[Phoenix-pm] meeting tonight!

[Michael Friedman]

Sounds cool, Bobby. I wish I could make that meeting.

FWIW, my office tried to use Compress::Zlib and had too many problems  
with it to continue. We put in a hack to do what you're probably  
doing, call gzip & compress as a system call, and, well, "It works,  
so don't fix it!" :-) Our error handling is less than robust, though,  
so I'm looking forward to your code example.

-- Mike


On Mar 16, 2006, at 11:09 PM, Metz, Bobby W, WCS wrote:

> 	I'll throw my hat in the ring officially for a 10 minute
> "Reading/Writing ZIP Files on CPAN Challenged Unix Servers".  Hate I
> ended up missing tonight...wanted to hear about the search engine  
> stuff,
> but as happens too frequently I get tied up at work and can't cut  
> loose
> in time, so I'm really a lurker I guess ( one Nello's meeting doesn't
> quite count ).
> 	Anyway, 10 minutes should be good.  Like all "good" Perl, the
> code is too short to spend more time than that on it and really  
> doesn't
> need "presenting" per se, so I'll probably just hand out a two page
> printout for discussion and forward code later...you know after  
> everyone
> signs a non-disclosure...more jokes on that later :)
> 	That said, it would be interesting to hear others thoughts on
> the routine and hear of your experiences with it's CPAN counterparts
> such as Compess::Zlib, IO::Gzip & IO::Gunzip.  Now, I just have to  
> make
> sure and make it Scott friendly [ jk Scott ;-) ] by removing all the &
> calls in the example program.  Unfortunately, I don't think I can  
> remove
> the typeglobs and it still work since that's part of the magic.  But,
> I'm open to suggestions from Brock, Scott, Anthony or whoever else can
> think of a better way to do it and retain it's symplicity.  As a  
> former
> colleague of mine was found of saying, it's a "ghetto script".  Get  
> the
> job done quick and don't worry about perfection.
>
> So, anyone interested?
>
> Bobby
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: phoenix-pm-bounces+bwmetz=att.com at pm.org
> [mailto:phoenix-pm-bounces+bwmetz=att.com at pm.org]On Behalf Of Scott
> Walters
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 11:36 PM
> To: Brock
> Cc: phoenix-pm at pm.org
> Subject: Re: [Phoenix-pm] meeting tonight!
>
>
> Hi,
>
> To everyone who made it out, good to see you.  Thanks for coming.
>
> Here's the handout, attached.
>
> Now, who else has an interesting algorithm, trick, application of  
> Perl,
> module, technique, language, or project they'd be willing to talk  
> about?
>
> Regards,
> -scott
>
> On  0, Brock <awwaiid at thelackthereof.org> wrote:
>> In case anyone gets this, I forgot to mention that it is probably  
>> best
>> to park on 3rd st, either in a metered parking (free after 6) or in
> the
>> garage (free 2hr validation).
>>
>> The only trick is that the link between 3rd St. and Mill is  
>> closed, so
>> you must approach the intersection from Ash St. You can see the road
> of
>> which I speak on the map.
>>
>> Here's the meeting info, in case you forgot:
>>
>>      Time: Thursday 16 March 2006 @7:00pm
>>  Location: Mill's End
>>            http://maps.google.com/maps?q=310+S+Mill+Ave+tempe,+az
>>            310 S Mill Ave # A101
>>            Tempe, AZ 85281
>>            Thats the North-West corner of Mill and 3rd (north of
>>            University) in down-town Tempe.
>>     Topic: Search Engine (scott)
>>            Catalyst (Michael Garfias, unconfirmed)
>>            As always, random discussion
>>     Other: Wireless internet available. Bring your laptops.
>>            Mill's End sells drinks and food
>>            Presentations will be given and recorded over VNC
>> _______________________________________________
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