Re: [Boston.pm] Damien's book OOP - OOP?

2003-10-12 Thread Erik Price
On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 11:10 AM, Andrew M. Langmead wrote: Even when it is the best book on the subject and all the information in the book is relavent to the current version of the language? I'll never understand the book publishing business. Though I haven't read Damian Conway's book

Re: [Boston.pm] emacs discussion

2003-07-10 Thread Erik Price
On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 10:20 PM, Chris Devers wrote: I wish I could think of better metaphors for this, because intuitively it seems clear to me that there are plenty of examples of things that are very complex and yet still not necessarily challenging. Python? ]} dodges barrage of toma

Re: [Boston.pm] Komodo vs. emacs

2003-07-01 Thread Erik Price
On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 01:01 PM, David Cantrell wrote: The way I want to edit - and the way emacs doesn't want to let me edit - is for the editor to not impose any indentation at all. Rather, it should let me indent and then should automatically indent following lines by the same amount

Re: [Boston.pm] Komodo vs. emacs

2003-06-30 Thread Erik Price
On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 05:37 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: If you're using a Mac, BBEdit is really sweet - and just a bit over half the price of Komodo. If you're not using a Mac... well, why aren't you? ;-) Sing it, brother. BBEdit is the best Perl environment I've used. Erik ___

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl 6 has become too complex

2003-03-18 Thread Erik Price
own dialects of that language, separating from the main "trunk" as it were. I wonder sometimes about the grammars that people use to write software and how closely or not so closely it relates. * case in point Erik -- Erik Price email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl 6 has become too complex

2003-03-15 Thread Erik Price
ng Perl 5.005 on the production servers (for our internal site).... Erik -- Erik Price email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl 6 has become too complex

2003-03-14 Thread Erik Price
Clan official clothing) and America Online! Not exactly the same, but ... well, anyway. Erik -- Erik Price email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Social Meeting Thursday, March 6

2003-03-02 Thread Erik Price
is bridge. IMBW though. Erik -- Erik Price email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] cgi file permissions

2003-03-02 Thread Erik Price
I think the OP meant a way to store the database connection password itself (which the CGI scripts must use in order to make database connections), so that the CGI can access the DB. Erik -- Erik Price email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: [Boston.pm] cgi file permissions

2003-03-02 Thread Erik Price
. You can imagine where this leads. Erik -- Erik Price email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: "Slightly" off topic from Hartford PM Group

2003-03-02 Thread Erik Price
before the file is downloaded. According to this post to the Tomcat-user mailing list, Microsoft is aware of this "problem" and reported that it was working as designed: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ msg86869.html> Erik -- Erik Price email: [EMAIL PROT

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl v. Java...

2003-02-11 Thread Erik Price
On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 12:02 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 11:04 PM, Erik Price wrote: Java doesn't let you just bust out what's on your mind -- I've discovered that you really have to plan out your application's public interface

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl v. Java...

2003-02-10 Thread Erik Price
ered that you really have to plan out your application's public interface -- but it's a pretty good language IMO. I agree with the guy about maybe the implementations could use work (the JVM is dog slow on my iBook). Erik -- Erik Price email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMA

Re: [Boston.pm] damian talk

2003-01-13 Thread Erik Price
Not quite sure why. Erik -- Erik Price email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-02 Thread Erik Price
mpletely faultless, but it gives me the power and features of Linux but without making me micromanage every little detail of the OS. You can micromanage if you want -- but if you just want to get stuff done, the OS pretty much takes care of itself. Erik -- Erik Price email: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Boston.pm] for loop iterator variable -- !?

2002-11-22 Thread Erik Price
On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 12:54 AM, darren chamberlain wrote: But $#array scares away Python weenies ("too much punctuation"), so maybe there's some value there... :) I knew there was a reason I didn't like it! :) Erik -- Erik Price

Re: [Boston.pm] for loop iterator variable -- !?

2002-11-22 Thread Erik Price
ot referring to performance. Erik -- Erik Price (zombies roam) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] for loop iterator variable -- !?

2002-11-21 Thread Erik Price
On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 10:26 PM, darren chamberlain wrote: , note that $n <= $#array and $i <= @array are not equivalent: @array == $#array + 1 Doht. Erik -- Erik Price (zombies roam) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber:

Re: [Boston.pm] for loop iterator variable -- !?

2002-11-21 Thread Erik Price
it's nice not to have to bother with it.) Erik -- Erik Price (zombies roam) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] for loop iterator variable -- !?

2002-11-21 Thread Erik Price
ng. (Even if by only one char.) Erik -- Erik Price (zombies roam) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] perl and .net

2002-11-09 Thread Erik Price
I'm all for any non-M$-only tech, but ... http://www2.theserverside.com/home/ thread.jsp?thread_id=16149&article_count=690 -- Erik Price (zombies roam) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: [Boston.pm] RE: New Bull Community

2002-11-01 Thread Erik Price
h the site. He is also one of only three members that has posted more than once. Grant M. Cross-posted to GNHLUG too. -- Erik Price (zombies roam) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Boston-pm ma

Re: [Boston.pm] my understanding of tr must be wrong

2002-10-08 Thread Erik Price
--- Stephen Reppucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From 'perldoc perlop': > > If the REPLACEMENTLIST is > empty, the SEARCHLIST is replicated. This latter > is useful for counting characters in a class or > for squashing character sequences in a class. > > As Ronald s

[Boston.pm] my understanding of tr must be wrong

2002-10-07 Thread Erik Price
Here is a snippet of a script I am working on. It doesn't do what I expect, which is simply to remove all of the occurrences of certain characters from a string using the transliteration (tr///) operator. However, it works perfectly when I put those characters into a character class, change the

Re: [Boston.pm] file uploads w/Perl CGI

2002-10-04 Thread Erik Price
guration, so I can't use certain kinds of modules that have to be installed. That's why I'm not using the Excel parse modules (though I thought about it). Erik -- Erik Price (zombies roam) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

[Boston.pm] file uploads w/Perl CGI

2002-10-03 Thread Erik Price
rative privileges on this server, so I can't use any modules that need to be installed as root or which require additional tools ... this Solaris server doesn't even seem to have the bash shell. :( -- Erik Price (zombies roam) email: [EMAIL

Re: [Boston.pm] $/ and pattern matching

2002-09-24 Thread Erik Price
k of code with a different file handle inside the <>. Any good ideas that let me just use the same block in either case? -- Erik Price (zombies roam) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] $/ and pattern matching

2002-09-23 Thread Erik Price
about the \z metacharacter. It matches the end of the string only -- I assume that it's there for situations like this (when the value of $ is being messed with)? Thank you, Erik -- Erik Price (zombies roam) ema

[Boston.pm] $/ and pattern matching

2002-09-23 Thread Erik Price
on's "$" is still trying to match a true end-of-line, not my new definition of what an end-of-line is (four spaces). Anyone have any ideas? Erik PS: Yes, I realize that this will cause the match to fail on the last record -- Erik Price (zomb

Re: [Boston.pm] Content management system

2002-09-20 Thread Erik Price
; freshmeat. Wonder if people had experience with them and what the >> experiences have been. -- Erik Price (zombies roam) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] OS X Perl Dev

2002-09-17 Thread Erik Price
thers", then write a web page that calls the Perl script as the "action" attribute of its form. The document URL above will tell you what you need to know. -- Erik Price (zombies roam) email

Re: [Boston.pm] Prototypes for object methods?

2002-09-12 Thread Erik Price
s a coding standard, isn't it personal preference? Erik -- Erik Price (zombies roam) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail