Re: [Boston.pm] my lang is better than your lang!

2010-07-19 Thread Steve Revilak
From: Ben Tilly Some newer ones (eg Java and C#) are for tools (IDEs, etc) first, people second, and computers third. Heh :) Steve pgpJAT0zKEEqx.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org

[Boston.pm] Quantum Books (was: schwag for next meeting)

2009-06-20 Thread Steve Revilak
From: Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com anyone heard if Quantum reopened under a new name? Well, http://www.quantumbk.com/ still reads Bookpool storefront placeholder, and http://www.bookpool.com is now parked, courtesy of GoDaddy. I also came across this Google Ad Looking for Bookpool?

[Boston.pm] June Meeting (was: Meeting Topic)

2009-06-02 Thread Steve Revilak
Some time ago, someone said: June (room TBD) - http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?BostonPMCalendar * Uri suggests Emacs perl mode. * maybe a survey of all IDE/editor options * who wants to present Eclipse-EPIC? Padre? Komodo? Vi(m)? Sorry for the dense question, but is the

[Boston.pm] s/// with side effects?

2009-05-21 Thread Steve Revilak
A few days ago, I was helping a co-worker debug a Perl program. In the process of doing this, we found a bit of behavior that seemed odd. Here's a minimal program to reproduce what we saw. - f1.pl - use strict; use warnings; my $line = hello world\r;

Re: [Boston.pm] [OT] No More Bookpool?

2009-03-29 Thread Steve Revilak
From: Tom Metro tmetro-boston...@vl.com Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:39:43 -0400 That's a year ago. Ah right. I'm on their mailing list, so I'd heard of the Wilmington warehouse location before, but don't recall them announcing the closing of the Boston store, so I thought it was new. I

[Boston.pm] [OT] No More Bookpool?

2009-03-28 Thread Steve Revilak
For the last 10 years or so, I've bought many of my technical books from Bookpool. Today, http://www.bookpool.com/ shows a Network Solutions Under Construction page. Do any of you know if they've closed up shop for good? (It seems like they have, but I was wondering if anyone on the list has

Re: [Boston.pm] Puzzling (to me) interaction between IO::Handle and wait

2008-08-01 Thread Steve Revilak
Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Puzzling (to me) interaction between IO::Handle and wait uri i know this is just an example script but i have some general uri comments anyway as well as a possible explanation for your issue. uri uri you can use lexical handles with open and it will autogenerate uri

[Boston.pm] Puzzling (to me) interaction between IO::Handle and wait

2008-07-31 Thread Steve Revilak
Today, I came across a puzzling (to me) behavior of wait and IO::Handle. Although I managed to work around it, I'd love to understand what's happening. Here is a very simple IPC program: parent spawns children, reads their output, and collects their exit codes. This code doesn't illustrate the

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Curses clarification

2006-06-01 Thread Steve Revilak
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:22:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Janet Marie Jackson Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Curses clarification Thanks to those who have answered. Let me clarify a bit more what I need to do. We want to use $USER to verify a valid user before running the program, so this is

Re: [Boston.pm] LARGE MySQL Database

2006-05-09 Thread Steve Revilak
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 17:24:17 -0400 From: Alex Brelsfoard To: boston-pm@mail.pm.org Subject: [Boston.pm] LARGE MySQL Database Basically I am dealing with using, storing, and sorting a LOT of data in a mysql database. With all the data in the table it makes for 404.8 Million rows. In a

Re: [Boston.pm] file layout and installing CGI applications

2005-08-14 Thread Steve Revilak
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 19:42:53 -0400 From: Tom Metro To: L-boston-pm Subject: [Boston.pm] file layout and installing CGI applications I'm looking to package a CGI application for installation by others and want to minimize the amount of web server reconfiguration required by the admin.

Re: [Boston.pm] Writing Cookies in Safari

2005-06-28 Thread Steve Revilak
Here is the code I started with and have reverted back to: -- my $cookie = Set-Cookie: . $COOKIENAME=$cookieContent; . Host=www.wpi.edu; . expires=+1h\n; print $cookie; -- One thing

Re: [Boston.pm] OT but still a perl technique question?

2003-08-29 Thread Steve Revilak
=what+the+user+said; /head body img src=animated.gif /body /html hth. -- Steve Revilak ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Postal address De-duping

2003-08-08 Thread Steve Revilak
/ziplookup/amsdev.htm As far as the general of cleaning postal addresses, it looks like there are commerical packages out there, and a whole certification process for them. http://www.usps.com/ncsc/ziplookup/cam.htm -- Steve Revilak ___ Boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: hard drive recovery strategies?

2003-01-27 Thread Steve Revilak
of calibration between the logic board and the mechanical components, so a board swap can be risky as a long-term alternative. But, it worked long enough for him to get the data copied off. Of course, YMMV. -- Steve Revilak ___ Boston-pm mailing list