dcross - David Cross wrote:
If I don't hear any objections by the end of tomorrow, I'm
going to appoint Simon as official pub organiser and suggest
we try the BBB for the Feb meeting (the McCarroll heretics
can, of course, have their meeting the following week wherever
they
* Robert Shiels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
dcross - David Cross wrote:
If I don't hear any objections by the end of tomorrow, I'm
going to appoint Simon as official pub organiser and suggest
we try the BBB for the Feb meeting (the McCarroll heretics
can, of course, have
Sounds like they're just not accustomed to the social behaviour of
geeks. We do bring in some money for them, though - on days
when no one
else would, so they better adapt to service us.
In my experience it's geeks who are not accustomed to the social behaviour
of everyone else (not
An entity claiming to be Roger Burton West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
:
: So really it's Pascal all over again - if you only teach them one
: language, it's what they'll always use. If you teach them two,
: they may just possibly see the similarities and start to generalise
: to the class of
On Jan 5, 1:35pm, Neil Ford wrote:
Double dose of Andy
Alex (abw get's to drink cold beer)
More Andy
Piers to close.
That's OK by me, but I don't want to trample over anyone else who'd like
to speak.
How about I do a 20 minute session on Pod::POM and TT views, take a break
while Alex
* Philip Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Greg McCarroll wrote:
oh well i've just got another 4.5 days (ish) of drinking left before
its dry january - apart from time during the month of january spent
abroad or places i can claim are abroad
Ah, so you'll be spending a lot of time in
From: Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 08 January 2001 14:53
David Hodgkinson wrote:
Kieran Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And anyway, computing by publisher is getting a lot
better. You just
browse O'Reilly, Addison Wesley and Prentice Hall.
Heretic. Manning publish
* Matthew Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Grep:
right who put the Grep in? own up!
is Edinburgh foreign? ;-)
Well, when we declare the independence of the PRoWY, you'll be welcome up
for some of our dirt cheap, CAMRA-approved ale. You could even nominate
someone to be first against the
Dave Cross wrote:
EarthWeb has also made it clear that they don't want to
publish TPJ any more.
Hm, this brings back very strong memories of yapc::Europe. Specifically, the
pre-conference meet in Penderel's Oak, when I first met Kevin Lenzo. From
what I recall of the conversation, he said that
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 02:34:19PM -, dcross - David Cross wrote:
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
Sent: 08 January 2001 15:32
well i decided that the east india club was foreign enough to count
That is _so_ cheating.
But it's _so_ nice in there that I think it's allowed.
--
Michael Stevens writes:
I'm sure there are reasonable number of online manuals we'd all like
printed copies of.
Yeah, but if O'Reilly were to print them, you'd complain that the
book was nothing more than the online manual :-)
Nat
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:25:54AM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
Michael Stevens writes:
I'm sure there are reasonable number of online manuals we'd all like
printed copies of.
Yeah, but if O'Reilly were to print them, you'd complain that the
book was nothing more than the online manual
David Cantrell wrote:
DJGPP is a DOS port of the gnu stuff.
It's still good enough to build Perl from source. I speak from experience
:-). (Though I believe sockets don't work on djgpp-built Perl :-(.)
Cheers,
Philip
* Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:25:54AM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
Michael Stevens writes:
I'm sure there are reasonable number of online manuals we'd all like
printed copies of.
Yeah, but if O'Reilly were to print them, you'd complain that
It's possibly a blatant over-generalisation, but I get the impression that
most Java programmers are the people who learn whatever language the
marketing people tell them is the latest, coolest langauge, and/or
whatever languge they can earn most money contracting in.
Unfortunately, that
dcross - David Cross sent the following bits through the ether:
Thu 18th Jan Technical Meeting - State 51
I'm willing to do, ahem, redo a lightning talk on the Perl Monger
World Map. This time I won't be in the middle of organising a Perl
conference, and it'll be much more fun, although
I've been reading this discussion with interest[1], as we are in just that
process of deciding how best to develop 'web solutions' fast enough for
clients, bless their sweet hearts, and whether Java or Perl is the best
'tool' for the job. My personal feelings echo sentiments expressed earlier
in
Nice one:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15862.html
--
Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org
Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com
Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire
On Jan 8, 8:25am, Nathan Torkington wrote:
Yeah, but if O'Reilly were to print them, you'd complain that the
book was nothing more than the online manual :-)
Hmmm. I can see it working if you take a slightly different
perspective on it.
Let's say O'Reilly acts as a content provider. In
I mentioned this a London.pm last week but Reading Room are
hiring. Perl, database, Linux/Unix, designers, HTML slaves, producers,
project managers.
If you are "polishing up your portfolio site" right now and you want
to work somewhere manic, challenging and where you get to do lots of
neat
Given another spate of layoffs last week, I'd just like to point out
that Reading Room are hiring good Perl, Linux/Solaris/Anything,
MySQL/Oracle/DBS/Anything hackers.
Also interested in project managers/producers and good designers/HTML
slaves.
If you know anyone good who is know, um,
I wrote:
I'm shit-scared of talking about books in progress, in case I jinx
them.
We also have another Perl/Tk book coming out. It's more advanced than
"Learning ..." and, we hope, learns from the criticism levelled at
that book. In particular, look for examples.
Nat
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 04:44:53PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
[re: ORA]
yip they have the pretty cover animals as well ;-)
I would just like to point out at this juncture that monkeys are
funny.
cheers,
dha
--
David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/
Perl should
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:14:59AM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
We also have another Perl/Tk book coming out. It's more advanced than
"Learning ..." and, we hope, learns from the criticism levelled at
that book. In particular, look for examples.
Oh, and Amazon.com have the Learning Tk
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:22:31PM +, Tony Bowden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:14:59AM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
We also have another Perl/Tk book coming out. It's more advanced than
"Learning ..." and, we hope, learns from the criticism levelled at
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