Code generation [was Re: Cameras Re: [Boston.pm] Tech/Social Meeting w/ Randal Schwartz]

2004-10-05 Thread Gyepi SAM
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 10:32:51PM -0400, Mitchell N Charity wrote: Obligatory perl comment - TIMTOWTDI, and sometimes, a good way, regards both clarity and speed, is having perl read a BNF and write a parser in prolog, which does the parsing, and writes an AST in perl, which

Re: Cameras Re: [Boston.pm] Tech/Social Meeting w/ Randal Schwartz

2004-10-04 Thread Mitchell N Charity
Obligatory perl comment - TIMTOWTDI, and sometimes, a good way, regards both clarity and speed, is having perl read a BNF and write a parser in prolog, which does the parsing, and writes an AST in perl, which is then eval()ed. Really.

Re: Cameras Re: [Boston.pm] Tech/Social Meeting w/ Randal Schwartz

2004-10-03 Thread Bill Ricker N1VUX
Take multiple non-identical shots Or Nearly identical Apply computes. This is what amateur photo-astronomers (and much of professional) do today. The image-of-the-day at Major News aoubt Minor Objects is almost always a stack. http://www.hohmanntransfer.com/news.htm (Friday is an

Re: Cameras Re: [Boston.pm] Tech/Social Meeting w/ Randal Schwartz

2004-10-02 Thread Matthew Brooks
the resolution you can get from 35mm film the least it can do is run my scripts! - Original Message - From: Mark J. Dulcey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 5:38 AM Subject: Re: Cameras Re: [Boston.pm] Tech/Social Meeting w/ Randal Schwartz Chris

Re: Cameras Re: [Boston.pm] Tech/Social Meeting w/ Randal Schwartz

2004-10-01 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: William == William Ricker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: William Randal's 8MP Canon is *so* Yesterday. Well, 8MP at $1500 is *so* Today and tomorrow. :) Megapixels shmegapixels. Is the lens any good? It's this one, right?

Re: Cameras Re: [Boston.pm] Tech/Social Meeting w/ Randal Schwartz

2004-10-01 Thread Mark J. Dulcey
Chris Devers wrote: Megapixels shmegapixels. Is the lens any good? It's this one, right? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001G6U5C It looks like just annother fancy point shoot (albeit one that takes images of unweildy size). Maybe next time you can get a nice SLR instead...

Re: Cameras Re: [Boston.pm] Tech/Social Meeting w/ Randal Schwartz

2004-10-01 Thread William Ricker
Megapixels shmegapixels. Is the lens any good? Yes, theres no point in recording higher fidelity than the glass will support. Which is why I disagred with someone who thought in 10 years the consumer digital cameras will be better than old silver pro caners. Mass production economies haven't

Re: Cameras Re: [Boston.pm] Tech/Social Meeting w/ Randal Schwartz

2004-10-01 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, William Ricker wrote: no, both Randall's new almost affordable toy and the item I linked are DSLRs with classic glass. Oh, ok, I stand corrected. I didn't notice a link or a model name for the one he has now, so I put Canon 8mp digital camera into Google and got back a

Re: Cameras Re: [Boston.pm] Tech/Social Meeting w/ Randal Schwartz

2004-10-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Chris == Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, 8MP at $1500 is *so* Today and tomorrow. :) Chris Megapixels shmegapixels. Chris Is the lens any good? Chris It's this one, right? Chris http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001G6U5C Chris It looks like just annother

Cameras Re: [Boston.pm] Tech/Social Meeting w/ Randal Schwartz

2004-09-30 Thread William Ricker
Randal's 8MP Canon is *so* Yesterday. Canon's new 16.7MP Digital SLR, with WiFi LoudMusic writes Canon has recently announced the EOS 1Ds Mark II, successor to their previous excellent professional cameras. What makes this one so cool is that it can network. The early review over at

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech/Social Meeting w/ Randal Schwartz

2004-09-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Uri == Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RJK == Ronald J Kimball [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RJK Randal Schwartz -- author, trainer, Just Another Perl Hacker -- RJK will be speaking to us on topics of his choosing, possibly RJK including fighting spam, mod_perl, objects, and/or Test::More.

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech/Social Meeting w/ Randal Schwartz

2004-09-18 Thread Sean Quinlan
On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 09:54, Ian Langworth wrote: My votes, in order, 1. Web-testing 2. Spamfighting Though, Randal, I would love to pick your brane about testing, teaching writing about Perl :-) Aye! I'm trying to get up the nerve to write an article on the WD repeat protein

[Boston.pm] Tech/Social Meeting w/ Randal Schwartz

2004-09-17 Thread Ronald J Kimball
Boston.pm will have a tech meeting Wednesday, September 22, at Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center, second floor, starting at 7pm. Randal Schwartz -- author, trainer, Just Another Perl Hacker -- will be speaking to us on topics of his choosing, possibly including fighting spam, mod_perl, objects, and/or

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech/Social Meeting w/ Randal Schwartz

2004-09-17 Thread Drew Taylor
Uri Guttman wrote: RJK == Ronald J Kimball [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RJK Randal Schwartz -- author, trainer, Just Another Perl Hacker -- RJK will be speaking to us on topics of his choosing, possibly RJK including fighting spam, mod_perl, objects, and/or Test::More. and i have just been

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech/Social Meeting w/ Randal Schwartz

2004-09-17 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:10:28 -0400 another possibility is to have two talks. randal said these talks can run from 45-90 minutes. so we start at 7, get 2 shortish talks and then adjourn to the CBC by 9pm. I'd like to hear web testing,