Re: [Boston.pm] unit testing socket code

2022-08-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
__ > Boston-pm mailing list > Boston-pm@pm.org > https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ List of Portability Libraries - https://shlom.in/port-libs If you do not like these factoids, Chuck Norris will

Re: [Boston.pm] Free Book

2021-12-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
> Boston-pm mailing list > Boston-pm@pm.org > https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ List of Text Processing Tools - https://shlom.in/text-proc Chuck Norris is ninety out of Jay-Z's 99 problems. — https:/

Re: [Boston.pm] Dwim perl and padre?

2017-06-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 14:54:33 -0400 Bill Ricker wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > which is really outdated as there is already perl-5.26.0 . Please use > > strawberry perl instead > > > > ​What's the difference between Stra

Re: [Boston.pm] Dwim perl and padre?

2017-06-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
and probably isn't recommended. -- ----- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Stop Using MSIE - http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/ Chuck Norris knows exactly which thing is rotten in the kingdom of Denmark. — http://www.shlomifis

Re: [Boston.pm] perl distro for windows 10?

2016-01-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
dows XP and Windows 7. It should work on Windows 10 as well. Regards, Shlomi Fish ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech 7/9 7pm MIT - Perl and Java, together at last ?

2013-07-15 Thread Shlomi Fish
urnal.com/65009.html Regards, Shlomi Fish > -- > > David > > -- ----- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ List of Text Processing Tools - http://shlom.in/text-proc Objective jIronPerl++.NET Enterprise Edition♭

Re: [Boston.pm] Can't locate Test/Warn.pm in cpantesters.org

2013-05-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Greg, please don't start a new topic by replying to an existing message, because this will put it under an existing thread in threaded, tree-like mailers. Instead, write a new message to boston-pm@mail.pm.org . Regards, Shlomi

Re: [Boston.pm] C++ books

2013-04-17 Thread Shlomi Fish
some time: > http://jc.ngo.org.uk/trac-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/LibTap > I have a maintenance version of libtap here: http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/projects/libtap/ Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlo

Re: [Boston.pm] Template toolkit and floats

2013-01-10 Thread Shlomi Fish
/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html - “What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic”. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "Humanity" - Parody of Mo

Re: [Boston.pm] putting a module on cpan

2013-01-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
myself, but perhaps I can suggest doing something similar to this on one of the Tel Aviv Perl Mongers meetings. We already had similar interactive sessions of trying to fix a bug in a CPAN distribution, or learning how to contribute to existing CPAN modules. Regards, Shlo

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Equivalent to Natural Language Tool Kit

2012-07-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
org.il/books/0596003129.html Regards, Shlomi Fish > > bill > > ___ > Boston-pm mailing list > Boston-pm@mail.pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm -- -----

Re: [Boston.pm] Composable External Processes in Perl

2012-05-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
mentary: > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > In > > https://github.com/Hercynium/IPC-Pipeline-Composable/blob/master/lib/IPC/Pipeline/Composable.pm > > : > > > > sub ipc_pipeline { > >  my ($class, @procs) = > >    !eval

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl and DB

2012-04-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Guy, On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:20:10 -0400 Guy Gold wrote: > > Hi Shlomi, > > First, Thank you for the info, I will read into it. > You're welcome. > > On Fri,Apr 13 07:26:PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > So will a book be appropriate? I'm not aw

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl and DB

2012-04-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
blish it as an E-book and/or on http://lulu.com/ . But it is bound to become out-of-date and I feel that the online documentation may be good enough for people who don't want or need a printed book. Now that I think of it, it is possible that some of the books about Cat

Re: [Boston.pm] Composable External Processes in Perl

2012-04-10 Thread Shlomi Fish
x and Mac OS X, I would suggest taking a look at the source for GNU Bash and/or similar portable shells and see how they are doing it. You may also wish to consider extracting this functionality into its own self-contained CPAN distribution. That's it for now, but I haven't reviewed the c

Re: [Boston.pm] Composable External Processes in Perl

2012-04-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
first that is capable of being instantiated (and won't exhibit any other philosophical limitations that he can think of), and only then prepare some procedural wrappers. I also don't think that Functional Programming and Object-Oriented-Programming are dichotomous, and in Perl 5 and in other l

Re: [Boston.pm] [Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting / Code Generation in Perl / May 10th, at MIT E51-376 7 ~ 7:30pm

2011-05-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
d URLs and you're being inconsiderate of people who are too lazy to go through the entire mark-copy-open-new-tab-and-paste. It also irritates me to no end when people do it on IRC. > remember to rsvp to bill so he knows how much pizza to order. >

Re: [Boston.pm] File::Slurp .17 beta is out

2011-05-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Uri, On Saturday 07 May 2011 18:10:43 Uri Guttman wrote: > >>>>> "SF" == Shlomi Fish writes: > SF> Just a question - how well can read_file and their friends handle > SF> encodings/character-sets? Reading a file using binmode $fh, > SF> &qu

Re: [Boston.pm] File::Slurp .17 beta is out

2011-05-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
binmode $fh, ":encoding(utf-8)" (or whatever) would be a major dealbreaker for me (and many other people), because I cannot assume that the data that a file reads is in 8-bit binary data. See: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.h

Re: [Boston.pm] Comic strip

2011-03-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
ayer 1.0-final, the first usable version of GNU GNU/Hurd, and that of Microsoft Windows 2021, Libre Software Edition. All for the same bargain price. Regards, Shlomi Fish (a.k.a "The New Age Messiah of the Internet Age"). P.S: sorry - could not resist! But see: http://www.sh

Re: [Boston.pm] Cognitive Therapy approach to Internet trolls

2011-03-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Tom and all, thanks for your E-mail. On Monday 07 Mar 2011 08:10:39 Tom Metro wrote: > Boston.pm's Shlomi Fish caught actress Felicia Day's attention with one > of his blog posts, leading her to tweet: > > Interesting: Cognitive Therapy approach to internet > tro

Re: [Boston.pm] Question on optimization/memory allocation

2011-02-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
trstr and copy strings incrementally (or set the characters to '\0' if I am allowed to write to it.). Regards, Shlomi Fish > Thanks, > Conor > > ___ > Boston-pm mailing list > Boston-pm@mail.pm.org > http://mail.pm.org

Re: [Boston.pm] use Moose ?

2011-02-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
vides a lot of nifty and convenient features that can save you a lot of time. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Interview with Ben Collins-Sussman - http://shlom.in/sussman Chuck Norr

Re: [Boston.pm] jQuery conference 16-17 October

2010-09-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
makes you think that? I'm a Perl programmer who is also using jQuery and now the project I'm getting paid to work on (in Perl/Catalyst) is using jQuery. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----- Shlomi Fish http://www.sh

Re: [Boston.pm] my lang is better than your lang!

2010-07-19 Thread Shlomi Fish
g languages are intended for computers. SICP ( http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ ) claims the opposite, but as a commenter on a web forum noted they contradicted this statement due to their decision to switch to introducing programming using Python due to its better s

Re: [Boston.pm] Languages to learn in addition to Perl

2010-07-19 Thread Shlomi Fish
;Rakudo Star" release by 29 of this month. That put aside, Haskell is an enlightening language to learn and experiment with (though I believe it's not suitable for use for production code). Regards, Shlomi Fish > > Also, I would second those who suggest Clojure

Re: [Boston.pm] Languages to learn in addition to Perl

2010-07-19 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Monday 19 Jul 2010 07:23:29 John Redford wrote: > Shlomi Fish wrote: > > On Thursday 15 Jul 2010 18:57:53 John Redford wrote: > > > Asa Martin wrote: > > > Sadly, I cannot recommend a good book on JavaScript, which is a shame > > > because JavaScript is one

Re: [Boston.pm] Languages to learn in addition to Perl

2010-07-18 Thread Shlomi Fish
ncourage people not to extend its use to other realms outside web-browser scripting. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ The Case for File Swapping - http://shlom.in/file-swap God con

Re: [Boston.pm] Newbie question

2010-05-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
7;s mentioning of the fact that she needed to write web- based frontends. I really should get to updating http://perl-begin.org/uses/web/ . Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ List of Portabili

Re: [Boston.pm] bzr vs svn (jihad) was (Re: what makes a monger meeting)

2010-01-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Friday 08 Jan 2010 18:33:03 Dan MacNeil wrote: > secret python sympathizer Dan writes: > >>How much better bzr is than svn ? > > The venerable Shlomi Fish writes: > >Bzr sucks from my experience (and that of others): > > > > http://community.liv

Re: [Boston.pm] what makesa monger meeting

2010-01-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
Lingua::Stem::En > etc, etc > > How much better bzr is than svn ? > Bzr sucks from my experience (and that of others): http://community.livejournal.com/shlomif_tech/41922.html Regards, Shlomi Fish > Places people could jump in and contri

Re: [Boston.pm] please take me off this list

2009-09-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
say. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Stop Using MSIE - http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/ God gave us two eyes and ten fingers so we will type five times as m

Re: [Boston.pm] binary search on a list of sorted strings in memory

2009-07-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
ch.groups.yahoo.com/group/hackers-il/message/3475 There is an article in the book "Best of the Perl Journal: Computer Science and Perl Programming" where its author mentions several methods he tried to do in Perl in order to locate all the stock market symbols of companies (e.g: "MSF

Re: [Boston.pm] packaging a perl module as an RPM; different distribution

2009-07-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
ttp://www.virtualbox.org/ But naturally, there are other options. Another option that might work is to prepare the .src.rpm's on the packaging and build them into the installable .rpm's on the target. Whether you wish to compile .rpm's there is a different matter. Regards,

Re: [Boston.pm] git vs. Bazaar

2009-06-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 23:14:35 Tom Metro wrote: > Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Actually, I have been using Bazaar...and it > > is noticeably slower than either git or Subversion. For example: > > $ time bzr diff > > 1.53user 0.08system 0:01.72elapsed 93%CPU > > > &g

Re: [Boston.pm] git vs. Bazaar

2009-06-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 21:44:09 Tom Metro wrote: > Shlomi Fish wrote: > > P.S: a git tip I discovered... > > Here's a git tip I discovered the other day...use Bazaar[1] instead of > git. It provides the same kinds of distributed functionality, and the > ability to

Re: [Boston.pm] Fwd: The best diagram about git ever; Gitcast

2009-06-22 Thread Shlomi Fish
n wanted it to be more useful, he could have prepared a better, computerised version using Inkscape ( http://www.inkscape.org/ ), Dia ( http://projects.gnome.org/dia/ ) or whatever. Otherwise, it's completely unprofessional and hard-to-understand. > Comments point to http://www.gitca

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Editor/IDE links (June Tech Meeting follow up)

2009-06-10 Thread Shlomi Fish
shlomif_tech/26837.html Regards, Shlomi Fish > Bill Ricker wrote: > > Padre > > http://padre.perlide.org/ > > Planning an SQL or DBI plugin for Padre > > http://szabgab.com/blog/2009/05/1243802159.html > > > > EPIC ECPIPSE > > http://www.epi

Re: [Boston.pm] meeting topic?

2009-05-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
y GNU/X Emacs compatible, as it does not implement Emacs Lisp etc. but it's better than nothing. However, the last release seems to be about seven years ago, which may indicate it is either unmaintained and possibly broken - or alternatively good enough as it is. I should also note that las

Re: [Boston.pm] line break

2008-04-22 Thread Shlomi Fish
response headers use CR+LF on any/all platforms. > Yes, but not the content. More information: 1. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/08/17/understanding-newlines.html 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline Regards, Shlomi Fish > At 09:54 AM 4/22/2008 -0400, Jun Wan wrote:

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Foundation grants

2007-12-22 Thread Shlomi Fish
rg/2007/05/xmlrss_cleanup_grant_completed.html This grant turned out to be very successful. 2. One for writing a parser for MediaWiki syntax - http://use.perl.org/~Shlomi+Fish/journal/34570 . This was much less successful. While I did start to write a parser, and have some tests code and core

Re: [Boston.pm] Subroutine definition

2007-09-10 Thread Shlomi Fish
to find out whether a > subroutine is defined before calling it? > The best way is probably: if (defined(my $func = __PACKAGE__->can("FormatConv_${from}2${to}"))) Then you can also do: $func->(@args). Regards, Shlomi Fish > I'm guessing it might i

Re: [Boston.pm] Calling a function that will return to where the grandparent called the parent

2007-05-31 Thread Shlomi Fish
e to re-engineer your program using Object Oriented exceptions. Also look at Exception::Class, which has less dark magic than Error.pm, but has less syntactic sugar. (which in Error.pm's case is rather error-prone). Regards, Shlomi Fish

Re: [Boston.pm] Advent calendar 2006

2006-11-26 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sunday 26 November 2006 11:21, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > >> +/+++hosting: > > >> ++ secretary/admin: > > > > > >I can do that too as I'm sys-admining iglu.org.il which has web space > > >(including Apache PHP and Perl CGI) and qma

Re: [Boston.pm] Advent calendar 2006

2006-11-26 Thread Shlomi Fish
;Also can do that. > > Several people--including myself--have tried contacting Mark recently. > He seems to be even less plugged in than this time last year, so we'll > have to wait and see. OK. > > >So how do we start? > > I'll try to tie up some loose ends, and

Re: [Boston.pm] Advent calendar 2006

2006-11-22 Thread Shlomi Fish
can also help with that. > +++ archive: > Permission for republishing of previous years from Mark Fowler > > Retrieve copies from him or Wayback. I had pieced together a > copy of the first year's calendar (lost by Fowler due to >

Re: [Boston.pm] Loop index in foreach?

2006-09-18 Thread Shlomi Fish
t;array_ref()}) { return; } else { my @ret = ($self->idx(), $self->array_ref->[$self->idx()]); $self->idx($self->idx()+1); # TODO : Do something meaningful for scalar context. return @ret; } } 1; >>>>>>&g

Re: [Boston.pm] Book recommendation for a beginner/intermediate?

2006-09-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
/library/beginning_perl/ 2. Perl for Perl Newbies - http://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/Perl/Newbies/ 3. The Perldoc Tutorials: http://perldoc.perl.org/index-tutorials.html Regards, Shlomi Fish ----- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage

Re: [Boston.pm] perl 6

2006-07-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
uot;On Lisp") so I can both learn what can already be achieved there, and also try to implement Park on top of CL. Don't hold your breath for Park ("A Lisp that starts with a 'P'"), but I just wanted it to be of note. My relatively new signature is this time all

Re: [Boston.pm] Impatient Perl, reboot

2006-06-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
ll my man pages in POD because nroff scares me. But if you feel that you want something better, you have many options. Regards, Shlomi Fish P.S: DocBook/XML is problematic for using in Bi-Directional texts because of implementation problems. Otherwise, its Unicode support should be very