Re: [Boston.pm] a question

Those are the daylight savings time changes. Duane. > On Jan 29, 2017, at 1:51 PM, dan moylan wrote: > > > in fiddling with a perl script to calculate the variable > dates dependent on the date of easter, using Time::Local, i > got the wrong answers for shrove tuesday 47 and

Re: [Boston.pm] a question

bill ricker writes: > This is what makes date math tricky ... Even without mixing > solar and lunar calendars. yes -- i'm learning (i think) -- i switched to Astro::Time -- somewhat more straightforward. ole dan j. daniel moylan 84 harvard ave brookline, ma 02446-6202 617-777-0207 (cel)

Re: [Boston.pm] a question

This is what makes date math tricky ... Even without mixing solar and lunar calendars. ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] a question

ben tilly writes: > Were you surprised by Daylight Savings Time? yes, i was. but then, i asked was i missing something obvious. i knew i'd be embarassed. such is life. thanks. ole dan j. daniel moylan 84 harvard ave brookline, ma 02446-6202 617-777-0207 (cel) j...@moylan.us www.moylan.us

Re: [Boston.pm] a question

Were you surprised by Daylight Savings Time? On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 11:32 AM dan moylan wrote: > > > in fiddling with a perl script to calculate the variable > > dates dependent on the date of easter, using Time::Local, i > > got the wrong answers for shrove tuesday 47 and ash

[Boston.pm] a question

in fiddling with a perl script to calculate the variable dates dependent on the date of easter, using Time::Local, i got the wrong answers for shrove tuesday 47 and ash wednesday 46 days before easter. this turned out to be what appears to me as an anomoly in Time::Local at 20170313 where the

Re: [Boston.pm] Newbie question

I just noticed a pretty inexpensive way to take a good online zero to Perl sort of course. If you have a safari.oreilly.com subscription, you can go here now and play it http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9780137013142! It teaches how to write procedural (non OO) Perl code and teaches the idioms

Re: [Boston.pm] Newbie question

HI == Hideki Ishii his...@mindspring.com writes: HI So, I started learning Perl myself by reading some web pages. The most HI helpful pages to me was http://www.kent-web.com/perl/ (yes, this page HI is in Japanese since that's my native language), but I believe there HI are tons of web

Re: [Boston.pm] Newbie question

The Japanese site is likely an exception*, but Uri's point is that we can't extrapolate that to most of the other sites that try to teach Perl. In the past I've looked at some on YouTube and ShowMeDo and Uri's definitely right about the YouTube ones. (Even I could spot problems and I consider

Re: [Boston.pm] Newbie question

but i will strongly differ with your view about learning perl from web tutorials. 99% of them stink to high heaven. I've taught some short, intro perl classes and I wrote a short (~150 pages), intro perl book. http://www.greglondon.com/iperl/index.htm My experience has been that there's no

Re: [Boston.pm] Newbie question

From: Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 13:29:36 -0400 . . . too many [web tutorials] suffer from coding in a vacuum syndrome where they learn and use perl in isolation and never get peer review. few if any of those 'authors' are active in any perl

Re: [Boston.pm] Newbie question

On 5/6/2010 11:19 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: IMO the camel is too much for her even after learning perl. randal's intermediate and then mastering perl are better to learn from at that stage. the camel is for those who know coding well enough to learn from a reference type book. Spending time with

Re: [Boston.pm] Newbie question

MJD == Mark J Dulcey m...@buttery.org writes: MJD On 5/6/2010 11:19 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: IMO the camel is too much for her even after learning perl. randal's intermediate and then mastering perl are better to learn from at that stage. the camel is for those who know coding well

Re: [Boston.pm] Newbie question

Hi all, On Friday 07 May 2010 07:52:42 Ben Tilly wrote: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Laura Bethard betha...@nber.org wrote: [...] I'm not sure if the 3-day will cover what I need to know, and the 5-day is pricey. I'd prefer a traditional class over an online one, but might consider

Re: [Boston.pm] Newbie question

helpfully yours, Steve Tolkin -Original Message- From: boston-pm-bounces+stevetolkin=comcast@mail.pm.org [mailto:boston-pm-bounces+stevetolkin=comcast@mail.pm.org] On Behalf Of Shlomi Fish Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 4:30 AM To: boston-pm@mail.pm.org Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Newbie

[Boston.pm] Newbie question

Hi all, With apologies - I'm a pastry chef turned publishing admin turned database admin. I have no formal computer training, but I taught myself to use MySQL and Unix as part of my current position. Now the IT department would like me to be able to write Perl scripts and web front-ends

Re: [Boston.pm] Newbie question

LB == Laura Bethard betha...@nber.org writes: LB company will cover. IEEE had a promising class but it was cancelled, LB and the only other two I could find were: LB http://www.open-source-training-courses.com/Courses/Perl-Scripting-Classes.htm LB

Re: [Boston.pm] Newbie question

additional helpful PDFs learning Perl. http://perltraining.com.au/notes.html On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: LB == Laura Bethard betha...@nber.org writes:  LB company will cover.  IEEE had a promising class but it was cancelled,  LB and the only other

Re: [Boston.pm] Newbie question

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Laura Bethard betha...@nber.org wrote: looking for an extension class but am having trouble finding something in the price range my company will cover.  IEEE had a promising class but it was cancelled, and the only other two I could find were:

Re: [Boston.pm] Newbie question

From: Laura Bethard betha...@nber.org To: boston-pm@mail.pm.org Sent: Thu, May 6, 2010 4:16:27 PM Subject: [Boston.pm] Newbie question Hi all, With apologies - I'm a pastry chef turned publishing admin turned database admin. I have no formal computer training, but I

Re: [Boston.pm] Newbie question

hey On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Laura Bethard betha...@nber.org wrote:  I have no formal computer training, but I taught myself to use MySQL and Unix as part of my current position. well, if you can do that, you can learn perl. i know i'm gonna get nailed for this, but if you're just

Re: [Boston.pm] Newbie question

From: john saylor Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 9:21 PM Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Newbie question i'd say just do it. I'll second that. Programming is all about practice and less about syntax (some people argue that every language has a style/philosophy, but that will come automatically

Re: [Boston.pm] Newbie question

RH == Roman Hunt tri_ro...@yahoo.com writes: RH If what you have said is true then you seem intelligent enough to RH take the forthcoming advice Buy a book called Learning Perl RH by Randal Schwartz and take a day or two off of work to work RH through it. RH You will learn a

Re: [Boston.pm] Newbie question

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Laura Bethard betha...@nber.org wrote: [...] I'm not sure if the 3-day will cover what I need to know, and the 5-day is pricey.  I'd prefer a traditional class over an online one, but might consider online with a solid recommendation.  Anyone have any advice?

[Boston.pm] regexp question

Hello mongers, I am pulling some entries out of Moveable Type blog and converting them to Docbook (long story). In any given weblog entry, there might be a big hunk o' Javascript in an otherwise fine piece of text. (typically, the javascript launches a pre-sized window with a jpg in it). My

Re: [Boston.pm] Quick question(s) about strict subs

Hello all, I had asked: Command 5: Why is - bogus not treated as a unary minus operation on a bareword? Why does it get stringified and squeezed into -bogus? (See Command 7.) perldoc perlop says that this is the intended behaviour: || Unary - performs arithmetic negation if the operand

[Boston.pm] Re: Question(s) about LWP request and Content-length???

Fellow Mongers; We've been working on a perl program for quite some time now to supply requests to a remote SSL server. We gave up trying to use the HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST) module POST function because our requests would always be rejected. We have since used the HTTP::Request-new(POST

[Boston.pm] Tk question.

Hi, I am trying to set up an associative array where the values are method calls (specifically widget creation calls) for Tk. Ex: (I know this doesn't work) %Valid=( hostname = Entry(width=30,background='darkgreen',-textvariable=\$curval{hostname}) ) The problem is that I am not

Re: [Boston.pm] Tk question.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Timothy Kohl tkohl at it.bu.edu [2003-08-07 08:17]: I am trying to set up an associative array where the values are method calls (specifically widget creation calls) for Tk. You want a dispatch table, with the keys pointing to subroutine

[Boston.pm] Tk question.

From: Timothy Kohl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 17:18:07 -0400 (EDT) Hi, I am trying to set up an associative array where the values are method calls (specifically widget creation calls) for Tk. Ex: (I know this doesn't work) %Valid=( hostname =

Re: [Boston.pm] DBI question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Joel Gwynn joel.gwynn at digipress.net [2003-06-18 09:28]: The problem is not so much that I can't connect, the problem is that if I can't, I don't want to return the db credentials to the browser. How can I turn this off? I assume you're

RE: [Boston.pm] DBI question

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of darren chamberlain Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 9:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] DBI question -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Joel Gwynn joel.gwynn