Meeting history

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Omaha Dynamic Language Users Group / Omaha Perl Mongers meeting history.

2010

March 9

• Food, drink sponsored by: Sara Bachman, TEKsystems
• Jay presents his cluster R processing (username: guest password: guest) source results
• Watch Rich Hickey "Are We There Yet?"
• Scott talks about Clojure.

February 9

• Scott Hickey presents PLT Scheme and DrScheme, which are available via SVN.

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January 12

• New challenge: Check the check

2009

December 14

• Food, drink sponsored by: Sara Bachman, TEKsystems
• Jay leads Omaha's first-ever Catalyst Web Development Workshop

November 10

• Scott Hickey presents Grails. (See also: Hudson Spring Hibernate SiteMesh Groovy) Also, Computer Science Illustrated and LOGICOMIX.
• Dave Kerber presents more Grails and Groovy goodness; data conversion mojo.

October 13

• Juan presents Grails on Google App Engine

September 8

• Food, drink sponsored by: Sara Bachman, TEKsystems
• Samuel Tesla talks about the Engine Yard Cloud
• Stephen Haberman talks about Scala

August 11

• Jay presents Modern Perl Programming: Moose and Catalyst.
• Scott Hickey presents Scheme version of Bob Martin's Bowling Game

July 14

• Food, drink provided by Ken Koehn, Seraph Corporation. Thanks!
• Jay Hannah presents MooseX::Workers
• Corey Spitzer presents OpenCV, an open-source computer vision framework
• Scott Hickey presents PLT-Scheme. Tiobe Index
  • This stuff is way over my head, but check out Inline: "Write Perl subroutines in other programming languages" -laugh- --Jhannah 00:44, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
• Ryan Stille presents VoIP management via ColdFusion

• Jun. 9 - Meeting! ODynUG: Matt Secoske presents "Ideas"
• May 12 - Meeting! ODynUG: Stephan Wessels present Squeak tour de force.
• Apr. 28 - Lightning talks @ UNO PKI. woot!
• Apr. 14 - Meeting! ODynUG: Andy Lester presents "Get Out Of Technical Debt Now!"; Randal Schwartz presents "Seaside: your next web framework."
• Mar. 10 - Meeting! ODynUG: Pet paradise challenge launched.
• Feb. 10 - Meeting! ODynUG: (Work emergency kept me away.)
• Jan. 13 - Meeting! ODynUG: Jay presented Catalyst, a Perl MVC web development framework. Mario presented wxRuby (which sits on top of wxWidgets (formerly known as wxWindows)), wxRIDE, and wxFormBuilder.

2008

• Dec. 9 - Meeting! ODynUG: Jay presented a recent genetics visualization project written in Perl / HTML / Javascript. Blaine presented Advanced Ruby.
• Dec. 9 - Lightning talks @ UNO PKI. I had another work crisis. Did anyone go? :(
• Nov. 11 - Meeting! ODynUG: But I missed it (work crisis). Did anyone go? :(
• Oct. 14 - Meeting! ODynUG: Samuel Tesla presents Advanced Erlang. Jay ponders RabbitMQ and testing frameworks like EUnit (or perhaps the one that comes with OTP).
• Sep. 9 - Meeting! ODynUG: Prototype by Ben Heath. XMLHttpRequest r0x0r5? Good AJAX tutorial.
• Sep. 2 - Text::FixedWidth makes Jay a CPAN author.
• Aug. 15-17 - BarCamp Omaha
• Aug. 12 - Meeting! ODynUG: Samuel Tesla presents git.
• Jul. 1 - Meeting! ODynUG: Jay gives his ChemChains sandbox lightning talk from YAPC::NA. Mike Hostetler presents Django. Also check out Satchmo and BarCamp Omaha.
• Jun. 3 - Meeting! ODynUG: Jay does a 10m intro to the ChemChains sandbox. Blaine Buxton presents Seaside, a web framework which contains Squeak, an implementation of Smalltalk. Also, check out Dabble DB.
• May. 6 - Meeting! ODynUG: Advanced Ruby - Matt Secoske
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• Jan. 8 - Meeting! ODynUG: Bob McCoy presents Windows PowerShell.

2007

• 12/04/2007 - Meeting! ODynUG: Processing.
• 11/06/2007 - Meeting! ODynUG
• 10/02/2007 - Meeting! ODynUG: Erlang. Awesome stuff for SNMP, phone switches, MMORPGs, distributed processing, etc.
• 09/04/2007 - Meeting! ODynUG: Rexx. Many examples in text processing are, naturally, compared to Perl. Pretty neat set of default behaviors. Rexx is huge in the mainframe space.
• 08/12/2007 - Jay's first contribution hits CPAN: Devel-Timer-0.04.
• 08/07/2007 - Meeting! Hanging out at Omaha Dynamic Language Users Group (ODynUG). Jay wrote a Perl proof of concept for Blaine's car wash challenge.
• 07/10/2007 - Meeting! Jay presents intro to Genetics, BioPerl, and SeqLab.net @ Omaha Dynamic Language Users Group.
• 05/08/2007 - Meeting! Mike, Kiran, and Jay BioPerl geekery.
• 04/24/2007 - Perl+ lightning talks @ UNO!
• 04/10/2007 - Meeting! Ryan gets all atwitter, Kiran and Jay GBrowse Staph stuff.
• 03/13/2007 - Meeting! Kiran and Jay BioPerl geekery.
• 02/13/2007 - Meeting! SeqLab goes public. BioPerl in Omaha. Bioinformatics will never be the same. :)
• 01/09/2007 - Meeting! 6 mongers tip and trick exchange.

2006

• 12/12/2006 - Meeting! An extraveganza of miscellanous computer nerdery.
• 12/05/2006 - Perl+ lightning talks @ UNO!
• 11/14/2006 - Meeting! Kiran and Jay geek out all BioPerly style.
• 10/10/2006 - Meeting! Ryan Stille, Dave M., Kiran, and Mike gather around as Jay presents Object Oriented Perl 101.
• 09/12/2006 - Meeting! Dave M. and Jay trick Matt into coming out to his first Omaha user group meeting ever. -mwoo hahahaha-
• 08/08/2006 - Meeting! Dave M. ClamTk news, BlackHat, DEFCON, gtk2. Jay OSCON.
• 07/25/2006 - OSCON 2006! In a staggering clerical error, Jay Hannah (defacto Omaha.pm group leader) is awarded a 2006 white camel award.
• 07/11/2006 - Meeting! Miscellaneous BioPerly goo.
• 06/13/2006 - Meeting! OpenLab, onthisdate.net, Perl "vs." Ruby on Rails, gettext, ClamTk.
• 05/09/2006 - Meeting! Tons of random Perl+ hackery!
• 04/25/2006 - Perl+ lightning talks @ UNO!
• 04/18/2006 - Perl+ lightning talks @ UNO!
• 03/14/2006 - Meeting! Random Perl hackery.
• 02/26/2006 - BioPerl lab! Brainstorming primer/primer groups extensions to toolsets. Launch a web portal project on sourceforge?
• 02/22/2006 - BioPerl lab! Kiran and Jay discover the CVS repository which already had a patch for their Bio::SeqIO::gedcom problem. We're on the bleeding edge now, baby!
• 02/14/2006 - Meeting! BioPerl neophytism, Mac stuff, PHP props, pizza, etc.
• 01/28/2006 - Meeting! BioPerl blitz: Bio::Seq, Bio::SeqIO, Bio::DB::BioDB, Bio::Tools::Run::Alignment::Clustalw!
• 01/17/2006 - Meeting! Lots of BioPerl hackery! Check out our new books/magazines.

2005

• 12/15/2005 - Meeting! 5 mongers munch pizza, operator overloading, Class::Date, geek knitting, etc.
• 12/06/2005 - Perl+ lightning talks @ UNO! Jay presents Operator Overloading & Class::Date.
• 11/29/2005 - Perl+ lightning talks @ UNO!
• 10/21/2005 - Meeting! 5 mongers munch pizza, Google maps, Template Toolkit, XML::Twig, etc.
• 09/15/2005 - Meeting! Ron, Sidney, and Jay play hookey @ Cheesburgers in Paradise. ... /(Was that|I saw) a(nother)? mouse[?!]/
• 08/25/2005 - Meeting! Turned into Java user group chat night. Sign up for NoFluffJustStuff conference!
• 07/21/2005 - Meeting! Jay and Dave muck w/ Template Toolkit.
• 05/17/2005 - Meeting! Just shooting the Perly breeze. CGI.pm 101.
• 04/15/2005 - Meeting! Jay presents OO Practicum #2: 5 fixed width file formats in one OO structure.
• 03/18/2005 - Meeting! Misc OO design pattern discussions.
• 02/17/2005 - Meeting! Jay does a quick OO demo. Conversations range from beginner Perl to OO Perl to IBM pSeries to poker.
• 01/20/2005 - Meeting! 4 mongers do secret stuff. Jay wasn't there... What did happen, anyway?

2004

• 12/16/2004 - Meeting! Ron, Sidney and Jay wax philosophic about log4perl then diddle w/ deep Tie::STDERR and Handler black magic.
• 11/18/2004 - Meeting! 5 mongers hack out a latitude/longitude spidering program to help the Perl Mongers master XML file.
• 10/21/2004 - Meeting! Jay demos packages, objects, nested complex data structures, references, and CGI.pm.
• 09/30/2004 - Jay's 2nd core Perl patch is applied! patch#23341
• 09/20/2004 - Emergency Perl tutoring session held for a UNO student.
• 09/16/2004 - Dinner! Quoting Homer Simpson: Sooo lazy...
• 08/19/2004 - Meeting! Sidney gives a tour of her Perly animal rescue websites & associated flat-file databases.
• 05/25/2004 - Meeting! 2 mongers drove 90 miles to attend! That's a new record -- never before has 360 man-miles been expended for remote attendance. WWW::Mechanize again, and misc other topics.
• 02/23/2004 - Meeting! Presentation: WWW::Mechanize, Time::HiRes, and fork(): How to spider the FAA's web site when your boss' boss' boss' boss' personal pilot calls you.
• 01/14/2004 - Meeting! JayH, Dean, JayS and Scott socialize, diddle around with pipes to sendmail, Scott's patch to core perl (below), and MIME::QuotedPrint. They don't get around to chatting about Test::Harness.

2003 and earlier

• 12/16/2003 - Meeting! Jay Hannah gave a Perl debugger demo, almost none of which was new to Richard, who taught about stack traces. We explored some new commands in the 5.8.0 debugger.
• 10/21/2003 - Meeting! Jay Hannah gave a presentation on Expect.pm: pscrawl.pl
• 09/26/2003 - Dinnner! Jeff Bisbee of SouthFlorida.pm drops by to have dinner w/ 5 local mongers. Conversation ranged from YAPC::NA to WWW::Mechanize shell to POE.
• 08/21/2003 - Meeting! Justin Hopkins gives intro to building automated test suites with Test::Simple and WWW::Mechanize.
• 07/24/2003 - Meeting! Kent Tegels shows off his XML wizardry.
• 06/19/2003 - Meeting! 10 Mongers showed up to Mojo's Coffeehouse! A new record! After many A/V problems, Jay Hannah gave a quick and informal Intro to Perl / Intro to Object Oriented Perl presentation.
• 05/15/2003 - Meeting! Attendance was up 25%!
• 04/02/2003 - Meeting! Mongers from the four corners of the Earth came, saw, and conquered. (Or was it four Mongers from the corners of Omaha? -grin-)
• 03/17/2003 - Supreme executive power (which should be derived from a mandate of the masses) transferred from long-time group lead Patrick Timmins to Jay Hannah. Trumpets blared, jets screamed overhead, etc. emails.
• 02/11/2003 - After 10 years of Perl hacking, Jay gets his first patch to core Perl applied! patch#18683 Sure, it's just a 9 line addition to .pod, but Jay was pretty excited none the less.
• 05/27/2001 - Scott L Miller (loyal Omaha Perl Monger) gets ">[patch#10696] applied to core Perl.
• 04/??/1997 - Jim Lawless (loyal Omaha Perl Monger) takes 2nd place in the 1st Annual Obfuscated Perl Contest!