Re: Scalar Context vs List Context
* at 14/03 10:37 -0500 Dave Cross said: ... and how much trouble you can get in for not knowing the difference: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/13/208259 the best thing about this is the number of links to this story that give the impression the kids were arrested for not knowing the difference rather than the consequences thereof. i think even some of the more unforgiving of us would agree that it'd be a bit harsh if it was the case. not useing strict on the other hand... struan
Re: Matt's Scripts
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is indeed lovely. Although you don't need to do tunnelling magic: rsync -options -e ssh source-list me@myserver:/destination rsync is a wonderful beast. The -a and -z options, accompanied by --progress (if they're big files) and --delete (for true mirroring). -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy
Re: Silliness
At Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:52:07 + (GMT), Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: but that wouldn't work on Win32 platforms as they seem to insist on double quotes to delimit command arguments. Speak for yerself, I use bash on my windoze box ;-) Ok. I guess I meant: "...but that wouldn't work under the default command interpreter on Win32 platforms as COMMAND.COM seems to insist on double quotes to delimit command arguments." Better? Dave...
Re: Silliness
Thanks everyone. That exposes my lack of familiarity with the q qq operators ;-) Another little bit of learning learned. S.
New Perl Stuff From O'Reilly
Well, sort of. It's a repacking of some existing stuff - a second edition of the Perl CD Bookshelf http://www.ora.com/catalog/perlcdbs2/ Looks like the contents of the new edition is: * Programming Perl, 3rd Edition * Perl for System Administration * Perl in a Nutshell * Perl Cookbook * Advanced Perl Programming Compare to the old edition which had: * Perl in a Nutshell * Programming Perl, 2nd Edition * Perl Cookbook * Advanced Perl Programming * Learning Perl * Learning Perl on Win32 Systems What would _you_ have included? Dave...
Re: New Perl Stuff From O'Reilly
Well, sort of. It's a repacking of some existing stuff - a second edition of the Perl CD Bookshelf http://www.ora.com/catalog/perlcdbs2/ Looks like the contents of the new edition is: * Programming Perl, 3rd Edition * Perl for System Administration * Perl in a Nutshell * Perl Cookbook * Advanced Perl Programming Compare to the old edition which had: * Perl in a Nutshell * Programming Perl, 2nd Edition * Perl Cookbook * Advanced Perl Programming * Learning Perl * Learning Perl on Win32 Systems What would _you_ have included? Dave... As a Perl novice I'd have to say the old version looks much better. Just replacing Programming Perl would have been enough. If anyone does decide to 'upgrade' I'd be interested it taking their old copy off their hands. Neil. -- Neil C. Ford Managing Director, Yet Another Computer Solutions Company [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Perl Stuff From O'Reilly
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, you wrote: Well, sort of. It's a repacking of some existing stuff - a second edition of the Perl CD Bookshelf http://www.ora.com/catalog/perlcdbs2/ Looks like the contents of the new edition is: * Programming Perl, 3rd Edition * Perl for System Administration * Perl in a Nutshell * Perl Cookbook * Advanced Perl Programming What would _you_ have included? * Perl for System Administration * Programming the perl DBI and although its not oreilly ;) 'What you need to know' chapter 2 from OO Perl (Conway) cos that one chapter replaces pretty much all of learning perl in 1/10 of the verbosity. .. and ideally the whole book :) -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!
RE: New Perl Stuff From O'Reilly
As a Perl novice I'd have to say the old version looks much better. Just replacing Programming Perl would have been enough. As another person at an early stage in my Perl self-development, I'll second this, and add that I'd like to add the Owl book on regexps, although I suppose that's not strictly perl-specific enough to go on the perl cd bookshelf? And "Programming the Perl DBI", which I find very handy. I got my copy of the Perl CD Bookshelf because it included books that provide a reference for just about every stage of development. -- matt jones
Re: [boring] Statistics
David Cantrell wrote: Quick question for any statisticians out there: Does this look like it should be modelled with a Poisson distribution to you? This data represents the number of logins on a workstation per hour. Don't think so, there's too much of a dip at 11:00 and 14:00
An enquiry
Title: An enquiry If this is anappropriate for this list the please accept my apologies. Is anyone looking for an experienced web designer who is looking to pick up Perl and run with it? Regards, Darren Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XML One London
Is anyone going to XML One London next week? I'll be there until Wednesday, but the Thursday didn't look any use to me. -- Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Ok, print the message, then put it in your shoe and put your shoe in front of the fireplace... then wait till Santa come and give the code to you ;-) Hey! this is not mod_santa list !" -- Fabrice Scemama on the mod_perl list
Re: Version control
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] * David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: But there are alternatives. Does anyone here have any comments on Perforce or Clearcase? Needless to say, both companies have crap websites with no useful documentation and a tonne of marketing arse. i hated clearcase, but i have a feelign one of our team was using it in a ``creative'' manner, almost all VCS' suck when they are used in any unusual way I know who you're talking about. And I'll bet he just loves Quantum::Superpositions :-) It took me quite a while to get the hang of ClearCase but I was growing to like it by the end of my time at Level3 (time to leave...). Does ClearCase work with anything but Solaris? I was talking to my current boss and he reckons it needs a patched kernel in order to do funky stuff with the file system. My main beef with CVS (and ClearCase) is that there doesn't seem to be any way to access the release string programatically - I can tag all my source as "FOO_R1-0" or whatever, but I can't tell from within the source that it has been so tagged. Unless someone knows different? Jim
Re: Version control
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:45:34PM -, Jim Gillespie wrote: My main beef with CVS (and ClearCase) is that there doesn't seem to be any way to access the release string programatically - I can tag all my source as "FOO_R1-0" or whatever, but I can't tell from within the source that it has been so tagged. Unless someone knows different? You can get the _numeric_ version tag with $Version: $ (or whatever it is), in CVS at least, but I assume you already knew that. You can't have the symbolic tag, because it's entirely possible to have more than one symbolic tag applying to the same version of the source code - say, the large static module that's not in a part of the tree that's being worked on very much... Roger
Re: Version control
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:45:34PM -, Jim Gillespie wrote: But there are alternatives. Does anyone here have any comments on Perforce or Clearcase? Use Perforce. It's very good. It took me quite a while to get the hang of ClearCase but I was growing to like it by the end of my time at Level3 (time to leave...). Use Perforce. It's very good. Does ClearCase work with anything but Solaris? I was talking to my current boss and he reckons it needs a patched kernel in order to do funky stuff with the file system. Use Perforce. It's very good. My main beef with CVS (and ClearCase) is that there doesn't seem to be any way to access the release string programatically - I can tag all my source as "FOO_R1-0" or whatever, but I can't tell from within the source that it has been so tagged. Unless someone knows different? Use Perforce. It's very good. -- "It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God." (By Matt Welsh)
Re: Version control
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:45:34PM -, Jim Gillespie wrote: Does ClearCase work with anything but Solaris? I was talking to my current boss and he reckons it needs a patched kernel in order to do funky stuff with the file system. I know it works with NT (yeah, OK). What's worrying is that I hear that Rational are concentrating development on NT as well, which is obviously a Bad Thing. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature
