[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting - Tuesday - Ricky Morse - Perl 6 Typesetting

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

(1) The Wiki is Back! New hosting thanks to Greg R 's Qualitybox.US ,
suppliers of wikis and forums to discerning SMBs.
same Boston.PM.org address thanks to Perl.ORG
(2) Meetings resume !
 September at the usual place,
 October a road-trip to Waltham
 (center of town so bus/express-bus/CR-train accessible,
   but Bill will provide carpool for Cantabridgians too)

 = - = - = - =

September 11th: Ricky Morse - Perl 6 and Typesetting Formal Announcements

After ringing a bell for 45 minutes to 3 hours, you kind of want
people to know you did it, and what you did it for. Ricky uses Perl 6
to replace a manual process for creating “half-sheets” to post in the
Old North ringing room, for tourists to see.

Ricky sensibly doesn't want to retype or copy-paste what's already
somewhere on-line, so he uses Perl 6 to pull the data from a database
as XML, and then typeset the half sheets. This is using Perl6, GROFF,
and C6PAN Modules Template::Mustache, XML::XPath, and HTTP::User
Agent.

Location: MIT Building E-51, Room E51-372, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

NOTE: Parking Alert.
Recent changes in MIT Parking no longer officially allow un-permitted
parking after-hours, and parking lot under repair.

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave.

Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP (to Bill or On List) for count encouraged but not required, by 4pm Tuesday.

DETAILS -
http://boston.pm.org/wiki/Calendar
http://boston.pm.org/wiki/MIT_Directions [Includes parking notes]

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[Boston.pm] Fwd: [Ig Nobel Events] Ig Nobel tickets

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

Since there are a goodly number of science nerds on these lists i figure
someone might want to grab one or more of the last few tickets available.
If you enjoy low humor on high topics, this annual send-up of the Nobel
Prizes occurs annually just before Nobel announcement week, awarding work
that makes one laugh and then makes one think. And a comic opera and Mr
Science demos in panto.

(I've only missed a couple of these. Highly recommended.)

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-- Forwarded message -
From: Marc Abrahams 
Date: Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 8:16 PM
Subject: [Ig Nobel Events] Ig Nobel tickets
To: 


Dear fellow Ig Nobel investigator,

Please help us spread the word: a few tickets are still available for the
28th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, Thursday evening, Sept 13, at
Harvard's Sanders Theatre.
TICKETS: 

Several people have told us they are disappointed that the tickets are
already sold out.
But they were mistaken; their sorrow was unnecessary.
In these weirdly troubled times, we were able to bring smiles to their
downturned faces, by informing them that:

A FEW TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE.

Help turn despair into joy. Spread the word!

Thanks!

Marc


==
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Editor
Annals of Improbable Research
44-C Sacramento Street, Cambridge MA 02138   USA
web site & blog & magazine & mini-AIR: 
twitter: @MarcAbrahams @ImprobResearch
The Ig Nobel Prizes: 
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Re: [Boston.pm] BostonPM wiki too Fwd: [Discuss] New BLU Wiki

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Full information on BLU WikiMedia meeting



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From: Jerry Feldman 
Date: Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 9:26 AM
Subject: Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, October 17, 2018 - QualityBox: a
MediaWiki hosting service
To: , 


When: October 17, 2018 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q)
Topic: QualityBox: a MediaWiki hosting service
Moderator: Greg Rundlett , founder of eQuality Technology
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 315


Please note that Wadsworth St is open from Memorial Drive to Amherst St,
but is closed between Amherst St to Main St. See the ling below for
additional details.
https://courbanize.com/projects/mit-kendall-square/updates

Summary:

A guided tour of QualityBox, a MediaWiki hosting service

Abstract:

Greg Rundlett, founder of eQuality Technology, has created a hosted
software service called QualityBox which is provides the wiki engine
(MediaWiki) that drives Wikipedia. Like Wikipedia, QualityBox is
instantly usable by the end-user. And like Wikipedia, it includes a huge
number of configurations, extensions and customizations that make it
supremely useful. Greg will take us on a tour of QualityBox, and the
MediaWiki ecosystem to illustrate some of the features and capabilities
that are available right “out of the box”.

Featuring:
MediaWiki 1.31 LTS
Visual Editor
ElasticSearch (v5.6.10)
Excellent Mobile support
Modern and traditional layouts
New dashboards
Top to Bottom security upgrades
Free SSL certificates
Subdomain-based wiki farms
And LOTS more.


For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org

Parking:
MIT lots require permits after hours.
All Cambridge parking meters use Passport by Phone:
https://www.cambridgema.gov/traffic/Parking/paybyphone
This is active on all Cambridge metered parking spaces. Meters are free
after 8PM

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 2:23 PM Bill Ricker  wrote:

> Next week's Boston Linux Unix meeting will discuss the MediaWiki platform
> that is the new basis for both Boston.pm.org and wiki.BLU.org (as well as
> some thing called Wikipedia). Greg the speaker is our hosting host.
>
> Perl Mongers welcome - BLU meets on the other aisle, same floor at MIT.
>
> See BLU.org ...
>
>
>
>
> -- Forwarded message -
> From: Greg Rundlett (freephile) 
> Date: Thu, Oct 11, 2018, 09:17
> Subject: [Discuss] New BLU Wiki
> To: blu 
>
>
> (was Followup from InstallFest regarding typing of non-ASCII characters
> )
>
> In preparation for my BLU presentation next week about QualityBox, I turned
> this conversation into a wiki page in the new BLU Wiki at
> https://blu.qualitybox.us/wiki/Unicode Feel free to add/edit as you wish.
> I
> plan to use it as an example.  For anyone who really wants to play around
> in the new wiki, I suggest copying the page contents to your own user page,
> and / or making a 'Sandbox' page
> .
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg
>
> Greg Rundlett
> https://eQuality-Tech.com 
> https://freephile.org
> ___
> Discuss mailing list
> disc...@blu.org
> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>


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[Boston.pm] Charlotte PM

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Since this as one of the older lists has a lot of out-of-area subscribers
-- 

J Crome of Dancer project is starting Charlotte (NC) Perl Mongers
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6465213303978287104/

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[Boston.pm] No meeting in November

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

The combination of a holiday Monday, lack of planning due to having an
outbreak of roofers, etc., we have neither a topic nor any publicity for
tomorrow's scheduled Boston PM Tech meeting, so I'm cancelling.

We often have a Social in December --  either in lieu of / on night of Tech
meeting  or on an additional night -- if folks have (a) suggestions for
when & where, or (b) suggestions for a topic/speaker/activity for Tech
Meeting , please share !

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[Boston.pm] Tech meeting TONIGHT - Mark Fowler - in WALTHAM

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On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 1:43 AM Bill Ricker  wrote:

> Mark Fowler, "Perl Advent Calendar Redux"
>
> For the October 9 gathering of Boston Perl Mongers we'll be hosted by
> MaxMind  in Waltham, instead of our usual MIT
> location. Our speaker will be Mark Fowler.
>
> (Boston.PM is happy to accept this offer of hosting from MaxMind, and
> would welcome hosting offers from other organizations in Eastern MA. It
> gives those who live further West or otherwise are unable/unwilling to
> travel to the city a chance to attend.
>
> We're also looking for presenters. You don't have to travel to Boston.
> Remote presenters welcome. Have a module you want to promote, or a
> conference talk you'd like to "beta test" or give again, see our presenter's
> guide .)
> About the talk:
>
> A resource for beginners and advanced Perl users alike, the Perl Advent
> calendar features humorous stories featuring Santa's Elves and the fun they
> have with Perl. This talk will talk about all the exciting things that
> occurred in last year's calendar. Somewhat akin to twenty four two minute
> lighting talks, it'll expose you to a wide range of topics.
>
> (Boston.pm's Jerrad Pierce was the first Perl Advent interregnum editor
> after Mark's inaugural stint. We've not been involved in the 2nd
> interregnum or the Restoration, so it will be very good to hear this!)
>
> Location details:
>
> 14 Spring St, Waltham, MA 02451
>
>
> Free
> parking across the street.
>

(Sign on lot includes "MaxMind".)

(Note: Building is not ADA modernized; 3rd floor by stairs. Apologies if
this changes plans; our usual site at MIT is fully accessible next month.)

It's accessible from the Express Bus / Bus network and short walk from
> Commuter Rail (transit map
> ),
> or you can carpool with Bill from the city!
>
> General meeting info:
>
> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month.
>
> Talk begins at 7:30.
>
> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
> Boston-PM list , by 4pm Tuesday.
>
> About the Speaker
>
> Mark Fowler  is a manager with
> experience in running teams developing, maintaining, and improving
> innovative internet based technologies, currently working for MaxMind
> , an industry-leading provider of IP
> intelligence and online fraud detection tools.. He has a strong background
> in programming and development, speaking at conferences, and writing
> technical articles. Author/maintainer of 32 modules
>  on CPAN.
>
> About Boston Perl Mongers
>
> Boston.pm  is the Boston chapter of
> the international Perl Mongers  collection of Perl
>  user groups, founded in 1998
> . The group welcomes anyone
> to join our mailing list  and
> attend our meetings . We also
> sometimes hang out in our IRC Room. 
>


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[Boston.pm] No meeting today

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

Sorry, i didn't get an agenda out Friday again ... no speaker.
We are working on live speakers for January and February.
Happy Holidays all !

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[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting - Tuesday - Ricky Morse - Perl 6 Typesetting

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

(1) The Wiki is Back! New hosting thanks to Greg R 's Qualitybox.US ,
suppliers of wikis and forums to discerning SMBs.
same Boston.PM.org address thanks to Perl.ORG
(2) Meetings resume !
 September at the usual place,
 October a road-trip to Waltham
 (center of town so bus/express-bus/CR-train accessible,
   but Bill will provide carpool for Cantabridgians too)

 = - = - = - =

September 11th: Ricky Morse - Perl 6 and Typesetting Formal Announcements

After ringing a bell for 45 minutes to 3 hours, you kind of want
people to know you did it, and what you did it for. Ricky uses Perl 6
to replace a manual process for creating “half-sheets” to post in the
Old North ringing room, for tourists to see.

Ricky sensibly doesn't want to retype or copy-paste what's already
somewhere on-line, so he uses Perl 6 to pull the data from a database
as XML, and then typeset the half sheets. This is using Perl6, GROFF,
and C6PAN Modules Template::Mustache, XML::XPath, and HTTP::User
Agent.

Location: MIT Building E-51, Room E51-372, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

NOTE: Parking Alert.
Recent changes in MIT Parking no longer officially allow un-permitted
parking after-hours, and parking lot under repair.

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave.

Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP (to Bill or On List) for count encouraged but not required, by 4pm Tuesday.

DETAILS -
http://boston.pm.org/wiki/Calendar
http://boston.pm.org/wiki/MIT_Directions [Includes parking notes]

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[Boston.pm] TONIGHT - Ricky Morse - Perl 6 Typesetting

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

RSVP not required to attend but last call to RSVP for the 7pm snacks is in
shortly ...

On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 8:51 PM Bill Ricker  wrote:

> (1) The Wiki is Back! New hosting thanks to Greg R 's Qualitybox.US ,
> suppliers of wikis and forums to discerning SMBs.
> same Boston.PM.org address thanks to Perl.ORG
> (2) Meetings resume !
>  September at the usual place,
>  October a road-trip to Waltham
>  (center of town so bus/express-bus/CR-train accessible,
>but Bill will provide carpool for Cantabridgians too)
>
>  = - = - = - =
>
> September 11th: Ricky Morse - Perl 6 and Typesetting Formal Announcements
>
> After ringing a bell for 45 minutes to 3 hours, you kind of want
> people to know you did it, and what you did it for. Ricky uses Perl 6
> to replace a manual process for creating “half-sheets” to post in the
> Old North ringing room, for tourists to see.
>
> Ricky sensibly doesn't want to retype or copy-paste what's already
> somewhere on-line, so he uses Perl 6 to pull the data from a database
> as XML, and then typeset the half sheets. This is using Perl6, GROFF,
> and C6PAN Modules Template::Mustache, XML::XPath, and HTTP::User
> Agent.
>
> Location: MIT Building E-51, Room E51-372, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA
>
> NOTE: Parking Alert.
> Recent changes in MIT Parking no longer officially allow un-permitted
> parking after-hours, and parking lot under repair.
>
> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave.
>
> Talk begins at 7:30.
> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
> RSVP (to Bill or On List) for count encouraged but not required, by 4pm
> Tuesday.
>
> DETAILS -
> http://boston.pm.org/wiki/Calendar
> http://boston.pm.org/wiki/MIT_Directions [Includes parking notes]
>


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[Boston.pm] Fwd: [Ig Nobel Events] Ig Nobel tickets

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

Since there are a goodly number of science nerds on these lists i figure
someone might want to grab one or more of the last few tickets available.
If you enjoy low humor on high topics, this annual send-up of the Nobel
Prizes occurs annually just before Nobel announcement week, awarding work
that makes one laugh and then makes one think. And a comic opera and Mr
Science demos in panto.

(I've only missed a couple of these. Highly recommended.)

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-- Forwarded message -
From: Marc Abrahams 
Date: Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 8:16 PM
Subject: [Ig Nobel Events] Ig Nobel tickets
To: 


Dear fellow Ig Nobel investigator,

Please help us spread the word: a few tickets are still available for the
28th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, Thursday evening, Sept 13, at
Harvard's Sanders Theatre.
TICKETS: 

Several people have told us they are disappointed that the tickets are
already sold out.
But they were mistaken; their sorrow was unnecessary.
In these weirdly troubled times, we were able to bring smiles to their
downturned faces, by informing them that:

A FEW TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE.

Help turn despair into joy. Spread the word!

Thanks!

Marc


==
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Editor
Annals of Improbable Research
44-C Sacramento Street, Cambridge MA 02138   USA
web site & blog & magazine & mini-AIR: 
twitter: @MarcAbrahams @ImprobResearch
The Ig Nobel Prizes: 
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[Boston.pm] Tech meeting Tuesday - Mark Fowler - in WALTHAM

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Mark Fowler, "Perl Advent Calendar Redux"

For the October 9 gathering of Boston Perl Mongers we'll be hosted by
MaxMind  in Waltham, instead of our usual MIT
location. Our speaker will be Mark Fowler.

(Boston.PM is happy to accept this offer of hosting from MaxMind, and would
welcome hosting offers from other organizations in Eastern MA. It gives
those who live further West or otherwise are unable/unwilling to travel to
the city a chance to attend.

We're also looking for presenters. You don't have to travel to Boston.
Remote presenters welcome. Have a module you want to promote, or a
conference talk you'd like to "beta test" or give again, see our presenter's
guide .)
About the talk:

A resource for beginners and advanced Perl users alike, the Perl Advent
calendar features humorous stories featuring Santa's Elves and the fun they
have with Perl. This talk will talk about all the exciting things that
occurred in last year's calendar. Somewhat akin to twenty four two minute
lighting talks, it'll expose you to a wide range of topics.

(Boston.pm's Jerrad Pierce was the first Perl Advent interregnum editor
after Mark's inaugural stint. We've not been involved in the 2nd
interregnum or the Restoration, so it will be very good to hear this!)

Location details:

14 Spring St, Waltham, MA 02451

Free
parking across the street.

It's accessible from the Express Bus / Bus network and short walk from
Commuter Rail (transit map
),
or you can carpool with Bill from the city!

General meeting info:

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month.

Talk begins at 7:30.

RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list , by 4pm Tuesday.

About the Speaker

Mark Fowler  is a manager with
experience in running teams developing, maintaining, and improving
innovative internet based technologies, currently working for MaxMind
, an industry-leading provider of IP intelligence
and online fraud detection tools.. He has a strong background in
programming and development, speaking at conferences, and writing technical
articles. Author/maintainer of 32 modules
 on CPAN.

About Boston Perl Mongers

Boston.pm  is the Boston chapter of
the international Perl Mongers  collection of Perl
 user groups, founded in 1998
. The group welcomes anyone to
join our mailing list  and attend
our meetings . We also sometimes hang
out in our IRC Room. 

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[Boston.pm] Tech meeting TONIGHT - Mark Fowler - in WALTHAM

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 1:43 AM Bill Ricker  wrote:

> Mark Fowler, "Perl Advent Calendar Redux"
>
> For the October 9 gathering of Boston Perl Mongers we'll be hosted by
> MaxMind  in Waltham, instead of our usual MIT
> location. Our speaker will be Mark Fowler.
>
> (Boston.PM is happy to accept this offer of hosting from MaxMind, and
> would welcome hosting offers from other organizations in Eastern MA. It
> gives those who live further West or otherwise are unable/unwilling to
> travel to the city a chance to attend.
>
> We're also looking for presenters. You don't have to travel to Boston.
> Remote presenters welcome. Have a module you want to promote, or a
> conference talk you'd like to "beta test" or give again, see our presenter's
> guide .)
> About the talk:
>
> A resource for beginners and advanced Perl users alike, the Perl Advent
> calendar features humorous stories featuring Santa's Elves and the fun they
> have with Perl. This talk will talk about all the exciting things that
> occurred in last year's calendar. Somewhat akin to twenty four two minute
> lighting talks, it'll expose you to a wide range of topics.
>
> (Boston.pm's Jerrad Pierce was the first Perl Advent interregnum editor
> after Mark's inaugural stint. We've not been involved in the 2nd
> interregnum or the Restoration, so it will be very good to hear this!)
>
> Location details:
>
> 14 Spring St, Waltham, MA 02451
>
>
> Free
> parking across the street.
>

(Sign on lot includes "MaxMind".)

(Note: Building is not ADA modernized; 3rd floor by stairs. Apologies if
this changes plans; our usual site at MIT is fully accessible next month.)

It's accessible from the Express Bus / Bus network and short walk from
> Commuter Rail (transit map
> ),
> or you can carpool with Bill from the city!
>
> General meeting info:
>
> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month.
>
> Talk begins at 7:30.
>
> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
> Boston-PM list , by 4pm Tuesday.
>
> About the Speaker
>
> Mark Fowler  is a manager with
> experience in running teams developing, maintaining, and improving
> innovative internet based technologies, currently working for MaxMind
> , an industry-leading provider of IP
> intelligence and online fraud detection tools.. He has a strong background
> in programming and development, speaking at conferences, and writing
> technical articles. Author/maintainer of 32 modules
>  on CPAN.
>
> About Boston Perl Mongers
>
> Boston.pm  is the Boston chapter of
> the international Perl Mongers  collection of Perl
>  user groups, founded in 1998
> . The group welcomes anyone
> to join our mailing list  and
> attend our meetings . We also
> sometimes hang out in our IRC Room. 
>


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Re: [Boston.pm] BostonPM wiki too Fwd: [Discuss] New BLU Wiki

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Full information on BLU WikiMedia meeting



-- Forwarded message -
From: Jerry Feldman 
Date: Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 9:26 AM
Subject: Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, October 17, 2018 - QualityBox: a
MediaWiki hosting service
To: , 


When: October 17, 2018 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q)
Topic: QualityBox: a MediaWiki hosting service
Moderator: Greg Rundlett , founder of eQuality Technology
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 315


Please note that Wadsworth St is open from Memorial Drive to Amherst St,
but is closed between Amherst St to Main St. See the ling below for
additional details.
https://courbanize.com/projects/mit-kendall-square/updates

Summary:

A guided tour of QualityBox, a MediaWiki hosting service

Abstract:

Greg Rundlett, founder of eQuality Technology, has created a hosted
software service called QualityBox which is provides the wiki engine
(MediaWiki) that drives Wikipedia. Like Wikipedia, QualityBox is
instantly usable by the end-user. And like Wikipedia, it includes a huge
number of configurations, extensions and customizations that make it
supremely useful. Greg will take us on a tour of QualityBox, and the
MediaWiki ecosystem to illustrate some of the features and capabilities
that are available right “out of the box”.

Featuring:
MediaWiki 1.31 LTS
Visual Editor
ElasticSearch (v5.6.10)
Excellent Mobile support
Modern and traditional layouts
New dashboards
Top to Bottom security upgrades
Free SSL certificates
Subdomain-based wiki farms
And LOTS more.


For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org

Parking:
MIT lots require permits after hours.
All Cambridge parking meters use Passport by Phone:
https://www.cambridgema.gov/traffic/Parking/paybyphone
This is active on all Cambridge metered parking spaces. Meters are free
after 8PM

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 2:23 PM Bill Ricker  wrote:

> Next week's Boston Linux Unix meeting will discuss the MediaWiki platform
> that is the new basis for both Boston.pm.org and wiki.BLU.org (as well as
> some thing called Wikipedia). Greg the speaker is our hosting host.
>
> Perl Mongers welcome - BLU meets on the other aisle, same floor at MIT.
>
> See BLU.org ...
>
>
>
>
> -- Forwarded message -
> From: Greg Rundlett (freephile) 
> Date: Thu, Oct 11, 2018, 09:17
> Subject: [Discuss] New BLU Wiki
> To: blu 
>
>
> (was Followup from InstallFest regarding typing of non-ASCII characters
> )
>
> In preparation for my BLU presentation next week about QualityBox, I turned
> this conversation into a wiki page in the new BLU Wiki at
> https://blu.qualitybox.us/wiki/Unicode Feel free to add/edit as you wish.
> I
> plan to use it as an example.  For anyone who really wants to play around
> in the new wiki, I suggest copying the page contents to your own user page,
> and / or making a 'Sandbox' page
> .
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg
>
> Greg Rundlett
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> https://freephile.org
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[Boston.pm] Charlotte PM

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Since this as one of the older lists has a lot of out-of-area subscribers
-- 

J Crome of Dancer project is starting Charlotte (NC) Perl Mongers
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6465213303978287104/

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[Boston.pm] No meeting in November

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The combination of a holiday Monday, lack of planning due to having an
outbreak of roofers, etc., we have neither a topic nor any publicity for
tomorrow's scheduled Boston PM Tech meeting, so I'm cancelling.

We often have a Social in December --  either in lieu of / on night of Tech
meeting  or on an additional night -- if folks have (a) suggestions for
when & where, or (b) suggestions for a topic/speaker/activity for Tech
Meeting , please share !

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[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting - Tuesday Jan 8th, 2019 (tonight) - Perl Advent Calendar Review

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*Ricky Morse* - *Perl community Advent calendars* *of 2018*.
Following up on Mark Fowler's Perl Advent 2017 review in October, Ricky
takes on 3 of Advent calendars of 2018.

Talk 7.30 pm, (social 7-.7:30) Tuesday, Jan 8th
Location - MIT E51-372  (3rd floor,  Sloan School Tang Building, Amherst St
at Wadsworth St, Cambridge MA, near Kendall Sq T and easy-off Memorial
Drive)

*Note* that the 8th is as early as the 2nd Tuesday can be, and it's the
first working Tuesday for most folks, so yeah, it's now already. Details

   - Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
   building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
   nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
   ).
   - Talk begins at 7:30.
   - Refreshments in the hallway prior.
   - RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
   Boston-PM list , by 4pm
   Tuesday.


NOTES:

*Parking Alert is largely cancelled*. E51 parking is available to visitors
after 5 again.

*Detours* are still in effect.

See *MIT Directions*  page
for details.  [https://bpm.qualitybox.us/wiki/MIT_Directions]



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[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting - this Tuesday Jan 8th, 2019 - Perl Advent Calendar Review

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Ricky Morse will review the highlights of several of the Perl community
Advent calendars of 2018.

Talk 7.30 pm, (social 7-.30) Tuesday, Jan 8th
Location - MIT E51-372  (3rd floor,  Sloan School Tang Building, Amherst St
at Wadsworth St, Cambridge MA, near Kendall Sq T and easy-off Memorial
Drive)

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[Boston.pm] October ROADTRIP Preview & Notes from last night's Ricky Morse - Perl 6 Typesetting

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We'll have our usual date in October but not our usual place.
October 9th (2nd Tuesday): Mark Fowler, "Perl Advent Calendar Redux" ( ROAD
TRIP )

"A resource for beginners and advanced Perl users alike, the Perl Advent
calendar [ http://www.perladvent.org/2017/ ] features humourous stories
featuring Santa's Elves and the fun they have with Perl. This talk will
talk about all the exciting things that occurred in [last] year's calendar.
Somewhat akin to twenty four two minute lighting talks, it'll expose you to
a range of topics."


Boston.PM is happy to accept offer of hosting and presenting from
MaxMind.comof Waltham!

( *Boston.pm's Jerrad Pierce was the first Perl Advent interregnum editor
after Mark's inaugural stint. We've not been involved in the 2nd
interregnum or the Restoration, so it will be very good to hear this!* )

SITE: *14 Spring St, Waltham, MA 02451*

(For CarFree folks, meeting will be on Express Bus / Bus network and short
walk from Commuter Rail (transit map
),
or you can Carpool with Bill! Free parking across the street.)

   - 556 & 553Express Buses (useful *outbound* *only*, last return service
   too early)
   - Fitchburg CR (Zone 2) Last inbound 1143PM to Porter (Red Line) & North
   Station (Green & Orange Lines)
   - 70 regular bus (all night, to University Park via Central Sq Red Line;
   off rush 45 minutes)
   - 170 Express Bus is *reverse commute only* express bus, so inapplicable
   to us - useful if working there and living in-town!

Transit enhanced map -
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/240315386#map=17/42.37599/-71.23929=T


= = = = = = =

September 11th: Ricky Morse - Perl 6 and Typesetting Formal Announcements
[image: Commemorative text of a peal rung, with date, bells, wringers, and
steeple indicated, and a chapter logo.]

Sample output from P6 and Groff

After ringing a bell for 45 minutes to 3 hours, you kind of want people
to know you did it, and what you did it for. Ricky uses Perl 6 to replace
a manual process for creating “half-sheets” to post in the Old North
ringing room, for tourists to see.

Ricky sensibly doesn't want to retype or copy-paste what's already
somewhere on-line, so he uses Perl 6 to pull the data from a database as
XML, and then typeset the half sheets. This is using *Perl6*, *GROFF*, and
*C6PAN* Modules *Template::Mustache*, *XML::XPath*, and *HTTP::User Agent*.

Slide notes http://pukku.com/bostonpm/2018-09-ringing-halfsheet/

Program https://github.com/pukku/ringing_halfsheets [ link is in the notes
above ] .

*We did not watch all the videos or dive into all the reference links ...
have fun with this rabbit warren of links!*


*Ricky gave background on the Change Ringing style of bell ringing and also
briefly listed various software paths he considered to transform XML to PDF
for this print problem. *

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[Boston.pm] TONIGHT - Ricky Morse - Perl 6 Typesetting

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RSVP not required to attend but last call to RSVP for the 7pm snacks is in
shortly ...

On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 8:51 PM Bill Ricker  wrote:

> (1) The Wiki is Back! New hosting thanks to Greg R 's Qualitybox.US ,
> suppliers of wikis and forums to discerning SMBs.
> same Boston.PM.org address thanks to Perl.ORG
> (2) Meetings resume !
>  September at the usual place,
>  October a road-trip to Waltham
>  (center of town so bus/express-bus/CR-train accessible,
>but Bill will provide carpool for Cantabridgians too)
>
>  = - = - = - =
>
> September 11th: Ricky Morse - Perl 6 and Typesetting Formal Announcements
>
> After ringing a bell for 45 minutes to 3 hours, you kind of want
> people to know you did it, and what you did it for. Ricky uses Perl 6
> to replace a manual process for creating “half-sheets” to post in the
> Old North ringing room, for tourists to see.
>
> Ricky sensibly doesn't want to retype or copy-paste what's already
> somewhere on-line, so he uses Perl 6 to pull the data from a database
> as XML, and then typeset the half sheets. This is using Perl6, GROFF,
> and C6PAN Modules Template::Mustache, XML::XPath, and HTTP::User
> Agent.
>
> Location: MIT Building E-51, Room E51-372, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA
>
> NOTE: Parking Alert.
> Recent changes in MIT Parking no longer officially allow un-permitted
> parking after-hours, and parking lot under repair.
>
> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave.
>
> Talk begins at 7:30.
> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
> RSVP (to Bill or On List) for count encouraged but not required, by 4pm
> Tuesday.
>
> DETAILS -
> http://boston.pm.org/wiki/Calendar
> http://boston.pm.org/wiki/MIT_Directions [Includes parking notes]
>


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[Boston.pm] Topics & Speakers?

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Our next meetings would be - 2nd Tuesdays -

Tues Feb 12

Tues Mar 12

Tues Apr 9

Tues May 14

Tues Jun 11

We're looking for volunteers to present something, suggestions for
tele-presense speakers, suggestions for topics to dive into together (or
even nominations of what to view  via the magic of canned video and discuss
in the round.)

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[Boston.pm] 25 years of Perl OO Evolution in one Hour

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It's Second Tuesday tomorrow! Already? Happy Spring


We stumbled on a video talk that provides a fast-forward review of how
Perl's OO has evolved over the last 25 years. We'll give that our MST3K
commentary treatment.

Talk 7.30 pm, (social 7-.7:30) Tuesday, Jan 8th
Location - MIT E51-*151*  (*1st* floor,  by the big elevator, Sloan School
Tang Building, Amherst St at Wadsworth St, Cambridge MA, near Kendall Sq T
and easy-off Memorial Drive)
New Room >   151 << First floor !!!
Details

   - Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
   building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
   nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
   ).
   - Talk begins at 7:30.
   - Refreshments in the hallway prior.
   - RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
   Boston-PM list , by 4pm
   Tuesday.


NOTES:

*Parking Alert is largely cancelled*. E51 parking is available to visitors
after 5 again.

*Detours* are still in effect.

See *MIT Directions*  page
for details.  [https://bpm.qualitybox.us/wiki/MIT_Directions]

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Re: [Boston.pm] 25 years of Perl OO Evolution in one Hour

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On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 11:11 AM Bill Ricker  wrote:

> It's Second Tuesday tomorrow! Already? Happy Spring
>
>
> We stumbled on a video talk that provides a fast-forward review of how
> Perl's OO has evolved over the last 25 years. We'll give that our MST3K
> commentary treatment.
>

Talk 7.30 pm, (social 7-.7:30) Tuesday, *March 12th*

> [oops cut 'n paste ]

> Location - MIT E51-*151*  (*1st* floor,  by the big elevator, Sloan
> School Tang Building, Amherst St at Wadsworth St, Cambridge MA, near
> Kendall Sq T and easy-off Memorial Drive)
> New Room >   151 << First floor !!!
> Details
>
>- Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
>building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
>nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
>).
>- Talk begins at 7:30.
>- Refreshments in the hallway prior.
>- RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com
>or Boston-PM list , by
>4pm Tuesday.
>
>
> NOTES:
>
> *Parking Alert is largely cancelled*. E51 parking is available to
> visitors after 5 again.
>
> *Detours* are still in effect.
>
> See *MIT Directions*  page
> for details.  [https://bpm.qualitybox.us/wiki/MIT_Directions]
>
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[Boston.pm] No February Meeting

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We'll skip February meeting -- who would like to present something or
nominate something to discuss in March?


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Re: [Boston.pm] function that takes two arguments and passes them into s///

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Maybe try
cleanup('prefix_(\w+)', 'PREFIX_$1');
 as
   cleanup(  qr{prefix_(\w+)},   'PREFIX_$1'  );
?

You do NOT need the /e flag(s) for the $1 substitution to work.
I don't know if it works if it is in a substituted string or if it has 
to be top level of the parse.
The capturing parens need to be seen as RegEx special chars when parsed 
(as does the \w+),


(the alternative is to build the whole s/// statement in a string and 
eval _that_.)


it will have a better chance of working
On 01/30/2019 01:36 PM, Greg London wrote:

Tried to boil this down to the smallest testcase i could come up with.

I have a function that wraps a s/// substitution.
Callers pass in the pattern and the replacement string.
There's a bunch of other stuff going on that is why the
function exists, but isn't why it isn't working.

It's not working when I try pass in $1 as a substitution string.
Cant get it to eval 'PREFIX_$1' inside the s/// piece.

i've tried s///e and s///ee and neither work.
I've tried qq()'ing the text, tryign to turn it into an expression, etc.
Everything I've tried, I get one of two things in the output:
Either the output has literally PREFIX_$1 in the result
or it completely removes teh previx_nn from the result.

I've used eval() on '$var' in other settings and it works.
But cant seem to get it to work in the case of the replacement
string in a s/// substitution.

Thoughts?

I'm using perl 5.8, if it matters.

Here's the test code:


#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

#---
# modules and other library code
#---

my $content =<<'CONTENT';
some prefix string
HERE: prefix_01
post prefix stuff
CONTENT


sub cleanup{
my($oldtext, $newtext)=@_;
my $original=$content;
my $modified=$content;
my $changed_flag=0;

if($modified =~ s/$oldtext/$newtext/ge  ){
$changed_flag=1;
}

print "\n\n\n";
print "oldtext is '$oldtext'\nnewtext is '$newtext'\noriginal:
\n$original\n";
print "modified: \n$modified\nchange_flag is $changed_flag\n";

}

#---
# user code
#---

# straightforward pattern with no capture: works
cleanup('prefix','PREFIX');

# using capture parens and $1: does not work
cleanup('prefix_(\w+)', 'PREFIX_$1');

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Re: [Boston.pm] perl data to/from JSON?

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Scanning projects on my drive, i see lots of plain "use JSON;",  some "use
JSON qw(encode_json decode_json);", a couple "use JSON::PP;" and one client
using "JSON::XS", which would be desirable for speed (e.g. scaling web
servirces).  I don't have any examples of  JSON::Tiny.

On MetaCpan, plain "JSON" has lots of reverse dependencies and is
up-to-date.
Tiny has many fewer rev-deps (packages that require it).

Plain "JSON" uses "JSON::XS" when available and falls back to JSON::PP ...
and carries its own JSON::backportPP along as final default.
So if you "use JSON;" you can install XS version later for speed with no
change to using code.

As to Compatibility ... one can hope but no guarantees. EcmsScript is the
standardized version of JavaScript, but the implementations aren't ES\d+
they're something else.  The important thing is for your group to define
what structure you're passing and write test cases to verify that your
script reads and writes that format. And they do likewise.





On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 4:08 PM Greg London  wrote:

> This is a work-related issue, so certain decisions are out of my control.
> Also, I know only rudimentary python, and I know absolutely nothing about
> JSON, so, this whole thing may be complete garbage for reasons I'm unaware
> of. That said:
>
> We have a number of perl and python scripts and we are looking to share
> data between them. It was decided that we use a JSON file format to store
> data and then have all the scripts read/write this format so it wouldn't
> matter if the script was python or perl.
>
> basically I want to do this:
>
> my $my_complex_data = [ {key1=>data1,key2=>data2}, [ {}, {key=>[] } ]];
> use Storable qw(nstore dclone retrieve);
> nstore ($my_complex_data, 'filename');
> my $revived = retrieve('filename');
>
> But have the intermediate file format be JSON instead of Storable's format.
>
> We also have to go through a process to get executable modules installed,
> so if it can be pure perl, I can just copy the file to a local directory,
> check it into the project, and use it without delay.
> I can get executables installed, but they have to be approved through a
> process, and then someone has to make sure they're installed on every
> machine everywhere, including all teh machines on LSF. so executables are
> possible, but likely a bit more painful.
>
> I looked for JSON on CPAN and found... hundreds of matches???
>
> It looks like JSON::PP is pure perl and does what I want.
> https://metacpan.org/pod/JSON::PP
> however, it says:
> "JSON::PP is a pure perl JSON decoder/encoder, and (almost) compatible to
> much faster JSON::XS"
>
> How compatible is "almost" compatible?
>
> I'm not actually worried about being compatible with JSON::XS. I'm worried
> about being compatible with whatever JSON file some python script ends up
> generating, or generating a JSON file that a python script may have to
> read.
>
>
> JSON::XS https://metacpan.org/pod/JSON::XS says:
> "This module converts Perl data structures to JSON and vice versa. Its
> primary goal is to be correct"
>
> How "incorrect" might JSON::PP be?
>
> JSON::PP says it is not "java script friendly" and that "If you need
> JavaScript-friendly RFC7159-compliant pure perl module, try JSON::Tiny,"
>
> https://metacpan.org/pod/JSON::Tiny
>
> JSON::Tiny says "it is among the fastest pure-Perl implementations of RFC
> 7159." But it doesn't say anything about "correct"ness.
>
> So, what's the point of JSON::PP if JSON::Tiny does everything better and
> is also pure perl?
>
> Has anyone used any of these modules?
>
> If I wanted to take a complex perl data structure, save it to JSON format,
> and then have a python script read that JSON file, possibly modify the
> structure, and save it back as JSON, and then my perl script open that
> JSON back up, and read it back in again, which module is most likely to be
> cross-language compatible?
>
> Any help woudl be appreciated.
> Greg
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Re: [Boston.pm] Historical question: origin of the idea of tainting

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On 4/17/19 13:15, Andy Oram wrote:
> Ah, so now it goes back to the 1980s! Thanks.

Yes, Taint was originally for trying to make SETUID scripts safe from
injection attacks via CLI arguments (@ARGV) on multiuser UNIX (POSIX)
systems ... before Linux, before WWW.  Because Perl originally scratched
Larry's itch as a Usenet Newsadmin / Sysadmin back in the day.

Alas any late binding is unsafe with SETUID, so setuid interpretative
scripts eventually had to be banned entirely. (Dynamic library binding
by a executable is unsafe, but not specifically banned. Yet.)

But that meant Perl had Taint mode ready and waiting as a solution when
WWW required CGI scripts which required injection-proofing.

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[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday - Uri on Perl that writes Perl

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June 11, E51-376 (Back to 3rd Floor) ¨Perl begat Perl¨

The say only Perl can parse Perl, but Perl can also generate Perl. In "Perl
begat Perl", a preview of a talk Uri will present at this year's Perl
Conference, he will discuss how you can generate Perl inside Perl and then
call eval on the code. Uri will explain why you might want to to use this
technique, and illustrate it with good and bad examples.

*Uri Guttman* is a founding member of Boston Perl Mongers, a long time
presence in the Perl community, and founder/owner of Stem Systems, a Perl
consultancy, and known as "The Perl Hunter," a recruiter specializing in
placing Perl talent.
NOTE:  Back to 3rd floor!


*Boilerplate details*

   - Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
   building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
   nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
   ).
   - Talk begins at 7:30.
   - Refreshments in the hallway prior.
   - RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
   Boston-PM list , by 4pm
   Tuesday.


NOTES:

*Parking Alert is largely cancelled*. E51 parking is available to visitors
after 5 again.

*Detours* are still in effect.

See *MIT Directions*  page
for details.
http://Boston.PM.org
https://bpm.qualitybox.us/wiki/MIT_Directions


*COMING ATTRACTIONS *July 16 - D3 Visualization and Perl in Jupyter
notebooks -* Adam Russell*
(Room TBD)
August? September? Accepting volunteers now.
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[Boston.pm] TODAY Re: Boston PM Tech meetings - Tuesday and beyond

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

We have three count them three live speakers lined up, and possibly more to
come !

*Tuesday, May 14th -** Hue-Saturation-Luminance for Ack3 with
Convert::Color::HSL and Term::ANSIColor*
[image: HSL Color Solid]

HSL Color Solid
*MIT E51 First floor, room 151*, 7ish PM *NOTE FIRST FLOOR*Bill Ricker will
show how he improved RBG palette help for Ack3 using the HSL colorspace
model and CPAN module that does HSL<->RGB transform.

Details ...


> *Boilerplate details*
>
>- Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
>building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
>nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
>
>https://bpm.qualitybox.us/wiki/MIT_Directions).
>- Talk begins at 7:30.
>- Refreshments in the hallway prior.
>- RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com
>or Boston-PM list , by
>4pm Tuesday.
>
>
> NOTES:
>
> *Parking Alert is largely cancelled*. E51 parking is available to
> visitors after 5 again.
>
> *Detours* are still in effect.
>
> See *MIT Directions*  page
> for details.
> Future - Spring reservations
> Always the 2nd Tuesday of the month.
> June 11, E51-376 (Back to 3rd Floor) ¨Perl begat Perl¨
>
> The say only Perl can parse Perl, but Perl can also generate Perl. In
> "Perl begat Perl", a preview of a talk Uri will present at this year's Perl
> Conference, he will discuss how you can generate Perl inside Perl and then
> call eval on the code. Uri will explain why you might want to to use this
> technique, and illustrate it with good and bad examples.
>
> *Uri Guttman* is a founding member of Boston Perl Mongers, a long time
> presence in the Perl community, and founder/owner of Stem Systems, a Perl
> consultancy, and known as "The Perl Hunter," a recruiter specializing in
> placing Perl talent.
> July 16, Room TBD - D3 Visualization and Perl in Jupyter notebooks
>
> *Adam Russell*
> "Jupyter Notebook (formerly IPython Notebooks) is a web-based interactive
> computational environment for creating Jupyter notebook documents."  Adam
> has integrated a Perl kernel with the D3.js visualization library for
> repeatable explainable reusable sharable dataviz.
>
> *https://boston.pm.org/Calendar *
> *@BostonPM  *
>


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Re: [Boston.pm] something about @_ is different?

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On Tue, May 21, 2019, 2:12 PM Conor Walsh  wrote:

> Assigning to @_ is weird and I don't recommend it. It's full of magic
> aliases, which in some cases means you change the caller's variables, which
> is usually not what you want.
>
> Check the beginning of perldoc perlsub.
>

Agreed.

>

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[Boston.pm] Change tonight Re: BostonPM meeting Tuesday 7ish @ MIT

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

Late breaking -

Unfortunately the presenter for "D3 Visualization and Perl in Jupyter
notebooks" had a last minute issue and will not be able to present. We'll
reschedule the talk - likely August or September. Meanwhile, a substitute
topic...

We'll review what was presented at The Perl Conference 2019 by looking over
the recorded talks, and asking any Boston.pm attendees who attended TPC to
tell us about their experience. (And any other Perl topics of interest.)
The room is the usual E51-372.



*Boilerplate details*

   - Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
   building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
   nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
   ).
   - Talk begins at 7:30.
   - Refreshments in the hallway prior.
   - RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
   Boston-PM list , by 4pm
   Tuesday.


NOTES:

*Parking Alert is largely cancelled*. E51 parking is available to visitors
after 5 again.

*Detours* are still in effect.

See *MIT Directions*  page
for details.
(All links relative to http://boston.pm.org )



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

[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
quickly after starting, but at 6 minutes each, we can get through a
dozen (unless we choose to discuss and experiment between).

Samples from among the 29 six-minute choices available -

* "Emulating Any API"
* "Perl 6 Str Considered Harmful"
* "Administering Slack Contests with Perl"
* "In Response to D. Conway's Test::Expr"
* "A Personalized Calendar in Perl"
* "Why Google's Dart should be your next programming language"
* "Hacking the Interviewing Process"


Bill will be our VJ, but the audience will lead.

* NOTE PARKING ALERT BELOW *

Boilerplate --

> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
> Talk begins at 7:30.
> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

***  Parking Alert. ***

> Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking , visitors,
> public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
> (This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
> being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
> Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours!) and paid
> lot/garages.
>
> Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
> Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
> access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.
>
> Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
> (Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
> unlike most in-town garages.)

Further details on Parking, see http://boston.pm.org/MIT+Directions/

> ( Anyone with ideas for sites with safe gratis parking _and_ good MBTA
> access, let me know ! )

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

[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 can't play all 29 of them unless we 'gong' more than half
quickly after starting, but at 6 minutes each, we can get through a
dozen (unless we choose to discuss and experiment between).

Samples from among the 29 six-minute choices available -

* "Emulating Any API"
* "Perl 6 Str Considered Harmful"
* "Administering Slack Contests with Perl"
* "In Response to D. Conway's Test::Expr"
* "A Personalized Calendar in Perl"
* "Why Google's Dart should be your next programming language"
* "Hacking the Interviewing Process"


Bill will be our VJ, but the audience will lead.

* NOTE PARKING ALERT BELOW *

Boilerplate --

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

***  Parking Alert. ***

Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking , visitors,
public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours!) and paid
lot/garages.

Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.

Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)

Further details on Parking, see http://boston.pm.org/MIT+Directions/

( Anyone with ideas for sites with safe gratis parking _and_ good MBTA
access, let me know ! )

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

[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 set Filters in MY gmail to "NEVER Mark as Spam" all
things from my favorite mailing lists, which also saves Yahoo
submissions from DKIM discard -- recommended action for other Gmail
users.


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[Boston.pm] Reminder - no meeting tonight

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

Next tech meeting Sept 12th.

http://boston.pm.org/Calendar

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

[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 Keynote talk at TPC 2017 aka
YAPC::NA. He discusses the frustrations of a Perl6 activist dropping
back to Perl5, and what he did to scratch those itches. Hence his
title, "Why I Love Perl". We will relive his keynote via the magic
lantern, and discuss among ourselves.

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
(parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours!) and paid lot/garages.
Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Ames both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.
FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE LINKS AT http://boston.pm.org/Calendar

Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.



NOTE STAY TUNED for updates, as Room # is NOT YET CONFIRMED. Likely
one of our usual on 3rd floor of E51.


Next Meeting -
Tuesday, October 10th
Adam Russell "Deep Learning in Perl"

LIVE Speaker !


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

[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
(formerly known as YAPC::NA). In his keynote he tells "a tale of
madness, obsession, and coding extremity," describing what it took to
bring 3 keywords from Perl 6 to Perl 5. A community effort that took
three years and 2.8 million lines of code. This is a more extreme
example of what some developers are going through to bring Perl 6
functionality to Perl 5.

We will watch his recorded keynote and discuss among ourselves.

Even if you are new to Perl and don't follow all the technical
details, Damian's highly entertaining presentations are a must see.
(Plus, after the talk when we discuss it, we'll happily answer any
questions.)

About the speaker
Damian Conway is an author or co-author of numerous Perl books, and a
widely sought-after speaker and trainer.




NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
(parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
after-hours.
FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE LINKS AT http://boston.pm.org/Calendar


Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE: Fall 2017: we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first
door after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had
the last several years)

> Next Meeting -
> Tuesday, October 10th
> Adam Russell "Deep Learning in Perl"
>
> LIVE Speaker !




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

[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 convergence of convenient
MBTA / Free Parking / Easy off easy On / Good AV / Free lasted. All
the other sites I've used for seminars have failed one of thos
criteria. (NU ticked all boxes on Saturdays until they started the
Saturday Executive MBA and suddenly parking was permitted on Saturdays
too.)

With the current construction on campus, MIT has fewer spaces than
parking stickers, so the folks who've paid rightly expect to get
priority for what few they have left, even nights and weekends now.

(And this will be permanent. Given the DOT/EPA treaty, even after the
new buildings are finished, there will be fewer indoor spaces than the
outdoor spaces replaced.)

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

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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 projected started, with little prior
experience in AI. All code will use the Perl MXNet API and guide the
audience through developing a simple model, which is then built on to
perform more complex tasks.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has for a long time captured the popular
imagination. Results from academia and industry have finally started
to deliver on some of the long hoped for results: self driving cars,
automated medical diagnoses, and written and verbal language
processing. These areas are showing advances that were once simply
products of fiction writers. The current wave of AI enthusiasm may be
attributed to what is called Deep Learning which is a convenient label
for relatively new techniques using neural networks. The possibility
for increased automation across virtually every industry has resulted
in the spinning up of many new startup companies, as well as new
projects within existing enterprises, resulting in the need to develop
the skills necessary to pursue this new area.

While not the language of production, Perl is used to develop
algorithms and demonstrate concepts before they receive fuller
treatment. Deep Learning practitioners often begin their deep learning
work, correctly, with a review of the literature and research into the
fundamentals. Projects then often start confidently with high hopes,
built on that conceptual understanding, only to quickly get bogged
down in unforeseen, but critically important, issues of
implementation.


SPEAKER
Adam Russell is a software engineer with OptumLabs' Center for Applied
Data Science (CADS). CADS is tasked with developing prototype
applications which implement recent advances in algorithms and
technology to address issues of importance to Optum business
interests. Most recent projects have been focused on Deep Learning.
Adam has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of
Massachusetts Lowell, his academic interests involve Computational
Geometry and Data Visualization and these explorations, much like the
work described in this talk, are all Perl driven. He also teaches, on
an adjunct basis, at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.

NOTES
Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking ,
visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
circling), and paid lot/garages.
Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.


DETAILS
Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE: Fall 2017: we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first
door after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had
the last several years)



Future - Fall/Winter reservations

*If you have a demo or talk idea, please, when would you like to
present? Doesn't need to fill the full time.*

Confirmed room assignments courtesy of MIT
Room E51-372
Tues, Nov 14th
Tues, Dec 12th , 2017

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

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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 boson...@mail.perl.org .
We're your local Perl UG.
(Second Tuesdays, around the corner from where BLU meets. Tomorrow
night, come visit!)

Weren't you formerly on our Listserve too?

(So I'm CC:ing discussion there, but folks there should REPLY ALL, so
that he can see the replies.)


> Supposedly, perl has xml modules for this purpose,

Yes.

> but I am have difficulty figuring them out.

In Perl's spirit of TIMTOWTDI, There is More than One Way to Do It.

The default answer is to parse an entire document and navigate the DOM
from the root.  That could be XML::LibXML or XML::Simple or
XML::LibXSLT or ...
That way lies madness, when your edits are strictly local.

> The above example is simple, but, ultimately,
> I would be working on an xml file with many items
> and each item would have many different tags.

So you want to edit XML locally, replacing a tag's text contents with
a specific portion of the text contents of a specifically-named
sibling tag.

For local edits such as you need, I'd use XML::Twig [2][3].
   I did a worked example [1] not so very different from yours for the
Perl Advent calendar in a prior decade (when Boston.PM's Jerrad Pierce
was editor and Boston.PM were majority contributors).


[1] http://perladvent.pm.org/2009/06
[2] https://metacpan.org/module/XML::Twig
[3] http://xmltwig.org/xmltwig/


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

[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 make it tonight for his talk on "Deep
Learning in Perl." We are tentatively rescheduling that talk for our
November meeting (update to follow). Instead tonight we will be having
a mini-hackathon on the Config::Std CPAN module that Boston.pm
maintains. We'll be offering a live demonstration of setting up
continuous integration (CI) using Travis CI and Appveyor, two hosted
CI tools made freely available for open source projects on Github.
Join us as we stumble through the process and learn from our mistakes.

Perl has had Test::Harness for decades, with CPANTS providing
distributed Continuous Integration testing of Released CPAN module
distributions for a decade or more. Thank you CPANTS volunteers for
creating a distributed cloud for us :-).  Now GitHub is offering
similar capabilities to all the other FLOSS communities via free
integration with freemium cloud Continuous Integration tools Travis-CI
(for Linux) and Appveyor (for Windows). Since we have CPANTS for
release, we can use Travis-ci to test our DEV branch after
checkin. They'll even test Pull Requests before merge!  Any Github
FLOSS project can use these, but Perl CPAN projects can make use
easily since we already have a regression testing culture, we won't
need to write the tests, just enable them.

> NOTES
> Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking ,
> visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
> (This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
> being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
> Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
> lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
> circling), and paid lot/garages.
> Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
> (Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
> unlike most in-town garages.)
> Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
> Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
> access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.
>
>
> DETAILS
> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
> Talk begins at 7:30.
> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.
>
>
> (NOTE: Fall 2017: we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first
> door after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had
> the last several years)
>
>
>
> Future - Fall/Winter reservations
>
> *If you have a demo or talk idea, please, when would you like to
> present? Doesn't need to fill the full time.*
>
> Confirmed room assignments courtesy of MIT
> Room E51-372
> Tues, Nov 14th  ??Adam Russell "Deep Learning in Perl"??
> Tues, Dec 12th , 2017



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

[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 to be generous, so I'm
allowing posting of this one.


// Bill, Boston.pm Facilitator/Moderator

DO NOT POST JOBS DIRECTLY, See:

[1] http://boston.pm.org/Job+Posting+Policy

===


* Senior Software Developer at Smartleaf

* About Us

We’re leaders in financial technology, located in Kendall Square. Our
team includes an extraordinary group of financial engineers and software
developers working together to make it possible for all investors to
get the level of portfolio oversight and customization that was once the
exclusive preserve of the ultra-wealthy. We work with wealth management
firms of all types, from multi-billion dollar national banks to startup
“robo-advisors." Your work on this system will directly impact our
mission to democratize wealth management, lower costs and improve service
since 1999.

* Your Role

We are looking for a steady producer who is friendly, generous
with their attention and knowledge and eager to make a
difference to both customers and team members.

You will work in a small team of 5 developers, responsible for
our customer-facing application and support. You will have the
opportunity to participate in all aspects of design,
implementation, peer code review, testing and bug fixing. Your
first mission will be to help us scale out our trading API
services, focusing on handling large volumes of requests in a
multi-tenant application.

This position is mostly backend work, with some front-end
support.  Although financial analysis is handled by a separate
development team, our team handles all other aspects of the
application from the GUI and storage of customer data to
automating complex workflows.

You will get a chance to work closely with our front-end QA
staff and collaborate with other departments, including our
Product, Operations and Financial Engineering teams.
Additionally, all team members rotate taking care of tasks like
release management and support.

Our technology stack includes Ruby on Rails (front end), Perl (data
control and application deployment), C++ (financial engine), Oracle and
Debian Linux. We use git for source control and Jira and Confluence to
keep track of development tasks. Most employees use Macs.

* Preferred Qualifications

We would like to see candidates with:

A solid grasp of design and architecture. (Experience with API design
is a plus!)
Experience with a diverse set of technologies, backend integrations
and scaling large systems, as well as experience supporting a mature
product.
Familiarity with SQL.
Experience with Rails or similar web development frameworks.
An enthusiasm for tracking down and solving problems in a complex
system with interdependent data structures.
Thorough testing habits.
The ability to work well independently and with both senior and junior staff.
Around 5+ years relevant post-bachelors’ experience.

Most importantly, we are looking for candidates who are clever,
competent and kind.

Please note a financial services background is NOT required.

* Culture and Benefits

Currently Smartleaf is located in a top-floor office a short
walk away from the Kendall T stop in Cambridge. With a little
over 30 employees, we are a relaxed and friendly office focused
on client and employee satisfaction. We'd like to see you in
the office, but everyone is required to be able to telecommute,
on occasion.

We offer:

Competitive compensation
Comprehensive health and dental coverage with fully paid premiums
Three weeks paid time off, plus holidays
Flexible office hours
Fully-stocked kitchen, including healthy breakfast and lunch options

* How to Apply

Please send a cover letter and a resume to fut...@smartleaf.com
in plain text or PDF. In your cover letter, please tell us about
an interesting technical problem that you have solved. Questions
are welcome–we look forward to hearing from you!

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

[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 of this one.

This does not set a precedent of looser filtering.

I'd be interested in feedback on whether loosening the filter to
"Perl a strong/required secondary"
would be ok.
I'm guessing we'd get more such posts; is that good or bad?

 // Bill, Boston.pm Facilitator/Moderator

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

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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 the other 
> attributes) of nodes.
> Also, since you can find nodes using XPath, it may be easier to select nodes, 
> rather than walking
> through a tree of Perl structures…

Yes.
XML::XPath is basically what XML::Twig is a light-weight "do the easy
80% of"  version of.
(If one needs more than Twig, or if Twig docs don't make sense, XPath
is obvious next choice.)


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Re: [Boston.pm] Image problem?

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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 on dirty old Perl 4 and Perl 5.5.
All that flexibility might be good for something, but organizations not in
innovation mode tend to prefer standards to flexibility.

The interviewer stated that perl wasnt allowed because it wasnt "strongly
> typed", that it wasnt even "weakly typed". And perl feels like it went out
> of its wayto not have compile time checks.
>

As an improvement on Shell and Awk , this is not unreasonable. Various
modules allow for doing what checking is desired. A language founded on
TIMTOWTDI will be wrong for a firm with  a B culture.

Honestly, perl6 may be better off if it brands itself as "rakudo" instead
> of a sequel to perl.


Yes. There is talk they might...

The biggest selling point of perl 6 in my opinion is
> that it fixes all the things fundementally wrong with perl that made perl
> a bad language.
>

Flexibility can be a good thing in some contexts.
Duck-typing did not make Lisp or SmallTalk "bad languages" except to those
brainwashed that strong typing is essential for for computer science
blessings. It is a very useful concept, but screws and nails should not be
driven with the same tool.

But yes, P6 looks more like a programming language than a scripting
language straight out of the box, yet retains the whipitupitude for
scripting.


introspection
> so I can hack variables if I need to,


Introspection is generally less ugly / more useful in a ducktyping /
runtime-typing world. Runtime introspection in a compile time typed world
is usually a worse hack than pre-Moose Perl OO.

a real OO interface,


Mouse/Moo/Mouse isn't good enough?

Or if rakudo could run fast, id jump to that.
>

All in good time.
I need to check if they've completed the unfinished bits I was waiting for
...

>

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Re: [Boston.pm] Image problem?

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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?
That's not TIMTOWTDI.


> Rakudo has what looks like really nice subroutine parameter design.
> The problem is dealing with all the code that refers to $_[3] deep
> in the middle of a subroutine.

I don't see much of that.  That would be a code-smell for sure.

> Thats one of the things that makes simple support of someone elses
> perl code so hard. They werent forced to name their parameter list
> up front.

I agree that's horrible. That's not idiomatic Perl.
That's Perl (Perl 4)  with a strong Shell accent.
Such code does need modernizing.

>>> Or if rakudo could run fast, id jump to that.
>> All in good time.
> Its been a lot of christmases in the making.

Yes.
Looks like the Yellow ± footnote that had been forestalling my trying
some APLish matrix whacking is distinctly less missing.
  https://perl6.org/compilers/features#footnote_3
(Apparently there is still a possible PDL on top of quasi-native
"compact" multi-dimensional arrays.)

> I havent used it, but apparently python has extensions
> That make it static type checked, speeding up run times
> And making it more popular for embedded stuff.

IDK.
Python sure has one-true-way-thinking which will make it popular with
folks who like that.

People say
   "Perl doesn't have X"
... when what is usually true is that
  Perl doesn't have a single preferred X
   ... that is required
  ... or at least required unless you opt out aka default:on
We generally have 3+ choices
 ... and the default is none of them
 ... (or the oldest and worst, and the best may not be in CORE yet).

Our worst choice may not be better than Python's Hobson's Choice,
but our best choice generally will be.

If choice is good, this is not bad.
If the choice made ages ago in your Legacy code wasn't bad, that's good.

If however you have to support code that was written
 - by someone with bad taste, and/or
 - before the better options were available, and/or
 - before better options were in core distribution because CORP IT
won't install CPAN in PROD
yes, their historical choice can be beyond annoying.
Then { /* Time to refactor! */ }
[That's the sort of problem that can be outsourced to the
professionals at The Perl Shop :-) ]

*(Doesn't matter if decade(s) old Legacy was written by you a decade ago
 ...  or dropped over the cube wall yesterday ...
 your taste, what's available on CPAN, what's available in CORE can all improve.
 What's allowed in PROD might get tighter, but with PERLBREW and/or
Local::Lib, we can bundle
  a private Perl with the App and not rely on IT's no-CPAN-allowed
/usr/local/lib/perl/lib ,
  which could break an app if IT does OS upgrade so was always a bad
idea anyway! )

IMO, Python's first big win vs Perl was picking a DLL / SO interface
that was lighter, later binding.
   Perl standardized on compiler-binding with XS, a year or maybe just
a few months too early.
   Which has made integrating with legacy C libs harder than it needs
to be, making some deployments problematic.
   Even prevented me buying commercial Perl support for a Fortune 500 co. !
  (We now have a light/late binding option also -- TIMTOWTDI --
   but it's not the norm, so DBI DBD::* and XML::*
   still AFAIK don't normally use it.)
Which makes numb.py and scipy the substitute for Fortran in BigData
and Science, instead of PDL, etc etc.
(PDL not being Core probably didn't help.)
Sad.

> I like perl. Its an old friend of mine.
> It does some mind blowing amazing things.
> But its like that old friend who has some really annoying quirks.

Yep. Likewise.

> Perl might be the sheldon cooper of programming languages.

Heh.



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Re: [Boston.pm] Image problem?

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Interesting observation on the s/o survey

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2017/10/31/the-most-disliked-programming-language/

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

[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 - 7:30ish gather, 8pm 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 experience in
getting a deep learning projected started, with little prior
experience in AI. All code will use the Perl MXNet API and guide the
audience through developing a simple model, which is then built on to
perform more complex tasks.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has for a long time captured the popular
imagination. Results from academia and industry have finally started
to deliver on some of the long hoped for results: self driving cars,
automated medical diagnoses, and written and verbal language
processing. These areas are showing advances that were once simply
products of fiction writers. The current wave of AI enthusiasm may be
attributed to what is called Deep Learning which is a convenient label
for relatively new techniques using neural networks. The possibility
for increased automation across virtually every industry has resulted
in the spinning up of many new startup companies, as well as new
projects within existing enterprises, resulting in the need to develop
the skills necessary to pursue this new area.

While not the language of production, Perl is used to develop
algorithms and demonstrate concepts before they receive fuller
treatment. Deep Learning practitioners often begin their deep learning
work, correctly, with a review of the literature and research into the
fundamentals. Projects then often start confidently with high hopes,
built on that conceptual understanding, only to quickly get bogged
down in unforeseen, but critically important, issues of
implementation.

 SPEAKER
Adam Russell is a software engineer with OptumLabs' Center for Applied
Data Science (CADS). CADS is tasked with developing prototype
applications which implement recent advances in algorithms and
technology to address issues of importance to Optum business
interests. Most recent projects have been focused on Deep Learning.
Adam has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of
Massachusetts Lowell, his academic interests involve Computational
Geometry and Data Visualization and these explorations, much like the
work described in this talk, are all Perl driven. He also teaches, on
an adjunct basis, at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.

NOTES
> Parking Alert.
> Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking ,
> visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
> (This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
> being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
> Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
> lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
> circling), and paid lot/garages.

(Some circle to get a meter that will be free after 8pm and toss in a couple
quarters for good luck until then, hoping more folk are leaving than arriving
until after they become free.)

> Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
> (Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
> unlike most in-town garages.)
> Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
> Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
> access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.

parking links available via http://boston.pm.org/Calendar

DETAILS
> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
> Talk begins at 7:30.
> Refreshments in the hallway prior.

> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.
> (NOTE: Fall 2017: we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first
> door after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had
> the last several years)

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

[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 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 - 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 experience in
> getting a deep learning projected started, with little prior
> experience in AI. All code will use the Perl MXNet API and guide the
> audience through developing a simple model, which is then built on to
> perform more complex tasks.
>
> Artificial Intelligence (AI) has for a long time captured the popular
> imagination. Results from academia and industry have finally started
> to deliver on some of the long hoped for results: self driving cars,
> automated medical diagnoses, and written and verbal language
> processing. These areas are showing advances that were once simply
> products of fiction writers. The current wave of AI enthusiasm may be
> attributed to what is called Deep Learning which is a convenient label
> for relatively new techniques using neural networks. The possibility
> for increased automation across virtually every industry has resulted
> in the spinning up of many new startup companies, as well as new
> projects within existing enterprises, resulting in the need to develop
> the skills necessary to pursue this new area.
>
> While not the language of production, Perl is used to develop
> algorithms and demonstrate concepts before they receive fuller
> treatment. Deep Learning practitioners often begin their deep learning
> work, correctly, with a review of the literature and research into the
> fundamentals. Projects then often start confidently with high hopes,
> built on that conceptual understanding, only to quickly get bogged
> down in unforeseen, but critically important, issues of
> implementation.
>
>  SPEAKER
> Adam Russell is a software engineer with OptumLabs' Center for Applied
> Data Science (CADS). CADS is tasked with developing prototype
> applications which implement recent advances in algorithms and
> technology to address issues of importance to Optum business
> interests. Most recent projects have been focused on Deep Learning.
> Adam has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of
> Massachusetts Lowell, his academic interests involve Computational
> Geometry and Data Visualization and these explorations, much like the
> work described in this talk, are all Perl driven. He also teaches, on
> an adjunct basis, at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.
>
> NOTES
>> Parking Alert.
>> Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking ,
>> visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
>> (This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
>> being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
>> Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
>> lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
>> circling), and paid lot/garages.
>
> (Some circle to get a meter that will be free after 8pm and toss in a couple
> quarters for good luck until then, hoping more folk are leaving than arriving
> until after they become free.)
>
>> Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
>> (Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
>> unlike most in-town garages.)
>> Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
>> Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
>> access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.
>
> parking links available via http://boston.pm.org/Calendar
>
> DETAILS
>> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
>> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
>> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
>> Talk begins at 7:30.
>> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
>
>> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
>> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.
>> (NOTE: Fall 2017: we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first
>> door after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had
>> the last several years)



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

[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 experience in
getting a deep learning projected started, with little prior
experience in AI. All code will use the Perl MXNet API and guide the
audience through developing a simple model, which is then built on to
perform more complex tasks.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has for a long time captured the popular
imagination. Results from academia and industry have finally started
to deliver on some of the long hoped for results: self driving cars,
automated medical diagnoses, and written and verbal language
processing. These areas are showing advances that were once simply
products of fiction writers. The current wave of AI enthusiasm may be
attributed to what is called Deep Learning which is a convenient label
for relatively new techniques using neural networks. The possibility
for increased automation across virtually every industry has resulted
in the spinning up of many new startup companies, as well as new
projects within existing enterprises, resulting in the need to develop
the skills necessary to pursue this new area.

While not the language of production, Perl is used to develop
algorithms and demonstrate concepts before they receive fuller
treatment. Deep Learning practitioners often begin their deep learning
work, correctly, with a review of the literature and research into the
fundamentals. Projects then often start confidently with high hopes,
built on that conceptual understanding, only to quickly get bogged
down in unforeseen, but critically important, issues of
implementation.

 SPEAKER
Adam Russell is a software engineer with OptumLabs' Center for Applied
Data Science (CADS). CADS is tasked with developing prototype
applications which implement recent advances in algorithms and
technology to address issues of importance to Optum business
interests. Most recent projects have been focused on Deep Learning.
Adam has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of
Massachusetts Lowell, his academic interests involve Computational
Geometry and Data Visualization and these explorations, much like the
work described in this talk, are all Perl driven. He also teaches, on
an adjunct basis, at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.

NOTES
Parking Alert.
Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking ,
visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
circling), and paid lot/garages.

(Some circle to get a meter that will be free after 8pm and toss in a couple
quarters for good luck until then, hoping more folk are leaving than arriving
until after they become free.)

Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.

parking links available via http://boston.pm.org/Calendar

DETAILS
Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.

RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.
(NOTE: Fall 2017: we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first
door after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had
the last several years)

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[Boston.pm] Cancel December Tech Meeting

[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 have something cool or interesting to talk about in Perl 5 or
Perl 6 or CPAN etc, drop me an email?

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

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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 Space-exploration
on-line role-playing-game called "Tau Station" in Perl. It's even a
business. In this talk, he describes the games industry and how Modern
Perl makes building his game fun.

Original Abstract -
"With Tau Station, we're building a sci-fi universe in a browser.
However, in object oriented design, what does the "single
responsibility principle" mean when your combat armor serves as armor,
a weapon, and medkit?
"And when many different behaviors have long chains of duplicated
requirements (for example, do you have enough money to buy a medkit,
or refuel your ship, or repair your blaster, or bribe a guard), how do
you handle that in an efficient an easy to read manner?
"And how do you avoid god objects when your character in the universe
drives almost everything?
"This talk explores some of the techniques we've developed for Tau
Station to easily model complex behaviors."

We'll have our usual community discussion after (or by hitting pause
as needed) in lieu of speaker Q

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
(parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
circling), and paid lot/garages.
Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.


Boilerplate details -

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

Links
http://boston.pm.orgMIT+Directions
http://boston.pm.org/Mailing+Lists
http://boston.pm.org/Calendar  < more links here

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

[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.
> Amsterdam Perl Conference 2017 video screening
>
> Noted Perl personality Ovid (Curtis Poe) has built a Space-exploration
> on-line role-playing-game called "Tau Station" in Perl. It's even a
> business. In this talk, he describes the games industry and how Modern
> Perl makes building his game fun.
>
> Original Abstract -
> "With Tau Station, we're building a sci-fi universe in a browser.
> However, in object oriented design, what does the "single
> responsibility principle" mean when your combat armor serves as armor,
> a weapon, and medkit?
> "And when many different behaviors have long chains of duplicated
> requirements (for example, do you have enough money to buy a medkit,
> or refuel your ship, or repair your blaster, or bribe a guard), how do
> you handle that in an efficient an easy to read manner?
> "And how do you avoid god objects when your character in the universe
> drives almost everything?
> "This talk explores some of the techniques we've developed for Tau
> Station to easily model complex behaviors."
>
> We'll have our usual community discussion after (or by hitting pause
> as needed) in lieu of speaker Q
>
> NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
> (parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
> after-hours.
> (This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
> being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
> Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
> lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
> circling), and paid lot/garages.
> Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
> (Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
> unlike most in-town garages.)
> Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
> Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
> access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.
>
>
> Boilerplate details -
>
> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
> Talk begins at 7:30.
> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.
>
> Links
> http://boston.pm.orgMIT+Directions
> http://boston.pm.org/Mailing+Lists
> http://boston.pm.org/Calendar  < more links here
>
> --
> Bill Ricker
> bill.n1...@gmail.com
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
>

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

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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 video screening

Noted Perl personality Ovid (Curtis Poe) has built a Space-exploration
on-line role-playing-game called "Tau Station" in Perl. It's even a
business. In this talk, he describes the games industry and how Modern
Perl makes building his game fun.

Original Abstract -
"With Tau Station, we're building a sci-fi universe in a browser.
However, in object oriented design, what does the "single
responsibility principle" mean when your combat armor serves as armor,
a weapon, and medkit?
"And when many different behaviors have long chains of duplicated
requirements (for example, do you have enough money to buy a medkit,
or refuel your ship, or repair your blaster, or bribe a guard), how do
you handle that in an efficient an easy to read manner?
"And how do you avoid god objects when your character in the universe
drives almost everything?
"This talk explores some of the techniques we've developed for Tau
Station to easily model complex behaviors."

We'll have our usual community discussion after (or by hitting pause
as needed) in lieu of speaker Q

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
(parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
circling), and paid lot/garages.
Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.

Boilerplate details -

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

Links
 http://boston.pm.orgMIT+Directions
 http://boston.pm.org/Mailing+Lists
 http://boston.pm.org/Calendar  < more links here


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

[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 thought what he said about Test::Class::Moose and experimental
Test::Class::Moose::History was very interesting, along with
bootstrapping up to declarative programming with subject=>verb=>object
triples was interesting.

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[Boston.pm] No March Meeting

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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.

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

[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 tuned network time source (synchronizing
with a GPS satellite), and a naturally random entropy source (leveraging a
Geiger tube’s measurement of natural background radiation).

See changed Parking information on Calendar page!

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

[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 source
(synchronizing with a GPS satellite), and a naturally random entropy
source (leveraging a Geiger tube’s measurement of natural background
radiation).

Location: MIT Building 51, Room 372, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages no
longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
So parking on-site is AT OWN RISK. And Construction Detour again too.
See web for details.

  http://boston.pm.org/Calendar
  http://boston.pm.org/MIT%20Directions

Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE: as of Fall 2017: we'r back to the squarer room 372 (first door
after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had the
last several years)

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

[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 network time source
(synchronizing with a GPS satellite), and a naturally random entropy
source (leveraging a Geiger tube’s measurement of natural background
radiation).

Location: MIT Building 51, Room 372, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

> NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages no
longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
So parking on-site is AT OWN RISK. And Construction Detour again too.
See web for details.

  http://boston.pm.org/Calendar
  http://boston.pm.org/MIT%20Directions

> Boilerplate details
>
> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
> Talk begins at 7:30.
> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.
>
>
> (NOTE: as of Fall 2017: we'r back to the squarer room 372 (first door
> after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had the
> last several years)


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

[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 time source
(synchronizing with a GPS satellite), and a naturally random entropy
source (leveraging a Geiger tube’s measurement of natural background
radiation).

Location: MIT Building 51, Room 372, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages no
longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
So parking on-site is AT OWN RISK. And Construction Detour again too.
See web for details.

  http://boston.pm.org/Calendar
  http://boston.pm.org/MIT%20Directions



>> Boilerplate details
>>
>> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
>> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
>> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
>> Talk begins at 7:30.
>> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
>> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
>> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.
>>
>>
>> (NOTE: as of Fall 2017: we'r back to the squarer room 372 (first door
>> after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had the
>> last several years)
>
>
> --
> Bill Ricker
> bill.n1...@gmail.com
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux



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

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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.

Location: MIT Building 51, Room 372, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
(parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
circling), and paid lot/garages.
Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.

Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE:  we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first door after
the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had the last
several years)

http://boston.pm.org/Calendar
http://boston.pm.org/MIT%20Directions  << Details on parking options and transit

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

[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 51, Room 372, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
(parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
circling), and paid lot/garages.
Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.

Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE:  we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first door after
the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had the last
several years)

http://boston.pm.org/Calendar
http://boston.pm.org/MIT%20Directions  << Details on parking options and
transit
​


​


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[Boston.pm] No meeting night

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There will be no June meeting this month.

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[Boston.pm] No July Meeting

[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
wiki provider we have been using is shutting down. We'll prop it up
somewhere else, and get the DNS re-directed.
While it's down, and after, we can be found on twitter @BostonPM , Facebook
(page and group), and  MeetUp .


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[Boston.pm] No August Meeting; No Website

[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 provider has pulled the plug.
(In copious spare time, Tom and I are looking for right replacement.)
So temporarily boston.pm.org DNS points to a 404-ish page :-(


(4) Meantime, our Twitter, Facebook, G+, MeetUp, LinkedIn, and these
two Mailing Lists provide redundant communications.

https://twitter.com/BostonPM
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=134089120681
https://plus.google.com/communities/113462745547836195580
https://plus.google.com/114663318510475261282
https://www.meetup.com/Boston-pm/
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/41363
https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm-announce
https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

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[Boston.pm] BostonPM meeting Tuesday 7ish @ MIT - D3 Visualization and Perl in Jupyter notebooks

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

July 9, Room TBD - D3 Visualization and Perl in Jupyter notebooks

*Adam Russell*

"Jupyter Notebook (formerly IPython Notebooks) is a web-based interactive
computational environment for creating Jupyter notebook documents"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Jupyter#Jupyter_Notebook

d3.js, Data Driven Documents, a JavaScript library for live web graphics
based on changing data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D3.js


"How Jupyter Notebooks Will Improve Your Computational Life" "The Jupyter
Notebook is a browser-based command shell for interactive computing in
several languages"
https://wp.sanger.ac.uk/barrettgroup/2016/03/10/how-jupyter-notebooks-will-improve-your-computational-life/

(Both P5 and P6 kernels for Jupyter Notebooks exist!)
Details

*NOTE* -- Room was not pre-confirmed, oops; i will update ASAP, likely
Monday.
Watch mailing list, twitter, or sign in lobby!

*Boilerplate details*

   - Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
   building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
   nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
   ).
   - Talk begins at 7:30.
   - Refreshments in the hallway prior.
   - RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
   Boston-PM list , by 4pm
   Tuesday.


NOTES:

*Parking Alert is largely cancelled*. E51 parking is available to visitors
after 5 again.

*Detours* are still in effect.

See *MIT Directions*  page
for details.
(All links relative to http://boston.pm.org )

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[Boston.pm] Room Re: BostonPM meeting Tuesday 7ish @ MIT - D3 Visualization and Perl in Jupyter notebooks

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

Room 372 (E51-372, MIT Sloan Tang Center) has been confirmed for tomorrow.

On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 11:55 PM Bill Ricker  wrote:

> July 9, Room TBD - D3 Visualization and Perl in Jupyter notebooks
>
> *Adam Russell*
>
> "Jupyter Notebook (formerly IPython Notebooks) is a web-based interactive
> computational environment for creating Jupyter notebook documents"
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Jupyter#Jupyter_Notebook
>
> d3.js, Data Driven Documents, a JavaScript library for live web graphics
> based on changing data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D3.js
>
>
> "How Jupyter Notebooks Will Improve Your Computational Life" "The Jupyter
> Notebook is a browser-based command shell for interactive computing in
> several languages"
> https://wp.sanger.ac.uk/barrettgroup/2016/03/10/how-jupyter-notebooks-will-improve-your-computational-life/
>
> (Both P5 and P6 kernels for Jupyter Notebooks exist!)
> Details
>
> *NOTE* -- Room was not pre-confirmed, oops; i will update ASAP, likely
> Monday.
> Watch mailing list, twitter, or sign in lobby!
>
> *Boilerplate details*
>
>- Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
>building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
>nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
>).
>- Talk begins at 7:30.
>- Refreshments in the hallway prior.
>- RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com
>or Boston-PM list , by
>4pm Tuesday.
>
>
> NOTES:
>
> *Parking Alert is largely cancelled*. E51 parking is available to
> visitors after 5 again.
>
> *Detours* are still in effect.
>
> See *MIT Directions*  page
> for details.
> (All links relative to http://boston.pm.org )
>
>

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[Boston.pm] Skip August; September Tech meeting

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As usual, we'll skip the August tech meeting.

Adam Russell has agreed to reschedule his talk on using a Perl kernel and
D3.js Visualization in Jupyter Notebooks for September 10th.

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[Boston.pm] Skip September Tech meeting also :-/

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 4:13 PM Bill Ricker  wrote:

> As usual, we'll skip the August tech meeting.
>
> Adam Russell has agreed to reschedule his talk on using a Perl kernel and
> D3.js Visualization in Jupyter Notebooks for September 10th.
>

Alas Adam has a product meltdown at the day-job just as he's starting
semester teaching, so we have to reschedule again.
(Real life is what happens when we have other plans.)

At least we have 30 hours warning this time.
Since we had significant off-mailing list interest, folks who'll only
receive CANCEL but not TOPIC CHANGE message due to the inadequacy of the
very popular MeetUp platform, we're choosing to Cancel as opposed to
tap-dancing.

If mailing list folks would like to have a social-dining meetup, make
suggestion on the list (please remove -announce from reply!) !

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[Boston.pm] August & September

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Adam has agreed to reschedule the Perl+D3.js in Jupyter Notebooks talk for
September.

Meantime, we sometimes have a Social in lieu of a tech meeting in August -
the usual Tuesday night or other?
Cambridge, Castle Island, or ???

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[Boston.pm] DECEMBER meeting next - no NOVEMBER meeting

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With a Monday holiday this week for many, we'll take a pass on November.
(Hug any veterans in your life.)

We have a live speaker for December. While not exactly Perl, it's very much
a related art.

FEDERICO LUCIFREDI
O'Reilly Author, hardware hacker, and product manager at which-ever Linux
company his business card says this week

December 10th - 7ish pm - MIT - as usual

Bash 101: the caffeinated shell scripting tutorial

Legend has it that you can [learn Perl in 2.5 hours](
https://qntm.org/files/perl/perl.html) — we want to distill the essence of
Bash scripting in a similarly short session. Federico will bring slides and
a “core” overview of this notoriously hard to master language, come help us
figure out what else is missing!

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Re: [Boston.pm] BostonPM meeting Tuesday 7ish @ MIT - Conference Video Review

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

Dec 10, MIT E51-376, 7ish


*Bash 101: the caffeinated shell scripting tutorial*


*Federico Lucifredi*


Legend has it that you can "learn Perl in 2.5 hours
" — we want to distill the essence
of Bash scripting in a similarly short session. Federico will bring slides
and a “core” overview of this notoriously hard to master language, come
help us figure out what else is missing!

> Details

*Boilerplate details*

>
   - Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
   building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
   nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
   ).
   EASY OFF EASY ON PARKING.
   CONVENIENT TO T.
   - Talk begins at* 7:30.*
   - Refreshments in the hallway prior.
   - RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
   Boston-PM list , by 4pm
   Tuesday.

NOTES:

*Parking Alert is largely cancelled*. E51 parking is available to visitors
after 5 again.
* HOWEVER Constructions Detours* are still in effect. (Check WAZE or
Gmaps-Traffic or below page links for details.)

See *MIT Directions*  page
for details.
(All links relative to http://boston.pm.org )

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[Boston.pm] BostonPM meeting Tuesday 7ish @ MIT - Conference Video Review

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Oct 8, MIT E51-376, 7ishConference Video Review

Boston.pm will apply our MST3K interactive discussion style to one or more
recent Conference Videos.

Likely choice - how Perl 5.30 (2019) fits in arc of history and a possible
future.

but attendees can select a different one from shortlist or elsewhere for
our interactive discussion (MST3K) treatment.

Prior social media response to suggested video include -

   - Loved this talk! Thank you! The history was really interesting and I
   learned a few things that had never caught my interest before. I'm really
   inspired by your future. Question: ... why not just make (Moose) core?
   - I really liked this talk, gets real at the end ... has my vote

Details

*Boilerplate details*

   - Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
   building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
   nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
   ).
   EASY OFF EASY ON PARKING.
   CONVENIENT TO T.
   - Talk begins at* 7:30.*
   - Refreshments in the hallway prior.
   - RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
   Boston-PM list , by 4pm
   Tuesday.


NOTES:

*Parking Alert is largely cancelled*. E51 parking is available to visitors
after 5 again.
* HOWEVER Constructions Detours* are still in effect. (Check WAZE or
Gmaps-Traffic or below page links for details.)

See *MIT Directions*  page
for details.
(All links relative to http://boston.pm.org )

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[Boston.pm] Bash 101: the caffeinated shell scripting tutorial: BostonPM meeting Tuesday 7ish @ MIT

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

TODAY
(*ignore the Video subject line on prior email, this is a live speaker!
Gmail recycled the subject for me :-/ *)

On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 3:00 PM Bill Ricker  wrote:

> Dec 10, MIT E51-376, 7ish
>
>
> *Bash 101: the caffeinated shell scripting tutorial*
>
>
> *Federico Lucifredi*
>
>
> Legend has it that you can "learn Perl in 2.5 hours
> " — we want to distill the essence
> of Bash scripting in a similarly short session. Federico will bring slides
> and a “core” overview of this notoriously hard to master language, come
> help us figure out what else is missing!
>
>> Details
>
> *Boilerplate details*
>
>>
>- Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
>building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
>nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
>).
>EASY OFF EASY ON PARKING.
>CONVENIENT TO T.
>- Talk begins at* 7:30.*
>- Refreshments in the hallway prior.
>- RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com
>or Boston-PM list , by
>4pm Tuesday.
>
> NOTES:
>
> *Parking Alert is largely cancelled*. E51 parking is available to
> visitors after 5 again.
> * HOWEVER Constructions Detours* are still in effect. (Check WAZE or
> Gmaps-Traffic or below page links for details.)
>
> See *MIT Directions*  page
> for details.
> (All links relative to http://boston.pm.org )
>
>
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[Boston.pm] Tech meeting Tuesday 11th - annual Advent Calendar retrospective

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February 11th, 2020, MIT

*Annual Advent Calendar retrospective - Ricky Morse*
Details


*Boilerplate details*

   - Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
   building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
   nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions
   ).
   - Talk begins at 7:30.
   - Refreshments in the hallway prior.
   - RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
   Boston-PM list , by 4pm
   Tuesday.


NOTES:

*Parking Alert is largely cancelled*. E51 parking is available to visitors
after 5 again.

*Detours* are still in effect.

See *MIT Directions*  page
for details.
( All links are relative to Boston.PM.org )

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[Boston.pm] Next technical meeting FEBRUARY 11

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We will not be meeting this coming Tuesday (January 14th, as late as 2nd
Tuesday can fall).

On February 11th, Ricky Morse will present our traditional Advent Calendar
Retrospective, sampling the best of the Perl-ish Advent Calendars of 2019.
MIT E51 room number TBD. 7ish pm.
http://Boston.pm.org/wiki/Calendar

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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Re: [Boston.pm] delete($_[2]); doesn't

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On Wed, January 8, 2020 7:57 pm, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> This is a relatively modern feature.  How old is your Perl?
On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 12:39 PM Greg London  replied:

> This is for a script at work
> And they run perl 5.8


So you need a really old book as your reference :-/
(I trust you have a dog-eared copy of the blue camel.)
If you haven't yet, you should bookmark
https://perldoc.perl.org/5.8.8/index-language.html (or 5.8.4 or whatever it
is) at work.

(Uri's advice from the Perldoc that it isn't even a good idea to delete
from an Array on a modern perl is well-taken also, but as Randal points
out, doesn't affect your legacy perl.)

So you'll need to code this another way.
Uri's suggested *splice*() was indeed available in 5.8.x -- but was
upgraded in 5.14. and later, so rely on the old documentation
, as latest docs may
advise on corner-cases wrongly.

// Bill
consultant at The Perl Shop

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[Boston.pm] No March Meeting

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Out of an abundance of caution and not having a speaker anyway, I'm
cancelling the meeting this month.

I wouldn't be surprised if April has to be held as a Google Hangout or IRC
meeting or something, as MIT may be a closed campus by then.

http://news.mit.edu/2020/events-postponed-canceled-covid-19-0309

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[Boston.pm] Joint Remote Meeting - featuring Federico's latest - WEDNESDAY 4/15 evening

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This is the rare month when 3d Wednesday immediately follows 2nd Tuesday.
Since one of our own is presenting to Boston Linux Unix on Wednesday 4/15,
rather than try to whip up a compelling remote meeting of our own, I'm
inviting us to join their remote meeting. There may not be a much/any Perl,
but Federico Lucifredi is a Perl Monger at heart and does fun presentations.

BLU starts their meetings with informal Q at 6:30pm ET. The livestream
MIGHT start before then or closer to traditional speaker start time of
7:15pm. With a non-physical meeting they MIGHT let the speaker start
earlier.

A few of us with multiple screens will try to bridge comments from Jitsi
Text, YouTube text chat, and #BLU IRC (irc.freenode.org) to Federico's
attention. I might even notice Q's in #boston.pm (irc.perl.org)

BLU abstract is :

> We are resuming the meetings and trying our hand at a virtual format this
> month. Federico has volunteered to begin this series with a review of his
> latest cluster, a new design  based on Raspberry PI 4 boards that
> completely revamps the previous PI 3 design, and present his SCALE talk on
> how to prototype supercomputing code in a less expensive environment. We
> are going to cover the new hardware, the operational environment, and and
> the coding platform while testing a new in-browser meeting format for
> sharing slides, hardware inspection, asking questions, and recording a
> youtube stream.
>
> Join us on Wednesday, same time, same channel!


It will be livestreamed on YouTube BostonLinuxandUnix BLU Livestream channel
 and on JITSI
 meeting (camera & mic required to join JITSI
meeting, but you can mute them after joining; on a powerful desktop you can
even blur background, but no pseudo-greenscreen replacement *yet*.
Chrome/ium or Android Native client recommended; other options available).
(If you subscribe to the BLU channel on YouTube, you should get an offer to
get notification of a scheduled livestream)

Jitsi is the FLOSS tier of 8x8's Freemium product line.
(They're like Zoom except the security and privacy are real, and built on
web standards and FLOSS. 8x8 is a spinoff from Atlassian.

(Editorial: when i want to use a meeting tool from an anti-privacy Company,
Google Meet works for me.
   Zoom can apparently be used with moderate safety from a Chrom(e|ium) NOT
LOGGED INTO  Google without the plugin; the plugin or loggedin Chrome or
native client should only be used when mandated on corporate hardware where
you expect no privacy from the CIO/CISO. Their enterprise CISO tools are
inappropriate privacy invasion in a social setting. Noo.)

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[Boston.pm] WikiRepair - Damian Conway, Boston 2006 Mementos

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

While repairing Image links when reloading the Wiki from backups (
Boston.PM.org aka bpm.QualityBox.com/bpm), I belatedly noticed the
Damian2006Mementos page had failed wiki conversion some time back. I have
restored our picture album of Damian and the tin-hat contest.

https://bpm.qualitybox.us/bpm/Damian2006Mementos


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[Boston.pm] Virtual Meeting Tuesday 7pm online

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*Boston.PM* will try a virtual meeting for September 8th
(aka March 192nd ).

*Topic*: What did you do on your summer vacation?
WFH & stacation (with Perl¹)?

*Time*: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
*Where*: JITSI (url tba)
*Who*: all of us

¹ *or other compatible, interesting FLOSS too*

*NOTE* – This is as early as 2nd Tuesday can fall and is the day after the
long Labor Day Weekend, so it will feel very Monday and not very Tuesday,
let alone 2nd Tuesday !

We will use the Jitsi Meet service.

(*If you need to hear my rant about why Zoom’s “fixes” are inadequate, ask
me off-list*.)

Jitsi is a Free/Libre OSS project sponsored by 8x8 (an Atlassian spin-off).
It is the freemium base for their added-value corporate meeting & VOIP
platform. As FLOSS, it can be self-hosted; they provide a free demo server.
We will currently be using the free demo server, but may migrate to a
hosted server (where we can set defaults, privileges).

Natick FOSS group has a 4-page Jitsi Help .pdf file
, and you can practice
beforehand.
(Natick meet 1st Thursdays, online, early afternoon)
*Update *to file ^ : Firefox latest versions 78+ support multicast, so are
safer than before. Chrome/Chromium/FF78+ all plausible now.

One can use plain web mode, but if you can install the browser plug-in if
you like. There are also iOS (iPhone/iPad) and Android apps which work well.

(I will replace this line with the link to the meeting room later)

JITSI scales fine to more people in face-sharing BradyBunch /
HollywoodSquares mode than you can easily see at once (30ish) and if folks
turn off their cameras (same as mikes) when just listening/talking, i.e.
when not commenting/presenting, it scales much higher.

(If we later get more folks than will comfortably fit in Jitsi, we can set
up a stream to YouTubeLive or some other platform … or upgrade to a proper
panelist platform feeding a stream, but the “seminar” quality of Jitsi is
fine for our level of anarchy.)

I will routinely mute those not presenting so you’ll usually need to
*unmute* to comment.
Hint: Space-bar is push to talk, M is mute/unmute
(on phone/tablet it’s the skewmorphic microphone, avoid the handset hangup
button!).
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/wiki/Keyboard-Shortcuts




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[Boston.pm] Virtual Meeting? 2nd Tuesday or ?

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Would we like to have virtual Perl Mongers?

Our prior meeting schedule was 2nd Tuesday of the Month. This month that
falls the day after Labor Day monday. (And as always falls on MS Windows
Patch Day, if anyone observes.) Since we're mostly *not* going to the
beach, is that a better date than it usually would be?

Considerations

   - In-person face-to-face will not be possible at MIT for the foreseeable
   future (through end of calendar year at a minimum) and alternate venues
   seem problematic likewise unless we dope up with bug spray and sit outdoors
   in a circle (polygon) with 6' shortest chords, which makes projecting demos
   hard.
   - BLU.org has been using *JITSI*, a FLOSS alternative to Zoom that is a
   spinoff of Atlassian, upon which the 8x8 commercial freemium stack is
   built; it works well for small groups (doesn't scale as well in
   all-cameras-all-the-time Brady-Bunch/Hollywood Squares mode - if it hurts
   when you do that, don't do that!). I would intend to use that. (Browser
   Plug-in or iOS/Android app is useful but not required.)
   - Does anyone have a topic or everyone have a mini-topic to present?
   (Since I'm preparing the September BLU talk, i won't have anything but
   scraps myself.
I do have an interesting result with Raku recently but that won't take
   much time.)
   - Since i'm presenting to BLU on 3d Wednesday (topic might or might not
   be early feedback shift register all-electronic crypto hardware), i'm not
   willing to push Boston.pm to 3d Tuesday (as I often would for a Monday
   holiday otherwise).

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Re: [Boston.pm] Virtual Meeting? 2nd Tuesday or ?

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

Meeting URL is https://meet.jit.si/BostonPMSeptember

JITSI keybaord shortcuts -
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/wiki/Keyboard-Shortcuts

Meeting room is open now ... i won't start til 7pm or after but feel free
to congregate.


On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 10:16 PM Bill Ricker  wrote:

> Would we like to have virtual Perl Mongers?
>
> Our prior meeting schedule was 2nd Tuesday of the Month. This month that
> falls the day after Labor Day monday. (And as always falls on MS Windows
> Patch Day, if anyone observes.) Since we're mostly *not* going to the
> beach, is that a better date than it usually would be?
>
> Considerations
>
>- In-person face-to-face will not be possible at MIT for the
>foreseeable future (through end of calendar year at a minimum) and
>alternate venues seem problematic likewise unless we dope up with bug spray
>and sit outdoors in a circle (polygon) with 6' shortest chords, which makes
>projecting demos hard.
>- BLU.org has been using *JITSI*, a FLOSS alternative to Zoom that is
>a spinoff of Atlassian, upon which the 8x8 commercial freemium stack is
>built; it works well for small groups (doesn't scale as well in
>all-cameras-all-the-time Brady-Bunch/Hollywood Squares mode - if it hurts
>when you do that, don't do that!). I would intend to use that. (Browser
>Plug-in or iOS/Android app is useful but not required.)
>- Does anyone have a topic or everyone have a mini-topic to present?
>(Since I'm preparing the September BLU talk, i won't have anything but
>scraps myself.
> I do have an interesting result with Raku recently but that won't
>take much time.)
>- Since i'm presenting to BLU on 3d Wednesday (topic might or might
>not be early feedback shift register all-electronic crypto hardware), i'm
>not willing to push Boston.pm to 3d Tuesday (as I often would for a Monday
>holiday otherwise).
>
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Re: [Boston.pm] Virtual Meeting Tuesday 7pm online

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Great!

On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 11:11 AM Jerrad Pierce  wrote:

> I will hopefully be able to attend.
>


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[Boston.pm] 2nd Tuesday approaches

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

2nd Tuesday is on the far side of the weekend.
Default plan would be to have a Jit.Si virtual meeting 7-9pm EDT

Does anyone have content for a long or medium speaking block ?
Or shall we do another round-robin?
(We /could/ watch an online conference video together with our MST3K
commentary as we sometimes did in person but doest that feel sensible ?
Some people do do "watch parties" on-line, so it's not as absurd as my
initial reaction? )


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Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Online - TODAY Tues Oct 13th

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Meeting URL
https://meet.jit.si/1013-BostonPM

On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 11:59 PM Bill Ricker  wrote:

> *Boston.PM* continue with virtual meetings for October 13th
> (aka March 227th ).
>
>
> *Topic*: Round-table
>
> *Time*: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
>
> *Where*: JITSI (url tba shortly before meeting on Calendar
>  )
>
> *Who*: all of us
>
> This Boston Perl Monger's meeting doesn't have a scheduled speaker, so
> instead we'll use the time to see what members have been up to and open the
> floor for discussion of anything Perl-related. If you have a lightning
> topic to present this month, you are welcome to do so, and as always we
> welcome speakers for future meetings. We have a few topic ideas in mind for
> next month and are in the process of contacting potential presenters.
> Volunteers for half or full presentations are still welcome!
>
> We will use the Jitsi Meet service.
>
> (*If you need to hear my rant about why Zoom’s “fixes” are inadequate,
> ask me off-list*.)
>
> Jitsi is a Free/Libre OSS project sponsored by 8x8 (an Atlassian
> spin-off). It is the freemium base for their added-value corporate meeting
> & VOIP platform. As FLOSS, it can be self-hosted; they provide a free demo
> server. We will currently be using the free demo server, but may migrate to
> a hosted server (where we can set defaults, privileges).
>
> Natick FOSS group has a *4-page Jitsi Help .pdf file
> *, and you can
> practice beforehand. (They meet 1st Thursdays, online)
> *Update *to file ^ : Firefox latest versions 78+ support multicast, so
> are safer than before? Chrome/Chromium/FF78+ *supposdely *all plausible
> now.
>
> One can use plain web mode, but if you can install the browser plug-in if
> you like. There are also iOS (iPhone/iPad) and Android apps which work well.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 4:17 PM Bill Ricker  wrote:
>
>> 2nd Tuesday is on the far side of the weekend.
>> Default plan would be to have a Jit.Si virtual meeting 7-9pm EDT
>>
>> Does anyone have content for a long or medium speaking block ?
>> Or shall we do another round-robin?
>> (We /could/ watch an online conference video together with our MST3K
>> commentary as we sometimes did in person but doest that feel sensible ?
>> Some people do do "watch parties" on-line, so it's not as absurd as my
>> initial reaction? )
>>
>
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[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Online - TODAY Tues Oct 13th

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

*Boston.PM* continue with virtual meetings for October 13th
(aka March 227th ).


*Topic*: Round-table

*Time*: 7:00pm – 9:00pm

*Where*: JITSI (url tba shortly before meeting on Calendar
 )

*Who*: all of us

This Boston Perl Monger's meeting doesn't have a scheduled speaker, so
instead we'll use the time to see what members have been up to and open the
floor for discussion of anything Perl-related. If you have a lightning
topic to present this month, you are welcome to do so, and as always we
welcome speakers for future meetings. We have a few topic ideas in mind for
next month and are in the process of contacting potential presenters.
Volunteers for half or full presentations are still welcome!

We will use the Jitsi Meet service.

(*If you need to hear my rant about why Zoom’s “fixes” are inadequate, ask
me off-list*.)

Jitsi is a Free/Libre OSS project sponsored by 8x8 (an Atlassian spin-off).
It is the freemium base for their added-value corporate meeting & VOIP
platform. As FLOSS, it can be self-hosted; they provide a free demo server.
We will currently be using the free demo server, but may migrate to a
hosted server (where we can set defaults, privileges).

Natick FOSS group has a *4-page Jitsi Help .pdf file
*, and you can practice
beforehand. (They meet 1st Thursdays, online)
*Update *to file ^ : Firefox latest versions 78+ support multicast, so are
safer than before? Chrome/Chromium/FF78+ *supposdely *all plausible now.

One can use plain web mode, but if you can install the browser plug-in if
you like. There are also iOS (iPhone/iPad) and Android apps which work well.



On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 4:17 PM Bill Ricker  wrote:

> 2nd Tuesday is on the far side of the weekend.
> Default plan would be to have a Jit.Si virtual meeting 7-9pm EDT
>
> Does anyone have content for a long or medium speaking block ?
> Or shall we do another round-robin?
> (We /could/ watch an online conference video together with our MST3K
> commentary as we sometimes did in person but doest that feel sensible ?
> Some people do do "watch parties" on-line, so it's not as absurd as my
> initial reaction? )
>

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Re: [Boston.pm] Boston-pm Digest, Vol 198, Issue 1

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Moderator here:  Diab is factually correct.
Disputation will be considered off topic.

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 5:29 PM Diab Jerius via Boston-pm 
wrote:

> The virus is called SARS-CoV-2.   The disease is called COVID-19.
>
> I make no assumptions as to why you have chosen to call the virus by the
> name that you did.
>
> It is however a name which has been connected with inflammatory and
> racist rhetoric.
>
> Please do not use that term in this forum.
>
> Thank you.
>
> On 6/25/20 2:18 PM, Mike Diesel wrote:
> > Absolutely Virtual meetings.
> >
> > Even when we have Wuhan-virus whipped have Live/Virtual where people
> have a choice.
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Boston-pm 
> On Behalf Of boston-pm-requ...@pm.org
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> > To: boston-pm@pm.org
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> > To: Boston Perl Mongers 
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> > Would folks like virtual meetings?
> > BLU and Natick FOSS have had reasonable luck using JITSI (a FLOSS
> alternative to Zoom that has a privacy policy that won't make you wretch if
> you read it), we could use that.
> >
> > If so, would anyone be interested in helping brainstorm who to invite /
> what to do without a speaker ?
> >
> > If so, what's good for that? IRC? Email?  Slack/Mastodon/???
> >
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[Boston.pm] Boston Perl meetings, speakers committee ?

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

Would folks like virtual meetings?
BLU and Natick FOSS have had reasonable luck using JITSI (a FLOSS
alternative to Zoom that has a privacy policy that won't make you wretch if
you read it), we could use that.

If so, would anyone be interested in helping brainstorm who to invite /
what to do without a speaker ?

If so, what's good for that? IRC? Email?  Slack/Mastodon/???

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Re: [Boston.pm] Boston Perl meetings, speakers committee ?

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

Question remains ... since no reply, i'm not rushing to set up a JITSI for
tonight. Catch me on IRC if anyone wants live chat at our usual hour!

On Sat, Jun 6, 2020, 16:53 Bill Ricker  wrote:

> Would folks like virtual meetings?
> BLU and Natick FOSS have had reasonable luck using JITSI (a FLOSS
> alternative to Zoom that has a privacy policy that won't make you wretch if
> you read it), we could use that.
>
> If so, would anyone be interested in helping brainstorm who to invite /
> what to do without a speaker ?
>
> If so, what's good for that? IRC? Email?  Slack/Mastodon/???
>
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[Boston.pm] Monthly virtual meeting

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

Boston PM will have a designated virtual time in our usual 7pm (ET) 2nd
Tuesday slot.

There's no agenda.  Drop in to socialize, group-troubleshoot, discuss Perl
news, show something fun, whatever.

News: CPAN announces they're sunsetting rt.cpan.org since diminishing
usage; better support for migrating RT queue to GH is provided!

Meeting URL will be posted to
https://boston.pm.org/bpm/Calendar#Next_Meeting  shortly before starting.
(I'm doing just in time single use URLs in lieu of passwords etc).
(Jitsi works better with Chrome than FireFox.  Supposedly works without
plugin even; will ask permission for camera and mic/speaker; need to give
it at least mic/speaker to be useful!; Android app works well too, i
presume there's iOS as well.)

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Re: [Boston.pm] [Boston.pm-announce] Monthly virtual meeting

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On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 12:16 PM Jerrad Pierce  wrote:

> >Perl news, show something fun, whatever.
> >News: CPAN announces they're sunsetting [1]rt.cpan.org since diminishing
> Damn and blast. I hate github for issue tracking.


Well you're allowed to use anything you want for ticketing, just they're
not going to prop up an RT the few of us still using it.
GH is the only one i know of that there's a migration tool provided.
(OTOH if you migrate to GH, GL will migrate to GL for you if you ask.)

It lacks the simplicity
> of RT's email interface, or the controls of its web interface.
>

Simplicity is not a valued value today, alas. (Except for Marie Kondo ...
who alas doesn't have a web framework)


> There's also something to be said for a single de facto repository.
>

That ship had already sailed when the big projects moved to either GH or GL
to integrate tickets with PR process.


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Re: [Boston.pm] Monthly virtual meeting

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https://meet.jit.si/Decem8_BostonPM

On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 11:46 PM Bill Ricker  wrote:

> Boston PM will have a designated virtual time in our usual 7pm (ET) 2nd
> Tuesday slot.
>
> There's no agenda.  Drop in to socialize, group-troubleshoot, discuss Perl
> news, show something fun, whatever.
>
> News: CPAN announces they're sunsetting rt.cpan.org since diminishing
> usage; better support for migrating RT queue to GH is provided!
>
> Meeting URL will be posted to
> https://boston.pm.org/bpm/Calendar#Next_Meeting  shortly before starting.
> (I'm doing just in time single use URLs in lieu of passwords etc).
> (Jitsi works better with Chrome than FireFox.  Supposedly works without
> plugin even; will ask permission for camera and mic/speaker; need to give
> it at least mic/speaker to be useful!; Android app works well too, i
> presume there's iOS as well.)
>
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Re: [Boston.pm] Meeting timing ?

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On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 10:38 AM Jerrad Pierce  wrote:

> Saturday evenings are probably best f weekend options.
>

Evening kinda defeats the purpose of moving to the weekend for Continental
European Time speakers

If we are meeting this evening I can give abrief update on some recent
> hacking
> of IO::Pager.
>

Sounds good.
Since we didn't declare a weekend meeting I'll open a meeting tonight sure.

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[Boston.pm] Open Mic Night tonight Re: Meeting timing ?

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Since there wasn't a strong demand for european speakers on a weekend
afternoon (or morning), we'll have openmic/social tonight.

Jerrad has offered to do a short discussion on IO::Pager

Meeting & Chat is started but no hurry to arrive
https://meet.jit.si/11_Boston_PM
Normally we start 7ish. (ET)

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Re: [Boston.pm] Recent Windows 10 socket problems in perl?

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On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 2:11 PM James Eshelman  wrote:

> ... using Strawberry perl on Windows.  Since early 2020 the Windows code
> has hung randomly 3 times, in the sockets code as far as I can tell - ...


Ouch.
 Makes me wonder if one of the Win10 updates forced on me by MS in early

> 2020 changed something in Windows sockets that now causes a new problem
> in Strawberry perl sockets code somewhere?  Random every 2-3 months so
> extremely hard to troubleshoot.  :-(   Anyone seen or know of such a
> recent issue?


I'm not using Win10 at all so i have no practical assistance, but i do see
"socket hang up" "Windows 10" getting hits for this year in other language
communities.
So alas I think you're on the right track.

// Bill

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[Boston.pm] Meeting timing ?

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Among our possible speakers on developments in Perl 7 and Raku are folks
who live in European timezones and live "normal hours".
Would the group be open to having a virtual meeting on a weekend?
Which of  Morning, mid-day, afternoon, Saturday, Sunday are acceptable?

(Note: Clip the Announce off the reply-all, please, if reply-ing all.)

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[Boston.pm] June meeting w/ Charlotte - Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda talks Slashdot, Perl, moderation, and more!

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Wednesday, June 30, 2021 6pm EDT (UTC-04, thus UTC 2200) JOINT MEETING

Boston.PM is invited to again join Charlotte PM's virtual meeting
Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda talks Slashdot, Perl, moderation, and more!

Hosted by Jason C. & Charlotte Perl Mongers

*Details* Join us on June 30th for a special event featuring Rob "CmdrTaco"
Malda, founder of Slashdot, as he talks about the quirkiness of Perl that
led them to build Slashcode using our favorite language, the challenges of
scaling Slashdot in the early days, and how they built up a system to deal
with bad actors. We will leave time for Q at the end, but feel free to
send your questions in advance of the talk.

*Rob Malda*, aka *CmdrTaco*, founded *Slashdot* in his dorm room at Hope
College in the late 1990s, and with that, broke new ground in news
aggregation and social content moderation. He's also the host of Geeks in
Space, and a a maker of wooden pens.

Thanks to *Knowmad* (https://knowmad.com) for sponsoring our Zoom presence
for this meeting, and to Boston.pm for cohosting the meeting with us. (And
thanks to Charlotte PM for arranging this and inviting us!)

NOTE: Our speaker has asked that you *leave your cameras on* for this
event. Also, he has a hard stop at 7:30, so please be prompt. There will be
time for socializing after the talk. Look forward to seeing you all!

*Logistics* - get link here 
just-in-time or via MeetUp(.)com


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[Boston.pm] June meeting(s)

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

No meeting this week, except ...

Perl conference in the cloud is running this week, 8th-9th-10th.
https://perlconference.us/tprc-2021-cloud .
The Perl and Raku Conference in the Cloud 2021

listing from
https://perlweekly.com/perlweekly.ical

Elsewhere this month :

We'll co-distribute information on the *Charlotte PM* meeting later in the
month; it sounds like a good one.

Also, in celebration of *Turing's Birthday*,* BLU.org *is pushing their
meeting back a week and featuring
*No One Ever Buys a Computer*
Wednesday, June 23   6:30 – 10:00pm
Location:
Online at Jitsi
Description:*Jon "maddog" Hall* discusses what customers really look for
Details at http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2021-jun
Organizer: Boston Linux + UNIX

(If you don't recognize the name ... Jon
 is a pundit and
sometimes board member on things Linux and FLOSS; he was the manager at DEC
who was the first to give Linus some hardware for porting Linux. We can
thank him that it's portable !)

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[Boston.pm] WED May 26 "Recent Misadventures" (Joint Virtual Meeting)

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Once again, Boston PM will join forces with Charlotte PM for a virtual
meeting.
3 Not-So-Wise Men: Recent Misadventures

Wed, May 26, 2021, 6:00 PM: …in which Brian Wisti, Gizmo Mathboy, and
Yanick recount their recent (mis-)adventures with Perl, Markdown,
Javascript, and more to build blogs, games, Twitter posts, and other tools
that are part of their everyday lives.

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll question your life choices before all is
said and done. There is something for everyone here, and it will be truly
fun and entertaining time.
Where
Online event
When
Wed, May 26, 2021, 6:00 PM EDT

(If you like MeetUp you can get the meeting link from there - blue link
above - or if not, from me / Boston.PM calendar close to start time.)

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Re: [Boston.pm] June meeting w/ Charlotte - Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda talks Slashdot, Perl, moderation, and more!

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

TONIGHT (or if you're up late reading, Tomorrow ...)

Wednesday, June 30, 2021 6pm EDT (UTC-04, thus UTC 2200) JOINT MEETING
>
> Boston.PM is invited to again join Charlotte PM's virtual meeting
> Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda talks Slashdot, Perl, moderation, and more!
>
> Hosted by Jason C. & Charlotte Perl Mongers
>
> *Details* Join us on June 30th for a special event featuring Rob
> "CmdrTaco" Malda, founder of Slashdot, as he talks about the quirkiness of
> Perl that led them to build Slashcode using our favorite language, the
> challenges of scaling Slashdot in the early days, and how they built up a
> system to deal with bad actors. We will leave time for Q at the end, but
> feel free to send your questions in advance of the talk.
>
> *Rob Malda*, aka *CmdrTaco*, founded *Slashdot* in his dorm room at Hope
> College in the late 1990s, and with that, broke new ground in news
> aggregation and social content moderation. He's also the host of Geeks in
> Space, and a a maker of wooden pens.
>
> Thanks to *Knowmad* (https://knowmad.com) for sponsoring our Zoom
> presence for this meeting, and to Boston.pm for cohosting the meeting with
> us. (And thanks to Charlotte PM for arranging this and inviting us!)
>
> NOTE: Our speaker has asked that you *leave your cameras on* for this
> event. Also, he has a hard stop at 7:30, so please be prompt. There will be
> time for socializing after the talk. Look forward to seeing you all!
>
> *Logistics* - get link here 
> just-in-time or via MeetUp(.)com
> 
>
> as seen on Twitter
> 
>


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