Re: [Boston.pm] Data::Dumper formatted for linked lists?

2013-02-08 Thread Chris Devers
as well. -- Chris Devers On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Jordan Adler wrote: > Not sure what you mean by "linked lists" -- the traditional concept of that > data structure doesn't really exist in Perl. > > Generally, though, I would recommend YAML for more human-readabl

Re: [Boston.pm] announcements via Twitter

2013-01-09 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Tom Metro wrote: > Chris Devers wrote: > > I'm bad about remembering to broadcast Bill's meeting announcements. > > Maybe there's a better way to automate this, with, I dunno, a program > > or something. Maybe? > > One way to do th

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

2013-01-09 Thread Chris Devers
time I was able to make it out to a Perl mongers meeting, but it was years ago at this point. -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] underused perl feature

2011-05-31 Thread Chris Devers
re teaching *beginners* to do things this way? Really? Again?? :-) -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] emergency social - tues 7pm, sunset grill and tap

2011-05-15 Thread Chris Devers
they should be. Others may have a higher tolerance for this and just suggest taking a bus anyway.) -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Comic strip

2011-03-27 Thread Chris Devers
what do WE win for also sitting through that?? A lifetime subscription to XKCD, or a prize of equivalent value. -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] davis sq meters tonight

2010-11-09 Thread Chris Devers
Ah, gotcha. (Shows how much I pay attention -- just enough to confuse, in this case. If you have a resident parking sticker, that's free on the side streets, this I'm sure of :-) -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http

Re: [Boston.pm] Social Meeting Tuesday, Nov 9, 7pm

2010-11-08 Thread Chris Devers
/somerville/town_info/government/x726818056/Start-saving-Parking-meter-rates-and-hours-to-increase-permit-parking-to-expand-citywide If you can go, you should, this place is great. (I can't, unfortunately, but you should.) -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-p

Re: [Boston.pm] Mac scripting questions

2010-05-14 Thread Chris Devers
properly save buffers, preferences, etc: `osascript -e 'tell application "iCal" to quit'` -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Mac scripting questions

2010-05-12 Thread Chris Devers
w much about it. http://search.cpan.org/~KYOKI/Data-Plist-0.1/lib/Data/Plist.pm -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Boston.PM facebook group/page

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Chris Devers wrote: > > As Rob notes, a Page makes sense too -- more sense, perhaps -- but a > Group was slightly simpler to stub out, so I went with that for now. Done. Ugly, but done. http://facebook.com/pages/Boston-Perl-Mongers/134089120681 Seems l

Re: [Boston.pm] Boston.PM facebook group/page

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Devers
yourselves. We can all be admins for all I care, it's just another means of publicizing the group. As Rob notes, a Page makes sense too -- more sense, perhaps -- but a Group was slightly simpler to stub out, so I went with that for now. -- Chris Devers _

Re: [Boston.pm] Boston.PM facebook group/page

2009-09-10 Thread Chris Devers
for it, meetings could be posted, etc. -- Chris Devers just might go to another meeting again someday maybe after the kids go off to college perhaps ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] I didn't realize that some of Git is conceptually based on early work by Sean Quinlan!

2009-06-25 Thread Chris Devers
speaker/26232 Different resume; seems to be a decade or more older. -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] larry's mit talk

2009-03-26 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:16 PM, rob levy wrote: > If I remember correctly, in one of his songs he refer to Javascript, but no > mention of Perl that I am aware of. Of course not. That would be telling, wouldn't it? BCNU. -- Chris

Re: [Boston.pm] larry's mit talk

2009-03-26 Thread Chris Devers
ttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B0HZYE/sr=8-1/qid=1238094213/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8=5174=music=1238094213=8-1 If he brings an accordian to his talks ...be suspicious. Be very suspicious. -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.

Re: [Boston.pm] Is "set" a perl keyword?

2008-10-15 Thread Chris Devers
"no". They let you have Google, right? http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/pod/perlfunc.html#Alphabetical_Listing_of_Perl_Fun That also implies "no". :-) -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Force browser rendering of a partial dataset?

2008-07-15 Thread Chris Devers
tart rendering early), but no guarantees there. Some possible ways out, maybe: * break up the data into 100-row table chunks * see if maybe pseudo-tables with CSS could work (???) * skip the table and offer a CSV / XLS download link -- Chris Devers __

Re: [Boston.pm] job postings

2008-06-30 Thread Chris Devers
nhouse and all that. I'd like to know a little more about what's involved, but if it's just doing a quick sanity check on incoming job posting requests, I don't have a problem taking that role. -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.

Re: [Boston.pm] quiz slides and talk

2008-06-12 Thread Chris Devers
I smell some buggy code cooking here :-) -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] quiz questions

2008-06-10 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Uri Guttman wrote: > can any of you listen to instructions??! please NO POSTING of answers > until after the talk. Sorry, got your message after sending my suggestions. In any case, I doubt I can make it tonight to begin with... -- Chris Devers DO NOT

Re: [Boston.pm] quiz questions

2008-06-10 Thread Chris Devers
Tiramisù: Lasagne code, but with chocolate & Kahlua for the maintainer. Birra: Beer. -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] merging lists that are ordered but not sorted

2008-01-29 Thread Chris Devers
dog, shark, mouse, elephant List 3: elephant, dog That is, "loops", I guess. Seems like edge cases like that could make this non-determistic. -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Edward Tufte in Boston this March

2008-01-25 Thread Chris Devers
e, but was underwhelmed overall :-/ -- Chris Devers DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Linux Magazine survey: Are you still using Perl?

2007-07-13 Thread Chris Devers
f contexts -- but then cited as examples a couple of diagnostics that are nearly useless in all contexts, like "uptime", while leaving out others like, say, "fsck" or "ping". Oh well, what can you do... -- Chris Devers ___

Re: [Boston.pm] (void) "Too clever by half", or, "Look ma, no hands!"

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Devers
Sorry if you got that more last one than once, I changed my mind about cross-posting it but then, err, hit send before remembering to delete the extraneous addresses. Still though, it's funny stuff. Really. *ahem* -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm

[Boston.pm] "Too clever by half", or, "Look ma, no hands!"

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Devers
http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/07/vistas-advanced-speech- recognition.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyLqUf4cdwc -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Extract text from html preserving newlines

2007-05-02 Thread Chris Devers
mating it should be a snap to do, even with just a simple shell script. $ for f in *.html; do links -dump $f > ${f}.txt; done Etc. -- Chris Devers DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.or

Re: [Boston.pm] Program wanted to recover text that has spaces inserted or deleted

2007-04-05 Thread Chris Devers
hing else, that would also solve the ancillary problem of a space before punctuation marks... -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] teaching kids Perl

2006-12-01 Thread Chris Devers
ht be a good next step... -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] teaching kids Perl

2006-12-01 Thread Chris Devers
Scheme for Windows, OSX, Linux, etc. that would be good for kids to learn on. Perl as a first language though seems like a risky idea though, almost along the lines of that old (Knuth?) line about people who learned on Basic being irrepairably dama

Re: [Boston.pm] damian meeting recap

2006-09-26 Thread Chris Devers
will not be made available, in spite of the advice to "go forth and download". That bit was actually mistranslated from Australian into English. Silly furriners. Sorry about any confusion.) -- Chris Devers DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL ___ Bos

Re: [Boston.pm] damian meeting recap

2006-09-26 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Federico Lucifredi wrote: > Well, damian is always an event =) > > Now, Bill, where are those pictures ? ;-) Is it possible to upload pictures to the wiki? Or video? :-) I can share, but lack the bandwidth to do so properly... -- Chr

Re: [Boston.pm] Short time in Boston

2006-09-15 Thread Chris Devers
pstream past Harvard to the finish line Herter Park. Alternately, if this isn't your cuppa tea, you may wish to avoid the race route and nearby areas (e.g. Harvard Square), as they'll probably be mobbed. http://www.hocr.org/home/default.asp http://www.hocr.org/pdf/shuttlen.pdf -- Chris Devers

Re: [Boston.pm] Impatient Perl, reboot

2006-06-26 Thread Chris Devers
source files as PDF. I'm not sure which of those would be easier, less labor intensive, etc., but neither of them seems that hard to manage... -- Chris Devers DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Curses clarification

2006-06-01 Thread Chris Devers
ize that a proper database of some kind -- even SQLite -- should be more robust & easy to manage in the long run, you should be able to port your code to it without a total rewrite. Plan for growth. You'll be glad you did, someday. -- Chris

Re: [Boston.pm] Stock Quotes

2006-03-02 Thread Chris Devers
eing patched as needed to keep it working with Yahoo's site. -- Chris Devers DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Pretty Graphs with Perl

2005-12-06 Thread Chris Devers
are good plugins that can be downloaded & installed. These pages give a pretty good overview of SVG issues, including browser support: http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/samples/ http://sdx.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/gpl/navimages/en/svgViewer.html -- Chris Devers d»Ó¼urÆðekù _

Re: [Boston.pm] Fwd: parrot now available as a Debian package

2005-11-18 Thread Chris Devers
nment contract specified that they could requisition any version of Novell or any version of Windows "higher" than 3.11. -- Chris Devers, who's still hoping that Mac OS X will one day "go to eleven" to complete the circle... ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] UNIX/LINUX/Windows Application Infrastructure Support Engineer - Central Illinois

2005-10-30 Thread Chris Devers
s perfect sense now :-) -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] brian d foy is in the neighborhood

2005-10-17 Thread Chris Devers
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Ricker, William wrote: > How far he wants to travel would seem to be a question for brian to > answer, not for us. Well, yes, but seeing as he isn't speaking up, *someone* should. Who shall we nominate to be the honorary brian? -- Chris

Re: [Boston.pm] Quotes and such [was] RE: script to "normalize" output of Windows dir command

2005-09-26 Thread Chris Devers
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, John Macdonald wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:48:08PM -0400, Ricker, William wrote: > > Chris Devers was however obviously looking for this rather specific > > elaboration of Santayana's, as it captures the inevitableness. > > > > [ &quo

Re: [Boston.pm] script to "normalize" output of Windows dir command

2005-09-26 Thread Chris Devers
g it, badly, but I can't quite find the witty version I'm looking for (and, for that matter, I can't quite remember the quote that I'm ripping off there, either...). -- Chris Devers 4ûkuwY^TöºûÑ ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://m

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2005-08-12 Thread Chris Devers
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Uri Guttman wrote: > mastering regular expressions, 2nd edition by jeffrey friedl. updated > to all the latest regex features and it covers more langs and tools > that use them. I'm interested in reviewing this one, if it's still available. -- Chr

Re: [Boston.pm] Pizza

2005-08-09 Thread Chris Devers
r more actual useful information on the page itself.) -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] we can meet at mit

2005-07-08 Thread Chris Devers
ers there must be who live &/or work &/or go to school across the river in Cambridge. >From the web site, it looks to me more like a defunct MIT student group. In any case, they seem to have last been active in 1999. -- Chris Devers ___ Bos

Re: [Boston.pm] we can meet at mit

2005-07-08 Thread Chris Devers
Waitaminute, if we're going to meet at MIT, which is in Cambridge, then do we need to set up some kind of arrangement with Cambridge.pm ? <http://www.pm.org/groups/15.html> <http://cambridge.pm.org/> The contact is James Wm. Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Heh.

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Mongers Group in Champaign, IL

2005-07-08 Thread Chris Devers
have been updated since February, but that may or may not mean anything -- after all, how often does the Boston.pm site get updated? Even with the wiki, "not very." There are contacts on their page, try starting there... -- Chris Devers ___ Bos

Re: [Boston.pm] we can meet at mit

2005-07-08 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Uri Guttman wrote: > i just got info about meeting at mit and it looks like we will be able > to get a room there with no problems. Great! Thank you for organizing this. So, any idea how soon we could have another meeting? It's been a while... -- Chris

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

2005-06-17 Thread Chris Devers
y renumbered, I think -- that was simultaneously Route 128 South and Interstate 93 North, hence <http://devers.homeip.net:8080/images/128.gif> :-) -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

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

2005-06-17 Thread Chris Devers
call your neighborhood Fatty Arbuckle for all the post office cares. Heh. Come to think of it, I might start calling my street that... :-) -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Empty radio and checkboxes not passed to perl scr ipt

2005-05-27 Thread Chris Devers
e possible without Javascript trickery, which we've already ruled out as being unviable. That or just don't allow page authors to put any old random crap into the form like this :-) -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Empty radio and checkboxes not passed to perl script

2005-05-26 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 26 May 2005, Uri Guttman wrote: > >>>>> "CD" == Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > CD> Properly done, validation should happen on *both* sides, > CD> but minimally it has to happen on your side. > > it doesn't ever hav

Re: [Boston.pm] Empty radio and checkboxes not passed to perl script

2005-05-26 Thread Chris Devers
lly it has to happen on your side. -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Empty radio and checkboxes not passed to perl scr ipt

2005-05-26 Thread Chris Devers
nnecessarily complicated. -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Empty radio and checkboxes not passed to perl scr ipt

2005-05-26 Thread Chris Devers
that you're currently describing a brittle format for maintaining lists of key/value pairs, but there's lots of other ways to go about this. > In other words, not terribly fun. Thankfully, these calamities are easily preventable :-) -- Chris Devers _

Re: [Boston.pm] OT(very):VT-100 Project

2005-04-21 Thread Chris Devers
.ossmann.com/5-in-1.html>. > Any (non-void) pointers? Nuts, does this rule me out... ? :-) -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] social meeeting in June?

2005-04-01 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Ann Barcomb wrote: > Well, I've booked my flight, and that's not until June... > Does that count as proof? ...I retain my doubts :-) -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/m

Re: [Boston.pm] social meeeting in June?

2005-04-01 Thread Chris Devers
that's possible. I've heard of it, but I don't believe it. -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

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

2005-03-21 Thread Chris Devers
in Perl, you may then know how best to proceed -- or you can just leave it in Python and go do more interesting things. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://devers.homeip.net:8080/blog/ np: 'If I Should Lose You' by Ken Peplowski / Howard Alden from 'Concord Duo Series, Vol.

Re: [Boston.pm] sending a user to the middle of a page from a form post

2005-03-08 Thread Chris Devers
en points to this anchor: http://your.server/path/to/form#target Or maybe, for a GET request, it might look like this: http://your.server/path/to/form?any=args=here#target When the URL loads, the browser will scroll to the #target. -- Chr

Re: [Boston.pm] HTML Renderer

2005-03-08 Thread Chris Devers
that way. If you run it on OSX, you can go straight from this to a PDF file for free. But this is way more overhead than html2ps; if you can live with the screen grab just being an approximation of what the user sees, rather than a perfect match, it's *much*

Re: social-ism, was Re: [Boston.pm] why popularity matters

2005-03-04 Thread Chris Devers
uot;you will lose badly (in bed)". I've noticed that "in bed" isn't the only amusing fortune cookie suffix: with a certain crowd, "using emacs" works almost as well: you will lose badly (using emacs) Sounds about right to me :-) -- Chris Devers ___

social-ism, was Re: [Boston.pm] why popularity matters

2005-03-04 Thread Chris Devers
ld be a very nice hang-out for the next informal > Food.pm ;-) > > http://www.boston.com/dining/globe_review/1101 Are you Advocating for this restaraunt then ? Has the place been Certified ? Do they offer a variety of Courses ? Can we expect food fights if we all go there ? :-

Re: [Boston.pm] why popularity matters

2005-03-03 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Greg London wrote: > Chris Devers said: > > Advocacy *doesn't* work well. > > > But beyond keeping sites like that prominent, there's not really a lot > > that can be done, pragmatically speaking, that seems likely to help. > > This is the same

Re: [Boston.pm] why popularity matters

2005-03-03 Thread Chris Devers
using the success of that to reflect well on Perl. Adam's points are reasonable. I don't see why he's being attacked for voicing them. -- Chris Devers, who figures that if people want to keep mutilating the dead horse, he might as well get in

Re: [Boston.pm] Anyone know of an alternative to perldoc.com?

2005-03-02 Thread Chris Devers
om did... -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

[Boston.pm] THE NAZIS HAD A CERTIFICATION FOR PERL

2005-03-01 Thread Chris Devers
But then, you can't invoke Godwin deliberately, can you? Wasn't mentioning [implicitly, national] socialism close enough? No? Damn. -- Chris Devers, fascinated just how many thousands of words this thread has produced, and yet managed to clarify exactly nothing while doing so

Re: [Boston.pm] DBMS books, and (also) Perl

2005-02-25 Thread Chris Devers
ec/obidos/tg/detail/-/061906269X> I thought it was a decent book, but it's the only database textbook I've read, so I can't really say how it compares to others. You can at least look over the Amazon recommendations though... -- Chris Devers _

Re: [Boston.pm] Any incidence of cpan module closing the session?

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Devers
# perl -e 'eval{ use CPAN; install MQSeries}' Or something along those lines... -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

RE: [Boston.pm] Social Meeting Plans & Tech Meeting Followup

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Devers
onvenient to the T. We're not going to let a little snow stop us from having a good time! -- which had me thinking tomorrow was not out of the question. Oh well. -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.or

RE: [WARNING: This message originated from outside of Fidelity] RE: [Boston.pm] Social Meeting Plans & Tech Meeting Followup

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Ricker, William wrote: > Well, brian says that Cheesecake Factory (Cambridgeside Galleria) or > No Name (South Boston / Seaport) work for him. Tonight or tomorrow night? I can make it tomorrow, but not tonight... If tomorrow, I vote for Cheesecake Factory. --

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

2005-02-07 Thread Chris Devers
make the space of numbers to be guessed a lot bigger, but you're still opening yourself up to privacy complaints if random visitors can get to other people's purchase records, especially if you have customers from countries with credible privacy laws (e.g. U

Re: [Boston.pm] mind share

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Devers
e bit simpler, HTML::Template. -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] search.cpan.org gone?

2005-01-14 Thread Chris Devers
.cpan.org/ HTTP/1.1 502 Bad Gateway Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:10:02 GMT Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 224.11 real 0.17 user 0.07 sys $ But between getting that and hitting send, it seems to be back up ...

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

2004-10-01 Thread Chris Devers
gle and got back a dozen or more pages about the camera I mentioned. If Randal has a proper SLR, that changes everything :-) -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

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

2004-10-01 Thread Chris Devers
els. 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... :-) -- Chris Devers __

Re: [Boston.pm] CMS/Website creation and management tool

2004-09-08 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, joe wrote: MovableType fails the Open Source test. Ahh, good point, I forgot about that. That still leaves at least Bricolage & Slash though, and I know there are several others (Mason, etc). More info is needed to help figure out which one is appropriate. -- Chris De

RE: [Boston.pm] a car talk puzzle

2004-09-08 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Cox, Mark wrote: Using your script Jeremy, my dictionary (Solaris 5.8) came up with one that I like Ogres->Ogress Ya know, Shrek and Fiona meet both of these solutions to the puzzle :-) heh... -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mail

RE: [Boston.pm] a car talk puzzle

2004-09-08 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Jeremy Muhlich wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 15:43, Chris Devers wrote: Looking back at my /usr/share/dict/words, the singular form of the word doesn't show up I find that kind of hard to believe... That was a think-o -- the singular is there, the plural isn't. What unix are you

Re: [Boston.pm] CMS/Website creation and management tool

2004-09-08 Thread Chris Devers
; They could be a good source of information... -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

RE: [Boston.pm] a car talk puzzle

2004-09-08 Thread Chris Devers
s have a masculine connotation. It's much less ambiguous than this. Also, the words are shorter, and probably more common. Though, in a way, the definition is basically along the same lines :) -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Boston.pm] a car talk puzzle

2004-09-08 Thread Chris Devers
s dropped, is also in the larger -s list. With luck, there will be only one; realistically, this should shorten the list enough that the answer can be found manually. Can anyone think of a clever way to do this ? -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMA

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

2004-09-08 Thread Chris Devers
so much effort into answering a question that was never asked? -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

[Boston.pm] Re: several messages

2004-08-10 Thread Chris Devers
get spammed with this today? Is posting the same message all over the place considered ok now? For the sake of this message, I hope just once is forgivable :-) -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2004-08-06 Thread Chris Devers
ws site you'd want to link to...]. Also, for anyone with a browser set to reject images coming from an alternate server (I think Mozilla has had this for a while), this would break the whole scheme. So maybe that wouldn't work. But at least it tries to address the publisher's needs... -

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki

2004-08-05 Thread Chris Devers
a pain in the ass, no one is going to do it. Forcing registration will make it be a pain in the ass. Ergo, I think registration should be done carefully & with reluctance. -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] OT - Keyboards

2004-08-04 Thread Chris Devers
:) But still, in that case they're using the first, sensible aspect of that key rather than sysreq, which would be ...really random. -- Chris Devers, who will try the "think first, talk later" rule for a while ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Boston.pm] Keyboards

2004-08-04 Thread Chris Devers
keys for cut / copy / paste would be infinitely more useful than any of these, but oh well, we're stuck with this now. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://devers.homeip.net:8080/blog/ np: 'Lujon' by Henry Mancini from 'The Best Of Mancini' _

Re: [Boston.pm] Keyboards

2004-08-04 Thread Chris Devers
and the annoyance it hardly seems worth it to buy one for this. I still think the easiest way is to just get used to the Windows key -- anything that makes Windows a little more pleasant is worth it -- but who am I to talk -- I'm a Mac user anyway :-) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Boston.pm] Keyboards

2004-08-04 Thread Chris Devers
up over a perfectly useful key that just happens to be burdened with an annoying little advertising label on it. Man, life's rough... :-) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://devers.homeip.net:8080/blog/ np: 'Theme From Hatari!' by Henry Mancini from 'The Best Of

Re: [Boston.pm] Dan and the Pie

2004-08-03 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Steven W. Orr wrote: Probably the funniest of all pies is the kiwi pie. Of course, if Dan had been an adorable KDE hacker, it would have had to be a QT Pie. -- Chris Devers you may groan now ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Boston.pm] rakudo.org

2004-07-27 Thread Chris Devers
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Re: [Boston.pm] small nagging question

2004-07-21 Thread Chris Devers
conflicts between your own variables & functions and the ones that came from parts of the module you aren't interested in. It's a funny question, now that you ask it -- isn't it just intuitively obvious that restricting & specifying things this way is a good habit? -- Chri

Re: [Boston.pm] OFF TOPIC: Software Development Project

2004-07-16 Thread Chris Devers
, and MAC systems, then transmitting the results across a TCP/IP network. If you are interested, email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for details. Does it involve SNMP ? :-) -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman

Re: [Boston.pm] Thanks Damian!

2004-07-16 Thread Chris Devers
m/2004-July/thread.html#2052> :-) -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Thanks Damian!

2004-07-15 Thread Chris Devers
a few gaps up until that point anyway... -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Is there a module to access memory usage?

2004-07-15 Thread Chris Devers
the person that wants to run VisiCalc & Lotus Agenda side by side :-) -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Is there a module to access memory usage?

2004-07-15 Thread Chris Devers
vial. -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Is there a module to access memory usage?

2004-07-14 Thread Chris Devers
eries properly) and then see if you can get a package like Mon to do the work for you. This may be overkill for a small project, but it makes whole classes of diagnostic problems into known quantities that you don't have to think about anymore, which is certainly appealing. -

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