This is the weekly summary for the London.pm list for the week starting the 17th February 2003. There were only 79 messages this week.
The first new thread of the week was started by Neil Fryer who was looking for advice on a good free (as in beer) MS Windows Perl IDE. No-one could suggest anything free but emacs, though numerous shareware and payware suggestions were made: http://london.pm.org/lpm/20030217/017015.html Changing nameserver whois record can be confusing, and many people helped Paul Makepeace deconfudle (or more fuddle) the issue: http://london.pm.org/lpm/20030217/017031.html Luis Campos de Carvalho found that the Sys::Syslog module was being silent and not writing everything, and the problem was rapidly solved: http://london.pm.org/lpm/20030217/017037.html Chisel Wright wanted some advice on building a dynamic regular expression with an eval. He'd benchmarked it and found that it was causing performance issues. There was suggestion of code reordering, using 'ee' on the regex, and then it was pointed out that this had been discussed a lot both during the Perl Quiz of the Week and on Perlmonks. http://london.pm.org/lpm/20030217/017045.html # start of thread http://perl.plover.com/qotw/e/solution/001 # quiz solution http://perlmonks.com/index.pl?node_id=234769 # perlmonks I posted the call for participation for the technical meeting. I've got a good crop of medium length talks so far, but I could really do with some more lightning talks: http://london.pm.org/lpm/20030217/017054.html Tony Kennick was shown that the current file being read via <> is stored in $ARGV: http://london.pm.org/lpm/20030217/017069.html Andy Williams was having issues with German and XML - umlauts and all. There was much discussion about what umlauts are and when to use them but little progress was made on solving the actual problem: http://london.pm.org/lpm/20030217/017056.html On Friday afternoon Dave Cross posted another film Quiz: http://london.pm.org/lpm/20030217/017072.html Before the England v Wales match on Saturday Simon Wistow got a blast of JFDI and decided to do some work on some of his older code. This started two threads, one on repeating dates and interfaces, and one on File::Binary. http://london.pm.org/lpm/20030217/017081.html # dates http://london.pm.org/lpm/20030217/017089.html # File::Binary And finally in other news, reselling domains, Class::DBI::Join issues, silly 404s, a job! Expect.pm and GPRS RTT... http://london.pm.org/lpm/20030217/017086.html # reselling http://london.pm.org/lpm/20030217/017018.html # 404 http://london.pm.org/lpm/20030217/017022.html # Class::DBI::Join http://london.pm.org/lpm/20030217/017071.html # GPRS RTT http://london.pm.org/lpm/20030217/017020.html # Expect http://london.pm.org/lpm/20030217/017019.html # job! Any mistakes in this email are entirely due to the problems of typing on the interal Zaurus keyboard. Till next week. Mark -- #!/usr/bin/perl -T use strict; use warnings; print q{Mark Fowler, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://twoshortplanks.com/};
