This is the *mumble*th summary of the London Perlmongers mailing list, for the week beginning 2002-05-13. It's also my first summary, having stupidly^Wbravely wrested the crown from Leon's head. Let me know if I mess it up particularly well.
There were only 82 messages this week, which leads me on to the first meme. Penderel died again, we all moaned, Alex and Paul Makepeace fixed it, we cheered and moaned about things new. Alex bought shiny hardware for a new Penderel, and is looking to recoup some money by offering shell accounts on it. http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020513/020150.html http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020513/020151.html A tech meet took place on Thursday, with talks from Dave (Idiomatic Perl), Leon (Targetting Parrot) and James (The Magical Data Pixie). http://use.perl.org/~davorg/journal/4992 http://use.perl.org/~acme/journal/5000 Many emergency social meets going on; punting in Oxford on Sunday and an emergency pubmeet on Tuesday (21st May) to test out the suitability of _The Glasshouse Stores_ near Piccadilly Circus for future social meets - there'll be people there from 6:30pm. http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm-announce/2002-May/000003.html http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm-announce/2002-May/000005.html Tim Bunce will be a UMIST next month, giving a talk on whatever people want to know about the Perl DBI. Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] before 23rd May if you can make it all the way oop North. http://pm.bi.umist.ac.uk/activities.html Greg McCarroll posted regarding triangulating locations of storms by having people click a location and enter a rough time between hearing thunder and seeing a flash. A very silly thread ensued, with some interesting ideas coming up between the talk of disco balls and shiny GPS tekniq and space-readable signs. http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020513/020087.html http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020513/020097.html Rhys Hopkins asked about COM/DCOM with Perl/Linux, and was pointed at 'something with a '4' in it' that can expose COM objects via SOAP. http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020513/020076.html http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020513/020127.html Leo Lapworth asked about taking credit card payments online, and was pointed at Worldpay and Datacash by Steve Keay. Nick Clark posted a warning about transactions and rollbacks. http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020513/020136.html http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020513/020143.html In other news, Mark Fowler confused all of us with Glade code, Greg likes steak, RealNames died and you shouldn't put ISA cards in servers. How'd I do, huh? - Chris. -- $a="printf.net"; Chris Ball | chris@void.$a | www.$a | finger: chris@$a chris@lexis:~$ perl -le'@a=($^O eq 'darwin')?qw(100453 81289 9159):qw (23152 19246 2040);while(<>){chomp;push @b,$_ if grep {$.==$_}@a}push @b,$^X;print ucfirst join(" ",@b[2,0,3,1]).","'</usr/share/dict/words
