[Boston.pm] Module distribution system?

2011-03-04 Thread Richard Morse
Hi! I'm getting confused, and have a question... What is the current recommended way to create a perl module package? Module::Install, Module::Build, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, or ExtUtils::ModuleMaker? Thanks, Ricky The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addres

Re: [Boston.pm] Text to slides

2010-05-19 Thread Richard Morse
On May 12, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Palit, Nilanjan wrote: > So I downloaded the Pod::S5 from CPAN and started installing it. I do not > have admin privs and am installing in my local user dir. However, running > 'perl Makefile.PL' reports missing dependencies on other modules (Pod::Tree, > HTML::Str

Re: [Boston.pm] Mac scripting questions

2010-05-17 Thread Richard Morse
On May 14, 2010, at 6:11 PM, Chris Devers wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Richard Morse wrote: >> >> One caveat; it is not necessarily the case that an application will reload >> its defaults while running. iCal may; I don't know. However, in general

Re: [Boston.pm] Mac scripting questions

2010-05-14 Thread Richard Morse
On May 12, 2010, at 10:00 AM, Federico Lucifredi wrote: > BUT, the really interesting bit I was able to get to is the _actual_ > reason why "disabling alarms" is not in the Dictionary for iCal: it is > in the application defaults, which i was not aware of even existed! > > The defaults are progra

Re: [Boston.pm] [Fwd: [HCS] Larry Wall - Inventor of Perl - onTuesday 3/31]

2009-03-20 Thread Richard Morse
I'm confused... Is the talk on Tuesday 31 March, or Wednesday 1 April? Is the talk at 4:30p or 5:30p? Ricky On Mar 19, 2009, at 7:38 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: i just called sipb and they confirmed the talk. it is not up on their site yet (and may not be ever, they don't sponsor talks too ofte

Re: [Boston.pm] Ack-A-thon results (1)

2008-07-17 Thread Richard Morse
On Jul 17, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Richard Morse wrote: On Jul 15, 2008, at 10:29 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: We did some specs for new main loop. Hi! I had volunteered to write up the algorithm, and last night I started doing that, but ran into several things we hadn't thought of. I was ab

Re: [Boston.pm] Ack-A-thon results (1)

2008-07-17 Thread Richard Morse
On Jul 15, 2008, at 10:29 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: We did some specs for new main loop. Hi! I had volunteered to write up the algorithm, and last night I started doing that, but ran into several things we hadn't thought of. I was able to fix most of them, although it made things a bit more

Re: [Boston.pm] quiz questions

2008-06-10 Thread Richard Morse
On Jun 10, 2008, at 10:08 AM, Michael Small wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 08:50:55AM -0400, john saylor wrote: >> hey >> >> On 6/9/08, Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> what is the opposite of spaghetti code? >> >> fortran cookies >> > > I told this joke to a co-worker just now and it

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2007-01-18 Thread Richard Morse
On Jan 18, 2007, at 4:25 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: >>>>>> "RM" == Richard Morse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > RM> There were approximately 4 slices left. Maybe 5? Two > cheese, one > RM> pepper & onions, one tomato, and possibly one

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2007-01-18 Thread Richard Morse
On Jan 18, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Ronald J Kimball wrote: > By the way, in the rush to leave, I didn't get a chance to see how > much > pizza was left at the end. Did anyone happen to notice? Knowing > how much > is left helps me decide how much to order next time. There were approximately 4 sli

Re: [Boston.pm] Thank you for the book/resource recommendations

2006-09-12 Thread Richard Morse
On Sep 12, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Minh Vo wrote: > I just wanted to send a small thank you to everyone (particularly > David, > Duane, Uri, Shlomi, Greg, Bob and Joshua) for their quick response and > helpful feedback. I didn't expect to get so many responses! That > aside, it > looks like I'm in

Re: [Boston.pm] perl, windows, unix, and permissions

2006-05-10 Thread Richard Morse
If this program is the only one using that share (or you can create a special share precisely for this purpose, even if just duplicating an already existent share with a new name), you can force the user on the unix side via the share definition. For example, for one of my web shares, I have

Re: [Boston.pm] Win32::OLE Do you want to save changes? popup.

2006-05-02 Thread Richard Morse
On May 2, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Greg London wrote: > I'm using Win32::OLE to read and write a number of spreadsheets > from a perl/tk script. When the user clicks a button, I go through > and write some cells: > > my $Excel = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Excel.Application') > || Win32::OLE->new('

Re: [Boston.pm] quantifiers in regular expressions

2006-02-01 Thread Richard Morse
On Feb 1, 2006, at 2:55 PM, Greg London wrote: > I'm trying to understand how multiple quantifiers in a > regular expressions get massaged to fit the data. > in other words. > > [snip] > > I know it "just works", but I'm trying to figure > out exactly how it behaves under the hood. Hi! I don't k

Re: [Boston.pm] More Perl Style

2006-01-02 Thread Richard Morse
On Dec 24, 2005, at 12:52 AM, Uri Guttman wrote: >> "FL" == Federico Lucifredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > FL> I went with a variant of this one as it seems the most elegant > option > FL> when having to retain setting the flag to terminate the outer > loop. too > FL> bad there isn

Re: [Boston.pm] re PHP Succeeding / Perl vs Python / etc

2005-11-07 Thread Richard Morse
On Nov 7, 2005, at 1:54 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > I find all three approachable -- Perl's staying power for me is mostly > in the CPAN, and that it's the default language amongst my co-workers. > If Ruby had CPAN-sized CRAN and Perl didn't, I'd be a Ruby programmer. Hi! Totally off-topic, but CRAN

Re: [Boston.pm] Reading Cookies

2005-06-29 Thread Richard Morse
On Jun 29, 2005, at 12:10 PM, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > OK, so I've filed down my problem. I see where all my confusion has > been > coming. > Of course I'm still left with one major problem. > First, here's the situation: > > When I use the following code I can write cookies everywhere but in >

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

2005-02-08 Thread Richard Morse
On 7 Feb 2005, at 11:52 AM, Simon Wilcox wrote: On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Greg London wrote: Can an online store sell stuff over the web without requiring a password and user account for customers? The business question is why would they want to ? Most people who buy online are familiar with the concept

Re: [Boston.pm] Interpolating variables

2004-09-01 Thread Richard Morse
On 1 Sep 2004, at 11:11 AM, Palit, Nilanjan wrote: I thought this is possible, but maybe I'm wrong. Ok, here's the issue: I want to print the values of a bunch of variables so I thought I'll take a shortcut and do this: foreach (qw(var1 var2 var3 var4)) { print "$_ -> ${$_}\n"; } I had tho

Re: [Boston.pm] Setting cookies in different browsers

2004-08-31 Thread Richard Morse
On 31 Aug 2004, at 3:05 PM, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: or even using CGI to create the cooking instead of doing it by hand. I started out using CGI, but it got in the way of other things I was doing How did it get in the way? If you use it in the object-oriented interface, and don't use it to cre

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: Uploading a picture with perl

2004-08-03 Thread Richard Morse
On 3 Aug 2004, at 9:25 AM, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: hi ( 04.08.02 19:32 -0400 ) Alex Brelsfoard: But I am a bit curious to know if there is a way to do this without using CGI.pm. sure, mod_perl [much faster, lighter]. the interface is a bit better than CGI.pm, but not a whole lot. i just think it's a

Re: [Boston.pm] list viruses

2004-05-06 Thread Richard Morse
On 06 May 2004, at 12:28 PM, John Saylor wrote: hi ( 04.05.06 11:46 -0400 ) Philipp Hanes: I use MS Outlook 2000 (not much choice at the office). that's a big problem. outlook is the most massively broken piece of software released by microsoft [and *that's* saying something]. it's like complaining

Re: [Boston.pm] Compression without temp file

2004-02-13 Thread Richard Morse
On 12 Feb 2004, at 10:18 PM, Sean Quinlan wrote: Date: 13 February 2004 08:14:59 AM EST Subject: Hi! For some reason, all of your posts have always arrived to me as attachments -- never in the body of the email. I'm using Apple's Mail client with OSX 10.3.2. Do you have any idea why this wou

Re: [Boston.pm] new to the group

2003-12-18 Thread Richard Morse
On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, at 06:39 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: "t" == toisanji308 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Well, if you guys are having a meeting, I would like to come too it is in sean's court to organize it. let's all give him a gentle punch ina face or a blow to the head to encourage

Re: [Boston.pm] activestate perl 5.6 vs 5.8

2003-11-19 Thread Richard Morse
On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 10:49 AM, Mike Williams wrote: Hi there. After not using perl on windoze for over two years, I am now working on a project where they are using activestate 5.6. Been thinking of switching their systems to 5.8 Does anyone have any opinions to offer on the w

[Boston.pm] Re: "next unless my"

2003-11-13 Thread Richard Morse
On Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 02:37 PM, I wrote: Hi! I'm writing a program, and I've reached a point where it makes (I think) to combine two lines into one. The two original lines are something like: my $var = $hash{$val}; next unless (defined($var)); I'm thinking that it might make mo

[Boston.pm] "next unless my"

2003-11-13 Thread Richard Morse
Hi! I'm writing a program, and I've reached a point where it makes (I think) to combine two lines into one. The two original lines are something like: my $var = $hash{$val}; next unless (defined($var)); I'm thinking that it might make more sense (given the flow of the program at this point

Re: [Boston.pm] Postal address De-duping

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Morse
On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 09:07 AM, John Saylor wrote: hi ( 03.08.04 17:12 -0400 ) Joel Gwynn: we're looking for a fast, customizable de-duping solution. I was thinking there might be some perl stuff out there, really, any perl programmer worth hiring should be able to do this while sleepin

Re: [Boston.pm] Komodo vs. emacs

2003-07-02 Thread Richard Morse
On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 10:16 AM, Greg Marr wrote: At 09:42 AM 7/2/2003, darren chamberlain wrote: My complaint with emacs' indenting isn't that it's the wrong amount but that by default it mixes tab and space characters, which are not the same thing. Since it took me 12 years to find out

Re: [Boston.pm] tcl-perl-unix problem

2003-03-25 Thread Richard Morse
On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 03:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my $make_command = "rsh $linuxMachine " ."cd $pwd/test/c/$testName;" ."make $makeparam >&! log/make.log"; my $retval = syscmd($make_command); if ($retval) when I run the perl version, I get this:

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

2003-02-27 Thread Richard Morse
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 01:10 PM, Gyepi SAM wrote: That url won't do what you want. This one should: http://.../my_script.cgi/filename.ext?null=null 1. I only keep the null=null parameter because you claim it is necessary. 2. I assume that your webserver can separate path info from

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

2003-02-27 Thread Richard Morse
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 11:00 AM, Jay Powers wrote: I have always used the following in the header. Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=thefile.txt So would I do something like: print $q->header('application/zip; filename=myfile.zip'); ? Thanks, Ricky ___

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

2003-02-27 Thread Richard Morse
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 10:55 AM, Gyepi SAM wrote: Appending the filename to the url works with all browsers, AFAIK. Not any more. At least, on all of my Win2K boxes, with IE6-what-ever-the-latest-version-is, sending a script to the url "http://.../my_script.cgi?null=null/filename.

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

2003-02-27 Thread Richard Morse
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 08:03 AM, Bob Mariotti wrote: 1) no dialog box appears and the file is automatically downloaded and stored in some obscure directory somewhere where the user cannot find it; ow 2) a dialog box will appear but the directory setting is obscure and the filename

[Boston.pm] On the subject of Inline::Files

2003-02-20 Thread Richard Morse
Does anyone know what would need to be done to make Inline::Files support BINMODE? Thanks, Ricky ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

[Boston.pm] Inline::Files, typeglobs, and package names...

2003-02-20 Thread Richard Morse
Here's one that, possibly, may not be possible. Using Inline::Files and Convert::UU, I'd like to be able to say: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; use Inline::Files; use Convert::UU qw/uuencode/; my $type = 'TMP'; print uuencode(); __END__ __TMP__ This is data to be uuenco

Re: [Boston.pm] Email filtering...

2003-02-11 Thread Richard Morse
On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 09:42 AM, Wizard wrote: 2.> Do email addresses ever have port numbers appended, like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:24 I don't think so. Which port would they use? The SMTP port? The POP3 port? IMAP? Could you have the same email address with different mailb

Re: [Boston.pm] Email filtering...

2003-02-11 Thread Richard Morse
On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 09:56 AM, John Saylor wrote: depends on MTA. for instance, i think this is a legit address: billg@3475962302 But is that a port number? Ricky ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailma

[Boston.pm] Scoping consideration (ie, why don't my my variables work!)

2003-02-10 Thread Richard Morse
Hi! I'm writing a script which extracts data from a database, and creates a new database in a different format. The idea is to allow investigators to extract clinical study data into a format they can analyze. I've written the program so that it can generate many different types of sql like form

Re: [Boston.pm] DBD::Oracle:st:_prepare optimizing?

2003-01-31 Thread Richard Morse
On 01/31/2003 6:45 AM, "William Goedicke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Richard - > > Richard Morse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hi! I'm writing a program to extract data from a database. The program >> runs rather slowly, and I

[Boston.pm] DBD::Oracle:st:_prepare optimizing?

2003-01-30 Thread Richard Morse
Hi! I'm writing a program to extract data from a database. The program runs rather slowly, and I'd like to speed it up. By using dprofpp, I see that more than half of the program execution time is spent in DBD::Oracle:st::_prepare (some 368.9 "excl" seconds -- it gets called 276036 times!). Thi

[Boston.pm] Setting up Oracle DBI on OS X

2002-09-24 Thread Richard Morse
Hi! I'm trying to move over to using Mac OS X from a Win2K machine. I have a number of perl scripts which run on the Win2K machine which connect to an Oracle 8 database. I was able to download the Oracle 8i OCI drivers from Oracle, although I haven't yet installed them. Has anyone already set