Re: repeating dates
At 12:26 PM 2003-02-24 +, alex wrote: I'm guessing I'd have to only allow a certain subset of the crontab spec, and engage some cleverness in how I store and retrieve the values so that it's indexable. I'm not sure I'm clever enough though, or even if its possible. TorgoX purl, advice? purl TorgoX: Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture) TorgoX advice, advice? purl TorgoX: Don't avoid what is easy So the bot and I unanimously encorage you to implement a small subset of crontab. If I were dropping this in a database, I'd probably just have different tables for hourly vs daily vs weekly vs monthly. That should serenely avoid some of the nastier conceptual and implementational problems with crontab. I encourage you to just skim the crontab2english source for occasional interesting things in comments -- actually reading the whole source to try to understand it is a very bad idea. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/S/SB/SBURKE/crontab2english_0.71.pl -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/
Re: Domain reseller survey
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote: Is anyone else reselling domain names? (Or even ICANN accredited?!) I recently become a value added service provider for BulkRegister and am poking about with their API. (You can either contact them via HTTPS POSTs or send XML at a socket. It's nice if only to check domain availability, and have a programmatic way to change nameservers en masse.) Who else provides these kinds of services? In particular BR don't offer *.uk registrations. We use OpenSRS however we do .UK registrations directly as it's trivially easy to interface with Nominet's automaton and cheaper too. Jason Clifford -- UKFSN.ORG Finance Free Software while you surf the 'net http://www.ukfsn.org/ Sign Up Now
Re: Perl jobs in London?
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 22:18, Bill Corr wrote:
snipI might need a London job.../snip
Well, as everyone else has said, the market ain't what it used to be.
I'm currently looking for work myself at the moment and have found it
to be quite tough. I have my CV with about 50 agencies, and feel as
though I'm getting no where. As someone else said, the best strategy is
to speak to humans, not inboxes. When you send your CV[0], make sure you
ring the agent/employer/waste-of-space you sent it to and discuss the
position. This is possibly the only way to guarantee that they will look
at your CV as they get flooded with CVs for each position these days.
Also, make sure you apply for jobs that exist. Gone are the days of just
firing your CV at any old agency and having them respond with job
possibilities. Agencies are getting selective on which skill sets they
are handling, perhaps because employers want them to be slightly clueful
about the CVs, so it might take time to find an agency who regularly
deals with Perl people.
If you've got J2EE, EJB, JDBC, VBA, .NET or C# on your CV you'll go a
lot further than if you don't. I've applied for numerous jobs that I
know I have the skills for, but I'm failing to get considered because
the employers are putting weird requirements in. One job was for a
Senior Unix/Perl/C developer, but unless you had VBA and .Net on your CV
they didn't want to know. It seems to me that any senior Unix/Perl/C
developer would be able to pick up .Net/VBA in no time as a no brainer,
but unless you can show X years experience you won't get a look in.
Like the front-end web designer, with extensive Photoshop and Flash
experience, who also needed to be a senior Solaris admin and security
expert. ... It's a strange market out there...
... Sorry, I'm ranting, aren't I? ... Think it's time I rang another
agency to create a feeling of doing something
Good luck with the job hunting.
Ian
[0] Don't delude yourself about the cluefulnesss of agents/employers:
they are not and will never be clueful. If your CV doesn't open in
Word then they'll probably just bin it. If you're lucky, they'll ask
you to resend in a standard format which does not include PDF.
Others may chime in with war stories about sending two non-editable
versions of your CV, one with and one without your contact details,
but from my experience, that's not working anymore. If the agent
can't play with your CV to help you get the job then it's too much
trouble and they won't do it.
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Re: Perl jobs in London?
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:54:24AM +, Ian Brayshaw said: Well, as everyone else has said, the market ain't what it used to be. I'm currently looking for work myself at the moment and have found it to be quite tough. I have my CV with about 50 agencies, and feel as though I'm getting no where. I think that's your problem right there. 50 agencies is too many I think it's been discussed before that it's better just to find one or two good agents and stick with them. And word of mouth is good as well, or finding a reliable sourc - uknm-jobs at http://www.chinwag.com/uknm-jobs/ isn't strictly a programming list but a fair few programming jobs come up. [0] Don't delude yourself about the cluefulnesss of agents/employers: they are not and will never be clueful. If your CV doesn't open in Word then they'll probably just bin it. If you're lucky, they'll ask you to resend in a standard format which does not include PDF. My cousin is an IT recruiter and, I was glad to hear, one of the more clueful ones. He successfully convinced my Dad that it wasn't worth me registering with him because he dealt with Sys Admins and I was a Programmer and that I worked in small RnD type roles whereas his firm deals with city type contracts. He also admitted that, and lets face it - we all knew this, the first sweep is looking for keywords and their frequency in a cv. I've missed out on a job because the recruiter was searching for MIDP and my CV listed J2ME. Simon -- the test for truth is still quicker than the addition
Re: Perl jobs in London?
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 10:14, Simon Wistow wrote:
I think that's your problem right there. 50 agencies is too many I think
it's been discussed before that it's better just to find one or two good
agents and stick with them.
Agreed. But when you need a job you apply for all the jobs you can find.
Those 50 agencies represent over 50 jobs that I feel I have the skills
for and would like to do. It's more a measure of how flooded the market
is with applications when most recruiters don't read most CVs that come
through to them.
And I agree, if you can find a good agent, stick with them. However,
it's been over two years since I dealt with a good agent (my last one
ran off with 4 months of my wages), and so I'm having to find a good one
all over again. Mailing my CV out to all jobs ads that appear to fit the
bill is part of this process.
Still, no matter how bad the market is, if you've got the skills,
patience, and a little bit of good fortune, you'll find a job.
Ian
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Re: Perl jobs in London?
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:35:38AM +, Nigel Hamilton wrote: I hope that their CV databases weed out CV's that contain acronym 'payloads' hidden in whitespace, headers and footers. For example, The ones I've looked at certainly don't. Before you know it the average CV will be two pages long but 100 Meg in byte size. ...i.e. a normal Word document? R
[JOB] Linux SA
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:58:11AM +, Simon Wistow said: That's not to say that it's good but it'd definitely better than it was 4 months ago and that, in turn, was infinitely better than it was a year before that. And as if to prove a point ... Linux SA work with some Win32 support. There is out-of-hours work and weekend work involved, and people should expect to sign an EU Working Time Directive waiver. Standard skillset. Not sure about money yet, but certainly reasonable. Mail me and I'll pass it on to the relevant person. -- the test for truth is still quicker than the addition
Re: Perl jobs in London?
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:35:38AM +, Nigel Hamilton wrote: Unfortunately some agents do a naive acronym match, between job spec and your CV. Because they often can't discriminate between the important acronyms and the less important ... they often wait until they find a CV that is fully 'acronym compliant.' Which is why I *always* phone the pimp before sending in my CV, ostensibly to find out whether I've already applied for that job through another agency, but really so that I can explain to them just how well my skills fit even if I don't mention all the right buzzwords. -- David Cantrell | Looking for work | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/cv See the creativity that comes from misery! Without misery people who would otherwise relax at home with a drink are spurred to great heights of expression. Art thrives on constraint and unhappiness. -- Arp
[Job] Looking for a Sales Guy
Remember Me ? Well Wired4Life is getting a little bigger and has had a few more successes in the last year. The result of which is I wish to bite the bullet and take on someone to help me market and promote the use of Linux and Open Source in the small business environment. oh yes, and we are changing the name from Wired4Life to 3ait. if you , or someone you know is interested then please drop a email to to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers Nik -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wired4life.org/ Wired4Life, an Answer. apt-get install zoe-ball To many unmet dependancies. installation failed.
Re: [Job] Looking for a Sales Guy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wired4life.org/ Wired4Life, an Answer. With regards to your website, I notice a little poll... There would be less Email Viruses if ? o Attachments were banned. o Outlook[express] was not integrated into Windows o Users thought about what they were viewing These choices strike me as a little odd. Banning attatchments is an unrealistic option - users to whom you applied this rule would revolt, and how do you define attatchment? And what exactly do you mean by 'Outlook was not integrated into Windows'? In general, email-viruses are made more viable by bugs in Internet Explorer being exploited - Outlook just happens to bring IE and dodgy HTML together. But, even if this wasn't the case, and even if Outlook wasn't pre-installed on machines, software has bugs, therefore, email clients have bugs, therefore, Outlook just got lucky by being ubiquitous. And finally: users thought more about what they were viewing. Almost every prolific email-virus of that last couple of years has exploited Internet Explorer to: a) auto-execute attatchments, or; b) hide the extensions of files it's sending, or; c) both. Users, now, in general, realise they shouldn't click on dodgy looking files - therefore, virus writers go to lengths to hide extensions, change icons, and make their code auto-execute. Just some thoughts +Pete -- Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young. -- Samuel Johnson
Re: [Job] Looking for a Sales Guy
Actually whats annoying is I been so busy I aint updated that site in a while. most of my business does not come via the web or net.. I really should forward it to the new site though. meanwhile does anyone know any good sales guys ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wired4life.org/ Wired4Life, an Answer. apt-get upgrade life++ life++ is already upto date
Re: [Job] Looking for a Sales Guy
Nik Butler wrote: ...good sales guys ? Isn't that an Oxymoron? :-) Will
Re: [Job] Looking for a Sales Guy
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 15:07, nemesis wrote: Nik Butler wrote: ...good sales guys ? Isn't that an Oxymoron? Nope, but people have different opinions on the Job Spec represented by 'good' in this context. Me? I am happy if they sell what I can produce in the time frame they told the customer. M Maybe you were right the first time... Dirk -- Please Note: Some Quantum Physics Theories Suggest That When the Consumer Is Not Directly Observing This Product, It May Cease to Exist or Will Exist Only in a Vague and Undetermined State.
Re: [Job] Looking for a Sales Guy
There would be less Email Viruses if ?
There would be fewer Email Viruses if:
'Less' is for singular, 'fewer' is for plural. ('More' can be used
with both.)
/pet-grammar-niggle,
Paul
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Re: Perl jobs in London?
Nigel Hamilton wrote: It's quite scary when they advertise for someone with 'Pearl' and 'SeekWell' skills. Unfortunately some agents do a naive acronym match, between job spec and your CV. snip I hope that their CV databases weed out CV's that contain acronym 'payloads' hidden in whitespace, headers and footers. One wonders if you could use hidden lameronyms to make your CV idiot compatable However it would require you to think on their level :-O ~~~ Michael John Lush PhDTel:44-20-7679-5027 Nomenclature Bioinformatics Support Fax:44-20-7387-3496 HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Galton Laboratory University College London, UK URL: http://www.gene.ucl.ac.uk/nomenclature/ ~~~
[ANNOUNCE] Social Meeting: Thursday 6th March @ The Star
Announcing the March social meeting of the London Perl Mongers, which will be held after seven on Thursday the 6th of March in the upstairs room of the Star of Belgravia. The Star is in walking distance of Victoria, Sloane Square, Hyde Park Corner and Knightsbridge. Full directions to the pub are included in this email below. http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=528107Y=179347A=YZ=1 http://grault.net/cgi-bin/grubstreet.pl?Star_Tavern,_SW1X_8HT Social meetings are a chance to meet up. They allow members of the group to chat about Perl and other issues over a pint, and put names (or nicks) to faces and they present an informal way for people to pass on or acquire Perl knowledge. Non-Perl programmers any way affiliated with London.pm or it's members are always made welcome, and they'll be plenty of non-Perl talk that they shouldn't feel excluded. The meetings start at approximately 7pm, though people often arrive earlier than this as they come directly from work. Quite a few people will opt to eat in the pub rather than eating beforehand; This month's venue The Star is fabled for it's excellent steaks. There's no formal plan for the evening (apart from drinking and chatting) and people should feel to turn up and leave when they want, though the majority of people will remain in the pub till closing time so late-comers shouldn't be worried about us leaving before they get there. Directions: The Star Tavern is located in a little cobbled street behind the German Embassy. Below are directions to get there from various places. From Sloane Square Essentially you want to take the north exit off the square and head up Sloane Street and then take a right down Pont street till you get to the embassy, and then down the cobbled mews till you find the pub. So, in detail: Come out of the station. Standing as you are with your back to the station you want to go up the road diagonally opposite on the right (so turn right, cross the crossing, and on the other side turn left and walk for a bit till you come to Sloane Street - a big wide street - on your right.) You want to keep going up Sloane street till you come to Pont Street, the junction of which has traffic lights on it. Turn right (east) down this street and keep going. The road will start to veer off to the left, and at this point you should see a large white building with black windows that is the German embassy on the left hand side (north) side of the road. In a big, tall, archway under the embassy there should be a cobbled street. Head up this street and The Star is on the end on the left. From Victoria: Essentially you want to cross the road out of the station and then head up Lower then Upper Belgrave Street so you get to Belgrave Square. From here you want to take the second left exit to Pont Steet and turn right though the German embassy up the cobbled mews to the pub. In detail: From the tube lines, follow signs for main station and get to the surface. Turn left and walk past starbucks and pret a manger - you want to get to Buckingham Palace Road which is the road the busses enter the bus station off of. Cross the road at the traffic lights and use the other set of traffic lights to the left to get off the mini-island you're on. You should now be in front of the deserted Usit campus office. go left (west) along Buckingham Palace Road then take the first right (north) up into Lower Belgrave Street. Continue up this street, passing drinking establishments such as The Victoria on your left, and the The Plumber Arms. This road turns into Upper Belgrave Street - just keep on going until you come to Belgrave square. Here, turn left and take the second exit off the square (the one that goes directly west) down Pont Street. Almost immediately on your right you should see the German embassy (a big white building with black windows) and a large phallic like statue. There should be an archway here under the embassy leading up a cobbled street. Go up this street and The Star will be on the end on the left. From Knightsbridge: Essentially you want to get out of the tube and then head south down Sloane Street until you come to Cadeogan Place. Turning down here you simply want to walk east for a short while until you come to the north end of a cobbled mews that the pub is located on. In detail: To get out of the tube, take the exit signposted for Harvey Nichols / Knightsbridge (south side) / Sloane Street (east side) [it's signed differently in different places but these are all the same exit, to the right as you come out of the Tube barriers]. When you come out of the exit turn right round 180 degrees so that you are on the left pavement of Sloane Street heading south. Walk down here for a few minutes (past one left turning, which you should ignore) and turn left into Cadogan Place. At this point you want to keep heading in a straight line (east.) Don't follow Cadogan
Re: [Job] Looking for a Sales Guy
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 03:38:56PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote:
There would be less Email Viruses if ?
There would be fewer Email Viruses if:
'Less' is for singular, 'fewer' is for plural. ('More' can be used
with both.)
/pet-grammar-niggle,
Paul
What do you mean for plural, since both have to do with quantities? I
think of it as 'less' is things you can't count and 'fewer' is for
things you can. Less sand, fewer grains of sand. Or less email, fewer
messages.
Oh. I see what you're saying now. Same thing I am, but since I'm
dense, my way seems easier to remember, or at least figure out when
you need to.
/also-my-pet-grammar-niggle
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mike
A whole lotta hoot and just a little bit of nanny
Linux Virtual Machines
Having heard quite a bit of discussion on The Other London.pm Place about people wanting cheap colo solutions, and having recently bumped into an old school friend who's started a business doing just that, I though I'd post this to the list... Born out of basically an argument over why their server was using qmail over sendmail, they started playing around with User Mode Linux, and ended up with a service for offering virtual Linux machines for about 15 quid a month for 3GB of disk space, 64MB of RAM, and 5GB transfer, and, most importantly, root (10% discount available for free software authors). Anyway, I'm making a hash of describing this, so, without further ado, the URL: http://www.bytemark-hosting.co.uk/ +Pete -- Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. -- Samuel Johnson
Re: Perl jobs in London?
Ian Brayshaw wrote: Agreed. But when you need a job you apply for all the jobs you can find. Those 50 agencies represent over 50 jobs that I feel I have the skills for and would like to do. It's more a measure of how flooded the market is with applications when most recruiters don't read most CVs that come through to them. Sorry but in my experience those 50 agencies probably represent the same 10 jobs if you are lucky. I found 12 agencies with perl jobs in brighton than came down to the same job at absolute internet 11 times - and it isn't even in brighton. The twelth job didn't actually exist. YMMV
Re: Perl jobs in London?
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 14:06, Peter Hickman wrote:
Ian Brayshaw wrote:
Agreed. But when you need a job you apply for all the jobs you can find.
Those 50 agencies represent over 50 jobs that I feel I have the skills
for and would like to do. It's more a measure of how flooded the market
is with applications when most recruiters don't read most CVs that come
through to them.
Sorry but in my experience those 50 agencies probably represent the same
10 jobs if you are lucky. I found 12 agencies with perl jobs in brighton
than came down to the same job at absolute internet 11 times - and it
isn't even in brighton. The twelth job didn't actually exist.
Only found that in a couple of positions, and then only chose one
agency. No, I've made sure they are all different positions.
Ian
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