From: "John Malloy" <johnmalloy@comcast.net
Subject:  Fwd: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tues, Dec 9
Date: Monday, December 01, 2003 9:32 AM



From: Ronald J Kimball <rjk-bostonpm@tamias.net
To: Boston Perl Mongers <boston-pm@pm.org
Subject: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tues, Dec 9




Boston.pm's next Tech Meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 9 at the
offices of Boston.com.  The presentations will begin at 7:30.


If you would like to give a presentation at this meeting, please email me.
Perhaps you have a neat script you've written, or a favorite CPAN module
you want to evangelize, or an obfuscation to stump us with.

On the agenda so far:

   Uri Guttman will be giving a short talk on his File::Slurp module, which
   provides a convenient way to read in an entire file.

   Free review copies of three new books from O'Reilly: one each of the
   _Perl Cookbook_ 2nd edition, _Learning Perl Objects, References, and
   Modules_, and the _Regular Expression Pocket Reference_.  These will be
   given out on the condition of writing and posting a review.

   (Another presentation to be determined; see above.)


Pizza and refreshments will be provided by Boston.com.  Directions to the
meeting are below.


Ronald


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boston.com
320 Congress Street
Boston, MA
02210

http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&addr=320+Congress+St&city=Boston&state=MA&zip=02210-1238&country=us&slt=42.351300&sln=-71.049600&mag=9&cs=9&name=Boston.com

Driving directions:

Directions from the South Shore:

Drive north on the expressway (Rt. 93) and take exit 20 (the Downtown
Boston/Chinatown/Mass Pike exit) and stay towards the left when on the exit
ramp. At the bottom of the exit ramp, take a left onto Kneeland Street and
then your first right onto Surface Road. Drive straight past South Station,
and past the Federal Reserve building, take a right onto Congress St. (At
the Congress Street turn there will be a shop Lannan Ship Model Gallery on
your right.) On Congress Street, drive straight over the bridge (passing by
the Boston Tea Party replica exhibit), past the Milk Bottle and the
Children's Museum.  320 Congress Street is on the left, the next building
after the Children's Museum.

Directions from the North Shore:

Drive south on the expressway (Rt. 93) and take exit 23 (the High
Street/Congress St exit).  The exit ramp puts you on Oliver Street. Take
the first left onto High Street, and then after a few streets take a left
onto Congress St.  (It looks like two streets on the map I'm looking at,
but I don't think that it is counting a couple of very wide looking
alleys.)  Once on Congress, do your best to keep to the right, since the
intersection at Surface Rd has two left turn only lanes.  Drive straight
past Lannan Ship Model Gallery, straight over the bridge, past the Tea
Party replica, and past the Children's Museum.  Boston.com is in the next
building on the left.  320 Congress St.

Parking info:

The cheapest for-pay parking in the evenings is the lot across the street
from Boston.com.  (I think it is a Kinney lot, evenings are a $6 flat
rate.)  The next least expensive parking lots are the $7 lots on either
Service Rd (a few blocks down from Boston.com on the left) or the Northern
Ave lots (instead of the above driving directions, drive to the Federal
Courthouse and walk up Sleeper Street, Boston.com will be at the corner of
Sleeper and Congress on the left).  The parking lot at the corner of
Congress and Farnsworth is outrageously expensive at any hour, as is the
Farnsworth St Garage.

For street parking, I think there are a few non-resident parking spaces
still on the block Boston.com is on, but it seems that they convert more
non-resident to resident spaces every week.  More street parking is
available on Summer Street (the street parallel to Congress on the south)
and Dorchester Ave.  (Not to be confused with the well known Dot Ave. This
one is just the short stretch of road that connects the Fort Point Post
Office to Three Cheers.)  There is also parking on East Service Road and
West Service Road.  If you are looking for street parking I'd suggest
driving circles around Congress/Service/Summer/Dorchester or driving down
to E Service Rd/W Service Rd (around Anthony's Pier 4).  If you park on
Summer St, walk towards Downtown Boston and look for the small downward
stairway on the last building before the bridge.  That stairway will lead
to Congress St and help you avoid having to cross the bridge twice.


Public Transportation Directions:

If you take the commuter rail into South Station, exit from the doors on
the right (near the ticket counter), cross the street to the Federal
Reserve Building (the large white building with the metal sliding panels
which hide the gun turrets), take a right, and walk along Summer St. down
the sidewalk towards South Boston.  At the set of lights with the the Post
Office towards your right, take a left on Dorchester Ave and walk one block
towards Congress St.  Once you hit Congress St. cross the bridge and pass
the Tea Party Museam, the Milk Bottle and the Children's Museum.
Boston.com is in the next building after the Children's Museum.

Directions from the Red Line:

Try to navigate through the underground labyrinth to the "Museum
Wharf/Federal Reserve" exit.  Go up the stairs and stand so you are facing
South Boston and your back is against the Downtown Crossing area.  Once
above ground, find the subway entrance that I meant for you to leave from
and walk towards that one.  (Unless you wind up at the one that exits right
into South Station itself, if so follow the commuter rail directions
above.)  Walk down Summer with the Federal Reserve building on your left
and South Station on your right.  When you get to the set of lights at the
corner of Summer and Dorchester (the Post Office is on your right), take a
left and walk one block towards Congress St.  Once on Congress St, take a
right, walk over the bridge and pass the Tea Party Museum, The Milk Bottle,
and the Children's Museum.  Boston.com is in the next building after the
Children's Museum.

Food info:

If you are planning on heading towards the Boston.com office first and then
picking up dinner or coffee (maybe a small snack to tide you over until the
tech meeting's pizzas are served), you will be severely disappointed.
Everything on Congress and Summer Street closes by 5PM.  Your best bet is
either the South Station food court (which is open until about 8PM), or
along Summer Street heading toward Downtown Crossing.  (If you choose South
Station, I recommend the Bourbon Chicken.)
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