Who is available for contract work?

2010-08-19 Thread Gabor Szabo
Hi, While the subject is not strictly related to advocacy but I was just contacted by a client for some work that will be bigger than I can do alone. The interesting part was that the client said In the Java world there are lots of companies providing development services but he could not find

Re: Who is available for contract work?

2010-08-19 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: GS == Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com writes: and how do i login? is there a perl user/pw or do i make a new socialtext login? I am not sure. This is the relocated version of the official TPF Perl 5 wiki. I think I had my

Re: Sony support uses Perl

2010-08-17 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Denny 2...@denny.me wrote: On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 08:33 +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: There is an old and out of date list on TPF wiki https://www.socialtext.net/perl5/index.cgi?companies_using_perl but I don't think there is a real added value in such list

Re: Sony support uses Perl

2010-08-14 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Joel Limardo joel.lima...@forwardphase.com wrote: Do we keep a list of current companies that are using Perl anywhere?  I just noticed that Sony Support appears to be using Perl: http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-home.pl?mdl=HIDC10 There is an old and out

Re: An HTML Announcement of perl-5.12.0 on The Perl Foundation Blog

2010-04-22 Thread Gabor Szabo
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?news_perl_5_12 has a collection of links to the announcements about 5.12 in various languages. Please update the page with link to further announcements. Gabor

Re: Help Needed in Sorting and Updating the List of Perl Mailing Lists

2009-05-14 Thread Gabor Szabo
Hi everyone, I am sorry I write only now but I was busy. So I was the one who copied the data and I am sorry I did not ask you Elaine first to access the database. Guys please, let's not play the blaming game. That does not lead to any good place. If I can get access to the database I might

Re: student outreach

2008-12-12 Thread Gabor Szabo
this might be relevant. http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/freeperlcourse Gabor

What Microsoft (And Linux) Can Learn from Firefox

2007-12-23 Thread Gabor Szabo
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/3718191 Can the Perl community learn somthing form them? Gabor -- Gabor Szabo http://www.szabgab.com/

Perl promotional texts

2007-11-13 Thread Gabor Szabo
of people is more into promotion and advocation I guess you would be able to help me more 1) in getting the ads on many more servers 2) creating ads that are better than those I created 3) creating ads in your native language regards Gabor -- Gabor Szabo http://www.szabgab.com/ Perl Training

Perl as a second language

2007-10-03 Thread Gabor Szabo
of training... I already asked more or less the same question on Perlmonks http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=641982 but the responses were lacking extensive examples I can build on. Your input is appreciated. Gabor -- Gabor Szabo http://www.szabgab.com/ Perl Training in Israel http://www.pti.co.il/

Re: The Case for a New Site for Perl Beginners

2006-08-30 Thread Gabor Szabo
Can someone explain me why is the source code of learn.perl.org (and the other *.perl.org site) not publicly accessible? Is there some security or licensing reason or technical? If it is available, then can you please point us to the repository? I hope that if it was available and reasonable

Commercial support ?

2004-04-12 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Steven Lembark wrote: You can buy support contracts for Perl from several reputable compaines. On the mod_perl site http://perl.apache.org/help/commercial.html I see one name: Covalent Technologies and several names under training:

Re: major advocacy help needed

2004-04-06 Thread Gabor Szabo
Considering that maybe your boss, being a Senior VP, isn't very sensible to the language's specs, I'd try a more high level approach: ... and the VP will respond something like this: - Perl is an Open Source language with world wide support of a large enthusiastic community independent

YAPC::Israel::2004 - some advocacy needed

2003-11-16 Thread Gabor Szabo
Hi, we are organizing the 2nd YAPC in Israel to be held on 26th of February, 2004. On the previous conference there were about 100 visitors. 99 from Israel and MJD. http://www.perl.org.il/YAPC/2003/ Next year I would really like to increase the numbers, to see even more people interested in

Re: CPAN Ettiquette

2003-03-18 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, John Adams wrote: This may not quite be an advocacy question, but it's the closest category I can come up with. I have two projects I'm ready to start putting onto CPAN--what is the ettiquette of creating a namespace? The projects want a top-level namespace, but I'm

[Fwd: IMPORTANT: Request removal of WWW::EuroTV]

2003-02-06 Thread Gabor Szabo
Some of you might have seen this as this went to the module-authors list. What do you think about the legal aspects of this ? Gabor http://www.perl.org.il/ Original Message Subject: IMPORTANT: Request removal of WWW::EuroTV Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 14:21:52 +0100 From: johanvdb

Using Perl in (Higher) Education

2002-12-25 Thread Gabor Szabo
Perl would be a good choice of language ? regards Gabor Szabo

Re: Perl Web Sites

2002-12-08 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Dave Rolsky wrote: On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Lisa Nyman wrote: We are actually in the process od redesigning perl.org right now. If you have any content, application, or architecture ideas, you can send them to me. It'd be good if it listed all the other *.perl.org

comparing Perl to .... X

2002-04-09 Thread Gabor Szabo
During the beginner Perl classes I teach people often ask me why is Perl better than X ? where X is one of their favorite languages, in the case of my classes it is usuall C or UNIX shell but I guess other people would ask about other languages. I have certain set of answeres at least for