Re: [Boston.pm] Hi all, new to programming/perl

2010-05-16 Thread Uri Guttman
> "BR" == Bill Ricker writes: BR> This week there may be a semi-planned social meet-up, as Adam K is in BR> town, approximately. (Will either need car-pools to Framingham or BR> someone giving him a roundtrip system in & out.) (nudge to Uri) i may not be able to organize that event or

Re: [Boston.pm] Hi all, new to programming/perl

2010-05-16 Thread Jason McIntosh
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: > Welcome ! > > The Boston.pm has a #boston.pm channel on irc.perc.org , which more of > us should use more often. (hint to the others.) Oh... thanks for this note. I have recently made a habit of connecting to irc.perl.org so that I could idle

Re: [Boston.pm] Hi all, new to programming/perl

2010-05-16 Thread Bill Ricker
Welcome ! The Boston.pm has a #boston.pm channel on irc.perc.org , which more of us should use more often. (hint to the others.) We meet 2nd Tuesday of the month at MIT for tech meetings. Which reminds me, i need to check if I have June room reserverd ... This week there may be a semi-planned so

Re: [Boston.pm] Hi all, new to programming/perl

2010-05-16 Thread Jerrad Pierce
Check the archives, there was just a thread about this a week or so ago. Personally, I started off by taking an existing piece of software (a signature randomizer) and trying to add some features I wanted. If you decide to go that route, check out NMS (aka Not Matt's Scripts) or maybe PPT (Perl Po