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From: Eric Wilhelm scratchcomput...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:00 AM
Subject: [pm_groups] Summer of Code Student Deadline
To: pm_gro...@pm.org
Cc: Jonathan Leto jal...@gmail.com
Hi all,
Thanks to Josh McAdams, we have a video for you to pass
flucifr...@acm.org wrote:
The first part was very fun, the second was computer language porn -
several of the non-compiler crowd ran on that :)
Lots of people, the hall was half full.
I attended the MIT presentation. I didn't notice many Boston.pm-ers
there, aside from Uri, of course, who
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Registration Now Open, So Make Your Plans.
In trying times such as these, saving money becomes a bigger priority
for everyone. While challenging, the current global situation provides
the open source community with the opportunity
TM == Tom Metro tmetro-boston...@vl.com writes:
TM I attended the MIT presentation. I didn't notice many Boston.pm-ers
TM there, aside from Uri, of course, who made a call for MIT faculty and
TM staff to talk to him about YAPC (I don't think he got any takers,
TM unfortunately; maybe we
Just for the record, both I and a co-worker were there as well. I mostly
lurk on the list as there is little I can contribute ... but I'm a
Boston.PM'er, too!
I enjoyed the great deal of humor, including the inside jokes. And, if there
were 120..150 people present, then that's also the
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Tom Metro tmetro-boston...@vl.com wrote:
I attended the MIT presentation. I didn't notice many Boston.pm-ers there,
I was there with a co-worker, but I don't come to many meetings.
Larry made a request for people to download and test the current Perl 6
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Stephen Jarjoura st...@runester.com wrote:
I enjoyed the great deal of humor, including the inside jokes. And, if there
were 120..150 people present, then that's also the approximate card count
for his slide deck.
He actually had nearly 500 slides.
Shawn
Sartak wrote:
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Stephen Jarjoura st...@runester.com wrote:
I enjoyed the great deal of humor, including the inside jokes. And, if there
were 120..150 people present, then that's also the approximate card count
for his slide deck.
He actually had nearly 500
He actually had nearly 500 slides.
And all in XUL, allegedly :-)
There are a couple Perl based tools to generate Xul slideshows from an outline.
I hope he used one of those, would like to know which. Probably can find out
with google-fu, we won't be the first to ask.
When the toolchain and
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Tom Metro tmetro-boston...@vl.com wrote:
I attended the MIT presentation. I didn't notice many Boston.pm-ers there,
aside from Uri, of course,
I looked right at you!
I was sitting between Bob R and Duane B a couple rows higher than you,
to your right (stage
I was also there, as was lurking member Alex Vandiver.
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Ronald J Kimball wrote:
The 2009 O'Reilly Open Source Convention Moves to San Jose, CA--
Registration Now Open, So Make Your Plans.
Do you think they'll ever hold one of these in Boston?
Once upon a time O'Reilly seemed to have more of a presence here. They
still have offices here (no?), but
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Jerrad Pierce belg4...@pthbb.org wrote:
I was also there, as was lurking member Alex Vandiver.
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I went to both talks, and am glad I did. The openings were hilarious and
hearing the perl6 stuff two nights in a row has inspired me to start playing
with rakudo
Uri Guttman wrote:
i would say more like 100 but i didn't try to make a better counting.
I could see 2/3rds of the hall and did a partial head count. The right
had 40 people, and the center had over 50, while the left, where I was
seated, seemed more sparsely populated, so I estimated 120
TM == Tom Metro tmetro-boston...@vl.com writes:
...but the rules engine is new ground...
TM I figured you'd take note of that, given your rules engine work.
very different rules engines. mine was about async logical flow
control. larry's is grammar. i still haven't come up with a final
Ricker, William wrote:
He actually had nearly 500 slides.
And all in XUL, allegedly :-)
There are a couple Perl based tools to generate Xul slideshows from an
outline. I hope he used one of those, would like to know which. Probably can
find out with google-fu, we won't be the first to
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 21:42 -0400, Tom Metro wrote:
Do you think they'll ever hold one of these in Boston?
Once upon a time O'Reilly seemed to have more of a presence here. They
still have offices here (no?), but I had the impression they started out
here.
According to
Please note that OSCON spent several years in Portland. Saying that
Portland is part of Boston is like saying that Boston is part of New
York.
Ben
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Andrew Langmead
andrew.langm...@verizon.net wrote:
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 21:42 -0400, Tom Metro wrote:
Do you
Gah, I meant that Portland is part of CA is like..etc. (I should
drink less before replying to email.)
Ben
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Ben Tilly bti...@gmail.com wrote:
Please note that OSCON spent several years in Portland. Saying that
Portland is part of Boston is like saying that
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 20:12 -0700, Ben Tilly wrote:
Please note that OSCON spent several years in Portland.
I had forgotten that they moved to Portland. I guess its been years
since I've even considered checking with my employer to see if a
conference like this was in the budget, even as
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Ben Tilly bti...@gmail.com wrote:
Please note that OSCON spent several years in Portland. Saying that
Portland is part of Boston is like saying that Boston is part of New
York.
But still it was the left coast Portland, not the right Portland (or
original
From: Tom Metro tmetro-boston...@vl.com
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:12:00 -0400
Uri Guttman wrote:
...much of the rest was fancy ops and OO stuff...
I remember the fancy ops but I don't remember much to do with OO,
aside from some syntax variations (arrow changes to dot). I've
On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:39 PM, Andrew Langmead wrote:
Just the other day, I was talking to a co-worker about how it would be
hard to justify the cost of a conference or tutorial. If I went, would
the knowledge I gained result in a $1k+ increase in productivity?
So I want to give an
BR == Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com writes:
BR On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Ben Tilly bti...@gmail.com wrote:
Please note that OSCON spent several years in Portland. Saying that
Portland is part of Boston is like saying that Boston is part of New
York.
BR But still it was
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Bob Rogers rogers-...@rgrjr.dyndns.org wrote:
Larry also mentioned that the Perl 6 MOP will support both
class-based and instance-based inheritance -- and that's all he said. I
do not understand how the two can work together.
having built one one the other,
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Andrew Langmead
andrew.langm...@verizon.net wrote:
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 20:12 -0700, Ben Tilly wrote:
Please note that OSCON spent several years in Portland.
I had forgotten that they moved to Portland. I guess its been years
since I've even considered
any other largish duplicate cities you can think of in the states?
Kansas City? :-P
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You don't need a Swiss Army knife to cut yourself, a piece of paper will do
For reasons I think MJD explains the best (
http://lists.warhead.org.uk/pipermail/iwe/2005-July/000130.html ) Perl's
macros will never be quite nearly as good as CL's defmacro or even Scheme's
hygenic macros. So obviously Perl's syntax is way too complex for
Lisp-quality metaprogramming, but I
At the MIT talk I almost asked a question can you talk a little about the
macro system but it seemed like kind of an unrealistic request for the QA
section so I chickened out.
Well, it would have been better than the drawn-out query about Fortress,
and wouldn't have prompted me to leave ;-)
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