Re: stackoverflow !perl conference
David Cantrell wrote: I already read 165 RSS feeds, many of which are "programming related". I don't have the time to keep up with all of them. Adding more won't help. It especially won't help if I don't know which feeds to add. And doubly so if the vast majority of their content is a waste of space. I agree with David here. I read quite a few programming related feeds and don't want any more. Playing devils advocate, it is presumably intended primarily for users of the stackoverflow forum. And it was advertised on that site some time before it got sold out.
Re: stackoverflow !perl conference
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:23:00PM +0100, David Cantrell typed: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:13:06AM +0100, Steve Mynott wrote: [..] > > Noone has posted notice of these sort of events to this list for some > > time. > > I think the point was that it would be nice if some people *did* post > them. But useful talk has pretty much left the london.pm mailing list for IRC, various excellent Iron Man blogs and the perhaps not quite so excellent perlmonks. The last technical thread here was about a month ago (about UTF-8). I don't wish to sound too negative here but use of the net has changed in the last 10 years and the list is a secondary source now and no longer a primary one, apart from events such as LWP which is an obvious exception. And I'm not even sure it's worth forwarding all the events on http://www.ukuug.org/events/ or whatever to the list anymore and I used to do such posts before. > > I suggest you start reading programming related RSS feeds if you > > don't already. > > I already read 165 RSS feeds, many of which are "programming related". > I don't have the time to keep up with all of them. Adding more won't > help. It especially won't help if I don't know which feeds to add. And > doubly so if the vast majority of their content is a waste of space. But that's true of any media (including this one). http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ is perhaps superior since it has peer review through voting. -- Steve Mynott
Re: stackoverflow !perl conference
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:13:06AM +0100, Steve Mynott wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:31:07PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson typed: > > On 15 Oct 2009, at 19:51, Edmund von der Burg wrote: > >> I'm going to this, is anyone else? > >> It's on Wed 28 Oct near High Street Kensington. Tickets sold out. > > Thanks for the notice. > Noone has posted notice of these sort of events to this list for some > time. I think the point was that it would be nice if some people *did* post them. > I suggest you start reading programming related RSS feeds if you > don't already. I already read 165 RSS feeds, many of which are "programming related". I don't have the time to keep up with all of them. Adding more won't help. It especially won't help if I don't know which feeds to add. And doubly so if the vast majority of their content is a waste of space. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive fdisk format reinstall, doo-dah, doo-dah; fdisk format reinstall, it's the Windows way
Re: stackoverflow !perl conference
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Joel Bernstein wrote: Obviously if the conf is sold-out the organisers won't care, but it seems a bit mean to exclude whole user groups. I'm assuming they included their own user group - and as subject line says, it's not a perl conference. Blanketting every possible user list will also as you say guarantee an attenence. Somewhere between 3 users and, er, however many people tried to sign up to the well-pimped, well-funded, large bbc backstage ones (ie. many times more than even the bbc can host). Not great for getting a group of people with something in common, if they get the first 2 applicants from a million lists (though that could be an interesting conference too). the hatter
Re: stackoverflow !perl conference
2009/10/16 Steve Mynott : > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:31:07PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson typed: > >> On 15 Oct 2009, at 19:51, Edmund von der Burg wrote: >> >>> I'm going to this, is anyone else? >>> > [..snip..] >>> It's on Wed 28 Oct near High Street Kensington. Tickets sold out. >>> >> >> Thanks for the notice. > > Noone has posted notice of these sort of events to this list for some > time. Then they can't be surprised when these people don't turn up. Obviously if the conf is sold-out the organisers won't care, but it seems a bit mean to exclude whole user groups. /joel
Re: stackoverflow !perl conference
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:31:07PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson typed: > On 15 Oct 2009, at 19:51, Edmund von der Burg wrote: > >> I'm going to this, is anyone else? >> [..snip..] >> It's on Wed 28 Oct near High Street Kensington. Tickets sold out. >> > > Thanks for the notice. Noone has posted notice of these sort of events to this list for some time. I suggest you start reading programming related RSS feeds if you don't already. -- Steve Mynott
Re: stackoverflow !perl conference
On 15 Oct 2009, at 19:51, Edmund von der Burg wrote: I'm going to this, is anyone else? *** It's on Wed 28 Oct near High Street Kensington. Tickets sold out. Thanks for the notice. -- Dave HodgkinsonMSN: daveh...@hotmail.com Site: http://www.davehodgkinson.com UK: +44 7768 490620 Blog: http://www.davehodgkinson.com/blog Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davehodg
