Re: [PLUG] We need more ... Local group open house

2009-12-14 Thread Michael Dexter
the winter coders' social was a great deal of fun and happened on tuesday night...make sure to put the summer one on your calendar for cross-interest-group mixin' Sigh. Missed it thanks to a scheduling conflict. :( Michael ___ PLUG mailing list

Re: [PLUG] We need more ... Local group open house

2009-12-11 Thread chris (fool) mccraw
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 05:37, Mike Connors mconno...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Dexter wrote: Might a local (most of the stuff you find on Calagator) Calagator - Didn't know such a thing existed until now. Many Thanks!  user group open house be in order? PLUG, Ruby, Perl, Smalltalk, Drupal,

Re: [PLUG] We need more ... Local group open house

2009-12-11 Thread Mike Connors
chris (fool) mccraw wrote: the winter coders' social was a great deal of fun and happened on tuesday night...make sure to put the summer one on your calendar for cross-interest-group mixin' Are there many novice devs at these events? I was a Comp Sci major once upon a time, a time of

Re: [PLUG] We need more ... Local group open house

2009-12-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Mike Connors wrote: Are there many novice devs at these events? I was a Comp Sci major once upon a time, a time of Assembler, Basic, Pascal, and Fortran. But those dinosaurs are extinct now in the modern world of object oriented and interpreted langs... I know of a

Re: [PLUG] We need more ... Local group open house

2009-12-11 Thread chris (fool) mccraw
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 09:44, Mike Connors mconno...@gmail.com wrote: chris (fool) mccraw wrote: the winter coders' social was a great deal of fun and happened on tuesday night...make sure to put the summer one on your calendar for cross-interest-group mixin' Are there many novice devs at

Re: [PLUG] We need more ... Local group open house

2009-12-11 Thread Mike Connors
If you want to be modern, you can probably learn Object COBOL, or use one of Microsoft's visual languages. :-) My son was a CS/Math major, and worked in the insurance and banking back end industries writing COBOL code. Hated it. Well alright then, thanks for the words of inspiration...:-(

Re: [PLUG] We need more ... Local group open house

2009-12-10 Thread Michael Dexter
I have yet to attend a POSSE meeting, but hope to soon. Thanks for reminding me about them. Keith loaned me his glasses and pony tail and I started thinking... Might a local (most of the stuff you find on Calagator) user group open house be in order? PLUG, Ruby, Perl, Smalltalk, Drupal,