Last call for books
Anyone else want books brought to the emergency tomorrow? There are still some goodies in there, some Murakami and Yoshimoto as well as some brain ones. http://homepage.mac.com/davehodg/deliciouslibrary/ A few monies would be nice. -- Dave HodgkinsonMSN: daveh...@hotmail.com Site: http://www.davehodgkinson.com UK: +44 7768 490620 Blog: http://www.davehodgkinson.com/blog Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davehodg
Re: Twitter modules
Thanks fo the help everyone. I agree Net::Twitter is easy to get started with. Andrew
Re: Merging Bash sources
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 01:19:30AM +, James Laver said:
> Perhaps I'm overlooking something obvious, but why don't you just parse twice?
Because I don't know where the config file is until I parse the command
line options.
I could
getArgs
. ${config_file}
getArgs
but I think Bash getopts is destructive.
Re: Open contracts
On 11/11/2009 01:21 PM, James Laver wrote: Do we know any perl-using companies in london who are looking for the services of contractors at the current time? Seems to me that all of the usual suspects are still looking. My phone isn't ringing off its (metaphorical) hook any more but I'm getting more than enough calls. In particular I had a mail a couple of days ago from everyone's favourite "we don't use Perl any more - it's all Java and PHP now" broadcaster. It was about a Perl role. Dave...
Re: Open contracts
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 01:42:58PM +, Peter Corlett typed: > On 11 Nov 2009, at 13:21, James Laver wrote: >> The contract market is looking a bit down still and I'm not used to >> not having my phone go off every 5 minutes. > > Mine has been fairly busy the last few days. And only one timewaster > too: a permie junior PHP/JOAT role somewhere rural on the outskirts of > Slough. Based on my inbox spam I'd say all that fake printed money is starting to circulate. -- Steve Mynott
Re: Open contracts
On 11 Nov 2009, at 13:21, James Laver wrote: The contract market is looking a bit down still and I'm not used to not having my phone go off every 5 minutes. Mine has been fairly busy the last few days. And only one timewaster too: a permie junior PHP/JOAT role somewhere rural on the outskirts of Slough. Have you made sure your phone is turned on? :) Do we know any perl-using companies in london who are looking for the services of contractors at the current time? You could do worse than ring round the list of companies on this page: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-10/22/help-us-map-london%27s-silicon-roundabout.aspx
Open contracts
The contract market is looking a bit down still and I'm not used to not having my phone go off every 5 minutes. Do we know any perl-using companies in london who are looking for the services of contractors at the current time? --James
Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency Social 12-Nov-09 - The Star Tavern SW1X 8HT
This is tomorrow! See you there. On 2009-11-09 Sue spence wrote: > Why? > Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar) is visiting from Italy. Gianni is one of > the founders of perl.it (http://www.perl.it/), helped organise Italian > Perl Workshop 2009 and will no doubt be involved with next year's Perl > Conference (YAPC::Eu 2010) in Pisa. > > David Adler (dha) may also be there. > > Where? > The Star Tavern in Belgravia - this is a Fuller's pub and it serves > traditional pub fare. > 6 Belgrave Mews West, SW1X 8HT > Maps & details: > http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Star_Tavern%2C_SW1X_8HT You > can get there from Knightsbridge station or Hyde Park Corner > (Picadilly line), Sloane Square (District & Central) and Victoria > (Victoria, District & Central) > > When? > 6:15pm until whenever -- Dakkar - GPG public key fingerprint = A071 E618 DD2C 5901 9574 6FE2 40EA 9883 7519 3F88 key id = 0x75193F88 Narrator: And so the Powerpuff Girls began to search for the hosts *cough* of one of the most deadly viruses ever to befall mankind. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: git vs mercurial
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Tom Hukins wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:58:12AM +, James Laver wrote: > > I used mercurial in a nondistributed fashion at $previous_work and > > that was a disaster. One guy kept pushing every 30 seconds and I > > couldn't get a commit in edgeways. > > I haven't used Mercurial, but that sounds like a social problem rather > than a technical shortcoming. > It is, but its also a huge case of user incompetence on the behalf of the hammer-pusher. When you have co-workers who completely fail to even understand the concept of branches, mercurial doesn't do well to foster the idea of actually keeping branches. Mercurial tries too hard to solve the human issue of branch separation by creating new branches automatically, which results in a side effect of the attempt to automatically re-merge the separated branches, which includes both circumstantially created soft-branches, and intentionally created topic-branches without really much disambiguation. Combine that fact with not understanding branches, and you find yourself with an SCM that is only at all even viable in Non-WTF ways if all users are pro-grade users. ( Or, you just have to avoid branches, period ) Git at least doesn't magically switch branches on you, or encourage users to squash every new topic branch by sheer accident/stupidity, they don't even have to know the branches are there. Of course, the alternative is quitting working with fools. That tends to be the best option. Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA nocomil.i...@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );"
Re: Production databases on SSDs?
Mark Fowler wrote: Are you using any special kind of SSD tailored storage engine on these, or just placing a stock InnoDB / MyISAM on the device? Mark. The SSD replicas are stock MyISAM only, though the masters are a mixture with InnoDB. The initial speedup from disc array to SSD was dramatic enough that we just used our standard build. This suggests scope for extra gains at some later point. With regards, Dave Webb -- Tech Guy - LOVEFiLM.com
Re: Production databases on SSDs?
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Dave Webb wrote: > We've been using a fusion-io 160GB drive in production for about a year now. > It is hosting partial replicas of a couple of our databases (mysql) for an > operation that needs two largeish data sets. > And for the past three months or so, we've had a "reporting" replica running > on a pair of fusion-io 320GB SSDs. Are you using any special kind of SSD tailored storage engine on these, or just placing a stock InnoDB / MyISAM on the device? Mark.
