From kostas at cs.sunysb.edu Tue Feb 3 15:27:16 2004 From: kostas at cs.sunysb.edu (Kostas Pentikousis) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:37:44 2004 Subject: [Stonybrook-pm] Next meeting: February 11, 2004, 6 PM Message-ID: Dear all, The third Stony Brook Perl Mongers meeting (StonyBrook-PM-3, http://stonybrook.pm.org/#meetings) will be on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 at 6 PM in the Computer Science Lounge. We hope that you will forward this email to your friends and colleagues. You see we have slotted a 10-min "Introductions" item on the agenda and we would like see many new faces! NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS Take a look at our brand new web site (http://stonybrook.pm.org), as we would like to have some of you involved in content generation, and we will open the floor to ideas about what would you like to see on the site. For example, I'm interested in having a section titled "Perl Solutions" dedicated to useful, reusable code that is too small to become a Perl module on CPAN. Our mailing list is up and running, so please make sure you subscribe ;) Check our web site for details. PRESENTATIONS The main course includes two speakers: * Robert Rothenberg will be talking about past YAPC's and YAPC North America 2004, which will be in Buffalo, NY, June 16-18. We will be organizing a small trip there as I hear that it is a lot of fun. If you are interested in sending an abstract the deadline is 3/27. So mark your calendars. * Lucas Carey who will introduce us to Bioperl, a collection of Perl modules that facilitate the development of Perl scripts for bioinformatics applications. Lucas will tell us what you can do with Bioperl, why you would want to use it, and why you wouldn't. He will then briefly talk about how Perl is used in his lab to analyze microarray data by string-parsing descriptions -- completely unrelated to Bioperl :) AFTER PARTY After the presentations we plan to discuss speakers/presentations/ideas for next meeting(s), and how can we outreach to other departments/affiliated organizations/user groups. At that point everybody will be looking forward for a nice dinner, so we will motion to move the meeting to a nearby restaurant that serves adult beverages ;) Best regards, Kostas Pentikousis & Robert Rothenberg From wlkngowl at i-2000.com Wed Feb 11 23:39:40 2004 From: wlkngowl at i-2000.com (Robert Rothenberg) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:37:44 2004 Subject: [Stonybrook-pm] The Regex Coach... Message-ID: <402B119C.1030606@i-2000.com> I mentioned this to some people after the meeting. It's a useful visual tool for debugging regular expressions. Windows and Linux versions are available. From wlkngowl at i-2000.com Thu Feb 12 00:36:27 2004 From: wlkngowl at i-2000.com (Robert Rothenberg) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:37:44 2004 Subject: [Stonybrook-pm] Photo from meeting Message-ID: <402B1EEB.5070107@i-2000.com> Group photo from the meeting: From lcarey at odd.bio.sunysb.edu Thu Feb 12 20:21:12 2004 From: lcarey at odd.bio.sunysb.edu (Lucas Carey) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:37:44 2004 Subject: [Stonybrook-pm] automated login to a javascript page Message-ID: <20040213022112.GA13494@odd.bio.sunysb.edu> I'd mentioned this website at yesterday's meeting. https://www.incyte.com/control/tools/proteome I'd love to be able to automatically login and grab a couple of pages, if anyone has any ideas how to get the cookie without HTTP::Cookies::Netscape. The basic problem as far as I can tell, aside from my complete lack of knowledge of perl web stuff, is this:
.... document.getElementById('loginuser%C0%E4%C9%DF%89%F5%82%A9L%25c%A3%E6%7F%86%85').focus(); -Lucas From wlkngowl at i-2000.com Thu Feb 12 23:06:40 2004 From: wlkngowl at i-2000.com (Robert Rothenberg) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:37:44 2004 Subject: [Stonybrook-pm] automated login to a javascript page In-Reply-To: <20040213022112.GA13494@odd.bio.sunysb.edu> References: <20040213022112.GA13494@odd.bio.sunysb.edu> Message-ID: <402C5B60.8000706@i-2000.com> Without taking a look at the specific forms you want to automate, try the WWW::Mechanize::* modules at There's also WWW::Automate at On 2/12/2004 9:21 PM Lucas Carey wrote: > I'd mentioned this website at yesterday's meeting. > https://www.incyte.com/control/tools/proteome > I'd love to be able to automatically login and grab a couple of pages, if anyone > has any ideas how to get the cookie without HTTP::Cookies::Netscape. ... From jkeen at verizon.net Sun Feb 15 09:54:28 2004 From: jkeen at verizon.net (James E Keenan) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:37:44 2004 Subject: [sb.pm] Perl Seminar NY Meeting Tues Feb 17 Message-ID: <2004215105428.323675@crc3> Should you be travelling west from Long Island on Tuesday: Perl Seminar NY February meeting 481 8 Ave (Ramada New Yorker hotel) Suite 1560 between West 34 & 35 Sts, Manhattan Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 6:15 pm Perrin Harkins: "Efficient Sharing of Data among Processes" Whether it's for building a cache of frequently used data or storing the state of user sessions on the server, choosing the right tool for efficient sharing of data can be tricky and most of the time it is done with a mix of anecdotal evidence and guesswork. This talk examines a number of different options for sharing data that are available on CPAN, from IPC::Shareable to Cache::Cache, and presents performance metrics for various levels of concurrent access and mixes of reading and writing. It also covers relative ease of installation and use. Attendees will learn how to choose the right tool for their own situations. and Ted Kharitonov: "Test Driven Development" Test Driven Development (TDD) improves the quality of development cycle, reduces number of bugs, and provides you with detailed design specification for your application. In this presentation you get to learn about TDD and how to use Test::More and Mock objects to write automated tests in Perl. From wlkngowl at i-2000.com Sun Feb 15 17:52:51 2004 From: wlkngowl at i-2000.com (Robert Rothenberg) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:37:44 2004 Subject: [sb.pm] Perl Links on SBPM Web Site Message-ID: <40300653.4090007@i-2000.com> I've added some links to Perl resources on the web site. If you have anything that should be added, please let me know. From wlkngowl at i-2000.com Thu Feb 19 16:28:16 2004 From: wlkngowl at i-2000.com (Robert Rothenberg) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:37:44 2004 Subject: [sb.pm] Next meeting? Message-ID: <40353880.5040305@i-2000.com> Next meeting is scheduled for March 10. Does anyone have topic ideas?