Re: Perl GUI Development (was The Peon's Guide...)

2002-11-25 Thread Roger Burton West
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 01:32:24PM -, john imrie wrote: >I've successfully used the Tk Modules on both Windows and Linux. The latest >version looks much better on windows than previous versions. Seconded. All mu GUI work at present is in Perl/Tk; I develop on Linux, but the Windows users seem

Perl GUI Development

2002-11-25 Thread Nigel Wetters
On 24/11/02 10:13 +, Dirk Koopman wrote: > On a slightly serious note: has anyone successfully used any GUI > framework on both Unix and Windows with perl? I have a very simple > little terminal type prog that I want to have work on both. Don't know about GUI frameworks, but I've had very lit

Re: RMS seminars in London

2002-11-25 Thread Ben
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:00:33PM +, Earle Martin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:10:28PM -, B. N. Moran wrote: > > People might like to know that Richard Stallman will be speaking at the > > London School of Economics on 2nd and 3rd of December. > > I'm going to both; anyone else? Pu

Re: Perl GUI Development (was The Peon's Guide...)

2002-11-25 Thread Andy Williams
Roger Burton West wrote: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 01:32:24PM -, john imrie wrote: > > >I've successfully used the Tk Modules on both Windows and Linux. The latest > >version looks much better on windows than previous versions. > > Seconded. All mu GUI work at present is in Perl/Tk; I develop

Re: Perl GUI Development

2002-11-25 Thread mass
> > On a slightly serious note: has anyone successfully used any GUI > > framework on both Unix and Windows with perl? I have a very simple > > little terminal type prog that I want to have work on both. Jarko did an excellent talk at YAPC::Europe 2002 about WxPerl and if I vaugly remember correc

Re: Perl GUI Development

2002-11-25 Thread Richard Clamp
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:05:47PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On a slightly serious note: has anyone successfully used any GUI > > > framework on both Unix and Windows with perl? I have a very simple > > > little terminal type prog that I want to have work on both. > > Jarko did an exc

Candidates' attitudes

2002-11-25 Thread S. Joel Bernstein
Do the candidates for leader feel that their attitudes and behaviour to new people in the irc channel are in line with the office of leader? Today we were visited by a new face, who has been active recently on the mailing list. Perhaps by virtue of some fault of their own, but probably due to th

Re: The Naughty List

2002-11-25 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:19:30AM +, Alex McLintock wrote: > I don't know if David agrees with me on this, but for books from > http://news.DiverseBooks.com/ (this isn't one of them) I'd normally suggest > that you write a short review based on your initial impressions of the > book. This

Re: The Naughty List

2002-11-25 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 09:16:33PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mmm, Web Site Management with Perl (or something similar) is mine. > > I did start writing a review, but the book wasn't really about > what I thought it'd be about based on the title ... Seeing that other people will be lookin

Re: Perl GUI Development (was The Peon's Guide...)

2002-11-25 Thread Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN)
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Andy Williams wrote: > Roger Burton West wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 01:32:24PM -, john imrie wrote: > I have been using WxPerl without too many issues also. It's based on C++ > libraries which are, aparently, cross platform. I saw a Python app using the Wx librarie

Re: REVIEW Perl for C programmers

2002-11-25 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 09:23:49PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: > Here's a not-completely brief review of "Perl for C programmers" by Steve > Oualline, which Mark Fowler kindly lent me, so that I could contrast it > with parts of Extending and Embedding Perl. That review will be coming > shortly, a

Re: Book: Best of the Perl Journal

2002-11-25 Thread Graham Barr
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:10:00PM +, Graham Barr wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:11:55PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:53:55PM +, Graham Barr wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:27:24AM +, Andy Wardley wrote: > > > > Graham Barr wrote: > > > > > Yo

Re: Book: Best of the Perl Journal

2002-11-25 Thread Neil Ford
On 25/11/02 5:31 pm, "Graham Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:10:00PM +, Graham Barr wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:11:55PM +, David Cantrell wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:53:55PM +, Graham Barr wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:27:24AM +

Re: Candidates' attitudes

2002-11-25 Thread Richard Clamp
On Monday, Nov 25, 2002, at 14:30 Europe/London, S. Joel Bernstein wrote: Do the candidates for leader feel that their attitudes and behaviour to new people in the irc channel are in line with the office of leader? Today we were visited by a new face, who has been active recently on the mailin

[JOB] looking for fanatic Perl developer

2002-11-25 Thread Pavan Arora
We are a small Fulham based web firm, with a startup-like environment, searching for a fanatic Perl developer to help with constructing additions to our proprietary web-based database management system. This is a contract job that pays about £25/hr for 10 hours per week. Please respond with you

[JOB]

2002-11-25 Thread Fiona Conner
Hello I am looking for a full-time perl programmer to work on a major blue-chip client's e commerce site. The position is based in Nottingham. Skill requirements are as follows: - Perl with OO knowledge (essential - must be really good) - must understand writing packages - must have used mod_

Re: Candidates' attitudes

2002-11-25 Thread James Powell
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 07:26:57PM +, Richard Clamp wrote: [snippety snip] > > */ I think $candidate is a rude bastard on irc. I won't be voting for > him, and neither should you. > > I think you might have someone in mind here :) > > Of course it's entirely your vote, to spend as you wish

Re: [JOB]

2002-11-25 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 18:53, Fiona Conner wrote: > Hello > > I am looking for a full-time perl programmer to work on a major blue-chip > client's e commerce site. Blue chip. Nottingham. This would be, hmmm, Boots?

advanced targetting using HTML/HTTP

2002-11-25 Thread Paul Makepeace
This is driving me nuts - I'm beginning to wonder whether it's even possible. Given ... (or http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/present/frames.html#adef-target What I'd like to do now is some facility for getting the browser to name a window either using HTML or, worse, HTTP. So suppos

Re: advanced targetting using HTML/HTTP

2002-11-25 Thread the hatter
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Paul Makepeace wrote: > PS Here's the actual scenario. User logs in and see a list of things. >This is what I'd like to be the "list" window, with a collection of >links to things to view, wrapped in . This will >pop up a "view" window. Now, in the view window ther

Re: advanced targetting using HTML/HTTP

2002-11-25 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:09:38PM +, the hatter wrote: > On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > > PS Here's the actual scenario. User logs in and see a list of things. > >This is what I'd like to be the "list" window, with a collection of > >links to things to view, wrapped in

Re: Candidates' attitudes

2002-11-25 Thread Greg McCarroll
* S. Joel Bernstein ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Do the candidates for leader feel that their attitudes and behaviour to new > people in the irc channel are in line with the office of leader? The inaccuracies with people's perceived characters on the IRC channel is the root of a problem typical

Re: Candidates' attitudes

2002-11-25 Thread lpm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My final thought: can't someone just clone Dave (Cross) for the new leader? We did but Dave(2) isn't out of nappies yet. aef

Re: Candidates' attitudes

2002-11-25 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:56:30PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > The inaccuracies with people's perceived characters on the IRC channel > is the root of a problem typical of a lot of ``online social groups''. > The representations on IRC, mailing lists or on a MMORPG can be > distorted shadows of

Re: Candidates' attitudes [or why are you all "op'd"]

2002-11-25 Thread Dirk Koopman
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 00:20, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:56:30PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > The inaccuracies with people's perceived characters on the IRC channel > > is the root of a problem typical of a lot of ``online social groups''. > > The representations on IRC,

Re: Candidates' attitudes

2002-11-25 Thread Simon Wistow
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:56:30PM +, Greg McCarroll said: > Of course not everyone suffers from this, Leon and Lucy spring to mind > as two people who transfer their personality well to IRC. However two > of the candidates are perhaps perceived extremely incorrectly by > people who do not know

Re: Candidates' attitudes

2002-11-25 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Paul Makepeace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > However, assuming not everyone is an actor (Shakespeare's observations > aside) that behavior *is* part of who they are. Given that there are My theory is that the ``annoying'' or ``rude'' bit of their personality will not come out when they have le

Re: Candidates' attitudes [or why are you all "op'd"]

2002-11-25 Thread Peter Sergeant
> As a matter of interest, having just become a #london.pm virgin this > evening, why is [nearly] everybody op'd? Is the fact that a newbie isn't > an op part of the problem? What is going on here? [for the absence of > FUD, this is an "I am interested" not a "why wasn't I IMMEDIATELY made > op" fl