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2015-06-17 Thread Andrew Solomon
On September 1st as a warm-up to the annual Perl conference in Granada, Spain I'll be delivering a crash course on Perl Essentials which will prepare beginners for the talks at the rest of the conference, as well as giving them a 6 month enrolment at Geekuni. http://act.yapc.eu/ye2015/

how to build a mailing list for Perl beginners

2013-10-26 Thread htchd7ji
See the subject line -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: how to build a mailing list for Perl beginners

2013-10-26 Thread John SJ Anderson
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 9:09 PM, htchd...@live.com wrote: See the subject line It's really hard to interpret what you mean here, because ... you're posting to one. j. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org

Fwd: [Perlweekly] #51 - What's new on the Perl Beginners' Site?

2012-07-25 Thread Andy Bach
Another nice beginners site and a great weekly perl digest list to subscribe to: What's new on the Perl Beginners' Site http://bit.ly/SyaFxg Shlomi Fish maintains the http://Perl-Begin.org site, an alternative to the 'official' learn.perl.org site. Once in a while he announces some changes

What's new on the Perl Beginners' Site

2012-07-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
The last update on the news feed for [http://perl-begin.org/ The Perl Beginners’s site] was almost a year ago. While the site continued to improve, I neglected writing a new entry until now, so I hope this one will compensate for that. So without further ado, here is what is new: # We now

Re: What's new on the Perl Beginners' Site

2012-07-09 Thread shawn wilson
you should also add perl-beginners zingers for the threads where people go ape shit and make genehack want to do evil :) seriously, some of them are somewhat humorous in hind sight. it would be easy to find them for the list (threads 20 messages) too. On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Shlomi Fish

topic areas for perl-beginners list (was: Re: Template toolkit issue [SOLVED])

2012-05-03 Thread John SJ Anderson
-beginners. (perl-beginners-cgi could be argued to be _more_ appropriate, but since that list is basically dead, perl-beginners is a fine place.) For questions about Template::Toolkit, I suggest you try the Template::Toolkit mailing list at http://lists.perl.org/list/template-toolkit.html

Re: topic areas for perl-beginners list (was: Re: Template toolkit issue [SOLVED])

2012-05-03 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 12-05-03 09:55 AM, John SJ Anderson wrote: One situation I really want to avoid with perl-beginners is having the old hands here send people to other lists, only to have the people on those other lists say we don't have time to hold your hand, maybe you should ask on perl-beginners instead

Re: topic areas for perl-beginners list (was: Re: Template toolkit issue [SOLVED])

2012-05-03 Thread John SJ Anderson
On May 3, 2012, at 11:01 AM, Shawn H Corey wrote: On 12-05-03 09:55 AM, John SJ Anderson wrote: One situation I really want to avoid with perl-beginners is having the old hands here send people to other lists, only to have the people on those other lists say we don't have time to hold your

Re: topic areas for perl-beginners list

2012-05-03 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 12-05-03 11:16 AM, John SJ Anderson wrote: Or you could exercise that whole freedom to not answer questions thing I mentioned. I didn't say the list was for general Perl and CPAN questions. It is for people who are beginning to learn Perl, or some aspect of Perl. Generally speaking,

Re: John SJ Anderson is Perl Beginners list moderator

2011-10-06 Thread John SJ Anderson
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 18:51, Octavian Rasnita orasn...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to put a question. Is top-posting accepted on the list? I've thought about this for a while, and I think I've finally got something that should make everybody about equally annoyed. (There is no solution to

Re: John SJ Anderson is Perl Beginners list moderator

2011-10-06 Thread Zachary Zebrowski
++ some mail clients (eg. Gmail) make it very hard to bottom post. Thanks for not excluding me. :) On Oct 6, 2011 11:28 AM, John SJ Anderson geneh...@genehack.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 18:51, Octavian Rasnita orasn...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to put a question. Is top-posting

RE: John SJ Anderson is Perl Beginners list moderator

2011-10-06 Thread Bob McConnell
, 2011 11:38 AM To: John SJ Anderson Cc: Perl Beginners Subject: Re: John SJ Anderson is Perl Beginners list moderator ++ some mail clients (eg. Gmail) make it very hard to bottom post. Thanks for not excluding me. :) On Oct 6, 2011 11:28 AM, John SJ Anderson geneh...@genehack.org wrote: On Fri, Sep

Re: John SJ Anderson is Perl Beginners list moderator

2011-10-06 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 11-10-06 11:37 AM, Zachary Zebrowski wrote: some mail clients (eg. Gmail) make it very hard to bottom post. Thanks for not excluding me. :) I don't mind top posters but I wished more people would trim the quotes. Top posting makes people lazy and they include the entire quote, making the

Re: John SJ Anderson is Perl Beginners list moderator

2011-10-06 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 11-10-06 11:45 AM, Bob McConnell wrote: Lookout is another. Are people still using that? -- Just my 0.0002 million dollars worth, Shawn Confusion is the first step of understanding. Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. The secret to

Re: John SJ Anderson is Perl Beginners list moderator

2011-10-06 Thread Ali Nabavi
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:51, Shawn H Corey shawnhco...@gmail.com wrote: On 11-10-06 11:37 AM, Zachary Zebrowski wrote: some mail clients (eg. Gmail) make it very hard to bottom post. Thanks for not excluding me. :) I don't mind top posters but I wished more people would trim the quotes.

Re: John SJ Anderson is Perl Beginners list moderator

2011-10-06 Thread Zachary Zebrowski
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Shawn H Corey shawnhco...@gmail.comwrote: On 11-10-06 11:37 AM, Zachary Zebrowski wrote: some mail clients (eg. Gmail) make it very hard to bottom post. Thanks for not excluding me. :) I don't mind top posters but I wished more people would trim the

Re: John SJ Anderson is Perl Beginners list moderator

2011-10-06 Thread John SJ Anderson
Okay, meta-topics are always on topic, but this one is pretty run into the ground and doesn't have anything to do with Perl -- let's let this thread die out, and get back to the beginner questions... thanks, john. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional

John SJ Anderson is Perl Beginners list moderator

2011-09-30 Thread Casey West
Hello list members, John SJ Anderson has accepted the role of list moderator. He'll be responsible for the moderation of this list as he sees fit. If you have any questions about that you can ask him directly or read the somewhat out of date FAQ about the list:

Re: John SJ Anderson is Perl Beginners list moderator

2011-09-30 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: Casey West ca...@geeknest.com Hello list members, John SJ Anderson has accepted the role of list moderator. He'll be responsible for the moderation of this list as he sees fit. If you have any questions about that you can ask him directly or read the somewhat out of date FAQ about the

good books for novice perl beginners

2010-03-25 Thread NAKO
Hello All, Can you please recommend some good books for novice beginners? Thanks NAKO -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: good books for novice perl beginners

2010-03-25 Thread Philip Potter
On 24 March 2010 18:16, NAKO sung...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello All, Can you please recommend some good books for novice beginners? Thanks http://learn.perl.org/books.html is a good start. The rest of the http://learn.perl.org/ website is worth a look too, which is why it's linked in the footers

Re: good books for novice perl beginners

2010-03-25 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 24 Mar 2010 20:16:40 NAKO wrote: Hello All, Can you please recommend some good books for novice beginners? Thanks NAKO You can find a definitive list (and many other resources) on the Perl Beginners' Site: http://perl-begin.org/ Regards, Shlomi Fish

Re: Perl Beginners

2010-03-12 Thread Rene Schickbauer
trapd...@trapd00r.se wrote: For physical books I know that many people suggest either 'Learning Perl' or 'Programming Perl'. I started with perl 3 months ago and I bought the 'Perl Cookbook' and I must say that it's probably one of the best books written regarding programming languages. Not so

Re: Perl Beginners

2010-03-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
://perl-begin.org/ . It's a comprehensive site for Perl beginners. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Understand what Open Source is - http://shlom.in/oss-fs Deletionists delete Wikipedia

Re: Perl Beginners

2010-03-12 Thread Alan Haggai Alavi
Hi Sudheer, Some links to help you get started: http://perl-begin.org/ http://learn.perl.org/ Good luck learning Perl. :-) Regards, Alan Haggai Alavi. -- The difference makes the difference. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: Perl Beginners

2010-03-12 Thread Peter Scott
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:48:39 +0530, Sudheer K wrote: I am planning to start programming perl for my project . i am just a beginner to perl can i get information related to videos/links and books especially for beginners which can help me writing scripts . Since you mention video, I will

Perl Beginners

2010-03-11 Thread Sudheer K
Hi ALL I am planning to start programming perl for my project . i am just a beginner to perl can i get information related to videos/links and books especially for beginners which can help me writing scripts . Thanks

Re: Perl Beginners

2010-03-11 Thread Aravind Venkatesan
Hi, Well I feel the lecture series hosted by IIT is useful (it was for me at least). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pVolaKhxVM The lectures are conducted by Prof. Sengupta. I hope you find it useful. Cheers, Aravind Sudheer K wrote: Hi ALL I am planning to start programming perl for my

Re: Perl Beginners

2010-03-11 Thread trapd00r
On 12/03/10 12:48 +0530, Sudheer K wrote: I am planning to start programming perl for my project . i am just a beginner to perl can i get information related to videos/links and books especially for beginners which can help me writing scripts . http://www.perl.org/learn.html

Why are people e-mailing perl-beginners [at] moderators.isc.org?

2007-05-26 Thread Mumia W.
Why are people CC'ing perl-beginners [at] moderators.isc.org? This mail-list is reflected to the newsgroup, and the perl.beginners newsgroup is not moderated. I've noticed that all of the Google posts (User-Agent: G2/1.0) for the last few weeks in beginners [at] perl.org seem to have

Re: New Website for Perl Beginners: perlmeme.org

2005-10-04 Thread Bill Stephenson
On Oct 2, 2005, at 7:54 PM, Rob Bryant wrote: Anyway, this thread wasn't a complete waste. Now I remember why I always start to use Perl but then abandon it-- great tool, crappy community. Rob, that's just not true. Randal and Ovid made some valid points and both did so gracefully. They've

Re: New Website for Perl Beginners: perlmeme.org

2005-10-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Randal! Thank you very much for your commentary. Now for my comments. On Sunday 02 October 2005 14:17, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Shlomi == Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shlomi Hi good people, Shlomi there's a new web-site for Perl beginners - perlmeme.org - Shlomi http

Re: New Website for Perl Beginners: perlmeme.org

2005-10-03 Thread Rob Bryant
On 10/2/05, Ovid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip There's more and nitpicking seems petty snip Yep, you're right on the money with that. It does indeed seem petty. So did Randal I am Unhealthily Obsessed With The Flinstones Schwartz's earlier post. One would assume (apparently erroneously, however)

RE: New Website for Perl Beginners: perlmeme.org

2005-10-03 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
Rob Bryant mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : On 10/2/05, Ovid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : snip : : There's more and nitpicking seems petty snip : : Yep, you're right on the money with that. It does indeed seem : petty. Perhaps that's why he left it out. Are you are arguing that Ovid's

Re: New Website for Perl Beginners: perlmeme.org

2005-10-03 Thread JupiterHost.Net
Gavin Henry wrote: Randal L. Schwartz said the following on 02/10/05 13:17: Shlomi == Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shlomi Hi good people, Shlomi there's a new web-site for Perl beginners - perlmeme.org - Shlomi http://perlmeme.org/ Unless it's hidden, I'm not finding any

Re: New Website for Perl Beginners: perlmeme.org

2005-10-03 Thread John Von Essen
Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shlomi Hi good people, Shlomi there's a new web-site for Perl beginners - perlmeme.org - Shlomi http://perlmeme.org/ Unless it's hidden, I'm not finding any obvious link there to the defacto standard location for Perl beginners, http://learn.perl.org. I think

Re: New Website for Perl Beginners: perlmeme.org

2005-10-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Randal! Thank you very much for your commentary. Now for my comments. On Sunday 02 October 2005 14:17, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Shlomi == Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shlomi Hi good people, Shlomi there's a new web-site for Perl beginners - perlmeme.org - Shlomi http

Re: New Website for Perl Beginners: perlmeme.org

2005-10-03 Thread JupiterHost.Net
Gavin Henry wrote: Randal L. Schwartz said the following on 02/10/05 13:17: Shlomi == Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shlomi Hi good people, Shlomi there's a new web-site for Perl beginners - perlmeme.org - Shlomi http://perlmeme.org/ Unless it's hidden, I'm not finding any

New Website for Perl Beginners: perlmeme.org

2005-10-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi good people, there's a new web-site for Perl beginners - perlmeme.org - http://perlmeme.org/ It has Howto's, Tutorials and FAQs for Perl beginners - freely available and freely usable. Its mission ( http://perlmeme.org/start_here/index.html ) is: It's lots of ideas that together define

Re: New Website for Perl Beginners: perlmeme.org

2005-10-02 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Shlomi == Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shlomi Hi good people, Shlomi there's a new web-site for Perl beginners - perlmeme.org - Shlomi http://perlmeme.org/ Unless it's hidden, I'm not finding any obvious link there to the defacto standard location for Perl beginners, http

Re: New Website for Perl Beginners: perlmeme.org

2005-10-02 Thread Gavin Henry
Randal L. Schwartz said the following on 02/10/05 13:17: Shlomi == Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shlomi Hi good people, Shlomi there's a new web-site for Perl beginners - perlmeme.org - Shlomi http://perlmeme.org/ Unless it's hidden, I'm not finding any obvious link

Re: New Website for Perl Beginners: perlmeme.org

2005-10-02 Thread Bill Stephenson
On Oct 2, 2005, at 7:17 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Shlomi Hi good people, Shlomi there's a new web-site for Perl beginners - perlmeme.org - Shlomi http://perlmeme.org/ Unless it's hidden, I'm not finding any obvious link there to the defacto standard location for Perl beginners, http

Re: New Website for Perl Beginners: perlmeme.org

2005-10-02 Thread Ovid
--- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://perlmeme.org/ In http://perlmeme.org/start_here/our_motivations.html there's a lot of talk about dealing with anti-Perl memes and, essentially, how to market Perl. Given that, I can only wonder why the site creators didn't bother to contact The

New Website for Perl Beginners: perlmeme.org

2005-10-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi good people, there's a new web-site for Perl beginners - perlmeme.org - http://perlmeme.org/ It has Howto's, Tutorials and FAQs for Perl beginners - freely available and freely usable. Its mission ( http://perlmeme.org/start_here/index.html ) is: It's lots of ideas that together define

Re: New Website for Perl Beginners: perlmeme.org

2005-10-02 Thread Gavin Henry
Randal L. Schwartz said the following on 02/10/05 13:17: Shlomi == Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shlomi Hi good people, Shlomi there's a new web-site for Perl beginners - perlmeme.org - Shlomi http://perlmeme.org/ Unless it's hidden, I'm not finding any obvious link

Re: [Perl-beginners] matching only digits

2004-06-28 Thread Remko Lodder
N, Guruguhan (GEAE, Foreign National, EACOE) wrote: Hi All, I wanted to check whether the user input is only a number and does contain any alphabet/s anywhere i.e. starting, end or in-between. Can somebody tell me how to do this? TIA Guruguhan Hey, Please wrap your lines :-) To match

Re: [Perl-beginners] vi editor

2004-06-05 Thread Remko Lodder
Hi Aditi, aditi gupta wrote: hi, vi is used only in unix and linux.which editor can be used in windows and is better than notepad. That is not quite correct, there is vim for windows, it gives you vi on windows, though it's the enhanced version of VI, it gives you syntax highlighting etc. So

Re: [Perl-beginners] RE: Problem with use strict;

2004-05-14 Thread Remko Lodder
Hi, When I include the line use strict; in any perl program, I get the following error: Internal Server Error What does occur when you run the file manually? perl -T $filename Perhaps that gives a possible error definition, Personally i tend to use ; use diagnostics; use warnings; use strict; so

Re: [Perl-beginners] RegExp Help !

2004-05-10 Thread Remko Lodder
Hey Joe, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gurus ! I am not a Guru, i am a newb :-) Well need your help in framing a RegExp I've to parse for the form tag in a HTML/ASP file and then when i get that i need to get only yhe action filepath in to an array ! How do i do it ? For Example form

Re: [Perl-beginners] Perl script to switch user to root.

2004-03-04 Thread Silky Manwani
, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Silky Manwani Verzonden: donderdag 4 maart 2004 19:03 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: [Perl-beginners

RE: [Perl-beginners] Perl script to switch user to root.

2004-03-04 Thread Remko Lodder
/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Silky Manwani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: donderdag 4 maart 2004 19:15 Aan: Remko Lodder CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: [Perl-beginners] Perl script

RE: [Perl-beginners] How to reinstall CPAN?

2004-02-05 Thread Remko Lodder
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hemond, Steve Verzonden: woensdag 4 februari 2004 20:37 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: [Perl-beginners] How to reinstall CPAN? Hi folks, For some reason, when running CPAN I get to many problems (I installed Perl v. 5.8.3 this morning, don't know if it has an effect

RE : [Perl-beginners] How to reinstall CPAN?

2004-02-04 Thread Hemond, Steve
-8100 X2833 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Remko Lodder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 3:15 PM To: Hemond, Steve; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Perl-beginners] How to reinstall CPAN? your config resides in ~/.cpan perhaps you

Re: Perl Beginners Portals

2003-10-02 Thread Todd Wade
R. Joseph Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Todd Wade wrote: I'm willing to pester the site owners to let you do the site. But it will probably take more than just you and I. The lack of responses to your OP might indicate the amount of help the rest of the

Re: Perl Beginners Portals

2003-10-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Todd Wade wrote: R. Joseph Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Todd Wade wrote: I'm willing to pester the site owners to let you do the site. But it will probably take more than just you and I. The lack of responses to your OP

Re: Perl Beginners Portals

2003-10-01 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Todd Wade wrote: I'm willing to pester the site owners to let you do the site. But it will probably take more than just you and I. The lack of responses to your OP might indicate the amount of help the rest of the group is willing to contribute. I think you may be misinterpreting the

Re: Perl Beginners Portals

2003-09-30 Thread Todd Wade
Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all! I believe learn.perl.org is very lacking: 1. Its design is ugly. agreed 2. No links to many important online resources such as tutorials, books, article collections, mailing lists, web forums, etc. Well,

Perl Beginners Portals

2003-09-29 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! I believe learn.perl.org is very lacking: 1. Its design is ugly. 2. No links to many important online resources such as tutorials, books, article collections, mailing lists, web forums, etc. 3. Concentration on commercial books. 4. No source code for the site is available and [EMAIL

Stuck in the Perl Beginners Panic-Zone!

2001-06-15 Thread REIGNCandE
Ok, I'll take a different approach to my question. Is there anyone out there who runs their PERL scripts on a Windows Me driven computer? If so, what version of PERL do you use and EXACTLY what steps do you take to get your scripts to run on your system. (Porperty settings, command line

Re: Stuck in the Perl Beginners Panic-Zone!

2001-06-15 Thread Michael D . Risser
On Friday 15 June 2001 01:59 pm, you wrote: Ok, I'll take a different approach to my question. Is there anyone out there who runs their PERL scripts on a Windows Me driven computer? If so, what version of PERL do you use and EXACTLY what steps do you take to get your scripts to run on your

Re: Stuck in the Perl Beginners Panic-Zone!

2001-06-15 Thread Chris Garringer
I've run Activestate perl on NT and W2000. On NT I had to use perl program name. On 2000 I only need the program name. What would be required on a consumer rather that business' M$ Operating system I don't know. It should be a matter of associating the extension you are using with the perl

Re: Stuck in the Perl Beginners Panic-Zone!

2001-06-15 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Chris Garringer wrote: I've run Activestate perl on NT and W2000. On NT I had to use perl program name. On 2000 I only need the program name. What would be required on a consumer rather that business' M$ Operating system I don't know. It should be a matter of

RE: Stuck in the Perl Beginners Panic-Zone!

2001-06-15 Thread Peter Cornelius
When I open (launch) my PERL interpreter (location C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe) I get a black screen with a blinking white line. Whoa! Don't open the Perl interpreter. Well, he could launch the Perl interpreter. From your reaction I guess you think he was opening it in notepad or something,