Re: Help Mark write his new book

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

Thanks!

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:55:04AM -0500, james.wismer@thomson.com wrote:
> Walt;
> 
> I've got the room reserved for us for the evening of 3/21.  
> 
> Thanks.
> Jim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-phl@lists.pm.org [mailto:owner-phl@lists.pm.org] On Behalf
> Of Walt Mankowski
> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 3:20 PM
> To: phl@lists.pm.org
> Subject: Help Mark write his new book
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> As you may have heard, Mark is writing a new book on refactoring
> Perl.  To help him prepare material for his book, he's doing a talk at
> a different Perl Mongers group each month this year.
> 
> His "Red Flags Tour" rolls into Philadelphia next month.  He'll be
> speaking at phl.pm on March 21.  Note that this is a *Tuesday* and not
> our more typical Monday night meeting time.
> 
> The reason we're announcing this so early is that Mark is doing a
> fresh talk each month based on code submitted by the local groups, and
> so he needs time to prepare.  He asks that you send him code by
> February 28, so have 3 weeks to work on it.
> 
> Can someone at ISI make sure the room is available on March 21?
> Thanks.
> 
> Walt
> 
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Mark Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com> -----
> 
> To: Walt Mankowski <walt@cs.drexel.edu>
> Subject: Please schedule and announce
> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 14:14:16 -0500
> From: Mark Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>
> Subject: Please help me write my new book!
> 
> Dear Mongers,
> 
> I'm writing a new book, which I hope will be published in 2007.  It's
> about code review and refactoring in Perl.  (For more complete
> information, please see http://perl.plover.com/flagbook/ .)
> 
> To do this right, I need real examples of real code that other people
> wrote.  I'll review the code and fix it up, and explain in the book
> what I did and why.
> 
> I have about half the examples that I need.  I hope that the Perl
> community can provide the other half.
> 
> For rest of the year, I'll be travelling around speaking to Perl
> Mongers groups about this.  I'd like to give about one talk each month
> for the rest of the year.
> 
> Each month, I prepare to give a talk for a different PM group.  Some
> of the group members send me some example code ahead of time.  Then I
> read over the code, write up a talk about how I think it could be
> improved, and come visit the group and give the talk.  Afterwards, I
> write up a book chapter about the code, incorporating the points that
> the PM group raised when I gave the talk.
> 
> My talk schedule wouldn't be complete without a visit to my home group
> in Philadelphia.  Walt has scheduled my talk for Tuesday, 21 March,
> 2006.
> I need your contributions by Tuesday, 28 February.
> 
> Full details about what I need are at:
> 
>         http://perl.plover.com/flagbook/contribute.html
> 
> To contribute, send code to:
> 
>         mjd@plover.com
> 
> Questions?   Send them to:
> 
>         mjd@plover.com
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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