This is the thirty-ninth weekly summary of the London Perl Mongers mailing list. For the Perl God week starting 2001-10-15:
Check out the London.pm website for information about upcoming meetings and events. The next social meeting is on 8th Nov 2001, but remember there will be a non-heretical heretics meeting meeting on the 1st! Oh, and a technical meeting on the 22nd. Looks like yapc::europe next year will be in Munich, mmmm, beer. We have a new domain name: http://www.leggybabes.com/ Just missing last week's deadline, see what Simon reported about London.pm's invasion of the Cam.pm meeting: http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/2001-October/006044.html There was a great deal of reminiscing about old machines and games this week. You know the sort of thing, C64 vs. rubber-key Spectrum vs. BBC Micro vs. Amiga vs. Atari, Elite vs. everything else. Harry's post is typical: http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/2001-October/006217.html Red asked about hackish PDAs. The iPAQ was highly recommended: http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/06/01/linux_ipaq.html http://familiar.handhelds.org/ http://intimate.handhelds.org/ There was an amusing Netiquette thread. Oh wait, it wasn't amusing at all. It concerned jeopardy quoting, which irritates a lot of people? Context good. Too much quoting bad. Some people disagreed. Other people disagreed with them. Flamage ensued. Mark asked for a Mail::Audit script to DTRT to badly-formatted mails. Dave (our un-leader?) made us all stop. Footnotes rule[1]: http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/2001-October/006293.html http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/2001-October/006310.html Rob asked about Procmail filters in Perl: http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Mail-Audit http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Mail-Procmail By far the largest thread was started by Greg, who asked everyone to list their favourite classic (non-perl) computer books. Here we go: The Art of Computer Programming (Knuth), The Dragon Book aka Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools (Aho, Sethi, Ullman), K&R, Computer Graphics (Foley et al), Code Complete (Steve McConnell), the Devil Book aka Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System (McKusick, Bostic, Karels, Quarterman), Practice of Programming (Kernighan and Pike), Commentary on the Unix 6th edition, with source code (John Lions), An Introduction to Algorithms (Cormen, Rivest and Leiserson), Programming Pearls (Bentley), the networking books by Stevens (TCP/IP Illustrated etc.), Essentials of User Interface Design (Cooper), Applied Cryptography (Schneier), Design Patterns (Gamma et al), An Introduction to Database Systems (Date), Extreme Programming Explained (Beck), Refactoring (Fowler), Fundamentals of Database Systems and Introduction to SQL (van der Lans), The Psychology of Everyday Things (Norman), Inner Loops: A Sourcebook for Fast 32-bit Software Development (Booth), Handbook of Logic in Computer Science (Abramsky, Gabbay, Maibaum), The visual display of quantitative information (Tufte), Software Tools (Kernigham, Plauger), The Mythical Man-Month (Brooks), Software Engineering Economics (Boehm), Structured Analysis & Design (DeMarco), Maximum Security (Greg Shipleu), Reasoned Programming (Broda, Eisenbach et al), Practical File System Design with the Be File System (Giampaolo), Operating System Design (Tannenbaum), Computers under Attack (Denning), Bebop to the Boolean Boogie (Maxfield), Analysis Patterns (Fowler), Peoplware (DeMarco). That's a lot of books. Reviews needed ;-) Now guess which of those have recipes in them: cookies? Tuscan chestnut sweeties? Cajun Gumbo? Greg asked about interesting numbers. No, I don't feel like sumarising it, at all. Good book, though: http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/2001-October/006355.html Check out what all the CFT gang have got up to on IRC: http://www.astray.com/scribot/2001-10-15.html In other news: EMAILINGLISTNOTIRC, emacs vs vi (yes, again), Debauchery.pm, "this is a sigfile | there are many like it but | this sigfile is mine" vs. "WRITE THIS SOMEWHERE ELSE", Brainbench, writing a Perl Game vs. the game IS Perl, dim sum, fire, and the expensive cult that is extreme programming. Look, there *is* a Perl job market in London, Leon [1] May not actually rule. I blame alt.fan.pratchett -- Leon Brocard.............................http://www.astray.com/ Nanoware...............................http://www.nanoware.org/ ... Always remember no matter where you go, there you are
