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

2018-08-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
(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

[Boston.pm] No August Meeting; No Website

2018-08-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
(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

[Boston.pm] No July Meeting

2018-07-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
We have nothing prepared for a July meeting and it's hot and the elevator still wasn't fixed last week, and it's summer so probably people have other things to do. Should we try August 14th or just reconvene in September? Note also there may be some downtime on boston.pm.org website. The free

[Boston.pm] No meeting night

2018-06-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
There will be no June meeting this month. ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

[Boston.pm-announce] No meeting night

2018-06-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
There will be no June meeting this month. ___ Boston-pm-announce mailing list Boston-pm-announce@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm-announce

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

2018-05-08 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
​​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

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

2018-05-08 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
​​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

[Boston.pm] Tech meeting 5/8: shorts: Signatuers and Precision

2018-05-04 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
May the Fourth be with you ! Our next tech meeting is 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.

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting TONIGHT: Federico Live! Hardware! GPS! Randomness with Radiation!

2018-04-10 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
April 10th (2nd Tuesday=TODAY) last reminder 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

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

2018-04-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
MONDAY REMINDER: TOMORROW 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

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

2018-04-06 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
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

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

2018-04-06 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

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

2018-03-16 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

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

2018-03-16 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
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

[Boston.pm-announce] No March Meeting

2018-03-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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/ -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___

[Boston.pm] No March Meeting

2018-03-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
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/ -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ Boston-pm

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

2018-02-14 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
I intended to play the 1:06:00 long version of the same talk from Amsterdam Perl Conference (which starts with the Formerly Known as YAPC joke bombing). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmLwYLSmTSs So if you want 100% more Ovid & Tau Station with <= 50% overlap ... e.g. "Gender is complicated" I

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

2018-02-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
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

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

2018-02-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

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

2018-01-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Typo E51-376 Tonight! On Jan 8, 2018 1:24 AM, "Bill Ricker" 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. >

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

2018-01-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
Typo E51-376 Tonight! On Jan 8, 2018 1:24 AM, "Bill Ricker" 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. >

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

2018-01-07 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
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

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

2018-01-07 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

[Boston.pm] Cancel December Tech Meeting

2017-12-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
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

[Boston.pm-announce] Cancel December Tech Meeting

2017-12-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

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

2017-11-13 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
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

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

2017-11-09 Thread 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 wrote: > We changed speakers and topics at the last minute last month because real > life. > > Our very interesting previously-planned speaker will

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

2017-11-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
I mistakenly used later timing. Talk normally begins 7:30, gather/mingle 7ish. On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 5:50 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: > We changed speakers and topics at the last minute last month because real > life. > > Our very interesting previously-planned speaker will

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

2017-11-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
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 -

Re: [Boston.pm] Image problem?

2017-11-01 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Interesting observation on the s/o survey https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2017/10/31/the-most-disliked-programming-language/ ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Image problem?

2017-11-01 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Greg London wrote: >>> a real OO interface, >> Mouse/Moo/Mouse isn't good enough? > It looks amazing, but someone needs to go back and convert > all of cpan so blessed hashes are upgraded to moose. Everything has to do it the same way?

Re: [Boston.pm] Image problem?

2017-11-01 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
On Wed, November 1, 2017 3:42 am, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote: > We may have a bit of an image problem. > Perl was the #1 most disliked Who'd have guessed the language / culture that surpassed the Obfuscated C contest with invention of golf scoring might have an image problem? Web 1.0 was built

Re: [Boston.pm] [Discuss] perl and xml

2017-10-16 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
On BOSTON-PM-list, Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Morse, Richard E.,MGH (who was away last week) replied: > Hi! I was just working with some XML, and I’d like to suggest also looking at > XML::XPath, > which does allow you to change the text content (and probably all

[Boston.pm] Filtering of [job] listings Re: [Job] Ruby / Perl job, Perm, ...

2017-10-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Re > It is not a 100% Perl job, but their middleware and DevOps are Perl > and likely to remain so, so our requirement [1] of "Perl must be a > primary aspect of the job" is barely met, if I'm generous. And for > such a nice-sounding company I'm inclined to be generous, so I'm > allowing posting

[Boston.pm] [Job] Ruby / Perl job, Perm, Cambridge: Senior Software Developer at Smartleaf

2017-10-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
The following is a Permanent position in Cambridge. It is not a 100% Perl job, but their middleware and DevOps are Perl and likely to remain so, so our requirement [1] of "Perl must be a primary aspect of the job" is barely met, if I'm generous. And for such a nice-sounding company I'm inclined

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting TONIGHT // Topic Change

2017-10-10 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
> Next Meeting - Tuesday, October 10th - Last-minute Speaker / Topic change / Github Continuous Integration for Perl CPAN modules / see below. > LIVE Speaker ! > ROOM Change (from spring): E51-372 We're sorry to report that due to circumstances beyond the speaker's control, he won't be able to

Re: [Boston.pm] [Discuss] perl and xml

2017-10-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 1:49 PM, R. Luoma wrote on BLU Discuss: > This may be off-topic, but I am trying to manipulate > what I think is an "xml" file with perl (on a linux system). > I am not familiar with the ins and outs of xml It would not be off-topic on

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

2017-10-06 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
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

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

2017-10-06 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Damian's 'Why I Love Perl' keynote (TPC'17)

2017-09-12 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Greg London wrote: > >> NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages >> (parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking >> after-hours. > > Well that sucks. It was in retrospect amazing how long the

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

2017-09-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
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

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

2017-09-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Damian's "Why I Love Perl" keynote (TPC'17)

2017-09-10 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Current meeting - Tues, Sep 12th - The Perl Conference 2017 Review : Damian's keynote ( from TPC / YAPC::NA) ROOM TBD - watch Email or @BostonPM twitter or Wiki for room # when confirmed ! The Damian Conway gave one of his rapid-paced, wide-ranging tour-de-force presentations as an invited

[Boston.pm] Reminder - no meeting tonight

2017-08-08 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Next tech meeting Sept 12th. http://boston.pm.org/Calendar -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

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

2017-08-06 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
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

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

2017-08-06 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

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

2017-07-10 Thread 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

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

2017-07-10 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
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

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

2017-07-07 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
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

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

2017-07-07 Thread 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