From gorthx at gmail.com  Wed Feb  4 10:17:41 2009
From: gorthx at gmail.com (gabrielle)
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:17:41 -0800
Subject: [Pdx-pm] Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, February 4
In-Reply-To: <LYRIS-10127204-62458-2009.02.04-09.32.12--gorthx#gmail.com@newsletter.oreilly.com>
References: <LYRIS-10127204-62458-2009.02.04-09.32.12--gorthx#gmail.com@newsletter.oreilly.com>
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This month's books, you know the drill.

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From: Marsee Henon <marsee at oreilly.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:32 AM
Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, February 4
To: gorthx at gmail.com

...snippity-do-dah, snippity-eh...

For book review writing tips and suggestions, go to:
<http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html>


Active Directory Cookbook, Third Edition
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596521103>

Advanced Software Testing - Vol. 2 (Rocky Nook)
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781933952369>

Art of Drum Layering (PC Publishing)
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781906005108>

Beautiful Architecture
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517984>

Build a Better Photograph (Rocky Nook)
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781933952185>

CJKV Information Processing, Second Edition
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514471>

CMMI (Rocky Nook)
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781933952284>

Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual, Second Edition
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520977>

Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596523091>

David Pogue's Digital Photography: The Missing Manual
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596154035>

Designing Web Interfaces
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516253>

DJing and live performance with Ableton Live (PC Publishing)
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781906005115>

Enterprise Development with Flex: Rough Cuts Version
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596801014>

FileMaker Pro 10: The Missing Manual
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596154233>

grep Pocket Reference
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596153601>

Head First Algebra
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514860>

Head First PHP & MySQL
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006303>

Head First Rails
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515775>

Head First Web Design
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520304>

Hello, Android (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356173>

High Performance Python: Rough Cuts Version
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596159894>

iPhone SDK Application Development
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596154059>

Learn to Program, Second Edition (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356364>

Learning JavaScript, Second Edition
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596521875>

Make Magazine: The Fourth Year (Hard Cover)
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596155629>

Photographic Multishot Techniques (Rocky Nook)
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781933952383>

Photoshop CS4 Channels & Masks One-on-One
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516154>

Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596522964>

Pragmatic Version Control Using Git (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356159>

Programming Interactivity: A Guide for Processing, Arduino, and
OpenFrameworks: Rough Cuts Version
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356159>

Simply SQL (SitePoint)
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780980455250>

Sound Equalization Tips and Tricks (PC Publishing)
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781906005092>

SQL and Relational Theory
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596523060>

The Art of Application Performance Testing
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520663>

The Art of Lean Software Development
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517311>

The Manga Guide to Databases (No Starch)
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781593271909>

The Principles of Successful Freelancing (SitePoint)
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780980455243>

Using Drupal
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515805>

Version Control with Git: Rough Cuts Version
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596158170>

From enobacon at gmail.com  Wed Feb  4 17:07:09 2009
From: enobacon at gmail.com (Seven till Seven)
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 17:07:09 -0800
Subject: [Pdx-pm] Perl in the 21st Century - Feb. meeting next week
Message-ID: <200902041707.09602.enobacon@gmail.com>

  Wed. February 11th, 6:53pm at FreeGeek -- 1731 SE 10th Ave.

Perl in the 21st Century
 speaker: EricWilhelm

 I started using Perl just over six years ago, when 5.6.2 was already 
getting old and 5.8.1 was on the way. By the time I put my first module 
on the CPAN, over half of the current contributors had already shipped.

 I have often read the source of a core module and asked "Why?" only to 
discover some unknown feature or historical accident. The history 
lesson continues all the way into the roots of Unix in some cases, but 
also often leaves me thinking "So?". And now I am quickly approaching 
my 40th CPAN distribution.

 In this talk, I will share my own experiences in developing with Perl 
and explore the idea of the "Modern" or "Enlightened" Perl. Did I miss 
the heyday of Perl or are we still making that now? How does today's 
Perl code look different than it did 5 or 10 years ago? Is there a Perl 
renaissance coming, and what does it have to do with Perl 6? What 
modules should you be using for new development? Where is my flying 
car? Why am I still programming in Perl? And why am I programming at 
all?

 I will try to find answers to some of these questions and invite you to 
bring questions (or answers!) of your own.

 As always, the meeting will be followed by social hour at the LuckyLab.


-- 

        http://pdx.pm.org

From enobacon at gmail.com  Thu Feb  5 19:28:29 2009
From: enobacon at gmail.com (Eric Wilhelm)
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 19:28:29 -0800
Subject: [Pdx-pm] Updated Perl 6 training materials
Message-ID: <200902051928.29174.enobacon@gmail.com>

Gabor's introductions seems to be one of the more thorough sets of Perl 
6 materials, but I haven't tried to use them in anger.  Anyone looked 
at these lately?

  http://use.perl.org/~gabor/journal/38412

  http://szabgab.com/talks/perl6/

--Eric
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From enobacon at gmail.com  Wed Feb 11 14:23:48 2009
From: enobacon at gmail.com (Seven till Seven)
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:23:48 -0800
Subject: [Pdx-pm] Perl in the 21st Century - Feb. meeting tonight
Message-ID: <200902111423.48678.enobacon@gmail.com>

  Wed. February 11th, 6:53pm at FreeGeek -- 1731 SE 10th Ave.

Perl in the 21st Century
 speaker: EricWilhelm

 I started using Perl just over six years ago, when 5.6.2 was already 
getting old and 5.8.1 was on the way. By the time I put my first module 
on the CPAN, over half of the current contributors had already shipped.

 I have often read the source of a core module and asked "Why?" only to 
discover some unknown feature or historical accident. The history 
lesson continues all the way into the roots of Unix in some cases, but 
also often leaves me thinking "So?". And now I am quickly approaching 
my 40th CPAN distribution.

 In this talk, I will share my own experiences in developing with Perl 
and explore the idea of the "Modern" or "Enlightened" Perl. Did I miss 
the heyday of Perl or are we still making that now? How does today's 
Perl code look different than it did 5 or 10 years ago? Is there a Perl 
renaissance coming, and what does it have to do with Perl 6? What 
modules should you be using for new development? Where is my flying 
car? Why am I still programming in Perl? And why am I programming at 
all?

 I will try to find answers to some of these questions and invite you to 
bring questions (or answers!) of your own.

 As always, the meeting will be followed by social hour at the LuckyLab.


-- 

        http://pdx.pm.org

From jaleto at gmail.com  Thu Feb 12 00:34:03 2009
From: jaleto at gmail.com (Jonathan Leto)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:34:03 -0800
Subject: [Pdx-pm] Fwd: Logo and Flyer now available
In-Reply-To: <b75e38e00902091550p340cf1ag822ef33b282a8630@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b75e38e00902091550p340cf1ag822ef33b282a8630@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <9aaadf9c0902120034s744ed72fjbab8fa6b4c2d3805@mail.gmail.com>

Howdy,

GSOC2009 Flyers are out peeps, please get the word out!

dukeleto


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Date: 2009/2/9
Subject: Logo and Flyer now available
To: google-summer-of-code-mentors-list at googlegroups.com,
google-summer-of-code-students-list at googlegroups.com


Dear Google Summer of Code Mentors and Students,
I am pleased to inform you that the 2009 GSoC flyer and logo are now
available.  Please click on the corresponding links to access.  If you
have problems opening the link, the full URLs are below.
We need your help publicizing GSoC!  Please download one of our flyers
and put it up around your campus or any other places geeks near you
congregate. We can also use your help in translating the program
flyer.  You can also create your own promotional materials for GSoC.
Instructions after the jump.
Best Regards,
Ellen
http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/GsocFlyers

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From jaleto at gmail.com  Thu Feb 12 21:46:46 2009
From: jaleto at gmail.com (Jonathan Leto)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:46:46 -0800
Subject: [Pdx-pm] The Perl Foundation GSOC 2008 Roundup
Message-ID: <9aaadf9c0902122146o4dcd2d16j4ce573201868a7c8@mail.gmail.com>

Howdy,

I would like to submit a blog post to
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/search/label/gsoc about TPF's
accomplishments in 2008, so if any one involved in GSOC2008 in any way
can whip together a few exciting sentences and send them to me, I will
glue them together and add the necessary links and submit. I can
writeup my part (since I was a mentor), hopefully Eric will have a few
kind words to submit (HINT HINT) and if the other mentors from last
year can write a short paragraph each, we are done.

This is important for GSOC2009 because it will help students decide
which organizations to apply to.

Thanks for your help,

-- 
[---------------------]
  Jonathan Leto
jaleto at gmail.com

From enobacon at gmail.com  Wed Feb 25 16:31:56 2009
From: enobacon at gmail.com (Eric Wilhelm)
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:31:56 -0800
Subject: [Pdx-pm] topic needed - March meeting in 2 weeks
Message-ID: <200902251631.56788.enobacon@gmail.com>

Hi all,

As nobody has (been) volunteered to speak at the March meeting, I do not 
have anything to announce today.

I'm thinking perhaps a Perl 6 Q&A/study session wherein we build a 
non-trivial class, play with MMD, roles and such.  Is there interest in 
that?

Another option might be a Perl 5 tools/techniques round-table of sorts.

Inline, XS, Qt, other thoughts?

Please feel free to mail me or join #pdx.pm to discuss.

Thanks,
Eric
-- 
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to make you commit injustices.
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From schwern at pobox.com  Wed Feb 25 18:52:50 2009
From: schwern at pobox.com (Michael G Schwern)
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:52:50 -0800
Subject: [Pdx-pm] topic needed - March meeting in 2 weeks
In-Reply-To: <200902251631.56788.enobacon@gmail.com>
References: <200902251631.56788.enobacon@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <49A60402.8080304@pobox.com>

Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As nobody has (been) volunteered to speak at the March meeting, I do not 
> have anything to announce today.
> 
> I'm thinking perhaps a Perl 6 Q&A/study session wherein we build a 
> non-trivial class, play with MMD, roles and such.  Is there interest in 
> that?
> 
> Another option might be a Perl 5 tools/techniques round-table of sorts.
> 
> Inline, XS, Qt, other thoughts?
> 
> Please feel free to mail me or join #pdx.pm to discuss.

I could talk about Test::Builder2.  What Test::Builder is.  How you write a
customized testing module.  What's being improved in TB2.  What interesting OO
techniques are being employed.

And then we can do some hacking on it!

Another possibility is to talk about TAP, the Test Anything Protocol (ok 1,
not ok 2...).  How it's being written up as an IETF draft.  Possible
extensions.  And maybe work some on the draft, reference parsers and protocol
tests.

Finally, I'm submitting a small pile of talks to the Open Source Bridge Conf
[1] and I'm happy to take requests from the list.  I'm interested to see what
people think the talks are about just based on the titles. :)

Skimmable Code
Perl, The Good Parts Version
Don't Be An Asshole When You Respond To Bug Reports
How To Lie Like A Geek
Who's Afraid Of 2038?
You Fail At Testing
Testing Data With The Sims
Why Won't The Page Load?


[1] What's filling the OSCON shaped void here in Portland, but $200 instead of
$1000  http://opensourcebridge.org/

From igal at pragmaticraft.com  Thu Feb 26 00:52:50 2009
From: igal at pragmaticraft.com (Igal Koshevoy)
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:52:50 -0800
Subject: [Pdx-pm] topic needed - March meeting in 2 weeks
In-Reply-To: <49A60402.8080304@pobox.com>
References: <200902251631.56788.enobacon@gmail.com>
	<49A60402.8080304@pobox.com>
Message-ID: <49A65862.8030404@pragmaticraft.com>

Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Finally, I'm submitting a small pile of talks to the Open Source Bridge Conf
> [1] and I'm happy to take requests from the list.  I'm interested to see what
> people think the talks are about just based on the titles. :)
>
> Skimmable Code
> Perl, The Good Parts Version
> Don't Be An Asshole When You Respond To Bug Reports
> How To Lie Like A Geek
> Who's Afraid Of 2038?
> You Fail At Testing
> Testing Data With The Sims
> Why Won't The Page Load?
>   
I enjoyed you "Skimmable Code" talk and would like to hear "You Fail At
Testing", "Don't Be An Asshole When You Respond To Bug Reports", and the
"Perl, The Good Parts Version". I'm intrigued but can't guess what
"Testing Data With The Sims" is about.

I'd be glad to see more Perl Mongers submit their proposals. The Open
Source Bridge conference provides tracks that can accommodate a broad
range of talks, from very technical "chemistry" discussions about the
inner workings of technologies like the Parrot VM, to pragmatic
"cooking" talks about implementing solutions with the likes of Perl and
Catalyst, to "culture" panels on what it takes to make open source
effective on a social level.

> [1] What's filling the OSCON shaped void here in Portland, but $200 instead of
> $1000  http://opensourcebridge.org/
We've just opened registration for the conference. It's only $175 if you
register before March 31st: http://opensourcebridge.org/attend/

-igal

From enobacon at gmail.com  Thu Feb 26 09:48:07 2009
From: enobacon at gmail.com (Eric Wilhelm)
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:48:07 -0800
Subject: [Pdx-pm] (speaker found)/topic needed - March meeting in 2 weeks
In-Reply-To: <49A60402.8080304@pobox.com>
References: <200902251631.56788.enobacon@gmail.com>
	<49A60402.8080304@pobox.com>
Message-ID: <200902260948.07184.enobacon@gmail.com>

# from Michael G Schwern
# on Wednesday 25 February 2009 18:52:

>I could talk about Test::Builder2. ?What Test::Builder is. ?How you
> write a customized testing module. ?What's being improved in TB2.
> ?What interesting OO techniques are being employed.

That would be interesting.

If others have preferences, please chime in.

--Eric
-- 
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From jaleto at gmail.com  Thu Feb 26 14:05:12 2009
From: jaleto at gmail.com (Jonathan Leto)
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:05:12 -0800
Subject: [Pdx-pm] (speaker found)/topic needed - March meeting in 2 weeks
In-Reply-To: <200902260948.07184.enobacon@gmail.com>
References: <200902251631.56788.enobacon@gmail.com>
	<49A60402.8080304@pobox.com> <200902260948.07184.enobacon@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <9aaadf9c0902261405m6256d959ibadfd5b69452c5f9@mail.gmail.com>

Howdy,

I could talk about how everyone should help The Perl Foundation ( and
hence the community ) in the upcoming GSOC. Everyone benefits from
this.

Or I could talk about how to hack on Rakudo/Parrot (github/svn
workflow, recompiling after editing some stuff, running certain tests,
reporting bugs, hints for beginners, what still needs working on,
etc...)

Cheers,


On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Eric Wilhelm <enobacon at gmail.com> wrote:
> # from Michael G Schwern
> # on Wednesday 25 February 2009 18:52:
>
>>I could talk about Test::Builder2. ?What Test::Builder is. ?How you
>> write a customized testing module. ?What's being improved in TB2.
>> ?What interesting OO techniques are being employed.
>
> That would be interesting.
>
> If others have preferences, please chime in.
>
> --Eric
> --
> Turns out the optimal technique is to put it in reverse and gun it.
> --Steven Squyres (on challenges in interplanetary robot navigation)
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From kellert at ohsu.edu  Thu Feb 26 14:23:46 2009
From: kellert at ohsu.edu (Thomas Keller)
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:23:46 -0800
Subject: [Pdx-pm] (speaker found)/topic needed - March meeting in 2 weeks
In-Reply-To: <9aaadf9c0902261405m6256d959ibadfd5b69452c5f9@mail.gmail.com>
References: <200902251631.56788.enobacon@gmail.com>
	<49A60402.8080304@pobox.com> <200902260948.07184.enobacon@gmail.com>
	<9aaadf9c0902261405m6256d959ibadfd5b69452c5f9@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1890DF04-6199-4B07-8385-AC7BADA942A8@ohsu.edu>

My $0.02 -- I'm interested in TB2, especially writing a customized  
testing module.

Tom
kellert at ohsu.edu
503-494-2442







On Feb 26, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Jonathan Leto wrote:

>>> I could talk about Test::Builder2.  What Test::Builder is.  How you
>>> write a customized testing module.  What's being improved in TB2.
>>>  What interesting OO techniques are being employed.



From ben.hengst at gmail.com  Thu Feb 26 18:08:43 2009
From: ben.hengst at gmail.com (benh)
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:08:43 -0800
Subject: [Pdx-pm] (speaker found)/topic needed - March meeting in 2 weeks
In-Reply-To: <1890DF04-6199-4B07-8385-AC7BADA942A8@ohsu.edu>
References: <200902251631.56788.enobacon@gmail.com>
	<49A60402.8080304@pobox.com> <200902260948.07184.enobacon@gmail.com>
	<9aaadf9c0902261405m6256d959ibadfd5b69452c5f9@mail.gmail.com>
	<1890DF04-6199-4B07-8385-AC7BADA942A8@ohsu.edu>
Message-ID: <85ddf48b0902261808j63383ad0ie61c940a283d4124@mail.gmail.com>

while anything schwern is always fun I think put my vote token in the
TB2 bucket.

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Thomas Keller <kellert at ohsu.edu> wrote:
> My $0.02 -- I'm interested in TB2, especially writing a customized testing
> module.
>
> Tom
> kellert at ohsu.edu
> 503-494-2442
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 26, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Jonathan Leto wrote:
>
>>>> I could talk about Test::Builder2. ?What Test::Builder is. ?How you
>>>> write a customized testing module. ?What's being improved in TB2.
>>>> ?What interesting OO techniques are being employed.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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From enobacon at gmail.com  Thu Feb 26 23:50:53 2009
From: enobacon at gmail.com (Eric Wilhelm)
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:50:53 -0800
Subject: [Pdx-pm] Test::Builder 2 - March meeting in 2 weeks
In-Reply-To: <85ddf48b0902261808j63383ad0ie61c940a283d4124@mail.gmail.com>
References: <200902251631.56788.enobacon@gmail.com>
	<1890DF04-6199-4B07-8385-AC7BADA942A8@ohsu.edu>
	<85ddf48b0902261808j63383ad0ie61c940a283d4124@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <200902262350.53832.enobacon@gmail.com>

# from benh
# on Thursday 26 February 2009 18:08:

> I think put my vote token in the TB2 bucket.

Sounds like Test::Builder 2 it is.

--Eric
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rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
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