From brian.d.foy at gmail.com Mon Jan 5 22:40:41 2009 From: brian.d.foy at gmail.com (brian d foy) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 00:40:41 -0600 Subject: [WindyCity-pm] Fwd: Frozen Perl 2009 conference Message-ID: <2715accf0901052240o333b8220ub80c4308f82a0e6d@mail.gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Seth Viebrock Date: Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:43 PM Subject: Perl Monger Admins: Please forward to list if you haven't received any advertisement for the Frozen Perl 2009 conference. Thank you! To: Frozen Perl is a three day event held at the University of Minnesota's McNamara Alumni Center in Minneapolis, MN. The main event is a one-day, two-track workshop on Saturday, February 7. There will also be a Perl class taught by brian d foy of Stonehenge Consulting on Friday, February 6, and a hackathon on Sunday, February 8. This class is being offered at a very low rate of $100 per person, and there are 4 student seats available at $25 each. The early bird price for the conference is $20 at the student/low-income rate, and $40 for everyone else. These prices will double on January 12, 2009. We also have an individual sponsorship rate of $120 if you'd like to give a little extra to support the workshop. You can register for the conference at http://www.frozen-perl.org/ Thank you for your time and support! The Frozen Perl 2009 Organizers -- brian d foy http://www.pair.com/~comdog/ From joshua.mcadams at gmail.com Mon Jan 12 11:40:44 2009 From: joshua.mcadams at gmail.com (Joshua McAdams) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:40:44 +0000 Subject: [WindyCity-pm] January 2009 Chicago.pm Meeting Message-ID: <000e0cd47c326169a404604e485d@google.com> If you have trouble viewing or submitting this form, you can fill it out online: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pOCmTCN6VWDa6dHIE4W9HEQ January 2009 Chicago.pm Meeting On January 27th we'll kick off the new year of Chicago.pm with a meeting with not one, but two featured talks! Jeremy Wall will be talking about development with CouchDB. He'll be highlighting the differences between CouchDB and a traditional RDBMS. During his talk you will see how to set up a CouchDB schema and write views to retrieve data from the CouchDB Schema. He'll also share some of his experience and point out some of the gotcha's you might encounter when writing views. And of course, the Perl tie-in... Jeremy will show off his CPAN Module for CouchDB. For those who don't know, CouchDB, or more formally, Apache CouchDB, is a free and open source document-oriented database written in the Erlang programming language. It is designed for extreme scalability and is easily deployed to multi-core or multi-server clusters. We'll also hear from Andrew Dougherty, who will give us an update of his FRDCSA project. FRDCSA is an advanced Artificial Intelligence created by automatically scouring the web for advanced AI systems, retrieving and packaging them for various operating systems, and finally building upon these packages. Incidentally, many systems not considered to be AI are also necessary as part of the operating system infrastructure. There you have it... databases written in functional programming languages and advanced topics in artificial analysis. If that's not enough technical goodness to get you to brave the Chicago cold, I'm not sure what is. See you on the 27th. Meeting Details: Date: Tuesday 27th January 2009 Time: 7pm-9pm, typically with a journey for drinks immediately afterward Where: 20 W Kinzie, 8th Floor Please be sure to RSVP so that you don't get hassled at the front door :) Name Powered by Google Docs Terms of Service - Additional Terms -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From joshua.mcadams at gmail.com Mon Jan 12 11:52:51 2009 From: joshua.mcadams at gmail.com (Joshua McAdams) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:52:51 -0600 Subject: [WindyCity-pm] January 2009 Chicago.pm Meeting In-Reply-To: <000e0cd47c326169a404604e485d@google.com> References: <000e0cd47c326169a404604e485d@google.com> Message-ID: <49d805d70901121152q5ecbd5d8p2341f9fee68b2611@mail.gmail.com> If you were on the fence about attending, this might help. Marsee from O'Reilly saw that we were talking about CouchDB and offered five access codes to the rough cut of their upcoming CouchDB book (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596158163/index.html). We'll be giving those away at the meeting... you have to be present to win :) Thanks Marsee! On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Joshua McAdams wrote: > If you have trouble viewing or submitting this form, you can fill it out > online: > https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pOCmTCN6VWDa6dHIE4W9HEQ > > January 2009 Chicago.pm Meeting > > On January 27th we'll kick off the new year of Chicago.pm with a meeting > with not one, but two featured talks! > > Jeremy Wall will be talking about development with CouchDB. He'll be > highlighting the differences between CouchDB and a traditional RDBMS. During > his talk you will see how to set up a CouchDB schema and write views to > retrieve data from the CouchDB Schema. He'll also share some of his > experience and point out some of the gotcha's you might encounter when > writing views. And of course, the Perl tie-in... Jeremy will show off his > CPAN Module for CouchDB. > > For those who don't know, CouchDB, or more formally, Apache CouchDB, is a > free and open source document-oriented database written in the Erlang > programming language. It is designed for extreme scalability and is easily > deployed to multi-core or multi-server clusters. > > We'll also hear from Andrew Dougherty, who will give us an update of his > FRDCSA project. FRDCSA is an advanced Artificial Intelligence created by > automatically scouring the web for advanced AI systems, retrieving and > packaging them for various operating systems, and finally building upon > these packages. Incidentally, many systems not considered to be AI are also > necessary as part of the operating system infrastructure. > > There you have it... databases written in functional programming languages > and advanced topics in artificial analysis. If that's not enough technical > goodness to get you to brave the Chicago cold, I'm not sure what is. See > you on the 27th. > > Meeting Details: > > Date: Tuesday 27th January 2009 > Time: 7pm-9pm, typically with a journey for drinks immediately afterward > Where: 20 W Kinzie, 8th Floor > > Please be sure to RSVP so that you don't get hassled at the front door :) > > ________________________________ > Name > > Powered by Google Docs > > Terms of Service - Additional Terms > > _______________________________________________ > WindyCity-pm mailing list > WindyCity-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/windycity-pm > > From joshua.mcadams at gmail.com Tue Jan 13 07:11:40 2009 From: joshua.mcadams at gmail.com (Joshua McAdams) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:11:40 -0600 Subject: [WindyCity-pm] Fwd: Summer of Code 2009 - engaging with students In-Reply-To: <200901082324.22666.scratchcomputing@gmail.com> References: <200901082324.22666.scratchcomputing@gmail.com> Message-ID: <49d805d70901130711j7f53676ah614bcb928a969561@mail.gmail.com> Eric Wilhelm, who organized Perl's SoC efforts last year, is looking for PM groups to help get students to sign up for Perl projects this year... let's do it! If anyone works at a University and would like to help get the students and/or teachers involved, let me know and we can coordinate. If anyone is going to a University now, you're probably eligible for the $4500 SoC grant... speak up if you're interested and we'll try to help you out. Josh ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Eric Wilhelm Date: Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:24 AM Subject: Summer of Code 2009 - engaging with students To: pm_groups at pm.org Cc: tpf-steering at perl.org, directors at lists.parrot.org Hi everybody, It's very cold here. Time to start thinking about summer! The student proposals for Google's Summer of Code will be due in a couple short months and Google has just given word that the program will indeed be on again this year. For 2008, we had a great turnout of willing and able mentors, but only about 16 student applications. This implies that we need to try to reach more students and encourage them to apply for summer of code this year. We'll probably start to see more information from Google about SOC 2009 within a month or so. For now: http://tinyurl.com/9r55v3 Last year taught us that the returning organizations which started early were more successful in recruiting students. While we can't say for sure that Perl/Parrot will be accepted as mentor organizations, we'll get a very late start if we wait. If it (knock on wood) doesn't happen, the Perl community will still benefit from efforts to connect with more students. The following are just a few ideas of what your local Perl Mongers group could do to help. Please forward this to your mailing list or discuss it at your next meeting. Find out if your local university has Perl in the curriculum. If so, get in touch with the professors and let them know about your local Perl Mongers group. Ask if they would be interested in you speaking to their class or giving a presentation on-campus. If the computer science department doesn't seem interested in Perl, you might find users (or potential users) in other departments. Think about all of the niche data-crunching for which Perl gets used. Find grad students who might be doing that - whatever their major might be. Are any members of your group recently graduated? If so, the contacts they still have might be a great place to start, especially in non-cs disciplines. Even in very specialized applications, the chances are that the Perl community contains a mentor with a related background. Finally, I would be interested in hearing from any Perl Mongers groups which have been involved with on-campus activities or are meeting on campus. Please send me mail about what you are doing, or even write about it on use.perl. Thanks, Eric From fasteliteprogrammer at yahoo.com Sat Jan 24 12:32:08 2009 From: fasteliteprogrammer at yahoo.com (Craig) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:32:08 -0800 (PST) Subject: [WindyCity-pm] perl script question Message-ID: <917195.27958.qm@web36506.mail.mud.yahoo.com> i was thining of make a tool for my sierra air card 881.Is there a way i can make a perl script that tell me what cell phone tower i useing and where it is after i connect to it? thanks From warren.lindsey at gmail.com Sun Jan 25 10:09:14 2009 From: warren.lindsey at gmail.com (Warren Lindsey) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:09:14 -0600 Subject: [WindyCity-pm] perl script question In-Reply-To: <917195.27958.qm@web36506.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <917195.27958.qm@web36506.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <841e880a0901251009s7faf4cfbve9efab1e5de31b7a@mail.gmail.com> Yes, there is. You should read the documentation that came with the card before asking. http://www.sierrawireless.com/resources/documents/support/2130617_Supported_AT_Command_Reference-v2.4.pdf There are multiple sources to tie cell tower to a geographic location. http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=cell+tower+location And others who have traveled down the same road. http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2006/08/04/zebra/#watching Please share your code with us when you get farther along. We haven't seen much interesting code come across the list recently. A project like this sounds neat, it would be cool to have a log of where you've been. http://www.blackhat-forums.com/index.php?showtopic=8097 Perhaps you could write a BrightKite or FireEagle app or module? Lots of people doing similar things in that space. http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/developer http://groups.google.com/group/brightkite-api?pli=1 On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Craig wrote: > i was thining of make a tool for my sierra air card 881.Is there a way i can make a perl script that tell me what cell phone tower i useing and where it is after i connect to it? > > > > > thanks > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > WindyCity-pm mailing list > WindyCity-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/windycity-pm > From joshua.mcadams at gmail.com Tue Jan 27 06:38:08 2009 From: joshua.mcadams at gmail.com (Joshua McAdams) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:38:08 -0600 Subject: [WindyCity-pm] Fwd: [Chicago-pm, WindyCity-pm] January 2009 Chicago.pm Meeting In-Reply-To: <000e0cd47c326169a404604e485d@google.com> References: <000e0cd47c326169a404604e485d@google.com> Message-ID: <49d805d70901270638s7a5faa9aq621abdede63c290e@mail.gmail.com> Hi everyone, I wanted to remind you all that we are having a Chicago.pm Meeting tonight at 7pm in the Google office at 20 W Kinzie. The featured talks will cover the FRDCSA project and CouchDB. It looks like we'll be on the 17th floor tonight. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joshua McAdams Date: Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:40 PM Subject: [WindyCity-pm] January 2009 Chicago.pm Meeting To: windycity-pm at pm.org If you have trouble viewing or submitting this form, you can fill it out online: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pOCmTCN6VWDa6dHIE4W9HEQ January 2009 Chicago.pm Meeting On January 27th we'll kick off the new year of Chicago.pm with a meeting with not one, but two featured talks! Jeremy Wall will be talking about development with CouchDB. He'll be highlighting the differences between CouchDB and a traditional RDBMS. During his talk you will see how to set up a CouchDB schema and write views to retrieve data from the CouchDB Schema. He'll also share some of his experience and point out some of the gotcha's you might encounter when writing views. And of course, the Perl tie-in... Jeremy will show off his CPAN Module for CouchDB. For those who don't know, CouchDB, or more formally, Apache CouchDB, is a free and open source document-oriented database written in the Erlang programming language. It is designed for extreme scalability and is easily deployed to multi-core or multi-server clusters. We'll also hear from Andrew Dougherty, who will give us an update of his FRDCSA project. FRDCSA is an advanced Artificial Intelligence created by automatically scouring the web for advanced AI systems, retrieving and packaging them for various operating systems, and finally building upon these packages. Incidentally, many systems not considered to be AI are also necessary as part of the operating system infrastructure. There you have it... databases written in functional programming languages and advanced topics in artificial analysis. If that's not enough technical goodness to get you to brave the Chicago cold, I'm not sure what is. See you on the 27th. Meeting Details: Date: Tuesday 27th January 2009 Time: 7pm-9pm, typically with a journey for drinks immediately afterward Where: 20 W Kinzie, 8th Floor Please be sure to RSVP so that you don't get hassled at the front door :) ________________________________ Name Powered by Google Docs Terms of Service - Additional Terms _______________________________________________ WindyCity-pm mailing list WindyCity-pm at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/windycity-pm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From joshua.mcadams at gmail.com Thu Jan 29 11:58:56 2009 From: joshua.mcadams at gmail.com (Joshua McAdams) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:58:56 -0600 Subject: [WindyCity-pm] Frozen Perl Message-ID: <49d805d70901291158i406fea6akb7849d94573c549b@mail.gmail.com> Hi everyone, frozen perl (http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2009/) is coming up soon... the first weekend in February! We have a few Chicago.pm/WindyCity.pm'ers who are speaking at the conference. brian d foy is teaching a class on Friday. Andy Lester is keynoting on Saturday. And Jon Rockway is closing out Saturday with a talk. If I missed anyone else from Chicago, please let us know that you are speaking. Also, if you are going and are trying to figure out how to get there, there are a few of us that are driving... I am at least :) I'm planning on heading out Friday afternoon and coming back Saturday night or Sunday afternoon (flexible schedule as of now). If you are interested in a ride, let me know and we can work something out. Also, if you were planning on driving already and wouldn't mind taking someone with you, please speak up. See you at Frozen Perl, Josh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: