[Boston.pm] Job: Perl Team Leader

Perl Team Leader $75/hr+ DOE Long term contract Boston, MA My client is seeking to hire a Perl team leader. This role will manage both a local Boston team and an off-shore team. You need to have strong Perl skills and will be asked to take a Perl test. The job is 75% onsite in Boston with an

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

On 09/10/2017 08:09 PM, Bill Ricker via Boston-pm wrote: 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,

[Boston.pm] For Sale: Knuth boxed set

hi, i have a boxed set of knuth's algorithm books for sale. list price is about $100. make me an offer if you want them. thanx, uri ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

[Boston.pm] lots of free perl books

hi all, we are downsizing and i have a shelf or so of perl books to give away. they range from the pink camel (perl4!) to mastering algorithms in perl to perl for dummies! they are generally old and some are pretty useful still. email me or call me at 781-643-7504 if you are interested in

Re: [Boston.pm] Porting perl + perl app from linux to OS X?

On 05/29/2017 05:03 PM, James Eshelman wrote: I’m running a perl app with its own lean and mean packaging of perl and libs (to minimize portability issues) on linux and MSWin. I’d like to port this whole package (i.e. the linux version + lean perl) to OS X if it’s reasonable. I took a

Re: [Boston.pm] social meeting with randal schwartz - thursday 5/4

On 05/04/2017 05:34 PM, Conor Walsh wrote: I'm setting out shortly, my route is going past a grocery store. Any thing I should grab last minute? maybe cole slaw or something like that? possibly drinks of some sort. uri ___ Boston-pm mailing list

Re: [Boston.pm] social meeting with randal schwartz - thursday 5/4

On 04/29/2017 07:02 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: hi all, we have a (not so emergency) social meeting on this thursday, may 4th, with special guest, randal schwartz! it will be a potluck grilling party at my house in arlington center. bill ricker has graciously offered to convey randal here. we

[Boston.pm] social meeting with randal schwartz - thursday 5/4

hi all, we have a (not so emergency) social meeting on this thursday, may 4th, with special guest, randal schwartz! it will be a potluck grilling party at my house in arlington center. bill ricker has graciously offered to convey randal here. i will send out the address later this week.

Re: [Boston.pm] invading your town next week

On 04/27/2017 10:16 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Bill" == Bill Ricker writes: Bill> ​Since Friday may be crowded by Cinco de Mayo and normal Friday crowds, Bill> perhaps we should celebrate the nerdly May The Fourth (be WithYou) holiday Bill> Thursday ? ​ I'm up for

Re: [Boston.pm] script works ok on command line, hangs when run from shell script

On 04/27/2017 12:47 PM, Mike Small wrote: Hi again. Maybe O_DIRECT is the flag you seek? i suspect this has nothing to do with buffering. greg said he has an issue with stopping the whole script pipeline with ^C. when stopping a pipeline you issue a signal to a process group, not to a

Re: [Boston.pm] catenation of undef with string, 2 cases

On 11/09/2016 03:24 PM, Mike Small wrote: Uri Guttman <u...@stemsystems.com> writes: On 11/09/2016 02:04 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: I think Uri and Ricky have it nailed. You can wrap with do{ no warnings; ... } or protect the concatenation with 42 . ($b//q()); or equivalent ?: or or

Re: [Boston.pm] catenation of undef with string, 2 cases

On 11/09/2016 02:04 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: I think Uri and Ricky have it nailed. You can wrap with do{ no warnings; ... } or protect the concatenation with 42 . ($b//q()); or equivalent ?: or or use $b .= 42 ; if order doesn't matter (it usually does, though) or initialized $b to '' instead

Re: [Boston.pm] catenation of undef with string, 2 cases

On 11/09/2016 01:40 PM, Morse, Richard E.,MGH wrote: On Nov 9, 2016, at 12:49 PM, Mike Small wrote: #!/usr/pkg/bin/perl use warnings; my $a; $a .= '70'; my $b; $b = 42 . $b; print "$a, $b\n"; With the script above I get an uninitialized value warning from perl 5.24 for the

Re: [Boston.pm] Join DFW.pm for a talk on dataflow

On 08/08/2016 04:30 AM, Uri Guttman wrote: Hi all, I will be giving a remote talk to the Dallas/Ft. Worth Perl mongers (dfw.pm) on Monday night August 8, at 8pm CDT (GMT - 500). This talk will be about dataflow, a way to organize and architect your software which has many advantages

[Boston.pm] Join DFW.pm for a talk on dataflow

* to dfw.perlmong...@gmail.com and we'll add you to the online classroom. -- Tommy Butler, John Fields, DFW.pm I will aim to answer questions via hangouts chat. thanx, Uri Guttman ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman

[Boston.pm] perl readings

hi all here are a couple of perl readings that should be of interest to your groups. slashdot did an interview with larry which is getting raves (even on slashdot!). of course the ironic thing is many slashdotters despise perl even with slashdot running on perl!

Re: [Boston.pm] perl6 lists

On 06/24/2016 12:11 AM, Uri Guttman wrote: you seem to be confusing dereferencing from flattening. flattening needs be done explicitly in perl6 whereas in perl5 it always happened. perl6 seems to take references to aggregates in lists instead of flattening. and congrats on winning

Re: [Boston.pm] perl6 lists

On 06/24/2016 12:01 AM, Greg London wrote: Can't seem to wrap my head around perl6 lists. i can stick my nose in here but don't quote me on it! They're not arrays. They seem to exist almost as literals. When I assign a list to an array, it stops acting like a literal list. the big diff that i

[Boston.pm] send me to yapc::na

hi all, i am between jobs and actively looking (any leads are welcome!). i am looking for help with expenses to go to yapc in orlando. i have set up a go fund me account at: gofundme.com/28j4c5w it already has $925 of $1500. and larry and gloria wall have donated! this can be a loan or a

Re: [Boston.pm] perl sockets and memory use

On 06/02/2016 12:04 PM, ja...@nova-sw.com wrote: I'm dealing with a very long-running simple real-time program (weeks, even months) which opens and closes sockets continually to a variety of locations, for very short transactions.There is very slow growth of virtual and real memory use

[Boston.pm] Fwd: [pm_groups] Announcement: TPF to send a few first timers to YAPC for $50. Register soon.

hi all, this is a great offer if you have never been to yapc. uri Forwarded Message Subject: [pm_groups] Announcement: TPF to send a few first timers to YAPC for $50. Register soon. Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 10:42:47 -0600 From: David Oswald To:

[Boston.pm] i like perl so much that ...

i like perl so much that ... i went to see itzhak PERLman last night at symphony hall playing with the klezmer conservatory band. also i won't be able to attend the meeting due to schedule conflict. thanx, uri ___ Boston-pm mailing list

Re: [Boston.pm] finding more mongers

On 02/25/2016 04:16 PM, Anthony Ball wrote: I stopped going when the meeting moved further into the city (many many years ago). Now I don't even live in MA any more, and don't even know where the meetings are held, actually, but location may be an issue. not sure what you mean further into

Re: [Boston.pm] finding more mongers

On 02/24/2016 11:47 PM, Conor Walsh wrote: I often have a similar conflict with a different thing that often meets on Tuesdays. On Feb 24, 2016 10:33 PM, "Rachel Adler" wrote: I'm new to Perl and haven't had a chance to come to a meeting yet, but I know that the

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

On 11/09/2015 01:58 PM, Bill Ricker 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

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

On 11/09/2015 01:58 PM, Bill Ricker 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 (*NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 second door, not the squarish 372 first door

[Boston.pm] Monty! Python! Holy! Grail!

hi to all you coconut lovers, the arlington regent theater (http://www.regenttheatre.com/) is showing a 40th anniversary sing-along version of monty python and the holy grail, tomorrow night, wednesday october 14 at 7:30. yes, there is only one song in the movie (knights of the round table)

[Boston.pm] Fwd: Re: Launch of new Perl 6 homepage

here are some good links about larry's talk and the (soonish) perl6 release. uri Forwarded Message Subject:Re: Launch of new Perl 6 homepage Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 11:12:42 +0100 From: Steve Mynott Reply-To: Steve Mynott

Re: [Boston.pm] larry perl6 talk

On 10/06/2015 09:51 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: However, finding video of Larry's recent talks is difficult, so i don't know if it will be found in time. As you might infer from my statement above Tom and I have been looking. ​I did find *one* Larry talk from after 2015 was announced 9 months

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

On 09/07/2015 11:18 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: by the time you read this, it will ALREADY be TUESDAY even though it feels like Monday. RSVP if you can come please. +1 uri ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org

[Boston.pm] code review of short ETL script

hi all, i would like to add to tonight's agenda a code review of an ETL script i just finished up. it is fairly short but does a bunch of interesting things and it is table driven, a design concept i use a lot. of course you can heckle the code as much as you like and i will steal any good

[Boston.pm] sunset tonight

hi all, there won't be a sunset tonight due to the storm. but we will still be meeting at the sunset grill in allston at 7pm to bid farewell to ronald, fearless leader emeritus! i left my name with the host and we should be fine for tonight. they don't take reservations so we will meet at

[Boston.pm-announce] Social Meeting Tuesday, Aug. 11 (tomorrow)

hi all, we are convening a social meeting to officially change over the position of fearless leader of boston.pm. ronald kimball who was our first (and best!) fearless leader is moving to minnesota. our long time interim fearless leader, bill, can finally remove the interim. we will be

[Boston.pm] [Boston.pm-announce] Social Meeting Tuesday, Aug. 11 (tomorrow)

hi all, we are convening a social meeting to officially change over the position of fearless leader of boston.pm. ronald kimball who was our first (and best!) fearless leader is moving to minnesota. our long time interim fearless leader, bill, can finally remove the interim. we will be

[Boston.pm-announce] Social on tuesday- Farewell to a fearless leader!

hi all, we recently learned that ronald kimball is moving to the colder midwest of minnesota. as many of you remember, ronald was our fearless leader for many years. he organized meetings in a variety of places (boston.com, BU, etc.) before we settled at MIT. so we are having a farewell

Re: [Boston.pm] website problem

On 06/28/2015 05:44 PM, dan moylan wrote: 1st: in my code: $fll = /home/moylan/www/cgi-bin/stuff/moyts6.log; $fhl = new FileHandle (); i know you haven't touched your code in ages but filehandle.pm has been deprecated for over a decade! in fact it is just a wrapper around IO::Handle.

[Boston.pm] cleaning up unicode to ascii?

hi all, i have a db which doesn't like unicode (and to get it to accept it may require a complete debug of the DBD stack!). we get a rare error of a unicode char in a string. what is the easiest way to just delete that char and note that it was deleted? it is in a perl scalar and not marked

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

On 04/14/2015 12:20 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: Any more RSVP for tonight ? - Bill can't make it tonight. uri ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] damian visit to boston?

hi all, sorry to report but damian has told me he will likely not be able to do any side trips on his visit this year. he might not even come over for oscon. i can't get into the reasons but he regrets not being able to do it. he looks forward to next year when things should be easier for him

Re: [Boston.pm] boost::format to sprintf, or how do I get a substitution with a substitution in it?

On 04/03/2015 08:59 PM, Greg London wrote: s/format\((.*?)\)(.*?)\.str\(\)/something/g The problem is I need $1 and $2 to put into sprintf but I before I do that, I also need to take the '%' operators in $2 and replace them with ',' and THEN put it back in. Things started to get hairy, and I

[Boston.pm] damian visit to boston?

hi all, damian hasn't visited our area in a good long time. he does go to cities where they pay his expenses and he gives those amazingly crazy lectures we all love. well, we can get him here and the expense number he gives me is about $1k (hotel, air, food). i already have pledges of about

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

On 03/08/2015 08:50 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: 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. About the Speaker Mike Stemle.jpeg Mike Stemle, Jr. is a Sr. Software Engineer with more than 16 years of

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

On 03/09/2015 08:29 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com mailto:u...@stemsystems.com wrote: is this in person or remote video? ​ This is a live, remote speaker. ​ Isn't living in the future great ? i'll be impressed when you have

[Boston.pm] Fwd: [YAPC::NA Announce] YAPC::NA::2015 - Hotel Information Call for Talks

Forwarded Message Subject: [YAPC::NA Announce] YAPC::NA::2015 - Hotel Information Call for Talks Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 15:57:10 -0600 From: YAPC Admin ad...@yapcna.org Reply-To: ad...@yapcna.org To: YAPC Announcements annou...@yapcna.org

[Boston.pm] ride share to pm meeting

hi all, i can give a lift to burlington from alewife or the arlington/lexington areas to the meeting. let me know if you want a ride. thanx, uri ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

[Boston.pm] Fwd: [pm_groups] YAPC::NA::2015: Salt Lake City: June 8-10, 2015

hi all, yapc::na 2015 in salt lake is alive!! check it all out and spread the word. thanx, uri Forwarded Message Subject:[pm_groups] YAPC::NA::2015: Salt Lake City: June 8-10, 2015 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 20:44:08 -0500 From: James E Keenan jk...@verizon.net To:

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Mechanical Fourier Analysis

On 11/13/2014 02:10 PM, belg4...@pthbb.org wrote: Awesome videos about a mechanical harmonic analyzer http://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0INsTTU1k2UYO9Mck-i5HNqGNW5AeEwq that is rather amazing. it actually taught me more about fourier analysis than i recall from school. i know the concepts

Re: [Boston.pm] November tech meeting Tuesday : Mojo, Moo, Dbic, Google Api

On 11/10/2014 04:47 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: TUESDAY (Tomorrow, or today if it's morning already when you read this) November 11, 2014 (that's a Federal/Bank holiday ... does that bother anyone? wearing Poppies welcome) i plan on being there. uri

Re: [Boston.pm] Help with symbol table munging...

On 10/29/2014 02:47 PM, Morse, Richard E.,MGH wrote: Hi! I'm running into an odd desire, and I'm hoping someone here can at least tell me where to look, as so far Google and DDG are not telling me what I want. I have a bunch of modules which have the same subroutines in each. Mostly, the code

Re: [Boston.pm] Help with symbol table munging...

On 10/29/2014 03:07 PM, Morse, Richard E.,MGH wrote: On Oct 29, 2014, at 2:56 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: hi ricky, i am somewhat confused as to your goal. you want each sub to use a common %map? why not have them access it directly from the base package? Hi

Re: [Boston.pm] Symbolic Matrix math in perl?

On 10/21/2014 07:05 PM, ja...@nova-sw.com wrote: Anyone know of a perl package that does symbolic math on square 2-D matrices w/ complex-valued variables? There's one in python (Sage) for algebraic number theory that seems a bit of overkill, and Wolfram and MathWorks are a bit pricey for

[Boston.pm] JOB: 4 month contract

hi all, my client has an opening for a perl hacker for a 4 month contract. the rate is about $55-60/hr. it has one very interesting benefit - work at home 4 days a week and 1 day on site (downtown boston) for meetings and such with the full team. they are looking for a solid experienced perl

[Boston.pm] social meeting 8/18

and parking can be a pain. there are other dim sum places in chinatown so recommend them if you can. rsvp to the list if you can make the date and we (or i) will pick a place to meet. once we have it, we will put it on the meetup too. thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs

Re: [Boston.pm] August - Social meeting ?

lunches (harder for us to do that). any interest? thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston

[Boston.pm] tech meeting ideas

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

will be there (first time in a while without a scheduling conflict) also zak did a lightning talk of this at this past yapc. is there going to be pizza? uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com

Re: [Boston.pm] ver 5.20 of perl?

matrix. best to just read the deltas from N1 to N2 and stop where you feel comfortable for your upgrade. uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org

[Boston.pm] ISO: job for writer and more person

are usually better received than outside ones. feel free to ask me stuff off list and to send any links off list too. thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com ___ Boston-pm mailing list

[Boston.pm] JOB: perl dev and devops - local work from home

and samples of your perl code or cpan id. this would be a good chance to change your commute habits and spend time in your pajamas or with the kids! :) send your resume to uri AT perlhunter.com. thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http

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

On 05/12/2014 02:58 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: Next meeting Tuesday, May 13, 2014 sorry, can't make it. can i get access to the video stream afterwards? thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com

Re: [Boston.pm] *useful* use of `scalar`

the versions and see if my conjecture is correct? thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] perl program to count distinct values - can it be made faster

tools. uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

[Boston.pm] Local and remote perl jobs

. email me at u...@perlhunter.com for more info about the jobs and to discuss them. send me a resume in PDF and samples of your perl code. thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com

Re: [Boston.pm] Last night's talk, // the slides

the ground with less work on my part and to also allow easier changes later on. thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org

Re: [Boston.pm] Last night's talk, DBD::ADO

that can take advantage of these factors. Perl is bad at both. not really. perl can do both seek and sysseek and can random access fixed size records easily. no worse than any other lang for that. and you mentioned mmap which it can do too. thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting - benchmarking Perl5 vs Perl6 (Boston-pm Digest, Vol 126, Issue 7)

On 12/13/2013 10:17 AM, Morse, Richard E.MGH wrote: On Dec 12, 2013, at 9:03 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: you wish to publish all my probing questions, witty comments and general gibberish? i want major royalties!! In that case, I think I want lieutenant royalties. (Or, even

Re: [Boston.pm] ?instances of classA contained in classB, and instances of classB contained in classC ?

register types? I'm not familiar with this table driving approach. is there a short example on the web I could look at? hi greg, did you ever look at the table driven test scripts for my modules? i did a boston.pm talk about that design a while back. uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best

Re: [Boston.pm] do we have a quorum?

On 12/10/2013 05:21 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: i haven't seen many rsvp's yet. if only a few are going to show up due to weather and such, i would just as soon punt to next month. I've got 6-7 RSVPs, so normally expect 9

[Boston.pm] Fwd: Larry Wall in a crossword puzzle!

Original Message Subject: [tpm] Larry Wall in a crossword puzzle! Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 12:43:10 -0500 From: Henry Baragar henry.bara...@instantiated.ca To: TPM toronto...@pm.org Hello everyone, Checkout clue 65 in the crossword puzzle printed at

Re: [Boston.pm] ?instances of classA contained in classB, and instances of classB contained in classC ?

too. OO could help but it may not be needed. i have done similar things for testing several of my modules. i even gave a pm talk on it many moons ago. uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday

from everyday life. * Some comparisons of P6 with P5. - http://sd.jtimothyking.com/tag/perl-6/ benchmarks Perl 6 tvs Perl 5. an excellent topic and those blog posts show some skills in p6 and speed. i will be attending. uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best

[Boston.pm] Emergency Social meeting this weekend?

hi all, i just learned the amazing abigail and his wife will be in town this weekend (10/12-13). anyone interested in putting together an emergency social? i could host a potluck brunch at our house in arlington if that works. i don't know where they are staying or what transportation they

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: DSL recommendations?

be painful but do you really want 128kb or similar vs multi-MB speeds for likely a similar cost? unless comcast is the only other choice. move to arlington which has 3 competing cable/fibre vendors. uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http

[Boston.pm] Fwd: [tpm] Damian Conway talk details! Tue 6 and Thu 8 August, 2013

hi all, maybe someone here can make it to toronto for one or both of these damian talks. we have to get him here next year!! thanx, uri Original Message Subject: [tpm] Damian Conway talk details! Tue 6 and Thu 8 August, 2013 Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:42:25 -0400 From:

[Boston.pm] Job: Burlington with Financial/Customer skills.

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Re: [Boston.pm] printing Perl code (hardcopy)

like function and file index pages, custom header/footers, watermarks etc. i did lots of perl and c source printing with it and doodled more code and edits on paper. ain't done that for a while. i miss being able to sit by a lake or in the shade and coding away. uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl

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

On 05/13/2013 11:27 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: Let's keep those RSVPs coming ... i am gnawing at the bit to show up! uri ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

[Boston.pm] going to yapc?

hi all, just wondering who is going to yapc::austin? i and the wife will be there. she wants to see austin. thanx, uri ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl and recursion

On 04/06/2013 10:30 AM, John Redford wrote: David Larochelle writes: Are languages that have mark and sweep garbage collection better about returning memory to the system than languages like Perl that use reference count garbage collection. Programs that want to do this kind of thing --

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl and recursion

On 04/05/2013 11:22 PM, Jerrad Pierce wrote: at each level of recursion. What seems to be the case though is that when we start going bac up the stack that memory doesn't seem to be released at each pop. If, say, at max depth 500mb of ram has been allocated I don't see that released at any

Re: [Boston.pm] perl constants

On 03/05/2013 11:01 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: Damian Conway in PBP ch.4 argues for 'use Readonly;' rather than 'constant'. first off, greg needs to export the symbols as someone has said. several ways to do that including the classic Exporter module. as for Readonly vs use constant, they are

Re: [Boston.pm] perl constants

On 03/05/2013 12:24 PM, Greg London wrote: the one thing that seems a bit odd is that Greg's example didn't have separate packages for the separate files yeah, I did something like this a long time ago, and can't remember how I did it exactly. Basically, I pulled the file in like a #include

Re: [Boston.pm] perl constants

On 03/05/2013 04:28 PM, Wayne Tackabury wrote: well, you could write your own import method. actual exporting is trivial - ... sounds like a module to do this (Constant::Export) might be useful. Hey, sounds like the agenda to the next PM meeting! :) doable. i can outline in more detail

Re: [Boston.pm] perl constants

On 03/05/2013 05:02 PM, Mike Stok wrote: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/belfast-pm/2004-February/002482.html might be interesting. schwern's code uses @EXPORT and Exporter to do the actual exporting. it could also be modified to take a list of key/val pairs so you could call it like:

[Boston.pm] reasons to attend tonight

1. learn what is needed to cpan a module 2. learn about how to test module code 3. see module design in real life and contribute ideas and solutions 4. write and learn pod 5. see some interesting code and improve it 6. heckle uri's code all you want 7. join a team that will cpan a module.

[Boston.pm] meeting agenda

hi all, here is the meeting agenda as i see it. of course it may vary with the noise and furor of the crowd. overview of cms::simple's design. this will use the notes i will send out later. discussion of how to start a module: which tool to use - h2xs, module::start(er) or other. design

[Boston.pm] CMS::Simple design note

hi all, here are some rough notes on the design of cms::simple. i am sure to not cover everything here and make some mistakes but the design concepts should be clear enough. we will go over this in much more detail at the meeting and as this project evolves. the primary goal of C::S is to

[Boston.pm] meeting topic and group project

hi all, i proposed a topic for the next meeting (feb 12) and it is a group project which should be very educational for all who participate. i have a module which i use but it should be on cpan. it needs plenty of work to get there. here is a short list of things to do: pod (has none) tests

[Boston.pm] putting a module on cpan

hi all, i chatted with bill ricker and someone else on irc and i have an idea for an ongoing series of meetings. i have an unpublished module that i want to put on cpan. the code is fairly complete and it works well enough (it is used to make the perlhunter.com site) but it needs pod, tests

Re: [Boston.pm] Tuesday !

On 01/07/2013 08:32 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: *notes* * return to room 376 for winter/spring 2013. * 2nd Tuesday comes as early as it can this month. please RSVP for refreshments. rsvp'ed uri ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org

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

On 12/10/2012 04:05 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: 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

Re: [Boston.pm] November tech meeting

On 11/12/2012 12:38 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: what about a lightning talk session? some other pm groups do those like once a year. 5 minute talks by several people. any better suggestions? are we on tonight? anyone

Re: [Boston.pm] November tech meeting

On 11/13/2012 05:06 PM, Morse, Richard E.MGH wrote: On Nov 13, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: 3 so far - br ug rem - suggested topics plack, internationalization. not enough rsvp's for pizza Should I show up? Is this just a no-happen meeting (due to weather, etc.?) at this point

Re: [Boston.pm] November tech meeting

On 11/05/2012 07:28 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: Happy Guy Fawkes Day! Who has a cool use for Perl to share next week, at our November tech meeting ? (Second Tuesday = 13th this month) what about a lightning talk session? some other pm groups do those like once a year. 5 minute talks by several

Re: [Boston.pm] Northern Light

On 10/31/2012 01:28 PM, Adam Russell wrote: The building my office is in (One Constitution Center (OCC) in Charlestown) has a new tenant named Northern Light.The last time I heard of these people was back during the .com boom days. They had an internet search engine which, if I recall

[Boston.pm-announce] Fwd: [pm_groups] Do you have a fitbit? Join the Perl Mongers group

forwarded from pm group leaders list. uri Original Message Subject: [pm_groups] Do you have a fitbit? Join the Perl Mongers group Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 09:46:04 -0500 From: Jay Hannah j...@jays.net To: PM Groups pm_gro...@pm.org Please pass this along to your mailing list if

[Boston.pm] Fwd: [pm_groups] Do you have a fitbit? Join the Perl Mongers group

forwarded from pm group leaders list. uri Original Message Subject: [pm_groups] Do you have a fitbit? Join the Perl Mongers group Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 09:46:04 -0500 From: Jay Hannah j...@jays.net To: PM Groups pm_gro...@pm.org Please pass this along to your mailing list if

[Boston.pm-announce] talk blurb for tomorrow night (tuesday)

Larochelle da...@larochelle.name To: Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com Here's a blur for the talk. Managing Complexity With Perlbrew and Carton Deploying Perl programs to multiple systems can be challenging. Even when they run the same operating system version, different systems often contain

[Boston.pm] talk blurb for tomorrow night (tuesday)

Larochelle da...@larochelle.name To: Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com Here's a blur for the talk. Managing Complexity With Perlbrew and Carton Deploying Perl programs to multiple systems can be challenging. Even when they run the same operating system version, different systems often contain

Re: [Boston.pm] topics ? speakers?

On 10/05/2012 02:56 PM, David Larochelle wrote: I'll put together a talk on Carton and Perlbrew for Tuesday. great! can you email the list a blurb about carton? i know perlbrew is a way to install and maintain multiple versions of perl on one box. thanx, uri

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