Re: Not Matt's Scripts

[Jonathan Stowe]

On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote:

> I've had a bit of a go at some of these today and they're up at 
>  if anyone's interested.
>

You might want to change the content-type on that directory as I get a
funny error :)
 
> As far as I can see, the people volunteering to provide replacements were 
> as follows:
> 
> Guestbook   JNS

Real Soon Now ... Just caught in the 'New Laptop Transition'

> WWWboardJNS

Nearly there.  I just get fucked off every time I look at the original.

> Counter
> FormmailDave C
> Random Image Displayer  Dave C
> Random Link Generator   Dave C
> Textclock   Mark F
> Countdown   Mark F
> Free For All Links  JNS

Now available as http://www.perl.gellyfish.com/source/mwffa.pl.txt

> Simple Search   JNS

Now available as http://www.perl.gellyfish.com/source/ssearch.pl.txt

> Textcounter Dave C
> HTTP Cookie Library
> SSI Random Image Generator  Dave C
> Random Text Dave C
> Animation
> 
> So it looks like we've got most of then sewn up. Anyone else want to report 
> on progress or grab one of the outstanding ones to do?

Anyhow what are we going to do about the 'C++' ones :)

/J\

Re: April Meetings

[Dave Cross]

At 23:52 25/03/2001, you wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 06:44:43PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
> > Also, we'll need speakers for the technical meeting. If you've got 
> anything
> > cool to tell us about, please let me know. It may be a good opportunity to
> > practice TPC or YAPC talks.
>
>I can always do a talk or two, if anyone wants to listen, but not on the 19th.
>26th would be fine.

Thanks for the offer Simon, but I've already postponed this meeting once 
and am loathe to do it again.

Some other time, perhaps.

Dave...



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Re: upgrade fund

[Dave Cross]

At 22:17 25/03/2001, you wrote:

>unless anyone has any arguments, i'll buy a fast, reliable largish hard
>drive and lots of memory (i understand it's cheap at the moment) for
>penderel (the computer) this week.
>
>i'd like to do it via dabs.com, because their interface is useable and
>i've not personally had any problems with them.  i'll pick only in-stock
>stuff because i understand that they can be slacker than they advertise
>when it comes to re-stocking.  jo would hopefully oversee the process so i
>don't end up ordering bananas by mistake.
>
>are the mungers happy with this approach?  or would you prefer bananas?

Sounds good to me.

Can we have bananas too?

Dave...
[hungry]



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Re: April Meetings

[Simon Cozens]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 06:44:43PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
> Also, we'll need speakers for the technical meeting. If you've got anything 
> cool to tell us about, please let me know. It may be a good opportunity to 
> practice TPC or YAPC talks.

I can always do a talk or two, if anyone wants to listen, but not on the 19th.
26th would be fine.

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Re: April Meetings

[Greg McCarroll]

* Tony Bowden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 06:44:43PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
> > The April meetings are approaching and we have no firm plans for them yet.
> > The social meeting will be on April 5th. Last plan I remember was that 
> > mstevens was going to investigate booking the cellar bar at the Cittie of 
> > Yorke. Did that happen?
> 
> Hmmm  or, you could have your social meeting in Belfast, while Schwern
> is still here ...
> 

if we get a decent number for this plan, i'm up for it!

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Re: Contract market these days?

[Greg McCarroll]

* Ian Brayshaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >Just wondering what it was like in the UK right now.
> 
> 
> 
> >... what the overall feel of the market is right now whether people
> >are knifing coming in and out of interviews or if it's pretty easy
> >to find IT work, etc.
> 
> It seems to be quite strong, but definitely not as buoyant as it was. A 
> number of traditional sources of contract work seem to be drying up (a few 
> banks are sacking a lot of contractors in favour of permanents), but at the 
> same time there still a steady stream of people needing the temporary work 
> force. The dot bomb market has kind of leveled off and there's not as much 
> money being thrown around, but the market is a long way from being on 
> death's door.
> 

Agreed, there is still a very good market for engineers (that may be spelt
wrong, its late and i've just spent 2 days being addicted to baldurs gate
2) as opposed to web `programmers', it goes back to my fundamental rule
of contracting have at least 3 good and well seperated areas of discipline
before going contracting (i.e. perl & javascript are not well seperated)

Greg

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Re: Perl Training Courses

[Greg McCarroll]

* Nathan Torkington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Never ever think conferences are
> easy.
> 

*shock*

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Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

[Greg McCarroll]

* AEF ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Leon Brocard wrote:
> 
> > Really? How many flies do you have?
> 
>  One on each pair of trousers. Except track-suit bottoms.
> 

At first i thought you mean't zippers at the bottom of tracy suit bottoms,
this would of been truly evil! The only thing worse than this is track suit
bottoms which dont have elastic at the ankles, you know ... the baggy ankle
ones , the sort of thing you expect dustin hoffman to go jogging in, in some
early 80's comedy romance movie



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Re: upgrade fund

[Greg Cope]

alex wrote:
> 
> unless anyone has any arguments, i'll buy a fast, reliable largish hard
> drive and lots of memory (i understand it's cheap at the moment) for
> penderel (the computer) this week.
> 
> i'd like to do it via dabs.com, because their interface is useable and
> i've not personally had any problems with them.  i'll pick only in-stock
> stuff because i understand that they can be slacker than they advertise
> when it comes to re-stocking.  jo would hopefully oversee the process so i
> don't end up ordering bananas by mistake.
> 
> are the mungers happy with this approach?  or would you prefer bananas?
> 
> alex
> 
> --
> f£$*4"£%^"6..4opt-66.ing net.art

I've used scan (www.scan.co.uk) and found them reliable and cheaper than
dabs.

Greg

upgrade fund

[alex]

unless anyone has any arguments, i'll buy a fast, reliable largish hard
drive and lots of memory (i understand it's cheap at the moment) for
penderel (the computer) this week.

i'd like to do it via dabs.com, because their interface is useable and
i've not personally had any problems with them.  i'll pick only in-stock
stuff because i understand that they can be slacker than they advertise
when it comes to re-stocking.  jo would hopefully oversee the process so i
don't end up ordering bananas by mistake.

are the mungers happy with this approach?  or would you prefer bananas?

alex

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Re: April Meetings

[Tony Bowden]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 06:44:43PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
> The April meetings are approaching and we have no firm plans for them yet.
> The social meeting will be on April 5th. Last plan I remember was that 
> mstevens was going to investigate booking the cellar bar at the Cittie of 
> Yorke. Did that happen?

Hmmm  or, you could have your social meeting in Belfast, while Schwern
is still here ...

Tony
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April Meetings

[Dave Cross]

The April meetings are approaching and we have no firm plans for them yet.

The social meeting will be on April 5th. Last plan I remember was that 
mstevens was going to investigate booking the cellar bar at the Cittie of 
Yorke. Did that happen?

The technical meeting is on April 19th. Can anyone volunteer somewhere for 
us to hold it. We need room for about 30-40 people, a white wall and an 
internet connection.

Also, we'll need speakers for the technical meeting. If you've got anything 
cool to tell us about, please let me know. It may be a good opportunity to 
practice TPC or YAPC talks.

Dave...



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Not Matt's Scripts

[Dave Cross]

I've had a bit of a go at some of these today and they're up at 
 if anyone's interested.

As far as I can see, the people volunteering to provide replacements were 
as follows:

Guestbook   JNS
WWWboardJNS
Counter
FormmailDave C
Random Image Displayer  Dave C
Random Link Generator   Dave C
Textclock   Mark F
Countdown   Mark F
Free For All Links  JNS
Simple Search   JNS
Textcounter Dave C
HTTP Cookie Library
SSI Random Image Generator  Dave C
Random Text Dave C
Animation

So it looks like we've got most of then sewn up. Anyone else want to report 
on progress or grab one of the outstanding ones to do?

Dave...



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Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

[Dave Cross]

At 21:39 24/03/2001, Jon Eyre wrote:

>On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Tony Bowden wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 03:24:48PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > > More trivia: NT stands (the above not withstanding) for New Technology
> > > which makes reading 2k's splash "Built on NT Technology" sound a bit
> > > like recording on DAT tapes.
> >
> > Or entering your PIN number?
>
>into an ATM machine?

At the TSB Bank?

Dave...



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