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

Contents

2011

August 9

  • Shawn Hermans: "Lately I have being a lot of work with GData. They are an Atom based data service used by Google. We are taking their base Atom library and doing extensions to suit our needs. Also a lot of fun recently setting up a Redmine, Git and Hudson based Python development environment. Seems to be working pretty well for now." Shawn also talked about Sphinx document creation (HTML, text, man, Latex, pdf, books all from one markup), PyEphem for space (satellite) coordinate math.

July 12

  • Nick Nisi, Jay Hannah, ?: "Web development with Sinatra and Rack (Ruby), Plack (Perl's Rack), WSGI (Python) volunteer needed. See 3 languages joining forces for webby justice!"

Mar, Apr, May, Jun

February 8

January 11

  • Scott Hickey: I have received my copy of the "Land of Lisp". I worked through the first example using DrRacket (aka DrScheme/PLT-Scheme). tons of links

2010

December 14

November 10

September, October

August 10

July 13

June 8

  • Michael Kolakowski (Union Pacific) presents "Coding Kata" (Eclipse/Java).
  • Food, drink sponsored by: Mutation Grid

May 11

April 13

  • Randal Schwartz "Forget the ORM! Persistent Data with non-traditional databases." What an Object-Relational Mapper is, why it sucks, and a couple dozen alternatives (most open source, many with Perl bindings). It's his Infotec presentation, only free. Slides
  • SIG-beer,karaoke with Randal "merlyn" Schwartz!

March 9

February 9 

It is wicked cool that quick.scrbl turns into index.html - HTML and .png files!
@mr-interaction[5 "art gallery"]
@mr-interaction[(circle 10)]

January 12

2009

December 14

November 10

October 13

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


  • 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.

1998..2008

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..1998

  • 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!

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