From rblackwe at speakeasy.net Wed Nov 1 04:43:49 2006 From: rblackwe at speakeasy.net (rblackwe at speakeasy.net) Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:43:49 +0000 Subject: [pgh-pm] Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Meeting | Nov 8, 2005 | Reminder Message-ID: This is just a reminder for the meeting next week. Hope to see you there. Pittsburgh Perl Mongers * This months Technical Gathering * *Location* Slaymaker Systems, Inc. 4914 Baum Blvd. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Wednesday Nov 8 at 19:00 *Talk* * JavaScript basics - Chris Winters * JavaScript has a checkered past but has in the last year gained prominence with AJAX and a number of toolkits designed to make easy things easy and hard things possible. We'll go over some JavaScript basics and see some interesting applications of how it's used with AJAX. And we'll probably talk to Perl at some point, too. Our meetings are open to anyone interested in Perl, the talk topic, beer, geekdom, etc. Please join us. 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 From rblackwe at speakeasy.net Wed Nov 1 04:50:41 2006 From: rblackwe at speakeasy.net (rblackwe at speakeasy.net) Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:50:41 +0000 Subject: [pgh-pm] Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Meeting | Dec 13, 2005 | Talk topic request Message-ID: Fellow Mongers, I am looking for meeting suggestions for the Dec 13 meeting. If anyone has a talk that they would like to give please speak up sooner rather than later. If you would like to hear a talk on a particular subject please ask. Another Monger may have just been waiting to hear your request for the motivation to speak. If you have a location for the social part that would be welcomed as well. We are now listed on the Pittsburgh Technology Council website, http://pghtech.com. This is another step in getting our name out a bit more. So the sooner I have the meeting details the better. Thank you all Robert From rblackwe at speakeasy.net Wed Nov 8 07:59:07 2006 From: rblackwe at speakeasy.net (rblackwe at speakeasy.net) Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:59:07 +0000 Subject: [pgh-pm] Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Meeting | Nov 8, 2005 | Reminder Message-ID: This is just a reminder for the meeting tonight. Hope to see you there. Pittsburgh Perl Mongers * This months Technical Gathering * *Location* Slaymaker Systems, Inc. 4914 Baum Blvd. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Wednesday Nov 8 at 19:00 *Talk* * JavaScript basics - Chris Winters * JavaScript has a checkered past but has in the last year gained prominence with AJAX and a number of toolkits designed to make easy things easy and hard things possible. We'll go over some JavaScript basics and see some interesting applications of how it's used with AJAX. And we'll probably talk to Perl at some point, too. Our meetings are open to anyone interested in Perl, the talk topic, beer, geekdom, etc. Please join us. From schwern at gmail.com Wed Nov 8 14:36:10 2006 From: schwern at gmail.com (Michael G Schwern) Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:36:10 -0500 Subject: [pgh-pm] Blank CDs Message-ID: <45525BDA.5000905@gmail.com> Could I beg/borrow/buy about four blank CDs from someone at the meeting? I'd like to have Windows installed on this Mac before the Chicago Hackathon but Boot Camp requires I burn a bunch of physical CDs and I neglected to bring any blanks. Thanks. From chris.winters at gmail.com Thu Nov 9 08:32:33 2006 From: chris.winters at gmail.com (Chris Winters) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 11:32:33 -0500 Subject: [pgh-pm] one clarification from last night: other scripting languages Message-ID: Toward the end of the talk last night Barrie asked why I chose JavaScript as the scripting interface for projects at work. I answered that our framework was in Java so there wasn't a lot of choice. Not true. There are a number of scripting engines available, even a year and a half ago. There are Java-only ones like BeanShell, which has been around for as long as Rhino and is fairly static, and Groovy, which is Ruby-esque and had lots of press but as soon as it went into a standardization process it seemed to fade from view. There's also Jython (Python in Java), which has been around quite a long time and is stable. But more recently the JRuby project has been getting lots of attention, primarily because Sun hired the main developer to work on it full-time. Finally, there's a number of smaller languages like Pnuts (which IIRC is perlish, but their site is down right now) and Scala, which focuses on functional and other language features. There's a surprisingly large list of scripting and other languages available on the VM, although some of them venture into app/framework territory (like rules engines): http://www.robert-tolksdorf.de/vmlanguages.html Chris From gakins at insomnia-consulting.org Mon Nov 27 22:08:05 2006 From: gakins at insomnia-consulting.org (Greg Akins) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:08:05 -0500 Subject: [pgh-pm] [ANN] Pgh Coding Dojo Dec 5th Message-ID: <8526685f0611272208o74a484a2v251c79be30be9640@mail.gmail.com> The Pittsburgh Coding Dojo will be meeting December 5th at 6:00PM at the Pittsburgh Technology Council. This single meeting is a November/December meeting combined to allow for the holiday schedule. I'll be presenting a "refactoring" problem. Which will involve some pre-written, "Ugly" code that we can refactor as a group. Some initial code (which doesn't necessarily work yet) is posted at http://pghcodingdojo.org/index.php/December_5th_Meeting. I'll be cleaning that up a bit before the meeting so we can start refactoring under the umbrella of a passing test. Looking forward to seeing all of you. As usual, checkout http://pghcodingdojo.org for more information. -- ============== Greg Akins http://www.pghcodingdojo.org