Re: [dancer-users] Sad news regarding James Aitken (LoonyPandora), Dancer contributor and pluign author
That's awful. He was a great bloke, and I enjoyed our chats on #dancer. On 13 Aug 2014, at 10:23, David Precious dav...@preshweb.co.uk wrote: Hi all, (Posted this to dancer-users first; it was suggested that it be posted to london-pm too as several mongers had met/knew James.) Sadly, my friend and colleague James Aitken (LoonyPandora/JAITKEN), who contributed to Dancer and wrote several Dancer plugins, died unexpectedly last week. He was hit by a car back in June and suffered head injuries, but had mostly recovered - but then took a sudden turn for the worse, and passed away last week. Details as to exactly what happened are still sketchy at this point. Due to how unexpected it all was and the fact he has no immediate family / next of kin, he will receive a very very basic state-funded pauper's funeral unless enough money is raised to cover the cost of a proper funeral - so his ex-girlfriend set up a fundraising page to accept donations towards the cost: http://gogetfunding.com/project/james-aitken-s-funeral If you used his code and found it useful, and have a couple of quid to spare, any donations would be very much appreciated. If you cannot, but he or his code made a difference to you, you can still leave a comment there if you'd like. Dave P -- David Precious (bigpresh) dav...@preshweb.co.uk http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ www.preshweb.co.uk/twitter www.preshweb.co.uk/linkedinwww.preshweb.co.uk/facebook www.preshweb.co.uk/cpanwww.preshweb.co.uk/github
Re: PDF creation?
On a similar subject, what PDF (or even text, assuming I can find something to extract the text on a page by page basis) indexing solutions are there out there in Perl? On 22 Apr 2013, at 11:42, Kieren Diment dim...@gmail.com wrote: Similarly one can use pandoc (markdown to pdf and many other formats including pod and TeX) in the same way. http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc I really like pandoc, although it is not bug free. On 22/04/2013, at 8:28 PM, Peter Corlett wrote: On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 07:43:11AM -0400, Mark Fowler wrote: My *favourite* approach, which is almost certainly not the consensus answer, is to generate a LaTeX document (e.g. using Template.pm) and then run that through xelatex to generate a PDF. This does however require you to learn how to drive LaTeX and how to trawl CTAN etc for useful packages. (FWIW, pretty much all of the useful LaTeX packages are already in Debian.) The template in this case would be the LaTeX preamble that pulls in and configures all of the packages you use in your document. You get multi-line text, tables, page reflowing and all sorts of other goodies for free.
Re: API wrapper best practices?
You mean apart from doing all the things you just said you're not going to do? On 23 Mar 2013, at 16:01, Dave Hodgkinson da...@hodgkinson.org wrote: So I'm writing an interface to an API. It's a simple info request one. What top tips do we have for writing one that doesn't suck? I'd just go for a new that takes the auth info, methods to go fetch the information and being lazy, just let the data be accessible through the selfish hash. I'm not going to create objects for all the data objects at this point nor accessors for the individual fields. Well, maybe a few key ones. Suggestions for anything better, lazier, more modern?
Re: PHP community
On 17 Jan 2013, at 11:04, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote: Sturgeon's Law applies to PHP and Perl developers alike. The only reason you're seeing a lot of terrible PHP in the wild because it's a wildly popular language with a low barrier to entry. Which latter is also true of Perl outside the echo chamber.
Re: Wanted: Speakers for London.pm Technical Meeting
On 16 Oct 2012, at 17:19, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: and another one I've been mulling and considering writing to submit to LPW, but I'm afraid it wouldn't warrant me many friends in the L.pm community, it's titled The problem with Perl and is basically me ranting about the nice things in Java and Python that we (as in, myself until I started doing serious Java and Python, and some other L.pm'ers I've talked with) just tend to shrug off or don't even think about, or think they're bad but they're actually not bad at all. I think this one sounds really interesting. I'd love to hear it. Seconded.
Re: Brainbench perl test?
On 4 Sep 2012, at 13:26, Mr I cub4u...@gmail.com wrote: If the candidate doesn't ask what happens when n is less than 2, he may be a passable maintenance programmer but he's not someone I'd hire to have any sort of responsibility. Again your assumptions are on knowing about the fibonacci sequence. So a candidate that does not know the fibonacci sequence but identifies a possible flaw in the question can only be a maintenance programmer? Disagree. His assumptions based on being able to figure out that that iterative relationship needs a start point. It's impossible to implement without it.
Re: Brainbench perl test?
On 4 Sep 2012, at 13:48, Mr I cub4u...@gmail.com wrote: You do not want to be assessing their knowledge of mathematics. You want to be assessing their programming acumen And the fib() test, regardless of whether you know what the Fibonacci sequence is or are simply looking at the definition of the problem with a view to implementing it, does exactly that. Can't /you/ see that?
Re: Who made the law?
On 31 Aug 2012, at 10:31, Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 04:28:27PM -0400, Mark Fowler wrote: Here's my longer drawn out version, stolen from YAPC::NA's code of conduct. Comments on this are genuinely welcome, and I'll leave it to the current London.pm leader to make a call on what exactly we should adopt (if anything) Code of Conduct My feeling is that this is far too long and offputting. If they have to specify all this in nitpicking detail, it's because they've got people who are trying to game the system and they don't have the guts to throw them out. I'd much rather have a mostly-benevolent dictatorship which is able to treat cases as individual matters than a huge set of rules which still won't cover all eventualities. I'm inclined to agree. Some variant on Don't be a dick. If you have to argue about it, you probably are being... ?
Re: Which sucks least? Sky, Talktalk to BT broadband?
On 30 Aug 2012, at 13:42, Andrew Beattie and...@tug.com wrote: On 30 Aug 2012, at 10:57, William Blunn bill+london...@blunn.org wrote: If you want a technical style service, you could go for AAISP I might go with them just on the strength of their website.I just looked at http://www.aa.net.uk/broadband.html and found them talking about ADSL1, ADSL2+, FTTC, FTTP, LLU and BT back-haul. What a breath of fresh air! Speaking as a satisfied customer, you could do a lot worse. Also, their support staff have clues, rather than scripts, and their support-over-irc is pretty decent.
Re: [OT] Prepaid mobile plans with data, possibly roaming
On 21 Aug 2012, at 15:48, Nuno Jesus nunje...@gmail.com wrote: I'm also going to London very soon and I was thinking to order a giffgaff SIM card. They seem to have the best prices. Am I missing something? I *have* a giffgaff SIM going spare (they send you one after a while if you're a customer to give to a friend). Let me know when/where you are in London and I can post it to you, assuming my wife hasn't tidied it up :D
Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11
On 29 Feb 2012, at 11:26, Sue Spence wrote: On 29 February 2012 11:04, Paul londonpm90...@rainslide.net wrote: There are a number of us who live in the home counties, so getting into London requires a bit of planning and is quite a hassle. I have seen Damian talk before, and while he is interesting, I'd just like to know beforehand how much I would find directly useful in my day to day work. Thanks. I will personally refund you DOUBLE the entrance fee if you don't find the talk meets your requirements now or in the future. *certain exclusions may apply I suspect that'd be a more compelling offer if you offered DOUBLE his travel costs, somehow :D Joking aside - I don't think this is the kind of talk one attends because it will be directly useful in my day to day work, but rather because it's DC, and you don't get the chance very often
Re: 5 minimums for any perl script?
On 30 Jan 2012, at 15:26, Paul Johnson wrote: could you explain why you think checking the return value of close() is silly? I tend to have the opposite opinion. I don't have the slides of the talk I gave on Defensive Perl Programming a couple of years ago, but there's a definite case or two of printing to a *socket* that can cause the print to fail when the far end goes away.
Re: 5 minimums for any perl script?
On 30 Jan 2012, at 15:40, Sam Kington wrote: In the code that we write at $WORK, any filehandle we close tends to be a log file or something, so adding extra boilerplate to our close statements would just be annoying. use 5.10; use autodie; perhaps?
Re: 5 minimums for any perl script?
On 30 Jan 2012, at 16:28, Mark Fowler wrote:
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Damian Conway dam...@conway.org wrote:
3. Strictures: Always 'use strict' (and 'use warnings' during development)
and
explicitly state your minimum Perl version requirement. (e.g. 'use v5.10')
[Ch18: Strictures, Warnings]
I'd point out that if you state a reasonably modern version of Perl
you don't need to turn on strict, it's turned on for you. If you use
Moose (or several other modules out there) then warnings get turned on
for you too.
At $work in our key codebase we find demanding all these strictures
tiresome. We instead have a standard line that you need to put this
into your source:
use OurSecretProjectName::Strict;
(If you don't the test suite will fail and our build system will get
angry with you.) This module turns on a bunch of handy strictures:
You could perhaps add
$ENV{PERL_UNICODE} = AS;
use open qw/:encoding(UTF-8) :std/;
use warnings qw/FATAL utf8/;
use feature qw/unicode_strings/;
but that might be considered optimistic, depending on the state of your
codebase!
Re: The proper way to open()
On 30 Jan 2012, at 17:05, Roger Burton West wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 04:56:53PM +, Dominic Thoreau wrote: open IN, '', $cfg || handle_that_error_sub; OK, that's the same error I was making, so I'll point out that this will not fail as desired, but open (IN, '', $cfg) || handle_that_error_sub; will. There is of course the argument that if this is Not Meant To Happen In Normal Behaviour, you should let autodie do its thing and catch it in a 'whoops, my program did weird shit' try/catch much higher up.
Re: Ruby?
On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 13:57 +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Yes. There is a W12 cabal. I blame the late Piers. Who has now gone to a better place. He's not the only one who's moved on :D
Re: Ruby?
On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 14:18 +, David Dorward wrote: On 16 Nov 2011, at 14:09, Mike Whitaker wrote: He's not the only one who's moved on :D Yes, but we are shunning you for the Open Source Is Evil incident. :D I was misquoted, I tell you! :D
Re: Ruby?
On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 14:39 +, Nicholas Clark wrote: For the avoidance of Heresy*, the one with the free drinks for newcomers is on the 8th December. Damn. I had forgotten that when I turned up at the October one, which was actually my first :D
Re: Fwd: [uknot] BBC DNS down
The number for whom that's 'used to' has gone up recently.
On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 12:59 +, Jacqui Caren wrote:
I believe a few on here work for aunty.
Original Message
Subject: [uknot] BBC DNS down
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:50:37 +
From: Ray Bellis r...@bellis.me.uk
Reply-To: UK ISP techies discussion uk...@uknot.org
To: UK ISP techies discussion uk...@uknot.org
If any of you folks have BBC contacts, please let 'em know that
ns0.{thdo,rbsov}.bbc.co.uk appear to be fubared...
Ray
Re: Finding Email Address and Phone Numbers in Text
The slightly cynical answer is 'find out what Apple's Mail.app does and steal it :D :D On 7 Jan 2011, at 10:29, Dave Cross wrote: What's the state of the art in detecting email address and phone numbers in text? Unfortunately, the Regexp::Common docs say: Future releases of the module will also provide patterns for the following: * email addresses * HTML/XML tags * more numerical matchers, * mail headers (including multiline ones), * more URLS * telephone numbers of various countries Email::Find looks nice. Is there something similar for phone numbers anywhere? Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg
Re: Any of the sysadmins here fancy a bit of freelance work?
I can, if you like. We can skip the eternal love, though :D On 15 Dec 2010, at 01:27, David Cantrell wrote: I have a hideously out-of-date Debian 3.1 machine that needs upgrading to latest-stable. Any of you lovely people fancy doing it in exchange for copious beer tokens and my eternal love? -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic
Re: LPW - Laptop loan?
On 30 Nov 2010, at 17:56, James Laver wrote: I'll be talking about the difficulties of running an international website, with specific focus on character sets (you should also go see David Dorward's speech on this), ermmm... mine, not his :)
Re: overlapping find and replace
You are aware that's illegal XHTML, aren't you? :D
On 18 Oct 2010, at 16:11, Michael Lush wrote:
I have a string ABCDEFGH and want to highlight two overlapping hits
BCDE and DEFG in HTML to make AbBCiDE/bFG/iH
The obvious $string =~ s{(BCDE|DEFG)}{b$1/b}g; does not work as the
modified string doesn't match the second query and I don't get differnet
fonts for each overlapping match.
Is there a conventional way of doing this?
--
Michael
Re: Pod::Xhtml (BBC)
On 23 Jul 2010, at 18:39, Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote: In the name of yak shaving I am reporting the following: There is a bug report at: https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Name=Pod-Xhtml - it is related to the recent 290 fail reports from CPAN testers - and it includes a patch, so it is both rather important and easy to fix. I am sure there are many BBC employees at this mailing list - so I hope someone will step down to fix that. Pod-Xhtml is one of the very few dists that are published under an institutional PAUSE account - now it is time to test if the reserve against such accounts is well deserved. I'll chase this up on Monday.
Re: Appeal for CDs and DVDs
On 7 May 2010, at 17:44, ian wrote: Can anyone else on London PM help with the appeal? I am willing to help co-ordinate collection and to get the discs to Bruce. That would be this shelf of useless CDs I was about to toss? Yup.
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
Though on t'other hand I can't remember ever having needed to know _any_ digits of pi for work purposes, so perhaps it's fair ... One 3D CAD system I worked on did have a math library with a #define PI... which I fixed to have better precision.[1] Mike [1] Yes, I know pi to 26 DP. Why do you ask?
Re: Broadband (probably again...)
On 2 Apr 2010, at 11:16, Andy Armstrong wrote: I'm in a flat in Wandsworth. I'd like a fat and relatively unmetered broadband package. Who are we liking at the moment? If you're not working from home much, AA (aaisp.net), possibly their service via BE rather than BT if you want speed).
Re: Broadband (probably again...)
On 2 Apr 2010, at 11:39, Andy Armstrong wrote: On 2 Apr 2010, at 11:27, Mike Whitaker wrote: I'm in a flat in Wandsworth. I'd like a fat and relatively unmetered broadband package. Who are we liking at the moment? If you're not working from home much, AA (aaisp.net), possibly their service via BE rather than BT if you want speed). Thanks! Why's it a bad choice if I'm working from home? Daytime bandwidth uses up more of their 'usage units' than evening, night or weekend. Having said that, it's pretty hard to use up the units on a BE line even at minimum tarriff. Useful info can be gleaned by asking around on #aaisp on irc,z.je -- Mike Whitaker| Perl developer, writer, guitarist, photographer m...@altrion.org | Board member, http://www.enlightenedperl.org/ Y!: tuxservers | Blog: http://perlent.blogspot.com/ IRC: Penfold | Yahoo! UK Ltd - internal CMS team
Re: Broadband (probably again...)
On 2 Apr 2010, at 12:05, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 02/04/2010 11:39:41, Andy Armstrong wrote: On 2 Apr 2010, at 11:27, Mike Whitaker wrote: I'm in a flat in Wandsworth. I'd like a fat and relatively unmetered broadband package. Who are we liking at the moment? If you're not working from home much, AA (aaisp.net), possibly their service via BE rather than BT if you want speed). Thanks! Why's it a bad choice if I'm working from home? Their bandwidth charges are much cheaper outside normal daytime hours. They price in terms of bandwidth Units: 1 Unit is 2GB monthly download during the day or 100GB monthly download on evenings or weekends. and 8 GB daytime on a BE-provisioned line, which is what I have, and requires serious effort to use up in a month. (you have to be goofing off and not working :D) (assuming a BT 21C line: http://aaisp.net.uk/broadband-units.html) You buy at least 2 pre-paid units per month per site, up to as many as you want. AA are penguin and daemon friendly, give you a static IPv4 allocation (and as many IPv6 addresses as you can eat), are happy for you to run your own servers from a residential broadband line, plus their support are generally clueful. I've been a happy customer for years. Amen to that.
Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 12th April 2010
...wow. I'd donate several hundred dollars to $PERL_CHARITY to see that happen. Not that I expect to get taken up on this offer. Hmm... the tricky bit is finding a tune where 'Damian Conway' will scan... How about the bass line from the Doctor Who theme? Da-da-da-dahh-dah, Da-da-da-dahh-dah... Seems close, no? La la la, I can't hear you! And... not really, no. Oh, come ON, people. At least TRY. To the /obvious/ tune. Ah, look at all the london Perlers x 2 Damien Conway Comes from Down Under to London P M Now and again At the Prince Alfred April the twelfth, where there's real ale in stock Seven o'clock Ah, look at all the London Perlers Where do they all come from? Ah, look at all the London Perlers Who's going to come along? Damien Conway Talks on a topic both eldritch and strange Is he deranged? Sign up at the website londonpmtech dot appspot dot com Or so says Leon Ah, look at all the London Perlers Where do they all come from? Ah, look at all the London Perlers Who's going to come along? Pity James Laver Can't make it along so he'll miss all the fun What can be done? Damien Conway Will let us record, but not share it online: Isn't he kind. Ah, look at all the London Perlers Where do they all come from? Ah, look at all the London Perlers Why did I write this song?
Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 12th April 2010
On 27 Mar 2010, at 21:58, Mike Whitaker wrote: ...wow. I'd donate several hundred dollars to $PERL_CHARITY to see that happen. Not that I expect to get taken up on this offer. Hmm... the tricky bit is finding a tune where 'Damian Conway' will scan... How about the bass line from the Doctor Who theme? Da-da-da-dahh-dah, Da-da-da-dahh-dah... Seems close, no? La la la, I can't hear you! And... not really, no. Oh, come ON, people. At least TRY. Grumble. Scansion screwed in every damn verse. That's what I get for writing when tired. Will fix when less so..
Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 12th April 2010
Screw it. There's pride at stake. Ah, look at all the london Perlers x 2 Damien Conway Comes from Down Under to meet up with London P M Now and again At the Prince Alfred April the twelfth, where there's real ale and cider in stock Seven o'clock Ah, look at all the London Perlers Where do they all come from? Ah, look at all the London Perlers Who's going to come along? Damien Conway Talks on a topic that's twisted and eldritch and strange Is he deranged? Sign up at the website The form is at londonpmtech dot appspot dot com Or so says Leon Ah, look at all the London Perlers Where do they all come from? Ah, look at all the London Perlers Who's going to come along? Pity James Laver Can't make it along to the talk so he'll miss all the fun What can be done? Damien Conway Allows us to video him but not share it online: Isn't he kind. Ah, look at all the London Perlers Where do they all come from? Ah, look at all the London Perlers Why did I write this song?
Re: No more IP for you
On 20 Jan 2010, at 09:03, Luis Motta Campos wrote: http://www.nro.net/media/less-than-10-percent-ipv4-addresses-remain-unallocated.html Now, the IP Allocation Market will start warming up... if you're sitting on some IP addresses for several years now, I see big business opportunities for you ahead. So, there's still nearly half a billion addresses unallocated? Do I /really/ need to worry /just/ yet?
Re: The bar receipt for Saturday night...
On 7 Dec 2009, at 15:04, Jasper wrote: 2009/12/7 Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org: I don't think this should have prevented your participation in the post-LPW Saturday Night Femur. Tibia honest, that's the worst joke I've ever heard. Indeed. It wasn't even remotely humerus.
Re: Perl Christmas Quiz 2009
On 1 Dec 2009, at 07:44, Ruud H.G. van Tol wrote:
Abigail wrote:
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 06:24:12PM +, Chris Jack wrote:
7) Write a one line program that takes a non-negative integer as an argument
and prints the square root when the answer's an integer.
Restrictions: the perl line should be a regular expression.
Just a regular expression? Regular expressions don't print, so that would
be impossible.
Though perl can print itself:
echo 169 | perl -ple'$_=the square rootif/^\d+$/'
(this is not an answer)
But this might be:
echo 169 | perl -pe '/(\d+)(?{ $_ = sqrt($^N).\n })/;'
Re: proxypass-like behaviour of CMS content block
On Does anyone know of a way to get proxypass-like behaviour inside a CMS, so that the content block (div, whatever) of every page below a certain level, say http://mysite.org/app1, would be generated by the back-end web application? (So that the trailing path and any vars were passed through of course, e.g. http://mysite.org/app1/foo/bar?var=123) Sounds like you want vanish and ESI.
Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras
Adrian Lai wrote: 2009/7/29 Ovid publiustemp-londo...@yahoo.com: On the off chance that anyone here is interested, I thought it would be fun to produce a small parody of the I'm a PC/I'm a Mac ads. Basically, it would be a series of video shorts along the lines of I'm Java/I'm Perl, I'm Ruby/I'm Perl, etc. All in good fun, of course :) I don't think my Web cam provides *quite* the video quality I'm looking for :) I can do the the script writing (example: http://vimeo.com/1424008) and the video editing (example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3-ZUagzrjw), but if others want to chip in, that would be awesome. Would anyone be interested in working with me on this project, or perhaps make it a Sponsored by London.pm thing? I already have ideas for small sample scripts for a number of languages (one has a Java programmer in a straight jacket bragging about how he's never poked himself in the eye). Volunteer actors would be welcome, too. Cheers, Ovid Like the Java/Ruby on Rails thing of a few years ago? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQbuyKUaKFo Definitely interested. And I have a script for one kicking about.
Re: Encode::Mangled?
On 29 May 2009, at 11:21, Ben Evans wrote: I've heard the standard management argument that it'll take longer to fix it upstream and cost more than working around it, and anyay the broken data source will be going away real soon now... more times than I care to think about. Not only has it never been correct, it has never been within 1 order of magnitude of being correct. Oh - welcome to my (soon to be changing) world. Certain very purple newsfeed parsing systems have to cope with masses of special cases for 'this feed lies about its encoding'... In some cases, the feed maintenance folks even do it the way we tell 'em to. -- Mike Whitaker| Perl developer, writer, guitarist, photographer m...@altrion.org | Board member, http://www.enlightenedperl.org/ Y!: tuxservers | Blog: http://perlent.blogspot.com/ IRC: Penfold | Yahoo! UK Ltd - internal CMS team
Re: Italian Perl Workshop 2009
On 29 May 2009, at 15:43, Hakim Cassimally wrote: 2009/5/29 Stefano Rodighiero stefano.rodighi...@gmail.com: snip 5th edition of Italian Perl Workshop (IPW 2009). The conference will be held in Pisa, at the Area di Ricerca (Research Area) of the CNR (National Research Centre) on 22 and 23 October 2009. Pisa is easy to get to from the London airports (Gatwick, Stansted, Luton hahahahaha) and a number of notLondon airports too - Brum and Liverpool for example. Last year's English track included talks from mst, Tim Bunce, rgs, Marcus Ramberg (and me ;-) so I hope some London.pmers get around to submitting something. Hoping to get there. Requires negotiation with wife, as it's in school term time. -- Mike Whitaker| Perl developer, writer, guitarist, photographer m...@altrion.org | Board member, http://www.enlightenedperl.org/ Y!: tuxservers | Blog: http://perlent.blogspot.com/ IRC: Penfold | Yahoo! UK Ltd - internal CMS team
Re: Tonight - London.pm Moose Tech Talk Evening 19th Feb
On 19 Feb 2009, at 15:54, pe...@dragonstaff.com wrote: Hello all, a reminder that tonight is the London Perlmongers technical talks evening on Moose at the BBC Media Centre, White City. Arrival at 6.30 p.m. for a 7.00 p.m. start. Finishing around 9.00 p.m. followed by an optional social at the Television Centre bar. Can I thank Peter and the rest of the BBC guys for organizing/helping out at the tech meet? I had a blast, and I learned stuff, too. :D -- Mike Whitaker| Perl developer, writer, guitarist, photographer m...@altrion.org | Board member, http://www.enlightenedperl.org/ Y!: tuxservers | Blog: http://perlent.blogspot.com/ IRC: Penfold | Yahoo! UK Ltd - Media Maintenance
Re: Perl Christmas Quiz
intersection xs ys = snd $ foldr aux (ys, []) xs where aux x acc@(ys, r) = if x `elem` ys then (delete x ys, x:r) else acc If Perl is line noise, that just looks like someone barfed up a random chunk of /usr/dict/words :D -- Mike Whitaker - m...@altrion.org
Re: Curry tonight: Manchester 19:00ish Oxford Road (and distributed)
How were the Manchester and Penfold's-house curry meets? Morrison's rotisserie chicken, due to wifely scheduling crisis. Very tasty. :) -- Mike Whitaker - m...@altrion.org
Re: Perl is Alive!
On 10 Dec 2008, at 10:01, Nigel Hamilton wrote: But the fact is perl.com has been *very* good for Tom. Careful. That's starting to sound like sour grapes. -- Mike Whitaker - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perl is Alive!
On 8 Dec 2008, at 04:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The future is with the youth, and the solution is simple, as Tony said Education, Education, Education!. I beg to differ. Marketing, marketing, marketing. -- Mike Whitaker| Perl developer, writer, guitarist, photographer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Board member, http://www.enlightenedperl.org/ Y!: tuxservers | Blog: http://perlent.blogspot.com/ IRC: Penfold | Yahoo! UK Ltd - internal CMS team
