Re: [OT] Flecktones in London next month

[Nathan Torkington]

Neil Ford writes:
> I can now confirm this is at The Pizzaexpress Jazz Club, 10 Dean
> Street, Soho, London W1 - Reservations: 020 7439 8722 (the new
> listings arrived this morning!).
>
> Of course, this being the evening the tube strike starts, getting
> there and back could be fun.

I saw them play on Thursday.  I'd say it's worth venturing out if
you're a jazz fan or a bass player.

Nat

RE: Review of Data munging with Perl on Slashdot

[Cross David - dcross]

From: Dave Hodgkinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 8:50 PM

> "Dave Cross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Too late!
> > 
> > Dave...
> > [feeling smug]
> 
> Enjoy it while it lasts...

Well, it lasted a couple of days. And in a dramatic misuse of the slashdot
effect, it had huge positive effects on the sales rank at Amazon. At one
point on Friday evening it was number 86 in amazon.com's sales list (and 38!
at amazon.co.uk). It's now gone back to the more usual ~3000 :(

Having it appear then was great timing as I had dinner with Manning on
Friday night and they were _very_ impressed.

Oh, and thanks to the people who waded into the /. discussions. I owe you
all beers.

Now, has anyone seen the June Web Techniques yet? There's supposed to be
another good review in that.

Dave...

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RE: London.pm@london.pm.org

[Cross David - dcross]

From: Paul Makepeace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 12:10 AM

> Here it is,
> 
> http://london.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/london.pm
> http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/ -- I sent a couple to seed it.
> 
> So I put in the final tweaks to get exim/mailman working
> together. (Most of the credit for the setup is to Alex/veeg and jo.)
> 
> Whether it goes from dircon to london.pm.org is up to someone else,
> this is really just to let you know it (the mailman system)'s werkin'.
> And that there are other sources of penderelesque edification,
> 
> http://penderel.state51.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arse
> 
> Have fun!

FWIW, I'd be happy for the list to move over just as soon as all the
adminny-type bods are happy that it's ready.

Dave...

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Re: Not Matt's Scripts

[Dave Hodgkinson]

Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Current version is at
>  but it needs
> some tightening up and peer review.

Remind me, what was the mission here? To so somethign that flows like
A Matt's script but is done right?

And didn't we have the argument(s) about sendmail vs. Net::SMTP and
inline HTML vs. template?

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Re: Not Matt's Scripts

[Paul Makepeace]

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:27:44AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> And didn't we have the argument(s) about sendmail vs. Net::SMTP and

I'd be interested to hear a convincing argument for Net::SMTP.

> inline HTML vs. template?

"Hey! You think this 5K script is enough? Wrong, you've gotta configure
CPAN, get these suite of modules that is a prerequisite for these suites
of modules which include something like Data::Dumper which makes you
pull down the latest f**king perl distribution which doesn't f**cking
compile on your machine!"

Yay for CPAN!! Which orifice would you like to have reamed with a
scabby old splintering broom-handle today?

Paul

RE: Not Matt's Scripts

[Cross David - dcross]

From: Dave Hodgkinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 9:28 AM

> Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Current version is at
> >  but it needs
> > some tightening up and peer review.
> 
> Remind me, what was the mission here? To so somethign that flows like
> A Matt's script but is done right?

Drop in replacements for Matt's scripts using best practices - but no
external modules.

> And didn't we have the argument(s) about sendmail vs. Net::SMTP and
> inline HTML vs. template?

Yep. But Net::SMTP is not a stadard module and therefore sendmail wins.

Dave...

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Re: Stuffed camel

[Dominic Mitchell]

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:00:11AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
> At 19:25 29/04/2001, Leon Brocard wrote:
> >Can *someone* please pick a date to go visit the camel?
> 
> Can't be done until a) the foot and mouth stuff has died down and b) I've 
> worked out exactly who has paid for slices.

Mmmm... Sliced camel!

As a side note, when we do get it together, would it be alright to come
along as an ordinary paying zoo entrant?  Or does being a camelite
confer extraordinary priviliges within the confines of the zoo?

-Dom

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

[Dave Hodgkinson]

Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> At 19:53 30/04/2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> 
> >I've got someone needing a form to mail script. Where's ours[0]?
> >
> >Ta,
> >
> >Dave
> >
> >[0] Oh, all right, yours since I bottled out.
> 
> Current version is at
>  but it needs
> some tightening up and peer review.

Well hurry up, I'm in the middle of an argument and I want to slap
some people with a "this is how they _Should_ look" cluestick...


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RE: Not Matt's Scripts

[Matthew Byng-Maddick]

On Wed, 2 May 2001, Cross David - dcross wrote:
> Yep. But Net::SMTP is not a stadard module and therefore sendmail wins.

That wasn't the reason. The reason was the same as one of the reasons for
rewriting matt's scripts in the first place - that the error handling
sucks. You can't sensibly error handle with Net::SMTP. This is why there
was discussion, however, on widnoze, (not sure about vanilla mac (rather
than os x)) there is no sensible way to do a queued message.

MBM

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Re: Not Matt's Scripts

[Paul Makepeace]

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:06:46AM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> was discussion, however, on widnoze, (not sure about vanilla mac (rather
> than os x)) there is no sensible way to do a queued message.

open EMAIL, ">>c:\webmas~1.txt";

Paul

RE: Not Matt's Scripts

[Cross David - dcross]

> From: Matthew Byng-Maddick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 10:07 AM
> 
> On Wed, 2 May 2001, Cross David - dcross wrote:
> > Yep. But Net::SMTP is not a stadard module and therefore sendmail wins.
> 
> That wasn't the reason. The reason was the same as one of the reasons for
> rewriting matt's scripts in the first place - that the error handling
> sucks. You can't sensibly error handle with Net::SMTP. This is why there
> was discussion, however, on widnoze, (not sure about vanilla mac (rather
> than os x)) there is no sensible way to do a queued message.

Feel free to believe what you want, but as far as I'm concerned, not
expecting people to install extra CPAN modules is of overriding importance
in writing replacements for Matt's scripts.

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Re: Not Matt's Scripts

[will]

- Original Message -
From: Cross David - dcross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 4:12 AM
Subject: RE: Not Matt's Scripts


> Feel free to believe what you want, but as far as I'm concerned, not
> expecting people to install extra CPAN modules is of overriding importance
> in writing replacements for Matt's scripts.
>
> Dave...

Although we have Net::SMTP installed on our servers and there is a formail
program there, there is no way any member of support is going to tell an
average 'my first homepage' AOL customer that they need to use a script that
requires anything extra installed.  They have difficulty enough telling the
difference between binary and ascii mode let alone being able to handle
module installation.

If the script is meant to be a replacement for matts script then using
Net::SMTP negates this based on the target audience for matts scripts IMHO.

Will.

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

[Robert Shiels]

Just had a look, and apparently the Formmail scripts have been ported to
Win32 and use something called Blat instead of sendmail. Is there any reason
why we couldn't use Blat too? I'm looking into it to see if I can get it
working.

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- Original Message -
From: "Matthew Byng-Maddick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 02 May 2001 10:06
Subject: RE: Not Matt's Scripts


> On Wed, 2 May 2001, Cross David - dcross wrote:
> > Yep. But Net::SMTP is not a stadard module and therefore sendmail wins.
>
> That wasn't the reason. The reason was the same as one of the reasons for
> rewriting matt's scripts in the first place - that the error handling
> sucks. You can't sensibly error handle with Net::SMTP. This is why there
> was discussion, however, on widnoze, (not sure about vanilla mac (rather
> than os x)) there is no sensible way to do a queued message.
>
> MBM
>
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>
>

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

[Robin Szemeti]

On Wed, 02 May 2001, you wrote:
> Just had a look, and apparently the Formmail scripts have been ported to
> Win32 and use something called Blat instead of sendmail. Is there any reason
> why we couldn't use Blat too? I'm looking into it to see if I can get it
> working.

ahh yes ...
trouble is .. there must be half a dozen 'popular' mailers for win32
...blat is just one of many (or so I'm told) the only thing I remember is
blat is a file based thing, you have to put your mail in a file on the
disc and then tell blat to send it, at least thats the way formmial was
using it.

I did look at the said script many moons ago 
instead of 

if($win32){ send_win32($mail) }
else { send_unix($mail) }


it has 

sub send{

do this ...
err .. but not this bit if its unix.
oh and this bit
but add this bit for win32
and take this bit off agin
and this bit goes in for unix
and then do this if its win32

etc etc ..
}

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So I installed Linux!

Re: US$ bank account

[Philip Newton]

Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> Barclays charge between £5 and £10 to bank a check. Which for a
> month's work is fine, but for an Amazon affiliates payment is in the
> realm of "ouchie".

AllAdvantage, while it was still alive, sent me DEM cheques drawn on a
German bank (which had been prepared by a service in England). If they can
do it, why can't a global e-commerce leading-edge pioneer-type place like
Amazon? The mind boggles.

Cheers,
Philip
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Re: Not Matt's Scripts

[Robert Shiels]

From: "Robin Szemeti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 02 May 2001 11:02
Subject: Re: Not Matt's Scripts


> On Wed, 02 May 2001, you wrote:
> > Just had a look, and apparently the Formmail scripts have been ported to
> > Win32 and use something called Blat instead of sendmail. Is there any
reason
> > why we couldn't use Blat too? I'm looking into it to see if I can get it
> > working.
> ahh yes ...
> trouble is .. there must be half a dozen 'popular' mailers for win32
> ...blat is just one of many (or so I'm told) the only thing I remember is
> blat is a file based thing, you have to put your mail in a file on the
> disc and then tell blat to send it, at least thats the way formmial was
> using it.
> I did look at the said script many moons ago
> instead of
> if($win32){ send_win32($mail) }
> else { send_unix($mail) }
> it has
> sub send{
> do this ...
> err .. but not this bit if its unix.
> oh and this bit
> but add this bit for win32
> and take this bit off agin
> and this bit goes in for unix
> and then do this if its win32
>

Yes - it's a bit crap. And I'm having trouble with it (read: can't get it
working).

I think we should be able to put all the Win32 specific bits in one place,
and have separate places for each external mailer program such as blat; but
blat is as good a place to start as any I suppose.

/Robert

PS - has anyone done this one already on Win32, or shall I keep going.

Re: US$ bank account

[Paul Makepeace]

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:24:13PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> do it, why can't a global e-commerce leading-edge pioneer-type place like
> Amazon? The mind boggles.

Because there aren't any other currencies besides the US $. amazon.co.uk
actually uses dollars and so do you. Hey, do they have electricity in
England yet? I heard foot n mouth is a venereal disease.

The UK has nothing on the US for isolationism...

Paul

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

[Robin Szemeti]

On Wed, 02 May 2001, you wrote:

> Current version is at 
>  but it needs some 
> tightening up and peer review.

oh arse .. now WHY did I (in a later message)  read that as being Dave
Hodgkinson? .. my brain is fried ;) .. apologies mr Hodgkinson .. you
probably didnt want my comments ;)  ...

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Re: Stuffed camel

[David Cantrell]

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:00:44AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
 
> As a side note, when we do get it together, would it be alright to come
> along as an ordinary paying zoo entrant?  Or does being a camelite
> confer extraordinary priviliges within the confines of the zoo?

Yes, we get to ride the camel and take it to conferences!  

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Re: Not Matt's Scripts

[Jonathan Stowe]

On Wed, 2 May 2001, Robin Szemeti wrote:

> On Wed, 02 May 2001, you wrote:
> > Just had a look, and apparently the Formmail scripts have been ported to
> > Win32 and use something called Blat instead of sendmail. Is there any reason
> > why we couldn't use Blat too? I'm looking into it to see if I can get it
> > working.
>
> ahh yes ...
> trouble is .. there must be half a dozen 'popular' mailers for win32
> ...blat is just one of many (or so I'm told) the only thing I remember is
> blat is a file based thing, you have to put your mail in a file on the
> disc and then tell blat to send it, at least thats the way formmial was
> using it.
>

Blat *can* take a message from STDIN - I think you specify '-' as the
filename.

/J\

RE: Not Matt's Scripts

[Simon Batistoni]

> On Wed, 02 May 2001, you wrote:
> > Just had a look, and apparently the Formmail scripts have been ported to
> > Win32 and use something called Blat instead of sendmail. Is
> there any reason
> > why we couldn't use Blat too? I'm looking into it to see if I can get it
> > working.
>
> ahh yes ...
> trouble is .. there must be half a dozen 'popular' mailers for win32
> ...blat is just one of many (or so I'm told) the only thing I remember is
> blat is a file based thing, you have to put your mail in a file on the
> disc and then tell blat to send it, at least thats the way formmial was
> using it.

Blat can be used the command-line way, by specifying '-' as the input file
(hey - a unix convention!)

The following snippet works like a dream.

$mail_program='c:\winnt\system32\blat.exe';
$from_field='My Lovely Site <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>';

open (MAIL, "|$mail_program - -t \"$recipient\" -i \"$from_field\" -s
\"$subject\"");

Then just print to MAIL, and close the filehandle when you're done.

Of course, this comes back to the fact that the user will need to have
control of/know where the NT mailer exists, but I believe most NT hosting
services do install blat, and tell people where it is.

RE: Not Matt's Scripts

[Simon Batistoni]

Arse, apologies for the two messages - I remembered the following and
pressed send simultaneously...

IMHO (and I've looked into this in some depth for various projects over the
past 2 years), there aren't that many command-line mailers for win32. The
only other anywhere-near-prolific one is W3JMail, which is an absolute arse
to configure, and is only used in most outfits because it plugs very well
into ASP pages. All the cheap hosting companies I've ever seen who do NT and
offer mail-out facilities do blat.

Any other command-line mailers which exist are generally unstable,
unconfigurable or downright obscure.

My advice would be to configure Win32 systems to use blat out of the box,
and (possibly) invite input from people who use anything different. That's
the OSS way, after all!

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

[David Cantrell]

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:22:39PM +0100, Simon Batistoni wrote:

> Of course, this comes back to the fact that the user will need to have
> control of/know where the NT mailer exists, but I believe most NT hosting
> services do install blat, and tell people where it is.

If the purpose of this is to make it utterly drool-proof, then why not
re-write File::Find (can't make them install it of course, that would be
expecting too much) so that it finds their mailer for them.  We'd have to
re-write Digest::MD5 too, so that we could compare the found file with
a signature just in case someone has been messing with filenames.
Wouldn't want to accidentally start Back Orifice instead of blat.

Yeah, silly isn't it.  That's what happens when you aim for the lowest
common denominator.

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Re: Not Matt's Scripts

[Robin Szemeti]

so ..  who is the FormMail csar? ... I lost track of who was dealing with
what. I spotted a few things in there and have comments .. or should i
just post em on the list .. ???

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So I installed Linux!

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

[Simon Wilcox]

At 13:27 02/05/2001 +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
>If the purpose of this is to make it utterly drool-proof, then why not
>re-write File::Find (can't make them install it of course, that would be
>expecting too much)

Is there a reason why we can't distribute our own versions of modules with 
the scripts ?

MWF Forum (as an example) has modules in the same directory as the scripts 
which seem to just get "use"ed in the usual way.

Could we not ship our own version of File::Find, and have the code use it 
if it can't use the real File::Find because it's not installed ?

OK, so it would eat up disk space but if it were clever, there would be 
some run once code that would figure out what's there and what isn't and 
tell the user which files they could safely remove.

Ideally it would rewrite itself and do the deletes automatically but I 
suspect that clueful ISPs will have removed write permissions for the 
webserver to write to cgi-bin !

Just a thought.

Simon.

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

[Robert Shiels]

>
> Yes - it's a bit crap. And I'm having trouble with it (read: can't get it
> working).
>
> I think we should be able to put all the Win32 specific bits in one place,
> and have separate places for each external mailer program such as blat;
but
> blat is as good a place to start as any I suppose.
>

Well, finally got the formmail.pl script to work on win32 with blat. Tracked
my major difficulty down to a problem created by the person who ported it to
windows, $CONFIG has been used instead of the correct case which is $Config.
Can't imagine it's ever worked.

I'll have a look at Dave's later.

/Robert, needing to pretend to do some real work now!

RE: Not Matt's Scripts

[Cross David - dcross]

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 12:57 PM

> so ..  who is the FormMail csar? ... I lost track of who was dealing with
> what. 

Er... me. I think.

> I spotted a few things in there and have comments .. or should i
> just post em on the list .. ???

Just post 'em to the list. Let's hold up as much as possible of my code to
the derision of the world!

Dave...

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Re: Stuffed camel

[Martin Ling]

>  
> > As a side note, when we do get it together, would it be alright to come
> > along as an ordinary paying zoo entrant?  Or does being a camelite
> > confer extraordinary priviliges within the confines of the zoo?
> 
> Yes, we get to ride the camel and take it to conferences!  

... m/conventions/ ?

You all know where I'm going with this :-)


Martin

TPC Travel

[Cross David - dcross]

It's that time of year again boys and girls. I know it all fell apart last
year, but I'm an optimist and am going to try again.

Who's going to TPC? Shall we see if we can get a group together and perhaps
get a discount on the flight?

Dave...

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Re: TPC Travel

[Leon Brocard]

Cross David - dcross sent the following bits through the ether:
 
> It's that time of year again boys and girls. I know it all fell apart last
> year, but I'm an optimist and am going to try again.

It's passed that time, actually ;-) Trailfinders found me, and I've
confirmed, the following Northwest Airlines flights:

21st July 12:10 Gatwick -> Minneapolis -> San Diego 18:55
28th July 12:10 San Diego -> Minneapolis -> Gatwick 09:00

... for a grand total of 539.50 squid (inc everything). There were
direct flights for a bit more, but I was trying to keep it
cheap. Anyone found a cheaper way to get there just to spite me?

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Re: TPC Travel

[Barbie]

From: "Cross David - dcross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Who's going to TPC? Shall we see if we can get a group together and
perhaps
> get a discount on the flight?

I'm not sure at the moment due to the cost involved. However, I have done
some prelimary checking and there is a British Airways flight direct from
Heathrow to San Diego for just over £680 for the month of July. Discovered
that I can get an extra 20% off the cost of the tuts and stuff though, so an
extra discount on the flight and some cheap accomodation and I'll be in for
definite.

Barbie.

RE: TPC Travel

[Cross David - dcross]

From: Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]?
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 3:30 PM

> Cross David - dcross sent the following bits through the ether:
>  
> > It's that time of year again boys and girls. I know it all fell apart
last
> > year, but I'm an optimist and am going to try again.
> 
> It's passed that time, actually ;-) Trailfinders found me, and I've
> confirmed, the following Northwest Airlines flights:
> 
> 21st July 12:10 Gatwick -> Minneapolis -> San Diego 18:55
> 28th July 12:10 San Diego -> Minneapolis -> Gatwick 09:00
> 
> ... for a grand total of 539.50 squid (inc everything). There were
> direct flights for a bit more, but I was trying to keep it
> cheap. Anyone found a cheaper way to get there just to spite me?

That's about the same prices that I'm seeing on ebookers, deckchair and
expedia. I may be prepared to pay a little more for a) a direct flight and
b) a better known airline :)

Dave...

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RE: TPC Travel

[Chris Devers]

At 03:34 PM 2001.05.02 +0100, you wrote:
>From: Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]?
>> It's passed that time, actually ;-) Trailfinders found me, and 
>> I've confirmed, the following Northwest Airlines flights:
>> 
>> 21st July 12:10 Gatwick -> Minneapolis -> San Diego 18:55
>> 28th July 12:10 San Diego -> Minneapolis -> Gatwick 09:00
>
>That's about the same prices that I'm seeing on ebookers, deckchair and
>expedia. I may be prepared to pay a little more for a) a direct flight
>and b) a better known airline :)

Whaddya talking about? 

Northwest had an Alfred Hitchcock movie named after it! 
-- and possibly the best Hitchcock movie, at that. Pfft. ;)

So are any of you still thinking of going to NYC, while we're at it?



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RE: TPC Travel

[Cross David - dcross]

From: Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 3:49 PM

> So are any of you still thinking of going to NYC, while we're at it?

Er... yeah. We got back yesterday!

Dave...

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Re: US$ bank account

[Dave Hodgkinson]

Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> AllAdvantage, while it was still alive, sent me DEM cheques drawn on a
> German bank (which had been prepared by a service in England). If they can
> do it, why can't a global e-commerce leading-edge pioneer-type place like
> Amazon? The mind boggles.

Hah! You try signing up for a US Zshop, or the Honour system!

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RE: TPC Travel

[Chris Devers]

At 03:50 PM 2001.05.02 +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
>Er... yeah. We got back yesterday!

Doh! I thought you were all rioting for Mayday yesterday.
I can only assume your return date was not a coincidence



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Re: tube strike / may meeting postponed til 10th

[Leon Brocard]

jo walsh sent the following bits through the ether:
 
> well, it looks like the tube strike (8pm Weds 2nd May - 8pm Thurs 3rd May)
> is still on, and this will scupper our May social meeting plans rather.

It's not anymore, but we shouldn't shift the date again:
http://www.thetube.com/content/pressreleases/

Where will the (delayed) meeting be? Have we booked a room? ;-)

Leon
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Re: tube strike / may meeting postponed til 10th

[Matthew Byng-Maddick]

On Wed, 2 May 2001, Leon Brocard wrote:
> jo walsh sent the following bits through the ether:
> > well, it looks like the tube strike (8pm Weds 2nd May - 8pm Thurs 3rd May)
> > is still on, and this will scupper our May social meeting plans rather.
> It's not anymore, but we shouldn't shift the date again:
> http://www.thetube.com/content/pressreleases/
> Where will the (delayed) meeting be? Have we booked a room? ;-)

PO?

MBM

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RE: tube strike / may meeting postponed til 10th

[Cross David - dcross]

From: Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 4:51 PM

> jo walsh sent the following bits through the ether:
>
> > well, it looks like the tube strike (8pm Weds 2nd May - 8pm Thurs 3rd
May)
> > is still on, and this will scupper our May social meeting plans rather.
> 
> It's not anymore, but we shouldn't shift the date again:
> http://www.thetube.com/content/pressreleases/

Agreed. And I think that's what Jo said in her email.

> Where will the (delayed) meeting be? Have we booked a room? ;-)

Nothing booked. I therefore declare that we'll go to Penderels Oak.

Dave...

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Re: tube strike / may meeting postponed til 10th

[Struan Donald]

* at 02/05 16:51 +0100 Leon Brocard said:
> jo walsh sent the following bits through the ether:
>  
> > well, it looks like the tube strike (8pm Weds 2nd May - 8pm Thurs 3rd May)
> > is still on, and this will scupper our May social meeting plans rather.
> 
> It's not anymore, but we shouldn't shift the date again:
> http://www.thetube.com/content/pressreleases/

or

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1307000/1307103.stm

for those who don't get a kick out of seeing server errors :)

struan

Re: tube strike / may meeting postponed til 10th

[Dominic Mitchell]

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:57:08PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> PO?

 ask po to do webby things like googling. He won't core dump.
Promise.
+or not dadadodo or not here while hitherto is on holiday
 Dom2?
 hmmm... Dom2 is still annoyed by how bad emacs is at doing xml,
+actually, given how good psgml is.
 cat away plain colons include

-Dom

Re: Review of Data munging with Perl on Slashdot

[David H. Adler]

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:19:25AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
> 
> Now, has anyone seen the June Web Techniques yet? There's supposed to be
> another good review in that.

Yep.  As soon as I read that sentence my brain said "hey, didn't I just
pull that out of my mailbox?"

Yes, the review is good.  He even says he *learned* something from DMP!
:-)  Unfortunately, it's not on line yet. :-/

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YAPC::E abstract

[Robin Houston]

Any comments before I send this off?

 .robin.


Type: talk
Duration: 40 mins
Title: Mutagenic Modules
Slides (draft version): http://London.pm.org/~robin/semantic-talk/0.title.html
Abstract:

It's possible to write a Perl module which will change the meaning of
subsequent code in some way. Pragmas (eg "use integer") alter meaning
in this way, but require significant co-operation from the perl
interpreter. However, there are many different ways that you can write
your own "mutagenic modules". Mechanisms that make this possible include:

 * AUTOLOAD
 * CORE::UNIVERSAL::
 * overload::constant
 * source filters
 * CHECK blocks
 * tie()

...and many more.

You can do a lot of fun, interesting tricks using these mechanisms, and
I shall demonstrate several different examples; but there are limits to
what you can do. To take a simple example, there's no general way to
change the behaviour of the print function. I'll briefly mention the
difficulties I encountered trying to implement the mythical
Symbol::Approx::Scalar module.

Next I present a brief overview of the internal workings of the perl
interpreter: How it parses your code and compiles it into an optree,
and how the optree is then executed. A compiler backend (or, to speak
more generally, a CHECK block) interposes itself between these two
stages, and converts the optree into some other form. My favourite
compiler backend is B::Deparse, which just converts the optree back
into Perl source code!

Finally I'll describe some work (currently still in the planning phase)
to use a Deparse-like module to convert the optree into a structured
object model which represents the original code. This object model can
serialise itself as Perl code; but serialisation of any specific
construct can be over-ridden to produce different code. (The objects
will also have methods which enumerate the lexical variables which
are in-scope at that point in the program.)

This then amounts to a perfectly general mechanism for applying any
kind of semantic transformation to any Perl code.

Fwd: perl jobs page and list

[Dave Cross]

>Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 18:15:40 -0400
>From: Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: perl jobs page and list
>Reply-to: Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>pm group leaders:
>
>please forward this to your local pm groups.
>
>as some of you may know there have been a perl jobs announce and wanted
>lists hosted on pm.org. those lists have been merged and moved to the
>perl.org site. there are now these two lists:
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>which is moderated and is only for posting of both job openings and
>situations wanted.
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>which is not moderated and is meant to discuss the perl jobs list and
>web site as well and any other perl job related topics.
>
>go to jobs.perl.org for information on how to subscribe and the posting
>guidelines. if your pm group has a home page you might want to link to
>this page.
>
>the page and list are for perl jobs worldwide. telecommuting, relocation
>and other options are common so don't think you have to be in a
>particular goegraphic location to participate. also agencies and HR
>types are welcome too. spread the word about this page and list to any
>of those you know who deal with the perl job market.
>
>thanx,
>
>uri
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Re: Not Matt's Scripts

[Richard Clamp]

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 01:45:19AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> "Hey! You think this 5K script is enough? Wrong, you've gotta configure
> CPAN, get these suite of modules that is a prerequisite for these suites
> of modules which include something like Data::Dumper which makes you
> pull down the latest f**king perl distribution which doesn't f**cking
> compile on your machine!"

step 1: configure CPAN
step 2: upgrade CPAN
step 3: configure the new CPAN
step 4: use CPAN

yes it sucks mildly, it's still a helluva lot more convinient than
doing it by hand, imo

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