From grayarea at reddagger.org Wed Jan 3 15:03:14 2007 From: grayarea at reddagger.org (jwithers) Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:03:14 -0800 Subject: [buug] Talk on Plone Message-ID: <1167865395.29573.141.camel@localhost> Folks, For those of you who are interested in the Plone CMS, one of the project's co-founders, Alexander Limi, will be speaking about the upcoming 3.0 version of the software at the monthly SFBay PloneLounge meeting. Plone is a pretty serious open source CMS solution written in python, I have been using it for a while, and it has much joy and goodness in it. If you are interested in attending here is the info: 7-9pm Monday, 8 Jan 07 Burning Man Offices, 1900 3rd St., SF CA. -- jwithers From jammer at weak.org Thu Jan 18 14:41:43 2007 From: jammer at weak.org (Jon McClintock) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:41:43 -0800 Subject: [buug] [elise@trinova.com: wonderful perl oppty.] Message-ID: <20070118224143.GH30016@weak.org> In case any of y'all are interested... -Jon ----- Forwarded message from Elise Holland ----- From: Elise Holland To: jammer at weak.org Subject: wonderful perl oppty. Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:00:34 -0800 Hello Jan, Happy New Year! Please allow me to briefly introduce myself; My name is Elise Holland and I am one of the owners of a boutique recruiting agency (TriNova). One of our clients (described below) is looking for a talented OO Perl developer to function as their lead Web developer. I think this is a wonderful opportunity for the right person as it's an interesting, niche-oriented company with a fun, intellectually-stimulating crew of people on board. I understand that you belong to a Unix Users' Group (and Unix is another important piece of this position) so I thought perhaps you might be able to help me. It's been a tough search so far! Would it be appropriate for me to send this email to your users' group? Also, is this something you might be qualified for/ interested in? Or, do you know anyone who may be interested? I would be happy to provide more information, if so. Also, my firm gladly pays referral bonuses if we place your referrals! Thank you so much in advance for any help. All the best, Elise Elise Holland TriNova, LLC 415.834.1311 www.trinova.com ABOUT THIS COMPANY: Founded by academics in 1999, this company produces tools to improve scholarly communication. These tools provide innovative and effective means of content production and dissemination. In order to drive and define this new market, they have built a top-notch crew of diverse, intelligent, upbeat professionals. Now, they need to hire a talented Lead Developer with Architect/Manager potential (more about this below). Their products break down into two basic areas; Publications: Company publishes high quality peer-reviewed journals, as well as working papers, institutional repository materials, and A wealth of other scholarly information. Services: Company develops and licenses technologies to help the academic community produce, archive, and disseminate scholarly work. ABOUT THIS JOB: Senior Web Developer (Perl) / Team Lead We are a provider of cutting-edge, Web-based solutions for the academic/scholarly community. We are a small, growing Berkeley-based company with a collaborative work-environment where technical and non-technical colleagues work together to create great software, serve our customers and create the future of academic publishing and scholarly career solutions. We're looking to hire a senior software engineer with extensive Perl experience. Our existing software architecture is mature and provides the base for multiple existing products. We are both evolving existing products and building new products on the existing software infrastructure. Other features of this opportunity: . Possibility of growing into a management role, if desired . Significant input to architecture and design decisions . Competitive salary and excellent benefits . Laid-back, fun work atmosphere General requirements: o Senior-level Web-based software engineer in terms of experience, maturity, focus, productivity, technical capabilities, and communication skills o Strong OO Perl skills o Strong Unix skills o Work as a part of team that ensures 24/7 operation; some off-hours work required Ideally, this person will have several years experience with a commercial, high-volume Apache/mod_perl/SQL database backed website. Will have experience with as many of the following as possible: CGI / HTML / Javascript / HTTP / XML / SQL /Apache plus familiarity with some type of template-based programming (PHP, ASP, ColdFusion, XSLT, etc.) Desirable experience/skills: . Familiarity with document/content management systems . DBA knowledge . Experience developing workflow-oriented applications . Automated e-mail processing . AJAX . Knowledge of CVS or other version control . PDF processing . Web UI design skills and usability knowledge Elise Holland TriNova, LLC 415.834.1311 (ph) 415.834.1112 (fax) www.trinova.com ----- End forwarded message ----- From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Sat Jan 27 12:18:43 2007 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:18:43 -0800 Subject: [buug] More books for BUUG (Prentice Hall / Pearson Education) Message-ID: <1169929123.45bbb3a3706a6@webmail.rawbw.com> Box from Prentice Hall / Pearson Education was apparently delivered 2007-01-24 (I got it on 2007-01-25) containing the following book/ISBN items: o Media Flyer ("Compliments of Pearson Education, review copies not for resale, ...") ISBN-13 9780131347779 o Red Hat Fedora Core 6 Unleashed ISBN-13 9780672329296 [1] I intend to bring them to the next BUUG meeting (2007-02-01), along with: Practical PHP and MySQL ISBN-13 9780132239974 [2] references: 1. http://www.samspublishing.com/title/0672329298 2. http://www.weak.org/pipermail/buug/2006-December/002875.html http://www.buug.org/