Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency pub reconnaissance, Tuesday 21 May

2002-05-03 Thread Greg McCarroll
* David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 09:10:26PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > > > Caffreys - brewed in Ireland since 1999, IIRC > > Brewed? Manufactured, you mean. > Yip, it was originaly made for girls and shandy drinkers, who didnt like the taste of proper

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency pub reconnaissance, Tuesday 21 May

2002-05-03 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 11:54:31PM +0100, Chris Heathcote wrote: > On Fri, 3 May 2002 21:10:26 +0100, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >Can we find a suitable Shepherd Neame pub? Or Adnams? > > Harveys? (At the risk of being too IRC) I'd second a vote for Harveys. How many peopl

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency pub reconnaissance, Tuesday 21 May

2002-05-03 Thread Richard Clamp
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:20:10PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > Founders Arms gets my vote. Sorry, you don't count because you're not voting for the Anchor. Only the old bits or outside though. -- Richard Clamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency pub reconnaissance, Tuesday 21 May

2002-05-03 Thread Chris Heathcote
On Fri, 3 May 2002 21:10:26 +0100, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Can we find a suitable Shepherd Neame pub? Or Adnams? Harveys? c. -- Die von Ihnen angeforderte Seite konnte leider nicht gefunden werden.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency pub reconnaissance, Tuesday 21 May

2002-05-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 09:10:26PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:15:11PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > O'Neill's are those nasty fake Irish pubs aren't they? > ^---^ ^^ > That's an oxymoron, isn't it? I was under the impression that fake

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency pub reconnaissance, Tuesday 21 May

2002-05-03 Thread hipps
Pulled from Nicholas Clark's mail (Fri, May 03, 2002 at 09:10:26PM +0100): > On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:15:11PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > O'Neill's are those nasty fake Irish pubs aren't they? > ^---^ ^^ > > That's an oxymoron, isn't it? I was under the impres

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency pub reconnaissance, Tuesday 21 May

2002-05-03 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:15:11PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > O'Neill's are those nasty fake Irish pubs aren't they? ^---^ ^^ That's an oxymoron, isn't it? I was under the impression that fake Irish pubs were not nice by definition. Caffreys - brewed in Ireland s

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency pub reconnaissance, Tuesday 21 May

2002-05-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 01:49:34PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote: > Otherwise, we could go back to the Doggett's for a meeting, or to the > Founder's Arms, if people like the riverside atmosphere of the South > Bank. > > Any other suggestions? Or should we simply go back to the Cittie of > Yorke in Ju

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency pub reconnaissance, Tuesday 21 May

2002-05-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:41:50PM +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote: > PS Grue has mentioned another possibility -- an O'Neill's pub in Earl's >Court -- but we haven't set a date to check that one out yet. Maybe >it is too far West though. O'Neill's are those nasty fake Irish pubs aren't they?

Re: Online Graph generator

2002-05-03 Thread Sam Smith
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Andy Williams wrote: > I'm looking into putting some graphs on our stats pages (mainly for the > marketing people *sigh*) and so far have 2 options: What are you looking to graph? -- Conformity: When People are Free to Do as They Please, They Usually Imitate Each Othe

RE: Online Graph generator

2002-05-03 Thread Clayton, Nik [IT]
> Personally I don't want to go the Coldfusion as it's just one more > technology for me to support (and it isn't free) so the > question is > are there any others out there that you can recommend/have used/hated. RRDTool. http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/ N -- 12345

Re: Online Graph generator

2002-05-03 Thread Simon Wistow
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 09:58:42AM -0400, Andy Williams said: > I'm looking into putting some graphs on our stats pages (mainly for the > marketing people *sigh*) and so far have 2 options: > Mine - Use Template Toolkit and the GD::Graph plugins > My Boss - COLDFUSION - uses Flash Generator in the

Online Graph generator

2002-05-03 Thread Andy Williams
Hi, I'm looking into putting some graphs on our stats pages (mainly for the marketing people *sigh*) and so far have 2 options: Mine - Use Template Toolkit and the GD::Graph plugins My Boss - COLDFUSION - uses Flash Generator in the back end Personally I don't want to go the Coldfusion as it's j

Re: mod_rewrite, individuality and purty urls

2002-05-03 Thread Nick Cleaton
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 06:08:19AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > for (my $last = -1; 30 < length and $last != length; $last = length) { > s/_[^_]+$//; > } > > for(;;). Heh. > > This still leaves the possibility of a long URL. Perhaps shortening it > to a certain length first, then

Re: mod_rewrite, individuality and purty urls

2002-05-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 11:49:33AM +0100, Nick Cleaton wrote: > On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 04:30:56AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > > > $story_name = lc $form->{title}; > > for ($story_name) { > > s/\s+/_/g; s/\W//g; s/__+/_/g; s/_+$//; > > s/_[^_]+$// until 30 > length; >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency pub reconnaissance, Tuesday 21 May

2002-05-03 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Kate L Pugh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > after the summer; people have been saying that they'd rather be > somewhere that sunlight was actually visible, in the summer months. > (Opinions? Send 'em to the (non-announce) list.) > The Anchor! I saw again The Anchor! -- Greg McCarroll

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency pub reconnaissance, Tuesday 21 May

2002-05-03 Thread Paul Mison
On 03/05/2002 at 12:41 +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote: >Glasshouse Stores ... I would think though that if >we do like it, we might still want to put it on the back burner until >after the summer; people have been saying that they'd rather be >somewhere that sunlight was actually visible, in the summe

[ANNOUNCE] Emergency pub reconnaissance, Tuesday 21 May

2002-05-03 Thread Kate L Pugh
Leo has come up with a suggested alternative venue for meets -- the Glasshouse Stores in Brewer Street, very close to Piccadilly Circus tube. http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?P2M?P=W1F9UJ&Z=1 We are going to check it out on Tuesday 21 May from 6:30pm. Please come along and join us.

[ANNOUNCE] Emergency pub reconnaissance, Tuesday 21 May

2002-05-03 Thread Kate L Pugh
Leo has come up with a suggested alternative venue for meets -- the Glasshouse Stores in Brewer Street, very close to Piccadilly Circus tube. http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?P2M?P=W1F9UJ&Z=1 We are going to check it out on Tuesday 21 May from 6:30pm. Please come along and join us.

Re: mod_rewrite, individuality and purty urls

2002-05-03 Thread Nick Cleaton
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 04:30:56AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > $story_name = lc $form->{title}; > for ($story_name) { > s/\s+/_/g; s/\W//g; s/__+/_/g; s/_+$//; > s/_[^_]+$// until 30 > length; > } I think that'll loop forever if $story_name is a single very long

Re: nms advocacy opportunity for me ;)

2002-05-03 Thread Dave Cross
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:41:09PM +0200, Newton, Philip ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My web hoster recently sent me email saying that they were upgrading their > formmail script on 13 May and urged all customers who had installed their > own copy to do the same. > > I took the opportunity and s

Companies Using nms

2002-05-03 Thread Dave Cross
I'm trying to build up a list of companies using nms to put on the web site. Currently, I've got a number of ISPd who are recommending them to their clients, but it would be nice to be able to lsit some "real" companies to. Have you instelled nms scripts on any sites? And would they be happy to

Re: mod_rewrite, individuality and purty urls

2002-05-03 Thread Mark Fowler
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Simon Wistow wrote: > Ideas? Lose the ".html"? -- s'' Mark Fowler London.pm Bath.pm http://www.twoshortplanks.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ';use Term'Cap;$t=Tgetent Term'Cap{};print$t->Tputs(cl);for$w(split/ +/ ){for(0..30

Re: mod_rewrite, individuality and purty urls

2002-05-03 Thread Paul . Golds
On the matter of reducing titles down automagically.. Be careful out there, Recently I've been looking into a problem we've been having with a system which indexes business names using stopword lists(The list of common words not to include) and porter-stemming (Which reduces a word to it's commo

Re: mod_rewrite, individuality and purty urls

2002-05-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 11:48:57AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: > My first thought would be to do something like ... > > 1. Lower case the title > 2. Strip out common words like and, a, but, and, like, or etc etc. > 3. Convert spaces to underscores. > 4. Check to see if that's unique, if it's not t

Re: Formatting currencies

2002-05-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 07:14:32AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Paul Makepeace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > perl -lpe '$_ = sprintf "%.2f",$_; 1 while s/(?<=[\d])((?:\d{3})+)(?=[.,])/,$1/' > > > > Is there an easier way to do this? London.pm meeting taken its toll? > > Are you just looking

Re: mod_rewrite, individuality and purty urls

2002-05-03 Thread Struan Donald
* at 03/05 11:48 +0100 Simon Wistow said: > > My first thought would be to do something like ... > > 1. Lower case the title > 2. Strip out common words like and, a, but, and, like, or etc etc. > 3. Convert spaces to underscores. > 4. Check to see if that's unique, if it's not then add a number

Re: mod_rewrite, individuality and purty urls

2002-05-03 Thread Roger Burton West
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 11:48:57AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: >My first thought would be to do something like ... >Or I could just ask the editor everytime. I'd say both: do as you suggested (not forgetting to strip out all non-alphanumeric characters as well), then present this to whoever's ent

mod_rewrite, individuality and purty urls

2002-05-03 Thread Simon Wistow
I really hate URLs that look like this ... http://foo.com/exec/perl/show.pl?article=0665747&type=feature&leftad=real&show=1 I prefer Amazon who have something like http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B5ICAW/ which I presume is a rewrite of http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos?ASIN=B000

nms advocacy opportunity for me ;)

2002-05-03 Thread Newton, Philip
My web hoster recently sent me email saying that they were upgrading their formmail script on 13 May and urged all customers who had installed their own copy to do the same. I took the opportunity and suggested the look into replacing their formmail script not with Matt's 1.92 but with the nms of

Re: hey! at last!

2002-05-03 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:29:57AM +0100, Shevek wrote: > That web page appears to prove fairly conclusively that Java programmers > do NOT have a sense of humour. I like the Onion. It provides a much more cohesive and intelligent view of the world than most things that issue forth from the US m