Re: [Boston.pm] finding more mongers

2016-02-25 Thread Bob Rogers
suggestion. FWIW, I can't do Wednesdays; other days are fine. -- Bob Rogers http://www.rgrjr.com/ ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mai

[Boston.pm] Clean way to live without constant?

2015-01-16 Thread Bob Rogers
don't understand why you need the "eval" in: eval('&Net::FTPSSL::IMP_CRYPT') Shouldn't Net::FTPSSL::IMP_CRYPT always be defined when you need it, and never referenced when you don't? -- Bob Rogers

Re: [Boston.pm] hackathon

2014-07-19 Thread Bob Rogers
I would be more interested in a distributed hackathon; my laptop is no longer up to snuff. -- Bob ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Embedded Perl with Federico

2013-04-11 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Greg London" Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:14:20 -0500 > There's a simpler way to do this: Sandpaper. I think the exercise was akin to lockpicking: yes a crowbar will do the same job, but that wasn't the point. Can it be done without physical destruction? Oh; I guess I

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Embedded Perl with Federico

2013-04-10 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Greg London" Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:18:12 -0400 I have no idea what the signaling looks like on that 4wire connector between the platters and controller electronics, but it would seem to me that the right bit of hardware hooked directly to those 4 wires would be the bes

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl and recursion

2013-04-10 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Ben Tilly Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:09:19 -0700 On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Bob Rogers wrote: > I would hope (but don't know how to check) that Perl is smart enough to > notice that the "map" in my original example is in a void context, and &g

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl and recursion

2013-04-10 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Gyepi SAM Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:54:06 -0400 On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 10:24:45PM -0400, Bob Rogers wrote: > > Not quite true, as you can "goto" a label outside of the block: > [first example omitted] Indeed, you are correct. However, when you br

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl and recursion

2013-04-09 Thread Bob Rogers
also gives you an early exit when mapping over a tree recursively. -- Bob Rogers http://www.rgrjr.com/ ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] February Meeting 2/12

2013-02-12 Thread Bob Rogers
27;s code" after all . . . ;-} -- Bob Rogers http://www.rgrjr.com/ ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

[Boston.pm] caller returns a less than useful line number

2013-02-05 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Greg London" Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 17:12:05 -0600 Well, this is somewhat disappointing . . . . . . Then run it and you get something like this: perl test.pl linenum is '10' linenum is '10' If you change it to our @array=( mysub('a', __LINENUM__

[Boston.pm] Tuesdays or other for Tech Meetings ?

2013-01-08 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Bill Ricker Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 22:28:52 -0500 Wondering why so few (2 and two maybes) RSVP tonight. I attended a different meeting. Did anyone not RSVP for tonight because 2nd Tuesday is MicroSoft patch tuesday, and this was a big one? Ew, yuck. Perish the thought.

Re: [Boston.pm] [Bob Rogers] Please confirm your message

2011-07-12 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Ben Tilly Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:04:58 -0700 For him to discuss it off list would be pointless because his emails will bounce until he goes through the confirmation. At which point he won't have spam to deal with. Or I could decide to add him to my whitelist. That sa

[Boston.pm] [Bob Rogers] Please confirm your message

2011-07-12 Thread Bob Rogers
From: mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:36:46 -0700 WTF? Bob Rogers still uses TMDA? You bet. After all these years, it's still extremely effective at keeping out undesirables. ;-} -

[Boston.pm] exit codes and $?

2011-07-12 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Greg London" Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:43:23 -0500 . . . Why would perl munge 1 into 256? Greg Because it's designed that way: $CHILD_ERROR $? The status returned by the last pipe close, backtick ("``") command, successful call to wait()

Re: [Boston.pm] profiling memory usage

2011-03-09 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Tom Metro Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 02:45:19 -0500 Bob Rogers wrote: >0. I assume you are already using ulimit to trigger the error > sooner, rather than later . . . I haven't gotten to the point of trying to intentionally reproduce the issue, but u

[Boston.pm] profiling memory usage

2011-03-08 Thread Bob Rogers
ble OOM error, and inspect memory then. You have my sympathies. HTH, -- Bob Rogers http://www.rgrjr.com/ ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Phishing for CPAN

2011-03-08 Thread Bob Rogers
x27;m sure it's the latter, from a not-very-bright phisherman. If it were me, the last place I'd want to phish is a geek site, where I'm less likely to find gullible victims, and more likely to get caught. -- Bob Rogers

Re: [Boston.pm] let's bring damian here

2011-03-06 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Greg London" Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 07:50:56 -0600 I'd be willing to chip in some money. Greg I could chip in, too. Damian is never dull! -- Bob ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.

[Boston.pm] Question on optimization/memory allocation

2011-02-04 Thread Bob Rogers
t; is therefore zero. and that using @rules instead of four named variables was also more efficient. In time or space? Time may depend on how many times you access them. But names are always more meaningful than hardwired subscript indices.

[Boston.pm] Eight days to next Boston Perl Mongers -

2010-12-07 Thread Bob Rogers
GD::Graph [maybe] But it probably wouldn't amount to more than 45 minutes all told. -- Bob Rogers http://www.rgrjr.com/ ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@m

Re: [Boston.pm] git vs. Bazaar

2009-06-23 Thread Bob Rogers
o lazy to try Bazaar myself, so I don't have any data points to share. -- Bob Rogers http://www.rgrjr.com/ ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] schwag for next meeting

2009-06-20 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Matthew J Brooks Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:23:42 -0700 Bob Rogers wrote: <<>> > Camel book? We don't need no stinking camel book! Real Programmers > learn languages by reading the man pages! In lieu of a book, you are welcome to toss your l

Re: [Boston.pm] schwag for next meeting

2009-06-19 Thread Bob Rogers
ri Camel book? We don't need no stinking camel book! Real Programmers learn languages by reading the man pages! -- Bob Rogers http://www.rgrjr.com/ ___ Boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Fwd: [pm_groups] YAPC::NA - Housing, Schedule, , Hackathons, ...

2009-05-08 Thread Bob Rogers
ation fee and low expenses. there is your answer. :) uri I have only been to the last two, but am not nearly so biased -- and I would give you pretty much the same answer. -- Bob Rogers

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-02 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Tom Metro Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:12:00 -0400 Uri Guttman wrote: > ...much of the rest was fancy ops and OO stuff... I remember the "fancy ops" but I don't remember much to do with OO, aside from some syntax variations (arrow changes to dot). I've actually seen ver

[Boston.pm] credits

2009-01-17 Thread Bob Rogers
expect a certain amount of razzing in return? -- Bob Rogers http://www.rgrjr.com/ ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston

[Boston.pm] perl modules installed

2009-01-16 Thread Bob Rogers
umping %INC at the end, to find out which modules, and where they came from. HTH, -- Bob Rogers http://www.rgrjr.com/ ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] table driven testing

2008-11-07 Thread Bob Rogers
able driven testing. -Tom YAML, perhaps? -- Bob Rogers http://rgrjr.dyndns.org/ ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

[Boston.pm] Looking for a open junior/mid level Perl position?

2008-10-31 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Adam Flott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:01:44 -0500 (CDT) Are there any open Perl positions for junior to mid level programmers? I'm also interested in QA positions at Perl shops as well. Thanks, Adam Just a few hours ago, SourceForge posted "Service Ope

[Boston.pm] Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials still worth reading?

2008-07-30 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Mike Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:48:27 -0400 Hi, Would you say it would still be worthwhile to read Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials in its published, paper form? I see that there's a lot of other more up to date material listed here ... but I'd like

Re: [Boston.pm] idea for talk on tuesday

2008-07-12 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Bill Ricker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:05:54 -0400 > But what you say about git's suitability for such a hackathon is > right on the mark. If Andy has a git repo, then the commit history > could be preserved after the hackathon, without needed to give e

Re: [Boston.pm] idea for talk on tuesday

2008-07-12 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Steve Scaffidi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:09:31 -0400 Just curious - about using revision control - perhaps this would be a good opportunity for folks to try out Git? I've been learning the basics the last week or so and I'm quite pleased with it, and I th

Re: [Boston.pm] idea for talk on tuesday

2008-07-12 Thread Bob Rogers
ps for an Ackathon, testing some of these theories in the process, and then get a quick start on actual hacking next month . . . (But, FTR, I still haven't decided whether to go.) -- Bob Rogers

Re: [Boston.pm] job postings

2008-06-30 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Ricker, William" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:06:25 -0400 > i may be evil but not THAT evil! :) Uri, it's not about any actual evil. I would really really like to say Yes to your kind offer. But Sean and I have to worry about the *perception* of evil ev

Re: [Boston.pm] job postings

2008-06-29 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Sean Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:22:22 -0400 Uri, as you offer professional recruiting services, I'm afraid this might be a significant conflict of interests. -Sean This thought occurred to me, too, but I tend to agree with Uri. The only real tempt

Re: [Boston.pm] perl6 talk wanted for BLU

2008-06-27 Thread Bob Rogers
[1] went pretty well, though it might have been more interesting if there had been more Perl 6 examples ready and waiting for people to play with. I doubt I could prepare for that in time, either; I mention it as a future possibility.

Re: [Boston.pm] quiz slides and talk: compiler vs. interpreter vs. script

2008-06-13 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Ben Tilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:13:24 -0700 On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Bob Rogers wrote: > That's source filtering, which is much cruder; it's a single hook that > happens before lexing/parsing, rather than dur

Re: [Boston.pm] quiz slides and talk: compiler vs. interpreter vs. script

2008-06-12 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:11:22 -0400 >>>>> "BR" == Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BR> Lisp goes even farther down the road of blurring the boundary BR> between interpreter and compiler

Re: [Boston.pm] quiz slides and talk: compiler vs. interpreter vs. script

2008-06-12 Thread Bob Rogers
which I bet is also true for Perl). Even so, nobody thinks Lisp is a "scripting language." Go figure. -- Bob Rogers http://rgrjr.dyndns.org/ ___ Boston-pm m

Re: [Boston.pm] tech meeting this tuesday?

2008-06-08 Thread Bob Rogers
Bernardo Last month, my Thinkpad running openSUSE 10.2 worked just fine with the projector (though it's a 2004 model). And I would be bringing it anyway, if folks would like to see the rest of my "Advanced Control Structures in Parrot" talk for YAPC.

Re: [Boston.pm] line break

2008-04-22 Thread Bob Rogers
. I assume it works on IE, so I conclude that IE must DWIM line endings. Fortunately, even the IE users hated the app, so we never really used it, and I never had to deal with getting it to work on a "real" browser (and could therefore appreciate the comedy).

Re: [Boston.pm] [OT] -Short- OSS survey. Help a student get some data so he can get back to hacking!

2008-03-21 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Guillermo Roditi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:01:04 -0400 > How do you define "contribute"? Does it include submitting bug reports > that do not contain source code? What I had in mind involved source code, but I did not mean to write off the work of

[Boston.pm] [OT] -Short- OSS survey. Help a student get some data so he can get back to hacking!

2008-03-21 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Guillermo Roditi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:09:23 -0400 Hi Mongers, . . . I was hoping that those of you who have participated in open source hacking while employed could help me out by answering couple of short questions. This only applies to thos

[Boston.pm] Edward Tufte in Boston this March

2008-01-25 Thread Bob Rogers
discount. So, is anyone else interested in becoming an honorary Modular Genetics [2] team member for a day? We haven't picked a date, by the way, but the choice may need to be driven by the boss' schedule. -- Bob Rogers

Re: [Boston.pm] Subroutine definition

2007-09-12 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Ben Tilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:40:40 -0700 On 9/11/07, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: "Ben Tilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:18:57 -0700 > >On

Re: [Boston.pm] Subroutine definition

2007-09-11 Thread Bob Rogers
rry the argument. This point does not help your case, and would be counterproductive in situations where "map" would be the better choice. -- Bob Rogers http://rgrjr.dyndns.org/ _

Re: [Boston.pm] refactoring tools and IDEs

2007-08-17 Thread Bob Rogers
From: David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:55:35 +0100 On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 01:52:07AM -0400, Jeremy Muhlich wrote: > I agree with David -- I think the entire Perl ecosystem has been > structured in such a way that the shell + editor + cpan approach just

Re: [Boston.pm] refactoring tools and IDEs

2007-08-16 Thread Bob Rogers
ment tools for Perl. I know where I'd put my money. ;-} -- Bob Rogers, C.O.F. (Certified Old Fart) ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Calling a function that will return to where the grandparent called the parent

2007-05-31 Thread Bob Rogers
. In particular, introducing an eval to the internals of Foo can never intercept the nonlocal exit performed by the callback. 2. The notion of how many levels to exit (the "parent/grandparent" thing) doesn't have to be hardwired. The Error sub

[Boston.pm] [OT] DNS lookup? PLEASE REPLY OFF LIST

2007-01-31 Thread Bob Rogers
yway to figure out who the jerk is? Greg It's a Verizon IP. You can contact them and complain, or just firewall the bozo off. -- Bob Rogers

Re: [Boston.pm] Odd behaviour in foreach

2007-01-11 Thread Bob Rogers
k, but it surprises me, too. FWIW, the comma (list) operator appears to force enumeration, e.g. for my $item (@$stuff, () x 0) { ... } Neat, eh? Takes me back to Lisp before Common Lisp . . . too bad the Perl idiom for "empty list" is not as concise.

Re: [Boston.pm] Python

2006-10-30 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Ben Tilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:00:54 -0800 I'll be brief(er); my hands are beginning to hurt. On 10/29/06, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't follow. That reliable destruction happens when a

Re: [Boston.pm] Python

2006-10-29 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Ben Tilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:25:32 -0700 On 10/27/06, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: "Ben Tilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:36:36 -0700 > >

Re: [Boston.pm] Python

2006-10-27 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Ben Tilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:36:36 -0700 On 10/26/06, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: "Ben Tilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:09:35 -0700 > >[...]

Re: [Boston.pm] Python

2006-10-26 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Tom Metro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:11:22 -0400 Bob Rogers wrote: >...they could mandate use of "use Enterprise" or whatever its called. > > Or maybe Perl::Critic [3] ? Yes, in theory the 'use criticism'[

Re: [Boston.pm] Python

2006-10-26 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Ben Tilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:09:35 -0700 On 10/26/06, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: Tom Metro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] >Guido made comparisons to Perl only in two areas - saying he like

Re: [Boston.pm] Python

2006-10-26 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Tom Metro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:35:26 -0400 Bob Rogers wrote: > I was once told (by a fellow Lisp refugee) that Python is the > favorite "new" language of Lisp programmers because it has similar > semantics. Sure, Paul

Re: [Boston.pm] Python

2006-10-24 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Ben Tilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:12:53 -0700 On 10/24/06, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: Tom Metro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 03:01:39 -0400 > >. . . >

[Boston.pm] Python

2006-10-24 Thread Bob Rogers
drunk deeply of the functional programming wine. FWIW. -- Bob Rogers http://rgrjr.dyndns.org/ ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Loop index in foreach?

2006-09-21 Thread Bob Rogers
ost as concise (though it's not equivalent if %mybus is already populated): %mybus = map { "bus1[$_]" => $sigs[$_]; } 0..$#sigs; Of course, some of this depends on my coding style -- I rewrote all of these examples the way I normally code so that t

Re: [Boston.pm] Short time in Boston

2006-09-14 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:42:48 -0400 > "JA" == John Abreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JA> David H. Adler wrote: >> So. Mom and I are taking a cruise next month up the east coast and into >> Canada. We've got a day (22 Oct, if I'v

[Boston.pm] Perl and utf16 e.g. for Windows Registry file

2006-07-14 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Tolkin, Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:51:04 -0400 Summary: How to use Perl 5.8.0 to handle files encoded using utf-16 on Windows? Details: . . . How about trying to re-encode it as UTF-8 first? This should at least give you some compression of the f

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2006-07-14 Thread Bob Rogers
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:31:32 -0400 Hi Bob, From the speaker's 180-degree panoramic view, where were you seated? Bob Xiong [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was seated just left of the break between the center and leftmost tiers of seats. If we assume Audrey was

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2006-07-14 Thread Bob Rogers
hope this is all academic. -- Bob Rogers http://rgrjr.dyndns.org/ ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Is there any security issue with *.pmc files?

2006-07-14 Thread Bob Rogers
ot;.", which comes last. This WOULD cause a security problem if Perl searched all directories for "*.pmc" files before searching for any "*.pm" files. So I think Perl is doing the right thing. -- Bob Rogers

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Curses clarification

2006-06-02 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Ted Zlatanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:41:48 -0400 On 2 Jun 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The Unix login process can be subverted by sudo (not to mention that > > $USER can be set to anything, as others pointed out). You should > > always request

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Curses clarification

2006-06-02 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Ted Zlatanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:22:25 -0400 On 1 Jun 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 very > unlikely go on the we

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Curses clarification

2006-06-01 Thread Bob Rogers
the order is natural (i.e. corresponding to the gradesheets the TA's are probably typing from), and you provide a feature to jump to an arbitrary student (i.e. by typing a prefix of their name instead of a score) when the TA says "Oops." My $0.02.

[Boston.pm] Off topic: C question

2006-03-11 Thread Bob Rogers
lling you essentially the same thing. I'll buy pizza for one of the next monger meetings. Greg Pizza not required; I can't eat the stuff. :-/ -- Bob Rogers http://rgrjr.dyndns.org/

[Boston.pm] daemonizing a perl script

2006-02-20 Thread Bob Rogers
at a slightly higher-than-default priority, which might allow it to swap in more quickly when the workload picked up. This would work best if the actions were fairly lightweight, as will hog the CPU while it's running. (I Haven't tried this recipe myself, though.)

Re: [Boston.pm] Running shell commands with specified user permissions

2006-01-20 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Jeremy Muhlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:02:20 -0500 On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 22:25 -0500, Bob Rogers wrote: >Frequently I need to execute certain portions of the code (e.g that >creates files / directories) with the user's per

[Boston.pm] Running shell commands with specified user permissions

2006-01-19 Thread Bob Rogers
e more secure, since it doesn't require a shell, but that of course depends on what you do with it. In any case, it ought to be more efficient. -- Bob Rogers http://rgrjr.dyndns.org/ _

Re: [Boston.pm] Dynamically loading variable

2005-09-18 Thread Bob Rogers
map { exists($varHash{$_}) ? $varHash{$_} : $_; } split(/([\w\d]+)/, $template))); and you're done. -- Bob Rogers http://rgrjr.dyndns.org/ ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Trying to learn about the problems with eval()

2005-08-15 Thread Bob Rogers
27; 8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]> So the behavior of eval is counterintuitive if you are expecting lexical scoping. (Which you should be, given all those "my" variables.) I'm sure this is what Ben meant by "Closures would get this right." (Sor

[Boston.pm] Trying to learn about the problems with eval()

2005-08-14 Thread Bob Rogers
$some_other_thing = do_something_else(); }; if ($@) ... In fact, I wouldn't even swear I understood how $to_something and $some_other_thing are scoped in the first case. (Not that I believe I'll ever need to know.) -- Bob Rogers

[Boston.pm] A regex question

2005-07-30 Thread Bob Rogers
; /$re/g && print "1 = $1\n 2 = $2 \n"; print "$re\n";' 1 = abcdefghijkl 2 = mnopqur \G(.{12})(.*) [EMAIL PROTECTED]> But this is still extremely ugly. I thi

Re: [Boston.pm] Writing Cookies in Safari

2005-06-28 Thread Bob Rogers
between the elements of the date must be dashes. So maybe try (a) "Set-Cookie:" with an absolute "Expires" time, or (b) "Set-Cookie2:" with "max-age=3600"? -- Bob Rogers http://rgrjr.dyndns.org/ ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

[Boston.pm] DBD::Pg for PostgreSQL install question?

2005-06-22 Thread Bob Rogers
ng Pg on it, I note that YaST2 shows a postgresql-devel package. Based on similar experiences, I'd be willing to bet that if you install this, DBD::Pg will find what it needs. -- Bob Rogers http://

Re: [Boston.pm] Geo::Coder::US RE: GoogleGeoCoder

2005-06-16 Thread Bob Rogers
advantageous to "join" Boston at the time. That also explains street name conflicts, for streets named in the 17th and 18th centuries. Because of that, and because these "neighborhoods" had been independent jurisdictions for 200+ years, the old nomenclature has been a

Re: [Boston.pm] Getopt::Long

2005-06-15 Thread Bob Rogers
t; } GetOptions ({}, 'x=i', 'foo=i', 'bar=i', '<>' => \&process); [EMAIL PROTECTED]> ./opts2.pl --x 5 --bar=6 7 --foo 8 9 7 9 [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Saving @ARGV beforehand and restoring it afterward is lef

[Boston.pm] Question about getting network configuration

2005-06-05 Thread Bob Rogers
n't be surprised to learn that it violates all kinds of RFCs, though. It could be that doing it that way makes it easier for them to block broadcasts from noisy Windows clients, but that's just a guess. -- Bob Rogers

Re: [Boston.pm] [getting OT] Controlling Windows with Perl?

2005-03-22 Thread Bob Rogers
even called those folks one day and they refuse to own up to anything! If it won't work in a browser that is more secure than IE, I don't want to visit. -- Bob Rogers ht

Re: [Boston.pm] [getting OT] Controlling Windows with Perl?

2005-03-21 Thread Bob Rogers
using it. But if it threatens to hit MS in their pocketbook, it will happen. But then, I do my best to ignore Windows, and have been largely successful at it, so I'm hardly an expert. -- Bob Rogers

Re: [Boston.pm] CPAN distributions

2005-03-03 Thread Bob Rogers
roblems with some of the example code). The easiest thing for the end user, of course, would be something like the MacOS "fat binary" that supported both 680x0 and PPC in the same install . . . -- Bob Rogers

Re: [Boston.pm] GUI builders, support tools

2005-02-28 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Sean Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:12:00 -0500 After learning Quanta for web development I'm much more interested in looking at improved coding tool for Perl. I've played with Eclipse a little, and intend to get back to it when I have a a couple tuits.

Re: [Boston.pm] short-listing languages for applications software development

2005-02-22 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:00:15 -0500 On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 19:32 -0500, Bob Rogers wrote: >The type safe programming languages instead force you to pre-declare >that a variable is a "string" or "int

Re: [Boston.pm] short-listing languages for applications software development

2005-02-22 Thread Bob Rogers
where Perl modules and add-ons are stored. In this repository everything from genetic modeling software to Web server management tools to protocol implementations to graphics toolkits is managed by contributors and authors. CPAN would be helped by dynamic type safety. It

Re: [Boston.pm] [OT] selling a widget online. Password required?

2005-02-08 Thread Bob Rogers
From: David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 08:23:05 + On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 08:52:40PM -0500, Bob Rogers wrote: > That depends on the number of possible tracking numbers vs. the number > of possible "username.pw" strings. Since you

Re: [Boston.pm] [OT] selling a widget online. Password required?

2005-02-07 Thread Bob Rogers
not storing the card number. Of course, this all hinges on keeping those URLs and/or cookies that contain the tracking number secure. The user would probably want to bookmark the status page; wouldn't that also be vulnerable to Javascript exploits?

Re: [Boston.pm] Max hash key length

2005-01-03 Thread Bob Rogers
before "committing" changes, but I see no mention of that in the report (http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/tech_report/, for reference). And if it did that, it seems to me, adding or changing one byte per file wouldn't improve the matter. Or am I misund

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Recommendation for mail server?

2004-12-03 Thread Bob Rogers
ou explain to him that he was in an extremely esoteric and rare situation? Reliability means never having to say you're sorry. -- Dan Bernstein, author of qmail -- Bob Rogers

[Boston.pm] OT: Recommendation for mail server?

2004-12-02 Thread Bob Rogers
e a slight preference for qmail, but it hasn't been worth the hassle to switch. (Though I may do so eventually, if I ever finish building RPMs for the qmail suite.) -- Bob Rogers

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

2004-09-17 Thread Bob Rogers
quot;web testing", "mod_perl," and/or "teaching perl," in roughly that order. -- Bob Rogers http://rgrjr.dyndns.org/ ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EM

Re: [Boston.pm] Inheriting documentation for inherited command-line options

2004-09-11 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 16:11:42 -0400 >>>>> "BR" == Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BR>The Parse sub is a prime example of what I would consider BR> counterproductive code decorat

Re: [Boston.pm] Inheriting documentation for inherited command-line options

2004-09-11 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Greg London" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 23:00:24 -0400 (EDT) Bob Rogers said: >Seriously, splitting up the options this way does make it easier to > combine them, but it still requires globals to store the values, and as > long

Re: [Boston.pm] Inheriting documentation for inherited command-line options

2004-09-11 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 01:37:14 -0400 >>>>> "BR" == Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BR>But this morning, I had an idea for Pod::CLOD while showering. BR> (That's a good sign

Re: [Boston.pm] Inheriting documentation for inherited command-line options

2004-09-09 Thread Bob Rogers
09 Sep 2004 10:47:45 -0400 Greg London wrote: > > Bob Rogers wrote: > > I have places where the command_line_options method calls > > SUPER::command_line_options in order to replace/rename options, so I > > need some way to supercede and/or rename things.

Re: [Boston.pm] Inheriting documentation for inherited command-line options

2004-09-09 Thread Bob Rogers
From: David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 11:11:29 +0100 On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:41:55PM -0400, Bob Rogers wrote: > Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> supershited: > > > use strict; > > use warnings should be here too. > T

Re: [Boston.pm] Inheriting documentation for inherited command-line options

2004-09-08 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 00:17:15 -0400 >>>>> "BR" == Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BR> use strict; use warnings should be here too. Thank you; that sounds like a good idea. (Though usual

Re: [Boston.pm] Inheriting documentation for inherited command-line options

2004-09-08 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Sean Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 11:25:07 -0400 Although I haven't personally come across the need to have multiple scripts have re-used command line options yet (other than a few old historic cases), this sounds like an interesting project for handling

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