Omaha Perl Mongers

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Welcome! Omaha.pm is the Omaha, Nebraska, USA Perl users group.

Perl is a computer programming language popular for a wide variety of tasks. Perl Mongers are programmers/dabblers of all skill levels interested in learning more about programming Perl, programming other languages, and general computer geekiness.

Join our mailing list and come to our meetings! We welcome new members of all skill levels. New to computer programming and motivated to learn? You're in luck! Perl is free, and so are our meetings, mailing list, etc.

Contents 1 Mailing List 2 Meetings 3 Misc 4 Presentations 5 History 5.1 2008 5.2 2007 5.3 2006 5.4 2005 5.5 2004 5.6 2003 and earlier

Mailing List

Our email mailing list is the primary vehicle for monger chat. To subscribe, unsubscribe, see the archive, get help, etc, click here:

• http://www.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/omaha-pm

If you just subscribed, go ahead and introduce yourself to the list -- we won't bite and we like to know when people join up.

Before 5/24/2004 we used Majordomo instead of MailMan. 
Archives: 1/1/2004 - 5/24/2004, 2003, 1998-2002. 
Re-live those memories! -grin-

Meetings

We organize Perl-specific meetings whenever anyone requests that we do so on the mailing list.

Every month we crash the Omaha Dynamic Language Users Group meetings and sneak Perl into every solution. :)

Peruse and add yourself to the presentation wish/volunteer list.

Lost? Jay's mobile phone: 402-578-3976

Misc

• Member Bios
• Other Omaha User Groups, Local Organizations Who Use Perl
• Local Perl Swag, Our Mascot
• ClamTK - Dave M.: GUI front-end for ClamAV (virus scanner) using gtk2-perl
• CLAB and GSAF - Jay and Kiran running amok with BioPerl
• Reboot The User hosts our book library. Borrow some books!
• Perl Examples scratchpad.
• Whatever else anyone wants to put here -- got for it!

Presentations

• "ChemChains sandbox" lightning talk abstract and slides by Jay Hannah, YAPC::NA 2008.
• "Introduction to Perl and Bioinformatics" by Jay Hannah, 2006
• Old presentations archive

History

2008

• 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
• oops... I forgot to wiki some meetings
• 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!