Re: Hello London Perl-Mongers
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 07:27:21PM +, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > Middle-Earth Community College > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~lucifer/middle-earth.html ROFL! -- Natalie S. Ford . [EMAIL PROTECTED] . http://www.natalie.ourshack.org
Re: Hello London Perl-Mongers
Philip Pereira wrote: > By-the-way, does anything special happen at Christmas with the London.pm? A > special pub meet? Just curious! People drink. Um, that's not very special. Last year I brought cake. How girlie. I don't know if I'll make it next week. Shall be in a course till late and am triple booked in the evening. L. Middle-Earth Community College http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~lucifer/middle-earth.html
Re: Hello London Perl-Mongers
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Philip Pereira wrote:
> I'll keep an eye on the website for details ... but I'm sure you'll
> post something here too!
Yep, we'll announce it. Meetings happen on the day after the first
Wednesdays of the month (so normally on the first Thursdays of the month,
unless it's the 1st, in which case the week after.) I'm not sure what
people want to do about January's meet - it's currently scheduled for the
2nd. I guess the new leader can make a call about that.
> By-the-way, does anything special happen at Christmas with the London.pm? A
> special pub meet? Just curious!
A couple of years ago we had a Christmas meal for the entire of London.pm
and we only just fitted in the restaurant then - and we've grown
significantly since then.
The December meet - being the last of the calendar year - signifies the
results of the London.pm leadership election, where we decide who's stupid
enough to organise everyone else for a year. More importantly, it
signifies the end of the previous year's leader's reign, where we get to
say thanks and praise Paul Mison for all the hard and thankless work he's
put in over the last twelve months.
Oh, speaking of meetings, The Yahoo! technical
meeting on Jan 24th is now scheduled and Leo's put details of how to get
there on the website (cor blimy, planning in advance whatever next.)
We've got three speakers so far, more offers welcome, email me
offlist.
Mark.
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http://www.twoshortplanks.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Hello London Perl-Mongers
Hey all!! I've had such a nice welcoming ... I think I'll stay! ;) Yes! I have been using the "Spreadsheet:WriteExcel" module to save me half the work! I recently bought the "Camel" book to help me on my way with learning! Thanks to all those who have welcomed me to Thursdays meet - I'd have loved to join you all - unfortunately, I'm pre-booked! Although I live in sunny Croydon, I have *EVERY* intention to attend the next meet! I'm a big fan of FreeBSD - so'll I'll probably wear my BSD cap so you can all point fingers at me! I'll keep an eye on the website for details ... but I'm sure you'll post something here too! By-the-way, does anything special happen at Christmas with the London.pm? A special pub meet? Just curious! Once again, thankyou for kindly welcoming me to the group! - Original Message - From: "Kate L Pugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 11:19 AM Subject: Re: Hello London Perl-Mongers > On Thu 28 Nov 2002, Philip Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just wanted to say an offical "Hello" to everyone. > > Hi Philip, welcome to London.pm. Are you in or close to London? If > so then you might want to come along to the social meet next Thursday. > > > I'm trying to teach myself Perl - and think it's great! I've only > > been doing it for about 3 months, but it's already proving VERY > > useful at work - where I've volunteered to convert data from our > > Back Offfice Systems into Excel spreadsheets!!! It's saving a lot of > > people a lot of time. > > Cool, good to hear a success story. Are you using the > Spreadsheet::WriteExcel module or something different? > > Kake > -- > http://www.earth.li/~kake/cookery/ - vegan recipes, now with new search feature > http://grault.net/grubstreet/ - the open-source guide to London > http://www.penseroso.com/ - websites for the fine art and antique trade > >
Re: Hello London Perl-Mongers
At 11:02 29/11/02, Mark Fowler wrote: I assume that you've seen Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Simple (you can search the online documentation for these modules at http://search.cpan.org/.) These allow you to write native Excel files rather than having to use CSV (nothing wrong with that if it works for you ming..) You can also output simple html tables which if sent to Excel will get parsed. This gives you slightly more control than CSV files. Alex Openweb Analysts Ltd, London. Software For Complex Websites http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ Open Source Software Companies please register here http://www.OWAL.co.uk/oss_support/
Re: Hello London Perl-Mongers
On Thu 28 Nov 2002, Philip Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wanted to say an offical "Hello" to everyone. Hi Philip, welcome to London.pm. Are you in or close to London? If so then you might want to come along to the social meet next Thursday. > I'm trying to teach myself Perl - and think it's great! I've only > been doing it for about 3 months, but it's already proving VERY > useful at work - where I've volunteered to convert data from our > Back Offfice Systems into Excel spreadsheets!!! It's saving a lot of > people a lot of time. Cool, good to hear a success story. Are you using the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel module or something different? Kake -- http://www.earth.li/~kake/cookery/ - vegan recipes, now with new search feature http://grault.net/grubstreet/ - the open-source guide to London http://www.penseroso.com/ - websites for the fine art and antique trade
Re: Hello London Perl-Mongers
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Philip Pereira wrote:
> Just wanted to say an offical "Hello" to everyone.
Hello ;-). If you've only just subscribed then you might be interested in
coming to the next social on the 5th Dec - see
http://london.pm.org/meetings/ (though you've probably been lurking and
know all about this.)
> I'm trying to teach myself Perl - and think it's great! I've only been
> doing it for about 3 months, but it's already proving VERY useful at
> work - where I've volunteered to convert data from our Back Offfice
> Systems into Excel spreadsheets!!! It's saving a lot of people a lot of
> time.
I assume that you've seen Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Simple (you can search the online documentation
for these modules at http://search.cpan.org/.) These allow you to write
native Excel files rather than having to use CSV (nothing wrong with that
if it works for you ming..)
Mark.
--
s'' Mark Fowler London.pm Bath.pm
http://www.twoshortplanks.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hello London Perl-Mongers
Dear all, Just wanted to say an offical "Hello" to everyone. I'm trying to teach myself Perl - and think it's great! I've only been doing it for about 3 months, but it's already proving VERY useful at work - where I've volunteered to convert data from our Back Offfice Systems into Excel spreadsheets!!! It's saving a lot of people a lot of time. Anyway, enough rambling ... back to coding!!! Again, hello all!
