This is the (mumble+1)th summary of the London Perlmongers mailing list for the week beginning 2002-05-20, covering a far more healthy 178 posts and 42 threads.
Mark Fowler posted about memory leaks in Perl, and how to detect/avoid them. Nick Clark pointed him at Valgrind (which is free) and Purify (which isn't), both of which are used by the perl5-porters to detect leaks in the Perl core. Paul Johnson commented that Perl 5.8 is far less awful at losing track of memory than earlier versions. http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020520/020157.html http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020520/020165.html http://www.rational.com/products/purify_unix/index.jsp [Purify] http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/ [Valgrind] Paul Makepeace directed us to the impending release of the Playstation2 Linux Kit, which gives you a 40Gb HDD, NIC, keyboard and blah for $200. Simon Wistow prefers the Dreamcast dev kit, and commented - along with Ian Brayshaw - that you don't get raw access to many of the devices with the PS2 kit. Alasdair Kergon reminded us that there'll be a PS2 with Linux at the UKUUG Linux Developers' Conference in July, and that early booking discounts end on the 31st May. http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020520/020175.html http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020520/020179.html http://playstation2-linux.com/faq.php http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2002/ Dave Cross announced that Matt's Script Archive has linked to NMS - many congrats to everyone who's been involved in the project. http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020520/020176.html http://www.scriptarchive.com/nms.html http://nms-cgi.sf.net/ Resident Pub Minion Kake reported on the emergency social meet to The Glasshouse Stores. They don't have any hand-pulled beer, which was met with resounding disapproval. Ne'er discouraged, Kake is organising a trip to The Ivy House near Holborn tube _tonight_, from 6pm. http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020520/020197.html http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020520/020303.html http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=530503&Y=181602&A=Y&Z=1 On the jobs front, Dave Cantrell announced that the BBC are looking for a student to fill a year's placement programming with Perl and C. Following this, Paul Makepeace asked whether anyone had been offered an interview following posts on on-line job sites. http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020520/020206.html http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020520/020211.html Lots of people talked about Buffy. Imagine! http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020520/020184.html I mentioned being scared of installing the Oracle client libraries under Debian, and was given Clue. A discussion of Oracle under various Linux distributions (and the broken-ness thereof) ensued. http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020520/020217.html http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020520/020240.html Philip Newton asked about the difference between Linux distributions, and was met with a surprisingly lack of Debian-related zealotry; perhaps the Debian devels are all off trying to get Debian/woody somewhere close to being ready for release. :-) http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020520/020225.html http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020520/020238.html Simon Wistow posted a review of _Creation - Life and how to make it_, which turned into a thread on p2p. Tony Bowden told us of the O'Reilly Emerging Tech Conference last week, and several people asked about security and replication in p2p systems, before branching on to distributed uses for spare machine cycles. http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020520/020298.html http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020520/020314.html http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020520/020326.html Paul Makepeace expressed confusion over Perl's for() not needing parens when qw() is used, and had things explained by Randal (it's a 5.6-ism). http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020520/020309.html http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020520/020310.html In other news, Alex McLintok wants a reviewer for Manning's new _Web Dev with Apache and Perl_, and Paul Mison forwarded details of Cam.pm's Beerfestival Obfuscated Perl Programming Contest. Paul Makepeace noted that he is Justness ANSI perl Hagen and Track basic perl Riga - and I discovered that the JAPH in my sigline has.. sub-optimal portability. Oops. Until next week, - 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
