Re: London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2013-09-19
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:33:55PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: London Perl Mongers organises technical meetings every two months. The technical meetings are a chance to find out what has been going on in the Perl community, what techniques people are using and how Perl integrates with other software. The next technical meeting will be on the 2013-09-19 from 7pm to 9pm (you may arrive earlier, please sign in at the reception). You have to sign up to attend: see below. This meeting is sponsored by NET-A-PORTER and will be held at their offices in Westfield London near White City/Shepherds Bush. Many thanks to Kristian Flint, NET-A-PORTER and everyone involved for allowing us to use this wonderful venue. Talks Jérôme Étévé: Mason - A Template system for us programmers David Leadbeater: Redis and App:redisp Ash Berlin: SSO with LDAP: making system automators angry Savio Dimatteo: CSS::SpriteMaker in action For more details and to sign up, please visit: http://www.meetup.com/London-Perl-Mongers/events/136132092/ The meeting is this week: please sign up to attend and see you there. Regards, Leon
[ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2013-09-19
London Perl Mongers organises technical meetings every two months. The technical meetings are a chance to find out what has been going on in the Perl community, what techniques people are using and how Perl integrates with other software. The next technical meeting will be on the 2013-09-19 from 7pm to 9pm (you may arrive earlier, please sign in at the reception). You have to sign up to attend: see below. This meeting is sponsored by NET-A-PORTER and will be held at their offices in Westfield London near White City/Shepherds Bush. Many thanks to Kristian Flint, NET-A-PORTER and everyone involved for allowing us to use this wonderful venue. Talks Jérôme Étévé: Mason - A Template system for us programmers David Leadbeater: Redis and App:redisp Ash Berlin: SSO with LDAP: making system automators angry Savio Dimatteo: CSS::SpriteMaker in action For more details and to sign up, please visit: http://www.meetup.com/London-Perl-Mongers/events/136132092/ Regards, Leon
WANTED: Speakers for technical meeting 2013-09-19
Hi all, I'm looking for speakers for a technical meeting on 2013-09-19 in West London. Talks should be about 20 minutes long. Please email me offlist. More details soon. Thanks, Leon.
Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2013-07-25
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 03:17:25PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: http://www.meetup.com/London-Perl-Mongers/events/129091792/ Don't forget, this is today! Léon
Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2013-07-25
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:09:01AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: London Perl Mongers organises technical meetings every two months. The technical meetings are a chance to find out what has been going on in the Perl community, what techniques people are using and how Perl integrates with other software. The next technical meeting will be on the 2013-07-25 from 7pm to 9pm (you may arrive earlier, please sign in at the reception). You have to sign up to attend: see the website. This meeting is sponsored by Square One and will be held at their offices near Liverpool Street. Many thanks to Christine Wong, Square One and everyone involved for allowing us to use this wonderful venue. Talks James Laver: Cool things I've been playing with Alex Balhatchet: App::highlight Léon Brocard: Syncing social media and feeds with IMAP Tom Hukins: Monitoring Your Code with Log4perl http://www.meetup.com/London-Perl-Mongers/events/129091792/ This is on Thursday. See you there! Léon.
[ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2013-07-25
London Perl Mongers organises technical meetings every two months. The technical meetings are a chance to find out what has been going on in the Perl community, what techniques people are using and how Perl integrates with other software. The next technical meeting will be on the 2013-07-25 from 7pm to 9pm (you may arrive earlier, please sign in at the reception). You have to sign up to attend: see the website. This meeting is sponsored by Square One and will be held at their offices near Liverpool Street. Many thanks to Christine Wong, Square One and everyone involved for allowing us to use this wonderful venue. Talks James Laver: Cool things I've been playing with Alex Balhatchet: App::highlight Léon Brocard: Syncing social media and feeds with IMAP Tom Hukins: Monitoring Your Code with Log4perl http://www.meetup.com/London-Perl-Mongers/events/129091792/ Regards, Léon.
Re: WANTED: Speakers for technical talk 2013-07-25
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 09:01:27PM +0200, Joel Bernstein wrote: is it a Perl specific event? I'm not in London so wouldn't be able to make it, but am happy to share this wider if it's open to other related tech talks. This is perl-specific. Please don't share any information until it is properly announced. And please submit some talks, otherwise it won't happen. Léon
WANTED: Speakers for technical talk 2013-07-25
Hi all, I'm looking for speakers for a technical talk on 2013-07-25 around Liverpool Street. If you're interested in speaking on something vaguely Perl-related for around 20 minutes, for example to practice a YAPC::Europe talk, please email me offlist. More details soon. Thanks, Leon
Emergency social tonight with Jos Boumans
Hi everyone, Jos Boumans is in town and we're meeting up with him tonight at The Gunmakers. Please join us: http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Gunmakers%2C_EC1R_5ET Léon
Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl M[ou]ngers February Social - 2013-02-07 - Sekforde Arms, Clerkenwell, EC1R 0HA
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:06:37AM +, Peter Corlett wrote: As the newly minted Booze Minion, I am pleased to announce a new-to-us venue for the social. It's the Sekforde Arms in Clerkenwell, a quiet little backstreet pub that serves a range of Real Ales and food. Ominously, it also has a whisky shelf with some interesting bottles. We have the downstairs at the back of the pub. The Sekforde Arms 34 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0HA http://www.youngs.co.uk/pub-detail.asp?PubID=333 http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Sekforde_Arms%2C_EC1R_0HA This is tonight! See you there, Léon
Dim sum TODAY 12:30 at Pearl Liang
Yet again it's time for dim sum! This time Simon Wistow, our long-lost ex-leader who is on this side of the pond for a change, wants dim sum so we shall oblige. Come join us! Pearl Liang 8 Sheldon Square, W2 6EZ http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Pearl_Liang%2C_W2_6EZ http://www.pearlliang.co.uk/ Today, 12:30 London.pm dim sum is a social event where we meet up every so often at lunch at a different Chinese restaurant, spend about an hour (and about £10 cash) eating tasty dim sum (steamed and fried dumplings), then go our separate ways. PS It's quite hard to find unless you know where you are going. Check the links. See you there, Léon
Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-10-30
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:40:53AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: http://londonpmtech.appspot.com/ Thanks to all the speakers! Don't forget about the London Perl Workshop next month: http://act.yapc.eu/lpw2012/ Leon
Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-10-30
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:40:53AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: The following speakers will present: James Laver: Lovecraftian Perl Alex Balhatchet: Continuous testing Ben Evans: A report back from the JVM Ben's talk description has been expanded slightly to: Through the Looking Glass: A traveller returns from the Java community, and describes the culture inhabitants of that far-off place, and a few general features of the terrain that may partially explain his observations. and we will have a bonus talk: Pedro Figueiredo: The problem with Perl. Please sign up now, we're going to have to close registration early: http://londonpmtech.appspot.com/ See you there, Léon.
[ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-10-30
London Perl Mongers organises technical meetings every two months. The technical meetings are a chance to find out what has been going on in the Perl community, what techniques people are using and how Perl integrates with other software. The next technical meeting will be on the 30th October 2012 from 7pm to 9pm (you may arrive earlier, please sign in at the reception). You have to sign up to attend, see below. This meeting is sponsored by Microsoft Bing and will be held at Microsoft Bing London. Many thanks to Francesco Nidito, Microsoft Bing and everyone involved for allowing us to use this wonderful venue. The following speakers will present: James Laver: Lovecraftian Perl Alex Balhatchet: Continuous testing Ben Evans: A report back from the JVM For more information and to sign up, please visit: http://londonpmtech.appspot.com/ See you there, Léon.
Re: Wanted: Speakers for London.pm Technical Meeting
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 07:53:38PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: I'm trying to organise a technical meeting for the 2012-10-30 in Victoria London. I'm looking for a few speakers for 20 minute talks. Perhaps you might like to practice your London Perl Workshop talk? Could you email me offlist if you're interested? Pretty please? Leon
Wanted: Speakers for London.pm Technical Meeting
Hello everybody! I'm trying to organise a technical meeting for the 2012-10-30 in Victoria London. I'm looking for a few speakers for 20 minute talks. Perhaps you might like to practice your London Perl Workshop talk? Could you email me offlist if you're interested? Cheers, Leon.
Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-08-14
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 07:57:34PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: London Perl Mongers organises technical meetings every two months. The technical meetings are a chance to find out what has been going on in the Perl community, what techniques people are using and how Perl integrates with other software. http://londonpmtech.appspot.com/ Reminder: this is on tuesday! See you there, Leon.
[ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-08-14
London Perl Mongers organises technical meetings every two months. The technical meetings are a chance to find out what has been going on in the Perl community, what techniques people are using and how Perl integrates with other software. The next technical meeting will be on the 14th August 2012 from 7pm to 9pm (you may arrive earlier, please sign in at the reception). You have to sign up to attend, see below. This meeting is sponsored by Photobox and will be held at Google Campus London. Many thanks to James Oughton, Photobox and everyone involved for allowing us to use this wonderful venue. The following speakers will present: Leo Lapworth: Plack Alex Balhatchet: File::CleanupTask David Leadbeater: CPAN Grep For more information and to sign up, please visit: http://londonpmtech.appspot.com/ See you there, Léon.
Wanted: Speakers for London.pm Technical Meeting
Hello everybody! I'm trying to organise a technical meeting for the 2012-08-14 in east London. I'm looking for a few speakers for 20 minute talks. It's the week before YAPC::Europe, so perhaps you might like to practice your YAPC::Europe talk? Could you email me offlist if you're interested? Cheers, Leon.
Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-07-12
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 07:19:00PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: London Perl Mongers organises technical meetings every two months. The technical meetings are a chance to find out what has been going on in the Perl community, what techniques people are using and how Perl integrates with other software. Reminder: this is on Thursday: https://londonpmtech.appspot.com/ See you there, Léon.
Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-07-12
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 11:26:14PM +0100, Sue Spence wrote: Léon has been kindly organising the meetings and will no doubt respond in due course, I just happened across the FT venue page when I was thinking of attending an event there. August is YAPC Europe so there will no doubt be plenty of lead time. Actually I have no shortage of potential venues for future tech meets at the moment, but thanks for the offer. Reminder: technical meeting next week: http://londonpmtech.appspot.com/ Leon
Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-07-12
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 07:19:00PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: London Perl Mongers organises technical meetings every two months. The technical meetings are a chance to find out what has been going on in the Perl community, what techniques people are using and how Perl integrates with other software. https://londonpmtech.appspot.com/ I've updated this with details from all the speakers. This is next week, so please sign up and I'll see you there. Leon
[ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-07-12
London Perl Mongers organises technical meetings every two months. The technical meetings are a chance to find out what has been going on in the Perl community, what techniques people are using and how Perl integrates with other software. The next technical meeting will be on the 12th July 2012 from 7pm to 9pm (you may arrive earlier, please sign in at the reception). You have to sign up to attend, see below. This meeting is sponsored by Photobox and will be held at Google Campus London. Many thanks to James Oughton, Photobox and everyone involved for allowing us to use this wonderful venue. The following speakers will present: Tomas Doran: Messaging, interoperability and log aggregation Eric Johnson: Selenium (More speakers to be confirmed) For more information and to sign up, please visit: https://londonpmtech.appspot.com/ See you there, Léon.
Re: Wanted: Speakers for London.pm Technical Meeting
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 04:26:25PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: I'm trying to organise a technical meeting for the 2012-07-12 in east London. I'm looking for a few speakers for 20 minute talks. Could you email me offlist if you're interested? I'm looking for another talk. Anyone want to repeat a YAPC::NA talk or practice a YAPC::Europe one? Leon
Wanted: Speakers for London.pm Technical Meeting
Hello everybody! I'm trying to organise a technical meeting for the 2012-07-12 in east London. I'm looking for a few speakers for 20 minute talks. Could you email me offlist if you're interested? Cheers, Leon.
Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-05-31
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:11:36PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: London Perl Mongers organises technical meetings every two months. The technical meetings are a chance to find out what has been going on in the Perl community, what techniques people are using and how Perl integrates with other software. The next technical meeting will be on the 31st May 2012 from 7pm to 9pm (you may arrive earlier, please sign in at the reception). You have to sign up to attend, see below. This meeting is sponsored by Webfusion and will be held at the Conway Hall. Many thanks to Barbie, Webfusion and everyone involved for allowing us to use this wonderful venue. The following speakers will present: Paul LeoNerd Evans: Terminal Interface Construction KIT Barbie: Labyrinth is/isn't a Web Framework David Leadbeater: RE2: Faster regexp matching For more information and to sign up, please visit: https://londonpmtech.appspot.com/ This is today! See you there, Leon.
[ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-05-31
London Perl Mongers organises technical meetings every two months. The technical meetings are a chance to find out what has been going on in the Perl community, what techniques people are using and how Perl integrates with other software. The next technical meeting will be on the 31st May 2012 from 7pm to 9pm (you may arrive earlier, please sign in at the reception). You have to sign up to attend, see below. This meeting is sponsored by Webfusion and will be held at the Conway Hall. Many thanks to Barbie, Webfusion and everyone involved for allowing us to use this wonderful venue. The following speakers will present: James Laver: Lovecraftian Perl Paul LeoNerd Evans: Terminal Interface Construction KIT Barbie: Labyrinth is/isn't a Web Framework David Leadbeater: RE2: Faster regexp matching For more information and to sign up, please visit: https://londonpmtech.appspot.com/ See you there, Léon.
Re: Free online courses in computer science / maths + others
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 02:41:44PM +0100, Adam Witney wrote: Some of these courses may be of interest to the people here https://www.coursera.org/ I did the Machine Learning course. It was excellent but watching lectures and working on assignments took more time than I initially expected. It's a great way to keep on learning and it's about time universities opened up. Leon
Emergency social - Tuesday evening (Was: Schwern in London)
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 09:49:24AM +, Gianni Ceccarelli wrote: Schwern is in London. This calls for beer, I asked him on Twitter if he preferred Sunday or Tuesday (which are the days I'm easily free-able), and he said both. On 2012-03-27 (Tuesday) we shall all be going to the Anchor pub with Schwern. It's a pub by the riverside, and if the weather is good it's quite nice to sit by the river sipping foamy beer. Come join us! The Anchor http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Anchor,_SE1_9EF 2012-03-27 from 6.30pmish Leon
Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:25:20PM +, Smylers wrote: Too late, it seems. The event page now says it's full: https://londonpmtech.appspot.com/ If it turns out that some of the people who've signed up can't actually make it, is there a mechanism for them to relinquish their spaces and make them available for others? No. However, I have already slightly overbooked, assuming some people will sign up but not actually turn up. This should teach you to sign up early. Or at least to bribe me early[1]. Leon [1] Orange items welcome
Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 05:09:06PM +, Smylers wrote: I did, as it happens. What I failed to do was spread the word sufficiently quickly among colleagues who aren't London.pm regulars. (So what it possibly teaches me is that I should also sign up early with names of colleagues I'm hoping to persuade to come ...) Thus encouraging more overbooking? This could soon turn into an airline-line revenue management system where we'd charge for entrance and everyone would pay a different amount for entry. And then I'd go bust, be bailed out by the government etc. etc. Luckily we have our sponsors to help keep it free. Thanks Venda! Leon
Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl M[ou]ngers October Social - 2012-02-02 - Somers Town Coffee House, Euston, NW1 1HS
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:41:24PM +, Leo Lapworth wrote: The London.pm February social will be on Thursday the 2nd, at the Somers Town Coffee House, just around the corner from Euston station (now under new management). Somers Town Coffee House 60 Chalton Street Euston, NW1 1HS http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Somers_Town_Coffee_House,_NW1_1HS This is today! I'll be there nice and early. You can recognize me as I will have Amelia, a stuffed camel, with me. I shall also be wearing orange. See you there, Leon.
Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 26th January 2012
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:06:58PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: The next technical meeting will be on the 26th January 2012 from 7pm to 9pm (you may arrive earlier, please sign in at the reception). You have to sign up to attend, see below. It will be hosted by NET-A-PORTER.COM and held at their offices in Westfield London Shopping Centre. Many thanks to Kristian Flint, NET-A-PORTER.COM and everyone involved for allowing us to use this wonderful venue. We have the following great speakers: Gianni Ceccarelli - Dispatch tables inside regexes and nasty tricks in the name of speed Paul Makepeace - Ruby cuteness applied to testing webserving Zefram - Customising ops for semantic fun and performance profit Tomas Doran - Using ZeroMQ and Elasticsearch for log aggregation For more information and to sign up, please visit: http://londonpmtech.appspot.com/ This is this week! Please sign up. See you there, Leon.
Re: Dim sum Thursday 1pm at Pearl Liang
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 01:55:59PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: Yet again it's time for dim sum! This time Ben wants dim sum so we shall oblige. Come join us! Pearl Liang 8 Sheldon Square, W2 6EZ http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Pearl_Liang%2C_W2_6EZ http://www.pearlliang.co.uk/ Thursday 19th January, 1pm London.pm dim sum is a social event where we meet up every Thursday at 1pm at a different Chinese restaurant, spend about an hour (and about £10 cash) eating tasty dim sum (steamed and fried dumplings), then go our separate ways. PS It's quite hard to find unless you know where you are going. Check the links. This is today! Who's coming? See you there, Leon
Dim sum Thursday 1pm at Pearl Liang
Yet again it's time for dim sum! This time Ben wants dim sum so we shall oblige. Come join us! Pearl Liang 8 Sheldon Square, W2 6EZ http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Pearl_Liang%2C_W2_6EZ http://www.pearlliang.co.uk/ Thursday 19th January, 1pm London.pm dim sum is a social event where we meet up every Thursday at 1pm at a different Chinese restaurant, spend about an hour (and about £10 cash) eating tasty dim sum (steamed and fried dumplings), then go our separate ways. PS It's quite hard to find unless you know where you are going. Check the links. See you there, Leon
[ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 26th January 2012
London Perl Mongers organises technical meetings every two months. The technical meetings are a chance to find out what has been going on in the Perl community, what techniques people are using and how Perl integrates with other software. The next technical meeting will be on the 26th January 2012 from 7pm to 9pm (you may arrive earlier, please sign in at the reception). You have to sign up to attend, see below. It will be hosted by NET-A-PORTER.COM and held at their offices in Westfield London Shopping Centre. Many thanks to Kristian Flint, NET-A-PORTER.COM and everyone involved for allowing us to use this wonderful venue. We have the following great speakers: Gianni Ceccarelli - Dispatch tables inside regexes and nasty tricks in the name of speed Paul Makepeace - Ruby cuteness applied to testing webserving Zefram - TBA (One more speaker to be confirmed) For more information and to sign up, please visit: http://londonpmtech.appspot.com/ See you there, Leon.
Wanted: Speakers for London.pm Technical Meeting
Hello everybody! I'm trying to organise a technical meeting for the 26th January 2012. I'm looking for a few speakers for 20 minute talks. Could you email me offlist if you're interested? Cheers, Leon.
Re: Dim sum Tuesday 12:30pm at Pearl Liang (with Jesse)
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 01:55:49PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: Gentle reminder, dear boys and girls, that this is tomorrow: Yet again it's time for dim sum! This time we will have an extra special guest from across the pond: Jesse Vincent. Come have dim sum with us: Pearl Liang 8 Sheldon Square, W2 6EZ http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Pearl_Liang%2C_W2_6EZ http://www.pearlliang.co.uk/ Tuesday 13th December, 12:30pm London.pm dim sum is a social event where we meet up every Tuesday at 12:30pm at a different Chinese restaurant, spend about an hour (and about £10 cash) eating tasty dim sum (steamed and fried dumplings), then go our separate ways. PS It's quite hard to find unless you know where you are going. Check the links. See you there, Leon
Dim sum Tuesday 12:30pm at Pearl Liang (with Jesse)
Yet again it's time for dim sum! This time we will have an extra special guest from across the pond: Jesse Vincent. Come have dim sum with us: Pearl Liang 8 Sheldon Square, W2 6EZ http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Pearl_Liang%2C_W2_6EZ http://www.pearlliang.co.uk/ Tuesday 13th December, 12:30pm London.pm dim sum is a social event where we meet up every Tuesday at 12:30pm at a different Chinese restaurant, spend about an hour (and about £10 cash) eating tasty dim sum (steamed and fried dumplings), then go our separate ways. PS It's quite hard to find unless you know where you are going. Check the links. See you there, Leon
Dim sum Thursday 1pm at Pearl Liang
You know, I miss dim sum. I miss it so much that I want to have dim sum on Thursday. Come have dim sum with me: Pearl Liang 8 Sheldon Square, W2 6EZ http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Pearl_Liang%2C_W2_6EZ http://www.pearlliang.co.uk/ Thursday 24th November, 1pm It's just an informal gathering. We turn up, grab some food, then disappear into London. I'll be the one with the camel. PS It's quite hard to find unless you know where you are going. Check the links. See you there, Leon
Re: London.pm Sichuan TianFu Buyi Thursday 1pm
On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 10:31:04AM +, Leon Brocard wrote: It's time to have another Sichuan lunch meeting. This restaurant has been mentioned on list before (it used to be called Bamboo House) - it does amazing (sometimes spicy) Sichuan dishes. This is today! London.pm Sichuan is a social event where we meet up every Thursday at 1pm at a different Sichuan restaurant, spend about an hour (and about £10 cash) eating tasty Sichuan food, then go our separate ways. TianFu Buyi Thursday 1pm 37-39 Bulwer Street W12 8AR Shephard's Bush Market, Shephard's Bush Tube http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=W12+8AR http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Tian_Fu%2C_W12_8AR https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Szechuan_cuisine See you there! Léon
London.pm Sichuan TianFu Buyi Thursday 1pm
It's time to have another Sichuan lunch meeting. This restaurant has been mentioned on list before (it used to be called Bamboo House) - it does amazing (sometimes spicy) Sichuan dishes. London.pm Sichuan is a social event where we meet up every Thursday at 1pm at a different Sichuan restaurant, spend about an hour (and about £10 cash) eating tasty Sichuan food, then go our separate ways. TianFu Buyi Thursday 1pm 37-39 Bulwer Street W12 8AR Shephard's Bush Market, Shephard's Bush Tube http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=W12+8AR http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Tian_Fu%2C_W12_8AR https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Szechuan_cuisine See you there! Léon
Re: London.pm Dim Sum New World Thursday 1pm
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:58:27PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: Many moons have passed since Marcus last ate stripy jelly. Clearly the planets have fallen back into alignment on this momentous day though. Help us celebrate this by joining us at New World today, where by coincidence such exotic treats may be found. London.pm dim sum is a social event where we meet up every Thursday at 1pm at a different Chinese restaurant, spend about an hour (and about £10 cash) eating tasty dim sum (steamed and fried dumplings), then go our separate ways. New World Thursday 1pm 1 Gerrard Place W1D 5PA Leicester Square Tube http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=W1D+5PA http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?New_World%2C_W1D_5PA This is today! Who's coming? Leon
London.pm Dim Sum New World Thursday 1pm
Many moons have passed since Marcus last ate stripy jelly. Clearly the planets have fallen back into alignment on this momentous day though. Help us celebrate this by joining us at New World today, where by coincidence such exotic treats may be found. London.pm dim sum is a social event where we meet up every Thursday at 1pm at a different Chinese restaurant, spend about an hour (and about £10 cash) eating tasty dim sum (steamed and fried dumplings), then go our separate ways. New World Thursday 1pm 1 Gerrard Place W1D 5PA Leicester Square Tube http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=W1D+5PA http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?New_World%2C_W1D_5PA See you there
Re: Emergency social for dha on 2011-10-09 at the Anchor, SE1 9EF
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 08:36:35AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: dha is in town soon. He hails from across the pond, from the delights of New York Perl Mongers. It is traditional for us to meet him on the banks of the Thames. And so we shall. Sunday, 9 October, from 6pm Anchor pub 34 Park Street, London SE1 9EF http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Anchor%2C_SE1_9EF This is today! See you there, Leon
Re: Impending arrival
On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 05:04:40PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: Well, I'm on my way to your side of the world soon. Looking forward to seeing a bunch of you on Sunday (What time is the meeting, by the way?). I'll answer this one. Generally from 6pm, but the real answer is whenever you can make it. I've got a family lunch to go to beforehand. Leon
Emergency social for dha on 2011-10-09 at the Anchor, SE1 9EF
dha is in town soon. He hails from across the pond, from the delights of New York Perl Mongers. It is traditional for us to meet him on the banks of the Thames. And so we shall. Sunday, 9 October, from 6pm Anchor pub 34 Park Street, London SE1 9EF http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Anchor%2C_SE1_9EF See you there! Leon
Re: Coming to London
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 02:47:46AM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: It looks as though, barring highly unlikely events, I shall be in London from October 7th to 11th. Any chance of a get-together? But of course! What area are you staying in? How about something on Saturday afternoon or Sunday evening? Leon
Re: Coming to London
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 04:31:54AM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: Assuming things go to plan, I should be staying at the Chesterfield, near the Piccadilly side of Green Park. I think Sunday evening would work best for me. Sounds good. Mayfair pubs tend not to be open on Sunday, so how about a trip to The Anchor by the Thames? http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Anchor%2C_SE1_9EF Leon
Re: London.pm Sichuan TianFu Buyi Thursday 1pm
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Léon Brocarda...@astray.com wrote: It's time to have another Sichuan lunch meeting. This restaurant has been mentioned on list before (it used to be called Bamboo House) - it does amazing (sometimes spicy) Sichuan dishes. A gentle reminder, dear reader, that this event is on today. Come have some spicy food! London.pm Sichuan is a social event where we meet up every Thursday at 1pm at a different Sichuan restaurant, spend about an hour (and about £10 cash) eating tasty Sichuan food, then go our separate ways. TianFu Buyi Thursday 1pm 37-39 Bulwer Street W12 8AR Shephard's Bush Market, Shephard's Bush Tube http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=W12+8AR http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Tian_Fu%2C_W12_8AR https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Szechuan_cuisine See you there! Léon
Re: Best practice for unit tests that rely on internet access?
On 29/04/11 02:15, Toby Wintermute wrote: c) Try to test if there's a working connection, and silently skip the tests if not? (Risks skipping tests if the connect fails for other reasons than no outbound HTTP allowed) This module might be useful for the test: http://search.cpan.org/dist/LWP-Online/ If the module is all about testing a live service then by all means test it. Unless it takes too long, or costs money, or might change in the future when you don't have time to update the module... Leon
London.pm Dim sum Thursday 1pm: Shanghai Blues
It's time for a new restaurant this week. I've been avoiding this one as it's a little more expensive than the others, but it just got a fabulous review, so it's time to check it out: Shanghai Blues Thursday 1pm 193-197 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7BD http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC1V7BD http://www.shanghaiblues.co.uk/ http://www.doshermanos.co.uk/2008/08/shanghai-blues.html See you there! Léon, London.pm Dim Sum Tsar
Re: London.pm Dim sum Thursday 1pm: Leong's Legend
2008/8/27 Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This week it's back to the only dim sum restaurant in London which has my name in its title. Not because of that, but because it really was quite exceptionally good last time. Why not come and have some tasty Taiwanese dim sum? Leong's Legend Thursday 1pm 4 Macclesfield Street, W1D 6AX http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Leong%27s_Legend%2C_W1D_6AX http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=W1D6AX http://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/leongs-legend-soho/ This is today! See you there, Leon
Re: London.pm Dim sum Thursday 1pm: Leong's Legend
2008/8/3 Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/8/1 Jesse Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Perhaps we could schedule a make-up Dim Sum, say for the morning of the 12th? Is there good dim sum in Copenhagen? http://www.royalgarden.dk/ looks promising... We ended up going to Royal Garden during YAPC::Europe and it was pretty good. The staff actually thanked us at the end of dinner for knowing about dim sum. Leon
London.pm Dim sum Thursday 1pm: Leong's Legend
This week it's back to the only dim sum restaurant in London which has my name in its title. Not because of that, but because it really was quite exceptionally good last time. Why not come and have some tasty Taiwanese dim sum? Leong's Legend Thursday 1pm 4 Macclesfield Street, W1D 6AX http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Leong%27s_Legend%2C_W1D_6AX http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=W1D6AX http://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/leongs-legend-soho/ See you there! Leon, London.pm Dim Sum Tsar PS Please let me know if you plan on coming
Re: is London.pm purely a social group
Andy Ford sent the following bits through the ether: Anyone give me some pointers on what I should be thinking about If I decide to go ahead with this This might be useful: How to run a successful group: http://www.pm.org/successful/ Personally I'm convinced it's about the regular meetings, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Never fork with Unix, it spawns children
Re: Module dependencies
Tony Bowden sent the following bits through the ether: Obviously depends on Module::CPANTS being correct, but that's an SEP... I've given up Module::CPANTS to Thomas Klausner. So it's not my P! ;-) May he run with it and do all the things I would do if I didn't have seventeen billion and four things to do. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Any closet is a walk-in closet if you try hard enough
Re: Factory Classes
Dave Cross sent the following bits through the ether: I've done something similar before with Symbol::Approx::Sub, but I'm not sure that the interface I designed there was as useful as it could be, so I'm open to suggestions. No, I wasn't terribly happy with it either. I've written this bit of code so often that it really needs to be a seperate module so that we can all do it A Better Way. However, every time I look, the factory modules on CPAN aren't quite there: http://search.cpan.org/search?query=factorymode=module So, I don't know, but good luck. I'm sure there's a good module or two in there somewhere (a la, return a list of modules which have the same base name as 'Foo::Plugin::'... Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... The sun ain't yellow, its chicken
Re: Prevayler
Steve Keay sent the following bits through the ether: Has anything like this been done in perl? There is a ruby implementation of this, so it can't be that hard :). http://search.cpan.org/dist/Class-Prevayler/ It's a nice idea with a little too much hype, but I generally don't have databases which fit in memory. I mean, otherwise they'd be in hashes anyway ;-) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... The statement is now easier to understand. It is also wrong
[PARTY] Carnival
This weekend is the Notting Hill Carnival on Sun and Mon: http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/carnival/ It's a big street party with millions of people and it goes down my road so I'll be partying both days. I recommend the Sunday rather than the Monday, when it's more crowded. Feel free to join me in my drinking, soca- and soundsystem-dancing, goat-curry-eating and general partying. Meeting up in the afternoon on either day is doable (mobile phones, people), and on Sunday evening I will have a chilled party in my flat: Basement flat, 39A Chepstow Road, W2 5BP: http://uk.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=publicdb=pcpc=W25BP Have a good bank holiday weekend! Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... I'd love to go out with you, but I have to floss my cat
Re: [OT] SQL woes
Toby Corkindale sent the following bits through the ether: Ditto. Don't understand the hype around MySQL, personally. People still use relational databases? Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... We're sorry, but reality is not in service at this time
Re: perl and marketing
Simon Wistow sent the following bits through the ether: Does Perl need better PR? No, it needs people to just do it. The right place for this discussion is the perl advocacy mailing list, which seems to be fairly quiet. FWIW The Ponie press release got sent on the Canon PR newswire and targeted at various journalists and we still failed to get any major writeups. http://opensource.fotango.com/ponie/ponie-pr.html Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... This is abuse. Arguments are down the hall
[JOB] Security in Amsterdam
Hi, below is the offical job advert, you can also address questions directly to at quentyn.taylor at canon-europe.com The Canon Security Group based at Canon Europa NV in Amstelveen (Amsterdam) is currently recruiting a Security Analyst. The candidate we search for will be a highly motivated IT professional with a passion for security within an IT framework. While no direct experience in a security focused organisation is a prerequisite, you should be a technical specialist in one or more of the following areas: Linux Networks (Cisco etc) NT/Win2k/Win XP administration Unix (various flavors) The applicant will have the opportunity to grow in to a highly motivated, respected and empowered team. Necessary training will be given however it is expected that any applicant will have a high level of self motivation, have a proactive attitude and will be able to utilize this opportunity to practice self-paced learning. It is expected that any successful applicant will have an understanding of, and an aptitude for the security industry and will have a good knowledge of current security issues facing an organisation such as Canon Europe. A competitive salary and package will be offered alongside what represents an excellent opportunity to develop in the security field. It is within current Canon Europa planning that this position has a fixed period up until December 2004. Should you wish to apply to this position please send a copy of your CV and short letter of application to Nicholas van Santen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Should you wish to obtain more information on this position please email any questions to the same address. All applicants must be able to work within the European Union. No work permit applications will be made. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... * OLX 3 * Windows is to OS/2 what Etch-a-Sketch is to art.
Re: Messing with spammers
Peter Sergeant sent the following bits through the ether: http://grou.ch/bounce.txt I had been thinking of using Mail::DeliveryStatus::BounceParser. Wonderful that CPAN thing, eh? Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Don't look back, the lemmings are gaining on you
Re: Siesta party
Rafael Garcia-Suarez sent the following bits through the ether: Bechamel !~ Spanish food (Bechamel was a French cook, and AFAIK he's one of the first persons to have his name attached to a recipe.) He's unlikely to have created it of course: http://www.whatscookingamerica.net/History/BechamelSauce.htm But can you match the name of the dish to the correct musician? http://www.jy-muggeridge.freeserve.co.uk/mult3.htm Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Useless invention no. 404: Caffeine-free Diet Coke
Re: Bra
Andrew Savige sent the following bits through the ether: Just wondering if Leon has yet received delivery of the goods he successfully bid for at the YAPC::Europe auction. I'm eager to see any photos of said goods (just for my ascii art collection, you see). The goods have indeed arrived. I will not take any photos of it. I may bring[1] it to the next social. It is a black Victoria's Secret bra. Leon [1] not wear -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... With a rubber duck, one's never alone
Re: Orange
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: They are planning to auction the colour of search.cpan.org tonight at OSCON The auction was mad and crazy. There were two groups: the orange group and the keep it as it is group. We started bidding at $100. Increments of $25. Up up up, higher higher higher. It got hectic, we got more money. Eventually, I made a bid of $1000. They made a bid of $1025. I stopped. They won. They paid $1025 to keep the site as it is. Mad. However, in a gesture of good faith, Graham decided to let search.cpan.org be orange for one month. Thanks Graham! Leon ps the auction raised more than $4000 for TPF -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Mr. Worf, blow the Windows-powered Borg ship out of this Universe!
Re: OSCON
Andy Wardley sent the following bits through the ether: So who is going to be at OSCON? From Fotango: Arthur, James and myself. Will London.pm field a team in the quiz (I'm up for it!) Jon has recently spawned and so there's no quiz this year. I sure there will be other fun things. Or we can organise an unofficial quiz ;-) Will beer be drunk? Yes. Much. Many. A lot. Will Leon paint the town orange? Poor little me? Nah. All these questions, and more, are being asked right now. By very curious people. As for me, I'm arriving at 1605 on Saturday on flight AC8122 from Vancouver, and staying at the Marriot. We're there Sat-Sat and James and I staying at the Mark Spencer Hotel but will probably be in the Marriot a lot. Prolly see some of you at the airport... or on a bus... or sharing a taxi... or in the bar... or in the orange paint shop... It'll be great! We sit by the bar, plan new versions of the Template Toolkit and Perl, and hack the planet! Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Sucks Syntax
Re: list all installed perl modules
Redvers Davies sent the following bits through the ether: Speak to shiny, orange acme and acquire cpanstats. http://www.astray.com/cpanstats/ Look, okay, I'm sorry. I broke cpanstats a while ago and have zero free time to fix it. I'm sorry, very sorry. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... (D)inner not ready: (A)bort (R)etry (P)izza
Re: Using LWP for protected pages
Paul Johnson sent the following bits through the ether: Anyone got any time to write a Javascript library and integrate it into WWW:Mechanize? Handily, the mozilla guys went and wrote a JavaScript library for us: http://www.mozilla.org/js/spidermonkey/ And waddaya know, it already has a Perl wrapper: http://search.cpan.org/author/CLAESJAC/JavaScript/ Now it's just a simple matter of programming ;-), Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Better... stronger... faster!
Re: ICFP This Weekend
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/icfpcontest/ It's up now. It's a race-car optimisation problem. Fairly interesting, as there is lots of research out there. But I so don't have time to actually do it, sigh. So, anyone else trying it out? Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... You are in a twisty little maze of Unix versions, all different
ICFP This Weekend
The ICFP Programming Competition is this weekend. It starts tonight at midnight and finished at midnight on Monday. I don't have much free time this weekend but will probably give it a go if it's an interesting project: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/icfpcontest/ Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Why you say you no bunny rabbit when you have little powder-puff tail?
[PUB] Meet Jos on Sat
Jos is in town thus we are going to the pub to show him how to drink. When: This Saturday (28th), from 6pm-ish Where: The Window Castle http://grault.net/cgi-bin/grubstreet.pl?Windsor_Castle,_W8_7AR You are all welcome to join us! Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Useless invention no. 404: Low salt brine
Re: [PUB] Meet Jos on Sat
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: Where: The Window Castle Window Castle? I must be going mad. Windsor Castle, as in the URL of course. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... I'm sorry, Reality is not in service at this time
Re: [sigs] a small collection
Peter Sergeant sent the following bits through the ether: Windows email viruses also often send themselves from seemingly trusted users. My point was more that you shouldn't simply assume someone you know's .sig is harmless. So you code review every module before you install them with CPAN / CPANPLUS? Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... I am Homer of Borg! Prepare to be...OOo! Donuts!!!
[JOB] Windows admin
Fotango is currently looking for a very skilled Windows admin. Please send CVs to me, and I'll forward them on. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... What's brown and sticky? A stick!
Re: DBD::Pg - insert_id
Raf sent the following bits through the ether: It's very annoying, that there doesn't appear to be a standard for this. FWIW it's been brought up on dbi-dev recently and DBI may wrap all the methods someday. Can I be any more vague? Possibly. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Sucks Syntax
Re: [JOB][HERESY] Python / wxPython GUI developer
Nicholas Clark sent the following bits through the ether: 3: at least one Python job exists in London. If there are London.py (or the moral equivalent) meetings I'd love to go to them. I've been reading the Python Cookbook and it's all quite interesting apart from the whitespace. Also, the python-uk list is a little quiet. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... H lp! S m b d st l ll th v w ls fr m m k yb rd!
Re: [JOB][HERESY] Python / wxPython GUI developer
Lusercop sent the following bits through the ether:
... Hlp! Smbd stl ll th vwls frm m kbrd! (my favourite)
Thanks, applied.
Leon
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Re: IRC
Gareth Kirwan sent the following bits through the ether: Is it my client, or has IRC gone down ? ( I was using someone's kindly donated temporary geekflat.org host to connect to ) We moved the IRC server to another machine, which should be fine now. DNS appears to have propogated, so irc.london.pm.org should work from now on. It's on the same machine as geekflat.org, as it so happens. You can of course use irc.rhizomatic.net and randomly get one of the many IRC servers in the network. Leon ps I'm trying to get london.rhizomatic.net dns updated, but lenzo never replies to my email pps I hate computers -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... All in all it's just a... 'nother brick in the wall!
irc server
dabox, the current london.pm irc server, has gone boom. We've, errr, moved forward our plans to migrate to a new irc server. Please connect to geekflat.org #london.pm until DNS wakes up and does the right thing. Thanks, Leon ps I blame Magnus -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... If I were you, who'd be me?
Re: The Perl Color?
Mark Fowler sent the following bits through the ether: So the Perl Mounger colour is Mango orange? Leon, I blame you. Unfortunately I am currently in Portugal having fights with Haskell and .NET people. Otherwise I would clearly have brought up the fact that orange is clearly the One True Colour. Honest. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Famous last words - You and what army?
Re: Apache::Template
Toby Corkindale sent the following bits through the ether: Is the front-end important to be written in TT, or rather the publish end? The front end is fine (and very pretty) as it is. However, on the publish end it'd be nice if there was an easy-to-use TT burner. Of course, I mean that in the oh my god I have so little free time and I need to finish those slides and do all that stuff at work before thursday where I'm off to Portugal for a conference, I really hope somebody else does it as it's at the bottom of my todo list kind of way. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Apple (c) 6024 b.c., Adam Eve
Dim sum today
A few of us are meeting for lunch today. We're meeting in Chinatown for dim sum. Please come join us! 1pm at New World (Gerrard Place, W1D 5PA) http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=publicpc=W1D5PAcat=res Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Barium: what you do with dead chemists
Re: [ANNOUNCE] Signup for Tech Meet Mon 14th April + Tonight Social
Earle Martin sent the following bits through the ether: Why has nobody pointed out that it's just a BOX TO ENTER YOUR NAME? I don't know about you, but I really like just being able to turn up at conferences and meetings. It's a barrier to entry. I didn't go to a BSD meet a while ago because I hadn't signed up to it and it was too late to sign up. That sucks. Leon ps I love Yahoo! -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... DOC files? We don't need NO STINKIN' DOC FILES!
Re: [ANNOUNCE] Signup for Tech Meet Mon 14th April + Tonight Social
Nicholas Clark sent the following bits through the ether: YAPC::Europe::UK::London::Victoria::Yahoo::Basement::2003::04::14::Evening At the DPW I got a special customised orange badge. Will this be the case at the tech meet? Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Okay - right after this one we're BACK to the TOPIC
Re: IPC and buffering wierdness...
Shevek sent the following bits through the ether: So Apache must be buffering it This may be of use: http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/porting.html#NPH__Non_Parsed_Headers__scripts Leon ps the mod_perl guide really is quite good -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... SYSTEM ERROR: press F13 to continue...
CPAN site
This is terrible, terrible: http://www.cpan.org/ Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... It's only ones and zeros
Re: PHP developers are evil
Kim Sinton sent the following bits through the ether: I read a post you made in 2001 about having PHP run on the parrot backend. How is this project going and where could I read more about it. There hasn't been much discussion of it recently. We had a couple of ideas, but the PHP source code wasn't very easy to understand and the authors weren't very receptive to questions. However, if you're interested in following this up, please do. The mailing list you probably want to be on is perl6-internals: http://dev.perl.org/lists Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Just do it
Re: c email libraries
Simon Wistow sent the following bits through the ether: Does such a beast exist? Dunno, but Simon's Perl Email Project looks promising: http://search.cpan.org/author/SIMON/Email-Simple/ Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much
Re: Perl 6 Apocalypse 6
Chris Devers sent the following bits through the ether:
And Apocalypse 7, too.
It is? I see no mention of it on perl.com, {dev,use}.perl.org, etc.
See the bottom of http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/03/07/apocalypse6.html?page=13
Leon
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Re: Test::More and deliberately failing tests
Simon Wistow sent the following bits through the ether: If I was doing something with AUTOLOAD and wanted to check, using Test::More that invalid methods were being croaked properly. How would I do this? You're trying to test exceptions. You'd want Test::Exception http://search.cpan.org/author/ADIE/Test-Exception-0.15/Exception.pm Leon ps there are a lot of Test:: modules, aren't there? -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Keyboard? How quaint! - Scotty
Re: Perl Code Optimizer
Nigel Hamilton sent the following bits through the ether: I've been thinking about ways I can make my Perl modules run faster. It's hard to guess where your code is slow. Microoptimising isn't really going to make that much difference. Changing algorithms is much more likely. To find out where your code really _is_ slow, you should benchmark it with Devel::DProf. Trying to optimise anything which is taking less that 1% of your total time is probably not worth it. Why not try this on your code and report back the results? Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Bother, said Pooh as the brakes went out!
Re: Stokers Required
Earle Martin sent the following bits through the ether: This whole self-teaching thing really isn't working out. Where can I hire someone patient for one-on-one Perl lessons, and how much will it cost me? I wonder if more people are interested in this kind of thing. Is anyone interested in a weekly learning Perl evening? Perhaps something like reading through Learning Perl a chapter a week with assignments, a mailing list, and a real life meet every week. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... The Lab called,. Your brain is ready!
Birthday drinks
I'm getting older, again. This time I'm abandoning cosy Notting Hill for drinks around my workplace in fashionable Hoxton. You're all very welcome to pass by for a cocktail or two. When: Wed 26th February 2002, 7pmish Where: Grand Central, 93 Great Eastern Street, EC2A 3HZ (Old Street tube) http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=publicpc=EC2A3HZcat=res See you there, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Mr. Worf, blow the Windows-powered Borg ship out of this Universe!
YAPC::Europe War
This email got sent to the YAPC::Europe committee mailing list. I thought I'd share it all with you. It's slightly worrying that USians are taking it personally. FWIW my reply was YAPC is a non-political organisation and run by volunteers. Subject: [yapc-comm] Meeting Location To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 04:18:44 -0500 It's a shame that YAPC will exclude many potential attendees by being held in a country that has so soon forgotten how the western allies went to war to free THEM from tyranny and oppression in WW II, and now flaunts itself against those very allies when they are attempting to disarm yet another ruthless tyrant. I would dare say not ONE French citizen would have opposed western involvement when THEIR country was being overrun by Hitler's armies. Could it just _possibly_ be that France and its cohorts are more afraid of losing lucrative business interests than in seeing justice done? It's such a shame! [NAME SNIPPED] -- Don't look for me -- I'm staying in the land of the free. Leon PS Please don't turn this into too much of a political flame war -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Computational Physicist and all around nice guy
Re: YAPC::Europe War
Shevek sent the following bits through the ether: You have to be less than a hundred years old. Living in Afghanistan is fine. Apparently they are quite happy with their readers being one year old too. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... It's hard to RTFM when you can't find the FM..
Re: Next Gen CPAN
Simon Wistow sent the following bits through the ether: And I was thinking about CPAN. Or CPAN v2. Or NextPAN or whatever. Do you mean doing new things to code on the current CPAN? Or making your own CPAN with new features? Or having new metadata about the current CPAN? Automatic reporting of test failures, possible refusal of a module from CPAN if it doesn't have a certain amount of Test coverage. Maybe integrated CPANSTATs so that we can see if things like LWP::Simple But if you enforce more controls on CPAN, surely people are less likely to upload code? Stricter control of namespaces: At the moment CPAN is a seperate entity than the modules list. You could argue that everyone ignores the modules list thesedays thanks to search.cpan.org and CPANPLUS. Ability to have mutliple versions: To do this properly would need perl to be changed. Better support for installing applications: Does PAR help? http://search.cpan.org/author/AUTRIJUS/PAR/ Better integration with various packaging systems: CPANPLUS 0.50 is attempting to do this. Multiple Authors: Searching for function : Trust Matrices : Of course, the real question is what is the problem you're trying to solve? Leon ps cpanstats will be rolled into cpanplus in order to get wider distribution and usage -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Calvin, we will not have an anatomically correct snowman!
Re: CPANSTATS
Henrik Tougaard sent the following bits through the ether: I have just tried it, and the results of the danish jury appeared very quickly on the site - including all our internal and not-so-usefull-to-others modules, none of which are on CPAN. Perhaps you should restrict the list to those that are on CPAN (or perhaps even those on the modules list). Thanks to Mark, the latest version of the client has an --ignore option, which you can use to ignore your local modules. Unfortunately, detecting whether a module is on CPAN isn't trivial. Download it here: http://www.astray.com/cpanstats/ Leon ps and it would help if search.cpan.org were opensource too -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Hailing frequencies open, Captain
Re: CPANSTATS
Shevek sent the following bits through the ether: It should have a test mode to say what it will upload so you can test your regexes before running live. Of course by this stage, the whole ease of use thing is a little down the pan. Mark provided a --dryrun patch which does just this. It's in the latest version. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... I'll be Bach - Johann Sebastian Schwarzenegger
