From robert at robertblackwell.com Sun Apr 8 20:39:48 2007 From: robert at robertblackwell.com (Robert Blackwell) Date: 9 Apr 2007 03:39:48 -0000 Subject: [pgh-pm] Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Meeting | Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:00 Message-ID: <20070409033948.37697.qmail@yiwen.pair.com> Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Meeting | Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:00 * This months Technical Gathering * * Location * Slaymaker Systems, Inc. 4914 Baum Blvd. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:00 * Talks * * Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 07 Themes - Casey West * Casey will be going over possible designs for the Workshop this year. Your feedback is requested. * Bear - Faisal N Jawdat * Bear is a personal content management system designed to make it easy for one person to publish simple web sites. Faisal will talk about the tool, how it got here, where it's going, what he learned along the way, and what Perl had to do with it. * This months Social Gathering 8:30 pm * * Location * The Church Brew Works 3525 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa. 15201 412.688.8200 http://churchbrew.com Important dates: Next Pittsburgh Perl Monger Meeting Thu, 10 May 2007 07:00 Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 07 Sat Oct 13 - Sun Oct 14 For more information: Robert Blackwell 412.231.5501 robert at robertblackwell.com From jkeen at verizon.net Thu Apr 12 05:11:08 2007 From: jkeen at verizon.net (James Keenan) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:11:08 -0400 Subject: [pgh-pm] [ANNOUNCE] Hackathon Toronto Sat Apr 28 Message-ID: Toronto Perlmongers are pleased to announce Hackathon Toronto, a one- day, almost-spur-of-the-moment hackathon, to be held Saturday, April 28, 2007. A hackathon is a gathering of free and open source software developers reflecting the joy of collective hacking. Building on the tradition of previous Perl hackathons in Toronto, Chicago and elsewhere, Hackathon Toronto will encourage people to come together for face-to-face work on Perl 5, Perl 6, CPAN modules, Parrot, Pugs and ... you name it! A hackathon wiki has been established at http://rakudo.org/hackathon- toronto/. Go there to learn details as to participation, location, transportation, projects, logistics, etc. As we get closer to the hackathon date, log on to #hackathon on irc.perl.org. If you can be in Toronto on Saturday, April 28, we hope to see you there. Thank you very much. Jim Keenan From robert at robertblackwell.com Thu Apr 12 05:40:42 2007 From: robert at robertblackwell.com (Robert Blackwell) Date: 12 Apr 2007 12:40:42 -0000 Subject: [pgh-pm] Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Meeting | *TONIGHT* Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:00 Message-ID: <20070412124042.81600.qmail@yiwen.pair.com> Just a reminder that the Pittsburgh Perl Mongers are meeting tonight. Hope you can make. Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Meeting | Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:00 * This months Technical Gathering * * Location * Slaymaker Systems, Inc. 4914 Baum Blvd. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:00 * Talks * * Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 07 Themes - Casey West * Casey will be going over possible designs for the Workshop this year. Your feedback is requested. * Bear - Faisal N Jawdat * Bear is a personal content management system designed to make it easy for one person to publish simple web sites. Faisal will talk about the tool, how it got here, where it's going, what he learned along the way, and what Perl had to do with it. * This months Social Gathering 8:30 pm * * Location * The Church Brew Works 3525 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa. 15201 412.688.8200 http://churchbrew.com Important dates: Next Pittsburgh Perl Monger Meeting Thu, 10 May 2007 07:00 Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 07 Sat Oct 13 - Sun Oct 14 For more information: Robert Blackwell 412.231.5501 robert at robertblackwell.com From gpitman at gmail.com Thu Apr 12 19:26:32 2007 From: gpitman at gmail.com (G.Pitman) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:26:32 -0400 Subject: [pgh-pm] was - job hunt Message-ID: <833c3f770704121926y7b180715r5e2eb2c26d605746@mail.gmail.com> Hi, New to the list, saw this post in the archives and think I should mention CMU's NREC. We do a pretty good deal of real time linux and are always looking for good people. see: https://secured.kenexa.com/cmu/cc/CCJobSearchAction.ss?command=CCSearchPage Division -> SCS Department -> Robotics - REC -- "There's plenty of room for all God's creatures... Right next to the mashed potatoes." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/pgh-pm/attachments/20070412/57b792d3/attachment.html From angrygreg at gmail.com Mon Apr 16 13:14:58 2007 From: angrygreg at gmail.com (Greg Akins) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:14:58 -0400 Subject: [pgh-pm] Fwd: [rubypgh] REMINDER: Great Guests and Great Topics at this week's Pittsburgh Ruby User Group meeting 1.3 on Thursday, April 19. In-Reply-To: <018701c78041$64dad100$6500a8c0@dfulaptop1> References: <018701c78041$64dad100$6500a8c0@dfulaptop1> Message-ID: <8526685f0704161314q49fd7e20ndd4e935a49c90609@mail.gmail.com> The next Pittsburgh Ruby User Group meeting is almost here! Make sure you've cleared your schedule for this Thursday night, April 19th, from 6 to 8pm in the 2nd floor training room of the Pittsburgh Technology Council building. (We've only gotten a few RSVP's to date, please let us know so we can have an accurate head count for refreshments.) 6:00 - 6:45pm - Ruby 101: Back by popular request, Christian Kebekus, CTO of medSage Technologies, returns to present an introduction to frameworks, with a hands-on demonstration of the Rails framework for Ruby. Christian will also touch on the importance of selecting the right framework for your project and provide a brief overview of the Ruby framework landscape. So bring your laptop with Ruby, Rails and MySQL installed, and see how easy it is to create your first Rails application! 6:45 ~ 7:00pm - Refreshments and Networking: If you're working on a Ruby project you can show us, let us know and maybe do a little show-and-tell with the group. 7:00 ~ 7:45pm - Ruby Tech: Cameron McBride brings us this month's topic, "Heavy lifting with Ruby: Using Ruby-in-science and interfacing Ruby with C" Dynamic languages like Ruby have many advantages to both simplify and speed up the development cycle. Sometimes, however, these languages make it difficult to address the problem correctly. Perhaps the problem of numerical processing makes the speed penalty repugnant, or one simply needs to utilize a pre-written library in another language. Luckily these are both issues that Ruby can handle elegantly so we can have our cake and eat it too!!! Cameron, a doctoral candidate in Astrophysics at the University of Pittsburgh, will present some simple cases of extending Ruby with C, and discuss how this has helped him use Ruby for scientific analysis. ADVANNCE PREPARATION: To help you better prepare for these talks, we'll be sending out an email to let you know what software and libraries you should have pre-installed. We'll also make sure the public wireless is up and running at the tech council conference room, and I'll try to have a CD or memstick available with the code and libraries if possible. Again PLEASE RSVP so that we can get an accurate count for refreshments! If you're a member of the Pittsburgh Ruby GoogleGroup, you can email your confirmation to the group at mailto:rubypgh at googlegroups.com, or else email me personally at mailto:schofield.david at verizon.net Location Details: The meeting will be held in the 2nd Floor Training Room of the Pittsburgh Technology Council, 2000 Technology Drive, PGH. Free wireless is available in the training room. (The council building is near the foot of Bates (that's the Parkway's Oakland exit) by the Mon river, along the road that ThermoFisher(Cellomics) and Union Switch and Signal are on. See it at http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=2000+Technology+Drive,+pittsburgh,+pa&ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&z =16&ll=40.434209,-79.96871&spn=0.012233,0.026994&iwloc=addr) -ds/ga --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pittsburgh Ruby Users Group" group. To post to this group, send email to rubypgh at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubypgh-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubypgh?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -- ============== Greg Akins http://www.pghcodingdojo.org http://www.insomnia-consulting.org/monologue From jkeen at verizon.net Mon Apr 16 17:05:19 2007 From: jkeen at verizon.net (James Keenan) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:05:19 -0400 Subject: [pgh-pm] Hackathon: Improved Link Message-ID: <1B88374C-4AB4-487A-B07E-40777588834B@verizon.net> It appears that in my last posting the link to the Hackathon wiki line-wrapped badly. Here's the shortest working version: http://rakudo.org/hackathon-toronto/ If you're planning on coming a week from Saturday, please sign up on the Attendees page. Also please feel free to contribute projects you'd like to hack on to the Projects page. I look forward to seeing you at the Hackathon on Sat Apr 28. jimk From angrygreg at gmail.com Tue Apr 17 11:49:04 2007 From: angrygreg at gmail.com (Greg Akins) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:49:04 -0400 Subject: [pgh-pm] [ANN] Pgh Coding Dojo April 26th Message-ID: <8526685f0704171149y3faa1662kf1fa91123cdfb863@mail.gmail.com> The Pittsburgh Coding Dojo will be meeting Thursday April 26th at 6:00PM at the ProTech Training in Monroeville. ************************************************* Just in case you missed it; this one isn't at the Tech Council. ProTech is out by Community College of Allegheny County, in Monroeville Find directions http://www.protechtraining.com/contact/directions.jsp ************************************************** This challenge for this meeting will be based on problems from Project Euler http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=view We'll look at these problems (1,2,5, & 9) and then look at some of the more difficult ones time permitting (like 78, 89, & 96) Looking forward to seeing all of you. As usual, checkout http://pghcodingdojo.org for more information. -- ============== Greg Akins http://www.pghcodingdojo.org http://www.insomnia-consulting.org/monologue From angrygreg at gmail.com Thu Apr 19 11:30:37 2007 From: angrygreg at gmail.com (Greg Akins) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:30:37 -0400 Subject: [pgh-pm] Fwd: [rubypgh] Re: It's not too late!!! Come on out to tonight's Pittsburgh Ruby User Group Mtg - Two great topics, Two great speakers! In-Reply-To: <1177007114.753419.154660@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> References: <009801c782a1$5756a470$c5dc0a0a@dfulaptop1> <1177007114.753419.154660@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: <8526685f0704191130n4cb43963l6c743e83ae474df7@mail.gmail.com> > The next Pittsburgh Ruby User Group meeting is tonight, and it's not too late to come on out and > join us! Whether you're a beginner, an experienced Rubyist or just curious, come and see what > Ruby's all about. > > We're meeting from 6 to 8pm in the 2nd floor training room of the Pittsburgh Technology Council > building, and we're being sponsored tonight by medSage Technologies, LLC. > > Here's tonight's agenda: > > 6:00 - 6:45pm - Ruby 101: Back by popular request, Christian Kebekus, CTO of medSage > Technologies, returns to present an introduction to frameworks, with a hands-on demonstration of > the Rails framework for Ruby. Christian will also touch on the importance of selecting the right > framework for your project and provide a brief overview of the Ruby framework landscape. So > bring your laptop with Ruby, Rails and MySQL installed, and see how easy it is to create your > first Rails application! > > 6:45 ~ 7:00pm - Refreshments and Networking: Ruby is hot and so is the Pizza! If you're working > on a Ruby project you can show us, let us know and maybe do a little show-and-tell with the > group. > > 7:00 ~ 7:45pm - Ruby Tech: Cameron McBride brings us this month's topic, "Heavy lifting with > Ruby: Using Ruby-in-science and interfacing Ruby with C" > Dynamic languages like Ruby have many advantages to both simplify and speed up the development > cycle. Sometimes, however, these languages make it difficult to address the problem correctly. > Perhaps the problem of numerical processing makes the speed penalty repugnant, or one simply > needs to utilize a pre-written library in another language. Luckily these are both issues that > Ruby can handle elegantly so we can have our cake and eat it too!!! Cameron, a doctoral > candidate in Astrophysics at the University of Pittsburgh, will present some simple cases of > extending Ruby with C, and discuss how this has helped him use Ruby for scientific analysis. > > PLEASE RSVP if you can so that we can get an accurate count for refreshments! If you're not > sure, send us a 'maybe' :-) > If you're a member of the Pittsburgh Ruby GoogleGroup, you can email your confirmation to the > group at mailto:rubypgh at googlegroups.com, or else email me personally at > mailto:schofield.da... at verizon.net > > Location Details: > The meeting will be held in the 2nd Floor Training Room of the Pittsburgh Technology Council, > 2000 Technology Drive, PGH. Free wireless is available in the training room. > (The council building is near the foot of Bates (that's the Parkway's Oakland exit) by the Mon > river, along the road that ThermoFisher(Cellomics) and Union Switch and Signal are on. See it athttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=2000+Technology+Drive,+pittsb... > =16&ll=40.434209,-79.96871&spn=0.012233,0.026994&iwloc=addr) > > -ds/ga --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pittsburgh Ruby Users Group" group. To post to this group, send email to rubypgh at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubypgh-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubypgh?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -- ============== Greg Akins http://www.pghcodingdojo.org http://www.insomnia-consulting.org/monologue