From casey at geeknest.com  Wed May  3 11:30:24 2006
From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West)
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 14:30:24 -0400
Subject: [pgh-pm] In Shadyside Today; Care to meetup?
Message-ID: <AAD566AD-D265-4217-BEC8-DB0E2ED07B38@geeknest.com>

It's not like a "wiki wednesday" or anything, but I'm in town and I'm  
thinking of getting together at the sharp edge in Shady.

Any interest in getting together this evening? I'm fairly flexible on  
time.

-- 
Casey West



From casey at geeknest.com  Wed May  3 15:10:36 2006
From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West)
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 18:10:36 -0400
Subject: [pgh-pm] In Shadyside Today; Care to meetup?
In-Reply-To: <AAD566AD-D265-4217-BEC8-DB0E2ED07B38@geeknest.com>
References: <AAD566AD-D265-4217-BEC8-DB0E2ED07B38@geeknest.com>
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On May 3, 2006, at 2:30 PM, Casey West wrote:

> It's not like a "wiki wednesday" or anything, but I'm in town and I'm
> thinking of getting together at the sharp edge in Shady.
>
> Any interest in getting together this evening? I'm fairly flexible on
> time.
>

My time has been un-flexibled. I'll be going home soon instead of to  
the sharp edge. Catch everyone later.

-- 
Casey West



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From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West)
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 21:54:26 -0400
Subject: [pgh-pm] Fwd: O'Reilly UG Program News: DSUG Discount Changes
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From robert at robertblackwell.com  Mon May  8 06:11:17 2006
From: robert at robertblackwell.com (Robert Blackwell)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 06:11:17 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [pgh-pm] Next Perl Monger Meeting
Message-ID: <20060508131117.16755.qmail@web52207.mail.yahoo.com>

Fellow Mongers,

Does anyone have a talk topic for the next meeting?

Thanks
Robert

Robert Blackwell 
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Jabber: robertblackwell at jabber.com
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Skype: rblackwe

From robert at robertblackwell.com  Mon May  8 07:39:43 2006
From: robert at robertblackwell.com (Robert Blackwell)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 07:39:43 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [pgh-pm] Next Perl Monger Meeting
Message-ID: <20060508143943.57826.qmail@web52201.mail.yahoo.com>

Fellow Mongers,

Does anyone have a talk for the next meeting?

Robert

Robert Blackwell 
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AIM: robertdblackwell 
Yahoo!: robertblackwell 
Jabber: robertblackwell at jabber.com
http://www.robertblackwell.com
Skype: rblackwe

From robertblackwell at yahoo.com  Mon May  8 08:01:52 2006
From: robertblackwell at yahoo.com (Robert Blackwell)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 08:01:52 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [pgh-pm] Next Perl Monger Meeting
Message-ID: <20060508150152.5938.qmail@web52213.mail.yahoo.com>

Fellow Mongers,
 
Does anyone have a talk for the next meeting?

Robert


Robert Blackwell 
robert at robertblackwell.com 
AIM: robertdblackwell 
Yahoo!: robertblackwell 
Jabber: robertblackwell at jabber.com
http://www.robertblackwell.com
Skype: rblackwe

From robert at robertblackwell.com  Tue May  9 04:53:02 2006
From: robert at robertblackwell.com (Robert Blackwell)
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 04:53:02 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [pgh-pm] Next Perl Monger Meeting
Message-ID: <20060509115302.50233.qmail@web52214.mail.yahoo.com>


Fellow Mongers,
 
Does anyone have a talk for the next meeting?

Robert




Robert Blackwell 
robert at robertblackwell.com 
AIM: robertdblackwell 
Yahoo!: robertblackwell 
Jabber: robertblackwell at jabber.com
http://www.robertblackwell.com
Skype: rblackwe

From robert at robertblackwell.com  Tue May  9 13:21:41 2006
From: robert at robertblackwell.com (Robert Blackwell)
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 13:21:41 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [pgh-pm] Next Perl Monger Meeting
In-Reply-To: <20060508150152.5938.qmail@web52213.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <20060509202141.68784.qmail@web52215.mail.yahoo.com>

Fellow Mongers,

Very sorry for any trouble that may have been caused by me sending duplicate messages looking for
a talk topic.  The list seemed to be down and I had tried different ways to send messages to the
list.

I started sending these messages on Friday only to have them arrive today.

Again very sorry.

Robert  

--- Robert Blackwell <robertblackwell at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Fellow Mongers,
>  
> Does anyone have a talk for the next meeting?
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> Robert Blackwell 
> robert at robertblackwell.com 
> AIM: robertdblackwell 
> Yahoo!: robertblackwell 
> Jabber: robertblackwell at jabber.com
> http://www.robertblackwell.com
> Skype: rblackwe
> _______________________________________________
> pgh-pm mailing list
> pgh-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pgh-pm
> 


Robert Blackwell 
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AIM: robertdblackwell 
Yahoo!: robertblackwell 
Jabber: robertblackwell at jabber.com
http://www.robertblackwell.com
Skype: rblackwe

From casey at geeknest.com  Tue May  9 13:26:44 2006
From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West)
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 13:26:44 -0700
Subject: [pgh-pm] Next Perl Monger Meeting
In-Reply-To: <20060508131117.16755.qmail@web52207.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20060508131117.16755.qmail@web52207.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <B21F766F-32CE-4E08-A008-8448ADE2EC3A@geeknest.com>


On May 8, 2006, at 6:11 AM, Robert Blackwell wrote:

> Fellow Mongers,
>
> Does anyone have a talk topic for the next meeting?

Hi everyone. I'm in Palo Alto right now, I hope you have a great  
meeting!

-- 
Casey West



From robert at robertblackwell.com  Wed May 10 06:15:57 2006
From: robert at robertblackwell.com (Robert Blackwell)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 06:15:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [pgh-pm] Meeting Tonight
Message-ID: <20060510131557.6430.qmail@web52207.mail.yahoo.com>

Well we don't seem to have a talk topic tonight.  Do we just want to meet for beer somewhere?
Does anyone have a better plan?

Robert

Robert Blackwell 
robert at robertblackwell.com 
AIM: robertdblackwell 
Yahoo!: robertblackwell 
Jabber: robertblackwell at jabber.com
http://www.robertblackwell.com
Skype: rblackwe

From sean at redhandsoftware.com  Wed May 10 08:41:50 2006
From: sean at redhandsoftware.com (Sean McCune)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 11:41:50 -0400
Subject: [pgh-pm] Meeting Tonight
In-Reply-To: <20060510131557.6430.qmail@web52207.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20060510131557.6430.qmail@web52207.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <446209BE.2010506@redhandsoftware.com>


Unfortunately, I can't attend tonight, no matter what's going on.  But I 
may have something minor to bring for show and tell next month.

McC

Robert Blackwell wrote:
> Well we don't seem to have a talk topic tonight.  Do we just want to meet for beer somewhere?
> Does anyone have a better plan?
>
> Robert
>
> Robert Blackwell 
> robert at robertblackwell.com 
> AIM: robertdblackwell 
> Yahoo!: robertblackwell 
> Jabber: robertblackwell at jabber.com
> http://www.robertblackwell.com
> Skype: rblackwe
> _______________________________________________
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> pgh-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pgh-pm
>   


From barries at slaysys.com  Wed May 10 08:45:03 2006
From: barries at slaysys.com (Barrie Slaymaker)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 11:45:03 -0400
Subject: [pgh-pm] Meeting Tonight
In-Reply-To: <446209BE.2010506@redhandsoftware.com>
References: <20060510131557.6430.qmail@web52207.mail.yahoo.com>
	<446209BE.2010506@redhandsoftware.com>
Message-ID: <44620A7F.30206@slaysys.com>

We should definitely meet for beer.  When & where.

Sean McCune wrote:
> Unfortunately, I can't attend tonight, no matter what's going on.  But I 
> may have something minor to bring for show and tell next month.
>
> McC
>
> Robert Blackwell wrote:
>   
>> Well we don't seem to have a talk topic tonight.  Do we just want to meet for beer somewhere?
>> Does anyone have a better plan?
>>
>> Robert
>>
>> Robert Blackwell 
>> robert at robertblackwell.com 
>> AIM: robertdblackwell 
>> Yahoo!: robertblackwell 
>> Jabber: robertblackwell at jabber.com
>> http://www.robertblackwell.com
>> Skype: rblackwe
>> _______________________________________________
>> pgh-pm mailing list
>> pgh-pm at pm.org
>> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pgh-pm
>>   
>>     
>
> _______________________________________________
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> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pgh-pm
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From m.nooning at comcast.net  Wed May 10 09:34:29 2006
From: m.nooning at comcast.net (Malcolm Nooning)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 12:34:29 -0400
Subject: [pgh-pm] Perl Programmer wth MOYD
Message-ID: <44621615.6040407@comcast.net>

Hello,

This is going to seem pretty strange.

I started up a company on the premise that my product would be ready 
roughly two years ago.  Well, here it is two years later and it is 
finally finished.  I need help now in areas where I do not have a lot of 
expertise.  Unfortunately I have no money.  I am unemployed, and have 
been so for over three years.  No points for guessing what I've been doing.

Could I interest anyone in a MOYD program.  That is, I Might Owe You 
Double money if you worked on this.  That is to say, if sales were zero, 
you would get nothing, nada, zero, zip.  If it sold, you would get 
double the going rate.  So, I MOYD.  No hate mail, please.

For those of you who have not deleted this email while grinding your 
teeth and shaking your heads, please let me give more information.  It 
will either dissuade you or interest you.  I will be wanting to 
correspond with only those who know the actual state of my company, and 
are still interested.

My product is yet another type of backup program.  I wrote it in Perl 
because that is what I know.  Yes, I know, there are roughly 30 other 
backup programs on the market (t-h-i-r-t-y, really!) but like all 
inventors, I think I have the next best thing.  I have been using the 
product myself for over a year now.

My uspto patent application was accepted a couple of months ago.  It is 
not due to be docketed for another few months but at least it passed 
their primary checkers, and it may be totally accepted, totally 
rejected, or anywhere in-between.  Just so you know.

My plan is to come out of the starting gate fully prepared to take on 
customers through every which way they can be found.  There are a couple 
of small things that have to be taken care of though.  Such as the fact 
that I do not have a web site.

An anti-piracy system I was thinking of is patented (6,449,645) as the 
recent Microsoft and Adobe versus z4 Technologies dispute attests to 
(Incredibly, Microsoft and Adobe lost).  I still may use it, depending 
upon the reasonableness of z4 Technologies but I have thought of 
others.  In any case, it will require me to modify my product.

I have a little marketing background.  Emphasis on "little".   I have a 
little Apache experience.  By that I mean I have installed, and have 
been the administrator of, Apache web servers on both Windows and Linux, 
but since I was one of but a few users, it all kind of ran on it's own.

Let me give a gift to those who have read this far.  The Joel Spolsky 
books were outstanding.  If you get nothing else from this email, invest 
in this book:

"Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That 
Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, 
and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in 
Some Capacity"
Joel Spolsky; Paperback; $11.99

If you now discard this email, but read the book, you will have done 
yourself a favor.

Where was I.  Oh, yes, my product.  I have the book

  Open Source Web Development With Lamp: Using Linux, Apache, Mysql, 
Perl, and Php (Paperback, 2002) Brent Ware, James Lee

It is my next read, assuming I do not go with a hosting company that can 
fill my needs.  Even then, I would like to have some other Perl 
programmers on board.  The product is not yet Linux ready.  Just 
Windows.  If I have to do it myself, it will be several months yet 
before Linux is ironed out.

My needs, not-so-by-the-way, could not be met by a certain 
hosting/marketing firm here in Pittsburgh, and I suspect trouble with 
most because of issues like Try Before You Buy (TBYB) with the 
corresponding ideas of temporary passwords, and also permanent 
passwords.  And the back and forth emails to accomplish it.  With the 
typical web site put up by godaddy, 1&1, and most others, the customer 
simply selects one or more products and makes a purchase.  Simply done!  
Alas, that approach will not work for me.  $pecialty $oftware on their 
part would be, well, pricey, so if I have no other alternatives I will 
build my own web site.  I don't want to, but ....

There are lots of other issues, but, you get the idea.  I have a 
finished product and I want to come out of the starting gate with it.

No flames, please.  Please do not spam me.  I am not trying to take 
advantage of anyone.  Yes, I agree that the idea of MOYD is something I 
would not want for even myself.  If the product does not fly, you will 
have worked for free.  Charity, as it were.  I understand.  This is a 
needs driven letter.  Not an avarice driven one.

If you live far from Pittsburgh's Brighton Heights area (27th ward), zip 
code 15212, this probably will not work for you because with the price 
of gas I don't see us being able to get together all that often.

For anyone who is left reading this, if I have to do it all myself I can 
and will, but I want to minimize time to market (Ha-ha-ha, it has 
already been soooo long.  Ha-ha).  Don't forget about issues like 
Non-Disclosure agreements and such.

Hmmm.  Now that I think of it, I suppose a good candidate would be a 
Perl type who is between jobs.  So ... what else are you doing?  Want a 
sandwich and some free beer?  Let's meet.

Perhaps you can think of something better than MOYD.  What?  Yeah, yeah, 
half the company.  I don't think so.

Okay, that's it.

Civil replies only, PLEASE.



From robertblackwell at yahoo.com  Wed May 10 11:45:11 2006
From: robertblackwell at yahoo.com (Robert Blackwell)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 11:45:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [pgh-pm] Meeting Tonight
In-Reply-To: <44620A7F.30206@slaysys.com>
Message-ID: <20060510184511.92562.qmail@web52209.mail.yahoo.com>

Well I think the time should be 7:00 but I am not sure where.

Mabye we should just meet at Slaymaker Systems and go from there.


--- Barrie Slaymaker <barries at slaysys.com> wrote:

> We should definitely meet for beer.  When & where.
> 
> Sean McCune wrote:
> > Unfortunately, I can't attend tonight, no matter what's going on.  But I 
> > may have something minor to bring for show and tell next month.
> >
> > McC
> >
> > Robert Blackwell wrote:
> >   
> >> Well we don't seem to have a talk topic tonight.  Do we just want to meet for beer somewhere?
> >> Does anyone have a better plan?
> >>
> >> Robert
> >>
> >> Robert Blackwell 
> >> robert at robertblackwell.com 
> >> AIM: robertdblackwell 
> >> Yahoo!: robertblackwell 
> >> Jabber: robertblackwell at jabber.com
> >> http://www.robertblackwell.com
> >> Skype: rblackwe
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> pgh-pm mailing list
> >> pgh-pm at pm.org
> >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pgh-pm
> >>   
> >>     
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > pgh-pm mailing list
> > pgh-pm at pm.org
> > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pgh-pm
> >   
> 
> _______________________________________________
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> pgh-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pgh-pm
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Robert Blackwell 
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AIM: robertdblackwell 
Yahoo!: robertblackwell 
Jabber: robertblackwell at jabber.com
http://www.robertblackwell.com
Skype: rblackwe

From robert at robertblackwell.com  Wed May 10 12:55:24 2006
From: robert at robertblackwell.com (Robert Blackwell)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 12:55:24 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [pgh-pm] Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Meeting | May 10, 2006
Message-ID: <20060510195524.75437.qmail@web52212.mail.yahoo.com>

Pittsburgh Perl Mongers

Wednesday  May 10, 2006 at 7:00 pm

* This months Technical Gathering*

*Location*

  Slaymaker Systems, Inc.
  4914 Baum Blvd.
  Pittsburgh, PA 15213


We will just meet at Slaymaker Systems to decide where to go for a beer and dinner.  Bring your
suggestions:)



Robert Blackwell 
robert at robertblackwell.com 
AIM: robertdblackwell 
Yahoo!: robertblackwell 
Jabber: robertblackwell at jabber.com
http://www.robertblackwell.com
Skype: rblackwe

From tom at moertel.com  Wed May 10 13:12:50 2006
From: tom at moertel.com (Tom Moertel)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 16:12:50 -0400
Subject: [pgh-pm] Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Meeting | May 10, 2006
In-Reply-To: <20060510195524.75437.qmail@web52212.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20060510195524.75437.qmail@web52212.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <44624942.8000300@moertel.com>

Robert Blackwell wrote:
> We will just meet at Slaymaker Systems to decide where to go for a
> beer and dinner.  Bring your suggestions:)

Any chance of pre-deciding where to go for beer and dinner?  If my 
dinner engagement lets out early enough, I will try to join up with you 
guys -- provided I know where you are.  ;-)

Cheers,
Tom

From chris.winters at gmail.com  Wed May 10 13:30:34 2006
From: chris.winters at gmail.com (Chris Winters)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 16:30:34 -0400
Subject: [pgh-pm] Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Meeting | May 10, 2006
In-Reply-To: <44624942.8000300@moertel.com>
References: <20060510195524.75437.qmail@web52212.mail.yahoo.com>
	<44624942.8000300@moertel.com>
Message-ID: <c61247280605101330n7c10e821v74699ae28d7e8f85@mail.gmail.com>

I am a-OK with sharp edge, as usual. If we can't predefine it you
could also get one of our cell numbers and ring us up.

Chris

On 5/10/06, Tom Moertel <tom at moertel.com> wrote:
> Robert Blackwell wrote:
> > We will just meet at Slaymaker Systems to decide where to go for a
> > beer and dinner.  Bring your suggestions:)
>
> Any chance of pre-deciding where to go for beer and dinner?  If my
> dinner engagement lets out early enough, I will try to join up with you
> guys -- provided I know where you are.  ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
> _______________________________________________
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From rdblackw at robertblackwell.com  Wed May 10 13:45:36 2006
From: rdblackw at robertblackwell.com (Robert Blackwell)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 16:45:36 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [pgh-pm] Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Meeting | May 10, 2006
In-Reply-To: <c61247280605101330n7c10e821v74699ae28d7e8f85@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20060510195524.75437.qmail@web52212.mail.yahoo.com> 
	<44624942.8000300@moertel.com>
	<c61247280605101330n7c10e821v74699ae28d7e8f85@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0605101644120.11697@yiwen.pair.com>


I too am a-OK with Sharpedge.  So it looks like Sharpedge at 7:00ish.


On Wed, 10 May 2006, Chris Winters wrote:

> I am a-OK with sharp edge, as usual. If we can't predefine it you
> could also get one of our cell numbers and ring us up.
>
> Chris
>
> On 5/10/06, Tom Moertel <tom at moertel.com> wrote:
> > Robert Blackwell wrote:
> > > We will just meet at Slaymaker Systems to decide where to go for a
> > > beer and dinner.  Bring your suggestions:)
> >
> > Any chance of pre-deciding where to go for beer and dinner?  If my
> > dinner engagement lets out early enough, I will try to join up with you
> > guys -- provided I know where you are.  ;-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Tom
> > _______________________________________________
> > pgh-pm mailing list
> > pgh-pm at pm.org
> > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pgh-pm
> >
>

From robert at robertblackwell.com  Thu May 11 06:16:54 2006
From: robert at robertblackwell.com (Robert Blackwell)
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 06:16:54 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [pgh-pm] Call for CPAN modules.
Message-ID: <20060511131654.84713.qmail@web52205.mail.yahoo.com>

Does Pittsburgh have anything to add?

http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/29586

Thursday May 11, 2006
05:20 AM
CPANathon: 10,000 CPAN modules by YAPC::NA?
[ #29586 ]
If you've been to the main front page of the CPAN lately (instead of just using search.cpan.org)
you might have noticed that as well as recently going past 5000 login accounts, the module count
is getting pretty close to the big 10,000.

As I write this, we're at 9,971.

But I'd really love to be able to hit YAPC::NA with that number into 5 figures (plus it means I
can use '10,000' in my talk slides) :)

Do you have any code you keep meaning to tidy up and get onto CPAN?

Now's the time! Let's see what you've got!

We need 30 new CPAN modules in the next 40 days if we want to hit the milestone before YAPC::NA.

Coach your coworkers, mail your mongers! Clean out those dark corners of your repository and let's
get that code where it might do some good.

I've started devoting a bit of time here and there to fixing one of my long-standing annoyances.
You see I've always wanted a nice DBIx::Class/SQLite interface to the CPAN index, so that a whole
host of modules that interact with the twisty dependency and permissions model of CPAN could be
made much more robust.

I'd like to be able to release it as the 10,001st module on CPAN.

How about it? Got something close to release? I'll show you mine if you show me yours!

Robert Blackwell 
robert at robertblackwell.com 
AIM: robertdblackwell 
Yahoo!: robertblackwell 
Jabber: robertblackwell at jabber.com
http://www.robertblackwell.com
Skype: rblackwe

From robert at robertblackwell.com  Thu May 11 17:43:21 2006
From: robert at robertblackwell.com (Robert Blackwell)
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 17:43:21 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [pgh-pm] Call for Talk for June 14 Meeting
Message-ID: <20060512004321.65494.qmail@web52208.mail.yahoo.com>

Fellow Mongers,

The next Pittsburgh Perl Mongers Meeting will be June 14.
Does anyone have a talk that they would like to give or hear?

Thanks
Robert

Robert Blackwell 
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AIM: robertdblackwell 
Yahoo!: robertblackwell 
Jabber: robertblackwell at jabber.com
http://www.robertblackwell.com
Skype: rblackwe

From robert at robertblackwell.com  Fri May 12 08:24:11 2006
From: robert at robertblackwell.com (Robert Blackwell)
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 08:24:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [pgh-pm] LED cube discussed at meeting
Message-ID: <20060512152411.54879.qmail@web52201.mail.yahoo.com>


This is a link to the LED cube as talked about at the last meeting.
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/04/chris_lomonts_led_cube.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890

Robert Blackwell 
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AIM: robertdblackwell 
Yahoo!: robertblackwell 
Jabber: robertblackwell at jabber.com
http://www.robertblackwell.com
Skype: rblackwe

From tom at moertel.com  Wed May 24 17:48:26 2006
From: tom at moertel.com (Tom Moertel)
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 20:48:26 -0400
Subject: [pgh-pm] ANN: Pgh Coding Dojo on Thursday, 25 May 2006
Message-ID: <4474FEDA.2080803@moertel.com>

Perl Mongers,

Since I had mentioned the Pittsburgh Coding Dojo at prior PghPM 
get-togethers, I wanted to forward the announcement about this month's 
Dojo meeting, which is tomorrow.  The challenge problem is quite 
interesting and involves some interesting edge cases:

> J Aaron Farr wrote:
>> Hello all!
>> 
>> The wiki has been updated for our Thursday dojo session.  We'll be
>> exploring calendar event recurrence patterns.  I've included several
>> examples and several important links on the wiki:
>> 
>>   http://www.insomnia-consulting.org/wiki/index.php/May_25th_Meeting
>> 
>> If anyone has any questions, feel free to post them.
>> 
>> See you Thursday!

Cheers,
Tom

From casey at geeknest.com  Tue May 30 09:44:53 2006
From: casey at geeknest.com (Casey West)
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 12:44:53 -0400
Subject: [pgh-pm] Call for Talk for June 14 Meeting
Message-ID: <7CD5B8BD-7468-4A70-8725-3144B2B67E0B@geeknest.com>


On May 11, 2006, at 8:43 PM, Robert Blackwell wrote:

> Fellow Mongers,
>
> The next Pittsburgh Perl Mongers Meeting will be June 14.
> Does anyone have a talk that they would like to give or hear?

Is anyone interested in learning about some pretty awesome things you  
can do with a few javascript libraries?

I'd like to show you some neat things that are out there, they could  
help you make some pretty "web two oh" websites, but mostly they're  
very functional and help with user interaction and all the fun "AJAX"  
stuff going on these days.

I'll tie it into Perl by writing a Perl server that feeds data to the  
browser based client.

-- 
Casey West