From casey at geeknest.com Fri Sep 3 15:01:32 2004 From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West) Date: Fri Sep 3 14:58:52 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Apple Store Opening tomorrow at 11:00 Message-ID: <20040903200132.GV45695@geeknest.com> The plans are to meet at the new Apple Store around 11:00 am. From there we'll grab something for lunch, or coffee, or both. Should be a beautiful day. See you then. Casey West -- "Eat a live toad first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day" --Unknown From casey at geeknest.com Tue Sep 7 17:16:39 2004 From: casey at geeknest.com (casey@geeknest.com) Date: Tue Sep 7 17:13:39 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Meeting | 09.08.2004 Message-ID: <20040907221639.A2D96FDCD@caseywest.com> *Technical Gathering* Talks on Unit Testing and Wiki *Location* Cepstral 1801 East Carson Street Second Floor (Door on 18th Side) Pittsburgh, Pa 15203 USA http://cepstral.com 09.08.2004 19:00 *Talks* *Free (!) Unit Tests in Perl using LectroTest* Tom Moertel Writing unit tests is an effective coding practice that reduces development time while raising our confidence in the software we create. But, if we're brutally honest, the work is often tedious and time consuming, tempting us to skimp on test cases. Is there anything we can do to reduce the pain while keeping the gain? Yes! With QuickCheck for the Haskell programming language, Koen Claessen and John Hughes demonstrated that not only can your computer run your test cases, but also it can *create* them for you! The first time I used QuickCheck for my Haskell programs, I was sold. It caught problems I never would have thought to look for, let alone test for, and it did so elegantly. The only problem? QuickCheck wasn't available to me when coding in Perl. Last week, I finally got around to doing something about it. The result is LectroTest, a horribly named, automatic, specification-based testing tool for Perl. In my talk I'll introduce LectroTest, discuss the problems it solves, and demonstrate how to use it. LectroTest is a work in progress, and so I'll ask for your feedback (bring tomatoes to throw) and solicit your advice for ongoing development. Finally, we'll get jacked up on espresso and race pimped-out camels down Carson Street. (Don't forget your betting money!) *Do It Yourself Planning with Wiki* Casey West There's no shortage of people willing to help you orgaize, plan, execute, reorganize, and follow-up. But what happens when your tools get in the way? Announcements come the day before the Monger meeting. I mean, there are concequences. I'll show you an example of a full-on conference being planned only with a wiki and the spare time of the participants. Then I'll show you the Pittsburgh Perl Monger wiki and beg you to help. Just for kicks I'll show you the shortest wiki in the world, written by me in Perl. -- Casey West (via automation) From tom at moertel.com Wed Sep 8 22:11:00 2004 From: tom at moertel.com (Tom Moertel) Date: Wed Sep 8 22:11:19 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] LectroTest follow-up stuff Message-ID: <413FC9C4.4000405@moertel.com> Perl folk, First, BIG thanks to everybody who braved the rain and attended tonight's meeting. Big thanks to Casey for putting the whole thing together. Yay, Casey! Second, if you're interested in the (development quality) LectroTest code, you can grab it here: http://community.moertel.com/LectroTest Please let me know about anything I can do to improve it. I'm especially interested in stylistic no-nos and dubious practices. Third, help me improve my talks! Fire me an email and let me know what worked and (most importantly) what didn't work. Too long? Too short? Were parts boring? Did I spend too much time in certain places? Did I skip over the good stuff? Did I speak too quickly? Was I too cocky? Too shy? Were the diagrams helpful? Not enough diagrams? Too many? Was the talk too technical? Not technical enough? What could I do better next time? <--- MOST IMPORTANT ! Any advice? Please, let me know! I promise to take all criticism in good humored spirit and do my best to improve. Cheers, Tom From Dan at DWright.Org Thu Sep 9 11:25:34 2004 From: Dan at DWright.Org (Daniel J. Wright) Date: Thu Sep 9 11:25:37 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Pinball! Message-ID: <3855.216.92.130.24.1094747134.squirrel@216.92.130.24> If anybody has any spare time this weekend, don't forget to stop by and check out PAPA! http://www.papa.org Its lots of fun, no matter what you skill level. There's no admission charges if you just want to come and watch. Bring lots of quarters! :) I'll be there every evening starting tomorrow. So will just about everybody else that works at pair (except for Casey, who will be at Foo camp). Regards, -Dan From casey at geeknest.com Fri Sep 10 06:31:31 2004 From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West) Date: Fri Sep 10 06:28:25 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] Our Wiki! Message-ID: <20040910113131.GH12431@geeknest.com> http://pgh.pm.org/cgi-bin/wiki I nearly forgot. I'm using the wonderfully free wireless at PIT to get this to you at the last minute. :-) Casey West -- Shooting yourself in the foot with Genetic Algorithms You create 10,000 strings describing the best way to shoot yourself in the foot. By the time the program produces the optimal solution, humans have evolved wings and the problem is moot. From Dan at DWright.Org Fri Sep 10 07:21:29 2004 From: Dan at DWright.Org (Daniel J. Wright) Date: Fri Sep 10 07:21:31 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] The Wiki Message-ID: <3976.24.50.157.138.1094818889.squirrel@24.50.157.138> I propose using the wiki to coordinate updating the wiki. I put a to-do list up on the front page to illustrate what I mean. Everybody that wants to help pick an item off the list, put your name next to it, and do it. Or, add more action items that you can think of. -Dan > http://pgh.pm.org/cgi-bin/wiki > > I nearly forgot. I'm using the wonderfully free wireless at PIT to get > this to you at the last minute. :-) > > Casey West From robertblackwell at yahoo.com Thu Sep 23 12:12:44 2004 From: robertblackwell at yahoo.com (Robert Blackwell) Date: Thu Sep 23 12:12:52 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] WPLUG: VoIP with Asterisk Message-ID: <20040923171244.12298.qmail@web54208.mail.yahoo.com> If you liked the talk "Asterisk Software PBX with Perl Bindings" given by Tom Moertel. You might be interested in the upcoming WPLUG talk, VoIP with Asterisk. http://www.wplug.org/meetings/one-meeting?wp_meeting_id=3141 ===== Robert Blackwell robert@robertblackwell.com AIM: robertdblackwell Yahoo!: robertblackwell Jabber: robertblackwell@jabber.com http://www.robertblackwell.com From casey at geeknest.com Thu Sep 23 17:36:38 2004 From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West) Date: Thu Sep 23 17:33:41 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] October Meeting Organizer Required Message-ID: <20040923223638.GG27840@geeknest.com> I won't be in town for our October 13 meeting. I'm requesting an organizer. It's really not too hard, just ask someone if they want to talk and find a place ot eat after the talk. Pretty please! :-) Casey West -- Shooting yourself in the foot with Cray You shoot yourself in the foot with an Uzi. From chris at cwinters.com Sat Sep 25 20:06:14 2004 From: chris at cwinters.com (Chris Winters) Date: Sat Sep 25 20:06:20 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] October Meeting Organizer Required In-Reply-To: <20040923223638.GG27840@geeknest.com> References: <20040923223638.GG27840@geeknest.com> Message-ID: <43180194-0F58-11D9-AA92-000A95DBDB3A@cwinters.com> On Sep 23, 2004, at 6:36 PM, Casey West wrote: > I won't be in town for our October 13 meeting. I'm requesting an > organizer. It's really not too hard, just ask someone if they want to > talk and find a place ot eat after the talk. Pretty please! :-) I think I'm on deck for a talk on Workflow that got postponed from a couple months ago. So assuming that's okay we just need one more, and hopefully finding a place to eat won't be too hard. Are we still meeting at Cepstral? Chris -- Chris Winters Creating enterprise-capable snack systems since 1988 From lenzo at cepstral.com Mon Sep 27 16:10:30 2004 From: lenzo at cepstral.com (Kevin Lenzo) Date: Mon Sep 27 16:10:37 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] October Meeting Organizer Required In-Reply-To: <43180194-0F58-11D9-AA92-000A95DBDB3A@cwinters.com> References: <20040923223638.GG27840@geeknest.com> <43180194-0F58-11D9-AA92-000A95DBDB3A@cwinters.com> Message-ID: Yes we ca; the person to coordinate with is Alex Cox at Cepstral (alex@cepstral.com). You'll want to nail down date and time (October 13th at 7 pm?). Kevin lenzo@cepstral.com On Sep 25, 2004, at 9:06 PM, Chris Winters wrote: > On Sep 23, 2004, at 6:36 PM, Casey West wrote: >> I won't be in town for our October 13 meeting. I'm requesting an >> organizer. It's really not too hard, just ask someone if they want to >> talk and find a place ot eat after the talk. Pretty please! :-) > > I think I'm on deck for a talk on Workflow that got postponed from a > couple months ago. So assuming that's okay we just need one more, and > hopefully finding a place to eat won't be too hard. > > Are we still meeting at Cepstral? > > Chris > > -- > Chris Winters > Creating enterprise-capable snack systems since 1988 > > _______________________________________________ > pgh-pm mailing list > pgh-pm@mail.pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pgh-pm > From casey at geeknest.com Tue Sep 28 11:51:20 2004 From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West) Date: Tue Sep 28 11:48:21 2004 Subject: [pgh-pm] October Meeting Organizer Required In-Reply-To: References: <20040923223638.GG27840@geeknest.com> <43180194-0F58-11D9-AA92-000A95DBDB3A@cwinters.com> Message-ID: <20040928165120.GK27840@geeknest.com> It was Monday, September 27, 2004 when Kevin Lenzo took the soap box, saying: : Yes we ca; the person to coordinate with is Alex Cox at Cepstral : (alex@cepstral.com). You'll want to nail down date and time : (October 13th at 7 pm?). Yep, second wednesday of every month at 7pm. I'd work this out except that at that time I'll be sailing from Kusadasi Turkey to Istanbul. Casey West -- "But what ... is it good for?" -- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.