Re: [Boston.pm] Social Meeting for Boston.pm with Alias this week, probably Thursday?

Adam Kennedy (aka Alias), one of the other well known Australian Perl Mongers, is in town (or at least Framingham). Who besides Steve and me can shake free for a perl social Thursday? Steve has graciously agreed to provide Adam a ride so we can pick some place on the (T). Sure, why not? I'll

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] domain theft saga

On 3/30/2010 7:07 AM, Greg London wrote: Can anyone recommend a good, reliable, secure, host/registrar? Must have phone support and shouldn't be too expensive. I've had good experiences with Hover (formerly Domain Direct), a division of Tucows. I've never had occasion to use it, but their

Re: [Boston.pm] YAPC::NA 2011

On 3/25/2010 9:53 PM, Jerrad Pierce wrote: funding isn't the primary mit issue. it is finding a school sponsor. Which takes time (=money). Time's not the only reason YAPC::Boston hasn't happened in the past, but in previous recountings it has sounded like a major factor. I don't think it's

[Boston.pm] RSVP for the meeting

I'm not sure who is collecting them now, so I'll have to spam the list this once. I will be at the meeting on Tuesday night. ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

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

Bob Rogers wrote: >From: Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:18:07 -0400 > >. . . perl is both an interpreter and compiler. this is a common >statement but what does it mean? why are somethings only an >interpreter or compiler? why is script used when

Re: [Boston.pm] meeting tomorrow?

Ronald J Kimball wrote: > Yes, the second Tuesday did kind of sneak up on me this month. > I don't have anything planned for a meeting for tomorrow, and in fact I > have a conflict. > > How about a social meeting on, say, Wednesday, March 19? > > Ronald Wouldn't work for me; no Wednesdays do.

Re: [Boston.pm] Social Meeting in August

Ronald J Kimball wrote: > Okay, we'll go with next Tuesday, 8/21 for the social meeting. > > Now, for venue - I propose either Cambridge Brew Company (Kendall Square) > or Boston Beer Works (Fenway). We've had successful social meetings at > both places in the past. Under-21s are fine at either

Re: [Boston.pm] emergency dim sum

Uri Guttman wrote: > hi all, > > i mentioned this a while ago but now it has become an emergency. the > illustrious founder of the perl mongers, david adler and his world > travelling mom are going to be in town on this sunday. they have a day > in port (the poor things are on a cruise to canada

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

Kripa Sundar wrote: > I could think of three problems with eval(), and replied to him with > the three points below. Please let me know if I have gotten anything > wrong below. Also, if you can think of more eval() concerns, please > help me learn. TIA. I think you've pretty well covered the

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

>>Sounds like the stretch of road -- now sadly renumbered, I think -- that >>was simultaneously Route 128 South and Interstate 93 North, hence >> >> What made that stretch of road even more wonderfully twisted is the fact that you were traveling

Re: [Boston.pm] Image Uploading

Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > I know I asked a similar question a while back, but I'm compelled to try > again. > > I have an existing script, not using CGI to take in parameters handed to the > script. I would now like to have this script upload a file to the server, but > not be forced to convert

Re: Social Thursday (AND Wednesday) RE: [Boston.pm] rain vs. snow

Ricker, William wrote: Thursday - Cheescake @ CambridgeSide - brian + Everyone, - RSVP List + Ron as usual. I'll be there... what time is it going to start? ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org

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

Chris Devers wrote: 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: SuSE's OpenExchange

Tom Metro wrote: Anyone get the business model Novell is using with SuSE? They keep sending me trial CDs for SuSE (I'm on Novell's mailing list), but who wants to spend the time installing an operating system on a server only to have it expire in 60 or 90 days? If it's open source, shouldn't I

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

Chris Devers wrote: Megapixels shmegapixels. Is the lens any good? It's this one, right? 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

Re: [Boston.pm] Keyboards

Chris Devers wrote: I resisted using the win-key for years, but now that I've given in, I'd never want to go back to using Windows without having that key, and it bugs me that Linux & OSX don't seem to have globally available system tools available with just a keystroke like that. On my Linux

Re: [Boston.pm] Keyboards

Glen Peterson wrote: Last night there was brief moaning by people who wanted keybards without the Windows(tm) keys. For many users, the easiest and cheapest way to get one is probably to go to the MIT Flea and buy an old keyboard -- one made long enough ago not to have Windows keys. That won't

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: reply-to

John Abreau wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 23:08, Uri Guttman wrote: BR> This is not a good idea. See BR> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html for a thorough essay on BR> why this is bad. and there are arguments on why it is good. just another religious war with no correct side as

Re: [Boston.pm] No Meeting Tonight, Other Updates

Uri Guttman wrote: "RJK" == Ronald J Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RJK> Oops, I should have been clearer. I did not mean we should have RJK> a social meeting tonight, but rather sometime this month. :D RJK> How about next Thursday (Nov 21) at the Village Smokehouse? ok by me.