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

2021-06-30 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 5:36 PM Uri Guttman wrote: > i don't see a zoom link. can you post it here? > Yes. For security it posts at last minute which is NOW https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87215835665 (also available NOW on boston.pm.org/bpm/Calendar ) -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com

[Boston.pm] Charlotte PM : Wed 28th, 6pm : Command Line Adventures in Perl - 2021 Edition

2021-04-27 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Boston.PM is invited to join *Charlotte PM*'s virtual meeting this Wednesday night, April 28th, 6PM EDT. > *Command Line Adventures in Perl - 2021 Edition *Command line interfaces > are an important part of managing many modern applications, and in 2021, > there are no shortage of options for

Re: [Boston.pm] Charlotte PM : Wed 28th, 6pm : Command Line Adventures in Perl - 2021 Edition

2021-04-28 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Updated zoom link for (10 minutes from now) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81939429103 On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 1:46 PM Bill Ricker wrote: > Boston.PM is invited to join *Charlotte PM*'s virtual meeting this > Wednesday night, April 28th, 6PM EDT. > > >> *Command Line Adventures in Perl - 2021

[Boston.pm] Meeting Tuesday 9th ?

2021-02-08 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
This is ALMOST as early as 2nd Tuesday ever falls ... Anyone want to have open office hours Tuesday? If so I'll resume starting a JITSI meeting at the usual time (6:30 - 9 pm et), and post link here (email) and on website (boston.pm.org/bpm/Calendar) Just In Time. (I never sent an announcement

Re: [Boston.pm] checkbuttons

2021-03-15 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 2:11 PM dan moylan wrote: > in perl-TK is there a way to invoke a checkbutton in the > "checked" state? I think it's as simple as setting the linked *variable*, default $widget->{'Value'} to the *onvalue* , default 1 ? ___

Re: [Boston.pm] Technical Meeting March 9 - “Better Perl: Subroutine Signatures and Type Validation.”

2021-03-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Room is open now > March 9th, 2020 7pm ET (GMT-05) Online Speaker: Mark Gardner *Title: “Better Perl: Subroutine Signatures and Type Validation.” * Summary: "Did you know that you could increase the readability and reliability of your Perl code with one feature? I’m talking about subroutine

[Boston.pm] Technical Meeting March 9 - “Better Perl: Subroutine Signatures and Type Validation.”

2021-03-03 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
coming attractions - March 9th, 2020 7pm Online Speaker: Mark Gardner *Title: “Better Perl: Subroutine Signatures and Type Validation.” * Summary: "Did you know that you could increase the readability and reliability of your Perl code with one feature? I’m talking about subroutine signatures:

Re: [Boston.pm] [Boston.pm-announce] Technical Meeting March 9 - “Better Perl: Subroutine Signatures and Type Validation.”

2021-03-04 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
I feel Dave's pain as I am a long time fan of BBC and other european shortwave stations (now mostly only accessible on Internet streams alas), and yes non-synchronized Summer Time switches make life *interesting.* utc > Yes, *that* week Boston/NY time is still UTC-05, Eastern Standard Time

Re: [Boston.pm] Technical Meeting March 9 - “Better Perl: Subroutine Signatures and Type Validation.”

2021-03-08 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
TOMORROW > March 9th, 2020 7pm ET (GMT-05) Online Speaker: Mark Gardner *Title: “Better Perl: Subroutine Signatures and Type Validation.” * Summary: "Did you know that you could increase the readability and reliability of your Perl code with one feature? I’m talking about subroutine

Re: [Boston.pm] Tuesday - Tech meeting - Mojo 9 point OH!

2021-04-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
In Two Days April 13th, 2020 7pm EDT (UTC-*04*, thus UTC *23*00 *13* APRIL), Online Speaker: *Joel Berger* Title: “*Mojolicious Nine Point Oh!* ” Summary: In this presentation, Mojolicious Core Team member Joel Berger will discuss some of the features of the recent Mojolicious 9.0 release and

Re: [Boston.pm] Tuesday - Tech meeting - Mojo 9 point OH!

2021-04-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Hmm I do believe I have something sideways there. 7et = 7edt = 0Z On Fri, Apr 9, 2021, 16:50 Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz writes: > > Randal> No, unless something is odd, I believe that would be 7pm EDT, > which is > Randal> UTC-04, which is 2021-03-13

Re: [Boston.pm] Tuesday - Tech meeting - Mojo 9 point OH!

2021-04-13 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Meeting is live early as usual https://meet.jit.si/Boston-PM-April On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 1:11 PM Bill Ricker wrote: > April 13th, 2020 7pm EST (UTC-05, thus UTC 14 APRIL), Online > > *Speaker*: *Joel Berger* > > *Title*: “*Mojolicious Nine Point Oh!* ” > > *Summary*: In this

[Boston.pm] Fwd: Tuesday - Tech meeting - Mojo 9 point OH!

2021-04-14 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Joel, our speaker last night, sent a follow-up. (My own comment is that an easily taught/comprehended Async framework is something i've been looking for since reading Dijkstra, Hoare, and ADA 35+ years ago. Rendezvous wasn't it.) -- Bill -- Forwarded message - From: Joel Berger

[Boston.pm] Tuesday - Tech meeting - Mojo 9 point OH!

2021-04-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
April 13th, 2020 7pm EST (UTC-05, thus UTC 14 APRIL), Online *Speaker*: *Joel Berger* *Title*: “*Mojolicious Nine Point Oh!* ” *Summary*: In this presentation, Mojolicious Core Team member Joel Berger will discuss some of the features of the

[Boston.pm] Meetings ?

2021-09-10 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
No Boston.PM 2d Tuesday -- this month 2d Tuesday and 3d Wednesday are adjacent. Boston.PM is invited to join BLU.org on 3d Wednesday, as I'll be giving the annual Crypto News & History briefing. http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2021-sep Wednesday, September 15, 2021 from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm There

[Boston.pm] No Tech Meeting This Week

2021-08-10 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
*Calendar of Coming attractions* *August Tech* - nope. We rarely had a local Boston.PM tech meeting in August when we had a physical venue due to vacations in different directions, so there isn't one tomorrow today (8/10). *August Social* - maybe? With rise of Delta variant contagion via

Re: [Boston.pm] Topics or speakers?

2021-10-12 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
NO MEETING TONIGHT (I need more than one *No Thank You This Month* reply to confirm a meeting.) Still accepting topic proposals for Fall/Winter ... We'll co-sponsor Charlotte PM on Wednesday, October 27th, likely 6pm ET. Tentative Topic is Flutter, Google's Open Source multi-platform UI SDK,

[Boston.pm] Topics or speakers?

2021-10-04 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Does anyone have anything Perl/Raku related they'd like to present next week, next month? Until several someones object, our normal time remains 2d Tuesday. Or we can just chat if folks would like that, without an agenda. We got some value watching conference videos together in person. I know

[Boston.pm] Tonight - Flutter , Randal, w/ Charlotte PM

2021-10-27 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
October 27th (*Wednesday*) - Cross-platform Flutter - *Joint with Charlotte PM* *Randal L Schwartz* *Why you should take a good look at Flutter for all platforms*! Flutter has come a long ways since its was first introduced a few years ago. Yes, even though Google is still in the driver’s seat

[Boston.pm] Next meetings - NOT tonight

2021-11-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
No 2d Tuesday meeting in November, as if the timing of this email weren't a clue. Since Charlotte PM's regular meeting night is Thanksgiving ±1, they're off this month also. Instead, both Boston and Charlotte PMs are invited to BLU (Boston Linux Unix)'s November meeting

[Boston.pm] December Virtual Social?

2021-12-07 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Would folks like to have a Jit.Si virtual social meeting next Tuesday? (12/14, as late as 2d Tuesday comes) -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@pm.org

[Boston.pm] No meeting tonight; BLU tomorrow Re: December Virtual Social?

2021-12-14 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 10:55 PM Bill Ricker wrote: > Would folks like to have a Jit.Si virtual social meeting next Tuesday? > (12/14, as late as 2d Tuesday comes) > No votes in favor, so no ^meeting^ tonight. BPM members are welcome to join BLU Boston Linux Unix on Weds. Dec 15th,

[Boston.pm] Tuesday?

2022-01-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
We have a couple RSVPs for TBD on Meet-Up ! Does that mean folks made New Years Resolutions to do more meetings? Does anyone have something to share? Shall we gather anyway? -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___

Re: [Boston.pm] Boston-pm Digest, Vol 215, Issue 1

2022-01-10 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
> > P.S. Also, this message was a test to see if news.gmane.io will properly > relay this message back to the list. It cannot, I get an error that the > boston.pm list is "unidirectional". ;) > Iirc that's because we're a list and not an NNTP newsgroup, for which they could more easily proxy for

[Boston.pm] Boston Perl Mongers ^tech^ (?e-social?) meeting tonight

2022-01-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Due to popular demand, we're having an Round-table / open-mike / virtual social meeting tonight. 6:30pm - 9:00pm Eastern Time Meeting will be on *JITSI* FLOSS meetings -- like Zoom but with better security and open source. To compute the secure meeting URL, run this command on day of event

Re: [Boston.pm] test::something that captures/hide expected stderr

2022-03-07 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
> I'm using Test::More, but I'm not attached. That legacy API has been reimplemented on Test2 internals, so a lot of folks are moving to Test2::* API. But there's nothing /wrong/ with Test::More. On 07/03/2022 19:03, em...@greglondon.com wrote: > > Another issue I'm running into is that I'm

[Boston.pm] Boston Perl Mongers tech/social virtual meeting 2d TUESDAY = March 8th

2022-03-07 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
We have a possible volunteer for a follow-up presentation in *April*. If there's another Half-Meeting presentation for April or any half or full pres in April/May, I'd love to hear from your. No set topic *tonight* - Since it was a non-leap year, March as was February is as early as 2d Tuesday

Re: [Boston.pm] Boston Perl Mongers tech/social virtual meeting 2d TUESDAY = March 8th

2022-03-08 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Note, Firefox isn't liking the URL or my safety plugins, so i'm using Chromium. So... If FireFox complains, try a different browser. On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 9:42 PM Bill Ricker wrote: > We have a possible volunteer for a follow-up presentation in *April*. > If there's another Half-Meeting

Re: [Boston.pm] test::something that captures/hide expected stderr

2022-03-08 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 2:16 PM David Cantrell wrote: > > The best tool for this is Capture::Tiny. >> > > I won't disagree with David. > Capture and then test the caught value with an is() or like() is quite straight forward, so I still won't disagree with David. And this has the added advantage

Re: [Boston.pm] more specific regex error messages?

2022-02-25 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
On Fri, Feb 25, 2022, 13:19 wrote: > Is there a way to get better built in reporting with regexps? > with the above, if the string doesn't match, I get "bad input". > > What I'd rather get is something like "expecting \:thing2" > That behavior is more associated with full on parser modules

Re: [Boston.pm] converting a thing to a number

2022-02-22 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 13:55 Morse, Richard E.,MGH via Boston-pm < boston-pm@pm.org> wrote: > > > On Feb 22, 2022, at 12:12 PM, em...@greglondon.com wrote: > > > > ok, so, I need to read in some numbers from a file. > > Numbers need to allow integer, float, signed/unsigned, > > as well as

[Boston.pm] Boston Perl Mongers tech/social virtual meeting tonight

2022-02-08 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
We have a possible volunteer for a follow-up presentation in March. If there's another Half-Meeting presentation for March or any half or full pres in April/May, I'd love to hear from your. No set topic *tonight* - as early as 2d Tuesday falls - so we're having an Round-table / open-mike /

Re: [Boston.pm] Boston Perl Mongers tech/social virtual meeting tonight

2022-02-08 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
FYI, JITSI is throwing an error on FireFox tonight. Chrome/Chromium/Tablet seem to be working. On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 1:30 PM Bill Ricker wrote: > We have a possible volunteer for a follow-up presentation in March. If > there's another Half-Meeting presentation for March or any half or full >

[Boston.pm] Joint Charlotte PM meeting this week (Weds 1/26); and February?

2022-01-24 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
*(1) Developing a caching plugin for LWP::UserAgent and HTTP::Tiny | *Wed, Jan 26, 6:00 PM EST: In 2015, *Mark Gardner* developed a caching subclass of *LWP::UserAgent*. This month, he is going to talk about his journey in converting that to a plugin using perlancar's *LWP* (45 kB) This will

[Boston.pm] POSTPONED Re: Joint Charlotte PM meeting this week (Weds 1/26); and February?

2022-01-26 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Mark had to postpone at the last minute because RealLife™ So this will be Charlotte February meeting, 2/23. Anyone with a topic for February 9th? Otherwise round-table. On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 2:39 PM Bill Ricker wrote: > > *(1) Developing a caching plugin for LWP::UserAgent and HTTP::Tiny |

[Boston.pm] Boston Perl Mongers tech/social virtual meeting 2d TUESDAY = April 12th

2022-04-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Topic Downloading AO3 bookmarks: a continuation of my "let me make sure I can entertain myself when I'm 90" series. Ricky Morse Ricky has previously shown us Perl scripts to make offline backups of various media he'd like to see again (without relying on the continued solvency of Archive.org).

[Boston.pm] No SEPTEMBER meeting

2023-09-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Summer recess continues into September this year, as far too often (since i'm BLU's regular September speaker). We'll try to line something up for October. Boston.PM.org ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@pm.org

[Boston.pm] Tech meeting 7pm ET

2023-10-10 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
I don't have anything specific to talk about but i'll convene the chat for those who wish to join. We can discuss recent CUFP, Dancer2 1.00 release, whatever. This is a JitSi meeting. The secure URL will be computed by this command (valid only during that week): perl -MDigest::SHA=sha1_hex

[Boston.pm] Alternate meeting invite

2022-06-12 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
This is the peculiar month that 2d Tuesday & 3d Wednesday fall adjacent in the same week. So I'm extending an invitation to the Boston PM community to Boston Linux & Unix (blu.org)'s meeting on Wednesday instead. Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 06:30 pm [ET] Private Google Docs at Home using SeaFile

Re: [Boston.pm] Summer Break

2022-07-12 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
WHAT ELSE IS THERE FOR MEETINGS? *Charlotte PM* also takes a summer break. If anyone has topics they'd like to volunteer to cover in the fall, talk to me off-list (or on). If folks would like to have a *social virtual meeting* we can plan one a little further in advance than a couple hours.

[Boston.pm] Summer Break

2022-07-12 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
No meeting tonight, it's summer, people have things to do. Probably likewise in August unless folks really really want to discuss * Perl 5.36 release and * progress on official development of Cor = Corinna Objects in core P5P ( blog

[Boston.pm] May talks schedule: TONIGHT, 10th, and 25th

2022-05-04 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
*Wednesday, May 4, 2022*Semantically-Friendly DB Searches, maybe more! > https://www.meetup.com/charlotte-pm/events/285406471/ > [image: Group Info] > Charlotte Perl Mongers > > Wednesday, May 4, 2022 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT > (yes, for some better speaker

[Boston.pm] May talks schedule: TONIGHT the 10th (and 25th)

2022-05-10 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Boston Perl Mongers (Boston.pm) Tuesday, May 10, 2022 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM EDT Every 2nd Tuesday of the month (on JITSI) Using Perl's Twitter::API Bill Ricker, inspired by Ricky's talk on archival web scraping last month, revisits the *Twitter::API*. One script

Re: [Boston.pm] unit testing socket code

2022-08-22 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 10:31 PM Adam Russell via Boston-pm < boston-pm@pm.org> wrote: > I have some networking code in Perl. Fairly low level in that I use raw > sockets, accept(), etc instead of the higher level IO::Socket package. I'd > like to test this code but am not sure what the best

Re: [Boston.pm] Boston Perl Mongers : Website; Fall Schedule

2022-09-12 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
*TONIGHT! Schedule :* Tuesday, Sept 13, 7pm ET  Boston PM - What’s new in Perl v5.036 A group discussion of the latest perldelta . This is a JitSi meeting. The secure URL will be computed next week by this

[Boston.pm] Boston Perl Mongers : Website; Fall Schedule

2022-09-08 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
*Welcome back to Autumn!* *MIT* has announced that they are *not* restoring Open Campus post-plaugue, so we'll be Pure Virtual until we find a new real-world home. If we want to do *in-person socials,* an outdoors food venue would probably be a good choice for the time being. Our custom domain

Re: [Boston.pm] unit testing socket code

2022-09-13 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 9:38 AM Adam Russell wrote: > Ok, I think I definitely mixed up some terms here. > ✓ > Yes, it does seem that separate Unit and Integration testing is the > winning meta-pattern! > Indeed, both is better than either alone. (This bothers some theologians.) > that the

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday (7pm,edt) - Open Tech/Social virtual; Corinna OO rescheduling

2022-10-10 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Meeting will be live before 7pm EDT Tuesday Oct 11th, but no guest. I'll announce a new date for Ovid & LeoNerd talk Corinna when we've figured out what works for both of them. (Real life is what happens when you have other plans - nothing dramatic but we'd rather have both guests virtually

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday (7pm,edt) - Open Tech/Social virtual; Corinna OO rescheduling

2022-10-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Just in time URL below On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 8:18 PM Bill Ricker wrote: > Meeting will be live before 7pm EDT Tuesday Oct 11th, but no guest. > > I'll announce a new date for Ovid & LeoNerd talk Corinna when we've > figured out what works for both of them. > (Real life is what happens when

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday (7pm, edt) - OVID+PEVANS on Corinna, new OO guts in (next) Perl Core

2022-10-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
We’ll have live remote guests *Curtis “Ovid” Poe* and *Paul “PEVANS /LeoNerd ” Evans* for a virtual meeting this week. “For #perl devs wondering how the Corinna #oop project is going, @cpan_pevans is now working on stage 1 of the

Re: [Boston.pm] Summer Break

2022-08-08 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
No meeting tonight either, it's still summer, people have things to do. I'm expecting we'll discuss one each of * Perl 5.36 release and * progress on official development of Cor = Corinna Objects in core P5P ( blog

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday, 6:30 start (earlier), Corinna, use feature class, real OO in Core

2023-03-12 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
*Since we’re having speakers from the UK the next two months, we’ll be starting 6:30pm EDT(UT-4) so that we’re at least starting on Tuesday for them.* *(*For those outside the US, please note that USA went to Daylight Savings Time, from ET(UT-5) to ET(UT-4) last weekend *.)* Tuesday, March 14th

[Boston.pm] NO MEETING TONIGHT

2023-04-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
We do not have a speaker and i'm not prepared to do a backup topic. Next meeting might be May 9th if i can arrange a speaker/topic. Watch https://boston.pm.org/#schedule for updates as well as this mailing list. -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech meetings resume - 2d Tuesday 6:30p ET - 2/14 and 3/14

2023-02-14 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Minutes of tonight's meeting featuring Toby Inkster's match::simple with the screenshot of the code written on the fly and the CSV CLI utilities CPAN distribution that Jerrad mentioned before and after have been posted to the Boston.PM History pages' 2023 section

[Boston.pm] Tech meetings resume - 2d Tuesday 6:30p ET - 2/14 and 3/14

2023-02-12 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
*Since we’re having speakers from the UK the next two months, we’ll be starting 6:30pm ET so that we’re at least starting on Tuesday for them. (I'll be online for mike check etc before that)* Tuesday, February 14th  , 6:30 PM  Boston PM: match::smart, match::simple - Toby Inkster (live) With

[Boston.pm] Boston PM Tech Meeting Tuesday 11th - async graphics ? really ?

2023-07-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
July 11th, 7pm ET (UTC-05) CPAN Previews - Async Graphics A set of modules using interesting combination of techniques showed up in Git - not yet on CPAN. We'll look under the hood -- This is a JitSi meeting. The secure URL will be computed by this command (valid

[Boston.pm] No meeting tomorrow (13th)

2024-02-12 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
With oncoming ?Blizzard? for Boston tomorrow, virtual tech meeting is canceled for this month. ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@pm.org https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

[Boston.pm] Meeting tonight 7pm ET (0000 UTC)

2024-01-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
I don't have anything to say but I'll be up for office hours. As usual you compute the URL with the following command (answer supplied below) perl -MDigest::SHA=sha1_hex -MPOSIX=strftime -le 'print strftime "%Y/%m/%d week %U", localtime; $date=strftime "Y%Y W%U", localtime; print $date; print

Re: [Boston.pm] Meeting tonight 7pm ET (0000 UTC)

2024-01-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Un-Meeting minutes posted (see under 2024 history ) Highlight is that Randal aka Merlyn was interviewed for the recently re-rebooted Floss Weekly show. If anyone has something interesting for February, please bring it.

[Boston.pm] No meeting tonight

2024-03-12 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
In case the lack of announcements isn't sufficiently obvious, no meeting tonight. I'm a little under the weather, not up to coordinating. -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@pm.org

[Boston.pm] Tech meeting tonight !

2024-04-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
April 9th, 2024 - Meeting! 7.30 EDT While I was able to chase the Eclipse, I didn’t get caught in traffic, so can hold meeting. The tentative topic is a recent CPAN upload that makes good use of the new experimental built-in Class syntax. May 14th, 2024 - NEXT MEETING Anyone have a topic?

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech meeting tonight !

2024-04-10 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Minutes posted. https://boston-pm.github.io/History-03-Email.html#section-7 - Amazon::Sites use of feature class (via Feature::Compat::Class) - when is a JAPH not a JAPH - Eclipse retrospective ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@pm.org

[Boston.pm] Virtual Tech meeting tonight

2024-05-14 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
May 14th, 2024 - NEXT MEETING - 7.30 EDT  topic start (7.00 gathering chatter) Anyone have a topic? I've got a few small scripts and modules I've toyed with that may be amusing. -- This is a JitSi meeting. The secure URL will be computed by this command (valid only

[Boston.pm] Minutes & Next Re: Virtual Tech meeting tonight

2024-05-14 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm
Minutes posted to Boston.pm.org/History-03-Email.html#tuesday-may-14th-2024 * String Eval redux (as seen on Mastodon/Fediverse/ActivityPub #Perl hashtag) * Using Perl and CPAN to determine if 6-digit confirmation codes that feel "patterned" really are random * CPAN module for a Geocoding API that

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

2018-10-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

[Boston.pm-announce] Good news Bad news

2018-10-17 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
1) We've been informed that the parking at our usual MIT building is once again officially OK for visitors after 5 pm ! Easy-of/Easy-on from the Interstate via Memorial Drive is (mostly) back in service. (Wadsworth St still having closures, check https://boston.pm.org/wiki/MIT_Directions for

[Boston.pm-announce] No meeting in November

2018-11-12 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

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

2018-10-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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-announce] No meeting today

2018-12-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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 ! -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ Boston-pm-announce mailing list

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

2019-01-07 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
*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

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

2019-01-04 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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)

[Boston.pm-announce] Fwd: DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop

2018-12-28 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
FYI. This is drivable distance and also doable by public transit (AMTRAK or Bus to DC Metro subway or bus). (Could even daytrip by plane Logan BOS to Reagan National DCA to DC Metro or Uber/Lyft, if you don't mind being first in line at Logan TSA in the morning, but there's only one JBU flight

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

2018-09-12 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

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

2018-09-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

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

2019-03-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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*

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

2019-03-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

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

2019-06-07 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

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

2019-06-10 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

[Boston.pm-announce] TODAY Re: Boston PM Tech meetings - Tuesday and beyond

2019-05-13 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

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

2019-07-07 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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,

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

2019-07-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

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

2019-07-08 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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 >

[Boston.pm-announce] Skip August; September Tech meeting

2019-08-11 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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. -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux

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

2019-09-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

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

2019-11-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

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

2019-12-07 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

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

2019-10-06 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

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

2019-12-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

[Boston.pm-announce] Tech meeting Tuesday 11th - annual Advent Calendar retrospective

2020-02-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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.

[Boston.pm-announce] Next technical meeting FEBRUARY 11

2020-01-10 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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.

[Boston.pm-announce] No March Meeting

2020-03-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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.

[Boston.pm-announce] Fwd: retired & new COBOL programmers being recruited

2020-04-13 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
As no doubt you've heard, NJ/CT/others need COBOL help with under-maintained Unemployment insurance systems. IBM is offering resources and training; IDK what strings attached. https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-open-mainframe-project-launch-initiative-to-help-train-cobol-coders/ NJ Cobol contact

[Boston.pm-announce] Virtual Meeting Tuesday 7pm online

2020-09-06 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
*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

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

2020-09-08 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

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

2020-10-13 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

[Boston.pm-announce] No meeting

2020-07-13 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
Just in case it's not obvious, there is no meeting tonight. We'll brainstorm virtual meetings for fall ... -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ Boston-pm-announce mailing list Boston-pm-announce@pm.org

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

2020-06-09 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

[Boston.pm-announce] Monthly virtual meeting

2020-12-07 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

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

2020-12-08 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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. >

[Boston.pm-announce] Meeting timing ?

2020-11-05 Thread Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce
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

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