From yanick at babyl.dyndns.org Sat Apr 3 15:15:45 2010 From: yanick at babyl.dyndns.org (Yanick Champoux) Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 18:15:45 -0400 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] SummerCamp 2010 -- invitation to speakers Message-ID: <201004031815.45859.yanick@babyl.dyndns.org> Howdie all, Just to say the the 2010 edition of FOSSLC's SummerCamp (planned for August 14th) is having a call for speakers: http://fosslc.org/drupal/summercamp2010 From my experience of last year -- and as the invitation blurb on the page mention, the presentations are targeted at a beginner level. This year, I'm mulling giving a Catalyst presentation. Or perhaps a Dancer one? Anyway, something showcasing one of the modern web frameworks that are out there. Joy, `/anick From yanick at babyl.dyndns.org Wed Apr 7 19:22:19 2010 From: yanick at babyl.dyndns.org (Yanick Champoux) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 22:22:19 -0400 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] Montreal job offering Message-ID: <201004072222.20285.yanick@babyl.dyndns.org> Howdie all, Someone contacted me about a job offering in Montr?al. The job description is given below. If you are interested, let me know and I'll put you in contact with the gentleman. Joy, `/anick The Enterprise Data Group (EDG) is a global organization within our clients Information Technology Organization. EDG has broad responsibility across aspects of data including Financial Product, Referential Pricing, Historical, People, Accounts, Entitlement and Legal Entity Data. EDG provides data provision services across the firm and to our clients. The Enterprise Data Group is engaged in the complete range of data activities such as procurement, application development, program management, business analysis and operational support for its full line of services. Within this organization, there are several horizontal teams that service this entire group. One such team is the Database Infrastructure Group, which is responsible for the database layer that most of the applications need/use. This position is within this group. The position is for a senior Perl developer to help with development activities associated with various in-flight projects. An essential requirement for this position is to assist the team in developing and implementing robust Perl programming standards. The successful candidate will be: 1) Advanced level in Perl, including CGI 2) Competent in Sybase and/or DB2/Linux RDBMS 3) Clear and concise in communication skills. 4) A team player with high degree of professionalism. 5) A self-starter who is able to take initiative. 6) Results/action oriented Required Skills: Advanced Perl, CGI, Sybase and/or DB2/Linux, Unix/Linux OS Desired Skills: Wiki, Project management, Good at producing formal project documentation, XML, HTML, Data modeling From yanick at babyl.dyndns.org Sun Apr 18 07:18:00 2010 From: yanick at babyl.dyndns.org (Yanick Champoux) Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:18:00 -0400 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] Perl 5.12 is out! Message-ID: <201004181018.01405.yanick@babyl.dyndns.org> Perl 5.12 is out. If you haven't already, I advise y'all to peek at the changelog (http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.12.0/pod/perl5120delta.pod) to see which new toys^D^D^D^D features we'll have at our disposition. In a slight tangent, if you want to keep abreast of what's happening in the Perl sphere, but don't feel like drinking at the firehose of the blog aggregators, I've begun to write a bi-weekly review of what caught my eye my attention. The first installment is available at http://www.pythian.com/news/10529/shuck-awe-1-hunting-for-perl/, and the second is due for this Wednesday. Enjoy, `/anick From msoulier at digitaltorque.ca Sun Apr 18 07:30:46 2010 From: msoulier at digitaltorque.ca (Michael P. Soulier) Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:30:46 -0400 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] Perl 5.12 is out! In-Reply-To: <201004181018.01405.yanick@babyl.dyndns.org> References: <201004181018.01405.yanick@babyl.dyndns.org> Message-ID: <20100418143045.GP14972@anton.digitaltorque.ca> On 18/04/10 Yanick Champoux said: > Perl 5.12 is out. If you haven't already, I advise y'all to peek at the > changelog (http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.12.0/pod/perl5120delta.pod) to > see which new toys^D^D^D^D features we'll have at our disposition. I like the yada yada operator myself... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 190 bytes Desc: not available URL: From yanick at babyl.dyndns.org Mon Apr 19 17:56:35 2010 From: yanick at babyl.dyndns.org (Yanick Champoux) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:56:35 -0400 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] Perl 5.12 is out! In-Reply-To: <20100418143045.GP14972@anton.digitaltorque.ca> References: <201004181018.01405.yanick@babyl.dyndns.org> <20100418143045.GP14972@anton.digitaltorque.ca> Message-ID: <201004192056.35889.yanick@babyl.dyndns.org> On April 18, 2010 10:30:46 am Michael P. Soulier wrote: > I like the yada yada operator myself... It's not a bad one. I'm also pretty happy about the 'package NAME VERSION' header (although it's going to be a while before I can put that on my CPAN modules), and 'each' finally applying to arrays. And although I'm probably never going to use it myself, I'm really curious to see what the crazier mongers will come up with with the new pluggable keywords. All in all, it's a pretty nifty release. Nothing majorly spectacular, but a lot of small improvements that will make our future incrementally rock a little bit more. :-) Joy, `/anick From mark at mark.mielke.cc Mon Apr 19 19:01:37 2010 From: mark at mark.mielke.cc (Mark Mielke) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:01:37 -0400 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] Perl 5.12 is out! In-Reply-To: <201004192056.35889.yanick@babyl.dyndns.org> References: <201004181018.01405.yanick@babyl.dyndns.org> <20100418143045.GP14972@anton.digitaltorque.ca> <201004192056.35889.yanick@babyl.dyndns.org> Message-ID: <4BCD0B01.7080601@mark.mielke.cc> On 04/19/2010 08:56 PM, Yanick Champoux wrote: > On April 18, 2010 10:30:46 am Michael P. Soulier wrote: > >> I like the yada yada operator myself... >> > It's not a bad one. I'm also pretty happy about the 'package NAME > VERSION' header (although it's going to be a while before I can put that on my > CPAN modules), and 'each' finally applying to arrays. And although I'm > probably never going to use it myself, I'm really curious to see what the > crazier mongers will come up with with the new pluggable keywords. > > All in all, it's a pretty nifty release. Nothing majorly spectacular, > but a lot of small improvements that will make our future incrementally rock a > little bit more. :-) Emphasize future. :-) I haven't been able to use any features beyond Perl 5.006 do to how successful that release was... Cheers, mark From yanick at babyl.dyndns.org Fri Apr 23 05:25:34 2010 From: yanick at babyl.dyndns.org (Yanick Champoux) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:25:34 -0400 Subject: [Ottawa-pm] Perl 5.12 is out! In-Reply-To: <4BCD0B01.7080601@mark.mielke.cc> References: <201004181018.01405.yanick@babyl.dyndns.org> <201004192056.35889.yanick@babyl.dyndns.org> <4BCD0B01.7080601@mark.mielke.cc> Message-ID: <201004230825.35028.yanick@babyl.dyndns.org> On April 19, 2010 10:01:37 pm Mark Mielke wrote: > I haven't been able to use any features beyond Perl 5.006 do to how > successful that release was... Could be worse. I faced a situation a few weeks ago where we were stuck with Perl 4. T'was the first time I actually penned a Perl4 script. With a little luck, it'll also be the last. :-) Joy, `/anick