40605@babyl.dyndns.org> (forwarded from pm_groups) We started a number of new Perl projects. [..] The projects are:- Perl Certified Hosting Free Perl Course Project Perl Donation (from everybody) Perl Certification (Please note you need to remove the ** from the domain names, this is because they were being picked up an inaccurate filter) Details below:- Perl Certified Hosting The idea for this project was put forth by Amias of Bristol & Bath Perl Mongers. We are creating a Perl Certified Hosting scheme that will be open for all hosting companies to join. Requirements will include a set list of web related Perl Modules and proper webserver configuration. Please visit the site:- http://www.perl**certifiedhosting.com For more details and to get involved with helping this scheme become a reality. Free Perl Course Project The idea in this project is that every Perl programmer teach at least one other person to code. Be that a family member, friend, work colleague, employee, friend of a friend, or even friend of an employee. Following the success of the Free Perl Course offered by Bristol & Bath Perl Mongers this project has been started to encourage other Perl groups and programmers to do the same. Please check out the site:- http://www.perl**project.org Perl Donation (from everybody) This scheme has been started with the aim to give the Perl 6 development budget a big boost. http://www.perl**donate.com Please take the time to make your small donation. The aim is that we all make a small donation so that it amounts to a lot. Perl Certification I've been starting a Perl Certification list, this time not for debate, but for actually starting a certification scheme. I know this can be a very touchy subject, but we'd like to put together a working solution that people can evaluate. http://www.perl**cert.com ** Must be removed from all domain names From yanick at babyl.dyndns.org Sat Sep 20 09:17:15 2008 From: yanick at babyl.dyndns.org (Yanick Champoux) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:17:15 -0400 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] New Programming Help site: StackOverflow.com Message-ID: <48D5220B.9090407@babyl.dyndns.org> Howdie all, For anyone interested, there is a new programming site called StackOverflow.com, which aim to be a forum-like thingy where peeps can ask and answer programmation questions. If nothing else, it sure looks all Web 2.0 and shiny and stuff. Oh, and of course, it does have a Perl section. :-) Joy, `/anick From yanick at babyl.dyndns.org Sat Sep 27 10:12:49 2008 From: yanick at babyl.dyndns.org (Yanick Champoux) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:12:49 -0400 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] mod_perl survey Message-ID: <48DE6991.4020700@babyl.dyndns.org> Howdie all, For those interested, there's a mod_perl survey currently being taken at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=bQyb2RFCBuVb0P52yhaCMg_3d_3d. For all of youses using Perl for web development, it's the perfect opportunity to let the mod_perl guys know what their user-base really, really want. :-) Joy, `/anick From yanick at babyl.dyndns.org Sun Sep 28 09:47:40 2008 From: yanick at babyl.dyndns.org (Yanick Champoux) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:47:40 -0400 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] Fwd: [pm_groups] Pittsburgh Perl Workshop Oct 11-12, 2008 Message-ID: <48DFB52C.6020202@babyl.dyndns.org> The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is a low-cost technical conference held at the Carnegie Mellon University's Oakland Campus. The workshop will be held on October 11?12 2008. * Classes This year we are offering three great classes: Dan Klein is back teaching From Zero to Perl. http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/zerotoperl.html Peter Scott - Maintaining Code While Staying Sane http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/maintainingcode.html brian d foy - Mastering Perl http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/masteringperl.html * Great Talks The schedule can be found here http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/schedule. * Hack-a-thons We are having Pagtrick Michaud lead a Rakudo, (Perl 6) hack-a-thon. * Bug Labs Bug Labs, http://buglabs.net will be giving a talk and having a hands on demo of their hardware. We will also be giving details about a development grant for someone wanting to develop something with perl with Bug Labs hardware. * GPU/CUDA Have you been hearing about coding with your Graphics Card? Well if not you will soon. We are having a talk about coding with the GPU and a lab using Nvida's Cuda technology. http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html * Community Come see old perl friends and make some new ones. We will have plenty of social activities at night.