[Boston.pm-announce] No August Meeting; No Website

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(1) August is canceled.

(2) We'll have a meeting in September; 2nd Tuesday is the 11th --
Where is TBD; maybe at MIT, maybe in Waltham.
If Waltham, it'll be near (T) bus and train as well as parking; and
I'll provide Car Pool out and or back for anyone that wants to.

(3) Our Wiki is down. Free provider has pulled the plug.
(In copious spare time, Tom and I are looking for right replacement.)
So temporarily boston.pm.org DNS points to a 404-ish page :-(


(4) Meantime, our Twitter, Facebook, G+, MeetUp, LinkedIn, and these
two Mailing Lists provide redundant communications.

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https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=134089120681
https://plus.google.com/communities/113462745547836195580
https://plus.google.com/114663318510475261282
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https://www.linkedin.com/groups/41363
https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm-announce
https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

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[Boston.pm-announce] No meeting night

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There will be no June meeting this month.

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[Boston.pm-announce] TONIGHT Re: Tech meeting 5/8: shorts: Signatures and Precision

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​​Our next tech meeting is TONIGHT -- Tuesay, May 8.

We'll watch (dissect?) two shorter conference videos, with our usual
MST3K commentary and rabbit-hole research. Topics are 3 dialects of
Function Signatures in  recent Perls and infinite precision
computation in Perl 6.

Location: MIT Building 51, Room 372, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
(parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
circling), and paid lot/garages.
Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.

Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE:  we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first door after
the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had the last
several years)

http://boston.pm.org/Calendar
http://boston.pm.org/MIT%20Directions  << Details on parking options and
transit
​


​


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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting: Federico Live! GPS! Randomness with Radiation!

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Next Meeting
April 10th (2nd Tuesday)
Federico Lucifredi / Hardware Hacking 101: time and randomness

Abstract:
Using the lowest amount of custom hardware and pouring Perl over
everything as the glue binding it all, we create two minimalistic
devices delivering a perfectly tuned network time source
(synchronizing with a GPS satellite), and a naturally random entropy
source (leveraging a Geiger tube’s measurement of natural background
radiation).

Location: MIT Building 51, Room 372, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages no
longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
So parking on-site is AT OWN RISK. And Construction Detour again too.
See web for details.

  http://boston.pm.org/Calendar
  http://boston.pm.org/MIT%20Directions

Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE: as of Fall 2017: we'r back to the squarer room 372 (first door
after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had the
last several years)

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[Boston.pm-announce] April 10 - Federico Lucifredi - Time and Randomness in Hardware using Perl

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Next Meeting:
April 10th (2nd Tues.; MIT; 7p)

Federico Lucifredi

Hardware Hacking 101: time and randomness (using Perl)

*Abstract*: Using the lowest amount of custom hardware and pouring Perl
over everything as the glue binding it all, we create two minimalistic
devices delivering a perfectly tuned network time source (synchronizing
with a GPS satellite), and a naturally random entropy source (leveraging a
Geiger tube’s measurement of natural background radiation).

See changed Parking information on Calendar page!

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[Boston.pm-announce] No March Meeting

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With Winter Storm Watch posted for Tuesday, we're going to punt on meeting
and concentrate on lining up a good speaker for April 10th.

http://boston.pm.org/Calendar/

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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday Feb 13th - Commercial Game Design with Modern Perl !

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Let's try this again ... last month we tried, but it being IAP,
we didn't actually have a room.
(Minor admin oversight. We did have a nice chat over pizza.)

February 13th, 2nd Tuesday -- Ovid builds a MMORPG in Perl
7/7:30pm, MIT E51-732, Amherst St, Cambridge.
Amsterdam Perl Conference 2017 video screening

Noted Perl personality Ovid (Curtis Poe) has built a Space-exploration
on-line role-playing-game called "Tau Station" in Perl. It's even a
business. In this talk, he describes the games industry and how Modern
Perl makes building his game fun.

Original Abstract -
"With Tau Station, we're building a sci-fi universe in a browser.
However, in object oriented design, what does the "single
responsibility principle" mean when your combat armor serves as armor,
a weapon, and medkit?
"And when many different behaviors have long chains of duplicated
requirements (for example, do you have enough money to buy a medkit,
or refuel your ship, or repair your blaster, or bribe a guard), how do
you handle that in an efficient an easy to read manner?
"And how do you avoid god objects when your character in the universe
drives almost everything?
"This talk explores some of the techniques we've developed for Tau
Station to easily model complex behaviors."

We'll have our usual community discussion after (or by hitting pause
as needed) in lieu of speaker Q

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
(parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
circling), and paid lot/garages.
Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.

Boilerplate details -

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

Links
 http://boston.pm.orgMIT+Directions
 http://boston.pm.org/Mailing+Lists
 http://boston.pm.org/Calendar  < more links here


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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday - Commercial Game Design with Modern Perl !

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Typo E51-376 Tonight!



On Jan 8, 2018 1:24 AM, "Bill Ricker" <bill.n1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> HAPPY NEW YEAR ! And FIRST MEETING !
> 2nd Tuesday comes early this month. This week !
>
> January 9th, 2nd Tuesday -- Ovid builds a MMORPG in Perl
> 7/7:30pm, MIT E51-732, Amherst St, Cambridge.
> Amsterdam Perl Conference 2017 video screening
>
> Noted Perl personality Ovid (Curtis Poe) has built a Space-exploration
> on-line role-playing-game called "Tau Station" in Perl. It's even a
> business. In this talk, he describes the games industry and how Modern
> Perl makes building his game fun.
>
> Original Abstract -
> "With Tau Station, we're building a sci-fi universe in a browser.
> However, in object oriented design, what does the "single
> responsibility principle" mean when your combat armor serves as armor,
> a weapon, and medkit?
> "And when many different behaviors have long chains of duplicated
> requirements (for example, do you have enough money to buy a medkit,
> or refuel your ship, or repair your blaster, or bribe a guard), how do
> you handle that in an efficient an easy to read manner?
> "And how do you avoid god objects when your character in the universe
> drives almost everything?
> "This talk explores some of the techniques we've developed for Tau
> Station to easily model complex behaviors."
>
> We'll have our usual community discussion after (or by hitting pause
> as needed) in lieu of speaker Q
>
> NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
> (parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
> after-hours.
> (This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
> being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
> Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
> lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
> circling), and paid lot/garages.
> Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
> (Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
> unlike most in-town garages.)
> Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
> Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
> access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.
>
>
> Boilerplate details -
>
> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
> Talk begins at 7:30.
> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.
>
> Links
> http://boston.pm.orgMIT+Directions
> http://boston.pm.org/Mailing+Lists
> http://boston.pm.org/Calendar  < more links here
>
> --
> Bill Ricker
> bill.n1...@gmail.com
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
>

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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday - Commercial Game Design with Modern Perl !

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HAPPY NEW YEAR ! And FIRST MEETING !
2nd Tuesday comes early this month. This week !

January 9th, 2nd Tuesday -- Ovid builds a MMORPG in Perl
7/7:30pm, MIT E51-732, Amherst St, Cambridge.
Amsterdam Perl Conference 2017 video screening

Noted Perl personality Ovid (Curtis Poe) has built a Space-exploration
on-line role-playing-game called "Tau Station" in Perl. It's even a
business. In this talk, he describes the games industry and how Modern
Perl makes building his game fun.

Original Abstract -
"With Tau Station, we're building a sci-fi universe in a browser.
However, in object oriented design, what does the "single
responsibility principle" mean when your combat armor serves as armor,
a weapon, and medkit?
"And when many different behaviors have long chains of duplicated
requirements (for example, do you have enough money to buy a medkit,
or refuel your ship, or repair your blaster, or bribe a guard), how do
you handle that in an efficient an easy to read manner?
"And how do you avoid god objects when your character in the universe
drives almost everything?
"This talk explores some of the techniques we've developed for Tau
Station to easily model complex behaviors."

We'll have our usual community discussion after (or by hitting pause
as needed) in lieu of speaker Q

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
(parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
circling), and paid lot/garages.
Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.


Boilerplate details -

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

Links
http://boston.pm.orgMIT+Directions
http://boston.pm.org/Mailing+Lists
http://boston.pm.org/Calendar  < more links here

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[Boston.pm-announce] Cancel December Tech Meeting

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CANCEL

Since i didn't have anything exciting to announce as a meeting topic
last Friday and still don't, and it's getting into the Holidays, I'm
saying cancel the December meeting, which would have been Tuesday,
December 12th.

Next Tech meeting would be 2nd Tuesday of January, the 9th.

If you have something cool or interesting to talk about in Perl 5 or
Perl 6 or CPAN etc, drop me an email?

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[Boston.pm-announce] Correction Re: Tech Meeting "Deep Learning in Perl" Nov. 14th - Adam Russell (live!)

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce]

I mistakenly used later timing. Talk normally begins 7:30, gather/mingle 7ish.


On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 5:50 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We changed speakers and topics at the last minute last month because real 
> life.
>
> Our very interesting previously-planned speaker will instead speak
> this month -- next week.
> Remember, if you get Veterans' Day Monday off work, Tuesday will feel
> like Monday.
>

 Next Meeting - Tuesday, November 14th - 7 ish gather, 7:30 talk


> Adam Russell
> "Deep Learning in Perl with AI::MXNet: Navigating implementation issues"
>
> LIVE Speaker !
> ROOM Change (from spring): E51-372 (MIT 2 Amherst St, Cambridge)
>
>
> ABSTRACT
> This talk will cover lessons learned from a recent experience in
> getting a deep learning projected started, with little prior
> experience in AI. All code will use the Perl MXNet API and guide the
> audience through developing a simple model, which is then built on to
> perform more complex tasks.
>
> Artificial Intelligence (AI) has for a long time captured the popular
> imagination. Results from academia and industry have finally started
> to deliver on some of the long hoped for results: self driving cars,
> automated medical diagnoses, and written and verbal language
> processing. These areas are showing advances that were once simply
> products of fiction writers. The current wave of AI enthusiasm may be
> attributed to what is called Deep Learning which is a convenient label
> for relatively new techniques using neural networks. The possibility
> for increased automation across virtually every industry has resulted
> in the spinning up of many new startup companies, as well as new
> projects within existing enterprises, resulting in the need to develop
> the skills necessary to pursue this new area.
>
> While not the language of production, Perl is used to develop
> algorithms and demonstrate concepts before they receive fuller
> treatment. Deep Learning practitioners often begin their deep learning
> work, correctly, with a review of the literature and research into the
> fundamentals. Projects then often start confidently with high hopes,
> built on that conceptual understanding, only to quickly get bogged
> down in unforeseen, but critically important, issues of
> implementation.
>
>  SPEAKER
> Adam Russell is a software engineer with OptumLabs' Center for Applied
> Data Science (CADS). CADS is tasked with developing prototype
> applications which implement recent advances in algorithms and
> technology to address issues of importance to Optum business
> interests. Most recent projects have been focused on Deep Learning.
> Adam has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of
> Massachusetts Lowell, his academic interests involve Computational
> Geometry and Data Visualization and these explorations, much like the
> work described in this talk, are all Perl driven. He also teaches, on
> an adjunct basis, at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.
>
> NOTES
>> Parking Alert.
>> Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking ,
>> visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
>> (This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
>> being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
>> Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
>> lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
>> circling), and paid lot/garages.
>
> (Some circle to get a meter that will be free after 8pm and toss in a couple
> quarters for good luck until then, hoping more folk are leaving than arriving
> until after they become free.)
>
>> Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
>> (Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
>> unlike most in-town garages.)
>> Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
>> Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
>> access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.
>
> parking links available via http://boston.pm.org/Calendar
>
> DETAILS
>> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
>> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
>> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
>> Talk begins at 7:30.
>> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
>
>> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
>> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.
>> (NOTE: Fall 2017: we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first
>> door after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had
>> the last several years)



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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting "Deep Learning in Perl" October 10th - Adam Russell (live!)

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Next Meeting - Tuesday, October 10th - Adam Russell "Deep Learning in Perl"

LIVE Speaker !
ROOM Change (from spring): E51-372

"Deep Learning with AI::MXNet: Navigating implementation issues"

ABSTRACT
This talk will cover lessons learned from a recent experience in
getting a deep learning projected started, with little prior
experience in AI. All code will use the Perl MXNet API and guide the
audience through developing a simple model, which is then built on to
perform more complex tasks.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has for a long time captured the popular
imagination. Results from academia and industry have finally started
to deliver on some of the long hoped for results: self driving cars,
automated medical diagnoses, and written and verbal language
processing. These areas are showing advances that were once simply
products of fiction writers. The current wave of AI enthusiasm may be
attributed to what is called Deep Learning which is a convenient label
for relatively new techniques using neural networks. The possibility
for increased automation across virtually every industry has resulted
in the spinning up of many new startup companies, as well as new
projects within existing enterprises, resulting in the need to develop
the skills necessary to pursue this new area.

While not the language of production, Perl is used to develop
algorithms and demonstrate concepts before they receive fuller
treatment. Deep Learning practitioners often begin their deep learning
work, correctly, with a review of the literature and research into the
fundamentals. Projects then often start confidently with high hopes,
built on that conceptual understanding, only to quickly get bogged
down in unforeseen, but critically important, issues of
implementation.


SPEAKER
Adam Russell is a software engineer with OptumLabs' Center for Applied
Data Science (CADS). CADS is tasked with developing prototype
applications which implement recent advances in algorithms and
technology to address issues of importance to Optum business
interests. Most recent projects have been focused on Deep Learning.
Adam has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of
Massachusetts Lowell, his academic interests involve Computational
Geometry and Data Visualization and these explorations, much like the
work described in this talk, are all Perl driven. He also teaches, on
an adjunct basis, at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.

NOTES
Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking ,
visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
circling), and paid lot/garages.
Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.


DETAILS
Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE: Fall 2017: we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first
door after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had
the last several years)



Future - Fall/Winter reservations

*If you have a demo or talk idea, please, when would you like to
present? Doesn't need to fill the full time.*

Confirmed room assignments courtesy of MIT
Room E51-372
Tues, Nov 14th
Tues, Dec 12th , 2017

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[Boston.pm-announce] UPDATE Re: Tech Meeting: Damian's "Three Little Words (I Love Perl)" keynote (TPC'17)

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Tues, Sep 12th - tomorrow -
Damian Conway, "Three Little Words" (or "Why I Love Perl") (recorded
at The 2017 Perl Conference)


ROOM Change: E51-372

Damian Conway, known for his rapid-paced, wide-ranging, tour-de-force
presentations, was the keynote presenter at The Perl Conference, 2017
(formerly known as YAPC::NA). In his keynote he tells "a tale of
madness, obsession, and coding extremity," describing what it took to
bring 3 keywords from Perl 6 to Perl 5. A community effort that took
three years and 2.8 million lines of code. This is a more extreme
example of what some developers are going through to bring Perl 6
functionality to Perl 5.

We will watch his recorded keynote and discuss among ourselves.

Even if you are new to Perl and don't follow all the technical
details, Damian's highly entertaining presentations are a must see.
(Plus, after the talk when we discuss it, we'll happily answer any
questions.)

About the speaker
Damian Conway is an author or co-author of numerous Perl books, and a
widely sought-after speaker and trainer.




NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
(parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
after-hours.
FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE LINKS AT http://boston.pm.org/Calendar


Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE: Fall 2017: we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first
door after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had
the last several years)

> Next Meeting -
> Tuesday, October 10th
> Adam Russell "Deep Learning in Perl"
>
> LIVE Speaker !




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[Boston.pm-announce] August social tuesday? and Spam troubles

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I don't have a presentation scheduled and the room will probably be
poorly cooled in August.
So maybe let's meet somewhere else for dinner?  Who's in?

We're having a bit of a problem with messages from list winding up in
Gmail SPAM folders.
I'm going discuss with list admins ...

Mean time I have set Filters in MY gmail to "NEVER Mark as Spam" all
things from my favorite mailing lists, which also saves Yahoo
submissions from DKIM discard -- recommended action for other Gmail
users.


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[Boston.pm-announce] Tuesday (today by now?) Re: Tech Meeting Tuesday: Lightning Talk Dim Sum (TPC/YAPC review)

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce]

TUESDAY (TONIGHT or tomorrow if you read quickly)

Tech Meeting
Tues, Jul 11th
The Perl Conference 2017 Review : Lightning Talk Dim Sum ( from TPC / YAPC::NA)
MIT E51-376  starting 7.30 (but I'll be there 7-ish)

Attendees will select Lightning Talks from The Perl Conference 2017
playlist. We can't play all 29 of them unless we 'gong' more than half
quickly after starting, but at 6 minutes each, we can get through a
dozen (unless we choose to discuss and experiment between).

Samples from among the 29 six-minute choices available -

* "Emulating Any API"
* "Perl 6 Str Considered Harmful"
* "Administering Slack Contests with Perl"
* "In Response to D. Conway's Test::Expr"
* "A Personalized Calendar in Perl"
* "Why Google's Dart should be your next programming language"
* "Hacking the Interviewing Process"


Bill will be our VJ, but the audience will lead.

* NOTE PARKING ALERT BELOW *

Boilerplate --

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

***  Parking Alert. ***

Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking , visitors,
public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours!) and paid
lot/garages.

Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.

Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)

Further details on Parking, see http://boston.pm.org/MIT+Directions/

( Anyone with ideas for sites with safe gratis parking _and_ good MBTA
access, let me know ! )

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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday: Lightning Talk Dim Sum (TPC/YAPC review)

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce]

Next Tech Meeting
Tues, Jul 11th
The Perl Conference 2017 Review : Lightning Talk Dim Sum ( from TPC / YAPC::NA)
MIT E51-376  starting 7.30 (but there 7-ish)

Attendees will select Lightning Talks from The Perl Conference 2017
playlist. We can't play all 29 of them unless we 'gong' more than half
quickly after starting, but at 6 minutes each, we can get through a
dozen (unless we choose to discuss and experiment between).

Samples from among the 29 six-minute choices available -

* "Emulating Any API"
* "Perl 6 Str Considered Harmful"
* "Administering Slack Contests with Perl"
* "In Response to D. Conway's Test::Expr"
* "A Personalized Calendar in Perl"
* "Why Google's Dart should be your next programming language"
* "Hacking the Interviewing Process"


Bill will be our VJ, but the audience will lead.

* NOTE PARKING ALERT BELOW *

Boilerplate --

> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
> Talk begins at 7:30.
> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

***  Parking Alert. ***

> Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking , visitors,
> public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
> (This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
> being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
> Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours!) and paid
> lot/garages.
>
> Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
> Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
> access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.
>
> Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
> (Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
> unlike most in-town garages.)

Further details on Parking, see http://boston.pm.org/MIT+Directions/

> ( Anyone with ideas for sites with safe gratis parking _and_ good MBTA
> access, let me know ! )

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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday - Perl 5.26 released - Parking Alert - now with abstract !

[Bill Ricker]

Tech Meeting

June 13th. 7:00/7:30pm E51-376

New features, changes in Perl 5.26

Join us to see what's new in the latest Perl. Using slides prepared by
brian d foy for an AmsterdamX.pm presentation, we'll go over the
highlights of new features and changes in Perl 5.26, including the
potential disruptive change of removing the current directory (.) from
the @INC module search path. We'll supplement the slides with the
official Perl Delta (change log) document, and other online sources
where more depth is required. The talk will be an open discussion
format, with Bill Ricker leading us through the slides, but plenty of
opportunity for the audience to ask questions, or offer opinion, and
in some cases we'll try some live demos of the new features.


Boilerplate --

> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
> Talk begins at 7:30.
> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

***  Parking Alert. ***

> Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking , visitors,
> public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
> (This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
> being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
> Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours!) and paid
> lot/garages.
>
> Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
> Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
> access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.
>
> Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
> (Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
> unlike most in-town garages.)

Further details on Parking, see http://boston.pm.org/MIT+Directions/

> ( Anyone with ideas for sites with safe gratis parking _and_ good MBTA
> access, let me know ! )





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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday - Perl 5.26 released - Parking Alert

[Bill Ricker]

Next Tech Meeting

June 13th. 7:00/7:30pm E51-376

New features, changes in Perl 5.26 [Bill and anyone else with opinions]


***  Parking Alert. ***
Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking , visitors,
public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours!) and paid
lot/garages. (Too Much details below)

Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.

Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)

( Anyone with ideas for sites with safe gratis parking _and_ good MBTA
access, let me know ! )

Boilerplate --

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

Bill Ricker  bill.n1...@gmail.com
 . . . . . . .

E51 ceases to be extra awesome as multmodal destination, now merely
great (T) and A/V.

> "Visitors who are not hosted by an  MIT department may pay to park at an  MIT 
> lot located on the corner of Mass Ave  and Vassar Street (139 Mass  Ave). You 
> may call 617-258-6510 for current rates  and availability."

(Reading in context, Hosted => given a paid voucher that hosting Dept
buys from Parking Dept, so i don't think how we get our rooms counts
as "hosted" with Parking.)

> * Parking at MIT without a Permit
> MIT parking permits are required for all vehicles on MIT property.
> Vehicles without MIT parking permits parked in any MIT parking area will be 
> subject to ticketing or towing.


> * After Hours
> Anyone with a valid MIT parking permit can park his/her vehicle in any 
> parking facility on campus after 2:30 PM, Monday through Friday, and all day 
> on weekends and MIT holidays. Please note that parking is only allowed in 
> spots that are not otherwise reserved.

Change here is that permits for _any_ lot now valid in _all_ lots
after 2:30; previously permits were _not_ required per website after 5
and in reality after 3, but now no.
Parking is at risk. Cambridge meters and the pay lots and garages are
the only safe options.

References:
http://web.mit.edu/facilities/construction/updates.shtml
http://web.mit.edu/facilities/transportation/parking/index.html
http://web.mit.edu/facilities/transportation/parking/visitors/index.html
http://web.mit.edu/facilities/transportation/parking/visitors/public_parking.html

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[Boston.pm-announce] Reminder - no Tech meeting

[Bill Ricker]

( we had a Social meeting just last Thusday )

Send ideas if you have ideas for future Tech meetings !

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[Boston.pm-announce] No Tech Meeting in May

[Bill Ricker]

Since we're having the "emergency" social with noted Perl author &
consultant Randal "Merlyn" Schwartz tonight, we're going to cancel Tech
meeting Tuesday.

If you have something to present, shout and we'll put you on the calendar
!

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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday Apr 11 - MIT - 7ish - Digital pack-ratting for Tumblr

[Bill Ricker]

Ricky Morse, Digital pack-ratting for Tumblr : (Perl 5 and Perl 6)
Tues, Apr 11th, 2017, 7ish Room E51-376

"I’m a bit of a digital packrat, so I will be showing a tool that I
developed to help me hoard Tumblr meme posts.
As a bonus, just for this talk I wrote something in Perl 6 that does a
similar task."

(So if you're looking for ways to capture unstructured (no API) data
from the web with Perl, this talk is for you.)

Ricky Morse has been using Perl for various things since the late 90s.

NOTE - the former overflow parking is mostly gone.
There is another lot on Hayward that may take a few cars ...

Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave.
(directions http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions ).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to
   bill.n1...@gmail.com or Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

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[Boston.pm-announce] CANCEL/POSTPONE Re: Tech Meeting ??Tuesday?? - Digital pack-ratting for Tumblr (Perl 5 and Perl 6) "

[Bill Ricker]

As if it wasn't obvious ...
Meeting tonight is canceled, speaker and topic postponed to April 11th.

Pi Day will be observed online.

Bill

On Mar 11, 2017 8:31 PM, "Bill Ricker" <bill.n1...@gmail.com> wrote:

OK we now have a BLIZZARD WATCH posted by weather.box/box .

Odds of Perl meeting Tuesday drops fractionally every hour that stays in
effect and more so if elevated to a Warning.

Official postponement message if needed would be on Boston-pm-announce list
and twitter @bostonPM . I try to get it on the general 'boston-pm' list too
but that is NOT guaranteed.


Bill


On Mar 11, 2017 3:14 PM, "Bill Ricker" <bill.n1...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ricky Morse, Digital pack-ratting for Tumblr (Perl 5 and Perl 6)
Tuesday March 14th (3.14=Pi Day!!) 7ish
MIT Room E51-376

"I’m a bit of a digital packrat, so I will be showing a tool that I
developed to help me hoard Tumblr meme posts. As a bonus, just for
this talk I wrote something in Perl 6."

Ricky Morse has been using Perl for various things since the late 90s.

[ Since it's Pi Day, i'll arrange special cookies and/or pie to
celebrate math geekiness. If anyone wants to bake or otherwise bring a
non-pizza pie speak up ! -- Bill ]

(Originally scheduled for Tues, Feb 14th; POSTPONED , apparently
Valentines Day less nerdly activities are preferred?)

Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave.
// Short walk to MIT Kendall T; Easy off Easy on to all superhighways
with free parking offstreet
// https://boston.pm.org/MIT+Directions

Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 second door, not the
squarish 372 first door that we had some terms.)

Calendar of past meeting notes and future dates
// https://boston.pm.org/Calendar
Confirmed room assignments courtesy of MIT
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[Boston.pm-announce] Blizzard Watch ?!?! Re: Tech Meeting ??Tuesday?? - Digital pack-ratting for Tumblr (Perl 5 and Perl 6) "

[Bill Ricker]

OK we now have a BLIZZARD WATCH posted by weather.box/box .

Odds of Perl meeting Tuesday drops fractionally every hour that stays in
effect and more so if elevated to a Warning.

Official postponement message if needed would be on Boston-pm-announce list
and twitter @bostonPM . I try to get it on the general 'boston-pm' list too
but that is NOT guaranteed.


Bill


On Mar 11, 2017 3:14 PM, "Bill Ricker" <bill.n1...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ricky Morse, Digital pack-ratting for Tumblr (Perl 5 and Perl 6)
Tuesday March 14th (3.14=Pi Day!!) 7ish
MIT Room E51-376

"I’m a bit of a digital packrat, so I will be showing a tool that I
developed to help me hoard Tumblr meme posts. As a bonus, just for
this talk I wrote something in Perl 6."

Ricky Morse has been using Perl for various things since the late 90s.

[ Since it's Pi Day, i'll arrange special cookies and/or pie to
celebrate math geekiness. If anyone wants to bake or otherwise bring a
non-pizza pie speak up ! -- Bill ]

(Originally scheduled for Tues, Feb 14th; POSTPONED , apparently
Valentines Day less nerdly activities are preferred?)

Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave.
// Short walk to MIT Kendall T; Easy off Easy on to all superhighways
with free parking offstreet
// https://boston.pm.org/MIT+Directions

Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 second door, not the
squarish 372 first door that we had some terms.)

Calendar of past meeting notes and future dates
// https://boston.pm.org/Calendar
Confirmed room assignments courtesy of MIT
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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday - Digital pack-ratting for Tumblr (Perl 5 and Perl 6) "

[Bill Ricker]

Ricky Morse, Digital pack-ratting for Tumblr (Perl 5 and Perl 6)
Tuesday March 14th (3.14=Pi Day!!) 7ish
MIT Room E51-376

"I’m a bit of a digital packrat, so I will be showing a tool that I
developed to help me hoard Tumblr meme posts. As a bonus, just for
this talk I wrote something in Perl 6."

Ricky Morse has been using Perl for various things since the late 90s.

[ Since it's Pi Day, i'll arrange special cookies and/or pie to
celebrate math geekiness. If anyone wants to bake or otherwise bring a
non-pizza pie speak up ! -- Bill ]

(Originally scheduled for Tues, Feb 14th; POSTPONED , apparently
Valentines Day less nerdly activities are preferred?)

Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave.
// Short walk to MIT Kendall T; Easy off Easy on to all superhighways
with free parking offstreet
// https://boston.pm.org/MIT+Directions

Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 second door, not the
squarish 372 first door that we had some terms.)

Calendar of past meeting notes and future dates
// https://boston.pm.org/Calendar
Confirmed room assignments courtesy of MIT
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[Boston.pm-announce] Coming attractions - Tech Meeting 3.14, Vault:Storage

[Bill Ricker]

(1)  Tech Meeting
Ricky Morse, Digital pack-ratting for Tumblr (and maybe XKCD): a
legally hypothetical discussion of how to time-shift Tumblr data
Tues, Mar. 14th, 2017, 7ish Room E51-376

"I’m a bit of a digital packrat, so I will be showing a tool that I
developed to help me hoard Tumblr meme posts.
As a bonus, just for this talk I wrote something in Perl 6 that does a
similar task."

(So if you're looking for ways to capture unstructured (no API) data
from the web with Perl, this talk is for you.)

Ricky Morse has been using Perl for various things since the late 90s.

(3.14 is Pie Day. We usually have Pizza which is Pie and a Pi joke in
itself, so i'll bring rectangular cookies that are trigonometric in a
different way. If someone brings a dessert Pie, that would be ok too.
-- Bill )

Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave.
(directions http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions
usually plenty of free parking with good highway access but T is
better in snow ... ).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to
bill.n1...@gmail.com or Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 second door, not the
squarish 372 first door that we had some terms.)

IN CASE OF WEATHER CANCELLATION ... WATCH the boston-pm-announce list
and twitter @BostonPM



( 2 )  Vault, the Linux storage & filesystems conference

We received an email sent to Boston.pm's Meetup manager Tom:

"Vault, the Linux storage & filesystems conference, March 22-23, 2017
in Cambridge, MA features 35+ sessions for Linux storage, filesystems
and other open source professionals with a range of content covering
Linux storage, Linux kernel, filesystems, and much more!

"The Linux Foundation would like to extend a discount with savings of
$105 to your members for Vault 2017. I thought your members would be
interested in attending.

Please feel free to share this invitation with your members. See below."
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/vault/program/schedule

( I hope Federico is already attending ... he's probably got a Keynote ? )


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[Boston.pm-announce] TECH MEETING 2/14 POSTPONED TO MARCH 14th

[Bill Ricker]

RSVPs are nil to none, just Tom, Ricky (speaker), and me so far.

Looks like everyone else has something important to do on 2/14.
We get better turnout on MLB SportsBall World Series ...
Go figure.
(My wife believes in Movable Feasts for all holidays, so I'm flexible.)

We may have Perl6 version of Packrat added for March ...

// Bill

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 3:13 AM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Assuming the snow lets up and we dig out ...
> Tues, Feb 14th, 2017, 7ish Room E51-376 Ricky Morse, Digital pack-ratting
> for Tumblr (and XKCD): a legally hypothetical discussion of how to
> time-shift Tumblr data I’m a bit of a digital packrat, so I will be
> showing a tool that I developed to help me hoard Tumblr meme posts. As a
> bonus, just for this talk I wrote something in Perl 6 that does a similar
> task for XKCD.
>
> ​(So if you're looking for ways to capture unstructured (no API) data from
> the web with Perl, this talk is for you.) ​
>
> Ricky Morse has been using Perl for various things since the late 90s.
>
> (Note that Feb 14th is Valentines Day ... and also the latest 2nd Tuesday
> falls, so both this month and next the BLU.org 3rd Wednesday Linux/Unix
> meeting will fall the day after Boston.PM, twice since not a leap year.)
>
> ​Boilerplate details
>
> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave.
> (directions http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions  usually
> plenty of free parking with good highway access but T is better in snow ...
> ).
> Talk begins at 7:30.
> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com
> or Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.
>
>
> (NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 second door, not the squarish
> 372 first door that we had some terms.)
> ​
>
> ​IN CASE OF WEATHER CANCELLATION ... WATCH the boston-pm-announce list and
> twitter @BostonPM ​
>
>
​^ or in case of Valentines' outbreak​ 


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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meetings

[Bill Ricker]

Assuming the snow lets up and we dig out ...
Tues, Feb 14th, 2017, 7ish Room E51-376 Ricky Morse, Digital pack-ratting
for Tumblr (and XKCD): a legally hypothetical discussion of how to
time-shift Tumblr data I’m a bit of a digital packrat, so I will be showing
a tool that I developed to help me hoard Tumblr meme posts. As a bonus,
just for this talk I wrote something in Perl 6 that does a similar task for
XKCD.

​(So if you're looking for ways to capture unstructured (no API) data from
the web with Perl, this talk is for you.) ​

Ricky Morse has been using Perl for various things since the late 90s.

(Note that Feb 14th is Valentines Day ... and also the latest 2nd Tuesday
falls, so both this month and next the BLU.org 3rd Wednesday Linux/Unix
meeting will fall the day after Boston.PM, twice since not a leap year.)

​Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave.
(directions http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions  usually
plenty of free parking with good highway access but T is better in snow ...
).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 second door, not the squarish
372 first door that we had some terms.)
​

​IN CASE OF WEATHER CANCELLATION ... WATCH the boston-pm-announce list and
twitter @BostonPM ​

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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meetings

[Bill Ricker]

February advance notice -
Tues, Feb 14th, 2017, 7ish Room E51-376 Ricky Morse, Digital pack-ratting
for Tumblr (and XKCD): a legally hypothetical discussion of how to
time-shift Tumblr data I’m a bit of a digital packrat, so I will be showing
a tool that I developed to help me hoard Tumblr meme posts. As a bonus,
just for this talk I wrote something in Perl 6 that does a similar task for
XKCD.

Ricky Morse has been using Perl for various things since the late 90s.

(Note that Feb 14th is Valentines Day ... and also the latest 2nd Tuesday
falls, so both this month and next the BLU.org 3rd Wednesday Linux/Unix
meeting will fall the day after Boston.PM, twice since not a leap year.)


*January* follow up notes from Brian D. Foy (bdf), "6 More Things about
Perl 6"

6 More Things about Perl 6 will cover a combination of features, ideas, and
concepts that I find interesting about the new language. I'll also answer
question about the upcoming "Learning Perl 6" book, the Kickstarter
campaign for it, and other things you may want to ask.

SLIDES for this talk
http://www.slideshare.net/brian_d_foy/6-more-things-about-perl-6
Perl 6 Advent article by bdf on Object Hashes .
https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2016/12/03/day-3-object-hashes/
github.com.icohttps://github.com/briandfoy/Perl6PowerTools
Slides for (first) 6 Things about Perl 6 at NY.pm (prequel for above talk)
http://slideshare.net/brian_d_foy/6-things-about-perl-6
see Brian also as @LearningPerl6  (twitter.com) and @briandfoy_perl

​

as posted on http://boston.pm.org/calendar/ ​


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[Boston.pm-announce] Tues. 10th: brian_d_foy, 6 More Things about 6 [Perl 6]

[Bill Ricker]

Brian D. Foy (bdf), "6 More Things about 6"Tues, Jan 10th, 2017, 7:30 Room
E51-376 [image: learningperl6.png] "6 More Things about 6" will cover a
combination of features, ideas, and concepts that I find interesting about
the new language. I'll also answer question about the upcoming "Learning
Perl 6" book, the Kickstarter campaign for it, and other things you may
want to ask.

*About the speaker*
[image: brian_d_foy.jpg] <http://twitter.com/briandfoy_perl>brian d foy
<http://twitter.com/briandfoy_perl> is a long time member of the Perl
community, a prolific Perl trainer, and writer
<http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/1071>. In addition to authoring the
upcoming Learning
Perl 6 <https://www.learningperl6.com/>, he's the the author of Mastering
Perl, and co-author of Programming Perl, Learning Perl, Intermediate Perl,
and Effective Perl Programming. He's a frequent speaker
<http://www252.pair.com/comdog/> at Perl conferences. He founded the first
Perl user group, the New York Perl mongers, as well as the Perl advocacy
nonprofit Perl Mongers. A contributor to Perl documentation and maintainer
of several modules on CPAN <http://search.cpan.org/%7Ebdfoy/>.



*Boilerplate details*

   - Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
   building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
   nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
   <http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions>).
   -
*Talk begins at 7:30. Convene 7ish *
   - Refreshments in the hallway prior.
   - RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
   Boston-PM list <http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Mailing+Lists>, by 4pm
   Tuesday.


(*NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 second door, not the squarish
372 first door that we had some terms.)*

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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech meeting "Christmas Lights Tour" December 13th, MIT room E51-376, 7ish

[Bill Ricker]

Next meeting is this week !

December 13th, MIT room E51-376, 7ish
"Christmas Lights Tour"
A mutually-guided tour of the first half of several Perl-ish Advent
Calendars
Bill & Greek Chorus

Around this time of year there is a tradition in the programming
communities to share our favorite libraries, tools, and tips we've gathered
over the past year. These prizes are dolled out once per day in classic
Advent Calendar style. In the next Boston.pm meeting we'll take a look at
the highlight from several in-progress Perl-related calendars, including:

Perl Advent (classic Perl 5)
Perl6 Advent
Dancer
C::Blocks Advent (a whole calendar for a single module in Beta !?)

and maybe more from the master list via Advent Planet which has other
languages and sysadmin, perf, ..., and a code based puzzles.

(Audience participation: As usual, our Greek chorus answers each others
questions about the modules seen.)


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Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

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[Boston.pm-announce] Parking note Re: October Tech Meeting 11th (next week) / Perl 5.24 & Abe Lincoln's War Cipher

[Bill Ricker]

Note re parking - the Hayward St Lot previously listed as designated overflow
lot has been closed for MIT's latest construction.

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tues Oct 11th, room E51-376
>  Bill Ricker, Perl 5.24 & Abe Lincoln's War Cipher
>
> Last month, I did my usual Cryptographic History talk before BLU.org's
> GPG/PGP keysigning.
> The title was "Transposition Cyphers in Historic Context", looking at a
> theory and two specific uses, President Lincoln and German Army Corps WW1.
>
> As usual, there was
> a bit of Perl code used for demonstration - for Lincoln's. This time, I used
> the 5.020 experimental features that we've discussed in new release feature
> reviews: postderef and signatures (both promoted to stable in 5.024 so safe
> to use in real code).
>
> BLU saw the history, but this month, Boston.pm gets to see the code.

Note NO NOVEMBER tech meeting - 2nd Tuesday in November in a Leap year
is Election Day - I presume most people will be watching a different
channel that night. Do we want a different night or week ? We usually
do social in December.
Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

 http://boston.pm.org/Calendar/



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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] October Tech Meeting 11th (next week) / Perl 5.24 & Abe Lincoln's War Cipher

[Bill Ricker]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Jerrad Pierce <belg4...@pthbb.org> wrote:
> See also https://bostoncryptoday.wordpress.com/

While i'm doing History (19th & early 20th C) Crypto, that
mini-conference is so theoretical it's the Future (late 21st C)
Crypto. I'm guessing how many of those talks i could understand ... i
have fingers left over.

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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] October Tech Meeting 11th (next week) / Perl 5.24 & Abe Lincoln's War Cipher

[Bill Ricker]

Apparently trying to include graphics broke the email forward, trying
again FLAT ASCII ...

> Tues Oct 11th, room E51-376
>  Bill Ricker, Perl 5.24 & Abe Lincoln's War Cipher

 Last month, I did my usual Cryptographic History talk before
BLU.org's GPG/PGP keysigning.
 The title was "Transposition Cyphers in Historic Context", looking at
a theory and two specific uses, President Lincoln and German Army
Corps WW1.

 As usual, there was a bit of Perl code used for demonstration - for
Lincoln's. This time, I used the 5.020 experimental features that
we've discussed in new release feature reviews: postderef and
signatures (both promoted to stable in 5.024 so safe to use in real
code).

BLU saw the history, but this month, Boston.pm gets to see the code.

 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
* * * * * * * * * * * * *
Note NO NOVEMBER tech meeting - 2nd Tuesday in November in a Leap year
is Election Day - I presume most people will be watching a different
channel that night. Do we want a different night or week ? We usually
do social in December.
Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to
bill.n1...@gmail.com or Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

FUTURE
* NOV * (2nd Tuesday in November in a Leap year is Election Day, i
think we'll skip, that'll be a busy news night for folks. Worse
competition than World Series or Olympics. We can pick an alternate
date or do a weekend social or off-week social.)
Tues Dec 13th, room E51-376

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[Boston.pm-announce] October Tech Meeting 11th (next week) / Perl 5.24 & Abe Lincoln's War Cipher

[Bill Ricker]

​*​*

*Tues Oct 11th, room E51-376 Bill Ricker, Perl 5.24 & Abe Lincoln's War
Cipher*

Last month, I did my usual Cryptographic History talk before BLU.org's
GPG/PGP keysigning.
The title was "*Transposition Cyphers in Historic Context*", looking at a
theory and two specific uses, President Lincoln and German Army Corps WW1.

As usual, there was
​ a bit of Perl code used for demonstration - for Lincoln's. This time, I
used the 5.020 experimental features that we've discussed in new release
feature reviews: *postderef* and *signatures* (both promoted to *stable* in
5.024 so safe to use in real code).

BLU saw the history, but this month, Boston.pm gets to see the code.

[image: Inline image 2]

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[Boston.pm-announce] Notes from Re: tech meeting THIS TUESDAY - flamegraph.pl A visualization for Profiler output

[Bill Ricker]

​Also posted to Boston.PM.org wiki ...
​
Links

   - Brendan Gregg <http://www.brendangregg.com>
  - FlameGraphs <http://www.brendangregg.com/flamegraphs.html>
 - CPU flameGraphs
 <http://www.brendangregg.com/FlameGraphs/cpuflamegraphs.html>
  - Github <https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph/>
 - flamegraph.pl
 <https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph/blob/master/flamegraph.pl>
  - DTrace.org Blogs <http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/page/12/>
  - LISA'13 "Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs
  
<https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/technical-sessions/plenary/gregg>
  "
  [image: blazing-performance-with-flame-graphs-1-638.jpg]
  Blazing Performance with Flamegraphs cover
  (plenary!)
 - Video <https://www.youtube.com/embed/nZfNehCzGdw?rel=0>
- Start of Advanced section
<https://youtu.be/nZfNehCzGdw?t=3353> ... *where we stopped,
continue from here*
 - Slides <http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/28010650>
 - Interactive Demos
 <https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph/tree/master/demos> on
 github
  - Used in CPAN Devel::NYTProf
   <https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Devel-NYTProf/bin/nytprofhtml>
  - blog announce by Tim Bunce
  <https://blog.timbunce.org/2013/04/08/nytprof-v5-flaming-precision/>
  ​ ​



   - Julia Evans <http://jvns.ca/> Debugging and general dev blogs & debug
   zines - where i found the first links
   [image: debugging-tools-cover-50pc.png]
   Linux Debugging Tools cover to the above - highly recommended
  - zines <http://jvns.ca/zines/> -> debugging linux
  <http://jvns.ca/debugging-zine.pdf> from last week, direct
  inspiration for this talk







*​Ricky notes that LISA'16 is in Boston again, DEC 4-6 .*
​https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa16


*Plenaries include Brendan Gregg (Linux kernel 4.x new tracing),  the Radia
Perlman and That Tom Limoncelli.*
*It's more for Sysadmins & DevOps but cool stuff about the OS is cool, and
understanding how our Apps affect Sysadmins is good too.*

Note NO NOVEMBER tech meeting -
 2nd Tuesday in November in a Leap year is Election Day
- I presume most people will be watching a different channel that night.
Do we want a different night or week ? We usually do social in December.

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[Boston.pm-announce] tech meeting THIS TUESDAY - flamegraph.pl A visualization for Profiler output

[Bill Ricker]

Tues Sept 13th, MIT room E51-376 7.pm - Brendan Gregg's FlameGraphs (Bill
Ricker, moderator)
[image: cpu-mysql-crop-250.png]
Brendan Gregg's FlameGraph profiler visualizationI stumbled on a link to a
set of posts and hand-drawn 'zines' about Linux debugging and 'doing'
software at jvns.ca/zines/ . The Linux Debugging zine includes several 'old
friend' tools (which gives me confidence in this person's opinions) and
also included new or new to me options and tools, and specifically enthused
over Brendan Gregg's invention FlameGraphs. Brendan invented these to make
sense of profile stack samples of MySql, which produced so much data that
he had to invent a new way to visualize ... with Perl, naturally. Tim Bunce
has bundled and enhanced FlameGraphs into CPAN NYTProf, but it's usable
with and profiler capturing stack frames. Works with any profiler giving
full stack traces with symbols ( Dtrace, perf, SystemTrap, OS X
Instroments, Xperf.exe, NYTProf for Perl ).
We will watch a video by the author and play with the source code.

We will *not* be staying late since I need to be elsewhere by 10pm.
I may roll-tape a little earlier than usual to make sure we have time to
choose between exploring the code or web extras.


   - Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
   building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
   nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
   <http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions>).
   - Talk begins at 7:30.
   - Refreshments in the hallway prior.
   - *RSVP for count* encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com
   or Boston-PM list <http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Mailing+Lists>, by
   4pm Tuesday.


(*NOTE: **Note NO NOVEMBER tech meeting - 2nd Tuesday in November in a Leap
year is Election Day - I presume most people will be watching a different
channel that night.)*

Future - Winter/Spring reservations
*If you have a demo or talk idea, please, when would you like to present?
Doesn't need to fill the full time.*

Confirmed room assignments courtesy of MIT
*Tentative Confirmed*: (subject to academic schedule change)
Tues Oct 11th, room E51-376
​** NOV ** (2nd Tuesday in November in a Leap year is Election Day, i think
we'll skip, that'll be a busy news night for folks. Worse competition than
World Series or Olympics. We can pick an alternate date or do a weekend
social or off-week social.)
Tues Dec 13th, room E51-376

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[Boston.pm-announce] No August Tech meeting

[Bill Ricker]

Since most people have something else happening in August - including
potential speakers and yours truly - August is cancelled.

Do you have something to present? Taking reservations for Fall speakers!

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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] Tech meeting Tuesday 7/12 - CPAN Contribution live Demo / hack

[Bill Ricker]

Our ?biennial? hackathon to support our adopted Damian module,
Config::Std is our July topic.

• https://metacpan.org/release/Config-Std
• https://github.com/n1vux/Config-Std-Perl

We have a new old  bug -- prior deprecation of literal '{' becomes
fatal in 5.25 dev release for 5.26, coming in 2017.
   https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=114342
So this *needs* fix this year.

If there are other RT tickets we can handle, great !

You'll want to perlbrew a 5.25 or blead-perl if you want to play along.


__ Boilerplate details __

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions =>
http://boston.pm.org/MIT+Directions ).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 second door, not the
squarish 372 first door that we had some terms.)



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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech meeting Tuesday 7/12 - CPAN Contribution live Demo / hack

[Bill Ricker]

Our ?biennial? hackathon to support our adopted Damian module, Config::Std
is our July topic.
https://metacpan.org/release/Config-Std
https://github.com/n1vux/Config-Std-Perl

We have a new old  bug -- prior deprecation of literal { becomes fatal in
5.26, coming soon
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=114342

You'll want to perlbrew a 5.25 or blead-perl if you want to play along.


​Usual details, MIT E51-376,  7-730ish, ​...

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[Boston.pm-announce] Fwd: [pm_groups] LinkedIn and Facebook Perl/Perl6 Advocacy Group Invitation

[Bill Ricker]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Tomas Hood 
Date: Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 2:28 PM
Subject: [pm_groups] LinkedIn and Facebook Perl/Perl6 Advocacy Group
Invitation
To: PM Groups 


The LinkedIn Perl/Perl6 Advocacy Group Invitation

Are you a Perl programmer?  Are you interested in learning more about Perl
(and, especially, the new Perl 6 programming language)?  If so, please
consider joining and participating in the (newly-recreated) Perl 6 Advocacy
LinkedIn Group.  The correct URL is:

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8546693

We are just getting restarted, so feel free to introduce yourself, and give
some background on your use of Perl, and what you are interested in,
regarding Perl.

We are also on Facebook, here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/perl.mongers/

May Perl become ever more relevant in the programming community!

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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday (TOMORROW) : Testing Modern Perl

[Bill Ricker]

​The 14th is as late as the 1st Tuesday ever comes in the month ...
However, it's worth the wait.
We have a live speaker !

​RSVP appreciated but not required.​

​As seen on http://boston.pm.org/ ,  ​
2nd Tuesday, June 14th. Tim King: Testing Modern Perl with Test::Class 
<http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Calendar>MIT E51-376 aka 2 Amherst St,
Cambridge, usual times: gather 7ish, talk 7:30 .

​(This is Perl 5, not part of our Perl 6 season.)

Being on the 14th ​means we're back-to-back, Boston.pm 2nd-Tuesday /
> 3rd-Wednesday BLU.ORG;
> *BLU* has on June 15th
>   "*Project Atomic*: A Docker-based project for creating and running
> applications in Linux containers"
>http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2016-jun on the same floor, other
> hallway.
> ​( gloss: Containers are light-weight pseudo virtualization and
> deployment. Hot topic in cloud management. ) ​
>



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[Boston.pm-announce] It's Next Week !

[Bill Ricker]

Today is as late as the 1st Tuesday ever comes in the month ...
... so our Tech Meeting is *NEXT* week.

However, it's worth the wait.
We have a live speaker !

​As seen on http://boston.pm.org/ ,  ​
2nd Tuesday, June 14th. Tim King: Testing Modern Perl with Test::Class 
<http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Calendar>MIT E51-376 aka 2 Amherst St,
Cambridge, usual times: gather 7ish, talk 7:30 .

​(This is Perl 5, not part of our Perl 6 season.)

Being on the 14th ​means we're back-to-back, Boston.pm 2nd-Tuesday /
3rd-Wednesday BLU.ORG;
*BLU* has on June 15th
  "*Project Atomic*: A Docker-based project for creating and running
applications in Linux containers"
   http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2016-jun on the same floor, other
hallway.
​( gloss: Containers are light-weight pseudo virtualization and deployment.
Hot topic in cloud management. ) ​

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[Boston.pm-announce] NO Meeting Tuesday

[Bill Ricker]

Tech Meeting Tonight is CANCELED.

Due to family stuff and work, i don't have a topic to present and thus no
advance publicity.
So rather than fake it ...

​We do have a Speaker ​and Topic for June -- Tim King, a colleague of Tom's
and mine, will present testing Modern Perl with Test::Class etc.

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[Boston.pm-announce] Meeting Tuesday ...

[Bill Ricker]

details later ...

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[Boston.pm-announce] Fwd: Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - Containers, Docker, and Kubernetes on Linux

[Bill Ricker]

For those whose Perl runs on a Cloud server that isn't Azure ...

The folks meeting on the other day on the other week will discuss a couple
of the hot new lightweight virtualization tools.


-- Forwarded message --
From: Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org>
Date: Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:43 AM
Subject: Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - Containers,
Docker, and Kubernetes on Linux
To: annou...@blu.org, gnhlug-disc...@gnhlug.org


When:  April 20, 2016 7PM (6:30PM for Q)
Topic: Containers, Docker, and Kubernetes on Linux
Moderators: brian Delacey, Kurt Keville, Michael Splain ,
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 315 ***
### Please note that room has changed from last month


Summary:

Managing large clusters of Docker containers

Abstract:

Brian DeLacey will discuss and demonstrate the basics of Containers and
Docker. We'll show deployment of some containerized code in the Go
language. Kurt Keville will cover related concepts of clusters and the
evolution of scalable systems.

Mike Splain, Lead DevOps engineer at Barkly, will discuss and
demonstrate Kurbernetes. You can read more on his recent work at this
blog post: (see links on the BLU website)

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

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[Boston.pm-announce] Meeting - TONIGHT April 12th - i18n and HTML (WebApp Internationalization Perl 5)

[Bill Ricker]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com> wrote:
*​"i18n** and HTML"*†
Richard "Ricky" Morse
Tuesday, ​4/12 7ish PM, MIT E51-376

​Some short observations, including code, on dealing with a multi-lingual
website. Mention, and possibly discussion, will be made of Plack, GNU’s
Gettext and the PO file, Dom::Tiny (with a possible 1-minute excursion into
HTML::Parser), Locale::PO (and various rewritings), the CLDR, and the
Locales module.​

(​There will be Code.)​

†​i18n = Internationalization , a very old software abbrev.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization​
​http://www.i18nguy.com/origini18n.html​

​

>
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>
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>building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
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>- Talk begins at 7:30.
>- Refreshments in the hallway prior.
>- RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com
>or Boston-PM list <http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Mailing+Lists>, by
>4pm Tuesday.
>
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[Boston.pm-announce] Meeting - Tuesday April 12th - i18n and HTML (WebApp Internationalization Perl 5)

[Bill Ricker]

*​"i18n** and HTML"*†
Richard "Ricky" Morse
Tuesday, ​4/12 7ish PM, MIT E51-376

​Some short observations, including code, on dealing with a multi-lingual
website. Mention, and possibly discussion, will be made of Plack, GNU’s
Gettext and the PO file, Dom::Tiny (with a possible 1-minute excursion into
HTML::Parser), Locale::PO (and various rewritings), the CLDR, and the
Locales module.​

(​There will be Code.)​

†​i18n = Internationalization , a very old software abbrev.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization​
​http://www.i18nguy.com/origini18n.html​

​

*Boilerplate details*

   - Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
   building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
   nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
   ).
   - Talk begins at 7:30.
   - Refreshments in the hallway prior.
   - RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
   Boston-PM list , by 4pm
   Tuesday.


(*NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 second door, not the squarish
372 first door that we had some terms.)*

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[Boston.pm-announce] TONIGHT - Tech Meeting - Perl 6 parallel and async features !

[Bill Ricker]

TONIGHT.
Note: MIT E51 has free off-street parking after 3pm, easy-off/easy-on from
major highways via Mem Drive / Land Blvd. Detour no longer in effect.

On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 11:21 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> ​Trying again, we were snowed out in January ... can we dig out in time
> this week ? ​
>

Theme: Perl 6 for Xmas is "Sixmas"
​ continues

2016
​Feb. 9th  ​ - MIT  - E51-376
Perl 6 -
​ now with Parallel and Async primitives that work ?!​
(Perl 6 is here: Part
​4​
) *Jonathan Worthington*
Lead Dev of Rakudo Perl 6 and founder of MoarVM
[appearing via tape delay]
"Parallelism and concurrency are different, though often confused.
Asynchrony adds yet another concept into the mix. And there are dozens of
different approaches to working with these concepts. How do we identify
what kind of problem we're dealing with, and pick an approach to solving it?
"In this session, I'll look at a range of different problems - some
parallel, some concurrent - and show the approaches that may be taken to
solve them. And, since I've been working on the Perl 6 parallelism and
concurrency features, I'll show how these solutions look in Perl 6."


... and any comments from anyone who's downloaded it and messed with it
since Sixmas 

(Note, word is if you had an old RakudoBrew, it needs removal and re-clone
for the release
<http://www.learningperl6.com/2016/02/06/dont-install-over-your-existing-perl-6>
.)


perl6.org



*Boilerplate details*

   - Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
   building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
   nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
   <http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions>).
   - Talk begins at 7:30.
   ​ Gather 7​ish
   - Refreshments in the hallway prior.
   ​ 7:15ish.​
   - RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
   Boston-PM list <http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Mailing+Lists>, by 4pm
   Tuesday.


(*NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 second door, not the squarish
372 first door that we had some terms.)*

Would you like to present for Boston.pm? See our Presenter's Guide
<http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Presenters+Guide>

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[Boston.pm-announce] Tuesday - Tech Meeting - Perl 6 parallel and async features !

[Bill Ricker]

​Trying again, we were snowed out in January ... can we dig out in time
this week ? ​

Theme: Perl 6 for Xmas is "Sixmas"
​ continues

2016
​Feb. 9th  ​ - MIT  - E51-376
Perl 6 -
​ now with Parallel and Async primitives that work ?!​
(Perl 6 is here: Part
​4​
) *Jonathan Worthington*
Lead Dev of Rakudo Perl 6 and founder of MoarVM
[appearing via tape delay]
"Parallelism and concurrency are different, though often confused.
Asynchrony adds yet another concept into the mix. And there are dozens of
different approaches to working with these concepts. How do we identify
what kind of problem we're dealing with, and pick an approach to solving it?
"In this session, I'll look at a range of different problems - some
parallel, some concurrent - and show the approaches that may be taken to
solve them. And, since I've been working on the Perl 6 parallelism and
concurrency features, I'll show how these solutions look in Perl 6."


... and any comments from anyone who's downloaded it and messed with it
since Sixmas 

(Note, word is if you had an old RakudoBrew, it needs removal and re-clone
for the release
<http://www.learningperl6.com/2016/02/06/dont-install-over-your-existing-perl-6>
.)


perl6.org


>
>
> *Boilerplate details*
>
>- Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
>building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
>nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
><http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions>).
>- Talk begins at 7:30.
>​ Gather 7​ish
>- Refreshments in the hallway prior.
>​ 7:15ish.​
>- RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com
>or Boston-PM list <http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Mailing+Lists>, by
>4pm Tuesday.
>
>
> (*NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 second door, not the squarish
> 372 first door that we had some terms.)*
>
> Would you like to present for Boston.pm? See our Presenter's Guide
> <http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Presenters+Guide>
>
>


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[Boston.pm-announce] Tomorrow=Tuesday - Tech Meeting - Parallelism, Concurrency, and Asynchrony in Perl 6

[Bill Ricker]

> Theme: Perl 6 for Xmas is "Sixmas"
​ continues

2016 Jan. 12th  ​ - MIT  - E51-376
[image: external image camelia-logo.png]
Note -
​Does Patch Tuesday or State of the Union / Election Tuesday inconvenience
anyone
​?​
(Perl 6 is here: Part
​4​
)
​ ​
January 12th MIT  Room E51-376Parallelism, Concurrency, and Asynchrony in
Perl 6.

*Jonathan Worthington*
Lead Dev of Rakudo Perl 6 and founder of MoarVM
[appearing via tape delay]

"Parallelism and concurrency are different, though often confused.
Asynchrony adds yet another concept into the mix. And there are dozens of
different approaches to working with these concepts. How do we identify
what kind of problem we're dealing with, and pick an approach to solving it?
 "In this session, I'll look at a range of different problems - some
parallel, some concurrent - and show the approaches that may be taken to
solve them. And, since I've been working on the Perl 6 parallelism and
concurrency features, I'll show how these solutions look in Perl 6."

... and any comments from anyone who's downloaded it and messed with it
since Sixmas 

(Note, word is if you had an old RakudoBrew, it needs removal and re-clone
for the release.)
​



> perl6.org
>
>
>
> *Boilerplate details*
>
>- Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
>building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
>nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
><http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions>).
>- Talk begins at 7:30.
>​ Gather 7​ish
>- Refreshments in the hallway prior.
>​ 7:15ish.​
>- RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com
>or Boston-PM list <http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Mailing+Lists>, by
>4pm Tuesday.
>
>
> (*NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 second door, not the squarish
> 372 first door that we had some terms.)*
>
> Would you like to present for Boston.pm? See our Presenter's Guide
> <http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Presenters+Guide>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
>
>

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[Boston.pm-announce] Tomorrow: Tech Meeting, Tues 11/10 : Perl 6

[Bill Ricker]

November Next Meeting: 2nd Tuesday
Autumn Theme: Perl 6 for Xmas​[image: external image camelia-logo.png]
Get Ready To PartyTue Nov 10 2015 MIT E51-376 9.30pm
*Larry Wall* (appearing by tape delay)
Continuing our season series for the December 2015 launch of Perl 6.0.0 ...
this is an introduction to Perl6 by comparison to Perl5 and Tolkien,
Larry's 2015 conference talk.
It was the pre-announcement of the "yes *this* Christmas" release.

perl6.org​


We'll have working examples in live Perl6 (Rakudo Perl 6
<http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo/>), for kibitzing and tinkering, plus
​Our usual lively discussion.

Program notes:

   - Fall Theme: We're planning to have several Perl 6 <http://perl6.org/>
   talks this Fall/Winter, building up to the Perl 6 formal release at
   Christmas, including:
  - P6 Regex & Grammars
  - P6 Concurrency and Asynchrony
  - If you have any Perl 6 code to share, maybe as a mini talk before
  main talk, or as an intermission, if it fits with a scheduled p6 talk!
   - Anyone with things to talk about at future meetings contact Bill
   and/or Tom. We can fit short Perl 5 topics in too !

​*Boilerplate details*

   - Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
   building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
   nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
   <http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions>).
   - Talk begins at 7:30.
   - Refreshments in the hallway prior.
   - RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
   Boston-PM list <http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Mailing+Lists>, by 4pm
   Tuesday.
   -


(*NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 second door, not the squarish
372 first door that we had some terms.)*


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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] Tomorrow: Tech Meeting, Tues 11/10 : Perl 6

[Bill Ricker]

Darn, you'd think i'd remember to fix the typo when reposting the
pre-annoncecement.  7.30 TO 9.30 !!

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> November Next Meeting: 2nd Tuesday
> Autumn Theme: Perl 6 for Xmas​[image: external image camelia-logo.png]
> Get Ready To PartyTue Nov 10 2015 MIT E51-376
> ​7​
> .30pm
> *Larry Wall* (appearing by tape delay)
> Continuing our season series for the December 2015 launch of Perl 6.0.0 ...
> this is an introduction to Perl6 by comparison to Perl5 and Tolkien,
> Larry's 2015 conference talk.
> It was the pre-announcement of the "yes *this* Christmas" release.
>
> perl6.org​
>
>
> We'll have working examples in live Perl6 (Rakudo Perl 6
> <http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo/>), for kibitzing and tinkering,
> plus
> ​Our usual lively discussion.
>
> Program notes:
>
>- Fall Theme: We're planning to have several Perl 6 <http://perl6.org/>
>talks this Fall/Winter, building up to the Perl 6 formal release at
>Christmas, including:
>   - P6 Regex & Grammars
>   - P6 Concurrency and Asynchrony
>   - If you have any Perl 6 code to share, maybe as a mini talk before
>   main talk, or as an intermission, if it fits with a scheduled p6 talk!
>- Anyone with things to talk about at future meetings contact Bill
>and/or Tom. We can fit short Perl 5 topics in too !
>
> ​*Boilerplate details*
>
>- Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
>building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
>nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
><http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions>).
>- Talk begins at 7:30.
>- Refreshments in the hallway prior.
>- RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com
>or Boston-PM list <http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Mailing+Lists>, by
>4pm Tuesday.
>-
>
>
> (*NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 second door, not the squarish
> 372 first door that we had some terms.)*
>
>
> --
> Bill Ricker
> bill.n1...@gmail.com
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
>



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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting, Tues 11/10 : Perl 6

[Bill Ricker]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Tue Nov 10 2015 MIT E51-376 9.30pm


​TYPO 7.30 talk (gather 7ish)​



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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting, Tues 11/10 : Perl 6

[Bill Ricker]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com> wrote:
November Next Meeting: 2nd Tuesday
Autumn Theme: Perl 6 for Xmas​[image: external image camelia-logo.png]
Get Ready To PartyTue Nov 10 2015 MIT E51-376 9.30pm
*Larry Wall* (appearing by tape delay)
Continuing our season series for the December 2015 launch of Perl 6.0.0 ...
this is an introduction to Perl6 by comparison to Perl5 and Tolkien,
Larry's 2015 conference talk.
It was the pre-announcement of the "yes *this* Christmas" release.

perl6.org​


We'll have working examples in live Perl6 (Rakudo Perl 6
<http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo/>), for kibitzing and tinkering, plus
​Our usual lively discussion.

Program notes:

   - Fall Theme: We're planning to have several Perl 6 <http://perl6.org/>
   talks this Fall/Winter, building up to the Perl 6 formal release at
   Christmas, including:
  - P6 Regex & Grammars
  - P6 Concurrency and Asynchrony
  - If you have any Perl 6 code to share, maybe as a mini talk before
  main talk, or as an intermission, if it fits with a scheduled p6 talk!
   - Anyone with things to talk about at future meetings contact Bill
   and/or Tom. We can fit short Perl 5 topics in too !

​*Boilerplate details*

   - Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
   building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
   nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
   <http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions>).
   - Talk begins at 7:30.
   - Refreshments in the hallway prior.
   - RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
   Boston-PM list <http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Mailing+Lists>, by 4pm
   Tuesday.
   -


(*NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 second door, not the squarish
372 first door that we had some terms.)*

-- 



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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting, Tues 10/13 : Perl 6

[Bill Ricker]

 *October* Next Meeting: 2nd Tuesday Oct 13 - Perl 6 is almost here
<http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Calendar>
​Autumn Theme: Perl 6 for Xmas
Tuesday October 13, 2015 7:30-9:30pm @ MIT E51-376 "Perl 6 - A Dynamic
Language for Mere Mortals" *Author* - *Ovid* (Curtis Poe).
*Abstract* This month Boston.pm presents a recorded talk by Ovid (Curtis
Poe, noted Perl author/blogger/consultant) with live code examples prepared
and demonstrated by Bill Ricker. Ovid describes his talk as, "Perl 6
<http://perl6.org/> is a great language, but sometimes the enthusiasts talk
about the crazy, scary things you can do with it. In this talk, I discuss
how easy it is to really use."

We'll have working examples in live Perl6 (Rakudo Perl 6
<http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo/>), both copied from the main
presentation to play with immediately on our screen, for kibitzing and
tinkering, plus some other examples to try.

Program notes:

   - Fall Theme: We're planning to have several Perl 6 <http://perl6.org/>
   talks this Fall/Winter, building up to the Perl 6 formal release at
   Christmas, including:
  - P6 Regex & Grammars
  - P6 Concurrency and Asynchrony
  - If you have any Perl 6 code to share, maybe as a mini talk before
  main talk, or as an intermission, if it fits with a scheduled p6 talk!
   - Anyone with things to talk about at future meetings contact Bill
   and/or Tom. We can fit short Perl 5 topics in too !

​*Boilerplate details*

   - Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
   building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
   nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
   <http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions>).
   - Talk begins at 7:30.
   - Refreshments in the hallway prior.
   - RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
   Boston-PM list <http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Mailing+Lists>, by 4pm
   Tuesday.
   -


(*NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 second door, not the squarish
372 first door that we had some terms.)*

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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting: Perl 5.22 & Modern Perl: TUESDAY

[Bill Ricker]

by the time you read this, it will ALREADY be TUESDAY
even though it feels like Monday.

RSVP if you can come please.


On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Note : Our meeting is as early as possible in the month *and* the day
> after Labor Day so it will feel like a Monday.
> ​Tuesday September 8th, 2015 E51-376*
> Perl 5.22 new features
> Checking out what's new in the newest stable Perl 5. (& lightning survey
> of latest Modern Perl developments )
>
> Program notes -
>
>- Anyone with things to talk about at future meetings, contact Bill
>&/or Tom.
>- We're hoping to have some Perl 6 talks this fall/winter, since Perl
>6 is actually releasing for Christmas, they say. If you have any Perl 6
>code to share, maybe as a mini talk before main talk, please !
>
> ​
>
> ​
> *Boilerplate details*
>
>- Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
>building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
>nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
><http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions>).
>- Talk begins at 7:30.
>- Refreshments in the hallway prior.
>- RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
>Boston-PM list <http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Mailing+Lists>, by 4pm
>Tuesday.
>
>
> (*NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 second door, not the squarish
> 372 first door that we had some terms.)*
>
> Would you like to present for Boston.pm? See our Presenter's Guide
> <http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Presenters+Guide>
>
> ​
>
> ​Future - Summer/Fall 2015 reservations
> *If you have a demo or talk idea, please, when would you like to present?
> Doesn't need to fill the full time.*
>
> Confirmed room assignments courtesy of MIT
>
> Tue 10/13/2015 E51-376 TENTATIVE
> Tue 11/10/2015 E51-376 TENTATIVE
> Tue 12/08/2015 E51-376 TENTATIVE​
>
>


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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting: Perl 5.22 & Modern Perl: TUESDAY

[Bill Ricker]

Note : Our meeting is as early as possible in the month *and* the day after
Labor Day so it will feel like a Monday.
​Tuesday September 8th, 2015 E51-376*
Perl 5.22 new features
Checking out what's new in the newest stable Perl 5. (& lightning survey of
latest Modern Perl developments )

Program notes -

   - Anyone with things to talk about at future meetings, contact Bill &/or
   Tom.
   - We're hoping to have some Perl 6 talks this fall/winter, since Perl 6
   is actually releasing for Christmas, they say. If you have any Perl 6 code
   to share, maybe as a mini talk before main talk, please !

​

​
*Boilerplate details*

   - Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
   building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
   nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
   ).
   - Talk begins at 7:30.
   - Refreshments in the hallway prior.
   - RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
   Boston-PM list , by 4pm
   Tuesday.


(*NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 second door, not the squarish
372 first door that we had some terms.)*

Would you like to present for Boston.pm? See our Presenter's Guide


​

​Future - Summer/Fall 2015 reservations
*If you have a demo or talk idea, please, when would you like to present?
Doesn't need to fill the full time.*

Confirmed room assignments courtesy of MIT

Tue 10/13/2015 E51-376 TENTATIVE
Tue 11/10/2015 E51-376 TENTATIVE
Tue 12/08/2015 E51-376 TENTATIVE​

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[Boston.pm-announce] Social Meeting, Tuesday, Aug 11 (2nd advance notice)

[Bill Ricker]

​
​
Current and former habitués of Boston.PM are invited to gather at Sunset
Grill and Tap in Allston on our usual Second Tuesday to send Ronald, our
former Facilitator, off in style.

​
Ronald wrote :

 As Uri mentioned on the announcement list, we would like to have a social
 meeting on Tuesday, Aug 11, so that I can say goodbye to all of you,
 because I am moving to Minneapolis next month!
 ​​   As an extra enticement, I will be bringing some unclaimed Perl Monger
 shirts from 2006.
(It's been a while since I made it to a meeting, so, for those of you
 who
 may not remember me, I was the leader of Boston.pm from 1999 to 2008. :)
Ronald​

 ​
​
*​Location*:  Sunset Grill and Tap in Allston. 130 Brighton Avenue (at
Harvard Ave).
*When*: Tuesday, Aug 11th, 7ish if not sooner ? til whenever ?
*How*: short walk (7min/0.4mi) from Packards Tnr on B-line trolley
(CommBrighton)
or even shorter walk (4min/0.2mi) from the next stop after
(CommHarvard),
or 57A bus drops across the street (outbound)
*Parking*: In Allston? ROFL. Take the T, Über, taxi, pedicab, or bike.
   Note that MBTA is converting to Pay-by-phone or pay-by-plate if parking
at end-of-line.
   Seriously, there is one small public parking lot very nearby off Harvard
Ave  behind DragonWok/Asiana/Garlic'n'Lemons/Padaria. 50+spaces plus 3♿.
  (Also note many parking meters are running later in the evening now.)

*Please RSVP* on boston...@pm.org so Uri can get a head count and reserve
space for us.

(watch this space for any details)
​
​​
​cc: Ronald, Uri, Boston-PM​

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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] No meeting Tuesday

[Bill Ricker]

​Reminder:

We don't have a speaker and it's summer.

 However, if you want to see the continuation of Federico's SD experiment,
 his 0.2 version of the talk with more working is at BLU.org on the other
 hallway on Wednesday.





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[Boston.pm-announce] No meeting Tuesday

[Bill Ricker]

We don't have a speaker and it's summer.

However, if you want to see the continuation of Federico's SD experiment,
his 0.2 version of the talk with more working is at BLU.org on the other
hallway on Wednesday.

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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] Tech meeting - SD card (in)security with Perl - Federico's Lab

[Bill Ricker]

*​Tuesday June 9th, 2015​ (tomorrow)​*
Topic:
* SD card (in​​)security with Perl
http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Calendar*
Time: 7:00p - 10:00p (talk 7:30)
Classroom: E51-376
Speaker:




*Federico Lucifredi ​Federico will be attempting access to the CPU embedded
in the SD storage card, using Perl scripts for his attack. ​*

 Boilerplate details

 Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT building
 E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!] nearer to
 Kendall Sq than Mass Ave.
 PLENTY of FREE Offstreet parking, see directions on the
 Wiki http://boston.pm.org/MIT+Directions
 http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions

 Talk begins at 7:30.
 Refreshments in the hallway prior.
 RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
 Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

 (NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 where we were in summer, not
 the squarish 372 we had last winter/spring.)
 http://boston.pm.org/




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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech meeting - SD card (in)security with Perl - Federico's Lab

[Bill Ricker]

​*​*

*​Tuesday June 9th, 2015*
Topic:* SD card (in)security with Perl
http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Calendar*
Time: 7:00p - 10:00p (talk 7:30)
Classroom: E51-376
Speaker: *Federico Lucifredi *

*Boilerplate details*

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT building
E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!] nearer to
Kendall Sq than Mass Ave.
PLENTY of FREE Offstreet parking, see directions on the
Wiki http://boston.pm.org/MIT+Directions
http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions

Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

(NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 where we were in summer, not the
squarish 372 we had last winter/spring.)
http://boston.pm.org/

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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] Social meeting tomorrow ?

[Bill Ricker]

Ok, let's meet at REDBONES (DAVIS SQ) 7ish TONIGHT in lieu of meeting.

bill

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote:

 So far i've got 2 votes for Redbones and one for CBC. Any further votes
 before i count?

 On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote:

 Since we don't have a speaker for this month, how about meeting for a
 social on Tuesday ?

 Our usual haunts are either Cambridge Beer Co (One Kendall, walking
 distance from Kendall Sq T) or Redbones (Davis Sq) .

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[Boston.pm-announce] April meeting fREW's Miscellaneous Debris: Docker, DBIC, and Dogma

[Bill Ricker]

​[Repeating since only some people see late-Friday emails on work system]

This is the odd month where 2nd Tuesday comes as late as possible.

Tuesday April 14, 2015
Topic:
​*​*
*​Miscellaneous Debris: ​*
*Docker, DBIC, and Dogma*.
Time: 7:00p - 10:00p (talk 7:30)
Classroom: E51-376
Speaker:
​*​*
*Arthur Axel fREW Schmidt*

Prolific CPAN author fREW  will share his take on

   - Docker
   - Tools (vim, zsh, more)
   - DBIC and DBIC Helpers
   - drinkup (an interesting tool I wrote)
   - Dogma (my take on other people's dogma and what I think it should be)


​*Boilerplate details*

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT building
E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!] nearer to
Kendall Sq than Mass Ave.
PLENTY of FREE Offstreet parking, see directions on the
Wiki http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions

Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

(NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 where we were in summer, not the
squarish 372 we had last winter/spring.)

Future - Spring 2015 (Confirmed room assignments courtesy of MIT)
Tuesday, April 14, 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m., ROOM: E51-376
Tuesday, May 12, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m., ROOM: E51-376


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[Boston.pm-announce] April meeting Docker, DBIC, and Dogma

[Bill Ricker]

This is the odd month where 2nd Tuesday comes as late as possible.

Tuesday April 14, 2015
Topic: Docker, DBIC, and Dogma.
Time: 7:00p - 10:00p (talk 7:30)
Classroom: E51-376
Speaker: Arthur Axel fREW Schmidt

Prolific CPAN author fREW  will share his take on

   - Docker
   - Tools (vim, zsh, more)
   - DBIC and DBIC Helpers
   - drinkup (an interesting tool I wrote)
   - Dogma (my take on other people's dogma and what I think it should be)


​*Boilerplate details*

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT building
E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!] nearer to
Kendall Sq than Mass Ave.
PLENTY of FREE Offstreet parking, see directions on the
Wiki http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions

Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

(NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 where we were in summer, not the
squarish 372 we had last winter/spring.)

Future - Spring 2015 (Confirmed room assignments courtesy of MIT)
Tuesday, April 14, 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m., ROOM: E51-376
Tuesday, May 12, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m., ROOM: E51-376


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[Boston.pm-announce] Fwd: [YAPC::NA Announce] Schedule and Master classes online

[Bill Ricker]

For those on the conference circuit ...

40 year old travel notes re SLC -- the Great Salt Lake is a wonder of the
earth. Do go float *on* it. But rinse yourself and your bathing suit
thoroughly afterwards. Though non-believers, we were allowed to witness
Choir rehearsal at The Tabernacle; one of the great choirs, and the public
space is amazing architecture. In June there may still be skiing up-country
there, unless they got the snow drought that California got?

 If you're presenting, please do a dress rehearsal of your talk at
Boston.PM in May - or reprise for us when you get back.
(If not presenting, you can report back with your notes.)

​- bill
​

-- Forwarded message --
​​
F
​
rom: YAPC Admin ad...@yapcna.org
Date: Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 6:31 PM
Subject: [YAPC::NA Announce] Schedule and Master classes online
To: annou...@yapcna.org


 
YAPC::NA::2015 General Information


June 8 - 10, 2015
Salt Lake City, Utah
Little America Hotel
Regular cost is $250/person
http://yapcna.org/



Schedule released


Over seventy talks have been accepted for YAPC::NA::2015 covering a wide
variety of topics including Haskell, Mojolicious, Moose, CPAN, Perl 5 and
Perl 6, and more. After registering, create your personal schedule by
visiting http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/schedule and selecting the sessions
of interest to you.



Master classes for focused topic discovery


Master classes provide the opportunity for more in-depth learning on
specific topics by qualified instructors. These classes are scheduled the
day before and two days after the main conference dates and have an added
cost. The classes being offered this year are:
* From Zero to Perl
* Introduction to Moose
* Introduction to Go
* Web Application Development using Perl, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
* Programming the web with Dancer
* Practical Career Development for Perl Developers

To learn more about these sessions, the instructors, or to register visit
http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/masters.html



Hotel room availability


Reserve your room at Little America Hotel prior to May 5 and receive the
conference room rate. Use the link in the sidebar of
http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/location.html to take advantage of this offer.

If you experience difficulty with their registration site, please contact
Cynthia Shala at 801-258-6761.

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[Boston.pm-announce] March Meeting Tuesday - Messaging Middleware with AMQP and RabbitMQ

[Bill Ricker]

March 10, 2015
Topic: Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ and RabbitMQ
Date: Tue 03/10/15
Time: 7:00p - 10:00p
Classroom: E51-376
Speaker: Mike Stemle, Jr.

Mike Stemle, Jr. discusses his experiences at ThinkGeek working on and
using Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ, an interface library to RabbitMQ , an open
source message broker that implements the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol
(AMQP).

Abstract
Being a Perl Shop is hard sometimes, and as a result you sometimes miss out
on some of the super-awesome third party support that other - some would
say, weaker (but of course we wouldn’t say that, we’re classy) - languages
enjoy. So I had to get my hands dirty. As such, I contributed to the
development of the Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ module so that we at ThinkGeek could
properly integrate our Perl applications with this MQ server.

[ RabbitMQ-example-routing.png  and other pix/links on
http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Calendar]

I will walk you through a very high level of the integration itself, some
of the challenges we faced, and how we overcame them. I’ll also go through
some of the improvements I’ve made as part of the team of people
maintaining the Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ module. BEWARE, however, this talk is
not for the squeamish. There will be guts. perlguts, and they’ll be
everywhere.

About the Speaker
Mike Stemle.jpeg
Mike Stemle, Jr. is a Sr. Software Engineer with more than 16 years of
professional software experience. He’s worked in early social media,
telecom, advertising, e-commerce, and billing. He’s written things as small
as the first ever web message board for farmer.com and other things as big
as billing systems processing more than 100K transactions per hour.

Hailing from Fairfax, VA he fights the good fight along side his good pal,
Timmy, and all of the amazing folks at ThinkGeek, Inc. Mike is naturally
low in cholesterol, and only to be used as directed.

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug
Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or
prevent any disease.



​Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT building
E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!] nearer to
Kendall Sq than Mass Ave.
PLENTY of FREE Offstreet parking, see directions on the
Wiki http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions

Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

(NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 where we were in summer, not the
squarish 372 we had last winter/spring.)

Future - Spring 2015 (Confirmed room assignments courtesy of MIT)
Tuesday, April 14, 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m., ROOM: E51-376
Tuesday, May 12, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m., ROOM: E51-376
​

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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting, Jan 13 - 2014 highlights

[Bill Ricker]

Topic: *Review of 2014 Advent Calendar and Releases*

Date: Tue 01/13/15

Time: 7:00p - 10:00p

Classroom: E51-376

Speaker: B.Ricker  Greek chorus


*Boilerplate details*

   - Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
   building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
   nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
   http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions).  PLENTY of *FREE*
   PARKING that's easy off, easy on from major highways !!
   - Talk begins at 7:30.a
   - Refreshments in the hallway prior.
   - RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
   Boston-PM list http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Mailing+Lists, by 4pm
   Tuesday.


(*NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 where we were in summer, not
the squarish 372 we had last winter/spring.)*

Would you like to present for Boston.pm? See our Presenter's Guide
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[Boston.pm-announce] Fwd: december meeting preview : Hadoop with Perl !

[Bill Ricker]

*Meeting this week is NOT in Cambridge!*

*December 9*

TOPIC: *Stirring the Hive with a Perl Stick*
SPEAKER: Charles Hardin
DATE: December 9, 2014
*LOCATION: EIG Offices, Burlington. *
Address - To be verified - 10 Corporate Dr #300, Burlington, MA 01803
TIME: Usual 7-9:30 (unless corrected)

ABSTRACT
Hive provides a SQL-like interface to Hadoop. Perl can interoperate with
Hive in a variety of ways, including Hive queries through a Thrift API and
the direct incorporation of Perl into map-reduce jobs. The author has taken
a few baby steps on this journey and chooses to share the results with his
peers.

KEYWORDS: Perl, Hadoop, Hive, Big Data, Thrift, Map-Reduce.

This meeting is being hosted by EIG, Sean and Charles's employer, in both
senses of 'hosted'. This is a one-off experiment - i feel strongly about
having a balance of public transport access and easy parking; E51 is good
on both. So a carpool from MIT and/or Red Line will be available for
Car-Free commuters, talk to Bill bill.n1...@gmail.com off-list.

(ROOM E51-376 wll be cancelled for this month, see above. If I'm really
really nice i'll leave a sign there ...)


http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Calendar
​RSVP encouraged​

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[Boston.pm-announce] Perl Tech meeting Tues Oct 14th - Shell-Shocker CGI and Perl DoS bugs

[Bill Ricker]

Boston Perl Monger's 2nd Tuesday comes as late as possible this month,
so falls the day before BLU 3rd Wednesday.
   (I hear some operating system also issues patches that day, doesn't
affect me.)

TOPIC: Shell-Shocker CGI and Perl DoS bugs
DATE: Tuesday, October 14
TIME: 7:00 – 10:00 PM
ROOM: E51-376
SPEAKER: Bill Ricker (lead)

We will examine the implications for the ShellShock BASH bug for Perl
-- it's much wider than just about BASH CGI or even Perl CGI scripts
-- and also a recently discovered/fixed but comparably long-lurking
Perl DoS bug in a core module (Data::Dumper stack smash CVE-2014-4330)
and how is it possibly remotely triggerable.

The good news is ShellShocker was slightly over-hyped; unlike
Heartbleed, this one does NOT generally affect the Internet of Things,
you internet-enabled toaster is likely immune. But Windows and Mac are
not entirely immune to this Linux bug.

[ Anyone who has examined either bug or its implications is welcome to
contribute or co-present - contacting me off-list is recommended,
although in our interactive style I'll cheerfully include ambush
collaborators. ]

Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave.
 (directions http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE: we're staying in the wider room 376 where we were in summer,
after being in squarish 372 for winter/spring.)

website - boston.pm.org

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[Boston.pm-announce] Fwd: Tech Meeting 9/9 Creating And Managing a Private CPAN with Pinto Stratopan

[Bill Ricker]

TOPIC: Creating And Managing a Private CPAN with Pinto  Stratopan
DATE: September 9
TIME: 7:00 – 10:00 PM
ROOM: MIT E51-376
SPEAKER: Jeffrey Thalhammer

If you use Perl, then you have probably wrestled with CPAN. Shifting
dependencies, incompatible interfaces, and test failures in CPAN
modules can suddenly break your application, leaving your team to
chase bugs they didn't create. But managing CPAN modules doesn't have
to be painful. A private CPAN repository gives you a stable platform
for making consistent builds and managing upgrades for all your Perl
modules.

In this session, you’ll learn how to use Pinto to create a private
CPAN and build your applications with the right modules, every time.
You’ll learn about the dangers of the public CPAN and how a private
CPAN can help mitigate those risks. Finally, we’ll cover some of the
newest features of Pinto and show you a few power-user tricks to get
your private CPAN up and running quickly.

Stratopan is a startup founded by the speaker that provides Private
CPAN repositories securely hosted in the cloud. So Pinto is the tool
that facilitates creating a private repository, and Stratopan lets you
outsource the hosting of that repository.

Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer is a respected software developer, prolific
open source contributor, and tech community leader. Author of
Perl::Critic and Pinto, used by thousands of developers. Co-founder of
Stratopan and Co-organizer of the San Francisco Perl Mongers. He
consults under the brand Imaginative Software Systems.

[see http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Calendar for pretty picture of a
?dependency? graph and embedded web links. ]

Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave.
(directions http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions ).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday


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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting 9/9 Creating And Managing a Private CPAN with Pinto Stratopan

[Bill Ricker]

Early announcement before weekend email hole ...

TOPIC: Creating And Managing a Private CPAN with Pinto  Stratopan
DATE: September 9
TIME: 7:00 – 10:00 PM
ROOM: MIT E51-376
SPEAKER: Jeffrey Thalhammer

If you use Perl, then you have probably wrestled with CPAN. Shifting
dependencies, incompatible interfaces, and test failures in CPAN
modules can suddenly break your application, leaving your team to
chase bugs they didn't create. But managing CPAN modules doesn't have
to be painful. A private CPAN repository gives you a stable platform
for making consistent builds and managing upgrades for all your Perl
modules.

In this session, you’ll learn how to use Pinto to create a private
CPAN and build your applications with the right modules, every time.
You’ll learn about the dangers of the public CPAN and how a private
CPAN can help mitigate those risks. Finally, we’ll cover some of the
newest features of Pinto and show you a few power-user tricks to get
your private CPAN up and running quickly.

Stratopan is a startup founded by the speaker that provides Private
CPAN repositories securely hosted in the cloud. So Pinto is the tool
that facilitates creating a private repository, and Stratopan lets you
outsource the hosting of that repository.

Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer is a respected software developer, prolific
open source contributor, and tech community leader. Author of
Perl::Critic and Pinto, used by thousands of developers. Co-founder of
Stratopan and Co-organizer of the San Francisco Perl Mongers. He
consults under the brand Imaginative Software Systems.

[see http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Calendar for pretty picture of a
?dependency? graph and embedded web links. ]

Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave.
(directions http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions ).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday


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[Boston.pm-announce] No August Tech meeting

[Bill Ricker]

Do not go to MIT on tuesday, the tech meeting rumored to be skipped is
skipped.

[ Uri will propose a date or two for possible Social meeting in separate
message. ]

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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday after long weekend !

[Bill Ricker]

* Good thing I  sent pre-announce message early this month due to long
weekend​, as Monday message is going out late Monday.*
*​  ​N​ote that 2nd Tuesday is as early as they come this month, and if you
stretch the long weekend, it may be first day back ! *

*Next meeting Tuesday, July 8, E51-37**6*
TOPIC: *Offensive  Defensive Web User Identity*
DATE: July 8
TIME: 7:00 – 9:00 PM
ROOM: E51-376
SPEAKER: Zak Zebrowski (via Hangouts)

 *This is a Live talk by a remote speaker, who has given longer versions of
 this talk as industry training.*


This talk looks at web users from a two different perspectives: First, we
look at identifying techniques to determine web user identities from a
server perspective. Second, we will look at obfuscating techniques from a
user whom seeks to be anonymous. Perl techniques will be highlighted.

*Zak Zebrowski* is a MITRE data miner, specializing in forensic database
analysis. He is interested in all things Perl, and enjoys teaching. He
loves being outside when he's not programming.

​*Boilerplate details* ...

 ​
 ​
 Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT (
 directions http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions).
 Talk begins at 7:30.
 Refreshments in the hallway prior.
 RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com
 mebill.n1...@gmail.com or Boston-PM list, by 3
 ​ (*really 4:30 is ok*) ​
 pm Tuesday.

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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday after long weekend !

[Bill Ricker]

*I'm sending the Boston Perl Mongers Friday pre-announce message early this
month due to long weekend ... note that 2nd Tuesday is as early as they
come this month, and if you stretch the long weekend, it may be first day
back ! *

*Next meeting Tuesday, July 8, E51-37**6*
TOPIC: *Offensive  Defensive Web User Identity*
DATE: July 8
TIME: 7:00 – 9:00 PM
ROOM: E51-376
SPEAKER: Zak Zebrowski (via Hangouts)

*This is a Live talk by a remote speaker, who has given longer versions of
this talk as industry training.*


This talk looks at web users from a two different perspectives: First, we
look at identifying techniques to determine web user identities from a
server perspective. Second, we will look at obfuscating techniques from a
user whom seeks to be anonymous. Perl techniques will be highlighted.

*Zak Zebrowski* is a MITRE data miner, specializing in forensic database
analysis. He is interested in all things Perl, and enjoys teaching. He
loves being outside when he's not programming.

​*Boilerplate details* ...

   - ​
   ​
   Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT (
   directions http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions).
   - Talk begins at 7:30.
   - Refreshments in the hallway prior.
   - RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com
   mebill.n1...@gmail.com or Boston-PM list, by 3
   ​ (*really 4:30 is ok*) ​
   pm Tuesday.

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[Boston.pm-announce] Fwd: Ricardo Signes 1.21 Gigawatts Tuesday 5/13 @MIT

[Bill Ricker]

Next meeting Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Ricardo Signes 1.21 Gigawatts DATE: May 13
TIME: 7:00 – 10:00 PM
ROOM: E51-37*2 (**NOTE we're back in the squarish room 372 for
winter/spring.)*

Some talks carefully guide the listeners through the entirety of a topic,
 ​

 starting with the basics and ending with the fine details.
 That's… not the plan for this talk.
 Instead, we're going to see the highlight reel of a bunch of topics that
 ​

 caught my interest over the course of the year: a review of cool (and
 uncool)
 ​ ​
 changes in Perl, the best modules you're not using, stupid optimization
 ​ ​
 tricks, tools for handling catastrophic program failure, git scripts you'll
 ​ ​
 become dependent on, numbers stations, Zork, productivity tools, and who
 ​ ​
 knows what else.
 I will stand in place and let lightning talks strike over and over, until I
 ​

 am reduced to cinders.
 You get to witness the ordeal, and you might just learn a thing or two.


Ricardo Signes is the current project manager for Perl 5, a maintainer of
the
CPAN toolchain, part of the Moose development team, and a frequent
contributor of other free code to the CPAN. He likes to talk about code
almost as much as he likes to write it. He lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,
and works at Pobox.com, where he spends his days trying to cope with the
horrors of email.

In the spirit of a highlight reel, we will replay
​the​
 recording of Ricardo's
​one-man-show of lightning talks
to NY.pm, after which Ricardo will join us by tele-presense for *live QA*.

*Boilerplate details:*

   - Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT (
   directions http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions ).
   - Talk begins at 7:30.
   - Refreshments in the hallway prior.
   - RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to
bill.n1...@gmail.commebill.n1...@gmail.com or
   Boston-PM list, by 3pm Tuesday.

​



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[Boston.pm-announce] Boston Perl Mongers at MIT Tuesday

[Bill Ricker]

Next meeting Tuesday, March 11, 2014

TOPIC: *Interesting Small Scripts*

DATE: March 11

TIME: 7:00 - 10:00 PM

ROOM: E51-37*2 (**NOTE we're back in the squarish room 372 for
winter/spring.)*

SPEAKER: Bill and anyone else who has interesting scripts


If you have an interesting script on the web or on a thumbdrive on your
laptop, you can share too !  Otherwise it'll be all Bill's and what we find
on WWW ...



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   - Refreshments in the hallway prior.
   - RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to
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[Boston.pm-announce] Fwd: Pre-announce - Tech Meeting Tuesday

[Bill Ricker]

Tuesday (tonight or tomorrow) -

http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Calendar+2013

Tuesday November 12, 2013 E51-376

Stevan Little - A new object system for the Perl 5 core.
Description: In 2011 I started working on a project to improve the object
system in Perl 5. I wanted to take elements from Moose, as well as bring in
some more elements of the Perl 6 object system. The first version of this
work ended up suffocating under its own complexity, but after this year's
YAPC::NA I decided to come back to the project with a fresh perspective and
so far work is progressing very well.
In this talk I will walk through several examples of the proposed syntax
and feature set as well as discuss some of the underlying implementation
details. This will be an interactive talk and audience members are
encouraged to ask questions, poke holes in the design and help improve the
proposal.


(-: We're good on interactivity and hole-poking :-)

 As we have an out-of-town guest speaker, let's have a good turnout.



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[Boston.pm-announce] Tuesday Sept 10th Tech Meeting - patching CPAN

[Bill Ricker]

Tuesday, September 10, 2013, E51-376 7pm-10pm

Speaker: Bill Ricker and Tom Metro Topic: Patching and Updating a CPAN
Module

The Boston.pm adopted Damian module Config::Std has a regression with Perl
5.18 security fix in Hashes. We've received a proposed patch. We'll apply
the patch and build a CPAN upload.

Talk begins at 7:30. Refreshments in the hallway prior.
please RSVP for refreshments.

Our WIKI http://boston.pm.org http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/ will be
upgrading soon, see below.

  * Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
 (directions http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections ).
   o NOTE - Sometimes the lot has filled early, overflow is to
 Hayward lots (avoid MEDICAL RESERVED spaces!). See alternatives
 http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections
 RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to mebill.n1...@gmail.com
 or Boston-PM list, by 3pm Tuesday.

---
I would like to express my thanks to Maria and Tom for setting up the
replacement wiki at http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com that will likely soon
replace the spam-infested kwiki  as boston.pm.org.
And I would like to thank Sean for many years of hosting of the kwiki under
the Quinlan.org umbrella.

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[Boston.pm-announce] August 14th Meeting - Social - Cambridge Brewing Co

[Bill Ricker]

This is a good month to have a social meeting instead of a Technical
meeting.
Meet us at CBC Cambridge Brewing Co, a medium walk from Kendall Sq T and a
long walk from our usual E51 building for drinks and or dinner as you
choose.

I'll be there probably by 630pm, look for me by the bar. When we have
enough folks collected, we'll put in for a table.

RSVP helpful so we know to hold a extra seat for you if you're arriving
later.

CBC is in the One Kendall office park which is NOT actually at Kendall Sq.,
but is on Hampshire, just past the Draper building-bridge. CBC is on a
courtyard set back from the road. There is a pay parking garage back by the
Kendall Landmark cinema, and sporadic street parking. Taking the T is
highly recommended.

http://www.cam*brew*.com/
https://www.google.com/search?q=Cambridge+Brewing+Co

( September our topic will be making our module Perl 5.18 compatible ! )
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[Boston.pm-announce] Fwd: Tech 7/9 7pm MIT - Perl and Java, together at last ?

[Bill Ricker]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 9:25 AM
Subject: Tech 7/9 7pm MIT - Perl and Java, together at last ?
To: Boston Perl Mongers boston...@pm.org, Boston Linux and Unix 
disc...@blu.org


*Tuesday, July 9, 2013, E51-376 7pm-10pm*
speaker William Cox and David Larochelletopic Using Inline::Java with Perl

This talk is a report on inquiry begun on the [ mailing list
http://www.mail-archive.com/boston-pm@mail.pm.org/index.html#07176 ]

Talk begins at 7:30. Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP direct or on list is helpful for the above.

As an added inducement to anyone not sure if they want to come, Uri has
other plans this week so we'll be a kinder gentler audience this month.

Directions *boston*.*pm.org*/kwiki/index.cgi?MIT*Directions*


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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] NO TECH MEETING JUNE

[Bill Ricker]

REMINDER -
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote:

 I'm going to the Red Hat Summit at Hynnes Convention Center and we don't
 have a topic.
 If folks want to do a social, go right ahead.

 We have a tentative speaker(s) for July from recent discussion on mailing
 list.





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[Boston.pm-announce] NO TECH MEETING JUNE

[Bill Ricker]

I'm going to the Red Hat Summit at Hynnes Convention Center and we don't
have a topic.
If folks want to do a social, go right ahead.

We have a tentative speaker(s) for July from recent discussion on mailing
list.



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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting parse::gnaw Tuesday, May 14

[Bill Ricker]

GREG LONDON, re-writing and using parse::gnaw

Location MIT E51-376
(MITDirectionshttp://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections
)

Talk begins at 7:30. Refreshments in the hallway prior, gather 7ish

*note* back in room E51-37*6* this term.


-- bill
--

 please RSVP for refreshments.

 Our WIKI http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/

   * Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
 (directions http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections ).
   o NOTE - Sometimes the lot has filled early, overflow is to
 Hayward lots (avoid MEDICAL RESERVED spaces!). See alternatives
 http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections
 RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to 
 bill.n1...@gmail.commebill.n1...@gmail.com
 or Boston-PM list, by 3pm Tuesday.


-- Forwarded message --

 From: Greg London em...@greglondon.com
 Date: Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:38 PM
 Subject: [Boston.pm] parse::gnaw 0.600
 To: boston...@mail.pm.org


 Hello,

 Well I finally got something uploaded to cpan for next meeting.

 Tuesday, May 14, 2013, MIT E51-376 7pm-10pm

 It's rev 0.600 of my parser module Parse::Gnaw


 http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GS/GSLONDON/

  Parse-Gnaw-0.600.tar.gz


 It is a revamping of the module. The previous version had
 some issues like blowing up on recursive grammars.

 Version 0.600 solves this problem by rearchitecting the code.

 A cool new feature of the module:

 parsing multi-dimensional text blocks, not just one dimensional text.

 The following test creates a 2-D block of text and matches/doesn't match
 patterns inside teh block.



 rule('abgl', 'a','b','g','l');
 rule('abcl', 'a','b','c','l');
 rule('afkp', 'a','f','k','p');
 rule('afki', 'a','f','k','i');


 # we're going to construct a basic 2-dimensional string linked list to
 parse
 # but we're not going to run a grammar on it.
 # we're just going to see that the 2D linked list got created correctly.

 my $raw_2d_string='RAWSTRING';
 abcd
 efgh
 ijkl
 mnop
 RAWSTRING

 my
 $string1=Parse::Gnaw::LinkedListDimensions2-new(string=$raw_2d_string);
 my
 $string2=Parse::Gnaw::LinkedListDimensions2-new(string=$raw_2d_string);
 my
 $string3=Parse::Gnaw::LinkedListDimensions2-new(string=$raw_2d_string);
 my
 $string4=Parse::Gnaw::LinkedListDimensions2-new(string=$raw_2d_string);



 ok($string1-parse('abgl'),   parse 2d string with abgl rule);
 ok(not($string2-parse('abcl')),  parse 2d string with abcl rule);
 ok($string3-parse('afkp'),   parse 2d string with afkp rule);
 ok(not($string4-parse('afki')),  parse 2d string with afki rule);


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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting parse::gnaw Tuesday, May 14

[Bill Ricker]

This is your May meeting topic, a major re-fit of Greg's parser.

bill

-- Forwarded message --
From: Greg London em...@greglondon.com
Date: Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:38 PM
Subject: [Boston.pm] parse::gnaw 0.600
To: boston...@mail.pm.org


Hello,

Well I finally got something uploaded to cpan for next meeting.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013, MIT E51-376 7pm-10pm

It's rev 0.600 of my parser module Parse::Gnaw


http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GS/GSLONDON/

 Parse-Gnaw-0.600.tar.gz


It is a revamping of the module. The previous version had
some issues like blowing up on recursive grammars.

Version 0.600 solves this problem by rearchitecting the code.

A cool new feature of the module:

parsing multi-dimensional text blocks, not just one dimensional text.

The following test creates a 2-D block of text and matches/doesn't match
patterns inside teh block.



rule('abgl', 'a','b','g','l');
rule('abcl', 'a','b','c','l');
rule('afkp', 'a','f','k','p');
rule('afki', 'a','f','k','i');


# we're going to construct a basic 2-dimensional string linked list to parse
# but we're not going to run a grammar on it.
# we're just going to see that the 2D linked list got created correctly.

my $raw_2d_string='RAWSTRING';
abcd
efgh
ijkl
mnop
RAWSTRING

my $string1=Parse::Gnaw::LinkedListDimensions2-new(string=$raw_2d_string);
my $string2=Parse::Gnaw::LinkedListDimensions2-new(string=$raw_2d_string);
my $string3=Parse::Gnaw::LinkedListDimensions2-new(string=$raw_2d_string);
my $string4=Parse::Gnaw::LinkedListDimensions2-new(string=$raw_2d_string);



ok($string1-parse('abgl'),   parse 2d string with abgl rule);
ok(not($string2-parse('abcl')),  parse 2d string with abcl rule);
ok($string3-parse('afkp'),   parse 2d string with afkp rule);
ok(not($string4-parse('afki')),  parse 2d string with afki rule);







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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday Apr 9th, Embedded Perl with Federico, 7, MIT E51-376

[Bill Ricker]

Have a speaker, one RSVP, and me so far. Who else is coming?


On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote:

 *Tuesday, April 9, 2013, MIT E51-376 7pm-10pm*
 Embedded Perl with Federico

 Federico Lucifredi continues his quest to build a hardware-assisted
 automagic hard-drive wiper, using perl in an embedded device. *Shiny
 hardware! Demo! Code*!

 Location MIT E51-376 
 (MITDirectionshttp://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections)


 Talk begins at 7:30. Refreshments in the hallway prior.

 *note* back in room E51-37*6* this term.
 --

  please RSVP for refreshments.
 
  Our WIKI http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/
 
* Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
  (directions http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections ).
o NOTE - Sometimes the lot has filled early, overflow is to
  Hayward lots (avoid MEDICAL RESERVED spaces!). See alternatives
  http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections
  RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to 
  bill.n1...@gmail.commebill.n1...@gmail.com
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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday Apr 9th, Embedded Perl with Federico, 7, MIT E51-376

[Bill Ricker]

*Tuesday, April 9, 2013, MIT E51-376 7pm-10pm*
Embedded Perl with Federico

Federico Lucifredi continues his quest to build a hardware-assisted
automagic hard-drive wiper, using perl in an embedded device. *Shiny
hardware! Demo! Code*!

Location MIT E51-376
(MITDirectionshttp://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections)


Talk begins at 7:30. Refreshments in the hallway prior.

*note* back in room E51-37*6* this term.
--

 please RSVP for refreshments.

 Our WIKI http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/

   * Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
 (directions http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections ).
   o NOTE - Sometimes the lot has filled early, overflow is to
 Hayward lots (avoid MEDICAL RESERVED spaces!). See alternatives
 http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections
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[Boston.pm-announce] CANCEL Meeting Tuesday

[Bill Ricker]

Having no speaker or topic and having negative replies in the majority
(only one positive), I'm cancelling this month.

Federico has something interesting for probably April.
We need topics / speakers for other times. Please suggest something.

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[Boston.pm-announce] Meeting Tuesday ? Re: [Boston.pm] Call for Speakers

[Bill Ricker]

Repeating,  Our tentative March speaker has rescheduled probably to April.
 :-(
Anybody got something good, interesting, or perplexing  to share Tuesday ?

If not, how many folk would be interested in seeing Perl conference decks
/or videos from the web?

If not, should we switch to a Social meeting, celebrating Pi Day (3.14) a
day early?

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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] Tuesday !

[Bill Ricker]

=== Tuesday, January 8, 2013, MIT E51-376 7pm-10pm

 CPAN Maintenance - Config::STD has a bug

Hearing no volunteer for this month (*hint* pick a month a pick a topic!),
we have a bug report on the module we adopted, so this is our annual
workshop to try to fix it.

*notes*
* return to room 376 for winter/spring 2013.
* 2nd Tuesday comes as early as it can this month.

please RSVP for refreshments.

Our WIKI http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/

* Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
(directions http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections ).
** NOTE - Sometimes the lot has filled early, overflow is to Hayward lots
(avoid MEDICAL RESERVED spaces!). See alternatives MITDirections
 http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections
** RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to sender or Boston-PM list,
by 3pm Tuesday.

Talk begins at 7:30. Refreshments in the hallway prior.


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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting, DEC 11th 7pm Scott Mattocks - 'treat your code like a member of the dev team'

[Bill Ricker]

speaker Scott Mattocks
topic  “treat your code like a member of the dev team.”

“You expect your developers to communicate well; you should expect
your code to communicate well. You expect your developers to continue
working when things go slightly wrong; you should expect your code t'o
continue working when things go slightly wrong.  The core message is
language neutral. The real-world lessons that contributed to the
creation of this presentation come from GSN where we use both Perl and
PHP on a daily basis. The presentation itself (see below) has some PHP
code snippets in it, but swapping those out for Perl is easy and won't
change the subject matter. Feel free to flip through (using left and
right arrow keys). If you think this is something the group can
benefit from, let me know and I will start rewriting the code blocks.”

MIT E51-372 7-10PM


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 http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections
 RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to mebill.n1...@gmail.com
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[Boston.pm-announce] June meeting(s) - not this week

[Bill Ricker]

while we have a room, we have no speaker, only a hanful of (a)
replies, so i am going to defer our june meeting to later when folks
return from YAPC and we'll meet over a pint or two.

bill


On 5/30/12, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote:
 I'm wondering what to do about June and our usual Tech Meeting date June
 12th

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[Boston.pm-announce] June meeting(s) question ?

[Bill Ricker]

I'm wondering what to do about June and our usual Tech Meeting date June 12th

How many folk will on June 12th be
(a) available for a meeting
(b) out of town at YAPC::NA
(c) otherwise engaged

We could meet that night for a talk or drinks,
or either/both after the YAPC'ers get back.


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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Plack/PSGI Tuesday, May 8, 2012, MIT E51-372 7pm

[Bill Ricker]

Last call for refreshments RSVP in an hour ...
seen so far : BR UG REM DL EG BG

bill

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote:

 Next Meeting Tuesday, May 8, 2012, E51-372

 *Rick Morse : Getting Started with Plack/PSGI*

 This talk will be a short overview of developing simple Plack/PSGI
 websites and making them run in CGI or proxy environments.

 (This is an exciting topic, as Plack/PSGI is pretty hot these days!)

 Convene socially around 7pm, talk begins as 7:30.

 RSVP to Bill or to list be counted for refreshments, by 5pm.

- Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
(directions) http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections. Our
room is reserved 7-10pm thru May 2012.


- NOTE - Lately the lot has filled early, overflow is to Hayward lots
(avoid MEDICAL RESERVED spaces!). See alternatives on directions link above



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[Boston.pm-announce] If anyone lost a USB cord at Boston.pm

[Bill Ricker]

If anyone lost a USB cord at Boston.pm ...
... tell me what branding is on it to claim it.

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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting - Uri fixes CGI in the 21st Century, 7pm Tuesday, April 10, E51-372

[Bill Ricker]

* Tuesday, April 10,  E51-372 - Revisting the Dread CGI -- The Uri

 CGI refactored before and after

As many of you have known and seen, Uri Guttman will do code review on the
fly with anyone's code on display at pm meetings. This may seem frivolous
or whatever but it is can be useful in many cases. He has a client for his
Perl support/training services which entails lots of code and design review
and it has proven very valuable to this shop. He has obtained permission to
show one CGI script in its before any review state and after much review
and refactoring. The author of the script did almost all of the editing and
rewriting but for one sub rewrite that Uri did because it was more complex
than the author could handle. The script went through 14 revisions and it
still isn't where it should be (that means using a proper template module
like Template::Simple) but it is light years from where it was. This talk
is being called before/after. You will see some of the worst coding and
template practices ever unleashed at a boston.pm gathering. You will be in
shock at the use of globals, the lack of subs, and the redundant everything
everywhere. Then the tranquility of the after version will calm your
senses, sooth your jangled nerves and show you there really can be order in
this chaotic universe. Be prepared for coding hell and heaven! Fun is
guaranteed for all!

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   Our WIKI http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/

 * Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
   (directions http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections ).
 o NOTE - Sometimes the lot has filled early, overflow is to
   Hayward lots (avoid MEDICAL RESERVED spaces!). See alternatives
   http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections

   RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to mebill.n1...@gmail.com
   or Boston-PM list, by 3pm Tuesday.

   Talk begins at 7:30. Refreshments in the hallway prior.

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[Boston.pm-announce] Fwd: v day meeting cancelled

[Bill Ricker]

Repeating to Announce list. I concur with this message.

b

-- Forwarded message --
From: Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com
Date: Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 12:27 PM
Subject: [Boston.pm] v day meeting cancelled
To: boston...@mail.pm.org


hi all,

from the very low interest in having a meeting on v day, i decided to
cancel it this month. i will give my talk on before/after at the april
meeting. that gives you all some time to prepare for the awful to awesome
code. note that i didn't do the rewrite (actually i did a little) as most
of it was done by my client with my training and feedback. the change is
quite dramatic!

thanx,

uri

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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech meeting TONIGHT - new Web bug affects multiple languages, but not Perl

[Bill Ricker]

Next Tech Meeting Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7 – 10p.m. MIT E51-376

David Larochelle will explain the new multi-language web Denial of
Service (DoS http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?DoS) threat that
doesn't affect Perl (but affects Python  PHP).
http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf CVE-2011-4885 Phuket
property http://www.phuketproperty.com/ Reported 2003
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~scrosby/hash/CrosbyWallach_UsenixSec2003.pdf Fixed
in Perl 2005
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec.html#Algorithmic-Complexity-Attacks

This will be the last time in the summer room E51-376. We'll return to
old traditional E51-372 for Feb - May. (confirmed)

Speaking of security ... if your home (or office) router has WPS simple
setup feature, TURN WPS OFF. NOW. Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) PIN Brute
Force Vulnerability
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Wi-Fi+Protected+Setup+WPS+PIN+Brute+Force+Vulnerability/12292

Sean is acting facilitator for this session, so please RSVP to the main
list boston...@pm.org

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[Boston.pm-announce] Meeting Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7 – 10p.m. MIT E51-376

[Bill Ricker]

I am unavailable on the tenth, but I have confirmed the room.

Sean Quinlan s...@quinlan.org has agreed to act as Facilitator. RSVP to him
next weekend/week.  Folks working on something should volunteer to speak
for a minute or an hour  to him.

We still need a speaker.

Perhaps someone would like to explain the new multi-language web DoS
threat that doesn't affect Perl (but affects Python  PHP).

http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-4885
https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=12286
http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/allq=hash+collision

Reported 2003
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~scrosby/hash/CrosbyWallach_UsenixSec2003.pdf

Fixed in Perl 2005
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec.html#Algorithmic-Complexity-Attacks



This will be the last time in the summer room  E51-*376*.
We'll return to old traditional E51-*372* for Feb - May. (confirmed)

Speaking of security ... if your home (or office) router has WPS simple
setup feature, *TURN WPS OFF. NOW.*
Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) PIN Brute Force Vulnerability
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Wi-Fi+Protected+Setup+WPS+PIN+Brute+Force+Vulnerability/12292

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[Boston.pm-announce] Meeting this week - Tech or Social ?

[Bill Ricker]

Would folks like a social on Tuesday? Or a Tech meeting?
(Anyone want to talk?)

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