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

From: Ben Tilly Some newer ones (eg Java and C#) are for tools (IDEs, etc) first, people second, and computers third. Heh :) Steve pgpJAT0zKEEqx.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/m

[Boston.pm] Quantum Books (was: schwag for next meeting)

From: Bill Ricker anyone heard if Quantum reopened under a new name? Well, still reads "Bookpool storefront placeholder", and is now "parked, courtesy of GoDaddy". I also came across this Google Ad Looking for Bookpool? nerdbooks.com/

Re: [Boston.pm] schwag for next meeting

From: Bob Rogers BR> Camel book? We don't need no stinking camel book! Real BR> Programmers learn languages by reading the man pages! But let's not forget about RTFC ("read the fine code" :) pgpg8Dk65ZwRh.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Bost

[Boston.pm] June Meeting (was: Meeting Topic)

Some time ago, someone said: June (room TBD) - http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?BostonPMCalendar * Uri suggests Emacs perl mode. * maybe a survey of all IDE/editor options * who wants to present Eclipse-EPIC? Padre? Komodo? Vi(m)? Sorry for the dense question, but is the

Re: [Boston.pm] s/// with side effects?

Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] s/// with side effects? "SB" == Samuel Baldwin writes: SB> A bit of a side question; when would you ever want to try and match an SB> empty regex? Wouldn't it be semantically saner to use defined? John Macdonald replies: A sane use would be as a parameter t

Re: [Boston.pm] s/// with side effects?

Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] s/// with side effects? SR> print "\t<" . ("tri state airport" =~ m//) . ">\n"; SR> $line =~ s/\r//gs; SR> print "\t<" . ("tri state airport" =~ m//) . ">\n"; uri> you have run into a very obscure and now deprecated and soon to uri> be replaced corner of perl. th

[Boston.pm] s/// with side effects?

A few days ago, I was helping a co-worker debug a Perl program. In the process of doing this, we found a bit of behavior that seemed odd. Here's a minimal program to reproduce what we saw. - f1.pl - use strict; use warnings; my $line = "hello world\r";

Re: [Boston.pm] [OT] No More Bookpool?

From: Tom Metro Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:39:43 -0400 That's a year ago. Ah right. I'm on their mailing list, so I'd heard of the Wilmington warehouse location before, but don't recall them announcing the closing of the Boston store, so I thought it was new. I still haven't seen anythi

[Boston.pm] [OT] No More Bookpool?

For the last 10 years or so, I've bought many of my technical books from Bookpool. Today, shows a Network Solutions "Under Construction" page. Do any of you know if they've closed up shop for good? (It seems like they have, but I was wondering if anyone on the list ha

Re: [Boston.pm] Puzzling (to me) interaction between IO::Handle and wait

Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Puzzling (to me) interaction between IO::Handle and wait uri> i know this is just an example script but i have some general uri> comments anyway as well as a possible explanation for your issue. uri> uri> you can use lexical handles with open and it will autogenerate

[Boston.pm] Puzzling (to me) interaction between IO::Handle and wait

Today, I came across a puzzling (to me) behavior of wait and IO::Handle. Although I managed to work around it, I'd love to understand what's happening. Here is a very simple IPC program: parent spawns children, reads their output, and collects their exit codes. This code doesn't illustrate the

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Curses clarification

> Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:22:27 -0400 (EDT) > From: Janet Marie Jackson > Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Curses clarification > > Thanks to those who have answered. Let me clarify a bit more what I > need to do. We want to use $USER to verify a valid user before running > the program, so thi

Re: [Boston.pm] LARGE MySQL Database

> Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 17:24:17 -0400 > From: Alex Brelsfoard > To: boston-pm@mail.pm.org > Subject: [Boston.pm] LARGE MySQL Database > Basically I am dealing with using, storing, and sorting a LOT of data in a > mysql database. > With all the data in the table it makes for 404.8 Million rows.

Re: [Boston.pm] file layout and installing CGI applications

> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 19:42:53 -0400 > From: Tom Metro > To: L-boston-pm > Subject: [Boston.pm] file layout and installing CGI applications > > I'm looking to package a CGI application for installation by others and > want to minimize the amount of web server reconfiguration required by > the ad

Re: [Boston.pm] Writing Cookies in Safari

>> Here is the code I started with and have reverted back to: >> -- >> my $cookie = "Set-Cookie: " . >> "$COOKIENAME=$cookieContent; " . >> "Host=www.wpi.edu; " . >> "expires=+1h\n"; >> print $cookie; >>

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: look up a host for a URL

them. Depending on who own the address space, Your mileage will most certainly vary. :) Good luck. -- Steve Revilak ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Q on authentication

lidate these things. If what you're protecting is really important, assume that some of your users are mischievous enough to use an injection proxy to mess with the authentication cookie -- be sure that you can detect tampering). -- Steve Revilak

Re: [Boston.pm] OT but still a perl technique question?

will "submit itself". Alternative two: send back a page that uses a refresh to execute the actual query: http://yourhost.net/dosearch.cgi?query=what+the+user+said";> hth. -- Steve Revilak ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

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

, it looks like the postal service does have electronic zip directories http://www.usps.com/ncsc/ziplookup/amsdev.htm As far as the general of cleaning postal addresses, it looks like there are commerical packages out there, and a whole certification process for

Re: emacs on Cygwin, editors Re: [Boston.pm] Komodo vs. emacs

gt; which comes with cygwin. Gnu's emacs for windows works fine. Any > ideas!! I've never used emacs on cygwin, but this does seem odd. Perhaps try "M-x kill-emacs" :) -- Steve Revilak ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: hard drive recovery strategies?

there's some sort of calibration between the logic board and the mechanical components, so a board swap can be risky as a long-term alternative. But, it worked long enough for him to get the data copied off. Of course, YMMV. -- Steve Revilak ___

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

nger supply a free mail client for > the Macintosh, relinquishing this field to Apple. Just out of curiosity ... is anyone using Pine on OSX? -- Steve Revilak ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm