For CRF, there's also
http://crf.r-forge.r-project.org/html/CRF-package.html
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RandomFields/index.html
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/CompRandFld/index.html
for use with R, and thus likely with Statistics::R .
But
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/65
"Effective C++" is highly recommended but not introductory !!
I think Scott and Damian would both be pleased with your excellent comparison.
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Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 10:12 AM
To: Bill
I enjoyed TEACHING from Deitel "C++ (see) how to program" books. All examples
were complete programs, and all in the book (and on-line/cd), so self
contained. Harvey & Paul are good teachers, good authors; write their books for
use in their own on-site corp training classes.
Bill@$dayjob
Not s
> map ... iterates the entire list and you can't break out of it.
> I think it's only a viable
> solution in the limited case of a for loop that doesn't have a stopping case
Right, 'map' per se is for when you DO want to do it all.
The
map {statement} @List ;
naturally replaces
statement
Method calls are *even more* expensive, but in context of iteration vs
recursion, non-tail-recursive sub calls are still higher cost than a FOR or
WHILE loop, and Perl subs are higher cost than C subs.
Have we mentioned the other solution?
The Implicit loops of map {block} list; should produce
This would be a great topic for a meeting, either a report later on what you
found and how you used it, or as a workshop to evaluate your options.
[FYI, Schedule for next Tuesday is Federico will update us on his embedded Perl
hardware hacking project.]
bill@$dayjob
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> > > Newer perls ship with cpanp as well (p as in plus), which is even slicker.
> p5p have talked quite a bit of deprecating CPANPLUS and removing it from
core.
Really ? I'd missed that. What's the beef?
I find cpanp's API good for scripting a site_perl library build.
> > (And CpanM provides
Even in just US Dollars, Floats are bad for money. E.g., if you get involved
with sales tax, you're better off calculating in Pennies and sprinf'ing the $ .
in, you don't want .001 issues.
Exceptions to this rule require very careful analysis.
- Bill aka n1vux
NOT SPEAKING FOR $DAYJOB
Perl was written by a Linguist. It is a NL toolkit unto itself.
CPAN has several linguist modules (eg stem/plurals)
We've had a computational linguist visit Boston.pm recently, perhaps she can
comment ?
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Second Tuesday is as early as it gets, next week is 11/08.
Anyone got a module or slide deck or cool use for perl they want to share ?
If no one wants to do the whole time, we can tag-team / "what have you seen
cool lately?" / lighting rounds.
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Aka bill n1vux # Not speaking for $
(not Windows)
Bill
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[mailto:boston-pm-bounces+william.ricker=fmr@mail.pm.org] On Behalf Of
Ricker, William
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 8:02 PM
To: Boston PM
Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Anyone
-
From: boston-pm-bounces+william.ricker=fmr@mail.pm.org
[mailto:boston-pm-bounces+william.ricker=fmr@mail.pm.org] On Behalf Of
Ricker, William
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 7:17 PM
To: Boston PM
Subject: [Boston.pm] Anyone using sitecustomize.pl or userelocatableinc ?
I am attemptin
I am attempting to build Perl 5.14.2 with -D userelocatableinc option and -D
usesitecustomize .
This is because local IT filesystem convention does not permit
applications-team supported code in nonvarying FS name like /opt. I can build
Perl and DBI etc, but need to be able to deploy into each
> These sound a lot like perltoc to me.
A little like: a list of perldoc docs with more than a single line about each
file.
Not much like, as perltoc is just a global TOC, which is auto-gen with
unnatural ignorance from POD subject headings, plausibly good for keyword
search to find which file
> > Hi! Is there a meeting for tonight?
> No, its next Tuesday.
Correct. 7th is only 1st Tuesday. As late as it can come.
Since it is a new term, I am awaiting confirm of room # / availability.
Also looking for who had a topic ...
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Quick top-post to annoy Uri -
perldoc perldebguts
http://perldoc.perl.org/perldebguts.html#Debugging-Perl-Memory-Usage
There are several Memory diagnostic modules on CPAN too.
Bill
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Is there a way to profile a perl program's memory from within the program?
Specifical
To my mind, the best reason to dine at Grendel's is to celebrate their historic
supreme court victory for separation of Church & State.
(Though some migh perefer to celebrate anglo-saxon arts and letters, or monster
rights.)
But I would agree that's not a compelling reason to take a drinking c
Small number so far. More ?
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To: Boston Perl Mongers (announce) ; Boston PM
Sent: Mon Mar 07 12:49:13 2011
Subject: [Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting March 8th, at MIT E5
How many objects per action was how slow?
(Slow for some SLAs may be fast enough for others. )
I think I am hearing that Moose is good for daemons where both Moose's and your
progeram's initialization is once only off the critical path, and request /
response are lean using factories; and for
MW > For simple graphs I've used GD and sometimes GD::Graph with reasonable
MW > results.
Ditto, with GD Chart variants. See this list's Archives for Dec 2005.
http://www.mail-archive.com/boston-pm@mail.pm.org/msg03654.html
(Obviously Text::CSV too)
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You can strip the tags (geo and camera Id; and remove camera signature noise by
resizing) before uploading to cloud service or your own server. That is good
use for Perl. And a good idea.
Hosting it yourself will be decidedly retro. Pretty much every web toolkit
includes Album as a demo.
Bil
> Any plans for a summer perl mongers social?
I will refer that to Uri, our Social Secretary & President for Vice.
> Mitchell's sounds fine except for the ruby part, the noon part, and
the davis sq part :)
Really !
Says something about the Ruby market if they're not busy ?
Bill
> That wouldn't work, as the document contains items that aren't in the
schema,
I recall that was the whole point of your walking it yourself rather
than using a yes-no external oracular validator, yes.
To truly validate to a schema, you must recursively parse the file under
control of the ann
> pre-process the schema into a Perl data structure.
I would have to think that either (a) pre-processing the schema, or (b)
having the schema drive acceptance or rejection, would perform far
better. Parsing the Schema once should be cheaper than querying it.
Unless it's really baroque and ambigu
> Alas I must bow out; gotta finish a rush job for a client.
Understood. I hope not to have a similar issue myself!
I gave them a 12-16 estimate under group 'Perl' & my name Bill Ricker,
so we're flexible.
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It was on list somewhere.
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[mailto:boston-pm-bounces+william.ricker=fmr@mail.pm.org] On Behalf
Of Andy Oram
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 1:47 PM
To: boston-pm@mail.pm.org
Subject: Re: [Boston.pm]
CBC=Cambridge BREWING Company (Corrected)
1E Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA - (617) 494-1994
One Kendall Square Complex is *near* real Kendall Sq & (T),
off Hampshire by Broadway,
behind the Draper new building behind Tech Square,
The parking garage with validation and narrow spaces that Steve
men
> But do all programming techniques need to be approved by the FAA?
Any used in licensed devices subject to FAA or FDA or NSA/DoD or NASA
review, ranging from the Space Shuttle flight computer to on insulin
pump. Testing doesn't count with them.
That puts *Engineering* into Software Engineering
GL> and then there's
GL> "embedded" as in "must achieve a frame rate of 30 hz".
Where
"30 Hz" is a variable,
and
"must" may be of varying strength / harm -
* otherwise the screen refresh will be skipped jerky, or only partial
ugly;
...
* otherwise "Flight Law" control loop time is viola
I see both sides to this tangential issue.
Yes, eval { die} is little more than a pretty skin on C's
setjmp/longjmp. But Perl was originally 'just' a pretty skin on libc,
with a read-eval-print loop and a regex lib added. This is not in itself
a bad thing, it's a solid foundation and often hurts l
There are a slew of perl INI, config, and file read/write/rewrite
modules on CPAN, with varying degrees of 'round trip'.
I interpret Federico's jonsing wrto the linked Python mod as a request
for contextual preservation (presentation: comment, sequence, &
whitespace), which is required for sanel
> Can I ask the stupid question? What would be the advantage of using
> this over Eclipse + EPIC?
If your shop is 80% Java, 20% Perl, likely none.
If your shop is 80% Perl, 20% C, the likely competition is Emacs, not
Eclipse.
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> Have we had a Padre demo at a past Boston.pm meeting?
We had a discussion of IDEs in general, I forget if there was a mini
demo.
Padre has grown sufficiently that it deserves a full meeting.
* project history, scope
* basic demo
* plugins
* neat tricks
* its code
* connection to EPO
* ...
P
>> [3x] is really surprising to me.
> "The generated parsers don't always run as fast as might be wished."
I think Greg is surprised it's ONLY 3x faster, given PRD's notorious
time for expressivity trade.
Either Greg needs a bigger test case ... One where PRD is taking
multiple seconds to ans
Oh that. It hoses https too for Mac and Linux. I have only seen that idiocy on
lame hotel pay internet ...
(For some reason MSWindows is sufficiently non-standards compliant to adapt to
these lame net appliance that were only tested with MSWin... . People should
read the RFCs ...)
Bill, typin
I have a number of slide decks from conferences and thzweb we can use
for Perl PowerPoint Karaoke (starting with the Secret Perl5 Operators)
if no one has a topic ...
bill
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[mailto:boston-pm-bounces+william.ric
Sounds great ! Benchmarking workshop could be done annually to our
benefit.
Bill
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[mailto:boston-pm-bounces+william.ricker=fmr@mail.pm.org] On Behalf
Of Steve Scaffidi
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 3:51
Are the prefix uniform size? Or can a small number of expected matchable
prefixes be parsed out of the 250k strings?
Are you doing this once, or new set of 7500 perefixes every minute?
Are both lists already sorted? If big one isn't that dominates. If big one is
but not according to primitive
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Corrected ...
RSVP TO mailto:bill.n1vux+r...@gmail.com?subject=boston.pm%20rsvp
(How did cut+paste break that ?! )
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To: Boston PM ; boston-pm-announce
Sent: Mon Jun 08 08:17:14 2009
To minimize the Boolean expression or compute one from a truth table, I
think you want
http://search.cpan.org/~kulp/Algorithm-QuineMcCluskey-0.01/lib/Algorithm
/QuineMcCluskey.pm
References -
http://hopper.unco.edu/KARNAUGH/Algorithm.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnaugh
http://en.wikip
We got this thru the Leaders' lists. That's a busy weekend. Maybe Uri,
Ron and I will draw straws ...
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I was thinking the same.
There is one really good online 'book' and a good supplement, and a well
reviewed pay-pdf, which will be in my followup message Wednesday, and I will
likely include notes on other things seen. (I will explain why I am especially
interested in Steve's talk tomorrow)
> So the reason why I like the idea of these systems
> based on XUL is that they are web-friendly, there is a single format
> for everyone,
Good
> and I can just type down the text and it gets aligned for me.
What tool are you looking at?
(The raw xul makes html+css look good.)
> I am not
> but IIRC the standard ivory tower regular expressions have grouping,
> alternation, and closure, or in re terms, () | and *. Much of perl's
> re forms can be created from those (e.g. x+ is the same as xx*).
> The original thing that was outside the official scope was
backreferences
...
> Howev
Uri is correct, but it's close and depends on what the meaning of is is.
Springfield wins 31+2 to 26+4 instances in the US,
but Arlington appears in more states 29 to 26.
The plus two and four are for named villages within an incorporated
larger city, and double counts Arlington in Arlington Wi
> platypus
Platypi were also mascots for flexible inheritance in OO circles for
demonstrating the problems with monotonic, non-overidable inheritance,
like only calling parent methods through parent typed pointer, in C++
1.0. I have a pedagogic puppet somewhere, from back when I was teaching
fro
> If you go international,
Longest list of cities proper that I found quickly
http://www.citypopulation.de/world/Agglomerations.html cuts off at 1E6
(three way tie for #s 476 477 478). There are three exact matches on
'English Name' in million-Plus cities-
Hyderabad
Birmingham
Valencia
In Eng
>> He actually had nearly 500 slides.
> And all in XUL, allegedly :-)
There are a couple Perl based tools to generate Xul slideshows from an outline.
I hope he used one of those, would like to know which. Probably can find out
with google-fu, we won't be the first to ask.
When the toolchain a
> i think it is ektachrome shot with an instamatic.
Sounds fun. I was tied to the desk, it being end of quarter.
I will have to get to MIT Wednesday.
How was the crowd?
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> Is Alewife interesting?
Alewife is quite appropriate, for those from north or west especially.
Since I live near a T stop at the cheap end of the redline, I'll just
ride the T tomorrow.
But I commend Mabel and or the alewife T garage to those passing that
way.
bill
> I suspect parking is going to be a pain at either location,
Yeah it's Cambridge. Look out for Resident Only signs if prowling
streets.
> given that
> the talks fall in or near business hours.
But after academic hours
> (I don't recall the switch
> over time, but MIT lots probably aren
Having tiered local and global commits make sense to me. Having one tool with
tiered storage supports both usec-ases of personal undo and global sharing.
It solves the discordant motivation problem - do you commit early and often or
only when it's ALL working again?
(Some TDD/agile say *both
>> apt-get: doesn't even have a search function,
> crschm...@helios:~$ apt-cache search io::all
And
sudo apt-get install apt-show-version
for good measure so you can
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-show-version -u
>> network troubles with Ubuntu (don't get me started)
Not here, no pleas
> Does anyone know whether the Harvard (3/31) and MIT (4/1) talks
> on the same topic, or two different talks?
So far the "ballistic programming" title has been associated with MIT
talk and others on this tour, so it might be identical, but I have not
seen a title for harvard, and can not googl
> IO::All's documentation includes a one-liner for this.
Awesome. Thanks, couldn't remember where I'd seen it.
For the truly lazy,
http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/IO-All-0.39/lib/IO/All.pod#A_Tiny_Web_Serve
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So I guess if you've broken lightd apache scp rsync svn/git and netcat,
it's nice to have one more option?
Most cpan http server modules seem to assume you want to share a service
not a bunch o files, since there are plenty of static servers already,
and what would a Perl coder want to share but P
> # python -m SimpleHTTPServer
> serves the current dir out on port 8000:
So Python ships with a one-line security breach?
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>I'd be a little suspicious about an event on 4/1, at MIT, involving
Larry
>Wall. By 'a little suspicious about' I mean 'very interested in'!
With a title of 'The Art of Ballistic Programming', I would say you
might be right.
Bill's alter ego @$DayJob;
_
Would we be using local repos on our individual laptops only, or would we be
cloning and checking back to a shared net repo as well? If shared, do we need
an in-room server or just a scratch repo on some public host to which we can
grant commit bits harmlessly?
Good news is laptop use at mit se
-
I usually have a trolley cart available to assist curb to lab.
Bill
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From: announce-boun...@blu.org
To: Ricker, William
Cc: BLU Meeting Announcements
Sent: Fri Feb 27 07:39:48 2009
Subject: Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest XXXII reminder tom
bench...@281 should be just while @data
Same issue in main code?
Does an undef in data crash, cancel section, ?
Should be in t/
-Bob
Simple.pm - use $child_chunk_name etc instead of $1 $2 where use has slide away
from the m///.
-Bobbie
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I have posted announcement of tonight's meeting as
http://use.perl.org/~n1vux/journal/38278 with submission to front page, perhaps
some one can boost it along?
William Ricker
Director, Architecture
Fidelity Investments / FPCMS Systems, Architecture Services
617-563-0648 / 780-2223
M/S Z1E
wil
Perl's is the greatest slicing since bread.
(And the best bread is sliced *just* before toasting/serving.)
--Original Message--
From: Bernardo Rechea
To: boston-pm@mail.pm.org
Sent: Dec 4, 2008 10:38
Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] slice of life
On Tuesday 02 December 2008, Uri Guttman wrote:
>
In 11 minutes it will be
octal 111 = decimal 1227133513 = hex 0x49249249
= (as time_t) Wed Nov 19 22:25:13 UTC 2008
as described yesterday (or earlier "today UTC")
Bill
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> sept 17? for the november meeting? i can't remember
If sir would like, we have a fabulous new product available. They call
it "the calendar".
> ooh, a punchline! it had better be a good one!
I rather doubt it. Nerdy geeky. More of a James Burke /Connections/
*ta~da* moment than a punchline. (
> what announcement?
Boston.pm.org http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/ and our IRC channel and
http://www.mail-archive.com/boston-pm%40mail.pm.org/msg05129.html
I should re-send to Announce list tonight since others will have not
noted it either.
]> I am preparing a talk meandering through un/pack(),
See the announcement - it's on the 18th as some people observe veteran's day on
11 11
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To: boston-pm@mail.pm.org
Sent: Nov 7, 2008 14:57
Subject: [Boston.pm] meeting on tuesday?
hi all,
i assume there will be a meeting this tuesday. i don't have a
Concordances are fun!
> This also hits a particular itch of mine, namely concordance
generation
Looks not unlike KWIC generator -- Key Word In Context indexing.
Look up modules for that! (Or ACM Algorithms.)
Uri's comments about fit of your suggestions with Ack are right on --
your 1.2.3. idea
Thanks Ben, great answer.
The "modern" Web2.0 version is to render the entire blank table and rest
of page as the first request and then use JavaScript to fill in each
cell.
This might not answer the original post's problem, since it requires
more than just format change serverside, but doesn't
SS> I propose that ack should have a mascot:
Bill the Cat is, sadly madly or gladly, Andy's original inspiration for
the name.
Ack coughs up just the hairball of code you wanted.
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> 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 even where it isn't.
Local companies, some of whom sponsor Boston.PM, expect postings to the
list via
Uri, Bob, Tom, et al -
Echoing what Tom said between when I started writing this and now
(distracted by T-storm) -
While BLU might want an internals talk, I'm guessing they really want at
Features + Timelines talk, and would find a 5.10 / 5.12 / 6.00 roadmap
update useful.
Bill
Any comments on distribution of soda, since I'll be making the pickup?
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Sent: Mon Jun 09 10:30:12 2008
Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] piz
The Boston.PM crowd would be welcome for Linux Soup Audio and Cambridge Brew
(BLU cheese) after.
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To: Ricker, William
Cc: Boston-pm@mail.pm.org
Sent: Mon Mar 10 19:16:42 2008
Subject: Re: [Bos
> While the overlap may not be great, the Boston Linux & Unix User Group
> does hold the monthly meetings on the 3rd Wednesday (the 19th for
March).
The potential overlap is not insignificant -
* Tom Metro (regular both)
* Mark Dulcey (except those terms he's busy Weds or Tues)
* Doctor MO has vi
> Well, I'm one of the foot-masses who takes pub. transportation, so I'm
> planning to be there.
Beg your pardon Bobbi + Ron.
*Pedestrian conditions on sidewalks to and from the (T) can get
Hazardous as well*,
Especially if there's direct ice (freezing rain, ZR),
although that *may* be only f
Your local Mr.Weather / Mr.Safety chimes in ...
Would be better part of valor to take a "rain" check until it's *only*
rain.
Driving after could be particularly hazardous for those returning North
&/or West, and will be hazardous at times even here in Boston Proper /
Cambridge river front.
NWS h
I think I enjoyed Tufte's seminars more in the early days, but the 4th book is
good and I think it's worth hearing some of the same old anecdotes again. I
don't mind getting extra copies, as I don't keep my first edition Tufte at the
office. So I won't have a volume 4 at the office until I atten
Great!
I've linked the good slide decks from Advent Calendar.
If I remember I'll bring alternate Ethernet interfaces for Ronald's laptop ...
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Suggest Break into 2 problems.
1) Check the unicode/utf faq for perl5888 or whichever as appropriate.
(Perldoc.perl.org).
Sound like for you use you have multibyte chars being handled as 1-byte chars
because it was read or forced raw at one ponit.
2) If not fixed by reading differently, to f
Ronald investigated liverpole's Tk JAPHs.
Jerrad asked for more writers for the Perl Advent calendar.
Bill Ricker, typing with thumbs ...
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> Am I reading this right? Are you actually defending the lowest common
> denominator of language design? The paragraph above
Not language design but coding in an appropriate subset.
English and Perl are both special because TIMTOWTDI.
My personal toolkit at the office is a more HOPish sty
Yeah, ActiveStates' early debugger and AS Perl were bundled with the OReilly
Perl windows boxed set on a CDr.
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To: Tom Metro
Cc: boston-pm@mail.pm.org
Sent: Aug 16, 2007 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] refactoring tools and IDEs
Regarding this detail
Thank you for doing your civic duty.
How well does john Harvards handle groups?
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To: boston-pm@mail.pm.org
Sent: Aug 16, 2007 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Social Meeting in August
If CBC I recommend the patio.
If BBW why Fenway? Canal Street
BBW fenway has to be on a Away game night, fair walk from Greenline Kenmore or
D-Fenway
.
BBW has a 2nd, west end location (old Commonwealth Brew) near the New Boston
Garden (avoid Celts/Bruins/Circus). Closest to North Stn Green/Orange, but
walkable from Red/CharlesMGH and Blue.
CBC is walka
Asking everyone who's used any perl ide to share could be a stone-soup meeting
sometime.
A good programmer's editor that can colorize syntax and autoindent and hop to
matching or enclosing braces is half the battle. Most of us who "don't use
ides" have that.
A graphical debugger front end *i
> It's been a few years since I looked at Xpath,
> but I seem to recall that
> it was originally inspired by SQL.
> If that's correct, that doesn't
> strike me as being very RegEx-like.
I think you're thinking of XQuery. XPath is more RE-li[tk]e.
> But if I want to find the text inside B tag
Tom,
> It seems like what is missing is a module that provides a
> regular-expression style language for matching against tags. It would
> make screen scraping tasks almost trivial. Anyone know of a module
like
> this?
> What's your favorite HTML parsing module?
XML::Twig is the grep for XML (
Emma's was great on Huron. Did the new owners keep the same crust and
sauce at the new location?
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>>> "A file named VOPU.xls already exists in this location.
>>> Do you want to replace it?"
>>> Yes/No/Cancel.
> As for the "why" part, I couldn't say.
SAMBA is straddling a cultural divide. Oddities like this are to be
expected.
When it's open from the Unix drive, Excel apparently can't t
> Is it possible to upload pictures to the wiki?
I believe the Wiki requires Admin access to add images to the host;
normal users can only link to existing pictures there or elsewhere,
change pages. or create pages.
I've cropped & re-balanced already.
I've got a possible place to upload pix t
At work, the 64bit Power4/Power5 IBM AIX systems come with 32-bit Perl.
After reading the README, I wasn't interested in building everything in
64-bit, so when I build a Perl to build DBI with, I build it with
similar settings to the vendor's (unsupported, "contributed") 32-bit
Perl. If one of my u
> more importantly, what is the syntax for passing a filehandle
> into a routine if it is FILEHANDLE instead of $FILEHANDLE?
open(FILEHANDLE, ">>$filename" ) or die "trying $!";
> open(my $fh, "filename");
Autovivification of unitialized scalar filehandles was added in 5.6.0
http://searc
> I believe you'd want $> , the effective uid.
Probably. See
$ perldoc perlvar
or http://perldoc.perl.org/perlvar.html
under $REAL_USER_ID and $EFFECTIVE_USER_ID, but also see $REAL_GROUP_ID
$EFFECTIVE_GROUP_ID, you may need to set that too to get the desired
effect.See also POSIX::setuid()
> Thank you all for your valuable suggestions.
Speaking of suggestions, the Data::COW the Copy-on-Write
principle-of-least-work cloning utility that Jarrad mentioned is today's
Advent Calendar gift. (15, the window just above the Llama's tail.)
-- Bill / N1vux
Ian,
This is a bittersweet review for this old hand at reasoning over program
assertions. There's more to the PIP-condition assertions than Contract
programming. Similar annotations can be used for program proof of
correctness.
I'm probably one of the few programmers you'll meet that's actually
> Does anyone who has/does use GD::Graph know if there's an easy way to
> embed the output graphs into HTML.
> Basically I'd like to be able to print a bunch of HTML, then the
graph,
> then some more HTML.
[WDR] The basic techniques are to either
(a)
Generate the graph to a 2nd file named w
Richard,
> At the risk of being branded a heretic,
Heretic! :-) (-: Pi, fetch the brazier, would you? :-)
> I would suggest writing such a complex application in Java.
Anything written in Java _becomes_ complex. The reason to write in Java
is if the massive Apache + Struts + JBoss/WebLogic/W
Dear Jerrad, [Shortened public thank you -- longer version sent BCC]
> Well, I've gone and done it anyhow http://web.mit.edu/belg4mit/www/
Thank you!
I loved the Advent calendar but I didn't have time to start it on my
own. Nice image choice! Camelid yet different, and with a
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