From dsherer at gte.net Wed Feb 16 23:06:38 2000 From: dsherer at gte.net (Daniel Sherer) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:21:50 2004 Subject: Initial "Get Aquainted" meeting Message-ID: <38AB81DD.C305391@gte.net> We've scheduled an initial meeting to get started with this chapter. We're going to meet next Wednesday at the Barnes & Nobles in Westlake Village (WL Blvd & TO Blvd) from 6:00 to 7:00 pm. That's Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2000 6:00pm If any of you can make it, please come by. We'll try to find a good day, time and location for future meetings that works for the most members possible. The book store would like us to discuss a book for at least part of our meeting and I have a publisher's copy of "Fundamentals of Perl" that I have reviewed. We can plan future topics during the meeting. Or, you can post your suggestions here. I'd also like to discuss what platforms and environments we're using. Finally, I'd like the group's opinion about job postings. I've been getting requests for Perl programmers in the local area. Do any of you want to post resumes to the site? Or just short bio's. I don't want to try and turn this into DICE, but there is a LOT of work out there and some of you may want in on it. You can e-mail your responses to this list (thousand-oaks-pm-list@hfb.pm.org) or to me personally if you prefer. Thanks and Hope to meet you next Wednesday evening, Daniel Sherer Daniel@Sherer.org From dsherer at gte.net Tue Feb 22 21:32:22 2000 From: dsherer at gte.net (Daniel Sherer) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:21:50 2004 Subject: Meeting tomorrow Message-ID: <38B354C5.CF5C8EF8@gte.net> Just a reminder (as no one responded to the earlier messages) that we've scheduled our first meeting for tomorrow (Wednesday, February 23, 2000) at Barnes and Nobles (the Prominade at the intersection of Thousand Oaks Blvd and Westlake Blvd). They're supposed to have a couple of tables set up in the cafe for us. Depending on how many of you show up and what your interest level is, we'll plan future meetings. Borders has a bigger meeting area and there are some local businesses that may be open to letting us use their facilities. I look forward to meeting you tomorrow. I'll be the one in the black "Perl Mongers" t-shirt. Daniel From Dan.Sherer at wellpoint.com Wed Feb 23 11:13:00 2000 From: Dan.Sherer at wellpoint.com (Dan.Sherer@wellpoint.com) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:21:50 2004 Subject: Any interest in tips/tricks? Message-ID: I'm not sure if we want to do this in our general newsgroup, but would any of you be interested in Perl tips and tricks? Or all you all wizards already? I teach a weekly internal Perl class for my present employer and have some tips that I could pass along. Since our newsgroup has been (deathly) quiet up until this point, I thought I'd ask if anyone was interested? Daniel From davidmcb at excite.com Wed Feb 23 14:01:21 2000 From: davidmcb at excite.com (David McBride) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:21:50 2004 Subject: Any interest in tips/tricks? Message-ID: <33036027.951336081335.JavaMail.imail@chilly.excite.com> Hi, I just joined the mailing list a couple of weeks ago and I've been surprised that I haven't seen any activity. I'm definitely in the learning process and I'm very interested in anything you have to pass on. I also think that we should all try to contribute some info (including myself) if we're going to make the mailing list useful. We could discuss interesting Perl related aspects of projects we're currently working on, job openings, tips, tricks, good reference books, etc. I'm using Perl on a Unix box, but I've also messed around with it on a Mac (i.e. MacPerl). Is anyone else out there doing anything with MacPerl? - David On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 09:13:00 -0800, Dan.Sherer@wellpoint.com wrote: > I'm not sure if we want to do this in our general newsgroup, but would any of > you be interested in Perl tips and tricks? Or all you all wizards already? > > I teach a weekly internal Perl class for my present employer and have some > tips that I could pass along. > > Since our newsgroup has been (deathly) quiet up until this point, I thought > I'd ask if anyone was interested? > > > Daniel _______________________________________________________ Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite Visit http://freeworld.excite.com From Dan.Sherer at wellpoint.com Wed Feb 23 15:04:00 2000 From: Dan.Sherer at wellpoint.com (Dan.Sherer@wellpoint.com) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:21:50 2004 Subject: Any interest in tips/tricks? Message-ID: Yes, I currently use Perl5 on an iMac, Windoze-95 & NT, and HP-UX. I also use it for CGI on several Linux web-servers and have used it on Sun/Solaris. As for the activity level on this group, I'll take some of the blame for that. Even though I've been busy, I still should have attempted to motivate discussion prior to this. For the future, I'll try to post (what I hope will be) useful information and respond to queries by other members. Let me start with this: To set a variable with a default value, ONLY if it hasn't already been defined, you can do this... $variable ||= "default value"; # instead of: if ( ! $variable ) { $variable = "default value"; } # or even this: $variable = "default value" unless ($variable); (Personally, one of the things I like most about Perl is the fact that there is more than one way to do something. But some short-cuts are more unique to Perl than others.) Daniel ------------------( Forwarded letter 1 follows )--------------------- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:01:21 -0800 (PST) To: Dan.Sherer Cc: thousand-oaks-pm-list@pm.org From: davidmcb@excite.com Subject: Re: Any interest in tips/tricks? Hi, I just joined the mailing list a couple of weeks ago and I've been surprised that I haven't seen any activity. I'm definitely in the learning process and I'm very interested in anything you have to pass on. I also think that we should all try to contribute some info (including myself) if we're going to make the mailing list useful. We could discuss interesting Perl related aspects of projects we're currently working on, job openings, tips, tricks, good reference books, etc. I'm using Perl on a Unix box, but I've also messed around with it on a Mac (i.e. MacPerl). Is anyone else out there doing anything with MacPerl? - David On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 09:13:00 -0800, Dan.Sherer@wellpoint.com wrote: > I'm not sure if we want to do this in our general newsgroup, but would any of > you be interested in Perl tips and tricks? Or all you all wizards already? > > I teach a weekly internal Perl class for my present employer and have some > tips that I could pass along. > > Since our newsgroup has been (deathly) quiet up until this point, I thought > I'd ask if anyone was interested? > > > Daniel _______________________________________________________ Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite Visit http://freeworld.excite.com From dsherer at gte.net Thu Feb 24 01:33:26 2000 From: dsherer at gte.net (Daniel Sherer) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:21:50 2004 Subject: First Meeting Message-ID: <38B4DEBF.A3944AD9@gte.net> Fellow Perl Mongers, Tonight was our first meeting. There were just four of us, but it was nice to meet face-to-face and discuss some of our Perl Experiences. We each had different levels of perl knowledge, ranging from complete novice to about 4 years with Perl. We didn't get around to talking about the Perl book I reviewed, but we did decide on a group project to see how we solve a trivial task (trivial with the power of Perl!) We each will write a simple program to gather traffic statistics from a website and record the information in our favorite database for analysis. As a follow-on, we might throw in pager notification and turn it into a daemon to warn us before our commutes turn ugly. If any of you who couldn't attend are interested in having a go, just shoot me a message, or call me and I'll give you the specifics. We may post some of the work here, depending on what each participant wants to do. Does anyone have suggestions for the time/date of our next meeting? If there are conflicts, I'm open to considering them. Daniel work: 805-557-6160