[Boston.pm] slides posted someplace?

2018-04-10 Thread Adam Russell via Boston-pm
Nice fun talk tonight! Are the slides posted someplace? I missed the randomness/geiger counter part and would like to at least check out the slides. I bought a cheapo web cam from microcenter a while back to do my own lavarand, which I haven't gotten around to yet. Maybe seeing someone else's

[Boston.pm] November meeting

2016-10-13 Thread Adam Russell
Some months ago we discussed experimenting with a different day to gauge the effects of the present schedule on attendance.How about we use November as an experiment to this end? How about the second Thursday instead of Tuesday?(selfishly suggested since Thursdays are good for me) >Date: Tue,

[Boston.pm] OT: recommendation of billing services for consulting work needed

2015-08-31 Thread Adam Russell
In addition to my full time job I do some consulting about 10-15 hours a week.Up until now I have been using a local staffing agency to handle the billing for me. The set up is that I make the arrangements, negotiate my rate, and then the clientworks with the agency to handle the billing

Re: [Boston.pm] object composition (has-a) with built-in OO system

2014-11-02 Thread Adam Russell
that needed replacing...) On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Adam Russell ac.russ...@live.com wrote: I was experimenting with some code, jogging my memory of linked lists. The approach I took was to define a package LinkedListNode and then a package LinkedList. My idea is that my LinkedList

Re: [Boston.pm] object composition (has-a) with built-in OO system

2014-11-02 Thread Adam Russell
class has or inherits book level methods. ymmv Greg On Sun, November 2, 2014 12:03 am, Adam Russell wrote: I would rather have a book have pagesthan just have pages. Perhaps The approach I took was to define a package LinkedListNode and then a package LinkedList. My idea is that my

Re: [Boston.pm] object composition (has-a) with built-in OO system

2014-11-02 Thread Adam Russell
Greg did produce a nice analogy, but for some other situation than which I asked.Once again, I am not suggesting that page be a superclass of book. I am suggesting that book be composed of pages.This is the classic OO composition pattern if I am not mistaken. If I am mistaken please do correct

Re: [Boston.pm] object composition (has-a) with built-in OO system

2014-11-02 Thread Adam Russell
:08 AM, Adam Russell ac.russ...@live.com wrote: My question arose because it seems that Perl's built in OO system allows you to do has-a but only asa slight twist on is-a. Or may be not. Has there been an answer to that yet? If so, I didn't see it. I touched on this. ​Since Perl is Duck

Re: [Boston.pm] object composition (has-a) with built-in OO system

2014-11-02 Thread Adam Russell
To: ac.russ...@live.com CC: boston-pm@mail.pm.org On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Adam Russell ac.russ...@live.com wrote: I approached this purely from an OO design perspective without regard to the language much less the implementation. ​​I *do* recommend learning true OO style in a pure-OO

[Boston.pm] object composition (has-a) with built-in OO system

2014-11-01 Thread Adam Russell
I was experimenting with some code, jogging my memory of linked lists. The approach I took was to define a package LinkedListNode and then a package LinkedList. My idea is that my LinkedList package is a wrapper around the head node which would also define some useful methods such as

[Boston.pm] audio processing with perl

2013-11-22 Thread Adam Russell
I am interested in doing what (I think may be) some simple audio processing with perl. I currently know essentially nothing about dealing with audio data. So, can anyone recommend an introduction or tutorial on audio processing? Extra nice if it were perl centric , of course. I record a radio

Re: [Boston.pm] audio processing with perl

2013-11-22 Thread Adam Russell
On 11/21/2013 17:31, Adam Russell wrote: / So, can anyone recommend an introduction or tutorial on audio processing? // Extra nice if it were perl centric , of course. / i really don't know the state of audio programming in perl. in my experience, you do different things with audio data than

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl community The Rising Costs of Aging Perlers

2013-07-26 Thread Adam Russell
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 20:25:38 -0400From: David Larochelle da...@larochelle.nameTo: john saylor js0...@gmail.comCc: Boston Perl Mongers boston...@pm.orgSubject: Re: [Boston.pm] Perl community The Rising Costs of Aging PerlersMessage-ID:

[Boston.pm] printing Perl code (hardcopy)

2013-05-10 Thread Adam Russell
I am trying to make Perl code look good in print. I have tried perltidy and it doesn't really seem to do the simple thing that I want. I guess I just want to pretty print more than completely reformat the code in ways other than I originally wrote it. That is, I don't care about if there is a

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl and recursion

2013-04-08 Thread Adam Russell
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Jerrad Pierce belg4...@pthbb.org wrote: at each level of recursion. What seems to be the case though is that when we start going bac up the stack that memory doesn't seem to be released at each pop. If, say, at max depth 500mb of ram has been allocated I

[Boston.pm] Perl and recursion

2013-04-05 Thread Adam Russell
I am currently in the midst of implementing a fairly non-trivial recursive algorithm in Perl. The depth of the recursion is quite large, so much so that I have set no warning recursion which warns with a depth over 100. This seems pretty small to me! If the default is to warn at a depth of 100

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl and recursion

2013-04-05 Thread Adam Russell
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:23:30 -0400 From: Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com To: boston-pm@mail.pm.org Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Perl and recursion Message-ID: 515f6b02.70...@stemsystems.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 04/05/2013 08:13 PM, Adam Russell wrote: I

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl and recursion

2013-04-05 Thread Adam Russell
at each level of recursion. What seems to be the case though is that when we start going bac up the stack that memory doesn't seem to be released at each pop. If, say, at max depth 500mb of ram has been allocated I don't see that released at any point except for when perl exits and then

[Boston.pm] Northern Light

2012-10-31 Thread Adam Russell
The building my office is in (One Constitution Center (OCC) in Charlestown) has a new tenant named Northern Light.The last time I heard of these people was back during the .com boom days. They had an internet search engine which, if I recall correctlywas implemented in Perl. I am a little

Re: [Boston.pm] anyone experienced with UML::Sequence (or similar) ?

2012-08-04 Thread Adam Russell
From: ac.russ...@live.com To: boston-pm@mail.pm.org Subject: anyone experienced with UML::Sequence (or similar) ? Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 16:52:49 -0400 Does anyone here have experience using the module UML::Sequence?I am trying to make a calling sequence diagram for a module without having

Re: [Boston.pm] June meeting(s) question ?

2012-05-31 Thread Adam Russell
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 22:36:55 -0400 From: Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com To: Boston Perl Mongers boston...@pm.org, Boston Perl Mongers (announce) boston-pm-annou...@pm.org Subject: [Boston.pm] June meeting(s) question ? Message-ID:

Re: [Boston.pm] Fwd: [pm_groups] Bulk Orders (of Modern Perl) for User Groups

2012-04-28 Thread Adam Russell
I had expressed interest as well so there's four for you. Best Regards, Adam On Apr 28, 2012, at 3:00 PM, boston-pm-requ...@mail.pm.org 1. Fwd: [pm_groups] Bulk Orders (of Modern Perl) fo Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:13:33 -0400 From: Federico Lucifredi flucifr...@acm.org To: Boston Perl

[Boston.pm] specTcl

2011-11-08 Thread Adam Russell
I mentioned this GUI Builder at this evening's meeting. http://spectcl.sourceforge.net/spectcl.html targets several languages including Perl. This is not a particularly feature rich tool and it hasn't been updated in a long time it seems. For me the main value I got from is it that it helped

[Boston.pm] visualizing a Graph (data structure) in perl

2011-02-09 Thread Adam Russell
I have some data represented in a Graph(http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/Graph). I would like to, say, create a GD image of the nodes and edges of the Graph. Unfortunately, the data has no attribute which makes it easily assignable to standard x/y space. The word Graph means so many things in so

Re: [Boston.pm] Languages to learn in addition to Perl

2010-07-14 Thread Adam Russell
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:54:33 -0500 Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Boston-pm Digest, Vol 85, Issue 8 From: em...@greglondon.com To: ac.russ...@live.com CC: boston-pm@mail.pm.org arus wrote: Greg wrote: Unfortuanately, no one has ported perl to android. Incorrect. There is a port to

Re: [Boston.pm] summer tech social

2010-07-07 Thread Adam Russell
Any plans for a summer perl mongers social? Mitchell's sounds fine except for the ruby part, the noon part, and the davis sq part. :) boston-pm-requ...@mail.pm.org wrote: Send Boston-pm mailing list submissions to boston-pm@mail.pm.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web,

Re: [Boston.pm] summer tech social (homebrewing)

2010-07-07 Thread Adam Russell
Any plans for a summer perl mongers social? I will refer that to Uri, our Social Secretary President for Vice. Mitchell's sounds fine except for the ruby part, the noon part, and the davis sq part :) Really ! Says something about the Ruby market if they're not busy ? Indeed! Here is a

Re: [Boston.pm] YAPC::NA 2011

2010-04-15 Thread Adam Russell
bill.n1vux at gmail.com writes: *...@perlfoundation http://twitter.com/perlfoundation* YAPC::NA 2011 call for venue - http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/03/yapcna-2011-call-for-venue.html if only UMass would hurry up with their Dormitory plans ... As I mentioned on Tuesday night Umass

[Boston.pm] benchmarking results?

2009-10-13 Thread Adam Russell
Hey, I'm the guy that showed up late and than had to leave early... I am curious if you discovered anything interesting in your template comparison? Did Text::Forge distinguish itself(either for good or bad)?

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday 13th @ mit

2009-10-12 Thread Adam Russell
[snip] We have no prepared speaker this month, although i think we have one for next month (mvhub) possibilities - * round-robin lightning talks on what we've each discovered / tried / released * powerpoint karaoke with YAPC decks from the web * Advent Calendar 1900+$YY++ * Perl 5.10.1

Re: [Boston.pm] Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 7:15 E51-376 Tech, Meeting - OSM

2009-09-08 Thread Adam Russell
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 22:35:20 -0400 From: Bill Ricker bill.n1vux+r...@gmail.com Subject: [Boston.pm] Tuesday, September 8, 2009,7:15 E51-376 Tech Meeting - OSM To: Boston PM Boston-pm@mail.pm.org,boston-pm-announce boston-pm-annou...@mail.pm.org Cc: Lars Ahlzen

Re: [Boston.pm] august social meeting

2009-08-03 Thread Adam Russell
I would be interested in a social meeting. I suspect that most people, like me, have their august weekends already booked so I would suggest that this be kept to during the week. If I may throw out a location idea I will note this place http://www.atlanticbeergarden.com/ This is off of the

Re: [Boston.pm] schwag for next meeting

2009-06-20 Thread Adam Russell
How about a programming contest of some sort? Announce a problem to the mailing list before the meeting. 1 book goes to the most obfuscated. Another book goes to the shortest(perl golf-wise) Another book goes to the *mumble*. You get the idea. The meeting could be brief show tell's of individual

Re: [Boston.pm] (somewhat OT) question on job levels

2009-06-18 Thread Adam Russell
Great Email! Thanks for the response. I think you said a lot of things that I really needed to hear but didn't know to ask. I whole heartedly agree with your statements on people skills. Bjarne Stroustrup says similar things on social skill as well. http://tinyurl.com/l2ru8z [points to slashdot

[Boston.pm] (somewhat OT) question on job levels

2009-06-17 Thread Adam Russell
I am trying to help a friend find gainful employment. To that end I have been helping him sift through job listings. I have noticed is that my understanding of job levels is somewhat off. For example, I see job listings for a senior developer with 5-7 years experience. Architects and Principles

Re: [Boston.pm] meeting topic?

2009-06-01 Thread Adam Russell
Bill Ricker Wed, 06 May 2009 06:36:38 -0700 On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: if there is interest, i can lead an exploration (on the fly as i may not have time to do it beforehand) and see what jewels we may discover. i do know i want the perl -c

Re: [Boston.pm] Fwd: [pm_groups] YAPC::NA - Housing, Schedule, , Hackathons, ...

2009-05-08 Thread Adam Russell
I have never been to one of these things. Are they worth it(in a fun and informative way)? Maybe some people on the list can state the pros and cons of going to one of these? -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 08:12:26 -0400

Re: [Boston.pm] Gnaw slides

2009-02-18 Thread Adam Russell
The Gnaw talk got me thinking about how I solve many of my own parsing problems. I have typically not gone the deep route of using something like Parse::RecDescent because it seems like overkill from what I typically do and the files I typically parse are usually such an unpredictable mess that

Re: [Boston.pm] Gnaw slides

2009-02-18 Thread Adam Russell
Uri Guttman wrote: AR == Adam Russell rus20...@infolaunch.com writes: AR The Gnaw talk got me thinking about how I solve many of my own AR parsing problems. I have typically not gone the deep route of AR using something like Parse::RecDescent because it seems like AR

Re: [Boston.pm] can we find one student for GSoC 2009?

2009-01-16 Thread Adam Russell
Among other things I am a part time grad. student at Umass Lowell. I can arrange a campus visit the next time I have class. ha! Seriously though, I will mention this to a few people that might be interested and have the time. Best Regards, Adam Message: 1 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:24:47 -0500