From Grantm at web.co.nz Wed Jan 8 19:49:53 2003 From: Grantm at web.co.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:24:17 2004 Subject: Damian Conway in Wellington for Bioinformatics conference Message-ID: <5FA042F680739D44951B00FED8BE1A7D05DC27@dasher.webdom1.web.co.nz> Hi Mongers I received the following announcement to pass on to the list from Andrew Macgregor... ------------------------- I just wanted to let you know about a conference we are running in Wellington in February. As part of the conference we have a one day tutorial by Damian Conway who I am sure you will know (he's working with Larry Wall on Perl 6). The conference and tutorial is aimed at bioinformatics users but the tutorial itself is on Parsing with Regexes so obviously can be applied to anything. So if you are interested in the opportunity to see one of Perl's top speakers, take a look at the conference site. Cost is $450 ($250 for students). Damian will be fresh from the O'Reilly Bioinformatics Conference in San Diego where he is giving the same tutorial. regards, Andrew. PS: Feel free to pass this message on to any perl people out there!! -- ___________________________________________ Andrew Macgregor Bioinformatics Programmer & Database Administrator Molecular Embryology Group Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand andrew.macgregor@stonebow.otago.ac.nz Telephone: +64 3 479 7873 http://anatomy.otago.ac.nz/meg http://bioconf.otago.ac.nz From Grantm at web.co.nz Wed Jan 15 14:45:40 2003 From: Grantm at web.co.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:24:17 2004 Subject: Perl Mongers Meeting + Special Guest Message-ID: <5FA042F680739D44951B00FED8BE1A7D05DFB0@dasher.webdom1.web.co.nz> Hi All You may have seen recent announcements that Damian Conway is going to be in Wellington running a tutorial at a Bioinformatics conference. I'm excited to announce that Damian has also made time in his schedule to give a talk to Wellington Perl Mongers. If you're wondering what all the fuss is about then there are more details here: http://pm.web.co.nz/damians_visit.html Forget about stuffy technical presentations, this talk promises to be an entertaining (and possibly mind-bending) journey through a diverse range of topics. Some of those topics will be technical (and Perl may even get a mention) but the journey is the destination. And it's cheaper than a movie (actually it's free). I expect this meeting to be popular. I expect you to bring your friends (you'll have time for a drink or a quick bite first). I expect to see people who have never been to a Perl Mongers meeting before. I would like some idea of how many people plan to turn up so please follow the link above and use the RSVP form. If any of you can remember back to the last meeting (well over a year ago), you'll remember that it was hosted by those nice folk at The Web Limited. Well, The Web Limited has metamorphisised through KPMG Consulting to BearingPoint and have moved to shiny new offices in Victoria Street. So if you want to be there, pay particular attention to the new address and the later-than-usual start time: Wednesday 12 February 2003, 7:30 PM at BearingPoint New Zealand 135 Victoria St (near Dixon St) Wellington I look forward to seeing you there. Regards Grant =============================================================== Grant McLean BearingPoint Inc - formerly The Web Limited +64 4 495 9026 135 Victoria Street, Box 920 gmclean@bearingpoint.biz Wellington, New Zealand From dave at thinktank.co.nz Sat Jan 18 17:36:56 2003 From: dave at thinktank.co.nz (Dave Moskovitz) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:24:17 2004 Subject: Unicode, warts and all Message-ID: <1042933016.17161.40.camel@kwai> I'm happy to give a presentation on my recent experience using Unicode (with a focus on Perl, but I can also talk about other issues like Postgres, linux keyboard mappings, etc). I guess we'd be looking at April or beyond? If the scheduler would let contact me to indicate interest and pencil in a date, that would be great. Thanks Dave -- Dave Moskovitz Director, Thinktank Consulting Ltd. dave@thinktank.co.nz * www.thinktank.co.nz Tel: +64 27 220 2202 * AIM: nznudnik From don at gamma.net.nz Sun Jan 26 18:18:57 2003 From: don at gamma.net.nz (Don Jones) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:24:17 2004 Subject: Archives? Message-ID: <20030127001857.M39288@gamma.net.nz> Hi guys Recently I was messing with filter regexes in openwebmail and managed to delete a whole lot of unread mail including a few posts from this list. Is there an archive avalible? I'm looking forward very much to the next pm meeting and having the chance to meet some of the the other perl people in Wellington. One thing I hope to ask people in person but will ask on list aswell is what are the employment opertunitys like for perl coders in Wellington and do you think there is the chance to move into perl coding from a *BSD & Linux ISP Sysadmin job where I do a fair amount of perl, mostly ip billing, cgi and isp admin type stuff, ie I am probably a beginner to intermediate perl coder. I realy enjoy perl coding as opposed to other aspects of my current job like dialup support, firewall setup etc. That said I am pretty happy in my current position and enjoy many of the non-perl related tasks like general unix admin, bind admin (yes I actualy like bind :) & apache. (cant say I much like INN admin tho :) Anyway I was just wondering if you guys think there are opertunitys out there for someone like me to move into perl coding? Thanks Don -- "Intellectual Property" : a tool that the dinosaurs use to make sure there are no mammals in the future. - Lawrence Lessig From Grantm at web.co.nz Sun Jan 26 18:22:56 2003 From: Grantm at web.co.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:24:17 2004 Subject: Archives? Message-ID: <5FA042F680739D44951B00FED8BE1A7D05DFC5@dasher.webdom1.web.co.nz> Don Jones wrote: > Recently I was messing with filter regexes in openwebmail and > managed to delete a whole lot of unread mail including a few > posts from this list. Is there an archive avalible? There's certainly not an official archive. Although if someone wanted to start one up, they probably wouldn't need to reserve much disk space :-) Grant