From westerman at purdue.edu Mon Aug 6 09:26:51 2007 From: westerman at purdue.edu (Rick Westerman) Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:26:51 -0400 Subject: [Purdue-pm] Reminder: Tech meeting in 8 days. Message-ID: <46B74BCB.1090002@purdue.edu> Reminder that the technical meeting is in 8 days *at 6:00-7:30pm, Tue Aug 14 2007, ME 119.* This time we are concentrating on a couple of longer topics. Dave is going to review the 'Beautiful Code' book while I am going to review 'Mastering Perl'. Mark is going to do a short talk on Mathematica and a slightly longer talk on the "pro file processor." About 60 minutes total which leaves time for impromptu lightning talks. -- Rick Westerman westerman at purdue.edu Bioinformatics specialist at the Genomics Facility. Phone: (765) 494-0505 FAX: (765) 496-7255 Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture 625 Agriculture Mall Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010 Physically located in room S049, WSLR building From jacoby at csociety.ecn.purdue.edu Mon Aug 6 13:21:54 2007 From: jacoby at csociety.ecn.purdue.edu (David Jacoby) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 16:21:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Purdue-pm] Some Links Message-ID: OSCON 2007 Perl Lighting Talks on YouTube (from ask.perl.com) http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/02/182239 Referenced in Andy Lester's talk: Perl 101 (http://perl101.org/), a site for perl newbies. Except, I think that, like Unix, every user has a set of Perl that they know, and then there's a whole bunch they don't. They know how to look stuff up, and I think Perl101 will become part of how. And speaking of Andy Lester's talk: http://youtube.com/watch?v=G1ynTV_E-5s -- Dave Jacoby -- jacoby at csociety.org "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." The Tao of Programming From westerman at purdue.edu Tue Aug 14 09:02:31 2007 From: westerman at purdue.edu (Rick Westerman) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:02:31 -0400 Subject: [Purdue-pm] Reminder: technical meeting tonight, Aug. 14th Message-ID: <46C1D217.2060409@purdue.edu> Tonight's Perl Mongers' technical meeting is from 6 to 7:30 in ME 119. There are two book reviews and some topics from Mark. Review of 'Beautiful Code' [20 minutes; Dave] Mathematica 6.0.1 [5 minutes; Mark] The pro file processor [10 minutes; Mark] Review of 'Mastering Perl' [25 minutes; Rick] -- Rick Westerman westerman at purdue.edu Bioinformatics specialist at the Genomics Facility. Phone: (765) 494-0505 FAX: (765) 496-7255 Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture 625 Agriculture Mall Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010 Physically located in room S049, WSLR building From jacoby at purdue.edu Tue Aug 21 11:48:17 2007 From: jacoby at purdue.edu (Dave Jacoby) Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:48:17 -0400 Subject: [Purdue-pm] PLUG - Things To Worry About, Things To Steal Message-ID: <46CB3371.3090408@purdue.edu> I was looking at my Google Calendar, and noticed the next tech meeting. It's at 5:30, and PLUG will be having a novice presentation on File Sharing at 7pm. They will also have other meetings, and 7pm Tuesday seems to be their standardized day. I don't think that the class of people who would join a language users' group would be too interested in the topics listed so far ("Installing Stuff", "File Sharing", "Making your Resume in OpenOffice.Org"), but as I hinted, that is their novice line. They are also expecting a series of expert presentations. We are on-calendar as starting as 5:30pm, but we start at 6. If we start again at 5:30, that allows us (potentially) to finish by 7 and not conflict with PLUG. I, for one, am interested in being more involved in PLUG this year. Social meetings are just that, social, so I don't know that we miss much if we just do that as planned. If a PLUG meeting on a subject you're interested, no big deal. That is my worry. The question here is: Do we want to have 5:30 meetings again? To steal, perhaps: PLUG uses Upcoming, a calendering site from Yahoo. http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/2179/ There is also a Flickr group. I thought we were tech-forward because we used a Wiki, but perhaps there are other things we can do, social-networking-wise, to expand our presense. Much of what we could want, we get from the Perl community or CSociety, true. We have a Wiki, we have a mailing list. Purdue gives us a room with a PC and a projector. Should we look into different things to do?Any ideas? And I know it would be easy to start recording the presentations with a small mic and a machine running Audacity. Is this something anyone would be interested in? -- David Jacoby jacoby at purdue.edu Purdue Genomics Facility S049, WSLR building Phone: hah!