From david at fetter.org Mon Oct 3 16:32:19 2005 From: david at fetter.org (David Fetter) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 16:32:19 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Hot Dog Records: a PostgreSQL Case Study Message-ID: <20051003233219.GB6822@fetter.org> Folks, If you'd like to eat Thai food and/or learn about how a quickly growing business uses PostgreSQL and gets help from the community, click here: http://pugs.postgresql.org/sfpug/ Date: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 Time: 7:00-9:00pm Place: ShareChive (see URL above) Cheers, D -- David Fetter david at fetter.org http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 510 893 6100 mobile: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! From david at fetter.org Mon Oct 10 15:43:26 2005 From: david at fetter.org (David Fetter) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:43:26 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] [Reminder] Hot Dog Records: a PostgreSQL Case Study In-Reply-To: <20051003233219.GB6822@fetter.org> References: <20051003233219.GB6822@fetter.org> Message-ID: <20051010224326.GA20931@fetter.org> Folks, Just a reminder. If you'd like to eat Thai food and/or learn about how a quickly growing business uses PostgreSQL and gets help from the community, click here: http://pugs.postgresql.org/sfpug/ Date: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 Time: 7:00-9:00pm Place: ShareChive (see URL above) RSVP to david at fetter.org :) Cheers, D -- David Fetter david at fetter.org http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 510 893 6100 mobile: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! From qw at sf.pm.org Mon Oct 10 19:07:45 2005 From: qw at sf.pm.org (Quinn Weaver) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:07:45 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Meeting October 25: Byrne Reese on Movable Type, at Six Apart Message-ID: <20051011020745.GB35718@cfcl.com> Dear Mongers, Our October meeting will be sponsored (including food ;) ) by Six Apart. It's October 25, two weeks from tomorrow. To my pleasure, I learned that they have hired Byrne Reese of SOAP::Lite fame, so he'll be giving the talk. Here's what Byrne has to say on the subject: Movable Type is not "blogging software." It is a "publishing platform." Furthermore, it is not just a platform for plugin developers, but application developers well. Few other plugins demonstrate that better than Media Manager [which Byrne wrote, prior to joining Six Apart]. Tonight we will go under the hood of Movable Type, using Media Manger as an example, to share code samples, discuss the underpinnings of Movable Type's architecture and demonstrate how any one can use Movable Type to build compelling, fully integrated, blogging applications. Byrne's outline: I. Introductions II. Overview of MT and Media Manager III. Introduction of the MT Platform A. template tags B. text filters C. callbacks D. alt-templates IV. Under the hood A. MT::Plugin B. MT::Object C. MT::App So you know the drill: RSVP to me, qw at sf.pm.org, telling me how many people you'll bring. (This enables Six Apart to order enough food.) Here are the details of time and place: When: 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 25 Where: Six Apart, 548 4th St. (between Brannan and Bryant) http://maps.google.com/maps?q=548+4th+St,+San+Francisco,+CA+94107&hl=en The closest BART station is Powell. It's a bit of a hike, so try the 45: http://transit.511.org/tripplanner/itinresults.asp?fxy=&fs=899+Market+St.&fc=San+Francisco&fz=&fx=-14954&fy=-265&ts=548+4th+St.&tc=San+Francisco&tz=&tx=0&ty=0&td=1&tm=A&t1=07%3A50PM&t2=07%3A50PM&op=F&of=R&ow=120&sn=&rs=&rt=&rt1=&rt2=&rt3=&txy=-14812%2C-351%2C500+-+568+4TH+ST%2C+SAN+FRANCISCO&PlanTrip.x=85&PlanTrip.y=9 -- qw (Quinn Weaver); #President, San Francisco Perl Mongers =for information, visit http://sf.pm.org/weblog =cut From extasia at extasia.org Tue Oct 11 07:02:23 2005 From: extasia at extasia.org (David Alban) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:02:23 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Meeting October 25: Byrne Reese on Movable Type, at Six Apart In-Reply-To: <20051011020745.GB35718@cfcl.com> References: <20051011020745.GB35718@cfcl.com> Message-ID: <4c714a9c0510110702w7d0c9d19i2ccda00d46f0374b@mail.gmail.com> Greetings, On 10/10/05, Quinn Weaver wrote: > The closest BART station is Powell. It's a bit of a hike, so try the 45: > http://transit.511.org/tripplanner/itinresults.asp?fxy=&fs=899+Market+St.&fc=San+Francisco&fz=&fx=-14954&fy=-265&ts=548+4th+St.&tc=San+Francisco&tz=&tx=0&ty=0&td=1&tm=A&t1=07%3A50PM&t2=07%3A50PM&op=F&of=R&ow=120&sn=&rs=&rt=&rt1=&rt2=&rt3=&txy=-14812%2C-351%2C500+-+568+4TH+ST%2C+SAN+FRANCISCO&PlanTrip.x=85&PlanTrip.y=9 FYI, long URL's like this can be given shorter, forwarding URL's, using . For instance, the above URL became: http://tinyurl.com/bdklt David -- Live in a world of your own, but always welcome visitors. From qw at sf.pm.org Fri Oct 14 12:05:37 2005 From: qw at sf.pm.org (Quinn Weaver) Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:05:37 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Superuser meeting November 12, 2005 In-Reply-To: <20050924011547.GC75056@cfcl.com> References: <20050924011547.GC75056@cfcl.com> Message-ID: <20051014190537.GB75085@cfcl.com> I have some updated information on the Superuser meeting. It turns out you need to RSVP yourself, at https://db.usenix.org/cgi-bin/Conference/baysug05/reg.cgi . (I apologize to those who've already RSVP'ed to me; earlier I was told that I could collect names and pass them along to someone.) Also, it turns out I can't make it. I had forgotten that I'm going to a wedding that day. :P Have fun without me, and play nice with the other users' groups. ;) -- qw (Quinn Weaver); #President, San Francisco Perl Mongers =for information, visit http://sf.pm.org/weblog =cut From rdm at cfcl.com Fri Oct 14 18:17:39 2005 From: rdm at cfcl.com (Rich Morin) Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 18:17:39 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] _Ruby_ Beer & Pizza SIG; 8 pm, 10/26, San Francisco, CA, USA Message-ID: Due to Quinn's efforts, SFPUG has little need of the Beer & Pizza SIG these days. So, I'm loaning it out to the ba-rb (Bay Area Ruby) folks. It will occur on the fourth Wednesday of each month. Pasquales stays on the "A" list, but the _South Beach Cafe_ is the upcoming venue. -r In the spirit of Bay Area Debian's "SHOTGUN RULES FOR BAD MEETINGS" (http://bad.debian.net/shotgun_rules.txt), I am calling yet another meeting of the Bay Area Ruby Beer & Pizza SIG. No program; just a way for folks to get together and chat about Ruby, Rails, etc. Note: Ruby appeals to a broad spectrum of programmers. Your dinner companions may speak any of a variety of languages, including C++, Perl, PHP, Python, Scheme, and Smalltalk. At the same time, they may well be struggling to learn about Rails, Ruby, SQL, etc. So, expect diversity... At the last meeting, several folks brought laptops. Given that the upcoming venue has free wifi, this seems even more appropriate! In fact, the restaurant has promised to provide a power outlet near the table, so if anyone can bring a largish LCD monitor, let me know! Beer and Pizza SIG RSVP: An RSVP would be appreciated, so that I can tell the restaurant folks what to expect. OTOH, feel free to just show up and look for a sign. :) Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2005 Time: 8:00 p.m. Place: South Beach Cafe, 800 The Embarcadero (just past the end of Townsend, at King) San Francisco, California, USA http://local.google.com/local?output=html&q=%22South+Beach+Cafe%22&btnG=Search&latlng=37630556,-122410000,10934445030027146126 Food: Cafe, Italian Trattoria, Pizzeria; free wifi Parking: Unless there's a monster baseball game, parking should be no problem after 6 pm. BART: Be prepared for a bit of a crowd, as this is the end of the prime commute time. Get off at the Embarcadero station. Within the station, exit BART, enter MUNI, and catch the N (inbound). Get off at the train station. Caltrain: (Don't take Caltrain if you can avoid it. Trains run back at 10:00 p.m. and 11:59 p.m. only!) From the train station, walk Northeast on King to the restaurant. -r P.S. The Delancey Street Restaurant is nearby and also worth considering for a special (read, nice but slightly pricy) venue. -- email: rdm at cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com - Canta Forda Computer Laboratory http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. From qw at sf.pm.org Fri Oct 14 18:34:40 2005 From: qw at sf.pm.org (Quinn Weaver) Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 18:34:40 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] _Ruby_ Beer & Pizza SIG; 8 pm, 10/26, San Francisco, CA, USA In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20051015013440.GB56684@cfcl.com> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 06:17:39PM -0700, Rich Morin wrote: > Due to Quinn's efforts, SFPUG has little need of the Beer & Pizza SIG > these days. So, I'm loaning it out to the ba-rb (Bay Area Ruby) folks. > It will occur on the fourth Wednesday of each month. Pasquales stays > on the "A" list, but the _South Beach Cafe_ is the upcoming venue. Cool. For November I don't have a talk, so we should have a munch then. (That will be the week of Thanksgiving.) In the meantime, it appears we may have some SF PostgreSQL Users Group people at the Six Apart meeting (October 25). That should liven things up even further. (MT works with PostgreSQL as well as other backends. TypePad, Six Apart's hosted service, runs exclusively on PostgreSQL.) Anyway, thanks for the announcement. I especially like this part: > Note: Ruby appeals to a broad spectrum of programmers. Your dinner > companions may speak any of a variety of languages, including C++, > Perl, PHP, Python, Scheme, and Smalltalk. At the same time, they > may well be struggling to learn about Rails, Ruby, SQL, etc. So, > expect diversity... Yay for language ecumenicalism! I think it's catching on. I mean, even PM.org is usig Mailman (written in Python) these days, because, frankly, it's way better than Majordomo. Besides, soon we'll be able to write any language in Perl 6, right? ;) -- qw (Quinn Weaver); #President, San Francisco Perl Mongers =for information, visit http://sf.pm.org/weblog =cut From rdm at cfcl.com Fri Oct 14 19:17:54 2005 From: rdm at cfcl.com (Rich Morin) Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:17:54 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] _Ruby_ Beer & Pizza SIG; 8 pm, 10/26, San Francisco, CA, USA Message-ID: [resend - the 26th is a Wednesday] Due to Quinn's efforts, SFPUG has little need of the Beer & Pizza SIG these days. So, I'm loaning it out to the ba-rb (Bay Area Ruby) folks. It will occur on the fourth Wednesday of each month. Pasquales stays on the "A" list, but the _South Beach Cafe_ is the upcoming venue. -r In the spirit of Bay Area Debian's "SHOTGUN RULES FOR BAD MEETINGS" (http://bad.debian.net/shotgun_rules.txt), I am calling yet another meeting of the Bay Area Ruby Beer & Pizza SIG. No program; just a way for folks to get together and chat about Ruby, Rails, etc. Note: Ruby appeals to a broad spectrum of programmers. Your dinner companions may speak any of a variety of languages, including C++, Perl, PHP, Python, Scheme, and Smalltalk. At the same time, they may well be struggling to learn about Rails, Ruby, SQL, etc. So, expect diversity... At the last meeting, several folks brought laptops. Given that the upcoming venue has free wifi, this seems even more appropriate! In fact, the restaurant has promised to provide a power outlet near the table, so if anyone can bring a largish LCD monitor, let me know! Beer and Pizza SIG RSVP: An RSVP would be appreciated, so that I can tell the restaurant folks what to expect. OTOH, feel free to just show up and look for a sign. :) Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 ========= Time: 8:00 p.m. Place: South Beach Cafe, 800 The Embarcadero (just past the end of Townsend, at King) San Francisco, California, USA http://local.google.com/local?output=html&q=%22South+Beach+Cafe%22&btnG=Search&latlng=37630556,-122410000,10934445030027146126 Food: Cafe, Italian Trattoria, Pizzeria; free wifi Parking: Unless there's a monster baseball game, parking should be no problem after 6 pm. BART: Be prepared for a bit of a crowd, as this is the end of the prime commute time. Get off at the Embarcadero station. Within the station, exit BART, enter MUNI, and catch the N (inbound). Get off at the train station. Caltrain: (Don't take Caltrain if you can avoid it. Trains run back at 10:00 p.m. and 11:59 p.m. only!) From the train station, walk Northeast on King to the restaurant. -r P.S. The Delancey Street Restaurant is nearby and also worth considering for a special (read, nice but slightly pricy) venue. -- email: rdm at cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com - Canta Forda Computer Laboratory http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. _______________________________________________ SanFrancisco-pm mailing list SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm -- email: rdm at cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com - Canta Forda Computer Laboratory http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. From rdm at cfcl.com Fri Oct 14 21:53:06 2005 From: rdm at cfcl.com (Rich Morin) Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 21:53:06 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Beer & T{ofu,urkey} SIG; 8 pm, 11/22 In-Reply-To: <20051015013440.GB56684@cfcl.com> References: <20051015013440.GB56684@cfcl.com> Message-ID: At 6:34 PM -0700 10/14/05, Quinn Weaver (President of SFPUG) wrote: >Cool. For November I don't have a talk, so we should have a munch >then. (That will be the week of Thanksgiving.) OK; I'd like to try for a reservation at Delancey Street Restaurant. They have a lovely back room that we _might_ be able to get if I have enough RSVPs within a week or so. Anyone who wants to join in, send me a note ASAP! Beer and T{ofu,urkey} SIG RSVP: RSVPs are absolutely required for this one, as I'm hoping to get one of the "back rooms". Send me the number of folks in your party. If you show up and are not on my list, you may end up eating alone! Date: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 Time: 8:00 p.m. Place: Delancey Street Restaurant, 600 Embarcadero St. (around 3rd and King) San Francisco, California, USA http://local.google.com/local?hl=en&output=html&q=%22Delancey+Street+Restaurant%22&btnG=Search&latlng=37630556,-122410000,10427011748318943022 Food: slightly trendy American/European food; moderate prices There should be vegetarian dishes, etc. Parking: Unless there's a monster baseball game, parking should be no problem after 6 pm. BART: Be prepared for a bit of a crowd, as this is the end of the prime commute time. Get off at the Embarcadero station. Within the station, exit BART, enter MUNI, and catch the N (inbound). Get off at the train station. Caltrain: (Don't take Caltrain if you can avoid it. Trains run back at 10:00 p.m. and 11:59 p.m. only!) From the train station, walk Northeast on King to the restaurant. QW> Yay for language ecumenicalism! I think it's catching on. I mean, QW> even PM.org is using Mailman (written in Python) these days, because, QW> frankly, it's way better than Majordomo. Besides, soon we'll be QW> able to write any language in Perl 6, right? ;) I'm _really_ looking forward to the cross-language capabilities of Parrot/Cardinal/etc! -r -- email: rdm at cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com - Canta Forda Computer Laboratory http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. From qw at sf.pm.org Fri Oct 14 22:12:18 2005 From: qw at sf.pm.org (Quinn Weaver) Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:12:18 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Beer & T{ofu,urkey} SIG; 8 pm, 11/22 In-Reply-To: References: <20051015013440.GB56684@cfcl.com> Message-ID: <20051015051218.GB94453@cfcl.com> Ah, good suggestion. I'm going to take a pass for that week, but I like the idea. You can all sit around the table and give thanks for Larry et al. ;) > QW> Yay for language ecumenicalism! I think it's catching on. I mean, > QW> even PM.org is using Mailman (written in Python) these days, because, > QW> frankly, it's way better than Majordomo. Besides, soon we'll be > QW> able to write any language in Perl 6, right? ;) > > I'm _really_ looking forward to the cross-language capabilities of > Parrot/Cardinal/etc! Yeah, it would be nice to actually use the libraries you want regardless of language, huh? I guess the type mapping will be a little weird (e.g. you don't have primitive hash refs in Java, nor flattened array "varargs". I can see how you could fake either one, though.) Note to self: Read more Apocalypses. You're way behind. -- qw (Quinn Weaver); #President, San Francisco Perl Mongers =for information, visit http://sf.pm.org/weblog =cut From qw at sf.pm.org Fri Oct 21 13:12:45 2005 From: qw at sf.pm.org (Quinn Weaver) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:12:45 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Six Apart Meeting Tuesday; RSVP! In-Reply-To: <20051011020745.GB35718@cfcl.com> References: <20051011020745.GB35718@cfcl.com> Message-ID: <20051021201245.GB7986@cfcl.com> Hi, all, This is a reminder that we're meeting this coming Tuesday at Six Apart. Byrne Reese will be speaking about the Movable Type API and how to use it in your web site. He'll be using actual code examples from his justly famous plugin Media Manager. If you're coming, RSVP! Six Apart is footing the bill for food, and they need to know how much to order. (FWIW, I've requested Thai food. As always, there will be vegetarian options.) Thanks, and see you there, -- qw (Quinn Weaver); #President, San Francisco Perl Mongers =for information, visit http://sf.pm.org/weblog =cut From ray at warmroom.com Fri Oct 21 23:04:08 2005 From: ray at warmroom.com (Ray Baxter) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 23:04:08 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Six Apart Meeting Tuesday; RSVP! In-Reply-To: <20051021201245.GB7986@cfcl.com> References: <20051011020745.GB35718@cfcl.com> <20051021201245.GB7986@cfcl.com> Message-ID: <4359D658.4070004@warmroom.com> Quinn Weaver wrote: > If you're coming, RSVP! Six Apart is footing the bill for food, and > they need to know how much to order. (FWIW, I've requested Thai food. > As always, there will be vegetarian options.) > I'm coming. Thanks, Ray Baxter From josh at agliodbs.com Mon Oct 24 11:53:01 2005 From: josh at agliodbs.com (Josh Berkus) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:53:01 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] [Jobs] Two local people wanted for projects Message-ID: <200510241153.01961.josh@agliodbs.com> Folks, I've been asked to find people with particular skills for two different projects. Because these relate to unreleased products, the companies involved want to use me as a proxy. Text Mining Expert: starting in about a month, one company could use an expert in structuring text/html documents. This would include "semantic web" people and those with experience in search engines. Send me a resume. AJAX/DHTML Expert: another company wants to add a "rich browser interface" to their products and needs someone with experience building such. Java experience preferred but not required. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco From rdm at cfcl.com Mon Oct 24 15:11:34 2005 From: rdm at cfcl.com (Rich Morin) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:11:34 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] _Ruby_ Beer & Pizza SIG; 8 pm, 10/26, San Francisco, CA, USA Message-ID: [last-minute try for RSVPs! -r] In the spirit of Bay Area Debian's "SHOTGUN RULES FOR BAD MEETINGS" (http://bad.debian.net/shotgun_rules.txt), I am calling yet another meeting of the Bay Area Ruby Beer & Pizza SIG. No program; just a way for folks to get together and chat about Ruby, Rails, etc. Note: Ruby appeals to a broad spectrum of programmers. Your dinner companions may speak any of a variety of languages, including C++, Perl, PHP, Python, Scheme, and Smalltalk. At the same time, they may well be struggling to learn about Rails, Ruby, SQL, etc. So, expect diversity... At the last meeting, several folks brought laptops. Given that the upcoming venue has free wifi, this seems even more appropriate! In fact, the restaurant has promised to provide a power outlet near the table, so if anyone can bring a largish LCD monitor, let me know! Beer and Pizza SIG RSVP: An RSVP would be appreciated, so that I can tell the restaurant folks what to expect. OTOH, feel free to just show up and look for a sign. :) Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 Time: 8:00 p.m. Place: South Beach Cafe, 800 The Embarcadero (just past the end of Townsend, at King) San Francisco, California, USA http://local.google.com/local?output=html&q=%22South+Beach+Cafe%22&btnG=Search&latlng=37630556,-122410000,10934445030027146126 Food: Cafe, Italian Trattoria, Pizzeria; free wifi Parking: Unless there's a monster baseball game, parking should be no problem after 6 pm. BART: Be prepared for a bit of a crowd, as this is the end of the prime commute time. Get off at the Embarcadero station. Within the station, exit BART, enter MUNI, and catch the N (inbound). Get off at the train station. Caltrain: (Don't take Caltrain if you can avoid it. Trains run back at 10:00 p.m. and 11:59 p.m. only!) From the train station, walk Northeast on King to the restaurant. -r P.S. The Delancey Street Restaurant is nearby and also worth considering for a special (read, nice but slightly pricy) venue. -- email: rdm at cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com - Canta Forda Computer Laboratory http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. _______________________________________________ SanFrancisco-pm mailing list SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm -- email: rdm at cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com - Canta Forda Computer Laboratory http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. _______________________________________________ SanFrancisco-pm mailing list SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm -- email: rdm at cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com - Canta Forda Computer Laboratory http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. From vlb at cfcl.com Mon Oct 24 21:46:53 2005 From: vlb at cfcl.com (Vicki Brown) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 21:46:53 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Job Prospects? Message-ID: Contrary to my interests or wishes, in what I believe to be a thoughtless move cause inconvenience to the entire organization, the Company I worked for has decided to stop "willing" my employment. (I wish someone would do something about this "at will" employment thing. :-( In mid-June, I was re-orged under a new manager who never bothered to really understand what I did or why it might be valuable. Then we entered a hiring slow-down. You may have guessed where this is going... When said manager decided, recently, that he needed a not-as-yet-existent employee more than he needed "whatever-I-was", I entered my own private remake of The Invasion of the Pod People. Suffice it to say that I am now job-hunting, entirely against my will. Sigh. What do I do? I have, at various times, performed the following jobs: utilities programming, Unix system administration, scientific programming, user support, project management, maintenance programming, developer technical publications, and Web/CGI programming. I've been a programmer (first awk/sh, then Perl, recently starting into PHP, spouse is getting me interested in Ruby). I've been a quality lead, webmaster, and technical writer. My primary interest areas are Communication, Quality, Process, Information management, and Social Software. At this moment in time, I prefer internal documentation and content management to coding. If you're interested in what I do (especially if you might have a project or a job for me) my web site tells the story best: http://philtres.com/vlb/ p.s. San Francisco, Peninsula, or N. San Jose preferred (or telecommute to anywhere). I don't travel. -- - Vicki Victoria L Brown /\_/\ Programming, Maintenance, Bug fixing Journeyman Sourceror - - Process Improvement; Quality Assurance - Scripts & Philtres >= ^ =< Technical writing, editing, review P.O. Box 1269 ( ) Web weaving (HTML, CGI) San Bruno, CA 94066 { | | } ) ) ) Unix, Perl, Mac OS X http://cfcl.com/vlb ---------------- http://philtres.com From oserj at OserConsulting.com Tue Oct 25 09:41:56 2005 From: oserj at OserConsulting.com (Jim Oser) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:41:56 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Job Prospects? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: www.indeed.com Search: perl Zipcode: 94066 This website pulls jobs from many sources including: dice monster SF Chronicle craigslist Jim Jim Oser Oser Computer Solutions 113 Santa Maria Drive Novato, CA. 94947 www.OserConsulting.com Office: 415-892-0860 Cell: 415-710-1329 On Oct 24, 2005, at 9:46 PM, Vicki Brown wrote: > Contrary to my interests or wishes, in what I believe to be a > thoughtless > move cause inconvenience to the entire organization, the Company I > worked for > has decided to stop "willing" my employment. (I wish someone would do > something about this "at will" employment thing. :-( > > In mid-June, I was re-orged under a new manager who never bothered to > really > understand what I did or why it might be valuable. Then we entered a > hiring > slow-down. You may have guessed where this is going... > > When said manager decided, recently, that he needed a > not-as-yet-existent > employee more than he needed "whatever-I-was", I entered my own private > remake of The Invasion of the Pod People. > > Suffice it to say that I am now job-hunting, entirely against my will. > Sigh. > > What do I do? I have, at various times, performed the following jobs: > utilities programming, Unix system administration, scientific > programming, > user support, project management, maintenance programming, developer > technical publications, and Web/CGI programming. I've been a programmer > (first awk/sh, then Perl, recently starting into PHP, spouse is > getting me > interested in Ruby). I've been a quality lead, webmaster, and technical > writer. > > My primary interest areas are Communication, Quality, Process, > Information > management, and Social Software. > > At this moment in time, I prefer internal documentation and content > management to coding. If you're interested in what I do (especially if > you > might have a project or a job for me) my web site tells the story best: > http://philtres.com/vlb/ > > p.s. San Francisco, Peninsula, or N. San Jose preferred (or > telecommute to > anywhere). I don't travel. > -- > - Vicki > > Victoria L Brown /\_/\ Programming, Maintenance, Bug fixing > Journeyman Sourceror - - Process Improvement; Quality Assurance > - Scripts & Philtres >= ^ =< Technical writing, editing, review > P.O. Box 1269 ( ) Web weaving (HTML, CGI) > San Bruno, CA 94066 { | | } ) ) ) Unix, Perl, Mac OS X > http://cfcl.com/vlb ---------------- http://philtres.com > _______________________________________________ > SanFrancisco-pm mailing list > SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm > > From matt at cloudfactory.org Wed Oct 26 12:24:29 2005 From: matt at cloudfactory.org (Matt lanier) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:24:29 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Looking for mail server engineer Message-ID: <1130354673.332BED4A@a30.danger.com> Hey folks- I'm searching for an engineer who is: -experienced with the ins and outs of mail (both inbound and outbound handling on a large scale). -fluently speaks perl, and at least minorly conversant with java. -has worked in a production server environment before, and knows how to handle her/himself in a crisis. If that person is you or someone you know, please drop me a line! Thanks- Matt Lanier From doom at kzsu.stanford.edu Thu Oct 27 00:32:33 2005 From: doom at kzsu.stanford.edu (Joseph Brenner) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:32:33 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Six Apart Meeting Message-ID: <200510270732.j9R7WYH72128@mail0.rawbw.com> So how did the meeting at Six Apart go the other day? I really wanted to be there, myself, but got hung up at work... From qw at sf.pm.org Thu Oct 27 21:30:12 2005 From: qw at sf.pm.org (Quinn Weaver) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:30:12 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Six Apart Meeting In-Reply-To: <200510270732.j9R7WYH72128@mail0.rawbw.com> References: <200510270732.j9R7WYH72128@mail0.rawbw.com> Message-ID: <20051028043012.GA84312@cfcl.com> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 12:32:33AM -0700, Joseph Brenner wrote: > > So how did the meeting at Six Apart go the other day? I really wanted > to be there, myself, but got hung up at work... I'm sorry you weren't able to make it. For what it's worth, Byrne has already put his slides up: http://www.majordojo.com/uploads/SF%20Perl%20Mongers.ppt (PowerPoint, unfortunately) And, of course, he blogged about it ;) : http://www.majordojo.com/archives/2005/10/movable_type_mongers_presentat.php In my view, it was a very good meeting. Byrne is a very lucid, down-to-earth speaker. I was impressed at all the improvements in MT with the 3.2 release. We had some interesting back-and-forth with the Postgres people, but mostly they were surprisingly receptive to the OO-to-relational support in MT::Object. Anyway, I was gratified that we had such high attendance. I hope we can build on the momentum. -- qw (Quinn Weaver); #President, San Francisco Perl Mongers =for information, visit http://sf.pm.org/weblog =cut From doom at kzsu.stanford.edu Fri Oct 28 08:32:39 2005 From: doom at kzsu.stanford.edu (Joseph Brenner) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:32:39 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Six Apart Meeting In-Reply-To: <20051028043012.GA84312@cfcl.com> References: <200510270732.j9R7WYH72128@mail0.rawbw.com> <20051028043012.GA84312@cfcl.com> Message-ID: <200510281532.j9SFWdH33355@mail0.rawbw.com> Quinn Weaver wrote: > Joseph Brenner wrote: > > So how did the meeting at Six Apart go the other day? I really wanted > > to be there, myself, but got hung up at work... > > I'm sorry you weren't able to make it. For what it's worth, Byrne > has already put his slides up: > > http://www.majordojo.com/uploads/SF%20Perl%20Mongers.ppt (PowerPoint, > unfortunately) Yes, very. There's probably some way I could extract the information easily, but I'd need to upgrade this somewhat ancient linux box... > And, of course, he blogged about it ;) : > > http://www.majordojo.com/archives/2005/10/movable_type_mongers_presentat.php And it sounds like he feels like he has more to say, which is good. You should think about having him back in a little while for part II. > In my view, it was a very good meeting. Byrne is a very lucid, > down-to-earth speaker. I was impressed at all the improvements in MT > with the 3.2 release. We had some interesting back-and-forth with the > Postgres people, but mostly they were surprisingly receptive to the > OO-to-relational support in MT::Object. Yes, object-relational-mapping remains "controversial" with me even when I'm the only one talking, I imagine the gang had a lot to say about it. > Anyway, I was gratified that we had such high attendance. I hope we > can build on the momentum. Overall I think the talks have been pretty good of late (e.g. Chris Mungall's talk was especially interesting, and covered territory you don't often hear about elsewhere). (It's too bad you've got me scheduled for January.)