Re: Robot turtles
I'm not aware of any 3-8 year olds in this group, am I missing the point? Are you trolling again? On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org wrote: Aren't you still living in Austria? Child abuse is practically a national sport, it seems. On 23 September 2013 15:25, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 02:20:40PM +0100, Will Crawford wrote: On 23 September 2013 13:58, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote: ... But E seems to be more interested in rockets than water*. Maybe she'll become a rocket scientist. Or, if the hydrophobia is strong enough, a hovercraft engine? She certainly seems to have enough energy. But I'm not sure how to harness it effectively. Will I get into trouble with the authorities if I build a child-sized hamster wheel? Will the feed-in tariff make it worth me connecting it to the grid? :-) Nicholas Clark
Re: Using grep on undefined array
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Mark Overmeer m...@overmeer.net wrote:
* Andrew Beverley (a...@andybev.com) [130813 23:24]:
Could someone please explain to me why the following outputs an empty
string rather than *?
@fields != @$fields, which is causing the confusion.
I don't think the original poster is confusing those two, and when I
applied 'use strict' to the original code (with the sub) it didn't help (no
warnings or errors). The bit I'm stuck on is why does
my @fields = grep($_ ne 'domain', @$fields);
autovivify $fields but
my @fields = @$fields;
does not.
use strict;
sub get()
{ my $fields = shift;
# my @fields = grep($_ ne 'domain', @$fields); # autovivifies
$fields
# my @fields = @$fields; # does not autovivify fields
}
get();
Re: Perl School on Saturday
You should look into doing a Webinar Matt On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: Quoting Mark Stewart m...@originalstewart.com: I would like to attend but cannot make this Saturday. Do you have a podcast or the like I can download, even for a fee? Apparently what I need here is a FAQ :-/ Dave...
Re: PHP community
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Jérôme Étévé jerome.et...@gmail.comwrote: , Perl remaining significantly more popular than PHP on the US job market. I'm probably missing something (it's been a long day) but I don't really understand that graph. If I click on the 'Perl jobs' link it returns ~ 41,000 jobs and if I click on the 'PHP jobs' link it returns ~ 281,000 jobs.
Re: 25 Years of Perl
1/ Technical What CPAN modules deserve to be mentioned as part of Perl's history? Which Perl infrastructure projects are (or were) important? Are there any other technical things that need to be covered? Has the CPAN shell always been there? Discovering that made me life a lot easier and made me feel less like I had to be sysadmin to get the best out of the language. Matt
Re: 25 Years of Perl
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: What CPAN modules deserve to be mentioned as part of Perl's history? Which Perl infrastructure projects are (or were) important? Are there any other technical things that need to be covered? Templating modules (embperl, Template Toolkit and Mason) seemed a considerable step-forward for me at the time and hopefully contributed to more maintainable code. Matt
Re: 25 Years of Perl
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: Yeah. Got TT and Mason on my list. Was Embperl ever really important. I know I have a strong aversion to it (and I think you might also have the same aversion - engendered by the same project). That project was the only one where I used a proper templating system, so I felt obliged to mention it :-) I did struggle to find others using it though, when searching for support/online resources/etc (although Gerald himself was always very helpful)
Re: Brainbench perl test?
And besides, I don't think I'd really want to work with a programmer who didn't know what the Fibonacci sequence is :-) I dunno. Think of the teaching opportunities :) My concern would be, given that interviews are already a fairly stressful situation, that the developer familiar with Fibonacci is immediately put at ease. I know I can often rattle off the answer to something I know far more quickly and in a confident manner, than something I'm seeing for the first time. Am I a good enough interviewer to distinguish a good developer, and someone who's seen or coded the problem before ? No. For that reason, I would have thought there were other, better, recursion problems out there I could use. Matt
Re: [ANNOUNCE] IMPORTANT: change of venue TONIGHT
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Leo Lapworth l...@cuckoo.org wrote: Firstly apologies, the pub for tonight has just told us they are closed / sold out! Co-incidentally I was about to post about this. You're better off at a different pub, I was there on Friday and they'd run out of all beer except Fosters by 9pm. Plus the staff seemed exceptionally clueless. It was as if Mum and Dad had gone away and left the children in charge. Shame as I'm sure it used to be quite nice. Hopefully it'll pick up again. Cheers, Matt
Re: Impending arrival
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 Oct 2011, at 12:49, Ashley Hindmarsh wrote: http://www.o2shepherdsbushempire.co.uk/event/31298/caravan-performing-songs-from-the-classic-album-in-tickets Looking at the venue site they only offering tickets for level 3 (Up in the Gods), which usually means they are getting close to selling-out. The online booking will give you the option of email tickets for £2.25 + usual bkg fee, but would be the safest bet. This also means you get a little sit down. Which is nice. Plus you don't want to be in the mosh-pit when Curved Air take to the stage.
Re: Coming to London
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:47 AM, David H. Adler d...@panix.com wrote: Also, while I'm here, anyone interested in seeing Caravan at Shepard's Bush on Saturday the 8th? I'm pretty sure I'm never going to get to see them on this side of the Atlantic. A Caravan loving friend advises that Richard Sinclair and David Sinclair won't be performing and that Richard Coughlan is now so decrepit they've brought in another drummer, whilst he has been demoted to just playing percussion. But don't let that put you off. Matt Freake
Re: Writing About Perl
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Jason Clifford ja...@ukfsn.org wrote: On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 11:39 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: So, purely hypothetically... If a popular Linux magazine had given you the opportunity to write a 3000 word article giving a practical project-based demonstration of how Perl had moved on in the last ten years, what would you do? What would you write about? 10 years ago the popular view was the perl always ended up with an unmaintainable code base and that it was not very easy to implement. I'd suggest something to show how the use of CPAN makes it easy to produce big projects without writing lots of code and that the code produced is easy to maintain. I'd also consider doing something on top of Plack and a popular web framework. As someone who used to mostly code Perl but mostly doesn't anymore (and re-joined this list to find out more about what the state-of-the-art in the world of the Camel was) this is the kind of thing I'd be interested in. I do read those kind of magazines, but no idea if I'd be the target audience for the article. Matt
