From grant at mclean.net.nz  Mon Jun  2 19:17:58 2008
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:17:58 +1200
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting Next Tuesday (June 10th)
Message-ID: <1212459479.26321.12.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>

Hi Mongers

The June meeting of Wellington.pm is next Tuesday (the 10th).  

  6:00pm Tuesday 10 June 2008
  Level 4, The building formerly known as Eagle Technology House
  150 Willis Street
  Wellington
  http://wellington.pm.org/

We have three talks lined up this month:

  * Grant McLean - Managing web content with Drupal and Perl
  * Martyn Smith - Things I wish my Mother had told me about DBI
  * Andy Chilton - cil - a first look at distributed bug tracking

Now I know there are a bunch of people out there who are bitterly
disappointed they've missed out on a speaking slot through leaving
things to the last minute.  Normally, I'd say "don't worry - you can do
your talk next month" but not this time.  I have other plans for the
July meeting so you now have two months to polish your talk for the
August meeting.

To find out the nature of my evil plans for July, you'll need to come to
the June meeting.

See you next week.

Cheers
Grant


From dave at thinktank.co.nz  Wed Jun  4 19:39:40 2008
From: dave at thinktank.co.nz (Dave Moskovitz)
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 14:39:40 +1200
Subject: [Wellington-pm] For Sale: Nokia N800
Message-ID: <200806051439.41038.dave@thinktank.co.nz>

I hope you-all won't take to unkindly to what's essentially a UCE ... but I 
thought that there might be a number of you who would jump at the chance to 
be the proud owner of a Nokia N800 tablet - runs Perl great!

See my auction at: 
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=158963435

And once again, please accept my apologies if you feel that this use of pm.org 
is not appropriate.

Thanks
Dave

-- 
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Director, Thinktank Consulting Limited
dave at thinktank.co.nz / Tel +64 27 220 2202

From grant at mclean.net.nz  Mon Jun  9 13:31:41 2008
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:31:41 +1200
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting This Evening
Message-ID: <1213043501.21923.3.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>

Hi Mongers

The June meeting of Wellington.pm is tonight:

  6:00pm Tuesday 10 June 2008
  Level 4, The building formerly known as Eagle Technology House
  150 Willis Street
  Wellington
  http://wellington.pm.org/

We have three talks lined up this month:

  * Grant McLean - Managing web content with Drupal and Perl
  * Martyn Smith - Things I wish my Mother had told me about DBI
  * Andy Chilton - cil - a first look at distributed bug tracking

Now I know there are a bunch of people out there who are bitterly
disappointed they've missed out on a speaking slot through leaving
things to the last minute.  Normally, I'd say "don't worry - you can do
your talk next month" but not this time.  I have other plans for the
July meeting so you now have two months to polish your talk for the
August meeting.

To find out the nature of my evil plans for July, you'll need to come to
the June meeting.

See you next week.

Cheers
Grant


From andychilton at gmail.com  Mon Jun  9 17:15:29 2008
From: andychilton at gmail.com (Andrew Chilton)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:15:29 +1200
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting This Evening
In-Reply-To: <1213043501.21923.3.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
References: <1213043501.21923.3.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
Message-ID: <a364f6fa0806091715h164a953eub0c02345458fe2e9@mail.gmail.com>

Heh, just to clarify:

2008/6/10 Grant McLean <grant at mclean.net.nz>:
> The June meeting of Wellington.pm is tonight:

Sounds good.

> See you next week.

Nope. See above. Unless you're planning something evil next week too :-p

Cheers,
Andy

-- 
contact: Andrew Chilton
website: http://kapiti.geek.nz/

From grant at mclean.net.nz  Tue Jun 10 14:25:56 2008
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:25:56 +1200
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Roundup of last night's meeting
Message-ID: <1213133156.21430.7.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>

Hi Mongers

It was a good turnout last night.  Thanks to our speakers and also to
the people with the questions/suggestions/heckles.

The speakers' slides are up on the web site:

  http://wellington.pm.org/archive/index.html

The plan for next month's HackOff meeting is coming together here
(including the initial problem):

  http://wellington.pm.org/hackoff.html

Once I get the registration form up I'll issue a more comprehensive
announcement and I'd encourage people to forward it to friends and
colleagues in Java/Python/Ruby/Lisp/COBOL/etc communities.

Cheers
Grant


From grant at mclean.net.nz  Mon Jun 16 21:09:02 2008
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:09:02 +1200
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Stuff-up on the planning front
Message-ID: <1213675742.806.22.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>

Hi Mongers

I've gone and double-booked myself again.  Having announced that the
Wellington.pm 'HackOff' will be on July the 8th, I now realise that on
that date I will be down in South Canterbury helping my Mother celebrate
her birthday.

There would seem to be two ways to deal with this ...

1. Delay the HackOff by one week and hold it on July 15th.

2. Delay it by a month and hold it on August 12th

The disadvantage of option 1 is potential for conflict with other groups
normally meeting on the third Tuesday of the month.  It may be an issue
for some people that this is same week (albeit the night after) the
WellyLUG meeting.

The disadvantage of option 2 is that unless someone else steps up to
organise a July meeting then we'll miss a month.

What do people think?

Cheers
Grant



From grant at mclean.net.nz  Tue Jun 17 00:47:45 2008
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:47:45 +1200
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Stuff-up on the planning front
In-Reply-To: <1213675742.806.22.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
References: <1213675742.806.22.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>
Message-ID: <1213688865.5483.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 16:09 +1200, Grant McLean wrote:
> Hi Mongers
> 
> I've gone and double-booked myself again.  Having announced that the
> Wellington.pm 'HackOff' will be on July the 8th, I now realise that on
> that date I will be down in South Canterbury helping my Mother celebrate
> her birthday.
> 
> There would seem to be two ways to deal with this ...
> 
> 1. Delay the HackOff by one week and hold it on July 15th.
> 
> 2. Delay it by a month and hold it on August 12th

The feedback I've been getting off-list suggests that option 1 (July
15th) is the preferred option, so speak up now if that doesn't suit.

Note both the original date and the option 1 date are in the school
holidays if that affects your planning at all.

Cheers
Grant


From jarich at perltraining.com.au  Sat Jun 21 21:36:29 2008
From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (jarich at perltraining.com.au)
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:36:29 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [Wellington-pm] SAGE-AU 2008 Early bird registrations now open
Message-ID: <20080622043629.D0505A811F@teddybear.perltraining.com.au>

Dear Wellington PM members,

[Please forward this invitation to anyone you feel would be interested]

Registration for the sixteenth annual Australian System
Administrators' conference (SAGE-AU 2008) are now open.  Book before
Friday July 4th to receive a 15% discount.

	http://www.sage-au.org.au/display/conf/Registration

Key information:

	 4th July:		Early Bird Date
	11th - 13th August:	Training Program
	14th - 15th August:	Technical Program

	Holiday Inn Adelaide
	65 Hindley Street
	Adelaide
	South Australia

SAGE-AU is the System Administration industry body in Australia.  It
exists to support all Australian system administrators, raise
awareness of the profession and provide education in technical and
professional issues.  Our yearly conference provides a forum for
System Administrators of all platforms and levels of experience to
gather together and share their experiences.  Further it provides an
excellent opportunity to meet and network with acknowledged experts in
the field.

We have 10 training sessions for our three day training program in
addition to 26 great sessions for our technical program.  This year
focusses on a mix of management and security topics with an emphasis
on sharing techniques and ideas rather than selling products.

This year's conference will be broken up into two streams of
concurrent talks, giving you more choice in the topics you want to
see.  To see our program visit:

	http://www.sage-au.org.au/display/conf/Technical+Program

You can help make this conference be the best system administrators'
conference ever, just by turning up and participating.  We look
forward to sharing this great conference with you.

Many thanks go to our Platinum Sponsors: Internode and Tas, our Gold
Sponsor: Ironport our Silver Sponsor: RedHat and our terminal room
sponsors: Apple and Sun.

	Jacinta Richardson
	SAGE-AU Program Coordinator

From andychilton at gmail.com  Sat Jun 21 23:04:52 2008
From: andychilton at gmail.com (Andrew Chilton)
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:04:52 +1200
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Update to my last talk - cil v0.2 released
Message-ID: <a364f6fa0806212304g74a70be4ne32f2854c8369ee1@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Everyone,

The talk I did earlier this month on "A First Look at Distributed Bug
Tracking" made me think that my first look should turn into a second.
With lots of suggestions coming and a number of things that were
already on my list, I've just release cil v0.2 which fixes and
improves the initial look. Here are two links to the blog entry and
the cil page itself:

* http://kapiti.geek.nz/random/cil-v0-2-0-released.html
* http://kapiti.geek.nz/software/cil.html

I hope it'll be useful for your own projects and I'd love any
feedback, ideas or patches :-)

Cheers,
Andy

-- 
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website: http://kapiti.geek.nz/

From jarich at perltraining.com.au  Sun Jun 22 17:31:18 2008
From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson)
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:31:18 +1000
Subject: [Wellington-pm] OSDC 2008 CFP closes on Monday, 30 June 2008
Message-ID: <485EEED6.8050100@perltraining.com.au>

I know it's a pretty big hop across the sea, but we'd be delighted have you join
us at OSDC this year.  We had some great talks from Wellington PM in the past
and we look forward to having more again in the future!  Tell you friends and
workmates about the CFP, lets see how many Perl talks we can submit!

There is less than two weeks to get your paper proposal in for the opportunity
to speak and attend Australia's Open Source Developers' Conference!

         The deadline for proposals is 30th June 2008.

The Open Source Developers' Conference is an Australian conference designed for
developers, by developers.

Papers on Open Source languages, technologies, projects, tools and well as
topics of interest to Open Source developers are being solicited for submission
to OSDC 2008. So if you are an Open Source maintainer, developer or user, the
organising committee would encourage you to submit a talk proposal on the open
source tools, solutions, languages or technologies you are working with.

The conference will be held at SMC Conference venue in the Sydney CBD, New South
Wales, from the 2nd to the 5th of December, 2008.  We have had some great
proposals submitted already, but this is your chance to give the open source
thing you are passionate about more exposure.

Being a speaker at OSDC 2008, has it's privileges. As well as having your paper
published in the conference proceedings, you will get a free admission to the 3
days of the main conference and the conference dinner.

If you have any questions, or have never submitted a paper proposal before,
please read our FAQ page at http://www.osdc.com.au/2008/faq/  If you don't find
an answer there, please contact program <at> osdc.com.au

To submit a proposal, follow the instructions at
http://www.osdc.com.au/2008/papers/cfp.html


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From grant at mclean.net.nz  Mon Jun 23 03:30:18 2008
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:30:18 +1200
Subject: [Wellington-pm] HackOff 2008 - July 15th
Message-ID: <1214217019.25525.59.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Hi Mongers

Ok the date is finalised, the program is coming together and now all we
need are hordes of happy hackers to register their teams.

To reiterate the plan in a form you can forward to workmates, mailing
lists etc ...


HackOff 2008 is a fun evening for teams of hackers to compete at solving
programming problems for fun.

Remember when coding was fun?  Before you got bogged down with UML
diagrams, architecture planning meetings, spec documents, units tests
and user documentation?  For one evening, we'll take you back to how
coding was meant to be - see a problem, solve it, move on.  The first
team to solve all the problems will be declared the winners and will
receive the adulation of their peers.

The evening will be hosted by Wellington Perl Mongers and Catalyst IT.
It's not just a 'Perl thing' - we're keen for the Python, Ruby, PHP,
Java, .Net and other communities to come and demonstrate the superiority
of their tools.

There are more details on the web site here:

  http://wellington.pm.org/hackoff/

You can download a flyer for your noticeboard from here:

  http://wellington.pm.org/hackoff/hackoff-flyer.pdf

We are asking teams to register so we can plan seating, power,
networking etc.  It will be a case of first-in for available places, so
be quick to ensure you don't miss out!

Cheers
Grant McLean
Coordinator - Wellington.pm



From grant at mclean.net.nz  Thu Jun 26 15:24:09 2008
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:24:09 +1200
Subject: [Wellington-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, June 26]
Message-ID: <1214519049.11278.6.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz>

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> developers and managers to see the jewels of open source on display.
> <http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/>
> 
> 
> ***Colin Moock's ActionScript 3.0: From The Ground Up Tour
> Jul 23, 2008
> Atahotel Executive, Milan, Italy
> Join internationally renowned ActionScript expert Colin Moock (Essential
> ActionScript 3.0) for an intensive full day of free ActionScript 3.0
> training. Don't miss this rare opportunity to learn how to program from
> one of the world's top ActionScript instructors. Open yourself to a
> world of new possibilities through Moock's unique methodology for
> demystifying intimidating concepts and code.
> <http://adobeas3tour.com/>
> 
> 
> ***Dux Raymond Sy Presents a One-Day Seminar on SharePoint
> Jul 24, 2008
> Hyatt Regency Hotel, Reston, VA
> During this one-day seminar, SharePoint expert Dux Raymond Sy
> (SharePoint for Project Management) will detail the benefits SharePoint
> can deliver to your organization through a combination of lecture,
> presentations and demonstrations. 
> <https://www2.learningtree.com/promos/sem080724.aspx>
> 
> 
> ***Harold Davis at Book Passage
> Jul 27, 2008
> 1 Ferry Building, #42, San Francisco, CA
> Author Harold Davis (Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital
> Photographers) presents images of the Golden Gate, reads from his book,
> answers questions, and signs copies of the book.
> <http://www.bookpassage.com/event_detailed.php?id=1780>
> 
> 
> ***Harold Davis Hosts a Photography Night at the East Bay Mac Users Group
> Aug 14, 2008
> Author Harold Davis (Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital
> Photographers) presents From Photography to Photoshop. He will use his
> Ringing Cedars covers as a case study for a new digital art form at the
> Expression College for Digital Arts in Emeryville. 
> <http://ebmug.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=221&Itemid=35>
> 
> 
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> ***OSCON 2008 registration is Now Open, Portland, OR--July 21-25 
> Join over 2,500 open source developers, hackers, experts, IT managers,
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> focusing on Administration, Business, Databases, Emerging Topics, Java,
> Linux, Mobile, People, Perl, PHP, Programming, Python, Ruby, Security,
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> ***Derrick Story and Lesa Snider King to Speak at Mac Computer Expo this
> year in Santa Rosa, CA on September 27
> For more information check out their blog.
> <http://www.maccomputerexpo.com>
> 
> 
> ***The e-Book Test: Do Electronic Versions Deter Piracy?
> Read David Pogue's latest take on e-books. (Free login required.)
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/technology/personaltech/19pogue-email.html?_r=1&oref=slogin>
> 
> 
> ***Facebook No Longer The Second Largest Social Network
> From TechCrunch "It was sort of inevitable given Facebook?s monster
> growth over the last few years, but April 2008 was the milestone:
> Facebook officially caught up to MySpace in terms of unique monthly
> worldwide visitors, according to data released by Comscore."
> <http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/12/facebook-no-longer-the-second-largest-social-network/>
> 
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> ***Expo Hall pass for PDN PhotoPlus 2008, New York, NY--October 23-25
> Registration is open for the PDN PhotoPlus 2008 Register with Promo
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> <http://www.photoplusexpo.com/ppe/registration/index.jsp#attendee>
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> ***FOSSCoach, July 23-25 in Portland, OR
> FOSSCoach is a series of events designed to teach the essential skills
> required to participate in collaborative, free and open online projects
> like Firefox and Wikipedia.  Visit <http://fosscoach.wikia.com> or 
> to register go to
> <http://fosscoach.wikia.com/wiki/OSCON08:How_To_Register>
> 
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> ***A Gallery of Illustrations from Your Brain: The Missing Manual
> View images from Your Brain: The Missing Manual. You can read more about
> the images by clicking on them to see excerpts from the book.
> <http://missingmanuals.com/gallery_your_brain.csp>
> 
> 
> ***Top 10 Reasons to Switch from Microsoft Office to Google Apps
> Author Nancy Conner offers 10 reasons why you should consider making the
> leap from Microsoft Office to Google Apps.
> <http://missingmanuals.com/google_apps/why_switch.csp>
> 
> 
> ***Gordon Mohr Takes Us Inside the Internet Archives
> Gordon Mohr is the Chief Technologist for Web Projects at the Internet
> Archive. In this interview, he gives us a peek behind the scenes at
> what's involved in recording the continually updating web, as well as
> the legal implications and how Web 2.0 is making their job both easier
> and harder. 
> <http://news.oreilly.com/2008/06/gordon-mohr-takes-us-inside-th.html>
> 
> 
> ***Steve Jobs on the Future of the iPhone
> Apple CEO Steve Jobs stood in front of a sold out crowd at Apple's WWDC
> and told them that Apple is about to release phones that are better than
> the ones in their pocket and will cost half of what theirs cost. The
> developers responded with sustained enthusiastic applause. That reaction
> makes perfect sense. Jobs' keynote wasn't about products -- it was about
> a promising future, especially for developers in the audience...
> <http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/06/steve-jobs-on-the-future-of-th.html>
> 
> 
> ****Getting Started with the Google App Engine
> Continuing the trend started with Amazon's Elastic Cloud (EC2), Google
> plans to make their vast resources available to developers who wish to
> deploy massively scalable applications on the Google Infrastructure. In
> this tutorial, you'll get a look into the APIs and database capabilities
> that Google is providing, and how to leverage them in a sample
> application.
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onlamp/2008/05/20/getting-started-with-the-google-apps-engine.html>
> 
> 
> ***Building the Green Data Center
> Bill Coleman, founder and CEO of the Cassatt Corporation, and one of the
> founders of BEA, has made it his mission to make data centers more
> energy-efficient. We caught up with him right before the O'Reilly
> Velocity conference where he is scheduled to speak to get some pointers
> on making data centers planet-friendly.
> <http://news.oreilly.com/2008/06/building-the-green-data-center.html>
> 
> 
> For more news, go to:
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> 
> ---------------------
> Blogs
> -------------------
> ***Author Bob Thompson bypasses the DEA and shows Phil Torrone how to
> make Iodine
> <http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/06/weekend_project_home_chem.html>
> 
> ***Make a Presentation Like Al Gore
> <http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Make_a_Presentation_Like_Al_Gore>
> 
> ***Head First Physics coming soon--here's a taste of Chapter 4
> <http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfphy/>
> 
> ****Dojo Goodness, Part 9 (gfx foo with fx)
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/06/dojo_goodness_part_9_gfx_foo.html>
> 
> ****NASA's Mars24 Sunclock (Keeping Track of Phoenix)
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/nasas_mars24_sunclock_keeping.html>
> 
> ***Freelance coder Gregory Brown gives you the latest on Prawn, a PDF
> writing library for Ruby.
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/06/ruby_mendicant_proterozoic_pra.html>
> 
> ***code_swarm: Animated Visualization of the Development of some High
> Profile Open Source Projects
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/06/code_swarm_animated_visualizat.html>
> 
> ****Catching up, Fighting distractions, Polyglotting
> <http://softwarecraftsmanship.oreilly.com/news/2008/5/21/catching-up-fighting-distractions-polyglotting>
> 
> ****Head First Ajax Sneak Preview
> <http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfajax/>
> 
> ****How Hackerteen Helps... By a White-Hat Hacker
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/2008/05/how_hackerteen_helps_by_a_whit.html>
> 
> ****Cooking with Flex
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/2008/05/cooking_with_flex.html>
> 
> ****Are you up-to-date?
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/2008/05/are_you_uptodate.html>
> 
> ***What Should iPhone Applications Cost?
> <http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/06/what-should-iphone-application.html>
> 
> ***Thinking in Wikis
> <http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/06/thinking-in-wikis.html>
> 
> 
> For more blogs, go to:
> <http://news.oreilly.com/>
> 
> Until next time--
> 
> Marsee Henon
> 
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