And more collectibles...

2014-05-24 Thread David Hodgkinson
A banker’s box of kettle leads, USB cables of various terminations, video leads and writable DVD’s and CD’s. Anyone? Or they’re being recycled.

Re: Web scraping frameworks?

2014-03-04 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
this one. How far a scraping franework would be from lwp? On Tuesday, March 4, 2014, DAVID HODGKINSON daveh...@gmail.com wrote: Does something exist? If it doesn't does anyone want to help make it happen? I *really* don't want to have to write the code all over again ten times

Re: Web scraping frameworks?

2014-03-04 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 4 Mar 2014, at 22:05, Sue Spence virtually...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 March 2014 21:33, DAVID HODGKINSON daveh...@gmail.com wrote: Does something exist? https://www.google.com/search?q=perl+web+scraping 3rd hit mentions the cpan module Dave Cross mentioned. If you were

Re: Web scraping frameworks?

2014-03-04 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 4 Mar 2014, at 22:09, Jesse Vincent je...@fsck.com wrote: Many years ago Audrey also put together Template::Extract, which is sort of a fascinating layer on top of this That's usually my first port of call, but recently I've been in a more structured world, for example HTML::Tree* modules,

Re: Recommended IDE...?

2014-01-20 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
I did some research on this for emacs a while back. http://www.davehodgkinson.com/blog/2012/01/using-emacs-as-an-ide/ Having Perl::Critic integrated is nice, and I've done this in some places that care. Perlysense got some votes. ctags/etags is good if you need to zap between files looking

Re: OT: Flat Swap Vienna - London

2014-01-09 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
The suburbs aren't that scary. Most of zone 3 is but a short hop from interesting places. And indeed, there are interesting places out in the wilds too! On 8 Jan 2014, at 21:55, Thomas Klausner d...@cpan.org wrote: Hi! My family (me, girlfriend and my younger son (13)) are currently

Re: PDF to CSV?

2013-12-12 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
Indeed, only PDF going back in time. CAM::PDF has getpdftext.pl which is where I'm currently positioning my yak. On 12 Dec 2013, at 11:07, Leo Lapworth l...@cuckoo.org wrote: I've got some code somewhere for doing this for HSBC's HTML statements I tried for their PDF's (which is the only

Re: PDF to CSV?

2013-12-12 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
OK, It puts each column on a new line but that's not the end of the world. On 12 Dec 2013, at 11:21, DAVID HODGKINSON daveh...@me.com wrote: Indeed, only PDF going back in time. CAM::PDF has getpdftext.pl which is where I'm currently positioning my yak. On 12 Dec 2013, at 11:07, Leo

Re: PDF to CSV?

2013-12-12 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
Sadly, that failed on a Barclays statement. On 12 Dec 2013, at 11:50, Kieren Diment dim...@gmail.com wrote: pdftotext++ I've had lots of success with that for a variety of use-cases. I wouldn't bother with a more robust library based solution for personal data mangling problems. On

Re: PDF to CSV?

2013-12-12 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
Not sure what you're trying to tell me here. It can read PDF? What? On 12 Dec 2013, at 11:49, Aaron Trevena aaron.trev...@gmail.com wrote: Hi David, http://search.cpan.org/~audreyt/Template-Extract-0.41/lib/Template/Extract.pm could work better for extracting formatted text like this maybe

Re: PDF to CSV?

2013-12-12 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 12 Dec 2013, at 13:39, David Dorward da...@dorward.me.uk wrote: On 12 Dec 2013, at 12:41, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: Not sure what you're trying to tell me here. It can read PDF? What? PDF files do have plain text in them, it just just wrapped in markup, control characters and binary

Re: isolating thread-unsafe modules

2013-07-30 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 30 Jul 2013, at 14:54, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 10:02:25PM +0100, Bob MacCallum wrote: Good question - I have always hacked something with fork in the past but it just seemed so simple with Thread::Queue and threads. I've never needed much IPC

Re: Quarantining crap HTML?

2013-05-22 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 21 May 2013, at 13:08, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Wow, you can put links in email. Amazing!

Re: Quarantining crap HTML?

2013-05-22 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
Upon sleeping on it, this was the direction I was headed in. The problem is the HTML is user-generated and we know where that leads. On 21 May 2013, at 13:14, Philip Skinner m...@philip-skinner.co.uk wrote: You can specify the content of an iframe using a javascript call in the src:

Re: A simple and elegant job application

2013-05-15 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 15 May 2013, at 11:21, Travis Basevi tra...@cricinfo.com wrote: http://www.mythic-beasts.com/cgi-bin/job.pl This is SO base 10-centric.

Re: WWW::Lovefilm::API?

2013-05-09 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
I had old credentials. And yes, I got search to work enough for me. Thanks, Dave On 9 May 2013, at 09:43, Paul Mooney paul.moo...@phymatics.co.uk wrote: I created the package a while back when I worked at LOVEFiLM so I could understand the API before using internally. As far as I know

Re:

2013-05-07 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 3 May 2013, at 16:45, Pierre M piema...@gmail.com wrote: Hi David, what solution did you choose for your throttled API? Did you try Schedule::AdaptiveThrottler ? I know i'll need to do something similar in the next few months, i've just been pushing it off. Me? I've forgotten what

Re: OpenTech

2013-05-07 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 7 May 2013, at 07:19, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: Hope to see some of you there. I shall try to bimble along...

Re:

2013-05-03 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 3 May 2013, at 15:04, Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org wrote: The jobs list is -- that way. Berlin.pm is -- that way.

Re: Handling an API with a throttle?

2013-04-14 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
/Schedule::AdaptiveThrottler If you use it, please feedback: i might use it in the future. On 13 April 2013 23:05, DAVID HODGKINSON daveh...@gmail.com wrote: Opposite direction, making calls to an external API... On 13 Apr 2013, at 22:57, Schmoo schmoos...@gmail.com wrote: Do you mean

Re: Handling an API with a throttle?

2013-04-13 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
Opposite direction, making calls to an external API... On 13 Apr 2013, at 22:57, Schmoo schmoos...@gmail.com wrote: Do you mean something like these? https://metacpan.org/module/App::Cerberus#App::Cerberus::Plugin::Throttle https://metacpan.org/module/Plack::Middleware::Throttle

Re: A stranger arrives in town ...

2013-04-10 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 10 Apr 2013, at 13:45, Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk wrote: On 10/04/13 12:33, Chris Jack wrote: On 09/04/2013 09:08, Smylers wrote: David H. Adler writes: Cellphone Warehouse? Carphone Warehouse -- they aren't a warehouse, and they don't sell car-phones. Which raised the

Re: Any known islandic Perl Mongers?

2013-04-05 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
Joel, He's German. Island is what it's called in German: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island On 5 Apr 2013, at 14:18, Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org wrote: Do you mean *Iceland*? If so Avar is there, at least. Otherwise you might want to specify which island you mean. Britain is an

Re: A stranger arrives in town ...

2013-04-05 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 5 Apr 2013, at 19:01, James E Keenan jk...@verizon.net wrote: I just want to confirm that I'll be arriving in London tomorrow (Sat Apr 6) and be looking forward to meeting london.pm-ers on Mon Apr 8 at 6:30 pm at The Gunmakers on Eyre Street Hill. Any change of plans (or if anyone

#HNLondon?

2013-03-26 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
Anyone else going tomorrow?

Re: API wrapper best practices?

2013-03-23 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
Really? Got a good example of where this is done and isn't a pain in the ass? On 23 Mar 2013, at 16:05, Mike Whitaker m...@altrion.org wrote: You mean apart from doing all the things you just said you're not going to do? On 23 Mar 2013, at 16:01, Dave Hodgkinson da...@hodgkinson.org wrote:

Re: API wrapper best practices?

2013-03-23 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
Are there any tutorial type docs for Moose Meta the way you used it or which man page should I be able to work it out from? Ta, On 23 Mar 2013, at 17:03, Iain C Docherty londonperlmong...@iandocherty.com wrote: If you want to be really lazy, do what I did in a very similar circumstance. I

Re: API wrapper best practices?

2013-03-23 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 23 Mar 2013, at 21:19, Dave Lambley dave.lamb...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 March 2013 20:50, DAVID HODGKINSON daveh...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any tutorial type docs for Moose Meta the way you used it or which man page should I be able to work it out from? Moose::Meta::Class and Moose

Re: New perl features?

2013-03-19 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 19 Mar 2013, at 14:39, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: I'd like to talk about cheese. Then start a new thread under a relevant subject. Netiquette 101. Seek out the Dark Knights of Cholesterol.

Re: New perl features?

2013-03-16 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 16 Mar 2013, at 08:31, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: On 03/15/2013 10:40 PM, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: ~~ and //= are the only new sigils I don't think 'sigils' means what you seem to think it means :-) Line noise?

Re: New perl features?

2013-03-16 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 16 Mar 2013, at 09:09, Tom Hukins t...@eborcom.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 09:40:53PM +, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: On 15 Mar 2013, at 18:31, Mike Stok m...@stok.ca wrote: Even if it wasn't ... the question I try to ask is How can I make it easier to deploy my app? rather

Re: 3/15/2013 10:26:49 AM

2013-03-15 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 15 Mar 2013, at 10:24, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote: http://www.occamobile.com/ this bit and that bit: zhvrm/htdza/hsp/gr/vo Obviously, don't follow that link in anything more sophisticated than wget. Sigh, is there an easy way to put all

Re: 3/15/2013 10:26:49 AM

2013-03-15 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 15 Mar 2013, at 10:24, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote: http://www.occamobile.com/ this bit and that bit: zhvrm/htdza/hsp/gr/vo Obviously, don't follow that link in anything more sophisticated than wget. I just got this again from a perl-unrelated

New perl features?

2013-03-15 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
Is there a cookbook (no, not a manual) of shiny, useful new features in perls since 5.8.8?

Re: New perl features?

2013-03-15 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
So, no then. In the sense of having a single page of good examples of using the new features. On 15 Mar 2013, at 12:39, Alex Balhatchet ka...@slackwise.net wrote: On 15 March 2013 12:28, DAVID HODGKINSON daveh...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a cookbook (no, not a manual) of shiny, useful new

Re: New perl features?

2013-03-15 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 15 Mar 2013, at 14:00, Mark Fowler m...@twoshortplanks.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:04 AM, DAVID HODGKINSON daveh...@gmail.com wrote: So, no then. In the sense of having a single page of good examples of using the new features. It would make a good article for publication

Re: New perl features?

2013-03-15 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 15 Mar 2013, at 14:49, Greg McCarroll g...@mccarroll.org.uk wrote: On 15 Mar 2013, at 13:29, James Laver wrote: On 15 Mar 2013, at 13:04, DAVID HODGKINSON daveh...@gmail.com wrote: So, no then. In the sense of having a single page of good examples of using the new features

Re: New perl features?

2013-03-15 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 15 Mar 2013, at 18:31, Mike Stok m...@stok.ca wrote: Even if it wasn't ... the question I try to ask is How can I make it easier to deploy my app? rather than What must I do to fit into your infrastructure?. Not what I was asking.

Re: New perl features?

2013-03-15 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
up the bullets, would people feel like adding nice examples of the features being used in the wild? On 15 Mar 2013, at 12:39, Alex Balhatchet ka...@slackwise.net wrote: On 15 March 2013 12:28, DAVID HODGKINSON daveh...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a cookbook (no, not a manual) of shiny, useful new

Re: [Contract] 3 monther in Kent

2013-02-23 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 23 Feb 2013, at 18:02, Ben Vinnerd b...@vinnerd.com wrote: Location is in the middle of Kent Which has to be better than Stockley Park. So win all round.

Re:

2013-01-24 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
Can someone quarantine him please? I've spamcopped both I've had so far, although it was nice to see Allegis on the CC: list... :) On 24 Jan 2013, at 20:18, Schmoo schmoos...@gmail.com wrote: http://nim-f.com/wp-content/themes/nimf/yahoolook321.php

Re: Offtopic(ish) ops question

2013-01-19 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
I have no reason at this point not to. Oh, OK, you twisted my arm. On 19 Jan 2013, at 18:27, Peter Sergeant p...@clueball.com wrote: Why not use the latest stable? No good reason I can see to use an old Perl... On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Offtopic(ish) ops question

2013-01-19 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 19 Jan 2013, at 19:43, Avleen Vig avl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: New VM, installing CPAN deps (cpanm obvs). I know all the apps are going to be the same level of stuff as they'll all be latest Cat/DBIC and so on, and

Re: cpan you have to see

2012-12-15 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 15 Dec 2012, at 08:40, Abigail abig...@abigail.be wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 09:45:25PM +, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: Would hurling a PBP test at the whole of CPAN to get a metric be of any benefit? That would violate the spirit of the PBP, which clearly states that its

Re: Prepare for invasion.

2012-12-13 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 12 Dec 2012, at 23:28, David H. Adler d...@panix.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:02:35PM +, Mark Keating wrote: On 12/12/2012 22:31, David H. Adler wrote: Assuming things go to plan, I shall be coming to London December 23rd to 30th. So I was wondering if anyone's going to be

Re: boolean return (was Re: cpan you have to see)

2012-12-12 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 12 Dec 2012, at 21:17, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: On 12/12/2012 12:57 PM, Joseph Werner wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Gareth Harper spansh+lon...@gmail.com wrote: PBP and I disagree with you on this one, Gareth. When a sub does a return 0; to a list context,

Re: cpan you have to see

2012-12-12 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 12 Dec 2012, at 18:35, Abigail abig...@abigail.be wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:57:39AM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: On 12/12/2012 07:12 AM, Leon Brocard wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 02:29:24AM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: i can't say much about this but you have to look at the code here.

Re: london.pm Digest, Vol 86, Issue 13

2012-12-12 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 12 Dec 2012, at 21:33, Alexej Magura perl...@cpan.org wrote: How does one know when one 'has something to show'? Gaz When the Overloads convene with the Cerebrates and the Overmind agrees with them and they give you the greenlight-means-go signal, or at least that's what *I've

Another hackday...

2012-12-06 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
For those of you of the Oxford persuasion: http://www.meetup.com/UK-Hackathons-and-Jams/events/94330082/ The grass-roots NHS Hack Day comes to Oxford for the weekend: We bring together doctors, nurses, developers, designers, and other geeks who love the NHS to create disruptive solutions to

Another hackday...

2012-12-06 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
For those of you of the Oxford persuasion: http://www.meetup.com/UK-Hackathons-and-Jams/events/94330082/ The grass-roots NHS Hack Day comes to Oxford for the weekend: We bring together doctors, nurses, developers, designers, and other geeks who love the NHS to create disruptive solutions to

Science Hackday

2012-12-03 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
A Wellcome one: http://rewiredstate.org/hacks/wellcome-trust-open-science Anyone?

Outreach III

2012-12-02 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
These guys seem to be pulling together all the hackathons: http://www.meetup.com/UK-Hackathons-and-Jams/ Yell if you go!

Access to throttled API

2012-11-30 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
So, I might be writing an app to access a throttled API. Say we're limited to sixty requests per minute. It's entirely possible that we generate more requests than that at peak times. The app is not especially immediacy-sensitive for things like reporting. The remote system can take its time

Outreach II

2012-11-29 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
OK, so great bikeshedding there. Are we in a position to form a team to go hang at the meetups and make our presence felt? Meetups include, but are not limited to: DevTank MiniBar FlagonsDen AngelHack SiliconRoundabout Unsexy Startups and various ancillary techs like NoSQL, web servers,

Re: Send a newbie

2012-11-28 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
plan to have attendees from the SAN programme in Kiev. On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:07 PM, DAVID HODGKINSON daveh...@gmail.com wrote: Is it dead? It seems to be 2011 right now. Which I don't mind, it was a pretty good year. http://www.send-a-newbie.enlightenedperl.org/applications.html

Re: London Perl Conference 2012 photos

2012-11-25 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 25 Nov 2012, at 17:38, Pedro Figueiredo m...@pedrofigueiredo.org wrote: On 25 Nov 2012, at 17:25, James Laver james.la...@gmail.com wrote: Not entirely flattering. You must have picked a hell of a moment. No, this is a hell of a moment:

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 20 Nov 2012, at 16:30, Abigail abig...@abigail.be wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:22:14AM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: On 11/20/2012 11:00 AM, Dave Cross wrote: Quoting Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com: in that vein you should also mention matt's scripts. evil code but they helped perl

Re: h2xs -x

2012-11-05 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
Me too! On 5 Nov 2012, at 18:58, Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org wrote: On 5 November 2012 19:39, Anthony Lucas anthonyjlu...@gmail.com wrote: IMPORTANT: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. They are intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you have received this

Re: Proprietary Sybase DBI/DBD module

2012-10-31 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 30 Oct 2012, at 18:02, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: On 10/30/2012 01:35 PM, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: Chris, Can you define proprietary please? It will be shipped with .so files? The source will be there but the license says we can't change it? it seems pretty obvious

Re: Proprietary Sybase DBI/DBD module

2012-10-31 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 31 Oct 2012, at 17:33, Jason Clifford ja...@ukfsn.org wrote: On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 17:21 +, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: it seems pretty obvious to me. the sybase people have written a new driver which is being released in binary only form (hence proprietary) Talking with Chris last

Re: Proprietary Sybase DBI/DBD module

2012-10-31 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 31 Oct 2012, at 17:53, Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org wrote: On 31 October 2012 18:42, DAVID HODGKINSON daveh...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 Oct 2012, at 17:33, Jason Clifford ja...@ukfsn.org wrote: The DBD will be normal perl however it will require a client lib which will be a binary only

Re: Proprietary Sybase DBI/DBD module

2012-10-31 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 31 Oct 2012, at 20:00, Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org wrote: Not to be snarky but the answer here seems to be yes, and what's your point? Companies that make you buy their software (limited, free, development version notwithstanding, limiting the *client* systems you use out of what, fear

Re: Proprietary Sybase DBI/DBD module

2012-10-30 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
Chris, Can you define proprietary please? It will be shipped with .so files? The source will be there but the license says we can't change it? Anything else? Dave

Re: Hotels for the LPW

2012-10-29 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
gotten no response (perhaps some spam filter ate my mail) so I'll just bug all of you with this. In return I can offer homebrewed beer and/or cider, or Dutch (non-psychedelic) cookies. With warmest regards, Job Mallory van Achterberg On 10/26/12 15:30, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: On 25

Re: Hotels for the LPW

2012-10-26 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 25 Oct 2012, at 09:00, Mark Keating m.keat...@shadowcat.co.uk wrote: Hi all, I have been asked by a couple of people for hotel recommendations in and around the LPW for this year. Traditionally we have always left people to their own devices and the sites like TripAdvisor and

Re: anti-javascript-perl-6

2012-10-11 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 11 Oct 2012, at 21:29, Arun ragini arunrag...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Just in case some one didn't noticed check out http://css.dzone.com/articles/anti-javascript-perl-6 And people would evaluate the new language on its merits rather than being prejudiced by previous experience with

Re: BritRuby 2013

2012-10-04 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 4 Oct 2012, at 22:22, Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com wrote: A niche perl-based language is having its first UK-wide conference http://2013.britruby.com/cfp (with an all-star cast mostly from the US, afaict) Any talks on scaling Ruby?

Available...

2012-10-01 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
Just thought I'd throw it out there so I don't have to deal with recruiters if at all possible, but I'm available right now. Senior level person (scrum master, managed teams etc), decent enough perl programmer, data mappping, DBIx::Class, recently did some Catalyst and only got shouted at by mst

Re: Available...

2012-10-01 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 1 Oct 2012, at 21:15, Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com wrote: Do you shout your name because some recruiters shout PERL? Fishing for pearls...

Re: In London this week... meetup?

2012-10-01 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 1 Oct 2012, at 20:14, Cosimo Streppone cos...@streppone.it wrote: Hi London.pm, I come in peace from the land of the midnight sun, salmon, potatoes and northern lights, not to mention of Oslo.pm. I happen to be in town for the Velocity conference, and I figured I'd just shoot a

Re: Current State of Auntie Beeb

2012-09-26 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
On 25 Sep 2012, at 22:40, Simon Wistow si...@thegestalt.org wrote: Out of interest which bits of the Beeb are still Perl? Are l.pm-ers still there? And where does http://news.bbc.co.uk fit into everything these days? There's a core in the PIPS kind of area but even some of that is getting

Re: [OT] benchmarking typical programs

2012-09-21 Thread David Hodgkinson
On 19 Sep 2012, at 12:09, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote: Does the mighty hive mind of london.pm have any suggestions (preferably useful) of what to use for benchmarking typical Perl programs? Does benchmarking the test suites for a representative subsection of the CPAN world count?

Re: [OT] benchmarking typical programs

2012-09-21 Thread David Hodgkinson
On 21 Sep 2012, at 11:09, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: On 21 Sep 2012, at 10:57, David Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: Does benchmarking the test suites for a representative subsection of the CPAN world count? I doubt it. Each test suite is very repetetetive, so you

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-09-06 Thread David Hodgkinson
On 6 Sep 2012, at 22:07, Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: maybe i overstepped in calling that a serious coder filter. i would never just use that determining a skilled coder. it could be useful to filter out the

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-09-04 Thread David Hodgkinson
On 4 Sep 2012, at 16:07, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: Piers Cawley writes: Tower of Hanoi is always a better example for solving with recursion than the fibobloodynacci sequence. If nothing else, the recursive solution isn't quite so immediately obvious from the problem, the

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-09-04 Thread David Hodgkinson
On 4 Sep 2012, at 17:24, Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 05:18:20PM +0100, David Hodgkinson wrote: When was the last time you recursed in day to day web type code? Within the last month. I meant normal people.

Re: Can I get some advice on best way to start Perl Programming

2012-09-03 Thread David Hodgkinson
On 31 Aug 2012, at 12:16, Rick Deller r...@eligo.co.uk wrote: Hi all, I have brought a couple of books on the subject which I'm reading through I'm very keen to learn more and how to do it Can anyone suggest more books or another way of doing it ? STFUAWSC.

Re: Can I get some advice on best way to start Perl Programming

2012-09-03 Thread David Hodgkinson
On 3 Sep 2012, at 11:36, David Hodgkinson daveh...@me.com wrote: On 31 Aug 2012, at 12:16, Rick Deller r...@eligo.co.uk wrote: Hi all, I have brought a couple of books on the subject which I'm reading through I'm very keen to learn more and how to do it Can anyone suggest more

Re: Who made the law?

2012-08-31 Thread David Hodgkinson
On 30 Aug 2012, at 21:46, Leo Lapworth l...@cuckoo.org wrote: +1 Other than: London.pm leaders (part or present,) should be London.pm leaders (past or present) Again up to current leader - as London.pm is not and never has been a democracy. And I don't think a mental image of

Re: Who made the law?

2012-08-31 Thread David Hodgkinson
On 31 Aug 2012, at 10:31, Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 04:28:27PM -0400, Mark Fowler wrote: Here's my longer drawn out version, stolen from YAPC::NA's code of conduct. Comments on this are genuinely welcome, and I'll leave it to the current

Re: Which sucks least? Sky, Talktalk to BT broadband?

2012-08-30 Thread David Hodgkinson
Sky have been rock solid for me in NW1. I went with them largely because they have the old Easynet unbundled infrastructure. I get 10MB/s that doesn't drop off in the evening. We get our phone line from them too. It's also nice to have free The Cloud wifi when out and about. And as mentioned,

Re: How to retrieve a row, biased by populatity?

2012-08-22 Thread David Hodgkinson
On 21 Aug 2012, at 21:54, Fahad Khan fahad.aj.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: Possibly a perl question. SQL would do... Given a set of data, say bands, with each having a ranking, either a review metric or a sales

Emergency at the Bree

2010-02-02 Thread David Hodgkinson
Due to an unexpected outbreak of thirst, there appears to be a dire emergency which can only be slaked with foamy ale at the Bree Louise. @peterdragon will be there shortly, others will dribble in thereafter.

[OT] Bananas

2003-08-14 Thread David Hodgkinson
You lot know I have an alter ego as Deep Purple's web slave, and one or two of you even know who they are. We just went live with a one-track-per-day listening party today: http:/www.deep-purple.com/stream/ Enjoy! Dave

Inline::Fortran

2003-07-17 Thread David Hodgkinson
Why isn't there one?

Re: london.pm digest, Vol 1 #1485 - 18 msgs

2003-07-15 Thread David Hodgkinson
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 07:46 am, Ivor Williams wrote: - Original Message - Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 16:46:11 +0100 Subject: Re: OT: More sybase related - IDENTIFIER TOO LONG Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: David Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL

Re: beer

2003-07-14 Thread David Hodgkinson
On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 09:08 PM, David Cantrell wrote: is a fine pub, and the guvnor has excellent taste in both computers and beer. wrong endian, surely?

Re: OT: More sybase related - IDENTIFIER TOO LONG

2003-07-14 Thread David Hodgkinson
On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 03:41 PM, Raf wrote: Seems like a bit of poor error handling/reporting on the part of sybase though. Get the SAMS Sybase Unleashed book. Oh, and then read it.

Re: The Community Guide to Birmingham

2003-06-30 Thread David Hodgkinson
On Sunday, June 29, 2003, at 03:35 PM, Jody Belka wrote: right now there isn't any content whatsoever on the site, so anyone in the birmingham area or who knows the birmingham area please feel welcome to come along and add something. Jody, There's a very active Brum community on Ecademy (yeah,

Re: Contracts for contractors

2003-06-27 Thread David Hodgkinson
On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 05:39 AM, David H. Adler wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 02:33:52PM +0100, Andrew Wilson wrote: It was a UK system, not exclusively english. We (the UK) abandoned this madness sometime in the 1970's I'm 37 and I barely remember it. I'm 38 and I don't remember it at

Re: [OT] Places to go, people to see...

2003-06-25 Thread David Hodgkinson
On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 10:14 AM, Peter Sergeant wrote: We're willing to camp or stay in a nice bed and breakfast, and we're both into The Great Big Outdoors (and both have bikes we can use) ... That sounds like Bath and then biking the Kennett and Avon canal through Freshford (pub!) and