From zamboni at cerias.purdue.edu Mon Aug 21 13:45:33 2000 From: zamboni at cerias.purdue.edu (Diego Zamboni) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:05:58 2004 Subject: testing testing Message-ID: <200008211845.NAA15030@narnia.cerias.purdue.edu> this is a test. From d_zamboni at yahoo.com Mon Aug 21 13:51:34 2000 From: d_zamboni at yahoo.com (Diego Zamboni) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:05:58 2004 Subject: testing testing Message-ID: <20000821185134.27818.qmail@web2305.mail.yahoo.com> this is another test. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ From zamboni at cerias.purdue.edu Fri Aug 25 13:46:04 2000 From: zamboni at cerias.purdue.edu (Diego Zamboni) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:05:58 2004 Subject: Callout for Purdue.pm: the Purdue Perl Users Group Message-ID: <200008251846.NAA07335@narnia.cerias.purdue.edu> Hi, What: Callout for Purdue.pm - the Purdue Perl Users Group When: Wednesday, August 30, 7:00 PM Where: CS G66 Web: http://purdue.pm.org/ The first meeting/callout of Purdue.pm, the Purdue Perl User's Group, will take place next Wednesday, August 30 at 7:00 PM in room CS G66. The purpose of Purdue.pm is to bring together Perl programmers, hackers, users and abusers to share knowledge and experience, to learn new things and to have fun. Because the group is just getting organized, a clear agenda of activities has not been established. But for the same reason, we can steer it in any direction we want it to go. At this meeting we will talk about possible activities, discuss how the group should be organized and how it should operate so that it becomes a valuable resource for Perl users and programmers at Purdue. If you are interested in being informed about the group's happenings, please go to the web page at http://purdue.pm.org/. You can also sign up to the mailing list (instructions in the web page). Purdue.pm is registered with Perl Mongers, the world-wide umbrella organization for Perl User Groups. You can find more information about Perl Mongers at http://www.pm.org/. I hope to see many of you next Wednesday! Feel free to redistribute this invitation as you see fit. Best regards, --Diego Zamboni From zamboni at cerias.purdue.edu Wed Aug 30 13:05:58 2000 From: zamboni at cerias.purdue.edu (Diego Zamboni) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:05:58 2004 Subject: Reminder: Purdue.pm meeting tonight Message-ID: <200008301805.NAA01640@narnia.cerias.purdue.edu> Hi, This is just a reminder: What: Callout for Purdue.pm, the Purdue Perl Users Group When: Wednesday, Aug 30, 7:00 PM (tonight!) Where: CS G66 If you are interested in Perl, please come by! This is the group's first meeting, so we will be discussing ideas for activities, and the organization of the group. Purdue.pm is the Purdue chapter of Perl Mongers, the world-wide organization dedicated to providing support for Perl Users Group (among other things). You can find more information at http://purdue.pm.org/ Note: this is the last announcement about Purdue.pm that I will also send to PLUG. All further announcements will only be sent to the Purdue.pm mailing list (see the web page for how to subscribe). Best regards, --Diego Zamboni From zamboni at cerias.purdue.edu Wed Aug 30 20:48:27 2000 From: zamboni at cerias.purdue.edu (Diego Zamboni) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:05:58 2004 Subject: Purdue.pm meeting minutes from 08/30/2000 Message-ID: <200008310148.UAA04628@narnia.cerias.purdue.edu> Hi, Below is what I could reconstruct from my memory about today's meeting. I'm sure I missed some things, so please let me know if you notice something missing or wrong. I am very happy with how this meeting turned out. I think this group will be a lot of fun. Cheers, --Diego ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Minutes for the Purdue.pm meeting of 08/30/2000 This was the first meeting of Purdue.pm, and from what I saw today, the group shows promise. We had in attendance around 10-15 people, which is very good for a first meeting. At first I talked a little bit about what Perl Mongers is, and how Purdue.pm came into existence. I mentioned the following as possible activities: - Talks about different Perl topics - Social events - Invite people from the outside to give talks Other activities suggested include: - "Lightning talks" in which people have 5 minutes to talk about something. These are good for describing some particular construct or syntax in Perl, or for explaining some tricky piece of code, or for describing a useful module. - Short courses about different topics. For example, a short introductory course to Perl. - Having a place where people can post problems they have, or suggestions for projects, for Purdue.pm members (or anyone else) to solve or work on. Then I mentioned the need for some well-defined roles within Purdue.pm, such as a Point of Contact and a Web Master. Eric Wright volunteered to be the web master (web monger?) for the group. I also mentioned that I have sent invitations to Randal Schwartz and Tom Phoenix (from Stonehenge Consulting) to come here and give talks if they are ever nearby (Indianapolis, for example). There is no guarantee that they will come, but it is a possibility. Chris Deckard (president of PLUG) mentioned the possibility of Purdue.pm operating as a PLUG SIG (Special Interest Group). This seems like a good idea, for the following reasons: - The memberships of PLUG and Purdue.pm will probably overlap a lot. - It helps both groups by attracting PLUG people to Purdue.pm and vice versa. - It provides Purdue.pm with some of the infrastructure and organization that PLUG already has in place. - It would give members of Purdue.pm that are also members of PLUG access to PLUG's facilities, such as the library, accounts, etc. Purdue.pm will be the first PLUG SIG, so we will probably have to figure out more details as we go along. As for a regular meeting time, PLUG offered to make one Monday a month a PLUG/Purdue.pm meeting. The first available Monday seems to be October 2nd. The following people volunteered for things to do: - Eric Weaver: web monger - Kyle Wright: give a talk about the DBI module - Addam Schroll: maybe help with the DBI class - Mark Senn: short course "Introduction to Perl" - Diego Zamboni: talk about object-oriented Perl Then, Mark Senn gave a short talk about tricks with the concept of context in Perl, where he showed how to count the number of times a string is found in another, how to avoid typing variable names when you are going to do a lot of operations in a single variable, and some other things. I then described a tricky obfuscated one-liner that returns the length of the longest key in a hash. After that, the meeting was officially adjourned, although some of us hung around to discuss different (and less obfuscated) ways of getting the length of the longest key in a hash. If I missed something (quite likely) or grossly misrepresented something, please let me know. Cheers, --Diego Zamboni From zamboni at cerias.purdue.edu Wed Aug 30 21:33:44 2000 From: zamboni at cerias.purdue.edu (Diego Zamboni) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:05:58 2004 Subject: Perl resources on the web Message-ID: <20000830213344.A4940@cerias.purdue.edu> Hi, Here are some Perl resources that I have found useful: * http://www.perlmonks.org/ A very nice community of Perl users. You can find me there as ZZamboni (type "ZZamboni" on the search box and it will take you to my page). You can ask questions, post answers, post code, chat with other people, and in general hang around and learn a lot about Perl. Some well-known Perl gurus, like Randal Schwartz (merlyn) and Chip Salzberg (chip) are active participants at PerlMonks. * http://use.perl.org/ A Perl news site, based on the Slash engine. It contains news, postings about new modules updated to CPAN, etc. * http://www.cpan.org/ The main site for CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network), where you can find pretty much any Perl module you need, as well as many other resources. * http://search.cpan.org/ The search portion of CPAN. Very useful for actually finding modules. * http://perlfaq.cpan.org/ Index to the Perl FAQs. Look here first if you have a Perl question. Do you have some other favorite or useful Perl web site? Post it to the list! We will all benefit from it. Enjoy, --Diego