[wplug] Re: wplug Digest, Vol 20, Issue 26

Wed Oct 26 03:13:58 EDT 2005

what time on sat?

On 10/25/05, wplug-request at wplug.org <wplug-request at wplug.org> wrote:
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> 1. Re: job market (Brian Medley)
> 2. Re: Wi-Fi (WiMAX redirect request) (Brandon Kuczenski)
> 3. [wplug-announce] Pittsburgh Perl Mongers event: Damian Conway
> 10/29/2005 6:30PM (Beth Lynn)
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> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:18:32 -0500
> From: Brian Medley <bpmedley-lists-wplug at 4321.tv>
> Subject: Re: [wplug] job market
> To: wplug <wplug at wplug.org>
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> On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 08:55:51PM -0500, Brian Medley wrote:
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> > Greetings,
> >
> > During 2001 - 2002 I was in Pittsburgh when the job market was
> > not so good all around. I've been contacted for a potential
> > position in the Pittsburgh area and I was wondering what people
> > felt about the general market in Pittsburgh now.
> >
> > Thanks for your time.
>
> Thx all for your input ... was very helpful. It seems that the
> market is on a rebound.
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:51:31 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Brandon Kuczenski <brandon at 301south.net>
> Subject: Re: [wplug] Wi-Fi (WiMAX redirect request)
> To: General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
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> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Vance Kochenderfer wrote:
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> > Chet Hosey <chosey at nauticom.net> wrote:
> >> on about... are you suggesting that streets shouldn't be marked? How do
> >> you navigate in an unknown area if you don't know which streets are
> >> around you?
> >
> > It's easy. You go down thataway, then bear right after you go over
> > the hill, then you turn left where the gas station used to be...
> >
>
> HAH!
>
> Those are directions to get to The Sharp Edge from Squirrel Hill!!!
>
> -Brandon
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:43:55 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Beth Lynn <bethlynn at wplug.org>
> Subject: [wplug] [wplug-announce] Pittsburgh Perl Mongers event:
> Damian Conway 10/29/2005 6:30PM
> To: wplug at wplug.org
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> Hello,
>
> The Pittsburgh Perl Mongers have invited all WPLUG-ers to their event this
> Saturday evening with special guest speaker Damian Conway. Please note
> that this event will be in _Wean Hall 7500_. Do not go to Newell Simon
> because we won't be there!
>
> You might have heard of Damian Conway as the author of the books "Perl
> Best Practices" and "Object Oriented Perl" If you've attended a yapc.org<http://yapc.org>
> conference, you might have seen Damian Conway speak there.
>
> This is a real treat folks. Damian Conway talks are fascinating so even if
> you are not a huge fan of perl you are sure to enjoy it.
>
> Hope to see you there!
> Beth Lynn
>
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> Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Damian Conway: Sufficiently Advanced
> Technologies | Saturday Oct 29, 2005
>
> *Special Gathering*
>
> Please join us for a special meeting with Damian Conway.
>
> *Location*
>
> CMU
> Wean Hall Room 7500
> Pittsburgh, PA
>
> Driving Directions
> http://www.cmu.edu/home/visitors/directions.html
>
> Campus Directions
> http://www.cmu.edu/home/visitors/map/
>
> Saturday, October 29, 2005
> 18:30
>
> *Talk*
>
> * Sufficiently Advanced Technologies - Damian Conway *
>
> In module design, interface is everything. Going one step beyond this
> dictum, Damian demonstrates and explains several practical applications of
> Clarke's Law ("Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable
> from magic") by presenting a series of useful modules whose interface
> is...nothing.
>
>
> *Damian Conway*
>
> Damian Conway holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and is an Associate
> Professor with the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at
> Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
>
> A widely sought-after speaker and trainer, he is also the author of
> numerous well-known software modules including: Parse::RecDescent (a
> sophisticated parsing tool), Class::Contract (design-by-contract
> programming in Perl), Lingua::EN::Inflect (rule-based English
> transformations for text generation), Class::Multimethods (multiple
> dispatch polymorphism), Text::Autoformat (intelligent automatic
> reformatting of plaintext), Switch (Perl's missing case statement), NEXT
> (resumptive method dispatch), Filter::Simple (Perl-based source code
> manipulation), Quantum::Superpositions (auto-parallelization of serial
> code using a quantum mechanical metaphor), and Lingua::Romana::Perligata
> (programming in Latin). All of this software is available free from your
> local CPAN mirror.
>
> A well-known member of the international Perl community, Damian was the
> winner of the 1998, 1999, and 2000 Larry Wall Awards for Practical
> Utility. The best technical paper at the annual Perl Conference was
> subsequently named in his honour. He is a member of the technical
> committee for The Perl Conference, a keynote speaker at many Open Source
> conferences, a former columnist for "The Perl Journal", and author of the
> book "Object Oriented Perl". In 2001 Damian received the first "Perl
> Foundation Development Grant" and spent 20 months working on projects for
> the betterment of Perl.
>
> Currently he runs an international IT training company Thoughtstream
> which provides programmer training from beginner to masterclass level
> throughout Europe, North America, and Australasia.
>
> Most of his time is currently spent working with Larry Wall on the design
> of the new Perl 6 programming language and producing explanatory documents
> exploring Larry's design decisions.
>
> Other technical areas in which he has published internationally include
> programming language design, programmer education, object orientation,
> software engineering, natural language generation, synthetic language
> generation, emergent systems, declarative programming, image morphing,
> human-computer interaction, geometric modelling, the psychophysics of
> perception, nanoscale simulation, and parsing.
>
> Hope to see you there.
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