Re: 25 Years of Perl
On Nov 24, 2012, at 22:43 , David H. Adler d...@panix.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:25:33PM +, Dave Cross wrote: Quoting Guinevere Nell guinevere.n...@gmail.com: On that subject, I recall that search.cpan.org sucked at the start and I'm not sure who fixed it (the search) and who maintained CPAN (and it's accumulating wonderful -- and sometimes silly -- modules) but yeah it's the heart of most development ... That's a good point. I know when CPAN started (1995) but I don't know when search.cpan.org launched. Can anyone help there? It was originally Graham's project, so he'd probably be the one to ask. search.cpan.org started in 1998 about the same time as cpan testers search.cpan.org was originally hosted on a Sun Solaris box at Washington University in St. Louis (wustl.edu) by Elaine Ashton due to storage constraints the original site did not keep an unpacked version of CPAN as it does now. It unpacked the tarball to index the cleaned up. During a request for a pod document it would extract the pod from the tarball and cache the generated html, purging the cache as space was needed. I think it was around 2001 that we started keeping CPAN in an unpacked form. In 2003 there was an auction at OSCONN in Portland, won by London PM, which resulted in the colors of search being changed to orange for a while. We did a fund raising campaign to expedite the return to its original color which was quite controversial. Also, cpantesters was originally a static site. I had a script which processed emails sent to a mailing list which generated the files and uploaded them to my isp. I was on a dialup machine at home at the time so this script was run once a day when I got home from work. It later moved to also be hosted at wustl.edu and be more dynamic. Graham.
Re: Exiting eval via next [perl v5.14]
On Nov 4, 2011, at 11:36 , Chisel wrote:
# why no error?!
$ perl -M5.14.0 -wle 'for my $i (qw/foo/) { eval { $i.=q{}; next; }; } say
done'
done
Because the next never happens, check $@ you will see
Modification of a read-only value attempted
Graham.
Re: XS Constants peculiarity
On Oct 28, 2010, at 10:09 , Dirk Koopman wrote: On 28/10/10 17:26, Chris Jack wrote: Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk wrote: This is not my stuff, this is generated from the original header file(s). Prototypes? Functions?? What kind of a solution are you looking for here and what is your real problem? There is a fair but not insurmountable amount of code. RK+LOCK is common (meaning Read Key with Lock on some C-Isam files). More people used to the C version of the system are likely to start using it and RK+LOCK is a even more common idiom there. Manually defining all the constants using use constant is IMHO a cop out without understanding why. Have you tried the suggestion about surrounding your constants in round brackets? Or is this so widespread in your code that it would take too long. Yes, and it fixes the problem. There are several hundred constants. Some of which are bit maps. However it does not explain why a constant, that is generated from a header file by h2xs, is taken to be a function with arguments. Especially as all the XS code (and generated C) implies it is an integer. It depends how the functions themselves are defined and exported from the module. h2xs IIRC depends on AUTOLOAD to actually make the constant subs get defined. However this does not happen until the constant is first needed at runtime and the import sub is really exported an undefined subroutine, causing AUTOLOAD to be called when needed. THe smallest should would be to make your import sub create the sub when it is imported and ensure that sub is created with a prototype of (), then you code for RK+LOCK will work. Graham.
Re: Posting to blogger.com?
On Jun 3, 2010, at 5:06 AM, Steve Mynott wrote: On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 05:52:40PM +0100, Mark Fowler typed: On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 Jun 2010, at 21:38, Egor Shipovalov wrote: use File::Slurp; This is the start of most scripts I've been writing recently. I dumped this since I started using Path::Class all the time. my $content = file(something)-slurp Does it work with UTF-8? It does with this patch https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=58088 my $content = file(something)-slurp(iolayers = ':encoding(utf8)'); Graham.
Re: Perl Christmas Quiz 2009
On Nov 30, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Graham Barr wrote:
On Nov 30, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Dave == Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk writes:
1) Without running it to check, what does the following program output?
my %a = (3,2,1,0);
for my $b (sort values %a) {
$b += 4;
}
print $a{1} . \n;
Dave Without running it, I'd say 4. Having now run it, I'm glad that's what
I said
Dave :)
When did sort start returning lvalues? I bet if you did this
on an older Perl, it'd return 0.
sort just shuffles whatever SV* are on the stack, and values returns aliases,
so
in this case you end up with aliases being returned by sort.
I meant to add that this change to sort was added to 5.6.0. So to answer your
question it was nearly a decade ago :-)
Graham.
Re: Perl Christmas Quiz 2009
On Nov 30, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Dave == Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk writes:
1) Without running it to check, what does the following program output?
my %a = (3,2,1,0);
for my $b (sort values %a) {
$b += 4;
}
print $a{1} . \n;
Dave Without running it, I'd say 4. Having now run it, I'm glad that's what
I said
Dave :)
When did sort start returning lvalues? I bet if you did this
on an older Perl, it'd return 0.
sort just shuffles whatever SV* are on the stack, and values returns aliases, so
in this case you end up with aliases being returned by sort.
Graham.
Re: Perl Christmas Quiz 2009
On Nov 30, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Abigail wrote:
I meant to add that this change to sort was added to 5.6.0. So to answer
your question it was nearly a decade ago :-)
Which was the same release where values() returned aliases instead of copies.
Ah, you are right. sort was before that. the oldest perl I have is 5.4.5 which
gives
$ /apps/perl-5.4.5/bin/perl5.00405 -l
my @a = (4,3,2,1);
for my $x (sort @a) { print ++$x; }
print @a;
__END__
2
3
4
5
5432
Graham.
Re: Unresponsive module authors
On 25 Sep 2003, at 10:45, David Cantrell wrote: What's the etiquette for dealing with unresponsive module authors? I've tried to contact the author of Data::Compare twice now to report bugs, with no response in nearly a month. Should I just upload a new version to CPAN and take over maintenance? There is an answer to this in the CPAN FAQ http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_maintain_module Graham.
Re: Exceptions
Sorry if you see duplicates of this, I sent it originally from a non-subscribed address On 23 Sep 2003, at 17:41, Nigel Rantor wrote: Hi all, Quick poll regarding modules to provide more OO exception facilities. Whenever I have mucked about with this I have opted to use Graham's Error.pm module. I may have wrote it initially, but it is now maintained by someone else. I have found that it cannot handle a return within a catch block though, I haven't spent a lot of time exploring this yet but it is giving a couple of other developers some problems at the moment and making the code less clean than we would like. This is because of the way it uses anonymous subs I'm really looking for two things. 1) If anyone has any ideas about Error.pm or has found a workaround that would be great. I may go and have a look at the code myself if I get some time but if anyone has done this already I would love to hear from you. At one time I was going to re-write it as a source filter. Using anonymous subs has all sorts of unwanted side effects, one being memory leaks in earlier versions of perl. Graham. 2) Suggestions as to which exception mechanism module you would suggest using other than Error.pm, prefereably with reasons. Cheers, N
Re: ! Orange [Was: Orange]
On Thursday, Jul 10, 2003, at 13:35 US/Pacific, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: Leon Brocard wrote: Hello. They are planning to auction the colour of search.cpan.org tonight at OSCON. I hear that it is not going to be cheap. If you want to help me make it orange and would like to pledge a small amount that'd be wonderful. Emails offlist please. Leon Well, nothing personal, but the search.cpan.org colour will be mine, unless there is no way to interact remotelly. I will stand up to my last penny against the Orange colour. =-] I am sure we can do something over IRC. Graham.
Re: Contracts for contractors
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 15:33, David Cantrell wrote: On Thursday, June 26, 2003 14:26 +0100 Andy Mendelsohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 02:04 pm, Dave Cross wrote: A quid is made up of 20 shillings, each of which contains 12 pennies. Sorry to correct you Dave, but i think you'll find a quid is made of of 20 bob. So is the relationship between shilling and bob like that between GMT and UTC? No. bob has nothing todo with the French :-) Graham.
Re: assimilating CPAN
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 04:56:20PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: Arthur Bergman has joined the list of known London.pm-ers on muttley's CPAN leaderboard: http://www.thegestalt.org/simon/perl/ london.pm is now responsible for 9% of CPAN. It would be nice to get over 10%. I know that not all london.pm-ers are in muttley's list of CPAN IDs. Hence if you want to be added, please mail muttley your CPAN ID ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ). There's no compulsion, and neither of us are going to attempt to make any list of who isn't there. We don't (yet) have stats for just Acme modules. That might get more interesting (or just confirm our reputation) $ zcat var/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz | grep -c /GBARR/ 121 :-) Graham.
Re: RegEx for UK Postal Codes
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 03:43:16PM +0100, Jon Reades wrote: And the following exceptions are also valid to some degree: 1. GIR 0AA -- a bank that sounds like they were issued this code either so long ago that they hadn't decided on a format, or completely by accident GiroBank was originally a bank service run by the Post Office so the Post Office gave it a special postcode. It is now run by Alliance and Leicester, but still has the special postcode. In fact the exception in GIR 0A[A-Z] as they have different postcodes for different departments. Graham.
Re: CPAN site
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:09:50PM +0100, Peter Sergeant wrote: Out of interest, what do people get from www.cpan.org? I only ever use search.cpan.org myself. What am I missing? a) Provides a useful link to theory5 when search.cpan.org is down hehe. Well soon (for some definition of soon) we will have 3 independant boxes running search. b) It's much easier to scan specific heirachies on it, like URI::, especially now that people are polluting the CPAN with modules like Meta Can you expand on that. I have been thinking of adding catalog interface to the module namespace onto search. c) It has some scripts on it True. d) Some people have index pages in their home directories that provide (debatably) useful information Well there is always http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/X/XX/XXX/ which will redirect you to thier directory on your selected mirror Graham.
Re: CPAN site
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:01:22PM +0100, Cal Henderson wrote: At 16:55 GMT 01.04.03, Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Out of interest, what do people get from www.cpan.org? I only ever : use search.cpan.org myself. What am I missing? the mirrors list? Have you ever looked at http://mirrors.cpan.org/ Graham.
Re: CPAN site
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:49:17PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:43:41PM +0100, Graham Barr said: Can you expand on that. I have been thinking of adding catalog interface to the module namespace onto search. I'd love to be able to see all the TT plugins without having to search for Template Plugin and getting a load of crud along with it. Perhaps I'm missing an easy way to do this though Are you doing a module search ? http://search.cpan.org/search?m=moduleq=Template%3A%3APlugins=1n=100 Graham.
Re: CPAN site
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 07:46:19PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:49:27AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Well, you can't run my MINICPAN[1] mirroring program against search.cpan.org, that I'm aware of. Nor would you want to. Of course, *you* shouldn't use www.cpan.org either. *You* should use uk.cpan.org. $ host uk.cpan.org uk.cpan.org has address 128.252.133.13 $ host 128.252.133.13 13.133.252.128.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer chaos.wustl.edu But if you do a GET you will see that it will redirect you to ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/mirrors/perl/CPAN/ Graham. Why? It's in the US: $ traceroute uk.cpan.org traceroute to uk.cpan.org (128.252.133.13), 64 hops max, 44 byte packets 1 fa2-0.pepo.router.flirble.org (194.70.3.1) 1.749 ms 1.020 ms 0.947 ms 2 fa5-0-103.cr1.bllon.uk.easynet.net (212.134.0.1) 0.702 ms 1.114 ms 0.927 ms 3 ge0-2-0-0.br1.bllon.uk.easynet.net (212.135.0.3) 1.414 ms 1.062 ms 1.332 ms 4 ge0-0-0-0.gr0.bllon.uk.easynet.net (207.162.206.65) 1.706 ms 1.715 ms 1.820 ms 5 so0-1-0-0.gr0.bwnyc.us.easynet.net (207.162.205.5) 73.571 ms 73.850 ms 74.157 ms 6 iar5-so-2-0-1.NewYork.cw.net (208.173.135.213) 74.078 ms 74.340 ms 74.115 ms 7 agr2-loopback.NewYork.cw.net (206.24.194.102) 74.407 ms 73.339 ms 74.089 ms 8 dcr2-so-6-1-0.NewYork.cw.net (206.24.207.181) 74.015 ms 73.252 ms 73.901 ms 9 agr3-so-2-0-0.NewYork.cw.net (206.24.207.186) 73.765 ms agr4-so-2-0-0.NewYork.cw.net (206.24.207.190) 74.875 ms 73.466 ms 10 acr1-loopback.NewYork.cw.net (206.24.194.61) 74.539 ms 74.355 ms 73.881 ms 11 p4-3-2-0.r04.nycmny01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.9.49) 73.750 ms p4-2-1-0.r04.nycmny01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.9.77) 73.388 ms 73.850 ms 12 p16-1-1-0.r20.nycmny01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.2.36) 74.247 ms 73.606 ms 74.176 ms 13 p16-4-0-0.r01.chcgil06.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.4.198) 100.462 ms 101.519 ms 100.564 ms 14 p16-7-0-0.r01.chcgil01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.5.71) 100.663 ms 103.302 ms 101.323 ms 15 p4-1-2-0.r00.stlsmo04.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.4.45) 119.441 ms 120.948 ms 119.946 ms 16 ge-0-2-0.a00.stlsmo04.us.ra.verio.net (129.250.30.76) 121.452 ms 119.890 ms 120.165 ms 17 199.217.166.226 (199.217.166.226) 121.454 ms 128.130 ms 120.231 ms 18 128.252.1.201 (128.252.1.201) 121.736 ms 120.500 ms 121.368 ms 19 ncrc-eng1.wustl.edu (128.252.1.50) 120.991 ms 120.932 ms 121.367 ms 20 chaos.wustl.edu (128.252.133.13) 120.547 ms * 121.817 ms Surely you should use a mirror with lots of bandwidth in the UK: $ traceroute philes.flirble.org traceroute to philes.flirble.org (194.70.3.50), 64 hops max, 44 byte packets 1 philes (194.70.3.50) 3.177 ms 0.731 ms 0.664 ms (my traceroutes start in Soho) Nicholas Clark
Re: CPAN site
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:49:27AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Paul == Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul On 31/03/2003 at 22:39 +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: This is terrible, terrible: http://www.cpan.org/ Paul Out of interest, what do people get from www.cpan.org? I only ever use Paul search.cpan.org myself. What am I missing? (Please no Matt's Scripts Paul jokes, ta. April Fools has been tedious enough already.) Well, you can't run my MINICPAN[1] mirroring program against search.cpan.org, that I'm aware of. That is because http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/ is not a real CPAN mirror, it just redirects to the users selected mirror, which is stored in a cookie. Graham.
Re: Looking for a better way
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 09:44:08PM +0530, shn wrote:
I was just bored and was wondering what would be a better way to titlecase
something, using this right now:
perl -e $_='boink boink';@a=split' ';foreach(@a){$_=ucfirst;}$_=join' ',@a;print
perl -le $_='boink boink'; s/(\w+)/\u$1/g; print
Graham.
Re: Freelance cooperatives (was: Recruitment Consultant Database)
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:50:21PM +, Nick Woolley wrote: I also have other friends who have companies and do work for them occasionally. The main reason I'm asking this question about cooperatives is because working on one's own can be damn hard, and the lesson seems to be to I know how it feels. I dont work for myself (yet) but I do work from home for an American company. seek out like-minded company, for inspiration and moral support if nothing else. I'm looking for successful examples to follow, and potential allies. Well I have been thinking about making the jump for a long time, but I am finding it very hard todo so. But eventually I want to start my own company. So if you want someone who can help, albeit on a limited basis, and at the same time you may be helping them. Then keep me in mind. Graham.
Re: lists.perl.org
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 08:51:27AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: On 22 Feb 2003 at 21:54, Gabor Szabo wrote: I have been trying to get a change in one of the listings on http://lists.perl.org/ for a couple of month now. I filled in the New List form and e-mailed the listmaster on the feedback link but with no success. Is there anyone here with good contact to those peole ? I *think* hfb/aevil/Elaine Ashton is behind lists.perl.org, but I'm not sure. So you could try emailing her. (I don't have an address for her off-hand, so you should be able to find it as well as I can -- try looking for hfb on use.perl.org, for example, or google for her.) Yes, Elaine is the person running lists. Elaine has recently moved from the US to Europe, so I dont know how much time she has had recently. If you mail me your changes I can get them added. Graham.
Re: CPANSTATS
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:09:46PM +0100, Robin Berjon wrote: ps and it would help if search.cpan.org were opensource too No kidding :) Just how would that help ? Graham.
Re: CPANSTATS
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:46:15PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: Graham Barr sent the following bits through the ether: Just how would that help ? We'd have been able to fix the site for you. For example, the FAQ is a little out of date - linking to http://chaos.wustl.edu/analog/cpan_org/search/ (last updated in 2002-05) isn't terribly useful. Well you have the source for that. patches welcome. The search results are a little iffy sometimes: http://search.cpan.org/search?query=imlibmode=all doesn't list 'Image::Imlib2'. Well report it via the feedback. And I notice you've been having a load problem recently. Would you like some help scaling the site? Would a couple of identical mirrors help? Thats an apache problem. it was recently moved across boxes and now uses apache2 for a proxy frontend. sadly apache2 does not want to work as a proxy and a cache so every request hits the backend. But there will be a mirror in the UK soon Graham.
Re: Look ma, no barewords!
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:13:17AM +, Dave Cross wrote: It's commonly used to pass named arguments: set_lang( -name='Perl', -paradigm='hybrid', -motto='TMTOWTDI' ); I thought that was using = quotes its left-hand operand magic quoting, not unary - quotes its operand magic quoting :) IIRC, way back in the early days of perl5 = was just a different way to write , it did not have auto-quoting properties. The leading - to the word did though. Although I think that was added after the original perl5 release. It may have been push for by Nick in the early days of Tk development. Graham.
Re: REVIEW: Extending and Embedding Perl
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 02:35:20PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: Review of Extending and Embedding Perl Author: Tim Jenness and Simon Cozens ISBN: 1-930110-82-0 Publisher: Manning Reviewed by: Nicholas Clark pThis is a long review. I could have said the book is missing things that I think should be there and leave it at that. But it's trivial to say, easy to dismiss, and impossible to follow. As I'm clear in my head about the specifics of what I think is missing but relevant to the book's subject matter, I've backed things up every time with examples. This makes a much longer review, but hopefully much clearer to follow, and easier to understand why I hold my opinions. Maybe it's more of a short article than a review, but it says what I feel I need to say./p Ouch. OK, I will come clean, I did do an early technical review of some parts to this book, but I did not see the completed thing or even if any of my input was taken. Heck I even gave a quote for the cover as I thought it was a very promising book. Having read this please tell me its not there as I have never received my free copy. Graham.
Re: Book: Best of the Perl Journal
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:10:00PM +, Graham Barr wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:11:55PM +, David Cantrell wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:53:55PM +, Graham Barr wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:27:24AM +, Andy Wardley wrote: Graham Barr wrote: You can either collect it from me, or we could arrage to meet in a local(-ish) pub... This sounds like the perfect opportunity to resurrect Surrey.pm. How about a meeting in Guildford one night next week or soon thereafter? Fortunately, I am familiar with several of the local taverns and should have no trouble recommending one :-) Sounds good to me. David, pick a day thats good for you. I work evenings, so whatever day it is means time off from work anyway. Monday and Friday next week are free for me. Either is fine with me. Andy do you want to pick a suitable place. Well its Monday, so I doubt it will be tonight :) If nobody seems that interested in a pub meetup on Friday and suggests/organizes a pub in the next day or so then I will send you my address. Graham.
Re: Book: Best of the Perl Journal
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:11:55PM +, David Cantrell wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:53:55PM +, Graham Barr wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:27:24AM +, Andy Wardley wrote: Graham Barr wrote: You can either collect it from me, or we could arrage to meet in a local(-ish) pub... This sounds like the perfect opportunity to resurrect Surrey.pm. How about a meeting in Guildford one night next week or soon thereafter? Fortunately, I am familiar with several of the local taverns and should have no trouble recommending one :-) Sounds good to me. David, pick a day thats good for you. I work evenings, so whatever day it is means time off from work anyway. Monday and Friday next week are free for me. Either is fine with me. Andy do you want to pick a suitable place. Graham.
Re: Book: Best of the Perl Journal
Sounds good to me. David, pick a day thats good for you. I work evenings, so whatever day it is means time off from work anyway. Graham. On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:27:24AM +, Andy Wardley wrote: Graham Barr wrote: You can either collect it from me, or we could arrage to meet in a local(-ish) pub. If we do a pub, then some of the lurkers that this brought out of the woodwork (like me :) can meet up if they want. This sounds like the perfect opportunity to resurrect Surrey.pm. How about a meeting in Guildford one night next week or soon thereafter? Just dont ask me to suggest a pub :-) Fortunately, I am familiar with several of the local taverns and should have no trouble recommending one :-) A
Thanks (was Re: contracts)
Thanks to all those who gave answers, they were certainly helpful. As I am moving, I will not be planning to do this anytime soon. However maybe sometime next year. So those that offered direct advice, I may contact you closer to the time. Doing so now will just be a waste of both our time Thanks, Graham.
Book: Best of the Perl Journal
As an author I have just been sent two copies of this book by O'Reilly. I have no use for a second copy, so I thought I would throw it up for grabs. However, I live in Guildford and dont travel to London, so it would be easier if it was delivered to someone to the south of London. Graham.
Re: Book: Best of the Perl Journal
I forgot to add, the winner will be picked a random, possibly biased by how easy it is to get the book to them (this book has 700 pages so its not light, so if they are close enough I will deliver it) or how much they bribe me with donations to the Perl Foundation. Graham. On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:49:00AM +, Graham Barr wrote: As an author I have just been sent two copies of this book by O'Reilly. I have no use for a second copy, so I thought I would throw it up for grabs. However, I live in Guildford and dont travel to London, so it would be easier if it was delivered to someone to the south of London. Graham.
Re: Book: Best of the Perl Journal
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 11:01:45AM -, Gareth Kirwan wrote: There's me surprised at Guildford - where do all you lot hide? Well as I said I am in Guildford, now. But soon I will be moving to Wisbech in Cambridgeshire. Graham.
Re: contracts
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 07:35:41PM +, Simon Wilcox wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, David Cantrell wrote: Hey contractory people, I might get some short-term work next week, can anyone point me at a sensible standard contract I can use? Bear in mind that I don't give a monkeys about IR35 as I have no intention of being an evil tax-evader. Would this be employed directly or via a ltd company of some description ? This brings up an interesting question for me. For a while now I have been doing small jobs on the side, while being employed. But I have been thinking about leaving my full time job and doing contracting. Now before you all tell me I am crazy, I have my reasons for wanting to leave :) But the question I have is, which is the best route. Is it better to start a ltd company or just go self employed. I have read a lot of online info fro various web sites, but none I found give real pros and cons either way. Graham.
Re: Technical Reviewer
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:34:06AM +, Alex McLintock wrote: Manning have asked me to be a technical reviewer for one of their (non perl) books. I have heard that other people on this list have done technical reviewing too. Is it standard practice that technical reviewers don't get paid? I am happy to do the review anyway because I run DiverseBooks.com but I'd like to know that I am not being taken advantage of. It varies between publishers. I have done technical reviews for several. Some pay cash, some will send you a free copy of the book and some do both. IIRC Manning don't pay cash, but do send a copy of the book. Graham.
Re: ADSL again
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 05:41:25PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:18:55PM +0100, Ben wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:09:18PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: The question is do I go for a wires only option and buy my own ADSL modem or do i go for Nildram's managed USB frog at a 25 quid one off charge and then 8 quid a month? Wires only. I have yet to be convinced that anyone reading this list would be better off with a managed router. I am happy with a managed router. It means that when it breaks, I phone and they fix. Or they supply a new one. This is a vary good point. I have a managed router. I also travel a lot and one time while I was abroad it broke. My wife called them and they came and fixed it and I was able to get at my machine again. Sometimes the exta cost is worth it. Graham.
Re: RE efficiency question.
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 09:37:11PM +0100, Shevek wrote:
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Belden Lyman wrote:
pos($_) = 9; # skip first 9 chars
push ext, $1 while /(.{12})/g;
No need for the while.
pos($_) = 9; # skip first 9 chars
push ext, /.{12}/g;
Graham.
Re: applying patterns
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:04:34AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 05:50:35PM -0400, darren chamberlain said:
I use the one from lib.pm:
nodups = grep { ++$h{$_} == 1 } dups;
using grep is the other idiom/technique/method/pattern/whatever that
I've seen I just have a sort of irrational fear of grep stemming from
when I was first learning Perl and someone more experienced than I told
me that you very rarely ever need to use it and 99% of the time people
use it incorrectly.
I don't understand how anyone can say that any construct is used
incorrectly if the result is the desired one. It may be that they
is a better/different way to solve the problem, but thats what perl
is all about TMTOWTDI.
Graham.
Re: {OT} elegant MAC address formatting code?
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:32:55PM +0100, Chris Benson wrote:
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:29:18PM +0100, Chisel Wright wrote:
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:00:24PM +0100, Chris Benson wrote:
Hi, within the last few weeks I've seen a nice bit of code to format
irregular 0:2:7E:4:7:0 style MAC addresses into standard 00027E6437C0
ones.
Not worked out a one-liner but:
s/\b(\w):\b/0$1/g;
s/://g;
perhaps?
What I've done is
$mac = join '', map { sprintf %02x, hex } split /:/, $mac
if $mac =~ /:/;
Which is more that I wanted but keeps the magic one-line :-) I thought
there was a pack() in the version I saw, but I can't work out how.
The use of hex() (once again) fooled me :-(
You mean something like
perl -le '$_ = 0:2:7E:4:7:0; print unpack H*, pack C*, map hex, /\w\w?/g'
00027e040700
perl -le '$_ = 00027e040700; print unpack H*, pack C*, map hex, /\w\w?/g'
00027e040700
Graham.
