Re: Calendar for the next few months.

[Nicolai Rosen <nick@netaxs.com>]

I was just scanning the calender on philly pm web site (it's got days of
the week) & I noticed July 4. Is that just there as a reference kind of
thing who forget when the 4th of July is or is anything happening then?

On Tue, 9 May 2000 ziggy@panix.com wrote:
> > So.. here's the potential events calendar for the next few months..
> > We're doing second and fourth mondays because it works out much much
> > better around the conferences and such.
> 
> [Slight adjustment already]
> 
>   20000515        Tech Talk: Adam on the DocBook XML DTD
>   20000522        Reading Group: First 2 draft chapters of PATH (by mjd)
> 
> > 20000529        Perl Whirl Alaskan Cruise: Leaves Vancouver
> > 20000605        Perl Whirl Alaskan Cruise: Returns to Vancouver
> > 20000612        Dinner Meeting: ... TBA ...
> > 20000621        YAPC 19100 (http://www.yapc.org/America)
> > 20000622        YAPC 19100
> > 20000623        YAPC 19100
> > 20000626        Tech Talk: What I learned at YAPC 19100
>   20000703        Standard meeting postponed (see below)
> > 20000704        July 4th
> > 20000710        Dinner Meeting: ... TBA ...
> > 20000717        The Perl Conference 4.0, Monterey, California
> > 20000718        The Perl Conference 4.0, Monterey, California
> > 20000719        The Perl Conference 4.0, Monterey, California
> > 20000720        The Perl Conference 4.0, Monterey, California
> > 20000724        Tech Talk: (maybe, what I learned at TPC4?)
> 
> [Return to regularly scheduled mongering]
> 
>   20000807        Dinner Meeting: ... TBA ...
>   20000814        Reading Group:  (?)
>   20000821        Tech Talk: ... TBA ...
>   20000828        Reading Group:  (?)
> 
> The idea of a reading group is less interesting than it used to be.
> We tried the read-one-book-and-discuss format, and it seems to work
> better than the read-two-chapters-and-discuss format.
> 
> Many, many good books have come out since we last surveyed what was 
> available to discuss.  Gazing at my bookshelf:
> 
> 	Programming Web Graphics with Perl and GNU Software
> 	Writing Apache Modules in Perl and C
> 	Mastering Algorithms with Perl
> 	Object Oriented Perl Programming
> 	Elements of Programming with Perl
> 	Learning Perl/TK
> 	Progamming the Perl DBI
> 	Perl and System Administration (s/b out by August)
> 
> Some old standards:
> 
> 	Mastering Regular Expressions
> 	Effective Perl Programming
> 	Programming Perl
> 	[I know I'm forgetting other fine books]
> 
> And there are the other fine books that are less focused on Perl
> 
> 	The Practice of Programming
> 	Refactoring
> 	Analysis Patterns
> 	Design Patterns
> 	Anti-Patterns
> 	Mr. Bunny's Guide to Java
> 	The Deadline
> 	The Mythical Man Month
> 
> May, June and July are quite hectic for the Perl community.  I don't
> think we can schedule much more than we already have for those months.
> If the reading group is going to kick-in again, August seems a
> reasonable time to pick off one (or even two?) tomes for discussion.
> (Apache: The Definitive guide makes a nice companion to 
>  Writing Apache Modules.... for example.)
> 
> Questions?  Comments?  Suggestions?  Requests?  
> 
> Z.
> 
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