This is the first of hopefully many weekly summaries of the London
Perl Mongers mailing list. The list has grown so popular (a hundred
messages a day is not uncommon) that I think this is
necessary. Comments welcome. For the week starting 2001-01-22:
Don't forget the London.pm website: http://london.pm.org/ The next
meeting is on Thursday, 2001-02-01 at the Barrowboy & Banker.
Note that at the current time, london-list is hosted at two addresses:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] as well as
[EMAIL PROTECTED] This is because happyfunball was down
for a week or so recently and we decided to host the lists in the
UK. It is expected that the list will migrate to penderel (the new
London.pm server) real soon now, so there might be *three* lists!
Hopefully this'll all sort itself out soon.
With the deadline for the fifth O'Reilly Perl Conference coming up
(and probably gone by the time you read this), Dave Cross suggested
that everyone propose a talk or two:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg01407.html
Many people were talking about extreme programming, and the general
consensus is that some parts of it, such as the continuous testing,
are good. It's probably a bad idea to try all of it at once,
though. Not many people have tried pair programming but many are
willing to:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg01302.html
http://www.extremeprogramming.org/
Dave Hodgkinson asked about Perl/MySQL based forums, and was told that
mwforum was fine, and slashcode slightly heavy:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg01339.html
http://www.mawic.de/mwforum/
http://slashcode.com/
Michael Stevens announced an early version of a new Perl module,
Mail::ListDetector, for testing. This will be really handy for those
of us who have replaced procmail with Mail::Audit.
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg01367.html
http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Mail-Audit
It is apparently hard to spot London Perl Mongers in pubs. Mark Fowler
suggested a mascot. Bath.pm has a rubber ducky. London.pm could have a
plush Cthulhu, Greg,... or a camel.
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-list%40happyfunball.pm.org/msg01424.html
http://bath.pm.org/graphics/header.png
http://www.bluesnake.com/FileContent/ProductImages/large2295.jpg
Someone brought up Dreamweaver and asked if it was a good way to edit
files. All responses were negative. Even Perl hacking Dreamweaver files
was a pain. Everyone should use the Template Toolkit, on which Dave Cross
wrote an article for perl.com:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg01593.html
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/01/tt2.html
But mostly, discussion revolved around the idea of starting up a sort
of Perl Consultancy. More news soon.
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg01410.html
I organised a dimsum lunch and a pub meeting to discuss this:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg01445.html
Meanwhile Andy Wardly and Dave Cross tried to create holy wars:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg01451.html
And finally, we also created a very pretty quoting tree:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg01361.html
(Oh, and this whole thing may have been Leo Lapworth's idea, so blame him).
Leon
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... Maybe someone should label the future, "Some assembly required"
