From grant at mclean.net.nz Sun May 1 21:14:41 2005 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Sun May 1 21:14:53 2005 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting next Monday Message-ID: <1115007281.18808.5.camel@localhost> Hi Mongers The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers will be at 6:00pm on Monday May 9th: http://wellington.pm.org/ Speakers: * Michael Robinson - DBI (the Perl database API) * Grant McLean - Introduction to Perl Objects See you there. Regards Grant From grant at mclean.net.nz Mon May 2 16:07:36 2005 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Mon May 2 16:07:54 2005 Subject: [Wellington-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, April 28] Message-ID: <1115075256.14036.4.camel@localhost> -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Marsee Henon > To: perlmongers@catalyst.net.nz > Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, April 28 > Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:43:44 -0700 > ================================================================ > O'Reilly News for User Group Members > April 28, 2005 > ================================================================ > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Book News > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > -Ant: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition > -Test Driving Linux: From Windows to Linux in 60 Seconds > -Data Crunching > -Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom > -Degunking Microsoft Office > -Photoshop Elements 3 for Windows One-on-One > -Spring: A Developer's Notebook > -Degunking Your Personal Finances > -Network Security Tools > -MAKE Subscriptions Available > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Upcoming Events > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > -BSDCan 2005, Ontario, Canada--May 12-14 > -David Sklar Classes at Big Nerd Ranch, Atlanta, GA--May 16-20 > -Colin Moock's ActionScript Boot Camp, Los Angeles, CA--May 16-17 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Conference News > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > -Where 2.0 Conference Registration Open, San Francisco, CA--June 29-30 > -EuroOSCON Call for Papers Now Open, > Amsterdam, The Netherlands--October 17-20 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > News > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > -O'Reilly Radar Blog Launched > -Mapping Hacks Safari Exclusive > -Wired, MAKE, And MacGyver > -Revitalizing the Pay-Per-Call System > -The State of the Dolphin at the MySQL Users Conference 2005 > -PHP 5 on Mac OS X > -Trust and Zeal in Open Source Advocacy > -Housecleaning Tips for Tiger > -Mac Mini Eye for the Linux-Windows Guy > -Protect Yourself from WiFi Snoops > -XML DataSource Controls in .NET 2.0 > -Five Favorite Features from 5.0 > -Adding Custom Buttons to Internet Explorer > -Make Your Own Music Software with Pure Data > -Johnny ???Juice?? 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If so how did it go? Cheers Grant From grant at mclean.net.nz Thu May 12 02:27:55 2005 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 21:27:55 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Talk Slides In-Reply-To: <1115864040.29131.31.camel@localhost> References: <1115864040.29131.31.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <1115890075.5641.7.camel@localhost> If anyone found my slides were blank in IE, it should be fixed now. I was missing a closing tag. Thanks Dan for pointing that out. Cheers Grant On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 14:14 +1200, Grant McLean wrote: > The slides from both of Monday night's talks are up on the web site in > the archive section: > > http://wellington.pm.org/archive/ > > Has anyone been moved to write their first Perl object class? If so how > did it go? > > Cheers > Grant > > _______________________________________________ > Wellington-pm mailing list > Wellington-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm From grant at mclean.net.nz Mon May 16 15:22:20 2005 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 10:22:20 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, May 13] Message-ID: <1116282140.27683.3.camel@localhost> -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Marsee Henon > To: perlmongers at catalyst.net.nz > Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, May 13 > Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 14:43:05 -0700 > ================================================================ > O'Reilly News for User Group Members > May 13, 2005 > ================================================================ > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Book News > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > -GDB Pocket Reference > -Deploying Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 > -Digital Audio Essentials > -802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition > -Don't Click on the Blue E! > -Visual Basic 2005: A Developer's Notebook > -The Art of Project Management > -Visual C# 2005: A Developer's Notebook > -iMovie HD and iDVD 5: The Missing Manual > -Access Hacks > -MAKE Subscriptions Available > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Upcoming Events > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > -Cary Millsap at the NoCOUG Spring Conference, Sunnyvale, CA--May 19 > -Mike Clark ("Pragmatic Project Automation") at Agile Denver, > Boulder, CO--May 23 > -O'Reilly Sponsors the Coalition Summit for IPv6, Reston, VA--May 23-26 > -Dan Gillmor ("We the Media"), WTC's Technology Breakfast Series, > Mountain View, CA--May 26 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Conference News > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > -Registration is Open for the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, > Portland, OR--August 1-5 > -Where 2.0 Conference Registration Open, San Francisco, CA--June 29-30 > -EuroOSCON Call for Papers Now Open, > Amsterdam, The Netherlands--October 17-20 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > News > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > -How to Build a Nonprofit for Your Community > -Addison-Wesley Professional on SafariU > -The Geospatial Web: A Call to Action > -Learning Lab: Certificate Series $200 Instant Rebate > -Tales of Rescuing Old Hardware > -(No Starch) Author describes keys to business-ready Linux clusters > -CVS Trouble > -The Soul of WWDC 2005 > -Build a Dashboard Widget > -Magnificent Seven: What's New for Users in QuickTime 7 > -O'Reilly books Recommended on AARP's article "Windows: > Better Safe (Mode) Than Sorry" > -Putting A Browser Into Your Windows Application > -Five Things I Love About Spring > -Configuring Database Access in Eclipse 3.0 with SQLExplorer > -Ed Carreon: Making the Connection > -Hands On: Create Insane Reason Grooves > -On the Go with the Motorola MPx220 Camera Phone > -Build an eCommerce Application with eZPublish > -Radical Interface Approaches > -Validate User Input in PHP 5 > -MAKE: Audio > -Call MAKE > -MAKE: Weather > > ================================================ > Book News > ================================================ > Did you know you can request a free book to review for your > group? 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It's > not a toll-free call, so keep that in mind. 206-888-6253 (MAKE) > > > ***MAKE: Weather > http://makezine.com/weatherlink/ > > More about our Weather Experiment > http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/04/davis_vantage_p.html > > ================================================ > >From Your Peers > =============================================== > ***Don't forget to check out the O'Reilly UG wiki to see what user > groups around the globe are up to: > http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/index.cgi > > Until next time-- > > Marsee Henon > > > ================================================================ > O'Reilly > 1005 Gravenstein Highway North > Sebastopol, CA 95472 > http://ug.oreilly.com/ http://www.oreilly.com > ================================================================ From grant at mclean.net.nz Mon May 16 15:40:54 2005 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 10:40:54 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Sorry for the offense In-Reply-To: <1116282140.27683.3.camel@localhost> References: <1116282140.27683.3.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <1116283254.27683.17.camel@localhost> I got this amusing bounce message ... ====================================================================== Return-Path: From: "InterScan MSS Notification" To: wellington-pm-bounces at pm.org, CLsupport at computerland.co.nz Subject: Unacceptable Language Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 10:24:18 +1200 Trend IMSS has detected that your message "[Wellington-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, May 13]" to "Wellington Perl Mongers " on (Tue May 17 10:24:18 2005) has been blocked because it contains unacceptable language. Please reconstruct your message omitting the offensive language. ====================================================================== Can anyone identify the 'offensive' bit? I even tried Regexp::Common::profanity_us from CPAN, to no avail. Cheers Grant From pete at marchingcubes.com Mon May 16 15:45:14 2005 From: pete at marchingcubes.com (Pete Black) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 10:45:14 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Sorry for the offense In-Reply-To: <1116283254.27683.17.camel@localhost> References: <1116282140.27683.3.camel@localhost> <1116283254.27683.17.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <4289227A.6030603@marchingcubes.com> Clearly, it is the phrase 'Visual Basic'.... >I got this amusing bounce message ... > >====================================================================== > >Return-Path: >From: "InterScan MSS Notification" >To: wellington-pm-bounces at pm.org, CLsupport at computerland.co.nz >Subject: Unacceptable Language >Mime-version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 10:24:18 +1200 > >Trend IMSS has detected that your message "[Wellington-pm] [Fwd: >Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, May 13]" to "Wellington Perl >Mongers " on (Tue May 17 10:24:18 2005) has >been blocked because it contains unacceptable language. Please >reconstruct your message omitting the offensive language. > >====================================================================== > >Can anyone identify the 'offensive' bit? I even tried >Regexp::Common::profanity_us from CPAN, to no avail. > >Cheers >Grant > >_______________________________________________ >Wellington-pm mailing list >Wellington-pm at pm.org >http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm > > From ewen at naos.co.nz Mon May 16 15:57:44 2005 From: ewen at naos.co.nz (Ewen McNeill) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 10:57:44 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Sorry for the offense In-Reply-To: Message from Grant McLean of "Tue, 17 May 2005 10:40:54 +1200." <1116283254.27683.17.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <20050516225744.CD5403C00213@basilica.la.naos.co.nz> In message <1116283254.27683.17.camel at localhost>, Grant McLean writes: >Return-Path: >From: "InterScan MSS Notification" >To: wellington-pm-bounces at pm.org, CLsupport at computerland.co.nz >Subject: Unacceptable Language I don't obviously see anything in the message which is "Offensive" by common standards[0], but these days a lot of people use "spam" filtering as a way of rejecting any messages that they don't want irrespective of their merits (or whether they "opted in"). My usual approach to such generic "we didn't like your message" reports, with no way to identify what the issue is, is simply identify who the affected email address(es) are and remove them from the mailing list on the basis that they either don't want the messages on the on the mailing list, or are stuck with a mail server that doesn't want them to be on the mailing list. They can always subscribe from another address with more sensible policies. Otherwise one can spend one's entire life trying to guess what else people will object to next. Ewen [0] And you're not going to trick me into reading all the advertising material that easily :-) From douglas at paradise.net.nz Wed May 18 04:09:04 2005 From: douglas at paradise.net.nz (Douglas Bagnall) Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 23:09:04 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] job ad - katipo communications Message-ID: <428B2250.6070502@paradise.net.nz> hello, It seems Katipo Communications are currently looking for a perl programmer: http://katipo.co.nz/about-us/news/nr1116205320.shtml I doubt this one will get as far as seek.co.nz. douglas ---------------------------------------------------------------- Programmer Vacancy 16 May 2005 We have a rare opportunity for a programmer to join the Katipo team. Just the facts.... * Live in Wellington (NZ) * Work full time from home (sometimes on client sites) * Be an excellent programmer with a good theoretical background - Comp Sci Degree preferred * Have Perl and PhP skills (or be a fast learner) * Have excellent communication skills, in person, on the phone, via e-mail and on IRC * Work on our software; Koha Library System, Kea content management & Konae timesheet systems * Write bespoke software for our clients * Be enthusiastic about Open Source * Be resilient and friendly * Don't be shy about asking questions, and giving opinions We use Linux, Apache, MySQL, Python & Tangram, anything else you know will be a welcome bonus. Send me your CV by the 27th of May if you'd like to be considered for the position. Because working from home is not for everyone, please include some information on why you think it will work for you. rachel at katipo.co.nz +64-4-934 1285 From andrew at catalyst.net.nz Wed May 18 22:34:34 2005 From: andrew at catalyst.net.nz (Andrew McMillan) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 17:34:34 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] job ad - katipo communications In-Reply-To: <428B2250.6070502@paradise.net.nz> References: <428B2250.6070502@paradise.net.nz> Message-ID: <1116480874.30310.287.camel@lamb.mcmillan.net.nz> s/Katipo/Catalyst/ s/MySQL/PostgreSQL/ ... and a few others ... :-) Andrew. On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 23:09 +1200, Douglas Bagnall wrote: > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Programmer Vacancy > > 16 May 2005 > > We have a rare opportunity for a programmer to join the Katipo team. > > Just the facts.... > > * Live in Wellington (NZ) > * Work full time from home (sometimes on client sites) > * Be an excellent programmer with a good theoretical background - > Comp Sci Degree preferred > * Have Perl and PhP skills (or be a fast learner) > * Have excellent communication skills, in person, on the phone, via > e-mail and on IRC > * Work on our software; Koha Library System, Kea content management > & Konae timesheet systems > * Write bespoke software for our clients > * Be enthusiastic about Open Source > * Be resilient and friendly > * Don't be shy about asking questions, and giving opinions > > We use Linux, Apache, MySQL, Python & Tangram, anything else you know > will be a welcome bonus. > > Send me your CV by the 27th of May if you'd like to be considered for > the position. Because working from home is not for everyone, please > include some information on why you think it will work for you. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/ PHYS: Level 2, 150-154 Willis St DDI: +64(4)803-2201 MOB: +64(272)DEBIAN OFFICE: +64(4)499-2267 Powering the .NZ namespace with Open Source Software ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/wellington-pm/attachments/20050519/e8204cbf/attachment.bin