20 people came to last night's tech meeting.
Bob Rogers gave an informative presentation on Advanced Control Structures
in Parrot. He'll also be giving this talk at YAPC::NA next month.
http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2008/talk/1094
Following Bob's presentation, we discussed topics
27 people came to Tuesday's tech meeting.
Mitchell Charity gave a brief presentation on his idea to quickly bootstrap
a Perl 6 implementation via Ruby - see his recent post to the list for more
details.
I gave an informal presentation on some of the new features in Perl 5.10,
particularly
17 people came to yesterday's tech meeting.
I started off the meeting by telling people about ack, a powerful
alternative to grep written in Perl. Its features include automatically
skipping of uninteresting files (backup files, revision control
directories, etc.), highlighting the found text,
15 people were at Tuesday's tech meeting.
Greg London gave an informative and engaging talk on bounty hunters as a
metaphor for fair intellectual property laws, with lots of audience
participation. You can read Greg's book on the subject for free or
purchase it print-on-demand at
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 14:59 -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
Sean Quinlan gave a demonstration of a simple but useful AJAX application
and showed us how easy it is to create one. Watch for a post from Sean
with links to resources.
Here are a few links you might find useful on the subject.
And I mentioned CGI::Ajax for those not wanting to touch JavaScript.
(Somebody mentioned CGI::Prototype which seems to be altogether unrelated)
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19 people came to Tuesday's tech meeting.
Jesse Vincent introduced us to Jifty, a web application framework. For
more info about Jifty, see http://jifty.org
Jesse also gave away two T-shirts to people who asked interesting
questions. The T-shirts read Shut the f*** up and write some code (but
14 people came to last Tuesday's tech meeting. (This was more than I
expected based on the RSVPs, and so we ran out of pizza. Please remember
to RSVP. Thanks!)
I presented the Linux Genuine Advantage, and did a walkthrough of the
source code. We learned how about inittab and nologin, and
Uri Guttman wrote:
RJK John Norton presented his new Logo.pm module, which implements a
RJK client/server Logo interpreter with Tk.
RJK John, go ahead and send that webpage to the list, thanks!
can you contact me via email? we talked about connecting...
I've also been waiting for John
Hi Uri,
Sure ... anyone can reach me at /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/.
Look forward to talking to you.
John
PS. If anyone else at Boston Perlmongers is a member of Perlmonks, please
let me know your username, so I can be sure to say hi when I see you
there.
I'm /liverpole /for anyone who didn't know
RJK == Ronald J Kimball [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RJK John Norton presented his new Logo.pm module, which implements a
RJK client/server Logo interpreter with Tk. One of the nice features
RJK is having multiple turtles running in the same window. (We
RJK learned that John likes spirals
By the way, in the rush to leave, I didn't get a chance to see how much
pizza was left at the end. Did anyone happen to notice? Knowing how much
is left helps me decide how much to order next time.
thanks,
Ronald
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RJK == Ronald J Kimball [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RJK By the way, in the rush to leave, I didn't get a chance to see
RJK how much pizza was left at the end. Did anyone happen to notice?
RJK Knowing how much is left helps me decide how much to order next
RJK time.
and let's try emma's
On Jan 18, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
By the way, in the rush to leave, I didn't get a chance to see how
much
pizza was left at the end. Did anyone happen to notice? Knowing
how much
is left helps me decide how much to order next time.
There were approximately 4 slices
On Jan 18, 2007, at 4:25 PM, Uri Guttman wrote:
RM == Richard Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RM There were approximately 4 slices left. Maybe 5? Two
cheese, one
RM pepper onions, one tomato, and possibly one other.
we need much better accuracy than that. this is a critical
RM == Richard Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RM On Jan 18, 2007, at 4:25 PM, Uri Guttman wrote:
RM == Richard Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RM There were approximately 4 slices left. Maybe 5? Two
cheese, one
RM pepper onions, one tomato, and possibly one other.
we
hi
RM == Richard Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RM There were approximately 4 slices left. Maybe 5? Two cheese, one
RM pepper onions, one tomato, and possibly one other.
On 1/18/07, Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
we need much better accuracy than that. this is a critical
22 people came to last night's tech meeting.
We started with an announcement from our YAPC volunteer committee. The New
England Perl Workshop is being moved to March 2008, to allow more time for
planning. For more information, or to help out, visit the wiki page at
15 people came to last week's tech meeting.
We started by discussing the plans for the New England Perl Workshop, which
is being planned by our YAPC volunteer committee. We also finalized New
England Perl Workshop as the name and considered various domain names.
The New England Perl Workshop
We had about 20 people at last week's tech meeting.
Uri Guttman gave a presentation on writing plug-ins in Perl. (The DBD
modules for DBI are a well-known example.) He described various
approaches, and showed a simple implementation of an encode/decode plug-in
from his Stem project.
Jerrad
We also
learned that the Perl6-ish Moose.pm, while making it much more convenient
to write object code, adds a significant amount of overhead to each method
call, which is prohibitive for a non-interactive script like Kenneth's that
does a huge number of method calls.
Moose.pm is said to now be
I brought up Ken's experiences with Moose at PerlSemNY on Tuesday and
somebody (Dave Golden or David Adler) mentioned that there's supposed
to be some magic to tell Moose you're final and it solidifies things
for a performance boost.
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It's the late tech meeting followup! We had 16 people at last week's tech
meeting.
Kenneth Graves walked us through his three versions of a Kokuro solver,
starting with a simple but inefficient brute force approach and ending with
one with optimizations and heuristics to make it nice and
We had around 30 people at Tuesday's tech meeting.
Jeff Barr, Amazon's Senior Evangelist for Web Services, gave an excellent
talk. We learned about all of Amazon's web services, including their
newest ones, Mechanical Turk and Elastic Compute Cloud. There was also a
lot of discussion about the
18 people showed up to last night's meeting.
I presented my Pachinko JAPH, in both a verbose and golfed version, and
discussed some of the ways I compacted the code.
http://www.tamias.net/bostonpm/pachinko_japh/
During my talk I received some helpful suggestions, and I am happy to
announce
Next meeting: BioPerl. ;)
On 7/14/06, Bob Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Ronald J Kimball [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:57:20 -0400
34 people came to Tuesday's tech meeting!
I'm afraid I have an unfortunate postscript to add. I attended the
meeting with a
From: Ronald J Kimball [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:57:20 -0400
34 people came to Tuesday's tech meeting!
I'm afraid I have an unfortunate postscript to add. I attended the
meeting with a mysterious rash on my chest, which turned out to be
herpes zoster, a.k.a. shingles:
Subject: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup
From: Ronald J Kimball [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:57:20 -0400
34 people came to Tuesday's tech meeting!
I'm afraid I have an unfortunate postscript to add. I attended the
meeting with a mysterious rash on my chest, which
We had 23 people at Tuesday's tech meeting.
David Golden gave a presentation on Inside Out Objects, which provide some
interesting benefits over traditional objects. He's put up the slides from
his talk at http://dagolden.com/files/20060613_Eversion_101.pdf
David was visiting from NY, and told
There were 11 people at Tuesday night's tech meeting.
I presented Ilmari Karonen's scripts for solving Sudoku puzzles using a
regular expression, which he had posted to the FunWithPerl mailing list.
The regex implements a brute force search for a solution, using the regex
engine's backtracking
We had 16 people came to last night's tech meeting.
As we waited for people to arrive, Bill Ricker showed us a web page about a
brute-force Sudoku solver in three lines:
http://www.ecclestoad.co.uk/blog/2005/06/02/sudoku_solver_in_three_lines_explained.html
Bill then showed us he used GD to
(Sorry this is late!)
18 people came to last Wednesday's tech meeting, for our look at graphing
with Perl.
As we waited for people to arrive, Bill Ricker mentioned that he had seen
an interesting JAPH on Perl Monks. We took a look, and it turns out it was
written by liverpole, aka John Norton,
On 1/12/06, Ronald J Kimball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The tip from this meeting:
Avoid using ampersand on subroutine calls. In particular, mysub
(ampersand but no parentheses) passes the current @_ to mysub(), which can
be problematic if you're not expecting it.
Perl Best Practices also
We had a very good meeting on Tuesday. 12 people came for our personal
tools potluck.
I started things off with my script for creating simple photo galleries.
As it uses HTML::Template, we also had a brief introduction to that module.
Duane Bronson was inspired to show us his own photo gallery
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:15:54PM -0500, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
The tip from this meeting:
Avoid using ampersand on subroutine calls. In particular, mysub
(ampersand but no parentheses) passes the current @_ to mysub(), which can
be problematic if you're not expecting it.
I used to use
We had about 20 people at Tuesday's tech meeting.
Ian Langworth gave a presentation on Class::Agreement, a behavioral
contract system for Perl.
As Ian posted earlier, the slides from his presentation are at:
http://langworth.com/pub/talks/class-agreement-dec2005/
and a prerelease of the
RJK == Ronald J Kimball [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RJK I asked people to brainstorm topics they'd like to hear about at
RJK a future tech meeting. You can view (and update) the list here:
RJK http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?TechMeetingTopics
i did find my maze solving stuff (which i
On 8/13/05, Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
perl testing - a developer's notebook. written by some moron named ian
langworth and a doofus named chromatic. this is a useless waste of dead
trees as i never need to test my code as it always works. but someone
out there may want to use it
IL == Ian Langworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
IL On 8/13/05, Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
perl testing - a developer's notebook. written by some moron named ian
langworth and a doofus named chromatic. this is a useless waste of dead
trees as i never need to test my code as it
KS == Kripa Sundar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i am not sure how i will give them out but you have first dibs if i just
do it that way. :)
KS Please sign me up for Perl Best Practices, if you are dealing
KS dibs. TIA.
ok, like before you have dibs for now. as always, if you get the
On Aug 13, 2005, at 12:04 AM, Uri Guttman wrote:
perl template toolkit. this covers the popular template library and
seems to be pretty good. maybe i will give a short talk about my tiny
templater. 3 subs, about 50 lines of code and i bet it does enough for
about 90% of all template projects
RJK == Ronald J Kimball [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RJK On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 03:20:45PM -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
Next month's meeting will be on Tuesday, October 11, at MIT, E51-376.
Please contact me if you're interested in giving a presentation.
RJK Correction. Next month's
I have posted more of my demo to the Wiki page.
If Tim and Ron would do likewise.
bill
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URL?
I have posted more of my demo to the Wiki page.
If Tim and Ron would do likewise.
bill
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On 10.Nov.2004 09:38PM -0500, Timothy Kohl wrote:
URL?
I have posted more of my demo to the Wiki page.
If Tim and Ron would do likewise.
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On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have you ever noticed a google resultset entry that didn't have a
cache link? I don't know if it is something that a publisher can set
programatically or if it is a business arrangement.
Pages are cached by default. To get removed you have to
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Andrew M. Langmead wrote:
On Aug 5, 2004, at 10:01 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
I meant it in the sense of the Google cache, where you have an
alternative in case the main one goes down, but the main link is
prominent and obviously the one to follow.
Have you ever noticed a google
At 5:34 PM -0400 8/5/04, Aaron Sherman wrote:
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 02:38:50PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
This is a very, *very* good thing. It had a link to my blog on it --
a blog which lives on my server, which is in a closet in my
daughter's bedroom, behind a DSL line with a 256kbit
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Aug 6, 2004, at 6:14 AM, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
You misunderstand. If registration is required, a crawler will fail
anyway,
Unless the crawler is itself registered. If I wrote a crawler, I'd
keep a database of usernames and passwords for this
TZ == Ted Zlatanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You misunderstand. If registration is required, a crawler will fail
anyway,
Unless the crawler is itself registered. If I wrote a crawler, I'd
keep a database of usernames and passwords for this purpose.
TZ That's not a typical
That's not a typical web crawler, and obviously not what I meant.
Such databases already exist (e.g. bugmenot) but using them to rip a
page is definitely abusive.
Not abusive at all. It's a public service.
Think Google, not rip-off.
Go to news.google.com and you will see many results that
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's not a typical web crawler, and obviously not what I meant.
Such databases already exist (e.g. bugmenot) but using them to rip a
page is definitely abusive.
Not abusive at all. It's a public service.
It's abusive to the content provider who
We had about 20 people at Tuesday's tech meeting. We started with a review
of notable happenings at OSCON, including Dan Sugalski being hit in the
face with a pie, and Jon Orwant receiving a White Camel award.
http://www.tamias.net/rjk/photography/oscon_2004_pie/
On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 11:16, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
We had about 20 people at Tuesday's tech meeting. We started with a review
of notable happenings at OSCON, including Dan Sugalski being hit in the
face with a pie, and Jon Orwant receiving a White Camel award.
That former topic also showed
At 2:23 PM -0400 8/5/04, Aaron Sherman wrote:
On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 11:16, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
We had about 20 people at Tuesday's tech meeting. We started with a review
of notable happenings at OSCON, including Dan Sugalski being hit in the
face with a pie, and Jon Orwant receiving a
On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 05:56 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
...or they should provide a mirrored version of the page at least :)
I'm sure my employer would be thrilled about mirrored versions of the
pages. It would cause them to lose ad revenue.
I guess if they were willing to ask can we post
AL == Andrew Langmead [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
AL On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 05:56 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
...or they should provide a mirrored version of the page at least :)
AL I'm sure my employer would be thrilled about mirrored versions of the
AL pages. It would cause them
On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 08:04 PM, Uri Guttman wrote:
i think he meant a mirrored version of dan's page so his box won't
spontaneously combust under slashdot loads. so the idea for smaller
sites (which are probably not revenue based) would get mirrored on
slash
so you can read the linked
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 05:56 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
...or they should provide a mirrored version of the page at least :)
I'm sure my employer would be thrilled about mirrored versions of the
pages. It would cause them to lose ad
On Aug 5, 2004, at 10:01 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
I meant it in the sense of the Google cache, where you have an
alternative in case the main one goes down, but the main link is
prominent and obviously the one to follow.
Have you ever noticed a google resultset entry that didn't have a cache
link?
Uri Guttman wrote on 6/16/04 4:19 am (GMT):
CD == Chris Devers
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writes:
CD* Perl 6 Update
CD
http://damian.conway.org/S
eminars//Perl6.html
not sure how up to date
(whatever that means with
p6) this is.
Read your conference materials, Uri. He's giving an
If I may narrow it down to ones that haven't been presented to a
Boston.pm meeting before, these ones look good:
* Everyday Perl
http://damian.conway.org/Seminars//Everyday.html
I'm casting my vote for this one.
-T
Chris Devers said:
If I may narrow it down to ones that haven't been presented to a
Boston.pm meeting before, these ones look good:
* Perl 6 Update
http://damian.conway.org/Seminars//Perl6.html
I think it's safe to say that Damian will be fielding
Perl 6 questions no matter which
hi
( 04.06.15 23:48 -0400 ) Chris Devers:
* Time::Space::Continuum
http://damian.conway.org/Seminars//TimeSpace.html
space is the place ...
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On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 07:59, Uri Guttman wrote:
i did and he is also giving sufficiently advanced tech so we may not
want to see that again in boston.
But what % of the regular Boston.pm tech meeting attenders are actually
_at_ YAPC?
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Last night's tech meeting went well.
Greg London showed off his new book, Impatient Perl, a Perl training
manual for the hyperactive programmer, and gave out review copies.
http://www.greglondon.com/ has more info, as well as HTML and PDF versions
of the book, and a link to the print-on-demand
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 23:57, Uri Guttman wrote:
KAG == Kenneth A Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
KAG SelfGOL
i think he did that here. i remember my wanting it and seeing it. we can
chat with him here for info on the newer talks he has.
My flaky memory, then. I'll change my vote to
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Uri Guttman wrote:
CD == Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CD Oh man, we already had one and the bleeding in my brain still hasn't
CD stopped. Please be merciful and let us have a different talk... :-)
and how will any of his talks improve your crainial health?
Like a
RJK == Ronald J Kimball [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RJK As it was getting late, Uri did a summary of his two topics: a
RJK simple client-server package with a middle layer that sends a
RJK single client request to multiple servers; and the Sort::Maker
RJK module, which constructs
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