From sam at vilain.net Sun Sep 4 15:44:04 2005 From: sam at vilain.net (Sam Vilain) Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 10:44:04 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting Next Month In-Reply-To: <1125001267.9598.118.camel@lamb.mcmillan.net.nz> References: <1124271220.4285.21.camel@localhost> <1124784564.4983.4.camel@localhost> <1124876370.5526.16.camel@localhost> <1125001267.9598.118.camel@lamb.mcmillan.net.nz> Message-ID: <1125873844.4110.67.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 08:21 +1200, Andrew McMillan wrote: > If you're going to cover these then you should probably give some time > to Git as well. It looks likely to me that Catalyst will be choosing > Git for projects that suit distributed revision control for the future. > Now that we have a reliable CVS -> Git conversion it is possible that we > may switch entirely to Git. Great. Because I can mirror and commit to Git repositories with SVK! :) Well, in theory, anyway. I still haven't tried that. Of course CVS to Subversion migration is turn-key, but doesn't do the funky merge detection stuff that Martin's migration script does. If the Jury's out on SVK vs Git, they might well come back with a verdict of complete ambivalence. Maybe we should just scrap the TBA section on arch and get Martin to talk about Git instead? Sam. From sam at vilain.net Sun Sep 4 15:48:22 2005 From: sam at vilain.net (Sam Vilain) Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 10:48:22 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Linux.Conf.au 2006 submissions In-Reply-To: <1124922758.11639.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1124922758.11639.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <1125874102.4110.74.camel@localhost.localdomain> Just a reminder, the talk submission deadline is today. So far, interest has not been sufficient to warrant a separate Perl mini-conf (judging by mailing list traffic, anyway), but of course Perl talks are welcome at the main conference. Sam. On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 10:32 +1200, Sam Vilain wrote: > Nick Phillips points out that LinuxConf.au 2006, being held at Otago > University in Dunedin, NZ is also co-ordinating miniconfs; > > http://lca2006.linux.org.au/miniconfs.php > > The main conference runs from Wednesday 25th January to Saturday 28th > January 2006. Mini-confs would run on the Monday and Tuesday (23rd & > 24th). > > If there is enough interest, then there would be a strong argument for a > Perl mini-conference. > > So, if you would be interested in attending Perl talks at LinuxConf > Australia 2006, please say so now! Please do not cross-post replies to > all the .au & .nz Perlmongers lists; reply to your own group's list > only, thanks :). > > Potential speakers have until Monday 5th September to submit talk > descriptions; we've got 2 days of talks to make up, and we don't JUST > want to hear Damian ;-). > > Sam. From grant at mclean.net.nz Thu Sep 8 17:44:29 2005 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 12:44:29 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Things I Don't Use in Perl Message-ID: <1126226669.18943.6.camel@localhost> There's an interesting thread on Perl Monks about features of Perl that people don't use. Here, brian d foy contributes his list which includes "anything Damian writes": http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=486718 To which Damian helpfully responds by posting a list of all his modules categorised by the reason you shouldn't use them :-) Actually to be fair, there are a few in 'you *should* use this because ...' categories. Two things surprised me about the list: 1. the length 2. some of the "don't use this" recommendations Cheers Grant From basschulte at gmail.com Thu Sep 8 18:01:57 2005 From: basschulte at gmail.com (Bas A. Schulte) Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 13:01:57 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Things I Don't Use in Perl In-Reply-To: <1126226669.18943.6.camel@localhost> References: <1126226669.18943.6.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <79B5C6F2-3A64-4B51-A8E8-66DD6C983BD1@gmail.com> On 9-sep-2005, at 12:44, Grant McLean wrote: > There's an interesting thread on Perl Monks about features of Perl > that > people don't use. Here, brian d foy contributes his list which > includes > "anything Damian writes": > > http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=486718 > > To which Damian helpfully responds by posting a list of all his > modules > categorised by the reason you shouldn't use them :-) > I'm not sure what to think of a Perl6::* namespace in perl5 code: package Some::Module; use Perl6::Export::Attrs; sub foo :Export(:DEFAULT) { print "phooo!"; } 1; From grant at mclean.net.nz Thu Sep 8 18:42:24 2005 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 13:42:24 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Things I Don't Use in Perl In-Reply-To: <79B5C6F2-3A64-4B51-A8E8-66DD6C983BD1@gmail.com> References: <1126226669.18943.6.camel@localhost> <79B5C6F2-3A64-4B51-A8E8-66DD6C983BD1@gmail.com> Message-ID: <1126230144.18943.23.camel@localhost> On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 13:01 +1200, Bas A.Schulte wrote: > I'm not sure what to think of a Perl6::* namespace in perl5 code: To quote Damian: "their purpose is to explore and prototype future core language features" Or to put it another way ... someone suggests feature X for Perl 6. A proof-of-concept implementation might then be written using Perl 5 and then people can try it and see if it's really useful. Cheers Grant From grant at mclean.net.nz Sun Sep 11 15:51:44 2005 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:51:44 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Reminder: Meeting tonight Message-ID: <1126479104.24029.24.camel@localhost> Hi Mongers Just a reminder that the September meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is tonight from 6:00pm: http://wellington.pm.org/ Peter Kelly will be giving an introduction to CVS as a precursor to next months revision control extravaganza. After Peter's talk, I will be reporting on my trip to the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland last month. See you there Grant From grant at mclean.net.nz Mon Sep 12 02:14:21 2005 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:14:21 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting roundup Message-ID: <1126516461.24029.50.camel@localhost> Hi Mongers Nice to see some new faces in the crowd tonight. The slides from this evening's presentations are up on the web site now as is the list of speakers scheduled for next month: http://wellington.pm.org/ There will be a meeting in November. If you want to secure yourself a free T shirt, then volunteer now to do a talk then. Cheers Grant From grant at mclean.net.nz Mon Sep 12 14:15:42 2005 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:15:42 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting roundup In-Reply-To: <1126516461.24029.50.camel@localhost> References: <1126516461.24029.50.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <1126559742.23660.1.camel@localhost> Apparently some people found my message confusing. Yes there will be a meeting in October. The one after that will be in November. We have speakers lined up for the October meeting. We need speakers to volunteer for the November meeting. Cheers Grant On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:14 +1200, Grant McLean wrote: > Hi Mongers > > Nice to see some new faces in the crowd tonight. The slides from this > evening's presentations are up on the web site now as is the list of > speakers scheduled for next month: > > http://wellington.pm.org/ > > There will be a meeting in November. If you want to secure yourself a > free T shirt, then volunteer now to do a talk then. > > 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 Thu Sep 15 15:29:52 2005 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:29:52 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, September 14] Message-ID: <1126823392.30368.18.camel@localhost> Marsee's newsletter is attached below. Also, if you're interested in joining the O'Reilly Connection (http://connection.oreilly.com/) a tech-centric jobs and networking site for developers and those who want to hire them - send me an email. 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Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to do it in a few > easy steps. > http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/09/06/using-your- > webcam-for-surveillance.html > > --------------------- > Java > --------------------- > ***Announcing the 2005 ONJava Reader Survey > The 2005 ONJava Reader Survey is underway. This is your opportunity to > steer the site by helping us understand what you use, what you're > interested in, and where you think Java is going. > http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/09/07/2005-onjava-survey- > advancer.html > > > ***Building J2EE Projects with Maven > Vincent Massol offers some real-life experience building J2EE > applications with Maven. Using the example of a Petstore app, Massol > shows you how to generate J2EE artifacts (EJB JARs, WARs, EARs) with > Maven. He is coauthor of "Maven: A Developer's Notebook." > http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/09/07/maven.html > > --------------------- > Digital Media > --------------------- > ***Hosting Your Podcasts > Once you've created an MP3 of your podcast, where do you store it? And > since podcast files are much larger than HTML files or JPEG images, what > about bandwidth? Jack Herrington offers several solutions to the podcast > hosting problem, from using a dedicated service to reusing your blog or > using your own ISP. Jack is the author of "Podcasting Hacks." > http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/09/07/hosting-podcasts.html > > > ***Top Ten Digital Photography Tips > You have a digital camera and have taken the typical shots of family and > friends. Now what? Here are ten tips to make your next batch of digital > images so impressive that people will ask: "Hey, what type of camera do > you have?" Guess what? It's not the camera. > http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/22/digi_photo_tips.html > > --------------------- > MAKE > --------------------- > ***Inside Katrina > MAKE author Dave Prochnow sent us an exclusive writeup of his > experiences "inside the eye" of Hurricane Katrina, being off the grid > for 11 days, and using his maker skills to get through the trauma. > http://www.makezine.com/extras/25.html > > MAKE Show Archive: > http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/make_podcast/ > > > ***For more information on MAKE, go to: > http://www.makezine.com/ > > > ================================================ > >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 Sep 19 14:01:06 2005 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:01:06 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] [Fwd: YAPC::Israel::2006 - Call for papers and participation] Message-ID: <1127163666.32532.1.camel@localhost> -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: G?bor Szab? > Reply-To: szabgab at gmail.com > To: pm_groups at pm.org > Subject: [pm_groups] YAPC::Israel::2006 - Call for papers and > participation > Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:36:55 +0300 > > After three Perl conferences in Israel ( http://www.perl.org.il/YAPC/ ) > it seems it is time to enlarge the conference and include other, related > Open Source technologies as well. > > In February 2006, we are going to have a 3 day long conference in 3 parallel > tracks covering various Open Source fields. > > Keynote Speaker > ----------------- > Larry Wall, inventor of Perl > > Special Guest > -------------- > Autrijus Tang, Chief Pugs Hacker > > For further details please read the full > Call for Papers and Participation on > > http://www.perl.org.il/YAPC/2006/cfp.txt > > YAPC::Israel::2006 conference web site > > http://www.perl.org.il/YAPC/2006/ > > Gabor Szabo