Re: Zero Install

2011-03-24 Thread James Laver
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:05:32PM +0100, demerphq wrote: Did i understand this right? Python doesn't allow empty sub definitions? Is this hatefulness a consequence of the other hateful bits in python? That would be empty anything that constitutes an attached block. If or else statements

Re: GNU

2010-04-29 Thread James Laver
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 05:32:16PM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:59:55 +0100, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote: And only with unclaimed preconditions: ld: Unsatisfied symbol libiconv_open in file ../libcpp/libcpp.a[charset.o] ld: Unsatisfied symbol libiconv_close

Re: XML

2010-04-27 Thread James Laver
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 01:32:24PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: In the same vein: Subject: SOAP It's telling that at a large FTSE 250 we were hand constructing the xml (with string concatenation, no less) to get around the shitty libraries problem. --James

Re: XML

2010-04-27 Thread James Laver
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 03:53:51PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: What did the S in SOAP stand for again? I keep forgetting. Nothing comes to mind, really. It doesn't any more. Microsoft had an epiphany that SOAP was not a simple object access protocol and gave up the expansion. --James

Magento

2009-12-09 Thread James Laver
I've been having a particularly bad day with Magento today and I'm feeling in a ranty mood, so here goes. Magento is a PHP online store application, designed to be enterprise. Three things in that sentence should make you want to scream. As far as I can tell, it's designed to generate

Re: Order

2009-10-12 Thread James Laver
On 12 Oct 2009, at 13:32, Joshua Juran wrote: You obviously don't own a Sidekick. Josh P.S. Sorry for the delay, but I had deleted your email assuming it was spam (based on the the Subject). I'll give you reasons to hate your sidekick. See the nice big warning on

Re: leading zeroes..

2009-10-11 Thread James Laver
On 11 Oct 2009, at 18:15, Ann Barcomb wrote: I think the conclusion is that there are many different forms of addressing, and most software doesn't get it right. Heck, many US webforms can't even handle anything other than a US zipcode for the postcode section. That's fairly typical.

MacPorts

2009-10-05 Thread James Laver
Thanks for adjusting my .bash_profile without warning. I really needed you to dunk a $PATH-modifying line at the bottom of it. There's nothing more refreshing than trying to run some perl code only to discover it can't find the module you know you installed just yesterday. Because why

iTunes + iPod Shuffle

2009-09-07 Thread James Laver
So recently, having been unable to find my ipod nano 3g, I decided that I needed some music device for the tube. I figure I might find my nano, so I opted to get a shuffle. After having eschewed the 4 gig model with no buttons on (it has strange in-band signalling through the crappy